Good morning,

I hope that you are all well and enjoyed your home learning activities yesterday. How did you get on with the Big Bird Watch organised by Mrs Platt?

Try to join your daily Zoom session  as this will give you the chance to talk about your home learning and ask any questions you need to. Invites will be sent out daily on ClassDojo.

English

You can join in with daily RWI Phonics sessions each morning with Rosie on Youtube. These sessions are streamed live at 9.30 each morning and are available for 24 hours.

You can access your reading books and reading activities on Bug Club, where we can track your progress. Don’t forget to send a message to your teacher if you have any difficulties logging in.

English

Todays English is linked to our text the Smartest Giant in town. You can listen to the story again by clicking the link below:

Smartest Giant In Town Reading (2)

Gilly the giraffe has gone missing! I would like you to create a wanted poster to help find her.

Look at the slides below:

Missing poster (1)

There is a WAGOLL (What a good one looks like) to show you what you need to include to be successful. Look at this carefully. Then you will need to plan your wanted poster, remember to include a picture of Gilly. We would love to see your posters on Class Dojo. You will be writing a news report about the missing giraffe at the end of this week and this will help you.

Maths

First, join in with our warmup counting song with Jack:

Today we are focusing on related  facts. Watch the teaching video below and follow the teaching slides. This will help you to complete the worksheet:

tues 1

tues 1

Cheeky Challenge:

Art and Design

I would like you to create a piece of artwork which shows a scene from the bible story David and Goliath. You can choose the materials you will use, it is entirely up to you. You could use objects which you find in the  house or garden.  Make sure you ask permission first! This video may give you some ideas:

Good morning,

I hope that you are all well and eager to begin our home learning this week. Try to join your daily Zoom session with your class teacher as this will give you the chance to talk about your home learning and ask any questions you need to. Invites will be sent out daily on ClassDojo.

English

You can join in with daily RWI Phonics sessions each morning with Rosie on Youtube. These sessions are streamed live at 9.30 each morning and are available for 24 hours.

You can access your reading books and reading activities on Bug Club, where we can track your progress. Don’t forget to send a message to your teacher if you have any difficulties logging in.

As your warm up activity today I would like you to look carefully at the picture below:

What can you see?

Collect a list of adjectives (describing words).

Now challenge yourself to put these into a descriptive sentence. Can you use two adjectives in your sentence?

I would now like you to click on the Powerpoint below, we are focusing on using ‘and’ to join words and clauses:

t-l-53601-year-1-using-and-to-join-words-and-clauses-warmup-powerpoint

Maths

First I would like you to join in with our warm up song.

Today, we are going to complete a maths problem challenge.

This is called Different Sizes, just like how David and Goliath were different sizes.

We need to put the shapes in order from smallest to biggest.

http://nrich.maths.org/8117

You can download a sheet which may help here:

turnsizenew

Challenge:

Can you arrange them in a pattern which shows doubling?

Could you draw some different pictures that also show doubling?

Now, what about HALVING? Could you make an arrangement or new picture to show halving, again and again?

R.E.

We have been focusing on the Bible story of David and Goliath. I would like you to add sound effects or musical accompaniment to your puppet show.

It would be fantastic if you could ask a grown up to film this and send it on Class Dojo!

Again, well done for all of your wonderful efforts with learning from home. We know it isn’t always easy but we are all here to help you when you need it. We look forward to seeing you on our daily Zoom meetings. Well done and keep up the good work!

Good morning everyone and happy Friday!

Well done for all the hard work that has gone into your home learning this week, it has been great seeing your photographs and work.

Well done to everyone who joined our zoom meetings this week.  We will be having two zoom meetings today.  On top of our class zooms, we will also be holding a Key Stage One Zoom at 2.00pm.

Here is the link for our Key Stage One Zoom:

Lovely Lawley is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Key Stage One Zoom
Time: Jan 29, 2021 02:00 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/93331800370?pwd=UFRORmw3NVd1Q0xqNFNlQzlvOUhPUT09

Meeting ID: 933 3180 0370

Here are our home learning activities for today:

Phonics Home Learning

Please join in with the live session of our Read Write Inc Phonics, set 3 with Rosie.  This session goes live on YouTube from 9.30am.

