Hello Class Topaz! Here is your work for Thursday and Friday. Hope you enjoy it. Have a great summer holiday and I can't wait to see you all again soon. Stay safe.

Friday 10^th July

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths - Today is about understanding and using the time words seconds, minutes and hours correctly to talk and write about time. Maybe your clock or watch has 3 hands, look carefully at how they all move differently to show the passing of time.

English

It’s the last Phonics Friday! Enjoy Phonics Play games for the last time this year!

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Thursday 9^th July

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power maths – If you feel confident with telling time to the hour, today we are looking at telling time to the half hour. Again there are some useful links including and have an analogue clock or watch handy.

English  - To finish the year, you could make a Year 1 memory poster. What have been your favourite memories of Year 1? What did you really enjoy? Remember when we learnt about Florence Nightingale and when the animals came to visit? We have done lots of fun things this year that you could include.  

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Wednesday 8^th July

Hello Class Topaz. Here is your work for today. Have fun!

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths: Today we will be looking at telling the time to the hour. If you have an anologue clock or watch this will help. If not there are instructions and a template below that you can use to make your own clock face and hands. There are also some other information links that may be helpful.

English  - As it is the last week of term and we have been missing you all lots, you could write a letter to your Year 1 teacher to say goodbye to them. We would love it if you could post it on the blog as we would really enjoy reading them. We have really enjoyed teaching you this year and know you will do brilliantly in Year 2.

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Tuesday 7^th July

Hello Class Topaz. Here is your work for today.

Maths

Fantastic Five – As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths: If you have a calendar in your house it will be useful to look at today. We will be thinking about days and months. If you don’t already know the days and the week and months of the year this is the time to start practising!

English

What are you looking forward to doing in summer? Write a list of things you would like to do in the lovely warm weather. Relax? Play in the garden? Play in your paddling pool? How many things can you think of?!

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Monday 6^th July

Good morning Class Topaz. Hope you had a fun weekend. Here is your work for today:

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths: This week we will be looking at telling the time. Todays task is all about using the language of before and after. When in the day do you do certain activities. Maybe you can draw you own daily plan for when you get up until you go to bed again!

English

As normal today we will do a short write. Look at this summer themed picture and write some sentences about it. How would it feel to be on the beach? Can you include some adjectives and conjunctions in your writing?

For example: The girl is lying under the pink umbrella because it is sunny.

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Hello Class Topaz! Here is your work for Thursday and Friday. Hope you enjoy it. Have a great weekend.

Friday 3^rd July

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths - We will be comparing numbers today. You will need to continue to count in groups of 10s and 1s today and also recall the symbols of greater than > less than < and equals =  Remember the hungry crocodile only eats the greatest number!

English

Phonics play day! Find games that use all the phonemes you have practiced online this week. ‘Topmarks’ also has some great ones!

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Thursday 2^nd July

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power maths – Continuing on from yesterday’s work, partitioning tens and ones in 2 digit numbers.

English  - Today we are going to write a Postcard to your Year 2 teacher. You could include all things you wrote on your poster yesterday. Let her know how you feel.  What are you excited for moving into year 2?

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Wednesday 1^st July

Hello Class Topaz.  Here is your work for today. Have fun!

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths: Today we will be partitioning 2 digit numbers. For example: 12 is one ten and two ones. Remember you will need to count groups of 10s and 1s to help you.

English  - You will soon be moving into Year 2 and we are going to write a postcard to your new teacher tomorrow. Can you make an ‘All About Me’ poster to help plan a letter for your new teacher? You could include things like your likes and dislikes, your favourite food and colour or if you play any sports. This will help you think of things to write tomorrow.

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Tuesday 30th June

Hello Class Topaz. Here is your work for today.

Maths

Fantastic Five – As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths: You will need a 100 square today, find one on google images or use a snakes and ladders board if you have one. We will be looking at the patterns when adding and subtracting 1s and 10s.

English

We are nearly at the end of the school year and then end of your time in Year 1. It has been a very different year and it would be good to remember what it was like in a few years. Write a diary entry to help remember what your home learning has been like. Have you enjoyed it? What have you missed about school? How has it been different working at home? Open the PDF to see some tips to help you write your diary entry.

