Class 1
Week 5 - 5th July
We've had such fun with our science week this week. Thank you so much to all of the parents who supported at home with the entries for the competition. Our part of the display in the hall looked absolutely amazing so thank you for your support.
Mrs Radi organised for a local company called Lab Rascals to come in and do some work with all of the children. I hope they all told you what an exciting time it was, but here are a few photos anyway.
The children were so excited about what they saw happening. It was great to see.
What a fabulous week we've had.
Week 3 - 21st June
This week we have been thinking about our feelings in our PSHE lessons. We thought about lots of feelings words and we put actions to the words to help us understand what the words mean.
We worked fantastically in our groups to play a game about our feelings. We had to roll the dice and land on a feelings word. We had to tell the others in our group a time when we had experienced that feeling. The children worked really well and had some great ideas.
We also managed to pick a beautiful day to create our own tree boggarts. These are mischievous and magical creatures who are supposed to live in our woodland areas to help to protect them.
We looked at some pictures of tree boggarts and we then made our own using some clay and lots of natural materials.
Week 2 - 14th June
We started the week with beautiful sunshine and ended it with a wet miserable day! Let's hope that looking at what the children have been doing this week will bring lots of sunshine to people's days.
Our project for this half term is allowing us to get out and about in our outdoor area, so thank goodness the weather was good to us on Monday.
We were learning all about maps and the different features that we would be able to find on a map.
We had to make a fairy garden in the out door area and then we had to create some maps to show our fairy village.
We had great fun collecting things for our fairy gardens.
We placed lots of features on our map when we came back to the classroom. Some of the villages had rivers, volcanoes, mountains and little fairy settlements.
Week 1 - 7th June
We've started our new project this week and what a really busy week it has been.
Our new project is called 'The Enchanted Woodland' and we made some fairy dream catchers. They look so beautiful. We had a wonderful and tasty picnic in our school woodland area to launch our project.
The weather was beautiful and we had a really fun time.
As a part of our project, we had to look at evergreen and deciduous trees. We went on a search of our woodland area to see if we could find evergreen and deciduous trees.
It was quite hard to spot as all of the trees were covered in beautiful green leaves!
We've had some visitors in our class room for the last few weeks. They came as very tiny caterpillars. They ate lots of food and grew very big and fat. They turned into a chrysalis. Mrs Mountain had them at her house over the holidays to keep an eye on them. When we came into the class on Tuesday one of them had hatched. By the next day, all five of the butterflies had hatched and were fluttering around the net. We put some sugar water in with them and gave then pieces of cut up fruit.
Today, we had to let them go in their real environment. We took them to our woodland area and opened the top of the net. It took them a little while, but soon all of the butterflies were enjoying their new environment. They didn't fly very far to start with because I think they were saying thank you to us all for looking after them. We waved bye to them and wished them a happy life.
We've been thinking about the artist Andy Goldsworthy this week. He uses natural materials to create his art work. We looked at pictures of his art work and how he created them. We then went to our woodland area to collect natural materials to make our own creations.
Week 6 - 24th May
What a way to end our project!
Loads of great and exciting things happening this week.
We've been thinking about eating a variety of different foods. We looked at a food wheel to think about how we could make a healthy meal. We worked in a group to sort the pictures.
We then had to choose which fruits we wanted to put on our fruit kebab. We designed what we wanted our kebab to look like and taste like. We used different fruits to make our kebab.
We then had to say whether we were pleased with our kebab when we tasted it and whether there would have been anything we could have done to make it better.
It was a great afternoon and we put some yummy combinations together.
This morning we had some very special visitors join us in school. A company called 'ZooLab' brought some very special bugs into school for us to see and handle.
There was Freddie the Tree Frog, Tallulah the Tarantula, Millie the Millipede, Bungles the Gecko and Phoebe the Corn Snake. The children were amazing and loved getting close up to the animals.
Here are lots of pictures.
What a great way to end our project.
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Hope you all have a wonderful half term and I hope the weather is pleasant for us all.
We will see you and all of the children back again after the holidays for our new project 'The Enchanted Woodland'. Lots of exciting things to look forward to.
Week 5 - 17th May
Spellings
A great well done to children who are working really hard through the week to learn their spellings. we are very proud of you.
Thank you to all of the adults for supporting your children with their weekly spellings. We are getting some really good scores in our tests.
We've spent a lot of time in our Out door area again this week as we had a letter from Sally the Spider. She told us that the workmen had broken their Bug Hotel and her friends and family had nowhere to live. She asked the children if they could make a new Bug Hotel for them all. The children thought that this was an amazing idea and rose to the challenge.
We then wrote a letter back to Sally Spider to tell her what we had done. We are going to go back and have a look to see if any bugs have moved into their new Hotel.
Today, we have been thinking about where food comes from. We tasted lots of different foods from all around the world....
Italian ham
Dutch cheese
Yorkshire crisps
Scottish carrots
Grapes from India
The children enjoyed trying the foods and we talked about whether they came out of the ground or whether they came from an animal. We looked at a map of the UK to find the places and we looked at a map of the world. We talked about how food is transported across the world and why it wasn't a good idea to transport food in a Lamborghini (the children realised that it needed to be something that could travel fast!!)
Next week is our last week of this project 'Wriggle and Crawl' and we are having an exciting visit next Friday to complete our project. Look out for some pretty amazing photos next week.
Week 4 - 10th May
Lots of photos of things that the children have been doing for their learning this week. Busy, busy, busy!!
On Tuesday, we went to the wildlife area and we were looking at microhabitats - these are the places where animals live. The wildlife area is the habitat and looking under stones, bricks and logs would be a microhabitat.
It was very exciting and we found lots of bugs to have a look at.
We've read the story called 'What the ladybird heard' in our English lesson this week. We were thinking about speech bubbles and what the characters might be saying. We worked in groups to have a think about our speech bubbles.
In maths this week, we have been thinking about how we can make groups of ten to help us with our counting.
We worked with a partner to think of ways that we could solve the problem.
We've designed a den for the outside classroom and we had to think about the materials and equipment that we needed. We had great fun working in our groups when we went outside to make our dens.
We played a game in our phonics lesson today. We had to do a relay race and write down the special friends that we could remember. We had to write the sound and pass the pen as quickly as we could. Mrs Mountain added up the points to see who had won.
We've had a great week with lots of fun learning.
Week 3 - 4th May
Hope you all enjoyed the extra day at the beginning of the week.
This week, in our PSHE lessons, we've been thinking about money. We've thought about where people get their money from and this week, we've been thinking about things that we could save our money up for. The children all had some great ideas. (Toys, trips out, holidays, buying presents for their special people)
We thought about where we could keep our money that would keep it safe for us. We talked about banks and how they can help us to save our money. We thought about purses, piggy banks and giving our money to an adult to help to keep it safe.
We listened to some short stories about money and we thought about where the best place would be to keep it. We had to hold up a little card to show what we thought.
Spellings are now coming home weekly and they will be tested on a Friday. The words for this week are
catch
kitchen
hutch
ditch
match
fetch
notch
witch
patch
watch
Look at the spelling pattern of 'tch' and this will help you to remember your spelling words.
Please keep reading through the week and record on the books when your child has read to you.
Thank you for your support with this.
Week 2 - 26th April
PE Days
PE days have now been changed to Mondays and Wednesdays. For Mondays PE, children are able to come to school in their PE kit. They must have their PE kit in bags to change into after the lesson. Children will need to have PE kits in their bags for Wednesday lessons and they will change in school for this lesson.
Please make sure that all ear-rings are also removed too.
Thank you for your support with this.
We've been doing some art work this week and the children had to plan a design for their bug. We looked closely at lots of bugs to identify their features and then we drew our plan.
We then had to make our lump of clay look like our planned bug. We made sure that we added the right features to our bugs.
28Apr21
Beetle Bop!
The children in Miss French's English group listened to the rhyme, 'Beetle Bop'. They found the rhythm and then chose 4 of their own beetles to include in their own version of the rhyme.
Tilly-May, Rosie and Sanita
Lillie-Mae and Max
Emily and Oakley
Elena and Aiden
Lillie-Rose and Freddie
Week 1 - 19th April
A very warm welcome back to all of our children and families. It is great to see all of the children back after the Easter break.
We have tried really hard with our attendance this week and we were SO close to winning the prize for the school. Attendance is something that is very important to us as a school as children can miss out on so many activities if they are not in school.
Thank you for supporting us with our attendance. The children now know that they will receive a dojo for each day they are in school and they will receive a second dojo for being in school on time. The dojo shop is looking amazing with all of the prizes ready to be won.
This week, we have started our new project. It is called 'Wriggle and Crawl' and we are going to be completing a lot of work linked to mini beasts and their habitats. Our book for English is a non-fiction book (an information book) called 'Bug Hotel'.
We have lots of exciting things planned for this project and will be getting the children to explore the wildlife area as much as we can.
To launch our project, we went into the wildlife area to carry out a bug hunt. We saw some mini beasts in their habitats and it was exciting looking for them.
We watched the film 'It's a bug's life' for the rest of the afternoon and talked about the mini beasts in the film.
In our Maths lesson this week, we have been using some of our new equipment to work on our number bonds. We worked in groups to find the two numbers to make the total and we recorded the calculation on our whiteboards.
We have looked at a poem in our guided reading work this week. It was called 'The Mini beast Feast'. We read through the poem and found some words that we didn't know. We put some actions to the words to help us to understand them. We had to read through the poem and answer questions about it. We worked in groups to answer the questions about the poem. We worked well in our groups to support each other with our reading.
We've learnt about the artist Henri Rousseau and how he taught himself how to draw and paint. We looked at some picture of mini beasts and how we could draw them showing lots of detail. We then went out to the wildlife area to have a hunt for bugs and use our drawing skills to sketch them.
Week 6 - 29th March
We've had a great morning today and we've been outside in our wildlife area to have our Easter egg hunt. The eggs were hidden everywhere and we had to look high and low to find them. We each found an egg. What a great surprise!
We've listened to a great book called 'We're going on an Egg Hunt'. It reminded us lots of the Bear Hunt story.
We've been thinking about the Easter story in our lessons this week and we tried some Hot Cross Buns. We listened to the story about what happened to Jesus on the cross. We used our water colour paints to make the sky and then we added a cross to the picture to remind us what happened.
In our maths group, we have been thinking about tens and ones in numbers up to 20. We had some magic arrow cards to help us make the numbers and to help us find out the tens and the ones. 
We've got a new project starting after the holidays and the teachers are very excited about it. We've also got a new book for our English journey and we're going to do some great work from it.
We hope you and your families have a great Easter break and we look forward to seeing the children on Tuesday 20th April to start our next set of exciting learning.
Take care,
Mrs Mountain
Week 5 - 22nd March
This week we have been doing some great art work. We were really surprised when Mrs Mountain showed us what we were doing - it was like magic!
We had to make patterns on white paper with some wax candles. We couldn't see any of the marks that we were making - it was a BIG surprise!!
We wondered what Mrs Mountain was doing!
Then we had to think about mixing some water colour paints and Mrs Mountain showed us the magic part.
When we painted over the paper we could see all of our wax patterns.
Have a look at the great work that we produced.
We had great fun and we showed some great painting techniques.
For our computing work this week, we have been thinking about algorithms. An algorithm is a set or rules or a process that we have to follow to get to the end product.
Mrs Mountain gave us some instructions and we had to draw what she said.
She told us to....
draw a circle body
add two eyes
draw 4 legs
add wings
add a crown
All of our pictures looked different as we thought about the instructions in different ways.
How different do they look and how silly do they look!
Thursday 18Mar21
Jabuti - a dramatic performance
In Miss French's English group, we acted out the story of Jabuti. Miss French photographed our 'freeze frames'. Here is our performance.
Jabuti - children's dramatic performance - video.mp4
Week 4 - 15th March
What another busy and exciting week we've had again this week with so much happening and so much learning going on.
This week, we've design our own masks for our Brazil carnival parade. We had to plan our design first and choose the things that we needed to make our mask. Then we made our mask. Have a look at some of the masks that we produced.
We then had to think about our finished mask and whether we had made a good job of it. We had to think about what we might do differently next time to make our mask even better.
This week too, we've thought about 'freedom' and we listened to a story about the life of a girl many years ago who was a slave. We thought about how important it is to be able to choose what we want to do and say. We made some beautiful birds as a sign to remember freedom.
We watched a clip to investigate what it is like in the Amazon Rainforest. We found out lots of facts about the weather, the plants and animals, waterfalls , the tribes who live there and how the Rainforest is in danger.
We wrote our facts on pieces of paper.
In our class maths work, we have been looking at measuring. We found lots of things in the class room that we could measure with cubes but we realised that it wouldn't be a good idea to measure an elephant or a bus with cubes and we thought about the reasons why!!
One of the children was a little worried that the elephant may eat the cubes! I was more worried about being able to find an elephant to measure!
We had great fun finding things in the class room to measure and counting the amount of cubes they measured.
Next week, we're finishing our Jabuti story and the teachers are already planning an amazing new book for the start after the holidays. The children have loved the bright colours in the story and how the birds helped Jabuti to out his shell back together.
Reading
Thank you for supporting us with the children's reading at home and well done to those children who have read lots through the week. Remember there is a dojo for each of your reads at home. Let's keep going for next week too.
Week 3 - 8th March
What an absolutely amazing week it has been. It has been SO great to see all of the children back in school again and we've spent a lot of time this week thinking about friendships and how we can make our school such a great place. We have also talked a lot about how we are feeling and any worries that the children may have been having.
I am SO proud as to how the children have settled back into their daily activities and routines.
We've also had 100% attendance for the whole of the week too, so that is an amazing start back.
Reading
Reading books will normally go out on a Monday to be returned for the Friday of that week. Please try to read with your children each day, even if you are only reading a couple of pages. You could also spend some time talking about the words in the text, talking about the pictures and spotting words in the text.
Have a think about these questions...
Who are the characters in the story?
What is happening in the story?
What is the problem in the story?
How did they solve the problem in the story?
Try to ask some 'Why' questions and encourage the children to give their reasons for answers.
This week, we've been learning about animals and what they eat. We used the word 'Carnivore, Herbivore and Omnivore' to put our animals into groups. The children showed some great team work when they were working in their groups.
In our Maths this week, we have been thinking about tens and ones. The children had great fun making different numbers with the tens sticks and the ones cubes.
The children have worked really hard with their Mother's Day surprises. I hope the card and the beautiful bunch of daffodils brightens up your day.
Next week, Friday 19th, is Comic Relief Red Nose day. Children may come in their own clothes for a small donation.
Week 7 - 14th December
Just to wish the children, yourselves and all of your families a wonderful and happy Christmas.
Thank you for your amazing support over this term and we look forward to seeing you all again in the New Year for lots more exciting things happening.
Take care and keep safe,
Mrs Mountain and Mrs Ayre
Week 5 - 30th November
This week has seen the end of our Moon Zoom project. We have worked hard through the weeks and it was great to have our history days on Tuesday and Wednesday to celebrate the work we have done.
On Tuesday, we thought about how we get day and night and we went out to see the position of the sun in the sky through the day. We looked at the planets and we made our own planets. We worked in groups to use the right colours for the planets and then we displayed them in the class room in the right order fomr the sun.
We all looked fabulous in our Space dress ups.
In the afternoon, we used crumpets for our printing and made it look like planets in space. The holes in the crumpets looked like craters on the planets.
On Wednesday, we started our day by going into the hall and we created the next part of our dance. We have been putting movements to music to explore a journey into space.
After break, we went out onto the field with a rocket ship. We had to fill it with water, pump some air into it and then pull the string. We were amazed at how far it flew up into the sky. It was very exciting to watch.
We're not sure who was more excited, the children or the teachers!!!
It maybe wasn't the end of the week that we were all expecting, but I'm looking forward to seeing you all online on Monday at 9.15 and 12.45.
Week 4 - 23rd November
What a way to end the week. Mrs Green asked the children if they wanted to help decorate the Christmas tree. The children couldn't believe how enormous the tree was and we managed to decorate the lower branches beautifully.
We'd just been looking at Advent and we'd worked together to make our own Advent wreaths.
We've looked at the work of Vincent Van Gogh this week and we used the colours and the techniques to recreate his painting 'Starry Night'.
We looked at aerial photos in our Geography lesson and we had to use the right vocabulary to describe the features.
We've finished the story 'The Way Back Home' this week and the boy and the alien helped each other to return home. We then watched an animation of the book and we had to think about what was the same and what was different. We had to work in groups to share what we thought.
Please remember that it is our History Exhibition days next week (Tuesday and Wednesday) and the children can dress up (sparkly clothes, stars, silver and grey colours, astronauts) with a moon theme on both the Tuesday and the Wednesday. Through the days, we will be doing lots of activities related to our Moon Zoom project. Keep a look out for the photos for next week.....
Week 3 - 16th November
And another week flies by......
The children have done some great work again this week as we are working through our 'Moon Zoom' project and our 'Way Back Home' text.
Dojo Shop
Lots of children have visited the Dojo shop this week as they have earned their next rewards. The children have been very proud of their prizes (wonderful rubbers, rulers and note pads) and are working towards their next targets. Please remember that they receive a Dojo for each time a read is recorded at home which really does help their points. Thank you for all pf your support with this.
English Journey
This week, in our English, we helped the boy make an rocket to get him back from the moon. We had to follow instructions to make our rocket and they looked great when they were finished.
For our project lessons this week, we've been finding out about Neil Armstrong and his journey to be the first man to step on the
moon. We watched a clip as the astronauts blasted off into space and we saw as they took their first steps on the moon. We pretended that we were Neil Armstrong and we were able to say his famous phrase.
'It's one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind'.
Ask the children to see if they can tell you about Neil Armstrong and his visit to the moon.
We also looked at computer programming this week and we learnt about an 'algorithm'. We had to think about clear instructions. Our first job was to give instructions to Mrs Mountain to put her coat on. Freddie told Mrs Mountain to put the coat on her head which was a good instruction, but it didn't quite work out right... Mrs Mountain did put the coat on her head, but then she couldn't see anything. We had to think really hard to make sure that the instructions were clear so Mrs Mountain could get it right. This is what we used....
'Put your right arm in the right arm hole.'
'Put the other arm in' (Mrs Mountain put her other arm in the same arm hole!! so we needed to make the instruction much clearer.)
'Put the left arm in the other armhole'
'Zip it up from the bottom'
It was a really fun thing to do and we had lots of laughs.
We were then able to use the Bee Bots and we could use the buttons to program them to get to a certain place. It was great fun and we watched as other children had a go.
This week, we've been thinking about people who help to keep us safe. We've thought about our Emergency Services and the jobs that they do to help to keep us safe. This week, we thought about people in our community who help to keep us safe. We thought about teachers, Doctors, nurses, school crossing patrol people and how they could help to keep us safe. We had some jigsaws and we had to out them back together again, working in our groups. We were really good at working together to put the pieces in place.
Week 2 - 9th November
We always seem to have weeks that fly by and we've had another busy week of exciting activities again.
We've been doing some of our project work this week and we've been investigating the different materials that we can find around our school.
We then came back into the class room and we worked in groups to sort the different objects into the materials they were made from. We always work really well in our groups and we all take part in the activity.
On a Tuesday we have our music lessons. We have to do lots of good listening to clap a steady beat and we put actions to the words in the music.
We've read more of our 'The Way Back Home' book this week. We pretended to be on the moon and we put out all of the lights in the classroom. We used little torches on our fingers and we thought about the boy and the moon and how he would be feeling. We wrote sentences about his feelings. We were very excited, but the boy was a bit scared on the moon all on his own.