Ruth Miskin Training – YouTube

Maths Home Learning

Today, and every Friday, we are going to give you the opportunity to complete Maths activities on TT Rockstars, Numbots and Mathletics.  With these websites, your progress is recorded so I will be able to see who has logged on and what you have completed.  Your login details are in the front of your reading records, however if you cannot find these, please send me a message.

English Home Learning

Today is our spelling test day.  You can either ask someone in your household to complete your spelling test, or you can log onto Purple Mash where there is a spelling test quiz set as a To Do.  This will then let me know how well you have practised your spellings.  Your new spellings will be uploaded onto our class spellings tab.

Also on a Friday, we complete a reading comprehension.  Please make sure you read the text first, this will then help you answer the questions correctly.  This is the skill we are working on today.  Here is our comprehension for today:

Finally, I would like you to carry out your daily reading.  If you do not have any spare reading books at home, please remember you all have access to Bug Club.  Again, if you cannot find your login details, please message me.  I am checking this regularly so I can allocate more books to the children who need them.

ICT Home Learning

In ICT we are going to continue developing our coding skills.  Everyone became very confident in logging onto Purple Mash and started to create their own codes for backgrounds.  

Please log onto Purple Mash, if you cannot find your login details, please message me.

You will then find a To Do set by myself for Free Code Scenes – I have set this for everyone.

Have a great day and remember to stay safe.  If you have any questions, please do message me.  If not, I look forward to seeing your work today.

Good morning everyone!

We are seeing some fantastic home learning, well done everyone for the fantastic effort you are putting into your work.

You will receive your invitation to the daily class Zoom sessions through Class Dojo, I really hope that you can join these meetings as it is an opportunity to talk about your online learning, you can ask any questions and of course we get to see your lovely faces!  If you have any issues accessing Zoom, please do get in touch.

Phonics Home Learning

Please join in with the live session of our Read Write Inc Phonics, set 3 with Rosie.  This session goes live on YouTube from 9.30am.

Ruth Miskin Training – YouTube

Maths Home Learning

We are going to start off our Maths lesson by joining in with our days of the week.  Once you have done this, please write down all the days of the week, making sure all letters are formed correctly and in the right order.  As an extra challenge, can you write down the months of the year?

Today, we are going to continue with our Multiplication and Division unit, with our focus continuing today with subtraction crossing ten, counting backwards.  Let’s start by watching the lesson video:

Spr1.4.2 – Subtraction crossing 10 (2) from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.

Now, let’s complete the worksheet:

Cheeky Challenge: Using the skills you have just learnt, please complete the true or false question.

Subtraction part 2

Remember, you can also access Numbots, TT Rockstars and Mathletics to support your maths learning.

English Home Learning

We are going to start our English lesson by looking at the picture of the forest.  I would like you to list as many as adjectives as possible to describe the forest.  Imagine you are stood in the forest, think about your senses.  Once you have done your list, please use your adjectives in sentences.

Now, let’s listen to our story, The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson.

Today you are going to focus on writing and completing your own story about The Smartest Giant in Town.

You are going to write your story following The Smartest Giant in Town but using the change you made on Tuesday.  Have a look at the slide below:

Your story writing is going to be finished today.  Today, I would like you to complete your ending.  I would like you to use lots of description in your story, remembering those exciting adjectives.

Remember it is important to write in full sentences, use capital letters, full stops, phonics and neat handwriting.

Once you have completed your story, you can then add illustrations to go alongside what you have written.

Cheeky Challenge:  Read your completed story and check you have included full stops, capital letters, phonics and neat handwriting.  Also, can you add any more adjectives?  This is called editing and improving.

Please complete your daily reading, remembering you can all access Bug Club.  Please also practice your daily spellings.

Science Home Learning

To start our science lesson, let’s complete an odd one out starter.

Have a good, close look at the three balls below.  Think about and discuss:

• How are they similar?
• How are they different?
• Which is the odd one out and why?

Today, we are going to complete two science activities.  First of all, I would like you to complete Mrs Platt’s whole school science investigation activity.  You will find this on our class news page.  Remember to send me your work so I can pass these onto Mrs Platt.

