Here is the home learning for today for anyone needing to self-isolate.

Don’t forget to practise your spellings and to read your reading book!

Maths

Today, the class were measuring different lengths and widths of things around the classroom choosing whether to measure in handspans or in strides. Find a door, a window or a picture in your house. How many handspans wide is it? Remember that a handspan is the distance from the tip of your thumb to the tip of your smallest finger when your hand is stretched. Now measure the length of the hallway in your house in strides using your legs. How many strides long is it? Can you find other things around the house that you can measure in this way? Can you think of any problems measuring like this? What if an adult does the measuring using their handspan or strides? Do they get the same measurement as you do?!

English

Watch this video all about owls (Thank you Mrs Copsey!). What new, amazing information have you learnt about owls that you didn’t know already? Think back to the questions you wrote yesterday. Have any of these questions now been answered from watching the video? Write down three amazing facts that you have learnt! Owl video

Phonics

We have been looking at the graphemes ‘wh’ and ‘ph’. Tell an adult what sounds these make and join in reading the words on this short clip: wh and ph 

You could try writing some of them too, if an adult dictates them to you.

PE

Today was PE. Join in (as best you can) with the second of the BBC dance routines: BBC Let’s Move

Have a lovely day and see you soon! x

Here are the activities for anyone having to self-isolate.

First, make sure you practise this week’s spellings. These were posted on Saturday’s web post if you need to see the list of words.

English

Today in English we were learning about question marks. Start by watching the video and have a go at the activity with an adult: BBC Bitesize question marks

What would you like to find out about owls that you don’t already know? Can you write three really good questions to ask an expert? Make sure you start with a capital letter and use a question mark at the end. Practise reading your questions out in front of an adult or sibling.

Science

Today, the children made apple crumble and it was delicious (I have sampled it!) We talked about Seasonal food. You can watch this clip Seasonal food to find out more. Can you help an adult prepare a meal? This might be something like a fruit salad where you can practise – under supervision – using a peeler or a knife to chop with. Remember to wash your hands and the fruit first.

Maths

Due to cooking today, the children did not get onto doing maths. Can you do some practical counting? This could be counting your teddies or counting the stairs. Once you have counted then see if you can count back down to zero.

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the lack of home learning on the website yesterday. I was off school myself with a dreadful cold. Below are some activities for those who were unable to attend school yesterday.

As a result of being off myself, I was unable to issue spellings so the children will receive these on Monday morning. If you like to get a head start on practising, then the words that will be given out are below. The colours refer to the sheet colour that your child has in school. Hopefully they should know what colour they are. If not, most children have the green spellings with higher ability having blue spellings and lower ability having the yellow sheets.

Yellow spellings (children who find sounding out tricky): shin, ship, shop, mash, rush, posh

Green spellings (most children): out, shout, loud, found, about, was

Blue spellings (higher/very confident): outfit, shouting, louder, prouder, roundabout, there

Home learning

On Friday, the children would have done their spelling test using the words they practised last week. Test your child on their spellings without them peeking at any of the words! If the test was completely independent and you have the yellow spelling folder at home, feel free to record the score on the score sheet.

English

Think back to the story of ‘Owl Babies’ and how worried the babies were because Mummy Owl had left. Do you think it may have been a good idea for her to have left them a note?! What would she have said in this note? She probably would have told them that she was off hunting and that she would be back soon. Can you pretend to be Mummy Owl and write the note to the owlets? Start with ‘Dear Sarah, Percy and Bill’ and finish with ‘from (or love) Mummy’.

Maths

In maths, we have been talking about non-standard measures. This means measuring with something like cubes or handspans (and not rulers or tape measures yet!). Find items around your house and measure their length or height using your forearm, handspan and finger! measuring in body parts!

PE

Did you see any fireworks last night? What is your favourite firework? Have fun (and do your best if you don’t have a partner!) joining in with this dance routine from the BBC. Let’s Move – Fireworks

Computing

We are learning to use a computer/laptop keyboard. If you have access to a computer, have a go at the activities labelled next to ‘1 – Home Row’ on Dance Mat Typing

Have a lovely weekend, everyone. x

Here are the home learning tasks for those of you having to self-isolate.

Start by practising your spellings!

Maths

Today we have been looking at word problems involving addition and subtraction. Can you solve the problems on the sheet? What could you use to help you? Maybe a number line again (see yesterday’s post for the interactive, online number line) or anything that serves as counters (dried pasta is good!). au-n-389-addition-and-subtraction-to-10-word-problem-challenge-cards-_ver_1

English

Do you know what these words mean?

trunk

hunting

branch

silent

swooped

These are all words that would be found in ‘Owl Babies’.

