Hi everyone,

On a Thursday afternoon, we have reading skills for 20 minutes, computing and then the daily mile. Here are details of activities:

Reading Skills: can you find examples of instructions in books or online? What are the instructions for? How do you know? Do the instructions have the features they should do, such as a title, ‘what you need’ box, bullet points and clear, bossy steps? Can you find any time connectives (first, then etc) or are there numbers instead?

Computing: we were going to look at programming and revising directions. The following website has a lovely activity which involves giving commands to a wolf to follow a course. It may look confusing at first, but if you click on ‘examples’ you will probably be able to see how it works. It is also quite similar to the Bee-Bot software which we use and works in the same sort of way. I have noticed that on the website, you can also make rather lovely pictograms and bar charts which is something we have been working on recently. Feel free to have fun with those options too!

https://www.j2e.com/jit5#turtle

Follow the link to gain access to the fabulous ‘Wind in the Willows’ musical. Super easy to sign up. I saw this screened at Theatre Severn a couple of years ago and loved it! Suitable for all ages.

https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/wind-in-the-willows-coronavirus-stream-free_51205.html

The following website provides free eBooks for primary school children so you can carry on reading! This scheme does not match the one we use in school too well, but if you click on ‘age’ and then ‘5-6’, you should be guided to suitable books. Most children in the class will be fine with these. If too hard, try the year group option below and if you need harder, try 7-8 (Accelerated Reader children probably use 7-8).

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

Morning Room 5 and parents!

Here are some activities for you to do this morning. Firstly, some links to websites that we use in Room 5, starting with a very popular ‘Wake Up, Shake Up’ routine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwKUv0L3xtc

Here is the link to Cosmic Kids, where we get all our yoga and ‘peace out’ activities. The ‘candle of concentration’ is one of my favourites. There are loads of great activities for deep breathing and reducing anxiety, which may prove very useful during this unusual time: https://www.cosmickids.com/category/watch/

Our normal morning timetable throughout the week goes like this:

8.45-9.00: Practise spellings (the same sheet as the one the children bring home) Remember about ‘Squeebles’!

9.00 – 9.05: Wake Up, Shake Up

9.05 – 10.00: Maths

10.00 – 10.15: Assembly. Our theme for this half term is stewardship and looking after our world and each other.

10.15 – 11.00: English

11.00 – 11.15: Phonics/Letters and Sounds – use phonics play Phase 5

11.15 – 11.30: Break

11.30 – 11.40: Mindfulness (we use Cosmic Kids for ‘peace out’)

11.40 – 12.25: a foundation subject such as art & design, geography, computing, music, PE

12.30: Lunch

You may wish to try and keep to this kind of routine.

So, for today, here is what you can be doing:

Maths: Find the missing number in the number sentences. You can also have a go at the number patterns sheet below.

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Using a number line would really help with this: https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/7c/cc/t-n-2440-numbers-0-to-20-number-line-_ver_1.pdf?__token__=exp=1584605205~acl=%2Fresource%2F7c%2Fcc%2Ft-n-2440-numbers-0-to-20-number-line-_ver_1.pdf%2A~hmac=f733d25fb7ed0026519face1b61e9abb3f90039c60d2b23505d0659bf5e9a007

English: Can you instruct a grown up to do something? It could be going from one room to another, or fetching something. Give them one step at a time to follow. Remember to keep instructions short and bossy! Your first instruction may be something like: Stand up.

Phonics: Use the flashcards to practise all Phase 5 graphemes. Then look at the ‘investigating alternative spellings’ under Phase 5c. Have a go at ‘oo’. Look at the phoneme spotter story first. See what words you can find with an ‘oo’ sound and then try the ‘word sort’ game that follows.

PE: We have been refining our African animals dance, with small groups doing different moves. This was starting to look really good. Play the video and show your adult how well you can perform each of the animal moves! Remember to be absolutely ready to start each move and see if you can remember the sequence! You may have to keep pausing the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7l5oUWE73g

You could have fun making an animal mask to go with the dance.

Have a good morning everyone. I will post later with afternoon activities as I have to do the school run right now!

Please feel free to email me, and I would love to hear from the children too! I have spoken to a couple about having a go at emailing. My email address is: Garcia.H@pontesbury.shropshire.sch.uk

Hope to hear from you,

Mrs Garcia x

Hi to everyone at home,

Tomorrow we will be using the laptops to write our own set of instructions. You may remember we had a quick look at this last week, and so you should (hopefully!) have some idea how to do it.

If you follow the link below, work through the activities in the ‘main session’ section. You can order the different steps and you can also write your own instructions using your computer keyboard.

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/lists_and_instructions/eng/Introduction/default.htm

Lots of us whizzed through subtraction today, so we moved on to subtraction on a number line:

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Here is a link to a fabulous game we enjoy playing a lot in class. It’s great for practising number bonds to 10 (which are really important in Year 1) and we have also had a go at the ‘doubles’ game:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Practising the spellings at the back of the yellow spelling folder is also an excellent thing to do. The following app is brilliant for learning spellings and is the best app I’ve found which helps with this. It costs a few pounds and requires an iPad or similar, but is well worth it. Revising any of the spelling patterns that we have had in words throughout Year 1 would be very useful: https://keystagefun.co.uk/literacy-apps/squeebles-spelling-test/

Thinking of you all,

Mrs Garcia x