Next, we are going to be looking at skeletons.

Below is a link for our PowerPoint.  On the PowerPoint you will see a link for a video to watch along with information and your activity for today.

Skeletons

Here is your skeleton cut out worksheet.  If you are unable to print this off, don’t worry, why not draw your own skeleton!

Skeleton worksheet

Remember to share your work, if you have any questions, do get in touch.  Have a good day and stay safe.

Good morning everyone!

Well done for your hard work so far this week, keep it up!

You will receive your invitation to the daily class Zoom sessions through Class Dojo, I really hope that you can join these meetings as it is an opportunity to talk about your online learning, you can ask any questions and of course we get to see your lovely faces!  If you have any issues accessing Zoom, please do get in touch.

Phonics Home Learning

Please join in with the live session of our Read Write Inc Phonics, set 3 with Rosie.  This session goes live on YouTube from 9.30am.

Ruth Miskin Training – YouTube

Maths Home Learning

We are going to start off our Maths lesson by joining in with our counting in tens song.  Once you have done this, please write down all numbers up to 100 counting in tens, making sure they are all formed correctly and in the right order.  As an extra challenge, can you write the numbers backwards from 100 to 0 counting in tens?

Today, we are going to continue with our Addition and Subtraction unit, with our focus today being on subtraction crossing 10 part 1.  Let’s start by watching the lesson video:

Spr1.4.1 -Subtraction crossing 10 (1) from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.

Now, let’s complete the worksheet:

Subtraction crossing 10 part 1

Cheeky Challenge:  Using the skills you have just learnt, please complete the maths problem.

Remember, you can also access Numbots, TT Rockstars and Mathletics to support your maths learning.

English Home Learning

We are going to start our English lesson by looking at the picture of the fairy garden.  I would like you to list as many as adjectives as possible to describe the fairy garden.  Imagine you are stood in the fairy garden, think about your senses.  Once you have done your list, please use your adjectives in sentences.

Now, let’s listen to our story, The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson.

Today you are going to focus on writing your own story about The Smartest Giant in Town.

You are going to write your story following The Smartest Giant in Town but using the change you made yesterday.  Have a look at the slide below:

Your story writing is going to take place today and tomorrow.  Today, I would like you to complete your beginning and middle sections.  I would like you to use lots of description in your story, remembering those exciting adjectives.

Remember it is important to write in full sentences, use capital letters, full stops, phonics and neat handwriting.

Cheeky Challenge:  Read your story so far and check you have included full stops, capital letters, phonics and neat handwriting.  Also, can you add any more adjectives?

Please complete your daily reading, remembering you can all access Bug Club.  Please also practice your daily spellings.

Topic Home Learning

Today we are going to focus on the different seasons we have through the year.

Write down what you already know about the different seasons.

Let’s start by watching this video:

What are the seasons? – BBC Bitesize

Now, I would like you to choose one of the seasons.  You are then going to write a fact file about your chosen season.  You need to include:

• The season name.
• The months of that season.
• Typical weather and temperatures.
• What you would usually wear.
• What the trees look like.
• What about animals and plants?
• An interesting fact.

You could carry out our research using books you have at home or by researching on kiddle.com.

Please create you own fact file, make it bright and colourful with all the facts written down neatly and in full sentences.

Remember to share your work, if you have any questions, do get in touch.  Have a good day and stay safe.

Good morning everyone!

I hope you are all well and continuing your hard work at home.

You will receive your invitation to the daily class Zoom sessions through Class Dojo, I really hope that you can join these meetings as it is an opportunity to talk about your online learning, you can ask any questions and of course we get to see your lovely faces!  If you have any issues accessing Zoom, please do get in touch.

Phonics Home Learning

Please join in with the live session of our Read Write Inc Phonics, set 3 with Rosie.  This session goes live on YouTube from 9.30am.

Ruth Miskin Training – YouTube

Maths Home Learning

We are going to start off our Maths lesson by joining in with our number bonds to ten song.  Once you have done this, please write down all number bonds to 10, making sure they are all formed correctly and in the right order.  As an extra challenge, can you write the number bonds to 20 using your knowledge of the bonds to 10?