We read some more of the story and the boy meets an alien on the moon. We had to work in our groups again to think of ways to describe the alien. He looks very unusual, but he looks very friendly.
It was our dress up day for Pudsey today and we did a Joe Wicks workout to show our support for Children in Need. In the afternoon, we went for a walk in our outdoor area to check for signs of Autumn.
What a great way to end the week.
Week 1 - 2nd November
Hello to all of the children and their families and a big welcome back after the holidays. It's great to have the children back at school and they have all settled back in again really well.
This week, we started a new project for the half term and we were very surprised to find that an alien space craft had landed in our class room and there were some unusual footprints dotted around the class rooms that led to the door into the atrium. We had a great time wondering what and who might be visiting our school.
We have started our new text for our English journey too. It is called 'The way back home' and is written by Oliver Jeffers. We made some predictions about the story and what might happen through the book. We looked at one of the characters of the book and we thought of words to describe him. We're looking forward to finding out about what happens in the story.
We also looked at our story to identify the nouns (naming words) and the verbs(doing words) and we sorted the words into groups.
In our maths work this week, we have been concentrating on adding and knowing that addition calculations can be written either way round (Buy one, get one free!)
2+4=6 so
4+2=6
We've looked at some images of the Earth that have been taken from space and we've looked at what we can see on the images. We could recognise where the beach was as well as fields and buildings and we used vocabulary to describe what we could see.
For our Science work this term, we are going to be investigating materials. This week, we thought about the properties of materials and how we could describe them.
Is it hard?
Is it soft?
Is if flexible?
Is it rough?
We collected objects from around the room and we then had to use the science words to talk about them.
We were very creative in our PE lesson too this week and we had to use our imagination to believe that we were shooting into space. We had to listen to the music and put movements to the music. We made some great shapes.
We had a great time in our art lesson this week as we had to use different painting techniques to make our pictures look as though they are shooting stars in space. Look at what we created.
We have also thought about Remembrance Day this week and all of the people that we need to remember for their bravery during all of the wars and fighting over the years. We also thought about how animals could be used during wars too and their bravery in the fighting. The blue poppies are to remember the brave animals. We made some poppies to go on the windows, so have a look at them as you go past.
The children are still working hard and are receiving lots of dojos and we had our first visits to the Dojo shop this week. The children came back with some great prizes for their hard work.
Reading
Please remember that the children receive a Dojo for each of the reads that they do at home. Thank you for your support with the home reading and please continue to mark down any reads that the children do at home. These could also be books that they have at home that they have shared with you.
I wonder what our new alien friend will get up to this week. I know that the children are very excited to find out what he (or she) have been up to over the weekend.
Week 7 19th October
This week has seen the end of our Memory Box project. This afternoon we have created our memory box. We've put lots of things inside it and we've sealed it up to keep in a safe place until the children are in Year 6. We will then be able to look back and have a think about our lives in the year 2020.
We put in pictures of our special objects that we talked about this week, we did a drawing of ourselves, we put in our baby photo frames that we had created and a photo of what we look like today. What do you think we'll say when we open them up in the year 2025?
We've finished the end of our Grandad's Island story this week too and we had to retell the story in our English work. We had to think about using special words to order our story. We worked in groups to put the pictures in the right order and put the time words with each of the pictures.
We've had a great time looking through the Grandad's Island book and enjoying the story.
We're moving on to another great book after the holidays and the teachers are very excited about it.....
Watch this space!
We've also been doing lots of exciting things in our music lessons too with Miss Everett. She's helping us to keep a steady rhythm when we're clapping and we've clapped out the syllables in our names. There are lots of actions to go with our lessons.
The children have brought home some common exception words for over the holidays. It would be great if they could have a go at reading them and learning them. We call them red words in school and the children know that they are words that they have to glue in their heads as they can't be sounded out. If your child can already read all of these words on sight, they could have a go at learning to spell the words and to put them into sentences. If the children would like to bring in evidence of the sentences, I'm sure there will be some dojos coming their way.
Hope you, the children and your families have a lovely week at half term, keep safe and we will be so excited to see you all after the break to start our next project 'Moon Zoom'.
Week 6 - 12th October
I know that I say this every week, but I can't believe that another week has flown by. The children are working hard and we've had another fun week of learning.
Monday saw our Harvest Festival in school, although very different to how it is usually celebrated. Mr Dickson started the day with a Harvest assembly and the children had a great afternoon exploring different produce and thinking about healthy eating. They loved chopping up their vegetables to go in the soup and worked really hard together to get all of the ingredients sorted. We hope they enjoyed the finished product and how tasty it was.
In Maths this week, we've started to look at number bonds and the children have been using the part/part whole model. Ask them to see if they can show you what it is.
We had to think of different ways of putting the 5 cubes in the two dishes. the children worked very hard with their partners.
We've also finished our 'Grandad's Island book and we pretended to be Syd and wrote a message to Grandad on the island. We looked at Syd's boat journey home and it was very stormy on the sea. We listened to some stormy music and we put some movements to the music. The sea was very fast and wavy and we made these movements with our grey and black streamers.
Next week, we'll be writing a recount to tell the Grandad's Island story and putting the events into order to retell the story.
Just wanted to say a very BIG thank you for your support with helping the children read at home. Dojos have been awarded for each read that is recorded and we now have some children who have gained their first dojo prize, with lots of children who are very close. We went to have a quick look at the Dojo shop and the prizes that were available so the children know what they are working for. There were lots of excited faces. The dojos for this week, will be awarded when books are changed on Monday.
Next week is the final week for our 'Memory Box' project and we have lots of exciting things planned to go in our time capsule. Look out for what we've been up to next week.
Week 5 - 5th October
What a great way to end of week with 'Mellow Yellow'. It was great to see so many children dressed in yellow and it made our school look lovely and bright. 
Thank you so much for supporting the school with this.
We've been thinking about our families this week too. We thought about our own families and then we thought about other families and whether they were the same or different. We realised that it is OK for families to be different.
We drew some pictures of imaginary families.
For our Science work this week, we've been thinking about parts of the body. We could label lots of parts of the body and we sang the song 'Head, shoulders, knees and toes'. We pointed to the body parts when Mrs Mountain said them.
In our History work this week, we have been looking at how things have changed. We looked at some things from the past and we thought about what those things would look like today. We enjoyed looking at the objects and guessing what they were. We then had to match the pictures from the past to the pictures of the present.
Please remember to keep reading with your child at home. Dojos have been given out this week for each read the children had recorded at home. Thank you for your support with this. Dojos will be awarded again for each read through the week.
The children are very excited as we have some in the class who have nearly reached 50 for their first Dojo prize. Reading at home will really help to get those prizes!
Week 4 - 28th September
Where is all of the time going? Another fantastic week has already come to an end and another week of great work from Class 1.
This week, we've been thinking about ordering numbers in our maths lessons. We've been thinking about vocabulary to help us with the ordering of numbers. We had to put some lollipops in order and we had to hide one of the numbers with our friend and they had to guess which number was missing. There was some great ordering going on and the children worked well in their teams.
For our English work this week, we've been looking at more of the Grandad's Island story. Syd and Grandad sailed the boat to the island, put down the anchor and went on shore. we had to think of sentences to describe the island and the beautiful things on it. Mrs Mountain tried to trick us, because she gave us some sentences that were poorly. We had to work in our teams to make the sentences better.
Mrs Mountain said -
"Remember your full stop."
"Remember your capital letter."
"Remember your finger spaces"
We worked hard to make the sentences better again.
In our project work, we have been thinking about people who are special to us. We thought about why they are special to us. We drew pictures of them and wrote their names with the pictures. Some children drew pictures of their pets, because they are special to us too.
In RE this week, we listened to the story of Noah's Ark. We thought about the bad choices that people made and how this made God sad. At the end of the story God sent a rainbow to show that he would keep his promise. We made some beautiful rainbows to hang in our classroom that will help us to think about making good choices. We're going to put them up near the window so you'll be able to see our colourful rainbows.
Reading at home
Thank you for your support with how we are working with our home reading at the moment. Thank you to all of the adults who are supporting the children with this. From this week, the children will now be awarded a Dojo for each read and I'm sure that they will work hard to get to their Dojo shop prizes.
Travel Tracker
Our school has joined the local scheme to encourage children to walk/cylce or scooter to school. Children will be awarded a badge at the end of the month if they have walked, cycled or scootered (I'm sure I've just made this word up, but I like it!) enough times through the month. Another great encouragement to get the children a little more active through the day.
'Mellow Yellow Day'
Please remember that children are able to come to school in something yellow on Friday 9th October. What a bright sunny place our school is going to be.
Parent's Evening Telephone Calls
It was lovely to speak to so many parents the other day to have a chat about how the children have settled into the new school year. Apologies to those parents that I was unable to speak to, and I will speak to you at some other time through this next week.
Week 3 -21st September
Oh my goodness. I can't believe that we've enjoyed another week in school. The time seems to be going so quickly.
And what another busy and exciting week we've had.
I am so proud of all of the children and how they are dealing with all of the changes. We are making sure that they have plenty of opportunities to move around and be active as we carry on with our learning.
English
We've read some more of our Grandad's Island story. Syd and Grandad went through the secret door in the attic and found themselves on a boat. We listened to some water music and we made some streamers to move around to the music and how it made us feel.
We thought about some of the new words that we have learnt from the text and put actions to the words.
We started our project 'Memory Box' this week as well. We started by looking at our baby photos and describing what we looked like and the sort of things that we were able to do as a baby. It was great to have a look at other children's photographs.
We started our music lesson this week with Miss Everatt who will come into school to teach us each week. We played lots of fun games and clapped our hands and stamped our feet to the pulse of the music. We then had to close our eyes and listen to a piece of music and think about how it made us feel.
The children thought of some great words to describe the music.
This week we had our 'Languages day'. Mr Dickson gave each of the classes a different country to learn about. We looked at Italy and we learnt some words in Italian.
Grazie - Thank you
Si - Yes
Ciao - Hello
The best part of the afternoon was when we talked about the types of food Italy is famous for. We designed our own pizza and then we were able to eat some pizza.
We celebrated the end of our week with MacMillan afternoon and we thought about helping others. All of the children made a chocolate frosty cake and we enjoyed eating these before we went home on Friday. The frosty cakes look pretty yummy, don't they!
Week 2 - 14th September
Another busy week in Class 1. We've done lots of amazing things again and we've had amazing children who are trying really hard with the new classroom set up and routines.
In our Maths, we've been looking at putting things into groups and we've used a ten frame. Ask the children to tell you what a ten frame is and how it helps them.
English
We've read some of the pages of our Grandad's Island book. Grandad left a key under the flowerpot for Syd to go into the house. Grandad hid some keys for us in the Wildlife area and we had to go on a hunt to find them.
We had to look in lots of different places and we all found one of the keys. We used our imagination to think about the things that we would find in Grandad's house.
Syd and Grandad have just found a metal door in the attic. We had to give our ideas about what was behind the door. Where do you think Syd and Grandad will get to?
My Happy Mind
We've started our 'My Happy Mind' journey and we've been thinking about the different parts of the brain and the jobs that our brain helps us to do. Please remember that there is a free parents app that can support the children with the learning that we are doing in school.
Reading
Thank you for supporting us with the change to our home/school reading. It was great to see so many books being returned on Friday. New books will be sent home on Monday. Please remember to sign each time that your child has read to you, as we will still be awarding stickers for children who read 5 or more times in a week.
Dojos
Dojos are our reward system in school. Each child has their own individual character which looks very much like an alien. The children are given dojos for the great things they are doing in school. This may be:
work related
being kind
being helpful
keeping tidy and lots of other things.
The children are already doing great with collecting their dojos. When they have collected 50 dojos, they are able to choose a prize and they can then continue to collect dojos and aim for bigger prizes each time.
Home Learning
We are starting the children with our 'pre-cursive' handwriting style and we have been practicing this in the classroom. There is a link to a clip that will help your child, if you would like to have a go at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1nnOO2OFVI
Please remember that we are always available if you have any questions or if you need any support with anything.
Have a lovely week and look out for the things that we get up to this week.
2020 - 2021
Welcome to Class 1
This page will be updated regularly.
Week 1
7th September
How fantastic to have all of the class back in school again and how amazing they have been this week with coping with such a different situation. I am already SO proud of them all.
Just a few little reminders for our class that I hope will help you with organising your week:
PE days - Tuesday and Friday. (Children will need to have full PE kits on these days and could we please ask that earrings are removed. Children will be doing much of their PE outdoor, so suitable shoes will also be needed.)
School reading books will be sent home on a Monday to be kept at home through the week. Please return to school on a Friday for quarantining over the weekend. Children need to be reading four times a week and rewards will be given in Celebration assembly for children reading 5 times or more.
This week, we have been thinking about our feelings. We read the story of 'The Colour Monster'. We thought about the facial expressions that we could make and the body language that we could use to show our feelings.
Can you see how we are feeling from the photos?
In our maths work, we've been looking at counting objects. We know that there are lots of objects that can help us with our counting.
What a busy week we've had. Keep an eye on our class page for more information.
Monday 13th July
Good morning to you all at the beginning of another new week and what would have been our last full week in school for this academic year. I just wanted to say an enormous THANK YOU for how amazing you have all been throughout the last few months. No one could ever have imagined the massive changes that children have dealt with in the last few months. THANK YOU to our amazing children and THANK YOU to our amazing families for all you have done.
Transition mornings are on Monday 20th July and Tuesday 21st July. Information packs will be delivered this week, giving more details about timings for the mornings. The packs will also include information about which class children will be in from September and who will be teaching that class. School reports will also be included in the information packs.
Miss Riley has successfully completed her teacher training year and has taken on a teaching position at Thrunscoe Academy from September. She has been in contact without me throughout school closure and always asks about our class and how they are doing.
Please remember you can still contact us at Y1@woodlands.academy if you have any question, or you just want to say hello and let us know how you're doing and what you're up to. Here is the home learning for this week. It's all about travelling to Space. Hope you enjoy working through it and let's hope the sun starts to shine again so we can enjoy some time outside.
Take care to you all and your families,
Mrs Mountain
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1 -13th July, 2020
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Maths |
2d shapes - these are shapes that are flat shapes. Go on a shape hunt. Look for shapes around your room. What shapes can you see ? Can you see a triangle ? Can you see a circle? Can you see a rectangle ? Can you see a square ? How many sides do each of them have ? A five sided shape is called a pentagon. A six sided shape is called a hexagon. Can you find any of these shapes ? https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/shape-monsters This game could be a bit on the younger side, but it does remind the children about the shape names and what they look like if this is needed. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns This game asks you to look at 2D shapes and to then complete the patterns on the trains. Have a go. start with Level 1 and if that’s easy, look at the other levels and challenge yourself. |
3D shapes - these are shapes that are solid, so they can’t be squashed. Go on a shape hunt. Look for 3D shapes around your room. What shapes can you see ? Can you see a cube (like a dice) ? Can you see a cuboid ( a stretchy cube)? Can you see a sphere ( a ball shape) ? Can you see a cone (an ice cream cone) ? Can you see a cylinder (a tube shape) ?
The shapes and the words on the sheet have all been muddled up. Can you cut out the shapes and the words and put them back together again correctly. |
Positional language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaO1E21SpkI Collect some of your toys (or you can use things that you find around the house). Put the things in a line. What is first -1st ? What is second - 2nd ? What is third - 3rd ? What is fourth - 4th ? What would come next ? Can you write a label to out all of your toys in order ? Write the word (first) and the numeral (1st) ? |
Addition games- have a look at the interactive games. Click on the Year 1 link and it will provide the correct level for the children.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/556/Maths%20Penalty%20Shoot-out https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/548/Maths-Road-Turn https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/553/Defend-the-Tree https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/549/Addition-Mini-Maths-Golf Write numbers 0-9 on pieces of paper. Choose 2 numbers and add the numbers together. make it harder by adding three numbers. Write the calculations that you have made. |
Halves To make our birthday card for the moon, we had to fold the rectangle shape in half. How many parts did that give us? Draw round some other shapes and see if you can fold them in half. Remember that each part must be exactly the same. Are there some shapes that we can’t fold in half ? What did you find out ? |
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Reading |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Here is our book for this week. It’s all about Space this week and some toys that get taken into space. Listen to the story on the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivex8zdOBMs Talk about the story. Look at the illustrations. Who were the characters ? What happened in the story ? What happened at the beginning ? What happened at the end ? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Read through the book again today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivex8zdOBMs Be a word detective and find words in the text that you’re not sure about. Do you know these words and what they mean ? drool damp resourceful dawn organised drift outstandingly Use the online thesaurus to find out what the words mean? Now you know what the words mean, can you put them into your own sentences ? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Read through the information text. It is all about being on the moon .https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29272.html Look at page 7 - it will help you with words in the text that you might not be sure about. What have you found out from the text ? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Re-read through the information text. It is all about being on the moon .https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29272.html Answer questions about the text. How were the craters made ? How many days does it take the moon to orbit the Earth ? Why does the astronaut need an air tank ? Who were the first people on the moon ? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Have a look at this link below. There are some poems about being in Space. Read the poem on pages 10-13. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1377.html What is the poem about ? Can you find the rhyming words in the poem ? Remember that rhyming words are ones that sound the same at the end. Think about our phonics and how special friends can make different sounds (ow, oa, o-e). |
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Writing |
Write a book review about the story. What was the title ? Who was the author ? Did you like the story ? Why did you like the story ? (Why didn’t you like the story ?) How many stars would you give the book ? What was your favourite part of the story ? Why did you like this bit ? What did you think of the illustrations ? Draw a picture of your favourite part. |
Draw a picture of what you imagine your alien to look like. How many legs ? How many arms ? Does it have ten eyes ? Is it furry ? What colour is it ? Put lots of detail on your picture. Now think of adjectives that will describe your alien. Make a list of your adjectives. Put your adjectives into sentences to describe your alien. |
Imagine you are going on a journey to the moon. What things would you take in your rucksack ? Use bullet points to help you with your list. My journey to the moon I will take:
What else would you need to take with you ? Draw pictures of the things in your rucksack. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6CoIwcJ-E Enjoy watching the clip. It is about make believe creatures that live on the moon. Think about if you were an investigator and you wanted to find out lots of things about The Clangers. Write down some questions that you could ask them to find out about their lives. Remember to use a question mark at the end of your question. ?????????? Think about the question words that you can use at the beginning of the sentence. What ? Where ? When ? Why ? Who ? How ? How long have you lived on the moon? Where do you sleep ? Who is the leader of The Clangers ? |
Listen to the story in the clip. It is a beautiful story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quagZt1uAQw Talk about the story and think about what happened in the story. Design and make a birthday card for the moon. |
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Project |
Use square, rectangle and triangle shapes of coloured paper. Glue them into a rocket shape. Add some stars and planets in the sky. |
Use watercolour paints, coloured crayons, different materials (whatever you can find in your house- old cereal boxes, foil, washed lids from yoghurt pots , but ask an adult first to check it is OK) and make a large scale 3D alien. |
Find out about planets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrlgH97v94 Gustav Holst was a famous English composer ( a composer is someone who writes music). He composed some music about the planets in the Solar System. Each planet has its own piece of music. If you scroll through the music you can compare the differences in the pieces. How can you describe them ? Are they fast ? Are they loud ? Can you think about what instruments are being used ? Did you like it ? Why? Think about the words that you could use to describe each piece of music and what you think it tells you about the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isic2Z2e2xs |
In the clip about ‘The Clangers’, they travelled to see the Soup Dragon on a moon buggy. Design your own moon buggy to travel around the moon. What will you need to put on it? Does it need wheels? Does it float ? How many seats does it have ? Draw your design and label the parts. |
Watch the Disney film - ‘Space Buddies’. Enjoy! |
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PE Activity |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Kids yoga activities on You tube. All of the Cosmic Kids clips this week are about Space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coC0eUSm-pc |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Kids yoga activities on You tube. All of the Cosmic Kids clips this week are about Space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9W8iV4AJYQ |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Kids yoga activities on You tube. All of the Cosmic Kids clips this week are about Space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZAaZDVqCiA
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Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Kids yoga activities on You tube. All of the Cosmic Kids clips this week are about Space. |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Kids yoga activities on You tube. All of the Cosmic Kids clips this week are about Space. |
Monday 6th July
Good morning to you all and your families. Hope you are all doing OK and keeping well, as we start another new week. Let's hope for some good weather again and enjoy some time outside. We're looking at sports for this week as we would have had our sports day if we'd been in school properly. It would have also been the start of the Tokyo Olympics in a couple of weeks time, so let's see what sporty things we can get up to this week.
