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Year 1 – Wednesday’s Home Learning

Year 1 – Wednesday’s Home Learning

Year 1 Home learning for Wednesday 8th July – Seasons and Weather Theme

Subject focus What we need to learn: How we might learn it:
English  Reading To discuss word meanings and to understand why/how some words are used for effect.

Share the story of Elmer’s Weather.  If you don’t have this book it can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuvooLLGJms

In the story the author uses these words: ‘splish, splash splosh, flash, bang, crash’.

Write out the words and ask your child to read them.  Encourage them to think about when and why the author uses these word choices.  Explain that they are words that imitate a sound (known as onomatopoeia).

Can they think of other words that can be used to imitate sounds? Make a list.

Writing Write from memory simple sentences dictated by a grown up that include words using the GPCs and common exception words taught so far.

Today we are going to be doing something called ‘dictation’. This is when we listen carefully to a sentence someone tells us and then write it out again. Remember each sentence starts with a capital letter and finishes with a full stop. The grown up cannot tell you the spellings, have your best try at listening to the sounds in the word as you write it out. 

Adult to read these sentences for children:

  • Today it was raining and I got very wet.
  • I jumped in a puddle and it splashed my legs.
  • The sun is very hot so I need to put on my hat. 

When you have written it, check it with your grown up and practise any words you need to.

Maths

To consolidate learning and show understanding of number.

This year you have worked so hard during maths activities at school and also while you’ve been learning at home. This week we are going to look at a mixture of skills, activities and challenges, to see what you can do. Are you ready for the challenge?

1) Write three different subtraction calculations which all start with 10. Get 10 cubes or lego pieces to help, put them into one pile (pile 1), take some out and make a second pile with them (pile 2). Count how many are in pile 2, then the answer (how many are left) is in pile 1.

a) 10 – ____ = ____        b) 10 – ____ = ____      c) 10 – ____ = ____

2) Below you will find a maths mat. If you can print it, you can fill in the answers. If you don’t print it, write your answers on paper.

Don’t forget to send a picture of your finished work to your class teacher! The answers to yesterday’s challenge are also below.

3) If you want to, have a look at a maths activity on Education City.

Other Science Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons.

Can you remember how many seasons there are? Can you remember their names?

What is the weather usually like in each of the seasons?

What clothes might you wear in Spring or Summer or Autumn or Winter?

Choose two of the seasons and then using the templates at the bottom of this document dress the two people in appropriate clothes for the season you have chosen. You might want to draw and colour the clothes or you might want to make some clothes using paper or other materials and stick them on. E.g. Winter – draw or make a woolly bobble hat.

Remember to email your child’s class teacher to let them know how you’ve got on. We’d love to see examples of what you’ve been up to. 

Miss Poppleton – class4@langstone-inf.portsmouth.sch.uk

Miss Owen – class5@langstone-inf.portsmouth.sch.uk

Mrs Watson – class6@langstone-inf.portsmouth.sch.uk 

               

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