Today, we are going to continue with our Addition and Subtraction unit, with our focus today being on subtraction, crossing 10 and counting backwards.  Let’s start by watching the lesson video:

Spr1.3.5 – Subtraction counting back (crossing 10) from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.

Now, let’s complete the worksheet:

Subtraction crossing 10

Cheeky Challenge:  Using the skills you have just learnt, please complete the maths problem.

Remember, you can also access Numbots, TT Rockstars and Mathletics to support your maths learning.

English Home Learning

We are going to start our English lesson by looking at the picture of the castle.  I would like you to list as many as adjectives as possible to describe the castle.  Imagine you are stood in the castle, think about your senses.  Once you have done your list, please use your adjectives in sentences.

Now, let’s listen to our story, The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson.

Today, we are going to be changing one part of the story.  This can be any part, it is up to you.  For example, you might want to change:

• The animals the giant helps.
• The clothes the giant buys and hands out.
• The setting of the story (where the story takes place).

It is entirely up to you!

First of all I would like you to write a description about the change, allowing me to read exactly what you are changing and imagining.  Please use lots of detail and those important adjectives so I can really picture what you are describing.  Next, you can draw the change you have made, again using lots of detail for really show off your change.  You can use your own paper or use the template below:

26.01.21

Remember it is important to write in full sentences, use capital letters, full stops, phonics and neat handwriting.

Cheeky Challenge:  Why did you decide to change this part of the story?

Please complete your daily reading, remembering you can all access Bug Club.  Please also practice your daily spellings.

Art Home Learning

Let’s start our lesson my watching and listening to our new bible story, David and Goliath.

Today we are going to create and decorate our own stones.

David manages to defeat Goliath with a slingshot and stones.

I want you to think of the story, and think of a time where you have had to be brave. Write a sentence explaining a time when you have been brave or shown bravery.

Using these ideas, you are going to decorate a stone.  If you do not have any stones, you could use cardboard or paper.

Remember to share your work, if you have any questions, do get in touch.  Have a good day and stay safe.

Good morning Wrekin and happy Friday!

Well done for all the hard work that has gone into your home learning this week, it has been great seeing your photographs and work.

Well done to everyone who joined our zoom meetings this week.  We will be having two zoom meetings today.  On top of our class zooms, we will also be holding a Key Stage One Zoom at 2.00pm.  Please check Class Dojo for your class zoom, and the link for our Key Stage One Zoom is:

Here are our home learning activities for today:

Phonics Home Learning

Please join in with the live session of our Read Write Inc Phonics, set 3 with Rosie.  This session goes live on YouTube from 9.30am.

Ruth Miskin Training – YouTube

Maths Home Learning

Today, and every Friday, we are going to give you the opportunity to complete Maths activities on TT Rockstars, Numbots and Mathletics.  With these websites, your progress is recorded so I will be able to see who has logged on and what you have completed.  Your login details are in the front of your reading records, however if you cannot find these, please send me a message.

English Home Learning

Today is our spelling test day.  You can either ask someone in your household to complete your spelling test, or you can log onto Purple Mash where there is a spelling test quiz set as a To Do.  This will then let me know how well you have practised your spellings.  Your new spellings will be uploaded onto our class spellings tab.

Also on a Friday, we complete a reading comprehension.  Please make sure you read the text first, this will then help you answer the questions correctly.  This is the skill we are working on today.  Here is our comprehension for today:

Finally, I would like you to carry out your daily reading.  If you do not have any spare reading books at home, please remember you all have access to Bug Club.  Again, if you cannot find your login details, please message me.  I am checking this regularly so I can allocate more books to the children who need them.

ICT Home Learning

In ICT we are going to continue developing our coding skills.  Everyone became very confident in logging onto Purple Mash and started to create their own codes for backgrounds.  

Please log onto Purple Mash, if you cannot find your login details, please message me.

You will then find a To Do set by myself for a coding activity to complete.

Have a great day Wrekin and remember to stay safe.  If you have any questions, please do message me.  If not, I look forward to seeing your work today.