Don't forget that you can email me at Y1@woodlands.academy if you have any questions or to show photos of your work or, even if you just want to say hello and let me know the things that you are up to.
Take care to you all and all of your families and hope you have a good week with our sports.
Have fun!
Here is the home learning for this week.
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1 -6th July, 2020
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Maths |
Have a look at your number bonds to 20. Can you write down the numbers that make a ten ? 1+19=20 2+18=20 Write all of the others. Write the numbers 0-9 on pieces of paper. Choose three numbers and add them together. What is the total ? Have a go at different ones. |
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https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-solve-word-problems/activities/1 https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-solve-word-problems/activities/2 |
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-addition-and-subtraction/activities/1 https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-addition-and-subtraction/activities/2 |
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/blast-off Can you identify the numbers on the rockets ? Use your hundred square and count all of the way up to 100. Play a game of bingo with your adults. Fold a piece of paper into quarters and then fold again to make eight parts. Choose a number from 1-99 and write a different number in each of the boxes. Close your eyes and pick a number on your hundred square. If you’ve got it on your grid, cross it out. The first person to cross out all of the numbers on their grid is the winner. |
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Reading |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Here is our book for this week. It’s an information book this week. Hope you enjoy it. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26584.html Read through the book. Use the speaker icon to help you read the pages. Can you find features of the non-fiction text? Can you find the title ? Can you find the contents page ? What is it for ? Can you find the pictures ? Why does it have pictures in the text ? Can you find the glossary ? What does the glossary help us with ? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Read through the book again today. There are different sports in the book. Look at the contents page and find out what page tells you about ‘tennis’. Read these pages. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26584.html What did you find out from the pages ? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Read through the book again today. There are different sports in the book. Look at the contents page and find out what page tells you about ‘swimming’. Read these pages. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26584.html What did you find out from the pages ? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Read through the book again today. There are different sports in the book. Look at the contents page and find out what page tells you about ‘rugby’. Read these pages. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26584.html What did you find out from the pages ? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Read through the book again today. There are different sports in the book. Look at the contents page and find out what page tells you about ‘cricket’. Read these pages .https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26584.html What did you find out from the pages ? |
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Writing |
Look at the words in the glossary and have a look at what they mean. Are there any other words in the text that you’re not sure about? Write them down. formal casual fabric willow Be a word detective and see if you can find out what they mean. Use the online thesaurus to find out what the words mean. Write the new words into your own sentences. |
Make an obstacle race in your garden. You could run for a few strides, borrow a tin out of the cupboard and run to pick it up and put it in a bag, put on an item of clothing and then run to the finish line. When you’ve had a go at your race a few times, write a set of instructions to tell somebody else how to play it. My Obstacle Race You will need: What to do:
Write the instructions for your game and send them on an email and we’ll have a go at following the instructions to do your obstacle course. Y1@woodlands.academy |
Write an acrostic poem using the word SPORT or you could think of one of your favourite sports and write an acrostic poem from this. S P O R T Remember that each line must start with that letter. F O O T B A L L |
Do you have a favourite Sports person? Who are they and what sport do they play? Can you find out about them and create a fact file about their life? Is it a famous footballer ? A famous swimmer ? Do they play golf ? Do they run marathons ? Are they good at rugby ? |
You need a new sports person for your team. Make a poster to advertise what you are looking for and the skills that you need for the job. Draw pictures to go with it. Wanted Goal Scorer for Woodlands Academy Football Team Must be: fast skilful with a ball a good team player |
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Project |
In the last few weeks, we would have been having our sports day in school. Think of some races that you could do and go outside and have a fun sports day with your family. Try and think of some different races that you could do. If you’re short of a little room in your garden, have a think about throwing and catching activities or if you are with an adult, go to your local park for a bit more space. |
Design and make a certificate to give to somebody who took part in your sports day. Write their name on it and tell them how proud of them you are. Think about how hard the person tried and remember it’s the taking part and not the winning that’s important. |
Design and make a medal to give to the winner of the race. If you have some string, you could carefully ask an adult to put a hole in the top of it and put some string through the hole. Think about how beautifully you could design the medal. |
Make a list of all of the things that you are good at. Use bullet points in your list. I am good at…..
Draw pictures to go with the things on your list. |
Watch the film - ‘Cars’. At first Lightning was only interested in winning and then he realised that there were better things to be proud of. Enjoy!! |
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PE Activity |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Kids yoga activities on You tube |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Kids yoga activities on You tube |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Kids yoga activities on You tube
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Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Kids yoga activities on You tube |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Kids yoga activities on You tube |
Monday 29th June
Morning to you all and hope you are all OK. I can't believe that this week is the last week of June. Time seems to be going very quickly. I think we're going to have a bit more sunshine again this week, so have some fun outdoors. The work this week is about mini beasts and it will be good to get out and about and have a look for some. If you do find any, please be careful to leave them where you find them and if you touch them, remember that they are very delicate. The book this week is called 'The Giant Jam Sandwich' and it's all about lots of wasps coming to town and how the villagers make a plan to get rid of them.
Hope you have fun and enjoy the week. Remember to let me know what you're up to or just to say hello. I really miss seeing you all and all of your happy, smiling faces.
Email Y1@woodlands.academy
Take care to you all and enjoy your week.
Mrs Mountain
Here is the home learning ideas for this week.
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1 - 29th June, 2020
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Maths |
Have a look at your number bonds to 10. Can you write down the numbers that make a ten ? 1+9=10 2+8=10 Write all of the others. Watch the number bonds to 20. Hope you enjoy the song and it will help you with making number bonds to 20 too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EsPtTkwNIo Write down your number bonds to 20. 10+10=20 11+9=20 Can you remember when we talked about ‘Buy one get one free’? You know that 11+9=20 so 9+11=20 |
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-recognise-and-add-equal-groups/activities/1 https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-recognise-and-add-equal-groups/activities/2 |
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-add-equal-groups/activities/1 https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-add-equal-groups/activities/2 |
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball Play the game. Have a look at how many tens and ones there are. Can you find the number that goes with the tens and ones ? Draw the numbers 0-9 on pieces of paper. Put them upside down. Turn two of the numbers over. What number have you made ? How many tens and how many ones in the number ? Write down the numbers that you have made. |
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If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. Here is our story for this week. Hope you enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-HjO3P_IXs Watch the clip. Talk about what happens in the story. Who are the characters in the story ? Where does the story take place ? What happens in the story ? Talk about the beginning, the middle and the end. Tell your adult what happens in the story. |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-HjO3P_IXs Watch the clip again from yesterday and see if you can join in with some of the story. Answer these questions about the story. What was the name of the town ? How many wasps flew in ? What did the wasps do to the farmers ? Where did the villagers have their meeting ? Who thought of the good idea ? What was the name of the farmer ? Why did they need 50 cookers ? Why did they not use the bus to take the bread to the field ? How many wasps got away ? What do you think happened to the wasps that got away ? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1329.html Look at the book about mini beast poems. The first poem is about wasps again!!!!! Read the wasp poem. The arrows on the right of the page will turn the pages over for you. The speaker on the bottom left of the page will read the book out loud to you. Talk about the poem. Did you like it? Can you pick out some of the words that are rhyming in the poems? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1329.html Read the ‘Fly’ poem. Can you be a word detective and find out what the word ‘insist’ means? Were there any other words that you weren’t quite sure about ? Can you find the meaning of these words ? Did you like the poem ? Why? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Have a look at reading some of the books at your level - if they are easy, have a look at books in the next level. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1329.html Read the poem on page 14 and 15. What do you find out in the poem ? What do each of the mini beasts do? |
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Write a book review about the story.
What was the title of the book ? Who was the author ? What score would you give the book ? What was your favourite part of the book ? Why did you like it ? Draw a picture of your favourite part. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-HjO3P_IXs The story book has lots of rhyming words in it. Rhyming words are words that sound the same sound at the end of the word - pack, sack, back, stack frog, dog, fog, jog go, show, throw, toe It doesn’t have to be spelt the same, so think about our phonic work, where different spellings make the same sounds. Listen to each page of the story and identify the rhyming words in the sentences. One hot summer in Itching Down Four million wasps flew into town Listen to the rest of the the story and keep thinking of the rhyming words in the sentences. Make a list of all of the words that rhyme. .
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WE have looked at ‘similes’ when we have done some of our writing in the classroom. Can you remember what a simile is ? Have a think about it for a moment. A simile is used when we compare things. Have a look at these… as fast as an aeroplane as slow as a snail as bright as the sun as cold as an icicle Use some of the words in the story and see if you can make some similes for them. The jam was as sticky as glue. The bread was as soft as a cushion. The wasps were as buzzy as a bee. The people were as angry as a bull.
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https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/1/super-smoothie Phonics play: march 2020 home Have a look at the Phonics play game. It’s all about ‘alliteration’. The giant Jam Sandwich book has lots of alliteration in it - it is where lots of words have the same sound at the beginning noisy, nasty, nuisance six strong whirred and wheeled Make a list of some of the nouns (naming words) in the story. Here are some ideas… man horse sandwich bus grass hill These are all naming words. Now use the same words and put an adjective ( a describing word) with them. The describing word must start with the same letter… mucky man heavy horse Have a go at some of the words and then use the words to put them into a sentence. The heavy horse pulled the cart up the hill. |
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/6/planetary-plurals In this activity, the space ship gives you a word. You need to think about how to make the word plural- that means more than one. 1 egg -2 eggs 1 bone-2 bones 1 man-2 men Some of the words don’t follow the same pattern, so have a look carefully and see what you think. Have fun ! |
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Project |
Go on a mini beast hunt. Have a look around your garden or if you can, go to Bradley Woods with an adult and see what you can find. Please don’t pick the mini beasts up as they are very delicate, but have a look really closely at them. If you manage to get out to the woods, collect things like pine cones, sticks and twigs, dry grass, leaves and bring them home with you. You’ll need them to make a bug hotel on Wednesday. How many legs ? Do they have wings ? What colour are they ? |
Draw some pictures of what you found on your minibeast hunt yesterday. Label the drawings. Make sure that you draw them with the right number of legs and if you have colours, make sure that you use the right colours for them too. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d75NSHlx_58 Watch the clip about the making of a bug hotel. Use the things that you’ve collected and make a bug hotel to put in your garden. Where would be the best place to put your bug hotel ? |
Use a pencil to make a butterfly shape. Use colours or paints to create a symmetrical butterfly -symmetrical means that it has to be the same on each side. If you have paints, paint on one side and then fold over the paper to make it symmetrical. The clip will show you how to make it if you’re not too sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=042uDqg2k3g |
Watch the film -’It’s a bugs life’. Enjoy!! |
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PE Activity |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Action songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22kqia2ibVU |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Have a look at the Just Dance clips and join in with the movements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLHZeKbMUo |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Have a look at the Just Dance clips and join in with the movements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxVImJjH_BU |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Have a look at the Just Dance clips and join in with the movements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxF0iayJR-s&t=9s |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Have a look at the Just Dance clips and join in with the movements. |
Monday 22nd June
Good morning to you all and hope you and your families are well. It was an amazing storm that we had last night and it was crazy to see hailstones at this time of the year. They were enormous. It looks as though the sun is going to come out again for us this week so we can have some outside time again. Remember to us sun cream and cover up if you are outside a lot.
Here is the home learning for this week. It's all about some naughty seagulls and what they get up to. I hope you enjoy listening to the story and the activities to go with it. Have a lovely week and let me know what you are up to Y1@woodlands.academy or just say 'Hello' which I would love to hear. I miss you all and all of your happy, smiling faces and the amazing work that you always do for me. Enjoy your week.
Have a look at these short clips and have a go at the joining up handwriting letters. Practice a, c, o, d, g. Keep them neat and tidy and keep the letters on the lines. Remember to sit close to your table and hold your pencil correctly too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1nnOO2OFVI&list=PLXKeximRDJ8p4lFaITqIZ1WSSAdotcgGN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z3D7q8LxiA&list=PLXKeximRDJ8p4lFaITqIZ1WSSAdotcgGN&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyueHN6iP4Y&list=PLXKeximRDJ8p4lFaITqIZ1WSSAdotcgGN&index=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPIywbNhias&list=PLXKeximRDJ8p4lFaITqIZ1WSSAdotcgGN&index=7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUg1p-pk_CE&list=PLXKeximRDJ8p4lFaITqIZ1WSSAdotcgGN&index=15
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1 - 22nd June, 2020
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https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-apply-knowledge-of-number-bonds/activities/2/ https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-apply-knowledge-of-number-bonds/activities/3/ |
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-order-numbers-within-100/activities/2/ https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-order-numbers-within-100/activities/3/ |
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If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. Here is our story for this week. Hope you enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wCRq50Wwg Watch the clip. Talk about what happens in the story. Who are the characters in the story ? Where does the story take place ? What happens in the story ? Talk about the beginning, the middle and the end. Tell your adult what happens in the story. |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wCRq50Wwg Rewatch clip from yesterday. Make a list of all of the words in the story that you’re not quite sure about… What does the word ‘perched’ mean ? What does the word ‘appetising’ mean ? What does the word ‘scavenging’ mean ? What does the word ‘devoured’ mean? Be a word detective and see if you can find out the meaning of the words you don’t know. Use the online thesaurus to find out what the words mean. |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. This is a book about a seagull. Read the story and talk about what happens in the story. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/13000.html |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. The book about the lighthouse keeper is all about food. Have a look at this book. It is all about plants and how some of them can be used as food. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26361.html What have you found out from the book? Can you make list of the plants in the book that you can eat ? If you have a look at the pictures in the book, there is a tick in the box to show that it is ‘edible’ (that means it can be eaten) Can you think of any other things that might be added to the list of edible plants ? |
If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/cheeky-chimps Think about how some spellings can be written in different ways. Look at the words on the banana in the game. Read the words and give the banana to the monkey who has a word with the same way of saying the sound. Play the easy game first and then see if you can challenge yourself and look at the more difficult game. When you go onto the game, click on the ‘North’ pronunciation of the spelling words. There are lots of different sounds to look at. Have a look through and see where you get to. Have fun!! |
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Write a book review about the story.
What was the title of the book ? Who was the author ? What score would you give the book ? What was your favourite part of the book ? Why did you like it ? Draw a picture of your favourite part. |
Make a simple sandwich that you or your adult can eat for lunch. How did you make it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4BSk1U5ans Write down the instructions for making your sandwich My Cheese and Ham Sandwich I will need: What to do: |
Write a diary about what happened on each day of the week in the story. On Monday….. On Tuesday….. On Wednesday….. |
The seagulls in the story kept wanting to eat the Lighthouse Keeper’s lunch. Design your own invention to stop the seagulls eating the lunch. Label your invention. Use adjectives to describe it. |
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/6/pond-life-plurals In this activity, the frogs want you to think about plurals - that means more than one thing. 1 cat or 2 cats 1 elephant or 2 elephants Sometimes, there are different ways of making plurals. the activity on phonics play will help you with this. When you’ve played the game can you use some of the words in your own sentences. The dogs were running in the park. The wolves were howling in the forest. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JldSBUQB34 Listen to the Healthy eating song. Make a list and draw pictures of healthy foods and unhealthy foods. Remember it is ok to eat the unhealthy foods but only a little amount of them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9yycdm/articles/zxvkd2p Watch the clip about keeping healthy. Make a poster to help people to think about being healthy. |
Think about making your own healthy lunch which you think the Lighthouse keeper would enjoy. Make a list of the things that you would put in the lunch basket. Draw the basket and then draw the things that you would put in it. Label the things on your picture. The Lighthouse Keeper’s Healthy Lunch
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Draw pictures (or if you have paints you can use those) to make your own paper craft sandwich. |
Mr Grinling the lighthouse keeper has to go to the lighthouse in all weathers. Draw and label a picture of what he would need to wear if the weather was stormy and wet. Draw and label a picture of what he would need to wear if the weather was really hot. Think about what materials would be best to use on a wet day. Would you wrap him in cotton wool? Would that help? |
Watch Finding Dory movie. Keep a look out for the seagulls in the story. They are a bit naughty! |
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Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Yoga for kids - banana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SZl84Lr7A |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Yoga for kids - taste test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oF5JL-Q-O0 |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Yoga for kids - The very hungry caterpillar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWDiQRrC1Y |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Yoga for kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAT5NiWHFIU |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am Cosmic Yoga for kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYtcadR9nw |
Monday 15th June
Good morning to you all and hope you are all well and keeping busy. Let's hope for a bit of sunshine this week after all of that rain last week and we can have a chance to get out side again. Here is the home learning for this week and it's all about Dinosaurs. Let me know what you are up to and please message if you have any questions, or just want to say 'Hello'.
Y1@woodlands.academy
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1 - 15th June, 2020
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Have a look at the links below. Watch the clips to complete the lesson. |
Have a look at the links below. Watch the clips to complete the lesson. |
Have a look at the links below. Watch the clips to complete the lesson. |
Use number cards from 0-9. Make some two digit numbers and write them down. Can you show how many tens and how many ones in each number? 72= 7 tens and 2 ones 47= 4 tens and 7 ones 66 = 6 tens and 6 ones Try to do as many as you can. |
Use the numbers that you made yesterday. Can you think about adding ten to each number? Can you subtract a ten from each number ? 72+20=82 72-10=62 Do this for as many numbers as you can. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtScZP2QXw Watch clip. Talk about what happens in the story. Who are the characters in the story ? Where does the story take place ? What happens in the story ? Talk about the beginning, the middle and the end. Tell your adult what happens in the story. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtScZP2QXw Rewatch clip from yesterday. Make a list of all of the verbs that you can hear in the story. Write them down and think about what they mean. Remember that a verb is a doing word, an action word (swallowed, gazed, climbed - what other verbs did you find ?) Be a word detective and see what you can come up with. Can you use some of the verbs in some sentences of your own ? |
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1242.html If you have not already logged in to Oxford Owl, it is free to do so and you can create your own log in. The book in the link is ‘Dinosaur Safari’. The book can be read by the child or there is an option to have it read out to them. Listen to or read the text and see what information you can find out about the dinosaurs in the text. |
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/cheeky-chimps Think about how some spellings can be written in different ways. Look at the words on the banana in the game. Give the banana to the monkey who has a word with the same way of saying the sound. Play the easy game first and then see if you can challenge yourself and look at the more difficult game. When you go onto the game, click on the ‘North’ pronunciation of the spelling words. There are lots of different sounds to look at. Have a look through and see where you get to. Have fun!! |
Tricky words - Phonics play Read through the common exception words. How speedy can you read them ? Can you read through them again and read them faster this time ? Try to keep improving your score .https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/tricky-word-trucks |
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Write a book review about the story.