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Monday 29^th June

Good morning Class Topaz. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Here is your work for today. Have fun!

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths: This week we will be looking at numbers to 100. Before starting today’s lesson practise counting in 10s, and also remind yourselves about the place value of each digit in a 2 digit number i.e. 24 is 2 tens and 4 ones, 20 and 4,     40 and 5 makes 45 etc. This will be important for this week’s Maths work on numbers to 100.

English

As normal today we will do a short write. Look at the picture and write some sentences about what you see. Imagine what it would feel like to be there. Can you use three adjectives in a row in your sentence?

For example: The helter skelter is long, fast and slippy.

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Friday 26^th June

Hello Class Topaz. Here is your work for today. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Maths – This is another BBC Bitesize activity today which is asset of different challenges. See if you can try them: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkfm8hv

Here is your fantastic 5 for the day:

4 x 10                9 x 10

8 x 2                 6 x 5

12 x 2

Remember to look carefully at the operations and use jottings and drawings to help solve them.

English – Phonics play day! Find games that use all the phonemes you have practiced online this week. ‘Topmarks’ also has some great ones!

Phonics - We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW – Choose from the grid of tasks for this week or have a look at the other BBC bitesize activity which is learning French food and drink words: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zqhbp4j

Thursday 25^th June

Good morning Class Topaz. Here is your work for today.

Maths – We will use the bbc bitesize learning again today which is all about comparing numbers to 100: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3cm8hv

Here is your fantastic 5 for the day:

10 x 3                       4 x 5

2 x 6                         5 x 7

10 x 8

Remember to look carefully at the operations and use jottings and drawings to help solve them.

English - Today you are going to try writing your own newspaper report. Think of a headline to make the reader want to read your report. Write some sentences about what you interviewed your family member about and include some of the answers to the questions you asked yesterday. You could try to make it look like a newspaper if you want to. There is a sheet you can use if you would like, but you don’t have to. We’d love to see these on the class blogs!

Phonics - We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW – Choose from the grid of tasks for this week or have a look at the other BBC bitesize activity which is Design and Technology today and all about food and nutrition: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7yb42p

Wednesday 24^th June

Good morning Class Topaz!

Maths – We will use the BBC Bitesize learning again and today it is all about comparing objects to 100: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zwbwr2p

Here is your fantastic 5 for the day:

12 - 5         25 - 3

31 - 6         25 - 14

34 - 12

Remember to look carefully at the operations and use jottings and drawings to help solve them.

English – Today you are going to ask someone your questions and write down their answers. Keep a record of their answer because you will need them tomorrow. Then have a look at How to write a Newspaper Report – you’re going to try this tomorrow!

Phonics - We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW – Choose from the grid of tasks for this week or have a look at the other BBC bitesize activity which is Science today and all about ‘what is sound’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zpttwnb

Tuesday 23^rd June

Good morning Class Topaz. Here is your work for today.

Maths – We are going to continue with the BBC bitesize learning today. Today it is all about partitioning tens and ones: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zncq4xs

Here is your fantastic 5 for the day:

16 + 23                51 + 18

43 + 16               25 + 25

19 + 35

Remember to look carefully at the operations and use jottings and drawings to help solve them.

English – If you were home learning last week you’ll know we’re learning about newspaper reports. If you were in school last week, don’t worry about what we did at home last week but have a read of the Turtle report so you know what a newspaper report looks like!

To make a newspaper report more exciting to read, there is often an interview with someone who saw what happened or who was involved in the event. An interview means the reporter asks the person some questions to find out more about what happened. Today you are going to plan some questions to interview someone in your family. You could ask about trip or event that has happened in your family recently, or you could ask about home schooling! Write down 3 or 4 questions you plan to ask them. Don’t forget your question marks. Don’t ask them yet – that’s for tomorrow!

Phonics - We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW – Choose from the grid of tasks for this week or have a look at the other BBC bitesize activity which is Geography today and all about cities, towns and villages: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zy2hqfr

Monday 23^rd June

Good morning Class Topaz. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Here is your work for today:

Maths – we are going to try the BBC bitesize links for Maths again this week. Today it is all about counting to 100. Follow: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z2xfxbk

Here is your fantastic 5 for the day:

12 + 36                45 + 13

41 + 36               27 + 22

56 + 15

Remember to look carefully at the operations and use jottings and drawings to help solve them.