Today, the children looked for capital letters and full stops in the story. Can you hunt for these in one of your books at home? Where do you find capital letters? Are they just at the start of sentences?

Your next task is to write a few sentences using capital letters and full stops. Using the words above, can you put each one into a full sentence? Confident writers may wish to use ‘and’ to make their sentences longer.

PSHE

In PSHE today we were talking about similarities and differences in people and how it is good that we are all different! Think about three of your best friends. Which things about your friends are similar? Maybe they all go to Pontesbury Primary School! See if you can think of 5 things that are similar and then 5 differences. Do you all have the same hair and eye colour?! Do you all like the same foods?! Enjoy watching this lovely story about being ‘different’. Bedtime Stories

Have a lovely day! x

Here are the activities for anyone needing to self-isolate.

Maths

Today we have been using number lines to help us work out problems involving missing numbers. Watch the video to remind you how a number line works: number line video

Work out the answers to the questions, ideally using a number line to help you. Here is an interactive one: interactive number line

Where the questions involve ‘finding a difference’, start on the first number and jump in ones to the number after the equals sign. This is your missing number!

Plant Problems

Here are some challenging problems for those of you confident with numbers past 10:

addition and subtraction challenges

English

In English today, the children have started to look at the story of ‘Owl Babies’. Do you know anything already about owls?

Enjoy listening and watching the story: Owl Babies story

Do you remember the ‘ow’ grapheme? How many other words do you know that have this sound and spelling pattern in them? Using the picture of the owl, can you label the different parts? labelling_of_owl Yellow (easier) labelling_of_owl G & B (harder)

We have practised our spellings today, too.

Science

We did a little science assessment today based on some of the work we did on Everyday Materials. Can you revise what some objects are made from? Pick 6 objects at home and tell an adult what they are made of and why this material has been used.

Remember to read your reading book too!

We hope to see you soon.

Mrs Smout and Ms Vincent x

I hope that everyone has had a lovely half term and is excited about starting back at school tomorrow.

The Year 1 children will be looking at the topic of ‘Toys’ in their history lessons this half term. The unit will start by looking at the toys that children play with now and what makes them enjoyable. Therefore, if your child would like to bring in a favourite toy for this coming Wednesday (3rd November) then they are welcome to do so. We would discourage bringing anything in that could be easily broken or anything of sentimental value. All toys will be kept safely in the classroom until the history session and will be taken home again the same day.

Many thanks.

Here are the activities for those of you having to self-isolate.

English

Start with asking an adult to test you on your spellings. These will be in your yellow folder. How many can you get right without peeking?!

Can you sing the alphabet? For each of the letters of the alphabet, can you write the lower case letter and the capital version? It may help if an adult displays these for you as you write them. This poster may help you: letter display

Maths

In maths, we looked again at ‘finding the difference’. Look at the towers on the different cards and try to answer the questions. You could try making these towers yourself. Which is bigger? By how many more is it bigger? Repeat this for some different examples until you grow confident talking about the difference in amounts (for example: one tower has three bricks and the other has 8. The difference then is 5, because 8 is 5 more than 3). t-n-7479-building-brick-towers-find-the-difference-posters

DT

We were talking about fabrics today and trying to learn some names of different types. We learnt the names cotton, felt, net, polyester, wool and silk. Have a look around your house. What fabrics can you find? How do they feel? Can you name them with the help of an adult?

Have a super half term everyone.

Ms Vincent x

Here are the activities for anyone self-isolating today.

Maths

Our maths today involved looking at ‘finding the difference’. Lots of us found this very tricky! Start by watching this short video: find the difference

Have a go at the questions on the sheet using the example to help you. How many jumps ‘fill the gap’ between the number that is the flower and the number where the bee is? find the difference

Phonics

Today we learnt ‘ie’ as in ‘pie’. Can you sound out and write these words?

lie, tie, cried, fried, spied

How many ‘ie’ words can you find in this phoneme spotter story? You may need an adult to read the postcard to you. t-l-54792-ie-phoneme-spotter-postcard

RE

We looked at the inside of a gurdwara using this fabulous website: https://www.gurunanakdarbar.org/virtual-tour

We then used junk materials or construction equipment to make either a model of the outside of the gurdwara or one of the rooms inside. Some of us decided to make the raised platform and canopy where the Sikh holy book is kept. See if you can make your own model!

We hope to see you soon!

Ms Vincent x