What was the title of the book ? Who was the author ? What score would you give the book ? What was your favourite part of the book ? Why did you like it ? Draw a picture of your favourite part. |
Write a dinosaur acrostic poem. Start each line with the letter of the dinosaur. Dangerous, scary dinosaurs In days long ago Never trust a dinosaur Or you might get eaten Stay away from dinosaurs Angry flying dinosaurs Up in the sky Roaring scary dinosaurs |
Create a fact file about what you have found out about the dinosaurs from the text ‘Dinosaur Safari’. Can you use bullet points to make a list of the information you have found out?
What else can you find out? |
Can you make the information that you have found out about the dinosaurs into a booklet. Can you put a title on the first page ? Can you put some information on each page and draw a picture to go with the information ? Put page numbers on your booklet. |
Draw a picture of your own dinosaur. What is it called ? What would it look like ? Where would it live ? What would you do with it ? What does it eat ? Does it have any friends ? Use adjectives to describe your dinosaur. Remember an adjective is a describing word. Put your adjectives into sentences to create a description about your dinosaur. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYUfidBFrX0 Watch the clip and draw your own dinosaur. Pause the clip as you go through to give yourself time to draw each part. |
Salt dough fossils Make some salt dough: 2 cups of flour 1 cup of salt water to mix Use some sticks to make some bone marks in the salt dough and then leave it to dry. If you have a dinosaur figure at home, you could make a print of the dinosaur in the salt dough. |
Think about what dinosaurs eat!!! Can you remember the word…. herbivore (eats plants)? carnivore (eats meat)? omnivore (eats plants and meat)? Can you make a list of the dinosaurs and what they eat? Are they a carnivore, herbivore or an omnivore ? |
Plan a home for a dinosaur. Think about the materials that you would use to make the home. Can you make it in an old cereal box if you cut off the lid ? Collect some things out of your garden - grass, stones ? What would you need to put in it ? Can you tell an adult why you have used the particular materials ? |
Watch The Good Dinosaur movie |
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PE Activity |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am |
Monday 8th June
Good morning to you all and your families. Hope you are all well and let's hope that the sun will start to come back to us for this week. It was lovely to see some of you in school this week and I know that there are some more children starting in the next few days. I feel so very proud to work with such amazing children and families who have just dealt with all that has been going on in the last few months and still manage to have happy, smiling faces. I miss you all and all of the amazing work that you do for me.
For those of you still at home, please remember that you can contact us on Y1@woodlands.academy for any questions or if you just want to say 'hello'. It would be great to hear from you.
Here is the home learning for this week. Please be in touch if you have any questions or need any help at all.
Take care to you all and your families,
Mrs Mountain
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1
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Make some number cards from 0-9. Use the cards to make 2 digit numbers. Write down the numbers that you make. How many different numbers can you make ?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4f4IRtMcKA |
Use the numbers that you made yesterday. Put the numbers in order starting with the smallest. Put the numbers in order starting with the greatest. Have a look at the game below and put the numbers in order. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering |
Addition of numbers to 20. Draw the numbers 0-9 on cards. Pick two numbers and add them together. Think of different ways to work out the answers. How many different calculations can you make ? Play the game on the link below. Do addition to 10. Do addition to 15. Do addition to 20. Did you get them right ? |
Subtraction of numbers to 20. https://www.starfall.com/h/addsub/addsub-ladder/?sn=math1--math0 How can you work out the missing numbers in the calculations ? Remember your number stories. 2+8=10 8+2=10 10-8=2 10-2=8 Can you write some number stories of your own ? |
Tell the time for half past. Watch the clip .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZVy5d7JAiU Look at the clock times and can you write the times on the clock faces.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcwuTRQ16MU Watch clip. Talk about what happens in the story. Who are the characters in the story ? Where does the story take place ? What happens in the story ? Talk about the beginning, the middle and the end. Tell your adult what happens in the story. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcwuTRQ16MU Rewatch clip from yesterday. Make a list of all of the adjectives that you can hear in the story. Write them down and think about what they mean. Can you think of different adjectives that might mean the same.? Be a word detective and see what you can come up with |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcwuTRQ16MU Rewatch clip from this week. What is a verb ? Can you make a list of the verbs that you can hear in the story ? Put the verbs in your own sentences. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oORrS9PiJDA Think of all of the facts that you have found out about the Meerkat. What can you remember ? Tell your adult what you have learnt about the Meerkats. |
Tricky words - Phonics play Tricky trucks. Read through the common exception words .https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/Flashcards.html |
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Write a character description about Sunny. Use adjectives in your description. Remember to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Draw a picture of what he looks like. |
Write a letter and pretend that you are going on a trip like Sunny, to find somewhere perfect to live. Remember to let them know that you will keep yourself safe and will send them letters or postcards to let them know where you are.
Dear Mum and Dad, Please don’t worry about me, but I am going to look for a special place to live... |
Write a postcard and pretend that you are going on another trip like Sunny, to find somewhere perfect to live. Remember to let them know that you will keep yourself safe and will send them letters or postcards to let them know where you are. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oORrS9PiJDA Write a list of the things that you have found out. Remember what a bullet point is and use bullet points to write down each of the facts. |
Write a diary for what you have done through this week. Monday I….. Tuesday I Wednesday I… Describe your day and what you have been up to. Remember to use adjectives to describe your day. |
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Find out about different places around the world. Can you find out about hot places ? Can you find out about cold places ? What would you find in a hot place ? What would you find in a cold place ? |
Draw pictures of a hot place. Draw pictures of a cold place. Can you label the pictures ? |
Watch a weather report. Write your own weather report. Draw symbols to go with the weather |
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oORrS9PiJDA Watch the clip and find out facts about Meerkats. what have you learnt about a Meerkat. Draw a picture of a meerkat and label the parts of the body. |
Write a weather report for the weekend.
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Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am |
Joe Wicks youtube daily exercise 9.30 am |
Monday 1st June
Good morning to you all and hope you have enjoyed some fun int eh sun over the holiday week. Some of you will be returning to school this morning and some of you will still be staying at home. The work that the children will be doing at home and school will be the same and staff in school will be following the learning ideas on the grid below. Please remember, that for those children who are not returning to school, we are still contactable through Y1@woodlands.academy if you have any questions or you just want to say 'hello'. An amazing 'THANK YOU' to all of the children and to all of their families for how amazing you have been through out all of this. We miss you all, take care, keep safe and let us know how you are doing.
Mrs Mountain
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1
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Number bonds to 10. Collect 10 objects and look at how they can be placed into two groups. Here is an idea.
How many more fish are needed to make 10? How many more triangles are needed to make 10 ? How many more stars to make 10 ? How many more bananas to make 10 ? Can you write the number stories to go with them ? 6+4=10. Now, use the 10 objects that you have collected and put them into two groups. Record the number sentence. https://www.ictgames.com/saveTheWhale/index.html Play the game on the link below. Find the matching pipes to make 10 and then click on the wheel to see if you free the whale. |
Addition to 20. Use a number line. Remember to put the larger number first and then count on the second number.
Challenge: Can you think of your own missing number calculations ? |
Addition and subtraction to 20 using a number line.
Now have a look at these missing number calculations. Do you need to add or subtract ? Challenge: Can you write some calculations on your own ? Do some adding. Do some subtracting.
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Learn to tell the time of o’clock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TA5z_DE204 Watch the clip and look at the hands on the clock to tell the time.
Play the game What time is it Mr Wolf ? |
Counting in 2’s Multiples of 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTcpfSnOMQ Watch clip. Go over counting in 2’s. Colour in 2’s numbers on the 100 square. Can you see the pattern ?
Write number sentences to go with each calculation. 1x2=2 2x2=4 3x2=6 The ‘x’ sign means groups of 1 group of 2 is 2 2 groups of 2 are 4 3 groups of 2 are 6 Carry on the number sentences to 20. |
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Phonics Phonics Play (log in - march20 and password home) Play the game Picnic on Pluto phase 4 and phase 5. https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/picnic-on-pluto
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Phonics Phonics Play (log in - march20 and password home). Play the Dragon’s Den game for phases 4 and 5. https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/dragons-den
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Phonics Phonics Play (log in - march20 and password home). Play Buried Treasure game for phase 4 and 5. https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure Comprehension Sheet
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Phonics Phonics Play (log in - march20 and password home). Play Tricky Trucks activity https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/tricky-word-trucks Spelling of Tricky words: there where love come some Put the words into a sentence. |
Phonics Phonics Play (log in - march20 and password home). Play Tricky Trucks activity https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/tricky-word-trucks Spelling of Tricky words: one once ask friend school Put the words into a sentence. |
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Draw a picture of yourself. Think of sentences that you can say about yourself. Use capital letters and full stops to write sentences about yourself. Remember to use an adjective - that is a describing word beautiful eyes, clean teeth, curly hair, brown shoes. Remember to use spaces between your words. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu9capmEY5I Read through the book ‘Only one you’. Talk about the story. Write sentences about what you can do and what is amazing around you. Think about your senses - seeing, touching, hearing, smelling, tasting. I can smell the cake baking in the oven and it makes me feel hungry. I can listen to the sound of the birds singing and it makes me feel calm. Use capital letters and full stops in the sentences and remember to use spaces between the words. Can you use ‘and’ to join your sentences ? |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWgTqLCLE8k Watch the clip of the Trolls movie and think about what the characters are doing in the story. Talk about what happens in the clip. Write sentences to retell what has happened in the clip. Add adjectives to your sentences to make them better. The trolls are dancing on the table. The people are watching the trolls dancing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwAQvHBCY2M Write a list of things about yourself. Write a list of things about your favourite friend. what is the same ? What is different ? |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwAQvHBCY2M Write sentences about your fish. Can you write a simple story about your fish? What happens in the beginning ? What happens in the middle ? What happens at the end of the story ? |
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PHSE - Washing hands. Show how to wash hands correctly and think about reasons why.
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PSHE - Look at front cover of the page for the inspirational quotes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu9capmEY5I Be enthusiastic. Smiles warm the heart. Enjoy every day. Never stop learning. You can do anything that you set your mind to. Choose one of the quotes or think of any of your own as a group. Can you do bubble writing and draw a picture to show. Put the picture in your window and it might help other people to feel better. |
Draw a picture of yourself. Draw your head, body, legs, feet, arms, hands and fingers. Label the main parts of your body. Label the parts that you have drawn. Can you label your: knee ? shoulder ? neck? elbow? ankle? |
Think about being kind to other people around you. Write a list of the things that you could do to show you are being kind. |
Make your own fish. Draw a fish shape and colour it in to make it different from all of the others. Think about the colours and the patterns that you could you to make your fish different. Remember that lots of things are different. |
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Joe Wicks daily workout- 9.30 am You Tube Outdoor time - draw a hopscotch on the floor. Throw a stone on a number. What number did you get ? What number do you need to make a total of 10? |
Joe Wicks daily workout- 9.30 am You Tube Thinking about our body. sing songs about the body. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4eueDYPTIg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjJONLPzGfY Watch the clips and do the actions related. |
Joe Wicks daily workout- 9.30 am You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWgTqLCLE8k Watch clip from Trolls movie and put dance moves to the clip to tell the story. |
Joe Wicks daily workout- 9.30 am You Tube |
Joe Wicks daily workout- 9.30 am You Tube |
Monday 25th May
Good morning to you all and your families and hope you are all well and keeping safe).
It's a holiday week this week, so we've planned some activities to help you have a little bit of fun for this week. Enjoy spending some time in the sunshine (the weatherman says that it's going to be a nice week this week, so let's wait and see!) As it is starting to get a little warmer, please remember to cover up in the sunshine, use sunscreen and drink lots to keep you hydrated.
Here are the ideas for this week. Enjoy them and send in your photos to Y1@woodlands.academy.
If you have any questions or just want to say hello, email Y1@woodlands.academy
Have a lovely week. Take care to you all and I miss you all, your happy smiling faces and all of the fantastic work that you do for me.
Mrs Mountain
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Make a handprint butterfly. Draw round your hands and colour them in, or use different coloured paper if you have it. Draw lots of patterns and remember that a butterfly is symmetrical, so what you put on one side you must put on the other.
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Help a family member make a meal.
Make a sandwich or a snack for yourself for lunch. Ask an adult to help you with it. What did you put in the sandwich ?
What drink are you going to have? |
Find somewhere cosy and snuggle up with a lovely book with someone in your family.
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Read through the book ‘Cake’ – look at the link below.
Have your own little party and just think of any reason at all about why today is a day to celebrate.
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Look at the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaIGt4qxYM
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Go on a walk around your local area. Can you spot any butterflies ? What colour are they and where did you see them ?
Follow the link and listen to the story and put movements to the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT-s1-phgxs
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Follow the link and find out how the bread for your sandwich was made.
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Use some covers or some clothes and see if you can make a special place into a little den. Go into the garden if it’s a lovely day. |
Draw a picture of a cake that you would like to eat. Put lots of things on the cake to decorate it. |
Make your own robot using old boxes out of your cupboard. What have you called him? What does he get up to ? |
Monday 18th May
Good morning to you all and all of your families and welcome to another new week. Hope you are all keeping well and managing to find lots of things to do. I think the sun is going to come out again this week, so have some fun time in the garden and enjoy spending time with your family.
Here is our Home learning for this week. Don't forget to email Y1@woodlands.academy to say hello or if you have any questions. I am missing you all and it would be lovely to hear from you. If you don't have an email address, you can always use the school Facebook page and let us know what you are up to. Keep safe and take care, Mrs Mountain.
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1
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Maths
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https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering Can you count in 2s? Can you start at zero and count to 24? Can you do it backwards? Can you write out the equations for the 2 times tables? If you start on the number 34 and count in 2s will you say the number 42? How many jumps in two did you make? TTrockstars complete 3 games. |
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/robot-addition Can you use a hundred square? How well do you know your numbers to 100? Use the hundred square to: • Count forwards from 16 to 24 • Count backwards from 78 to 65 • Write down the numbers between 67 and 85 • Find what number comes between 57 and 59 Can you count in twos between 50 and 70? If counting in 2s from 64 will I say the number 69? |
Can you find 3D shapes?
What shapes can you think of? Can you draw them? What are their names?
How many of these shapes can you find in your house? Can you make a table and record your findings? |
Can you show addition and subtraction? Can I show fact families?
Find a number on the hundred square or let your adult choose one. Can you make that number using addition? Can you show the fact families of the equation? |
Can I compare mass? Are bigger objects always heavier than small objects? Find 5 items or toys and put them in order of what is heaviest to the lightest. Use scales to check your answers. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money Recap money from the previous week. Can you workout the change when buying items? |
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https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Can you draw me a character from a book you have been reading? What are they like? What do they look like? How do they act through the story?
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/flashcards-speed-trials
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https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Where is your story set? Can you describe where the story is set? Draw or write about the setting of the story. https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/picnic-on-pluto |
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Read one page of your book. Then predict what will happen next. When you have finished read the rest of the book how close were you? https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/reading-robot
Can you write the words and put the sound buttons on the words? |
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Can you find any nouns in your book? A noun is a person, place or thing. Make a list of what you find in your book. |
Choose a non-fiction text from: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/reading-robot
Can you write the words and put the sound buttons on the words? |
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Can you write a story? You can retell a story you have read this week or you can come up with a completely new story. It could even be about your favourite film. But it needs: A beginning, where you introduce the scene and characters. A middle, where something goes wrong for the characters. An end, where the characters solve the problem and win. |
Can you write instructions? Can you cook with your adult and make some food? What did you need to make it? make a list of ingredients. Use time connectives to list your instructions. First Next Then Finally |
Can you use your spellings? mind floor because kind behind whole any child Can you practice your spelling? Can you use the words in a sentence? |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFhJrLVu3T0 Can you describe stickman and his family? What is the story about? How does the story make you feel? Can you write a book report about the story? |
Can you write a diary? What have you done each day this week? Use the correct spellings for the days of the week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Tell me what you have been doing and how it made you feel. |
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Art Use your food to make a face or a picture. Take a photo of it.
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Science Can you make a parachute? https://www.sciencekids.c o.nz/experiments/freefall. html What are parachutes for?
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History Find out about Florence Nightingale. What were hospitals like back then? How are hospitals different now?
Make a poster celebrating Florence and modern nurses.
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PSHE Write a letter to a friend from school that you have been missing and tell them why they are so amazing.
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RE Make a friendship link. Colour in your friends and put why they are special on the back. Why is it important to be a good friend?
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Monday 11th May
Good morning to you all for the start of our new week. Hope you are all well and let's hope for some more sunny weather a little bit later. Thank you to all of the children who have sent photos of what you are up to. It has been great to see what you have been doing. I miss being with you at school and I miss all of the amazing work that you do.
Please remember you can message me Y1@woodlnds.academy if you just want to say 'Hello' or if you have any questions you want to ask.
Here is the home learning for this week. Have fun.
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1
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Can you think about how you can share things between people ? Can you get a packet of sweets and share them between you and an adult ? Did you get the same each ? Were there any left ? Have a think of other things that you could share between people ? Can you open a packet of biscuits? Share them out. How many did you get each ? Draw a picture to show how many each person got.
Have a look at the game and see if you can share the biscuits between the dogs. Remember what the word ‘equal’ means.
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Have a look for some coins that you might find around the house. What coins have you found ? Which coin is the most ? Which coin is the least? Can you find out how much money you have altogether ?
Have a look at the game https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Look through the different options and if you find it easy, try a harder level.
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Draw the things in the picture onto a piece of paper.
Can you add some other pictures onto the paper ? Remember the position words. Draw a cat next to the tree. Draw a boy on the slide. Draw a bird above the cloud. Draw a bird above the tree. Draw a dog underneath the slide. Draw a girl next to the flower.
Can you think of any other things to add to the picture and can you use the position words to describe where they are ?
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Think about ordinal numbers today. That means … First, second, third, fourth, fifth… What number can you go up to ?
Get some of your toys and put them in a line. Write a label for where the toy is in the queue. Write the word and the numeral. First 1st Second 2nd
Take a photo of your toys in a line with their labels.
Have a look at this clip to help out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_3AI-qNBlE
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Can you make some number stories with your adult ? Think of some addition, subtraction and multiplication stories and write the calculation to go with the story.
Mum had 8 cakes and she ate 4 of them. How many did she have left ?
I had 12 sweets and my brother gave me 4 more. How many have I got now ?
There are 5 apples in a bag. I have 3 bags. How many apples have I got ?
Think of some ideas of your own and find out the answers.
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Reading |
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Lots of e books with links to our school reading scheme. Email if you would like to know which level to be working on. Y1@woodlands.academy
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Choose a non-fiction text from: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
What information can you find out ?
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https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
What are the characters in the story ? What do you know about the characters ?
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https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Where does the story take place ? This is called the setting.
Can you think of any adjectives to describe the setting ?
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Choose a non-fiction text from: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
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Go with your adult for a walk or ride your bike as your exercise for the day, just around the local area. Have a think about the things that you have seen on your way round. When you get back home, write about what you have seen. If you can’t go out of the house, have a look out of your window and write about what you can see. Look up in the sky, listen to what you can hear…
One lovely May morning, I went for a walk and I saw…..