English - Short write - Look at this picture and write sentences about what you can see. Try to include nouns and 2 adjectives which describe each noun. Start each sentence with ‘I can see…

For example:   I can see the tall, green crocodile trying to run .

Phonics - We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW – Choose from the grid of tasks for this week or have a look at the other BBC bitesize activity which is about Mary Seacole today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zk7mkty

Friday 19^th June

Maths

Fantastic Five -  As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths - Continue in your Power Maths books today with more division word problems.

English

Phonics play day! Find games that use all the phonemes you have practiced online this week. ‘Topmarks’ also has some great ones!

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Thursday 18^th June

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power maths – Today I have included the Discover Share Think together page so not in your books. You will need to work out the important information, ie the numbers you need and which calculation you will be doing. All the questions today are division questions so use your understanding of grouping and sharing to help you find the answers, do drawings if this helps too!

English  - A newspaper report has a headline. That’s the big title at the top of the report. Good headlines tell you what the report will be about and make it sound exciting so that you want to read it. Have a look at the headlines and stories in the pdf and see if you can work out which headline matches with which report. Then see if you can write a good headline to go with the last one!

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Wednesday 17^th June

Hello Class Topaz. Here is your work for today. Have fun!

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths - We are dividing by sharing again today. Can you explain the 2 ways to divide?

1. By putting into equal groups,

2. By sharing out equally.

English  - Good newspaper reports answer the kind of questions we asked about the turtle report yesterday. Have a look at the newspaper reports in the “Questions” pdf. Read each report, or ask someone to read them with you. Check whether they answer the questions – who, what, where, when, why. Write or talk about the answers to those questions in each report.

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Tuesday 16^th June

Hello Class Topaz! Here is your work for today. Have fun!

Maths

Fantastic Five – As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths - Today we will look at another way of dividing, by sharing out the total until all are used. Think of things that you share with your friends and family. Remember it has to be fair and equal.

English

We’re going to learn about newspaper reports this week. Read the news report about the baby turtle and talk to someone about the answers to these questions: 

Who is the story about?

Where did it happen?

What happened?

When did it happen?

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Monday 15^th June

Good morning Class Topaz!

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths - Today we are continuing our work on division by making equal groups. Start with the total amount and group until all objects are used, or back at 0 on the number line.

English

Short write - Look at this coral reef picture and write sentences about what you can see. Try to include nouns and 2 adjectives which describe each noun. Start each sentence with ‘I can see…

For example:   I can see a small, stripy fish swimming.

Phonics

We know lots of you have been enjoying The Department for Education’s daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through.  Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Friday 12^th June

Hello Class Topaz.

Here is your work for today. We hope you have enjoyed the BBC bitesize learning this week. Have a really fun weekend J.

Maths – today it is all about Maths in football. There are lots of activities so don’t worry if you can’t do them all. If the weather is dry at any point today then maybe get outside and play football with someone using the direction words you have learnt. Here is the link to the activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmdr92p

Here is your fantastic 5 for the day:

12 ÷ 3                     14  ÷ 2

15 ÷ 5                    50 ÷ 5

70 ÷ 10

Remember to look carefully at the operations and use jottings and drawings to help solve them.

English – today is all about using reading a story called The Night Box by Louise Greig. Again there are lots of activities to choose from so don’t worry if you can’t do all of them. Maybe watch the extract from the story and talk about it with a grown up. Here is the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvrybdm

Phonics - Here is your daily phonics work so that Phonics stays fresh in your mind. We hope you have been enjoying The Department for Education's daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am which is a half hour interactive video to recap the sounds you have already learnt in school. The video explains and does everything so don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with phonics! Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW – Choose from the grid of tasks for this week or have a look at the other BBC bitesize activity which is Art and Design today – making play dough and forming your own sculpture! Here is the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z9b3trd

Thursday 11^th June

Hello Class Topaz!

Here is your work for today. I hope you have enjoyed the BBC bitesize learning this week. I have included the links below for today’s activities. Have fun J.

