Year 1 - Monday's Home Learning - Langstone Infant Academy

Year 1 Home learning for Monday 11th May

Subject focus		What we need to learn:	How we might learn it:
English	Reading	Read aloud accurately books that are consistent with their developing phonic knowledge and that do not require them to use other strategies to work out words	Choose a book you are familiar with and are able to read yourself. Read it to your grown up, trying your best to read words on sight, instead of sounding them out. If you do need to use a strategy to help decode a word, make sure you reread the sentence for fluency.
English	Writing	Understand which letters belong to which handwriting ‘families’.	This week we are going to be thinking about our handwriting. We all know that to do our best handwriting we need to be sitting sensible, holding our pencil correctly and holding our paper with our other hand. Each letter belongs to a ‘Handwriting family’. Each letter in each family is formed in a similar way. Today’s family is the ‘Curly Caterpillar Family’.You will need a piece of paper (lined will be best). Down the side of your page write the letters c, a, o, q, g, d, e, s, f. Remember how we form our letters – see the Curly Caterpillar poster below to help remind you. Next to each letter you have written write a word that starts with that letter. Remembering to form your letters carefully, join your letters (when it is sensible to do so) and to read what you’ve written to check it says what you wanted it to. e.g. a ant ext: Can you put your word into a sentence? e.g. The ant was carrying a leaf. Remember this about handwriting – make it as neat as possible and take your time!
Maths		Count to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number	Warm up: Practise counting forwards and backwards from any number up to 100. You can do this by yourself. If you have a brother or sister you could play counting tennis e.g you: 34, sibling: 35, you: 36, sibling: 37 etc Provide children either with missing number sequences or missing number squares (Please see the bottom of the document for ideas). Children then use their counting knowledge to fill in the missing numbers. E.g. A sequence could be: 27, 28, 29, __, 31, __, 33, 34 Extension activity – you could make your own missing number square puzzles. Education City Maths Year 1 Activities – ‘Moo-vin on up’, ‘Mrs Cow’s milk’, ‘Cow countdown’ and ‘Silly streets’.
Other: Science		To identify and name a variety of common animals. To describe and compare the structure of animals.	Go on an animal hunt in the garden (or use pictures hidden around the house). How many different animals can you see? You may need to pick up stones, look up in the sky or dig in the soil so make sure you wash hands afterwards. Are there some animals that you can hear but can’t see? Do you have pets that visit your garden? Discussion: Talk about the different animals that visit our gardens and what they are called. Look at their structure and appearance – what helps us to recognise them? Where can we find different animals in the garden and when do they visit? Activity: Choose your favourite animal from those that visit your garden. Draw a picture of it and write 2 or 3 factual sentences to describe it. Picture cards available below for printing or reference.