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Imagine that you are going to the shop. Write a shopping list of all of the things that you will need to buy. Use bullet points in your list. Here’s my shopping list: Shopping List
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Make a sandwich for your adult for their lunch. Make a cold drink to go with it, too. Write some instructions about how you made the lunch. Draw pictures to show what you did. First, I got a plate out of the cupboard. Then I put two slices of bread on the plate. What comes next ? |
Imagine that you are going on a trip on a spaceship. Write a list of the ten things that you would take with you. |
What information book did you choose ? What did you find out from the book ? https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page Make a list of the information that you have found out.
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Art Draw round the hands of all of the people who live in your house. Colour them in and use different colours for each person. Cut them out and glue them onto a piece of paper.
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Science Can you draw a plant? Can you write labels for the parts of the plant ?
Can you find different plants, trees and bushes around you as you go out for your local walk ? Can you find out what they are ?
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History Find out about the life of Alexander Graham Bell and find out why he was famous. What did he do to help the world ? Have a look at this clip to help you out.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/true-stories-alexander-graham-bell/zf7gd6f
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PSHE Draw a picture of your friend. Write something about why you are missing them and what you are looking forward to doing when you can mix with them again.
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Geography Hide something around your house or in your garden. Draw a map to show someone else where they will be able to find it. Put labels on the map to help out. Can you write down some instructions to help them to get there ? Can you use the words ‘left’ and ‘right’? |
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Monday 4th May
Good morning to you all and hope you and your families are all well. Just wondering where the sunshine has gone to and hope that it comes back again later. Please remember to get in touch if there is anything that you need any help with:
Y1@woodlands.academy or post images onto the school Facebook page.
Here are the home learning ideas for this week. Lots of things for you to be thinking about.
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https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/robot-addition
Can you make halves and quarters? Can pupils fold the square paper in half? Can pupils make a horizontal/vertical fold? Can pupils see the diagonal fold?
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https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Can you draw me a character from a book you have been reading? What are they like? What do they look like? How do they act through the story?
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/flashcards-speed-trials
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Can you write questions? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8sUPpPc8Ws Listen to the story of the Gruffalo. What questions could you ask the mouse or the Gruffalo? How might they answer them? Use; where, who, what, how, did, how. Don’t forget the question mark. ? |
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Art Picasso used shapes to create abstract art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUKMPyZCGQ Watch the link and create your own piece of Picasso art. Be as creative and as wonderful as you can be with it. We would love to see them when they are finished. |
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Can you use a hundred square? How well do you know your numbers to 100? Use the hundred square to: • Count forwards from 80 to 92 • Count backwards from 73 to 65 • Write down the numbers between 75 and 81 • Find what number comes between 46 and 48 Correct the mistake in each sequence. • 34, 35, 36, 38, 39 • 98, 97, 96, 95, 93 • 78, 79, 18, 81, 82 |
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https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Where is your story set? Can you describe where the story is set? Draw or write about the setting of the story. https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/picnic-on-pluto |
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Can you describe the scene of a story? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8sUPpPc8Ws Once again listen to and watch the story. Where is the story set? What adjectives could you use to describe the scene? At least 10 sentences about the scene. Challenge Can you use a simile? |
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Science Make a chart with two halves. The heading will be hard and soft. Go round your house and out things in each column. Once you have 7 in each answer the questions. What item would be best to build a house out of? Why is it nice to sit on or wear the soft items?
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Can you find 2D shapes?
What shapes can you think of? Can you draw them? What are their names? How many edges does your shape have? How many corners does your shape have? What are the differences between your shapes? What is the difference between a square and a rectangle? |
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https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Read one page of your book. Then predict what will happen next. When you have finished read the rest of the book how close were you? https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/reading-robot
Can you write the words and put the sound buttons on the words? |
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Can you use verbs? Joe Wicks has been doing PE lessons each morning. I want you to design me a workout for the class to do while we are at home. For example: Do press ups for 30 seconds. Rest and have a drink. Sit on the floor and touch your toes. Challenge Underline the verbs you have used. |
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History We are all spending a lot of time at home. So I want us to compare our homes to homes in Victorian times. How did they send their time at home compared to how we spend our time at home? How was the food they were eating different to what we eat?
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Can you show addition and subtraction?
True or false? There are double the amounts of numbers bonds to make 20 than there are number bonds to make 10 Prove it – can you use a systematic approach? |
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https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Can you find any nouns in your book? A noun is a person, place or thing. Make a list of what you find in your book. |
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Can you find and name nouns? Use post it notes and label the nouns you have in your house. Remember the people because a noun is person, place or thing. Can you write them in your book and use adjectives? For example; The chair is old. Which word is my noun? |
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PSHE Can you write a letter or draw a picture and post it to a local care home?
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Can you tell the time to o’clock and half past?
Which hand is the minute hand? How do you know it is the minute hand? How many minutes are in an hour? How many seconds in a minute? |
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Choose a non-fiction text from: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/reading-robot
Can you write the words and put the sound buttons on the words? |
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Can you write a story? You can retell a story you have read this week or you can come up with a completely new story. It could even be about your favourite film. But it needs: A beginning, were you introduce the scene and characters. A middle, were something goes wrong for the characters. An end, were the characters solve the problem and win. |
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RE With Ramadan approaching it is a good time to compare religious festivals. First find out what Ramadan and why it is special to Islam. How is it different to a Christian festival? How are they similar as well? |
Friday 24th April
Good morning to you all on another sunny day. Hope you and your families are all ok. I'm in school on Monday and Tuesday, so I thought I'd get a little bit ahead and put the home learning on ready for next week. Have a look at the links to the Oxford Owl and you can have a look through the reading books that we have in school. Please remember to let me know what you're up to, or if you have any questions email Y1@woodlands.academy
Can't wait to hear from you...
Take care, Mrs Mountain
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1
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https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
Have a look at the numbers up to 100. Listen to the numbers and highlight the number on the grid. Does the helicopter rescue the man ?
Practice counting to 100. Can you write the numbers to 100 ?
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Can you find the tens and the ones of a number?
How many tens and ones do the following numbers have? 42 47 19 8 36 39 88 Can you draw the numbers in your books and show me which parts are tens and which parts are ones? Do some more with some numbers that you have chosen yourself.
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https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/blast-off
Recognise numbers to 100. Can you compare more and less? Can you put the numbers on each of the blast offs into order ? Can you do smallest to greatest ? Can you do greatest to smallest ?
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TTrockstars. Can you improve your scores ?
Can you use a number line to help when adding or subtracting ?
Draw a number line and show how it can help you to work out the answers.
13-5= 16-2= 21+7= 23+6= 13-9= 31+9= 14+9= 16-8=
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Have a look at some of the tins and boxes in your cupboard. Can you find out which is the heaviest ? Can you put the tins in order? Which is the heaviest?
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Phonics play- play the Tricky Trucks game. How quickly can you read through the words? Have a go at reading the words again and see if you can beat your score.
Start at phase 1 and work through the phases.
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Phonics play – play the pirate treasure game. Think about the real and alien words.
Share a book with an adult. Talk about what happens in the book. Who are the characters ? Where does the story take place ? |
Phonics play – Grab a Giggling Grapheme https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Lots of e books with links to our school reading scheme. Email if you would like to know which level to be working on. Y1@woodlands.academy |
Phonics Play – Pick a Picture https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Lots of e books with links to our school reading scheme. Email if you would like to know which level to be working on. Y1@woodlands.academy
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Choose a non-fiction text from: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
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Choose one of your favourite toys and tell me about it. Can you use the word ‘because’ in your sentences ?
My favourite toy is my red car because it has shiny wheels and I can push it very fast. |
Can you write an acrostic poem ?
Choose a word and write sentences that start with each letter of the word. Sunshine in the sky Petals on the flowers Rabbits in the field I like the springtime Nice to see Green things everywhere |
Look out of your window and write about what you can see. Use the word ‘and’ in your sentence.
I can see the tree and it is blowing in the wind. There are birds in the sly and they are flying around. The dog is barking and it is very loud.
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Can you find out lots of information about an animal ? Choose one that is bit unusual. Use the link to find a book to see if this can help you. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page Make a list of the things that you have found out.
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Use the information that you found out yesterday and make it into an information book. Remember to make a front cover and give it a title |
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Art Can you draw a spring picture? Show us new plants growing, blossom on the trees, spring lambs, birds in nests. Think about what others things could go on there. |
Science Think about how animals change. Do you know what frogspawn is ? Can you use your tablet to find out about how it changes and what it changes into ? Can you draw a picture of the different changes ?
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History Our key workers are doing fantastic jobs in helping to care for people.
Can you find out about the life of a famous person who lived a long time ago?
Florence Nightingale Mary Secole
What did they do and how did they help people ?
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PSHE Create a poster to show ways that you could help others.
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RE Can you draw a picture of the things that are special to you? Write a sentence to say why they are special. |
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Thursday 23rd April
Good morning to you all and a lovely sunny morning again today. Hope you are all well and managing to keep busy. Please remember you can ask any questions or just say hello on Y1@woodlands.academy
I can't wait to hear from you.
It's St. George's Day today. Can you find out anything about it and how it is celebrated ? Draw a picture or write some sentences about what you have found out.
Also, have a look at the following link. Lots of free resources for reading to look at - it's completely free!
https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Wednesday 22nd April
Morning to you all and hope you are all ok on this sunny morning.
It's been lovely to hear from a lot of you and great to see the photos of what you have been doing at home. Thank you adults for sharing those with us and please keep doing it. I am really missing all of you and missing working with you, so it makes me smile to see what you are up to.....even if you just want to send me a wave and say hello, I'd love to see it.
Y1@woodlands.academy
Have a look at the work for today and see what you can do.
Can you write all of the numbers to 20 and play a game with an adult ? Can you muddle them up and put them back in the same order again ? Can you write any bigger numbers ? (up to 40) Play a game with these numbers too. Get your adult to hide the numbers around the house and see what numbers you can find. When you've found all of the numbers, can you put them in order of smallest to greatest ?
For our writing today, we'd love for you to write us a letter to let us know what you're up to and what you're doing.
Dear Class 1,
Good morning to you all and hope you are all ok. I just thought I'd write you a letter to let you know what I've been up to.
We're all ok in our family and we're keeping busy. I like sending you text messages to let you know that I am thinking of you all and I really enjoy reading through the emails that your adults have been sending to me. I love seeing the photos on the Facebook page too.
I've been spending some time in the garden and I've been helping Louis make a den out of lots of sticks! It was quite hard work. We've been baking lots of cakes and they get eaten very quickly in our house! I enjoy taking the dogs out in the evening when it gets a bit cooler. Over the holidays, I painted the walls and the ceiling in my living room and that kept me very busy. I got very messy and there was paint everywhere. I got lots of paint in my hair too.
Hope you'll write a letter back to me and let me know what you're doing. Ask your adult to take a photo and send it to the year 1 email page Y1@woodlands.acadamy
Take care, Mrs Mountain
Week beginning 20th April
Good morning and a wonderful 'Hello' to you all and your families. I hope you have had a lovely Easter break and that you are full up from eating all of your Easter eggs. I hope you have been enjoying some time with your family in the sunshine. I've been spending some time with Louis and we've been playing lots of games. His favourite is Monopoly and I can never beat him. Mind you, I have to make sure that he isn't cheating! I am missing you all and I am missing your happy, smiley faces.
Don't forget to email at Y1@woodlands.academy and let me know what you are up to, or ask adults to send pictures in to the school Facebook page. I'd love to see what you're doing.
Here are some of the ideas that you could have a look at over the next few days. Don't forget to use the email address if you have any questions about anything.
Take care and keep safe.
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1
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Maths
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Counting in groups of 10
NumberBlocks on You tube -Counting in 10’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4f4IRtMcKA
Practise writing your numbers to 20. Make sure they are the right way round.
TTrockstars
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Ordering numbers -different activities up to 10, up to 20 etc. Have a look at the site and have a go at the different activities.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering |
Can you write numbers to 20 ? Play a game. Write the numbers to 20. Can you jumble them up? Can you put them back in the right order ?
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Can you look around your house and compare objects that you find? What is longer ? What is shorter ? Can you find objects that are the same size?
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Find 2D shapes. Write a list of the things that you have found. What did you find the most of ? https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns. Have a go at the activity. Can you carry on the patterns ?
Can you use TTrockstars? |
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Reading |
Phonics play online. Username: march20 Password: home
Reading of common exception words Phase 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY
Phase 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4
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Phonics play online. Username: march20 Password: home
Watch You tube clip- Supertato.
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Phonics play online. Username: march20 Password: home
Read and write the common exception words.
Can you use the common exception words in a sentence? |
Phonics play online. Username: march20 Password: home
Go on a walk around your house. Can you think of adjectives to describe the things that you can see?
Here’s an idea from my house… a big, black dog a sunny window a brown sofa What can you think of?
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Phonics play online. Username: march20 Password: home
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Writing |
In our story, Stanley was eaten by a whale, a seagull and a turtle. Can you think about another sea creature that could have swallowed Stanley ? What swallowed Stanley and how did it get out ? Can you write your story ? Draw pictures to illustrate.
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Can you write your own Supertato story? What does Evil pea do with the veggies? How does Supertato save them ? Draw pictures to illustrate the story.
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Can you write a letter to your teacher to let them know what you’re doing ? Dear Mrs Mountain… Dear Mr Dickson…
Ask your adults to put it on the class email and we can send you a letter back.
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Go on a treasure hunt around your house. Find things that start with s c m h Can you write a list of all of the things that you can find?
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Write a diary of your week On Monday I… On Tuesday I… Have a go at spelling the days of the week. If you’re not too sure, practise writing these. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday |
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Project |
The boy in our story made a kite out of the plastic bag Stanley. Can you make a kite out of a plastic bag ? Ask an adult to help you. |
Create a poster to remind people about getting rid of their rubbish sensibly. |
Have a look at some pictures (countryside, seaside, mountains). Look at the things that you can see on it. Can you use words to describe the scene?
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Watch the clip about the Easter story.
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Can you make an Easter card?
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PE Activity |
Cosmic Yoga for kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nac95KdNaZ0
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Cosmic Yoga for kids |
Cosmic Yoga for kids |
Cosmic Yoga for kids |
Cosmic Yoga for kids |
Friday 3rd April
Good morning to you all and hope you are ok. I hope you're managing to keep yourselves busy and finding some fun things to do. I'm missing you all and missing all of your happy smiling faces. 
Have a look at the things you could have a go at today.
Can you think of different ways that you can make the number 18 ?
10+8=18
10+7+1=18
18-0=18
Can you think of as many ways as you can ? Write them down in your yellow books and send me a photo if you can.
Y1@woodlands.academy
Can you draw a number line again today and can you work out these subtractions ?
14-3= 19-8=
21-4= 12-8=
36-5= 32-5=
23-10= 15-15=
Can you find a picture in a book ? Have a look out of the window. Can you write some sentences to say what you can see ? Can you write some sentences with adjectives in to describe what you can see ?
Think about finding out about the story of Good Friday and what happened to Jesus in the story. Can you make a cross out of paper ?
We've thought about some ideas that you could have a go at over the holidays. Have a break from doing some school work and try and do some fun things with your family.
Easter Activities
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Build a Den at home. You could use it for some reading or having some quiet time. |
Learn how to make paper airplanes and then see how far you can throw it. Have a competition with your family. Whose can fly the furthest? |
Have a go at baking a delicious Easter treat for the family. Share your recipes with us on the school Facebook page so we can all try them. |
Create your own cinema at home and snuggle down with everyone to watch a film. |
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Have a contest to see who can build the tallest tower. |
Play a board game as a family or have a go at creating your own game |
Help a family member create a meal. |
Have a dance off with a family member. Who has the best dance moves? |
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Look at old family photos and talk about the memories they bring back. What is your favourite photo and why? |
Create your own work out video and share it with friends and relatives to help everyone stay fit and healthy. |
Ball up some paper into an egg shape (or find an egg shaped object) and have your very own egg and spoon race. |
Have a go at creating an origami rabbit using the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QqBvy_yO_M |
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Try and Create some handprint animals. These can be Easter themed or you can create your favourite animal. Use the link below for inspiration. https://www.craftymorning.com/fun-zoo-animal-handprint-crafts-kids/ |
Find somewhere comfy and cosy then snuggle up and read a book to a family member. |
Draw and cut out some Easter egg pictures. Hide them around the house and then have an Easter Egg hunt. |
Have a go at doing something kind for someone else. This could be drawing a picture for someone, helping out with jobs at home or writing a letter to a family member you haven’t seen for a while. |
Please remember to email if you have any problems or need any help or just to say hello. It would be great to hear from you
Y1@woodlands.academy
Have fun, take care and keep safe,
Mrs Mountain
Thursday 2nd April
Can you draw your own number line to have a go at these calculations ?
13+5= 16+2=
21+7= 23+5=
13+9= 31+6=
24+9= 16+8=
Don't forget to have a look at TT rock stars and work through the counting in 10's. How many coins can you
get ?
Have a look for a book. Can you read it with your adult ? Did you like the book? Why did you like it ?
Please don't do anything with cooking or hot water and please don't use sharp knives, but could you make your adult a sandwich for their lunch today. Don't forget to wash your hands before you start. What do you need ? What would they like in their sandwich ?
Now, write some instructions about how you made the sandwich. Draw a picture of your adult eating the sandwich. I hope they liked it. Don't forget to send photos to Y1@woodlands.academy
Can you find out things about our town of Grimsby ? What things are there to do in Grimsby ? How did Grimsby get its name ? Tell me about what you have found out. Draw pictures of what you have found out.
Have a good day.
Take care, Mrs Mountain
Wednesday 1st April
Don't forget it's April Fool's Day today. Can you trick your adult and tell them that they've got a hole in their outfit. When they look at it to check, say April Fool. But remember, you can only do this before 12o'clock at lunchtime!!
Hope you are all ok today. We're all good in our house. I made some cakes with Louis yesterday and they turned out really well. We burnt the ones we made last time!! Louis has eaten most of them already and wants to make some more today!!
Have a look at the numbers in the line. Can you put each of them in order ? Start with the greatest number ?
15, 9, 24
16, 4, 19
2, 20, 14
27, 14, 25
39, 24, 2
Can you ask your adult to think of some numbers for you and can you put these in order ?
For reading today, can you have a look at a book and can you find the verbs in the book ? Can you write a list of the verbs that you have found ?
Can you think of your own sentence that have the verbs in ?
Have a look at the spelling words in your learning pack. Can you find fie of them that you need to learn to spell and can you practice spelling these ? Check to see if you have spelt them right.
Can you remind yourself about the countries of the UK ? Can you use your tablet to help you find out ? Write down some of the things that you have found out in your yellow books.
Have a great day and don't forget to let me know what you're doing.
Y1@woodlands.academy
Take care, Mrs Mountain
Tuesday 31st March
Morning to you all and hope you're ok. Don't forget to get in touch and let me know what you're doing.
Y1@woodlands.academy.
It would be great to hear from you.
We're looking at counting in 2's today. What things can you find in your house that are in groups of 2 ? Can you draw a picture or write a list of what you have found ?
Think about the work we did on tens and ones. Can you make up some numbers up to 40 and can you think about their groups of tens and ones ?
39= 3 tens and 9 ones
12= 1 ten and 2 ones
Can you think of any more ?
Have a look at a book or have a look at a character in one of your favourite TV shows. Can you use adjectives to tell me about the character ? Can you put the adjectives into a sentence ?
For our topic work today, can you have a look around the house and find lots of different, but smaller objects. Check with your adult to see if you can put some water in the sink. What do you think will happen to each of the objects when you put them in the water. Can you predict (guess) what they will do ?