Maths – today it is all about equal groups and repeated addition. Here is the link to the activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zn7kwty

Here is your fantastic 5 for the day:

7 x 10                             5 x 5

12 x 2                              6 x 10

9 x 5

Remember to look carefully at the operations and use jottings and drawings to help solve them.

English – today is all about four different types of sentence. Here is a link to the activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvp6dp3

Phonics - Here is your daily phonics work so that Phonics stays fresh in your mind. We hope you have been enjoying The Department for Education's daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am which is a half hour interactive video to recap the sounds you have already learnt in school. The video explains and does everything so don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with phonics! Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW – Choose from the grid of tasks for this week or have a look at the other BBC bitesize activity which is learning Spanish numbers and songs. Here is the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z82jr2p

Wednesday 10^th June

Hello Class Topaz.

Here is your work for today. I hope you have enjoyed the BBC bitesize learning so far this week. We will continue using these all week so I have included the links below for today’s activities. Have fun J.

Maths – today it is all about counting in 10s. Here is the link to the activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6dr92p

Here is your fantastic 5 for the day:

7 x 2                     3 x 5

8 x 2                     11 x 2

6 x 5 

Remember to look carefully at the operations and use jottings and drawings to help solve them.

English – today is all about forming and using zigzag letters in your writing. Here is a link to the activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zd7wg7h

Phonics - Here is your daily phonics work so that Phonics stays fresh in your mind. We hope you have been enjoying The Department for Education's daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am which is a half hour interactive video to recap the sounds you have already learnt in school. The video explains and does everything so don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with phonics! Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW – Choose from the grid of tasks for this week or have a look at the other BBC bitesize activity which is Science today - Squashing, bending, twisting and stretching. Here is the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh4xprd

Tuesday 9^th June

Hello Class Topaz.

Here is your work for today. I hope you enjoyed the BBC bitesize learning yesterday. We will continue using these all week so I have included the links below for today’s activities. Have fun J.

Maths – today it is all about counting in 5s. Here is the link to the activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkvhscw

Here is your fantastic 5 for the day:

45 – 12                                     56 – 23

76 – 24                                     65 = 32

82 - 24

Remember to look carefully at the operations and use jottings and drawings to help solve them.

English – today is all about identifying and understanding questions and being able to write your own questions. Here is the link to the activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zpshjsg

Phonics - Here is your daily phonics work so that Phonics stays fresh in your mind. We hope you have been enjoying The Department for Education's daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am which is a half hour interactive video to recap the sounds you have already learnt in school. The video explains and does everything so don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with phonics! Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW – Choose from the grid of tasks for this week or have a look at the other BBC bitesize activity which is Geography today and an introduction to North America and San Francisco:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrcjmyc

Monday 8^th June

Hello Class Topaz. I hope you had a fun weekend.

Here is your work for today. We thought we would try something a little different this week. We have heard great things about the BBC bitesize work from other age groups so thought we would direct you to their daily lessons. I will still include a link for each every day and a general summary. We hope you enjoy them J.

Maths – today it is all about counting in 2s. Follow the link here to watch the clip and try the activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z693rj6

Here is your fantastic 5 for the day:

12 + 34                                       27 + 16

45 + 33                                      67 + 25

58 + 27

Remember to look carefully at the operations and use jottings and drawings to help solve them.

English – today is all about using phonics and spelling patterns to help develop vocabulary. follow the link to play the game, watch a video and try the three different activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znf8qnb

Phonics - Here is your daily phonics work so that Phonics stays fresh in your mind. We hope you have been enjoying The Department for Education's daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am which is a half hour interactive video to recap the sounds you have already learnt in school. The video explains and does everything so don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with phonics! Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW – Choose from the grid of tasks for this week or have a look at the other BBC bitesize activity which is History – who is Mahandas Ghandi https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfhvrqt.

Thursday 4^th June

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power maths -Practice books ‘Making equal groups (1)’ Remember equal means the same as. Page 26.

English

Find a cereal box or tray to create your own fantasy setting. I have included a few examples to inspire you! What would it look like? What would you see? Write sentences to describe each part of your setting. For example: The gingerbread house is colourful and enticing. The tall, green trees surround it.

Phonics

All the year 1 teachers have decided to include some daily phonics work so that Phonics stays fresh in your mind. The Department for Education are uploading daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through. The video explains and does everything so don’t stress parents if you are unfamiliar with phonics! Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

Hello Class Topaz!

Things are changing a little from now. Some of you will be coming to school to learn and some of you will be carrying on learning at home. I am really looking forward to seeing some of you back in school but those of you that are learning from home, I would love to carry on seeing your work posts on our blog. Wherever you will be learning from, I will be thinking about you all and I want you to continue the brilliant work you have been doing so far. I am proud of you all!

For those of you that are coming back to school, our classroom has changed a little. Here are a few pictures so you know what to expect when you come in on Monday.

Wednesday 3^rd June

Hello Class Topaz. Here is your work for today. Hope you have fun!

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths -Discover, Share, Think together for our first division lesson, can you see how multiplication is useful.

English

Find books that have a ‘Fantasy’ setting, for example, a witch’s house, a dragon’s cave, an underwater palace. Make and label objects you would find in that setting, for example, a witch’s cauldron, a dragon’s egg, a magic mirror. You could use playdough, recycling items or natural objects from outside. Write a sentence for each, what is its purpose? Describe it using adjectives.

Phonics

All the year 1 teachers have decided to include some daily phonics work so that Phonics stays fresh in your mind. The Department for Education are uploading daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through. The video explains and does everything so don’t stress parents if you are unfamiliar with phonics! Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Tuesday 2^nd June

Hello Class Topaz. Here is your work for today.

Maths

Fantastic Five – As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths -We are in our practice books today, if you don’t have yours there is a PDF copy to print or use to write your answers.

English

Look through your fiction books at home. Where do the stories take place? Is it a park? A castle? A forest? These are the called the ‘setting’. Find a setting you really like the look of, copy it from your book or draw your own version of the same setting. Write a list of adjectives to describe it.

Phonics

All the year 1 teachers have decided to include some daily phonics work so that Phonics stays fresh in your mind. The Department for Education are uploading daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through. The video explains and does everything so don’t stress parents if you are unfamiliar with phonics! Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Monday 1^st June

Good morning Class Topaz! I hope you've had a wonderful half term break. Here is your work for today.  Have fun!

Maths

Fantastic Five - As a starter every day, I will be giving you five arithmetic problems. Remember, you can use counting on, drawing pictures or number lines! Look below for the PDF containing the ‘Fantastic Five’.

Power Maths -Today we will be revisiting multiplication before moving onto division. Multiplication can be very useful for answering division questions! We are online today looking at Discover, Share, Think together Unit 12 Lesson 6. Is it all about working out word problems.

English

Short write- This week we will be thinking about story settings. Look at this fantasy picture and write sentences that include nouns and 2 adjectives which describe each noun. Start each sentence with ‘I can see…

For example:   I can see an old, gnarly tree trunk.

Phonics

All the year 1 teachers have decided to include some daily phonics work so that Phonics stays fresh in your mind. The Department for Education are uploading daily phonics lessons on YouTube at 10:30am. This goes through a recap of sounds and also looks at a sound daily. It is a half an hour interactive video that you can work through. The video explains and does everything so don’t stress parents if you are unfamiliar with phonics! Please look at the Year 1 section- not Reception. This is a great way of getting some phonics practice in! Here is the link of their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

EOW Choose from the grid of tasks for this week.

Welcome to Topaz!

Our class teacher is Miss Blackburn and Mrs Hodkinson, Mrs P and Mrs Alderson are our learning support assistants. 

We are:

 - a wonderful Year 1 Class!

- becoming more independent and put our things away by ourselves.

- very grown up! We even change our own reading books.

- a very caring class and are always thinking of ways to look after each other.

- very enthusiastic learners and always work hard.

- a class who loves singing and making up rhymes to help us remember things.

This year we will be using POWER MATHS a new exciting scheme and learning English skills through fantastic themes.

We have indoor PE on a Thursday and outdoor PE on a Friday; so we need to have kit suitable for both.

Spellings and Phonics homework are issued on a Thursday and the Phonics homework should be returned on a Tuesday; we do a spelling check each Thursday. 

Please come and change reading books with your child at 8.50am if you wish to. You are always welcome to come in and see the staff in the class if you have any questions to ask or are concerned about anything.