Can you draw a picture or write a list to show the things that 'float' or the things that 'sink'? Have fun and try not to make too much of a mess!!!
Have a good day and don't forget to let me know what you're doing.
Mrs Mountain :)
Monday 30th March
Good morning to you all and hope you are all ok.
For our Maths work today, can you think of different ways to make the number 15 ?
Can you add + ?
Can you subtract - ?
20-5=15
10+5=15
What other ways can you think of ?
Can you watch the clip of the film ? Can you write about what happened in the clip ?
https://www.literacyshed.com/girlandrobot.html
Don't forget to do your daily exercise. Remember to have a look at the Cosmic Yoga activities on You Tube and have a look at the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi1qIeU_y6c
Don't forget the phonics play activities.
Username:march20
Password: home
Maybe have a look at the tricky trucks game today.
Don't forget you can message me on the Y1@woodlands.academy page, just to let me know how you are and what you are up to.
Take care, Mrs Mountain
Here are some ideas that you could have a look at over the next week. I will keep updating daily, so watch this page. Don't forget to let me know what you're doing. I'd love to see it.
Y1 @woodlands.academy
Mrs Mountain
Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable
Year 1
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Friday |
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Maths
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How many ways can you make the number 15? +-x
Counting to 100. Can you count in tens to 100? Would this help you if you were counting to 94? How might you use this skill?
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Can you count in 2s ? What things in your house come in pairs? Can you count them in 2’s? TTrockstars
Can you find the tens and the ones of a number?
How many tens and ones do the following numbers have? 23 45 12 4 27 33 39 Can you draw the numbers in your books and show me which parts are tens and which parts are ones?
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Can you count in 5s?
Can you compare more and less?
Look at the number on the Class page. How can you compare these numbers and how can you prove that you are right?
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Can you count in 10s? TTrockstars.
Can you count on from a number when adding?
Prove the following by drawing your own number lines.
13+5= 16+2= 21+7= 23+5= 13+9= 31+6= 24+9= 16+8=
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How many ways can you make the number 18? +-x
Can you count back on a numberline when subtracting?
Prove the following by drawing your own number lines.
14-3= 19-8= 21-4= 12-8= 36-5= 32-5= 23-10= 15-15=
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Reading |
60 seconds reading challenge on the class page.
Phonics play- If you would like to know the phase your child is working on please email. Thank you.
Challenge- Can you find me a word from a book that you don’t know? Can you find the meaning online and tell me all about your new word?
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60 seconds reading challenge on the class page.
Phonics play
Choose a character from a book, what adjectives would you use to describe the character? |
60 seconds reading challenge on the class page.
Phonics play Reading Robot
Can you find the verbs in a book? |
60 seconds reading challenge on the class page.
Can you choose a book to read? What was the book about? |
60 seconds reading challenge on the class page.
Phonics play Reading Robot Obb and Bob
Can you find the adjectives that are used in the book? |
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Writing |
https://www.literacyshed.com/girlandrobot.html
Watch the video of the Girl and the Robot.
Can you retell the story? How did the girl feel in the story at different stages? What did she do in the story? |
Can you write a letter to your teachers?
Can you tell them about all the things you have done while learning at home?
remember you will be writing in first person so using ‘I’ in your writing.
Make sure you include lots of amazing adjectives about your work. |
Practice this week’s spellings.
Write a spring poem. List some words to describe Spring and then create a poem using a mixture of just words, some phrases and some sentences.
How does it make you feel? |
Practise this week’s spellings.
Can you make your grown up dinner?
Write instructions about how you made their dinner. |
Practise this week’s spellings.
Can you use adjectives to describe the picture on the Class page?
What is your favourite adjective and why? |
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Project |
Art Can you decorate an egg for Easter?
But make sure to write down how you did it in case we want to make our own too. |
Science Can you and your adult find different Items around the house to predict if they will float or sink? Can you explain why you think they will float or sink?
Then can you test and see if you was correct? |
Geography What are the countries that make up the UK?
Which country do we live in?
What is special about each country? |
History Can you find out about the name of Grimsby and its links to vikings? (scandanvian pirates)
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RE Can you tell me why Good Friday is so special to christains around the world? |
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PE Activity |
27.3.20
Good morning to you all and hope you are all ok. Please remember that you can send in pictures of what you are doing on the Year 1 page, or just drop me a message about what you're doing and how you are. It would be really great to hear from you.
Email address: Y1@woodlands.academy
Today, have a look at the Farmer Pete You Tube clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heZp5RVT5a8
Can you think of how you can use add (+) and subtract (-)to make these numbers ?
10
15
9
17
How many different calculations can you make ?
2+8=10
12-2=10
3+7=10
Can you think of any more ?
Write them down in your work books.
Can you draw a silly picture of an alien ? Make him look really silly! Can you write some sentences about the alien ? Use adjectives in your sentences.
Don't forget to keep up with your sport activities. Have a look at Cosmic Yoga for kids on You Tube.
Don't forget to keep in touch using the Y1 email address or if you have nay questions, just ask.
Mrs Mountain
26.3.20
Good morning to you all.
Task for today. Have a look at these alien words. Remember that these are made up words. Can you use your phonics to find the special friends ? Can you dot and dash to show where the special friends are ? Be careful to look for the split digraphs.
shup
mech
quent
foat
shouf
bawf
cheen
kighf
loog
garn
horm
gase
hife
Remember to have a look at phonics play too. Username: march20 Password: home
Can you play the Tricky Trucks game ?
Can you have a look for numbers around your house too ? Where can you find numbers ? What numbers can you find ? What is the biggest number that you can find ?
Can you put some of the numbers in order ?
25.3.20
Task for today. Can you practice writing these words ?
the
do
to
today
of
said
says
are
were
was
his
is
has
Can you write a sentence with each of these words in it ?
She has a red dress.
The rabbit is munching the grass in the field.
Week 5 - 23rd March
Children love going on the Phonics Play website at school. It provides lots of great and fun activities that support the children with their phonics. During this time, whilst children are working from home, the site is available without needing to subscribe:
Username: march20
Password: home
There are lots of games where children are able to sound out words, as well as games for children to read high fluency words in a fun way.
We've also been enjoying the Supertato stories written by Su Hendra. You can now watch Su Hendra read the original story on You Tube
Hope this helps.
Mrs Mountain
Week 3 - 9th March
Thank you to all of the children who dressed up in their sports kits today to support Sport Relief. We did a yoga exercise session this afternoon which the children joined in really well with.
School trip
On Tuesday 31st March, all KS 1 children will be visiting Cleethorpes' beach. This will link to our project on Beachcombers and the children will be looking for exciting things washed up by the tide. Please remember to bring the signed slip back to school to enable your child to go on the trip.
Reading Challenge
For the second week now, the children in Year 1 have had more children reading at home than the Year 2 classes. (Not that the teachers are in competition at all!!!) Well done to all of those who received your special sticker in assembly. Thank you for your support at home and let's keep it up.
"You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book"
Dr Seuss
Week 2 - 2nd March 2020
World Book Day
Thank you so much to all of the parents who supported their children with dressing up as an adjective. We had some great costumes. It really was a great way to promote a love of reading.
The children worked really well in the morning and created some great fact files about jellyfish. Our story for English is 'Somebody swallowed Stanley'. The creatures in the ocean think that Stanley the plastic bag is a jellyfish. We had to find out lots of information to decide whether Stanley was a jellyfish or not. Ask the children what they know about jellyfish as they have some great facts.
In the afternoon, we thought about some of our favourite books and we created a sky lantern in the form of Supertato. Have a look at him as you come into the classroom. He looks amazing.
All of the children came home with a voucher that will allow them to choose a book for free. These vouchers can be taken to Waterstones, Sainsburys or Tesco stores to swap for your free book. They do have time limit on them , so please remember to use it before the date.
Week 1 - 24th February
Welcome
A big Woodlands' welcome goes out to Miss Gooderham this week as she joins us in Year 1. Miss Gooderham is a teaching student who is going to be spending time working with younger children. (She has been working with Year 3 children at her previous school). It is lovely to welcome her into the classroom and she is enjoying getting to know the children.
Reading Challenge
Children are making some great progress with their reading as they work through the year and thank you for your support with this at home. There are lots of children receiving stickers in our celebration assembly for reading five times or more at home. This is great to see.
Project Launch
We launched our new project on Monday. This half term, we are looking at the project of Beachcombers. The children were given lots of materials and were able to create their own mini beach area. The children had great fun doing this and were able to talk about what they did.
Week 6 - 10th February
Miss Riley leaves us this week to go on placement at another school where she will be working with KS 2 children. She will be back to join us after the Easter break. In the meantime, we have Miss Gooderham joining us after the holidays for the next six weeks. She has previously been working with KS 2 children and is looking forward to spending time in Year 1.
Spellings
Children need to be able to spell a number of words by the time they leave Year 1. They have brought home a list of the spellings they need to have a go at. Please could you spend some time going over these in the holidays and the children will be tested when they return and any new spellings will be given. Thank you for your support with this. The children are aware as to what they need to do.
The Storm Whale
The children have loved reading the story of a little boy who finds a whale washed up on the beach after a terrible storm and puts it in the bath. This week, we've been writing some poems about the story and we acted out the poems to the rest of the class.
It's half term holidays next week and we're looking forward to starting our new project 'Beachcombers' with lots of exciting things to be looking forward to.
Week 5 - 3rd February
This week we've been thinking about making our lighthouses. The first thing we needed to do was to make our light work. We investigated how to make an electric circuit. The children had great fun and they were astonished when they made the bulb light up.
We also looked at the sort of materials we could use to make our lighthouses and the shapes that we would need. Next week, we're going to make our lighthouses and the children are super excited about that.
On Thursday afternoon, Miss Riley worked with the Year 1 children and they thought about the things that made them scared. They then talked about how they could help each other to 'find their brave'. The children made some great posters to help others.
Phonic Screening Meeting
Please join us in Class 1 on Thursday 13th February 2.45pm. We will be explaining about the phonic screening testing and the things that you could do to support your child at home. We look forward to seeing you then.
Week - 27th January
This week, we've been thinking all about oceans and seas around the UK and around the world. We used an atlas to have a look at the different seas and oceans in the world. 
In Maths this week, we have been looking at measuring the height and length of different things. We measured things around the classroom. We used different parts of our body to measure the objects.
We had to use the word tall, taller, tallest.
We had to use the words long, longer, longest.
We had to use the words short, shorter, shortest.
Week 3 - 20th January
In our Geography work for this week, we have been thinking about points of the compass N,S,E and W. The children were able to point in the different directions.
We've been thinking about the life of Captain Cook and his voyages. The children learnt about his life and the places that he discovered. We made telescopes to have a look at the new places that Captain Cook discovered. Please ask the children to see what they have remembered about his life.
Reading
Fantastic results with our reading rewards for this week, so thank you to all of the parents who have supported at home with this. Let's see if we can keep it up for next week.
Week 2 - 13th January
We've been doing lots more work on our Land Ahoy project this week and we've been thinking about what would make a great pirate boat.
We tested some materials to see if they would float or sink.
We then thought about what a good shape for a boat would be and we investigated how we could make a boat using some tin foil.
Reading Rewards
Please remember to read with your child at home through the week. It is great to see the children receiving their stickers in the Celebration assembly. Thank you for your support with this.
Week 1 - 6th January
Welcome back and a very Happy New Year to all of our children and their families. It was great to see the children after the holidays and they had lots of exciting things to tell us.
Land Ahoy Project Launch
Shiver me timbers!!!
What a great way to start our new project dressing up as a pirate!
We had some really great outfits going on and the children took part in some very exciting activities throughout the day.
The pirate sent his parrot with some clues to help us find the treasure. We had to read the clues and follow them to find the gold coins. It was great fun.
Reading
Reading stickers will start again in our Celebration assembly next Friday. It would be fantastic to have as many children as possible receiving their stickers. Children need to be reading at home at least five times in the week to receive their sticker and it would be great if you could help them with this. Thank you for this.
Week 7 - 9th December
What a great week and again what a very busy week we've had. Lots of great and exciting things going on.
Christmas Performance
Monday and Tuesday saw us doing our Christmas performances. A fantastic WELL DONE to all of the children who sang and spoke beautifully and a brilliant WELL DONE to the children who stepped into parts at the last minute due to illnesses. What a great job they did. Thank you for your support with providing jumpers for the children.
Christmas Cards
A list of first names for children in each class can be collected from the Office for any parents still needing this.
Christmas Dinner
There was music, crackers, party hats and a lovely Christmas dinner. The children had a great time and loved their rice crispy Christmas pudding cakes.
Week 6 - 2nd December 2019
It's busy, busy, busy in Woodlands School today. What another great and busy week we've had and Well done to the children who have tried really hard this week, despite feeling really under the weather.
History Days
The children looked fantastic in their dress up on Tuesday and thank you for your support with this. We had a great couple of days creating things from our Castles project. Thank you to the parents who managed to join us at this very busy time of the year.
We had a wonderful medieval banquet on the Tuesday afternoon and the children loved experiencing the food delights !!!!!(honey bread, pickled onions, boiled eggs, pork pie, fruit and apple juice)
We had some entertainment at the end of the banquet with some singing and joke telling.
On the Wednesday morning, parents came into school to help us make our shields and torches. There was some great creativity and the children were really shocked when they realised that there wasn't any electricity.
Christmas Concerts
Please remember that it is our concert days on Monday (afternoon) and Tuesday (morning). Please come and celebrate all of the hard work that the KS 1 children have put into their singing, speaking and acting.
Friday 13th December is Christmas jumper day. We will send the jumpers home after the concert so the children will be able to wear these on the Friday.
Reading books
We will still be doing our reading rewards for next week, so please keep reading with your child at home. Thank you for your help with this. We are now getting more children receiving stickers in our Friday celebration assembly and it was great to see that we had more Year 1 children than Year 2 children receiving stickers today. It's normally the other way round!
Well done Year 1 and again thank you for your help with this. Let's hope we can do the same next week...
Week 5 - 25th November
Reading
The children have been enjoying reading texts by Sue Hendra and they've had great fun listening to stories about Supertato and Evil Pea.
Spellings
Our spellings for this week are:
ask
friend
school
put
are
Thank you for your help with this.
Project work
This week, we've been thinking about the work of Vincent Van Gogh the artist. We've learnt about his life and looked at the paintings that he created. We had a go at copying his famous 'Sunflower' painting. The children looked really closely at the shapes and the colours.
We made our classroom into an art gallery and we thought of lots of great things to say about each others pictures.
Christmas Concert
Our Key Stage Christmas in on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th December. We have been doing lots of practicing and the children have some beautiful singing voices.
We would be very grateful if you could provide the children with a Christmas jumper for the concert. These can be brought into school in a named carrier bag. Thank you for your help with this.
Week 4 - 18th November
We've been thinking about Road Safety week this week and we've been thinking about how to cross the road safely. We know that we need to:
STOP
LOOK
LISTEN
THINK
We thought about what we could say to people to help them to know how to cross the road and we used our words to make sentences.
We had great fun making traffic light biscuits and we took them home to eat them.
We wrote sentences about how we made the traffic light biscuits.
We worked with Class 2 and we have made some baubles to go on our school Christmas tree. It was really good to work with a partner. They will look really great on our Christmas tree next week.
Reading
A fantastic Well done to all of those children who are reading at least five times or more at home. The children all received their stickers in assembly today. Thank you for your help with this. It really is of great benefit to the children when they are reading regularly at home.
Spellings
Well done to the children who I sent text messages to for doing well in their weekly spellings. They were difficult words and I could see that the children had tried hard to learn them at home.
Spellings for next week are :
were
was
is
his
has
Thank you for your support with this.
Week 3 - 11th November
It's been Friendship week in school this week and we have been thinking about who our friends are.
We've thought about what it means to be a good friend. We thought about a new playground game that we could play with our friends.
Parent Shared Learning
Thank you to all of those parents who turned out in the terrible wet weather and supported us with our Aboriginal paintings. I'm not sure who had the most fun - the children or the parents.
The children had great fun and produced some lovely pieces of work.
Star of the Week
The teachers were looking for children who are very helpful this week, either helping the adults or helping the other children. It is always so hard to choose the children each week.
Spellings
A fantastic WELL DONE to Isabelle who got all of her spellings right this week. Well done for working so hard with these. Spellings for next week are:
my
here
there
where
love
Please have a go at the spelling sheets with your children at home. It will be really useful as they are the spellings that they will be using over the year in their written work in class. Thank you for your support with this.
Year 2 visitors
The children in Year 2 have been writing riddles this week about and thinking about clues to work out the riddle. It was great to have the children in the class to share their riddles with us. The children worked out that the answer to the riddle was 'friend'.
Thank you Year 2 children for sharing these with us.
Week 2 - 4th November
Reading Challenge
Well done to all of the children who received a sticker in assembly today for reading five or more times at home. It would be great to see more children with stickers each week. Thank you for your support with this.
Star of the Week
The certificates were awarded this week to those children who are working really hard. The children in the class are all trying really hard and it was very difficult today to award just two certificates.
Our writing work this week....
We went into the cooking suite and we made some cornflake cakes. We had to write some sentences about how we made them. The children thought that they tasted really good.
It was a very dark and cold week this week, so we turned out the lights, read our books by torchlight and enjoyed listening to the sound of a cosy, crackling log fire on the screen. The children loved it and they told some great stories.
Spellings (to be tested 15.11.19)
no
come
some
one
once
Please go over these spellings with your child through the week. Thank you for your support with this.
Week 1 - 28th October
A wonderful welcome back to all of our children and families after the half term holidays. It was lovely to see all of the children back in school and ready to start their next learning.
Project
Our project for the next half term up to Christmas is called 'Muck, Mess and Mixtures' where the children will be learning all about different materials and how they can be changed. We launched our project with a messy afternoon and the children were heard saying:
"It's the best afternoon ever!"
We had such fun with the materials...
We mixed porridge oats with water and made a sloppy mess. The children built walls and mountains with the sloppy porridge.
We rolled out the play dough and used it to make shapes.
We mixed cornflour and custard powder with water to make gloop.
We painted using coloured ice cubes.
We made patterns in the shaving foam.
We're looking forward to lots of other ways of mixing the materials over the weeks of our project.
Homework sheets have been given out and it would be great if the children could choose something off the list and bring it in to school to show what they have done.
Star of the Week
This week, the teachers were looking for children who show a great attitude to their learning. Well done to Ralph and Isabelle.
Reading Challenge
Another great big WELL DONE to those children who have read at home five times or more and received their stickers in our celebration assembly.
Our Reading visitors...
We had some special visitors to the classroom today when the Year 2 children visited us to share some of their favourite stories with the Year 1 children. There was some great reading from the Year 2's and our children loved listening to the stories and enjoyed joining in with talking about the pictures.
Week 7 - 14th October
We had a visitor in school this week from the Chartwells lunch service. She told the children the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and she let the children taste lots of different fruits and they could use the different fruits to make their own caterpillar and then eat it. the children had great fun doing this and they tried lots of new fruits.
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Week 6 - 7th October
What an amazing end to our week with our trip to Lincoln. I can't begin to say how proud I am of the children. Their behaviour was amazing and they coped with a very full day and had such great fun. (Please have a look on the website pages for Classes 2, 3 and 4 as the children were split into groups when we arrived and there may be photos on their class pages too.)
We started our day learning all about knights and the children had the opportunity to dress up in suits of armour and helmets.
We had a go at shooting some bow and arrows at the pretend castle. It was quite hard to do.
We dressed the knight in his armour ready for battle. We had to put all of the things in the right places on the body.
We looked at lots of different shields and then we used lots of different colours to make our own. Look out for our shields around the classroom.
We took part in a medieval banquet. We have an hour to eat our lunch. The banquets could last up to six hours and there was lots of food to eat. The King sat at the top of the table. They let dogs into the room to eat all of the left overs and if you had a dog it meant that you were rich.
The servants gave out all of the food. We had ginger bread biscuits and a cup of juice.
We went for a walk around the top of the castle walls. It was very high up and we could see all around the city of Lincoln. 
We have used the I-pads this week to draw our own castles on one of the paint programs. We hope you like what we created.
Week 5 - 30th September
Parent Shared Learning Afternoon
We were so pleased to see such a great turn out on Thursday afternoon to help the children make their marshmallow and spaghetti bridges. I think the staff in Morrisons wondered what I was up to when I bought over 40 bags of marshmallows. I'm glad I wasn't asked any questions!! It was also great to see that there were only a limited numbers of marshmallows that disappeared into children's mouths!! Who can resist...
It was a competitive, sticky and absolutely fantastic afternoon and was enjoyed by all and there were lots of different techniques going on to make the bridges more stable. It was also lovely to see the children working in mixed age groups. A great big THANK YOU again to all who attended.
Here are a few photos...
Spellings
Well done to all of the children who got all of their spellings correct on Friday. Great work and I could really tell that the children had a great go at learning them at home. Thank you for your support with this.
Next weeks spellings will be for Thursday 10th October please, as we are out on the school trip to Lincoln on the Friday. The spellings are:
be
he
me
she
we
It would be great if you could give the children the chance to go through these all through the week. They could have a go at writing them down using different colours, they could spell them as they walk to school, they could play a matching game with them, you could write the words on small paper and hide them around the house for your child to find or they could see if they can find them in their reading books too. The children love playing the game of Hangman when we look at our new spellings in class on a Friday.
Trip to Lincoln
Friday 11th October
We will be leaving school for 9 am and we will be back in time for the end of the school day. Children need to wear their school uniform and they must have a coat with them. Pack ups will be needed, but no fizzy drinks. If you have ordered a school lunch, this will automatically be swapped for a school pack up lunch for your child.
If your child suffers from travel sickness, please administer a tablet before travelling and a form will be needed from the school office, if we need to give your child a tablet for the return journey. Please ask if you are unsure about this.
We are really looking forward to a great and exciting day and look out for our photos next week.
Week 4 - 23rd September
We can't believe how quickly the weeks go by and it's time to let you know all about our week for this week....
We've been thinking about 'more' and 'less' in our maths work and the children have been thinking about number bonds using a number bond diagram.
This was a new idea for the children and they worked really hard with it.
We've been thinking about materials in our project work and we had to go on a hunt around the classroom to find out what things were made from. We found lots of plastic things and the children were able to tell me why they wouldn't fond anything made out of glass in the classroom (except the windows!!)
Star of the Week
We have our 'Golden Rules' in school and the children are reminded about what these are as they come in to their new classes (being kind, being respectful, listening carefully, having all of their things in school that they need for the day, trying their best). The children this week have been chosen as 'Star of the week' for being those children who always follow the 'Golden Rules'. It was a very difficult this week as lots of the children try very hard to follow all the rules and it was very difficult to just choose two.
Reading Challenge Rewards
We had more children gaining stickers this week for reading at home five times or more through the week. This was great to see. The children were very proud as they stood up in assembly to receive their stickers and clap. It would be great to see even more children next week. Thank you for your support with this.
Spellings
The children came home with a spelling sheet on Friday. Please work with your children and help them to be able to write the spellings on the sheet. The words that we are sending home will be important for the children when they do their writing in class.
The children could.....
write them on a piece of paper
use coloured pens to write the words
stick them around the house
spell them out loud to you as you walk to school
The children will have a simple spelling test with these words on Friday 4th October.
the
a
to
do
today
Walk to school badges
Some of the children came home with badges on Friday. We are encouraging children to walk, cycle or scoot to school and the badges were awarded to the children who had done this through the week. Great news for all of the children who came home with a badge and we hope that this will continue into next month.
Week 3 - 16th September
What another great week in Class 1 with some great learning happening. This week, we've been looking at animals that burrow under the ground and we've drawn some great pictures of the animals in their burrows.
Reading Challenge
Can we please remind that the children need to be reading at least five times through the week to receive their sticker in our Golden assembly. It really is of great benefit for the children to be reading at home, so a great THANK YOU again for supporting us with this.
Here are the children who received their sticker for reading challenge this week. We would love to see more children in the class receiving stickers.
Star of the week!
Our star of the week certificates this week were awarded to those children who have been showing some really good listening skills.
We have a little motto in our class...
Good looking and good listening means we are doing good learning.
So a big WELL DONE to Jacob and Olivia for following our motto and being chosen as Stars of the Week.
Week 2 - 9th September
What another amazing week and it has been fantastic to see that the children are adapting their new routines in Year 1, so a fantastic WELL DONE to the children and a great THANK YOU to parents and carers for supporting your children with this.
Star of the Week
Each week on a Friday the children will take part in a celebration assembly. The teachers all award two certificates which are given to the 'Star of the week'. This week, the teachers were looking for children who have settled into their new classes really well.
A massive WELL DONE to Esmai and Ethan for being our 'Stars of the week' for this week.
Next week, the teachers will be awarding their certificates for children showing good listening skills.
Good looking, good listening means good learning.
Reading...
Our celebration assembly is also our time for rewarding the children when they have read at home. We are really pleased with the children reading four times at home in a week, but the children will receive a sticker if they read five times in a week. We hope you will be able to support your child with this.
Our sticker reward readers for this week...
Let's see if we can add to the number next week... Watch this space!!
Maths
We've been counting forwards up to 10 this week and then counting backwards from 10, if you wanted to practice this with your children. We've also been matching numbers to the number words if you wanted to do this at home.
Week 1 - 5th September
Hello and welcome to Class 1. We hope you've had a wonderful holiday and are ready to start all of the exciting things that we have planned for this year.
All of the children have settled in really well and we're looking forward to doing some great things together.
Reading...
Reading books can be changed on a daily basis, but please make sure that you have signed to say that your child has read
the book and place the book in the basket by the door as you come into the classroom in the morning. Please encourage your child to read with you at home at least four times through the week. We are currently looking into changing our Reading challenge system, but the children will receive rewards for doing their reading through the week.
PE...
Our PE days for this year are Mondays and Tuesdays. The children will need to have their full PE kit (T-shirt, shorts and indoor shoes) in school on these days. Children with ear-rings will also need to have their ear-rings removed on these days. Thank you for your help with this.
Naming belongings...
It would really help us and the children in school if you were able to write names in all of the children's clothes, lunch boxes, PE kits etc. If items do go missing, we will very quickly be able to find them and return them to the correct person.
If you do have anything that you would like to ask us about, please feel free to speak to us in a morning, or if you were able to wait after all of the children have been collected after school that would be great. Thank you for this.
Our Project for this half term is called 'Towers, Tunnels and Turrets' where we will be finding out all about castles. We introduced the project with a great dress up day and the children all looked amazing. We had some great kings, knights and princesses. Thank you parents and carers for your help with this.
In the afternoon, we visited the wildlife area with Class 2. We collected lots of things that we could use to build a castle and then we worked with our friends to build a castle. The children worked really well and they listened to the suggestions that their friends
gave them.
Summer Term Week 9 - 24th June
Parent Share Afternoon
Thank you to all of our helpers who joined us on Wednesday to help the children make their Superhero costumes. What an absolutely fantastic job. The children have been putting the finishing touches to their Superhero masks and will be getting to show their outfits to the rest of the school. There were some fantastic designs and great creativity.
Reading Challenge
Please remember that our reading challenge finishes on Friday 12th July and the children need to have read 40 times to take part in the fun ice-cream afternoon. Please keep reading with your child at home as we would love for all of the class to be taking part. Thank you.
Week 8 - 17th June
Parent shared Learning
We'd love you to join us for our parent share on Wednesday 26th June at 2pm. We're making costumes for our Superhero fashion show and we'd love some help with these. Please join us in the Year 1 classrooms. Thank you.
STEM Learning
We had a visitor in on Monday who talked to us about local construction and spoke to the children about engineering. She left us with some activities to do and the children have enjoyed dressing up as construction company workers.
Summer Term Week 7 10th June
Phonics Screening
The children have all completed their phonics screening this week and it has been great to see the progress that they have made. They all tried amazingly hard with the real and alien words in the check and as usual, I am extremely proud of them. The children were desperate to know their scores which we will be able to let you know as soon as we are able.
Summer Term Week 6 - 3rd June
Welcome back to you all after the holidays and it's great to see that the children have settled back in really well.
Phonics Screening
We've been doing lots of phonics practice this week as the phonic screening testing starts on Monday 10th June. The children are as prepared for it as they can be. Thank you for all of your support with it at home.
Reading Challenge
Please remember that the children need to have 40 reads by the 12th July to take part in our outdoor ice-cream afternoon. They really need you help with this, so please keep up with the reading at home through the week.
Project Work
We've moved on to looking at real life Superheroes in our project work this week and it was great to be able to have the fire brigade visit school. The children were so excited by it all and behaved amazingly for our visitors, despite having to wait a while as the pump (which is what a fire engine is called!) had been on its way to us and had then been diverted for a 999 call. The fire fighters were great with the children and they all got to have a sit in the pump and were then allowed to squirt water through the hose. A few of the teacher's cars were a bit cleaner by the end of the day.
Summer Term Week 4 - 17th May
TT Rock Stars
Well done to Korby Cuthbert who topped our Class Leader Board for this week. Let's see who's going to get the prize for next week. Keep up the good work.
Reading Challenge
It was our best week ever this week and we had so many of the children as a 'green' reader. Well done children and thank you parents for your support with this. We are well on the way to getting lots of children enjoying the ice-cream treat at the end of the next term.
PE activities
We had some sports coaches visit school this week and set up lots of different and fun activities for the children. They worked really hard and there were lots of pink faces by the end of the session. We've got our sports festival at Cleethorpes Leisure Centre next week to show off some of the skills we have learnt. Look out for those photos on the website next week.
Summer Term Week 3 - 10th May
TT Rock Stars
Well done to Harper Mason who was at the top of the Leader board for this week with nearly 3,000. Well done Harper and let's see if anyone can catch her up.
Reading Challenge
Fantastic on Friday as most of the class had their reading books in school and had read them at home. This is great news. Well Done everybody. Please remember that for all children reading 40 times or more, they will be invited to take part in a fun afternoon with special treat of ice-cream.
Project Work
The children have been learning about the countries of the UK this week and naming the capital cities.
Phonics Work
Thank you to all of those who supported the children with their phonics 'dot and dash' homework. The children will be coming home with different sheets on a regular basis over the next few weeks and we would really appreciate your continued support with this. Please ask if you have any questions.
Summer Term Week 2 - 3rd May
TT Rock Stars
We had a great launch for our TT Rock stars website on Monday and the children had a great time working on the I-pads to set up their starter scores.
The children all came home with their log in details and they can now access the website at home. There will be a leader board in the main atrium and prizes will be awarded each week for children improving their scores or gaining the most points in a week.
It's great to see that some children have been accessing the website already.
Thank you for your support with this. I wonder who's going to get the prizes for this week...
Attendance
Please continue to support your child to be in school every day and on time. It really does make a great bonus to a child's education.
Reading Challenge
The reading challenge for this term has been announced and it caused lots of excitement with the children.........
40 reads before 12th July will mean that the children will enjoy a fun afternoon outside in the sunshine with the extra special treat of ice-cream.
That's definitely worth putting in that extra bit of effort. Please support your child at home with this. Children are expected to read at least four times in a week and are rewarded with a special sticker in our Celebration assembly if they have read five times or more. Let's see if we can get the whole class out on the field enjoying ice-cream. That would be fantastic.
Summer Term Week 1 - 22nd April 2019
A big Welcome back to you all after the holidays and it's great to see you all after the break.
Project Launch Day
The children all looked fantastic in their Superhero costumes and what a great way to launch our new project 'Superheroes'. We did some writing in the morning about our superheroes and then we had a fantastic time in the outdoor classroom looking for superhero clues. We've got some very exciting weeks planned and we've got some surprise visitors coming into school, so look out for this in the coming weeks....
Attendance
WE DID IT!!!
100% attendance
Fantastic Well Done Class 1 and a big THANK YOU to parents for your support with this.
Our Superheroes
We had a lovely afternoon on Friday being very creative. We thought about a new superhero and used lots of different materials to create our own. Have a look at the fabulous designs we created.
Week 6 - A few photos from our very busy last week in school
A massive WELL DONE to all of the children who read more than 40 times through the term and we had a lovely time on our Easter Egg hunt. The weather was beautiful and we had to search really hard to find the eggs. 
We also had great fun writing our own stories about the Enchanted Woodland and we made them into book and shared our stories with the children in the Nursery classroom. They loved listening to the stories and looking at the amazing illustrations.
The weather was kind to us again as we did our Eater Bonnet parade around the streets. It was fantastic to see so many friends and family supporting the children and a lovely time was had by all. Thank you to all of you who supported the children with the amazing bonnet creations. Well done to Korby Cuthbert for being chosen as the winning design.
Reminders...
Please remember that the children need to dress up on Wednesday 24th April as their favourite Superhero to introduce our new project 'Superheroes'. We will be having a fun day with a superhero treasure hunt and doing some superhero crafts.
Phonics Screening Meeting
Thursday 25th April 2.30pm
Please join us to find out all about the Phonics Screening, what it is and how you could help your child at home.
Have a wonderful Easter and Class 1, try not to eat too many Easter eggs all at once!! We'll see you all safe and sound after the holidays and I'm looking forward to finding out what you've been up to. Don't forget that there will be prizes for any children who have completed their alien and real words phonics sheet.
Week 5 - 25th March
This week in our English lessons, we've been thinking about characters and settings and we've thought of some amazing adjectives to describe these. Next week, we're writing our own story book and sharing it with the children in the Nursery class. We hope they'll love listening to our stories about the magic woodland. We'll take some photos so keep a look out for these...
In Maths this week, we've been starting to think about multiplying and we now know all about doubling and counting in equal groups. If you do want to work on anything over the weekend with your child, then counting in groups of 2, 5 and 10 would be fantastic.
Project work
On Wednesday afternoon the Year 1 children went to the outdoor classroom and were given a piece of clay to create their woodland character for their story. The children were able to use lots of natural objects that they found on the floor to make their characters more realistic. We had a great time hunting around and we created some fabulous models. What a great start for our story writing.
Wednesday 24th April, 2019
We will be introducing our children to their new project for the Summer Term and the children will be asked to come in to school dressed as a Superhero. If you Google 'handmade superhero costumes', there are some great and easy ideas to copy.
Reading Challenge
The Easter Egg Hunt will take place next week for those children who have read more than 40 times this term. We have 15 children taking part so that is really great news. Look out for some pictures next week...
Week 4 -18th March
We've been busy watching our bean seeds growing this week. There are lots of leaves starting to poke out of the seed and the children have enjoyed labeling the parts of a flowering plant. We've done another 'HOT TASK' this week and the children have written their own set of instructions about planting their seed. Fantastic improvements.
Attendance
We've had a few children off this week but we hope all of the children are feeling much better and we'll have a better week next week.
Reading Challenge
Some of the children have already reached the 40 reads needed to take part in the Easter Egg Hunt, but please continue to read with you child until the end of term. We will still be giving out our special 'Fab Five' reading stickers in assembly on Friday. Thank you for your help with this.
Week 3 - 11th March
What an absolutely fantastic week and what amazing things we've had going on this week.
Olympic Athlete visit
Our week started with a visit from Olympic athlete, Joe Roebuck, and the children listened really well in assembly as he told his story and how he continued to work hard when he didn't win all of his races. In the afternoon, Joe did a sports workout with the children and their were a few red faces as he put them through their paces. The children thought it was fabulous and their behaviour as always was exceptional. 
Parent Share afternoon
An enormous thank you and what a really great turn out for our parent share afternoon. The idea to having the afternoons in school is to allow parents to see a little of what we do in our classrooms. The children have been looking at the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy and with your help, you helped them to create some fantastic sculptures in the style of Andy Goldsworthy and they thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon in the sunshine. We really hope that you all did too and again thank you from all of us for your continued support in everything that we do.
Red Nose Day
A school fashion show!!! Mrs Green and Mrs Curtiss had taken some children to do some shopping for outfits. The first job on Friday morning was to take my chosen fashion designers, Miss Lilah Brett and Mr Euan Newton-Walker, to choose my outfit for the fashion show. Well, within a couple of minutes, there was a lot of bling involved, a lovely straw hat, a black dress and a gorgeous pink cardigan!!
Next job, was to turn my fashion designers into make-up artists. Green eye shadow on one side, pink on the other, lots of blue under my eyes, a number six and a house on one cheek and a triangle on the other. Very glamorous indeed!!
The children then spent the morning making their own outfits from a bin liner and adding loads of decorations to it.
We even managed to make some Red nose biscuits and wrote about it for our English work. The best part was definitely eating the biscuits.
The day came to an end with the staff fashion show, parading along the catwalk in our outfits and make up. Photos and videos of this are on the Grimsby Telegraph website. What a brilliant and fun day for the school and a great way to raise money for a fantastic cause. Thank you again for your support with this.
Week 2 - 4th March
Another fantastic week in Class 1 and yet another really busy week.
Maths
We've been thinking about number patterns this week and the children have been thinking about counting in groups of 10 and 2. Any help with this at home would be great, even if the children are just counting the groups of 2 (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20) and 10 (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100). Thank you for this.
Reading Challenge
I think this was our best week ever for having children on 'green'. Please remember that the date for the Easter egg Hunt is getting closer (29th March)and the children will need their 40 reads to take part in this. Please continue to read with your child at home, it really is a great thing to do.
World Book Day
Thank you to you all for dressing up as Julia Donaldson characters and helping us to celebrate books. The children looked amazing in their costumes and they really enjoyed making the fox from the Gruffalo story. The concentration on the faces when they were making the paper dolls was brilliant. They were so desperate to keep their dolls together. Please remember to use the voucher that will allow the children to claim their free book. 
Parent Share
Afternoon
Please remember that it is our parent share afternoon on Wednesday where we will be going out to the Outdoor classroom and we will be creating some sculptures in the style of Andy Goldsworthy. Andy Goldsworthy creates sculptures using only natural materials. We set up the Out door classroom as an art gallery and enjoyed talking about the sculptures that he has created. We can't wait for you to help us create some of our own. Please dress up warm and it may be a little muddy so wellies may be the best footwear.
Week 1 25th February
What a fantastic start to our new term with our trip to the Classroom in the Woods to launch our project 'Enchanted Woodland'. The weather was gorgeous and the children were amazing. There were lots of 'WOW' moments through the day. Mr Dawson and Grace, who supported us through the day, thought the children were superb. A real credit to our school. We hope you'll enjoy looking through the photos to share the day with us.
We went on a walk around the woods first to look at signs of nature. Lovely to see a small herd of deer so close to us. We did a bit of pond dipping.
We spent the afternoon building a fairy house, creating woodland people and making a fairy catcher. A fantastic day for us all and a great start to our learning.
Attendance
I think this was our best week ever and we were so close to having 100% attendance for the whole week. Thank you for supporting your children with this. One of these weeks, we WILL win the trophy full of sweets!!!
Reading Challenge
Just a polite reminder that the reading challenge for this term will end on the 29th March and the children need to have 40 reads by then so they can take part in the Easter Egg Hunt. That's definitely worth reading for.
World Book day - Thursday 7th March
We've given the children the idea of Julia Donaldson books as ideas to dress up and the activities that we will do through the day will be linked to Julia Donaldson's stories. Please speak to the children to see what they come up with, but if you are struggling for some simple ideas, here are some suggestions.
Stickman
Room on the Broom (there are animals in the story too - cat, black bird, frog)
Zog
The Highway Rat
Hope these give you a few ideas. There are also:
The Scarecrow's Wedding
The Whale and the Snail
Charlie Cook's favourite book
A squash and a Squeeze - an old lady with lots of animals
The Singing Mermaid
The Rhyming Rabbit
Week 5 - 4th February
Attendance
Come on Class 1, let's have a great big push to see if we can win the attendance trophy before the holidays. We do have a number of children in the class who have 100% attendance since September. This is a fantastic achievement so well done to those children. Let's have the best attendance ever for this last week of school before half term ...
Reading Challenge
I do keep reminding the children about the Easter Egg Hunt for those children who have read more than 40 times before the end of term. (29th March will be the last day for counting). The children are making great progress with their reading and this is thanks to your support from home. We do give out lots of stickers for Fab Five readers in our weekly assemblies and dojos are awarded for each read a child does in a week so lots of encouragement and rewards.
Parent Afternoon and End of Project Exhibition
Our class parent afternoon will be on Wednesday 13th February from 2pm. Please join your child to create their own rocket ship. These will then be launched into space on our end of project afternoon on Friday 15th February at 2.30pm. We look forward to seeing lots of you there. The children are very excited and have thought of some great ideas for rocket designs.
Maths work
Last week the children were investigating halves of shapes in our maths work. This week started off by cutting a cake into quarters and knowing that each part has to be equal. The children did all get to eat a quarter cake afterwards which was definitely worth working for!!
ICT
We've also been thinking about computers and how they follow instructions. We had a cold but lovely afternoon outside trying to pretend that our friend was a robot and giving them instructions to get to certain places in the outdoor area and in the playground. We had to really think about our left and right to make sure the robots went in the right direction.
Week 4 28th January
Bagel Breakfast
The children have really enjoyed having bagels for their breakfast and what a great start to the day.
Maths Learning
We've been thinking about making halves of shapes in our maths sessions this week and the children have enjoyed folding pieces of paper to make halves. There has been some great investigating going on when they had to think about whether they could make a half of the paper in any other way. The children worked really well, working together and trying out other children's suggestions.
Yuri Gagarin
We've been learning about missions into Space this week and the children have been really interested in the life of Yuri Gagarin. We were even able to educate one of the other adults in school with all of the information we had found out. Ask them what they know ?
It's Neil Armstrong next week...
Week 3 - 21st January
Phonic Lesson Observations
Thank you to all of those parents who attended our phonic lessons on Monday and Tuesday. The children worked really hard and we hope it gave you a good idea about what the children are doing. If you do have any questions about what you saw please ask. Thank you again for your time.
Reading Challenge
The children have come back after Christmas and are doing really well with the weekly home reading challenge. We had loads of 'green' readers (those children who have read four times or more in the week) again this week. Please continue to support your children with this. They are very proud of themselves when they are a green reader and this couldn't be done without your help. Please remember that children reading more than 40 times to Easter will be able to take part in our Easter Egg Hunt!!! Now that is really something to get reading for!!
Attendance
Another gold star on the door for our attendance this week and I think this is the closest we've come to winning the attendance trophy. We came second......
Let's keep trying. We will get there one week.
Writing
The children work really hard in class and we are always introducing new things to them. In the last couple of weeks, the children have had a go at their first cold and hot task in writing. We were wanting the children to write their own story so to start this off we just asked them to write a story with no support at all (the cold task). We then do lots of work in our lessons about what would make a good story and the things that we need to think about. After the two weeks we then ask the children to again write a story on their own, but this time to use the things we have taught ( the hot task). Class 1 have made me the proudest teacher ever this week when I looked at their new pieces of work. The progress that they have made in the two weeks is fantastic. Please ask if you would like to have a look at the work that your child has produced and the development in such a short time. You will be as proud as I am.
Bagel Breakfast
Please don't forget our Bagel breakfast starting Monday 28th in the playground from 8.30-8.40. Come along and the children can help themselves to a fresh bagel for breakfast. The children were very excited when I mentioned it to them in class the other day so I'm sure there will be lots of happy faces on Monday morning.
Week 2 14th January
Reading
Please can I say a great big THANK YOU to all of the parents who have supported their children with reading over this week. We have had the best read ever and most of the children are green readers (children who have read four times) or FAB FIVERS and will receive their special sticker in assembly. It would be great if this could be continued and we keep our New Year's resolution to Mrs Green (We promised that we would have more green readers each week). Let's keep it going.....
Moon Zoom!
We had a surprise on Thursday when our alien sent us an email and sent us some photos of what he has been up to. We now know that he's called Zane and he came down to Earth with his friend Ziggy. We're waiting for him to be in touch again...
Science Work
We've been really busy investigating materials this week and trying to identify what different things are made from.
Phonics Workshops
Please remember our phonic sessions on Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd 10.15-10.45 am. Parents are welcome to come and watch a phonics session being delivered by teaching staff with a follow up session after school on Tuesday 22nd (3.15pm in the Community Room) for any questions you may have. Hope you can join us.
Week 1 - 7th January
Welcome back and a Happy New Year to all our children, parents and families.
What a great start we've had to our new term.
Attendance
We've already had a gold star for our first week back so fantastic news for this and let's keep it going. The children were very excited to see Mrs Curtiss sticking it to the door.
Reading
Mrs Green has asked each of the classes to make a new year resolution and after we had a chat as a class, the children wanted to concentrate on our weekly reading challenge and try to get more green readers each week. It was a great start to the challenge and our promise to Mrs Green. The children also know that if they have 40 reads by 29th March, they will take part in our Easter Egg challenge. That's definitely something to aim for and I'm going to make sure I get my weekly reads too!!
Moon Zoom!!!!
What a fantastic launch to our new project with the children being visited by an alien. I can't believe that of all the places on the Earth, he managed to crash land his space craft in our classroom. We've got some very exciting things to find out about him.
The alien left us lots of things that he'd brought down from space with him and the children had a great time investigating the different materials.
Keep a look out for our alien. You never know where he might turn up.
Homework
Our homework ideas sheet for this half term has been sent home. Please have a look at and see which activities you would like to do with your children. It would be great if you could complete them and we'll display them in the classroom. Thank you for your help with this as always.
Week 15 - 17th December
Another very busy week in Class and some great photos to share with you this week.
Christmas Concert
A massive 'Well Done' to all of the children who sang their hearts out at the concert. Thank you to all of the parents and friends who supported the children and praised them for their hard work.
They looked absolutely amazing in their festive jumpers and dresses.
Also a mention for Rhea, Euan and Maddison (not pictured), but who also looked amazing.
Friday was a special day for us too as we celebrated the children who had achieved 100% attendance through the week and were able to choose a lovely Christmas treat. As you can see from the photo, the treats were enjoyed by all!! Also again a mention for Rhea, Euan and Maddison who also achieved this.
The last of the special treats for this week was for the children who had read more than fifty times since September. They enjoyed a lovely afternoon watching Gnome Alone. A super treat for doing all their reading. Thank you to all of the adults at home who have supported the children as this could not have been achieved without your help. Another mention again for Euan and Rhea who also achieved their fifty or more reads. Well done everyone.
The children have had an amazing term and they've worked very hard. We've got lots of exciting things planned for after the holidays and the introduction of the new project is really going to go off with a bang!!!.
Thank you again for all of your support over the last term and we wish the children and all of their families a very Happy Christmas and we look forward to seeing the children back in school on Tuesday 8th January, 2019.
Week 14 - 10th December
Another busy week in Class 1...
Thank you to all of the adults who supported us at our exhibition afternoon on Wednesday. It was fantastic to see such a great turn out. The children enjoyed putting the finishing touches to their memory boxes with you and what a super thing to look back on as they get older.
Thank you as well to all who supported us with the Christmas Fair. It was a lovely atmosphere and it was again great to see so many people attending despite the awful weather.
I had a lovely lunch on Friday and we started to get even more into the Christmas spirit as I joined the children to share Christmas lunch with them. They loved the crackers and party hats and the food was delicious and it was such an exciting time.
Great news as well this for all of the children who have 100% attendance this week. (Missing from the photo but still a great big Well Done to Euan and Rhea.) A special Christmas treat! Well done to them all and let's try to get even more for next week...
Reminder....
Please remember that it's our Christmas Concerts this week (Tuesday and Wednesday) and it would be lovely if you could join us to celebrate with us.
Week 13- 3rd December
Parent Project afternoon
Please remember that we have our Memory box project exhibition this Wednesday 5th December at 2.30 pm. Please join us to help your child put the finishing touches to the memory boxes. They've worked really hard this week making the boxes look so beautiful.
This week's final home work for the project box is to draw round a hand and a foot. These can then go in the box and the children can remember small they used to be. Thank you for all of your support with the things that have been brought in.
Reading Challenge
We've had a bit of a slide with our home reading challenge and we've only got a few children who will get reading stickers this week and we'd love you to help us to get back on track again. There's a bit of a competition going on between the Year 1 and Year 2 classes as to who can get the most stickers each week and we'd love to out do them this week.
As well as the reading stickers, the children are also working towards having 50 reads from September to Christmas. This will mean that they will have the chance to be a part of an extra special treat which will definitely be worth working for....
Thank you again for your support with this, it really is appreciated.
Christmas Concerts
The children are working really hard and it's all coming together beautifully. The songs sound lovely and the children sing them really well. Please remember that we would like to have all Christmas jumpers/dresses in school for Wednesday 5th December. Thank you for your support with this. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Christmas Fayre
Please come and support us with our Christmas Fayre on Wednesday 5th December from 3.15pm. Lots of games to be a part of and lots of craft things to buy. Look out for me and Mrs Wright selling raffle tickets and hopefully you'll get some lucky numbers.
Week 12 - 26th November, 2018
Thank you to all parents who are supporting us with the homework for the memory boxes. We're getting quite a collection of things now. We've started to decorate our memory boxes in school. They already look very special.
Please remember our special parent event to finish the memory boxes on Wednesday 5th December.
Christmas Concert
We're starting to learn our song words for our Christmas Concert 'Christmas Counts'. We would like to ask that all children have either a Christmas jumper/dress or clothes in Christmassy colours (red, green, sparkly). A letter will be going out to all parents on Monday. Thank you for your help with this.
Week 11 - 19th November
Attendance
We had over 98% attendance again this week so another gold star again for us. Great work. The children were again very excited as they watched Mrs Curtiss stick the gold star to the class room door. Let's keep trying for that 100%.
Homework
Thank you to those children who brought in their toys to be photographed. There is still plenty of time in you've not remembered yet. This week's homework is all about family celebrations...write about it, draw it, email a photo to us (pmountain@woodlands.academy), bring in a photo or maybe a card from the celebration. We're building up our memories to go in our memory boxes. Thank you for your help with this.
Project Work
We were looking at features of our local environment this week and we went for a walk around our local area. It was a beautiful but cool afternoon and the children spotted lots of things as we walked round. Behaviour as usual was fantastic.
We've got a busy week ahead of us this week as we'll be designing and making our memory boxes. Please remember that we would love you to join us on Wednesday 5th December to put all of our memories into the boxes and place them on our special display.
Week 10 - 12th November 2018
Attendance
Another great week for attendance with 98%. Well done to Class 1 and let's keep it going. We will win the trophy one week!
School Council
The children voted last week for their representative from our class. The person who received the most votes was Tillie Martin, with Harper Mason as her deputy. They received badges to wear with pride. We look forward to hearing the news from the school council meetings.
Our Special visitors...
We had some very special visitors in school this week.....my mum and dad.
The children asked them some amazing questions and found out lots about my childhood. The children were so interested and keen to find out. Another very proud teacher moment.
Homework
Thank you to all of those children who are completing their homework for the memory box. I can imagine it was really hard work last week, having to eat a packet of sweets!!!
For homework this week, please can the children bring in their favourite toy which we will take a photo of and send home again. The toy will not need to stay in school. Thank you.
Remembrance Day
The children have created some beautiful poppies using their hand prints and these are to go on display in the atrium. We also made poppies by sticking love heart shapes together and we thought about why we were making the poppies. We will be joining the school with a two minute silence at 11am on Monday 12th November.
Plans for the week...
On Wednesday, we will be going for a walk around our local area and identifying some of the features of the local environment. We will then be creating maps from what we have seen. Let's hope that the weather will be kind to us.
Week 9 - 5th November, 2018
The children have all settled in well after their week at home and we managed to get a gold star for attendance this week so the children were excited about that.
Mrs Green spoke to the children in assembly about the school council and asked for a representative from each class. Lots of children put their names forward and we had a class vote on Friday. We will let you know the results this week.
Thank you to all who attended for our project launch family tea party last Thursday. It was great to see so many people there. Thank you as well for the information that you provided about your children. It will be very useful in the coming weeks. The children worked really hard getting the tea party ready.........
and it was a great success.
Ask the children about our special visitors for this week.....
Reading Challenge
We've got a number of children on our green reading chart which means that they have read four times a week but we would love to see more children getting their 'Fab Fiver' stickers for five, six and seven reads in the week. Thank you for your help with this.
Homework
Please remember that the children needed to either draw a picture of their family, provide a photo or email a photo into school for last weeks homework.
This week, all the children need to do is collect a wrapper from their favourite sweet or chocolate bar and an empty packet from their favourite crisps and bring them into school. All of the items that we are asking for will go in the children's special memory which we will create at the end of the project.
Thank you again for your help with this.
Week 8 29th October 2018
Our new project for this half term is 'Memory box' and we will be thinking all about our families and special times. We will be finding out about what we could do as a baby and what we can do now. Listen out for our special visitors who will tell you all about Mrs Mountain as she grew up. We will be thinking about how toys have changed and looking at things in the local environment.
Please look out for the special invites from the children for our 'Family tea party' on Thursday 1st November at 2.30 pm.
Week 7 15th October 2018
Spellings for this week. To be tested for Friday 19th October
five
nine
kite
home
note
are
Please keep the homework sheets at home to practice before Friday. Thank you.
Christmas Cards
The children have come home this week with the Christmas cards that they have created in school. Please complete the order form and return to school if you would like to buy some of these. The cards are amazing and the children worked really hard to create them and how wonderful would they be to send out to friends and relations.
Our Class Share Time
This afternoon (Tuesday) we invited the parents in to join us to see what the children have been doing over this half term. It was lovely to see many parents attending and the children finished the afternoon with some songs and some dancing. Thank you to those parents who shared it with us.
Penny Wars
What a great time the children are having with their penny war jars. The children have found it really funny and they're definitely getting into the competitive spirit. It's certainly been making us laugh as the children are sneaking into other classes and putting silver coins in the jars. Thank you to all who are supporting us with this. What a fantastic idea.
We're moving on to a new project after the half term holidays. We're having a special event on Thursday 1st November and we'd love for you to attend. The children will be writing a special invitation for you after the holidays so keep a look out for that.
Thank you again for all of your support over the last few weeks and we're so proud of how the children have settled into their Year One class and we're looking forward to lots more exciting things after the holidays.
Week 6 8th October, 2018
Class 1 were all awarded their official zookeeper badges last week and they wrote some fantastic instructions about being a zookeeper. I was so proud of the work the children produced.
We found out about what our pets liked to eat and we went over to the wildlife area to see if we could find our animals a suitable home.
We had some great smiles for our photographer on Friday and it will be lovely to see the final photographs.
Thank you to all of the parents who attended for parent's evening. It was great to let you know how well the children have settled into their Year 1 class.
Reading Challenge
I was really pleased with the amount of children who were 'green' readers this week. This means that they have read four or more times each week. Please continue to do this as it is really beneficial for the children to be reading on a regular basis. Thank you for your support with this.
Spellings for this week
lay
play
enjoy
take
case
says
These will be tested on Friday 12th October. Thank you.
Week 5 1st October 2018
What another fantastic week we've had in Class 1. Something strange happened in the classroom and a bottle of magic dust appeared. It turned us all into zookeepers so we could find out about the jobs that a zookeeper has to do in their day.
The children were amazing zookeepers although I was a bit worried when lots of them said that their best job of the day was cleaning up animal poo!!
We're going to be looking at the writing a list of instructions this week. We might see if other children in the school want to take it on as a job when they've read what they have to do!!
Reading challenge
Thank you to all of you who have helped your children to be 'green' readers and an extra thank you to those children who were a 'fab fiver'. It is really important for the children to be reading regularly at home and we'd love to see more children becoming 'green' readers each week.
Attendance
The children are still desperate to have their hands on the attendance trophy (well probably more the sweets that are in it!) so please may I remind about how important it is to have children in school and at the correct time. Classroom doors are now open in a morning from 8.40am. Thank you for your help with this.
Weekly spellings
sail
pain
coin
foil
these
today
Please complete the sheet that comes home with the children each Monday and then keep the sheet at home to have a go through the week. The children will have a fun spelling test on Fridays. Thank you again for your help with this.
Week 4 24th September, 2018
What a fantastic and busy week we had last week. We went over to the wildlife area to look for butterflies and then we wrote all about it. We've been looking at 1 more and 1 less in our maths. We've been looking at a map of the world and finding out which continents different animals come from. We did some great singing in music and I do apologise if the children came home singing Hey you!. It was so catchy.
Spellings
Children are now going to be having a little spelling test on a Friday. They will bring home a sheet with their weekly spellings on which will allow them to practice their spellings by copying the words and then covering them over to check. Please have a go at these with your children through the week.
Spellings for this Friday 28th September are:
say
hay
joy
came
bake
to
Reading
Please continue to read with your children at home. We'd love for everybody to read four times a week and be a 'green' reader. If your child reads 5 or more times then they will be a 'Fab Fiver' and will receive a special sticker in assembly.
Attendance
The children are desperate to win the enormous attendance trophy and let's see if we can go for it this week.
Thank you for your support with all of the above. Your support is always greatly appreciated.
Welcome to Class 1!
A very big welcome to Class 1 and Mrs Mountain and what an exciting term we've got ahead of us.
Our project for this half term is 'Paws, Claws and Whiskers'. We're going to be learning all about different animals, where they live and what they eat.
We started our project with a trip to The Jungle Zoo in Cleethorpes where all of the children had a fantastic day and were very well behaved.
We listened to the zookeeper telling us about the different animals. We all thought the meerkats were rather cute, the tortoise was enormous, the monkeys were very naughty and we weren't too sure about stroking the snake!
Reading Challenge
Children need to be reading at home at least four times per week. Stickers will be awarded in assembly for those children reading four times or more (but only one read a day will be allowed) and a 'dojo' will be awarded for each read through the week. Please encourage your child with this. Thank you
Weekly spellings - to be practised for Fridays each week
The children will come home with a Look, Cover, Write, Check sheet which we would love you to practise with them through the week. Children will then have an activity sheet to complete in class on a Friday.
Week 1 (17th September)
rain
laid
oil
boil
even
a
PE days
Our PE days are Mondays and Tuesdays so children will need to have their full kit in school for these days (t-shirt, shorts and PE shoes). Can we please ask that all earrings are removed before school. Thank you.