Hello Year 1 (or should we say Year 2!!),

Here are some suggestions of websites and other ideas to keep some learning going over the summer. 

Plus don't forget the 'Silly Squad' Summer Reading Challenge for 2020!

Have a really lovely summer with lots of adventures and we will see you in September.

P.S.  Don't forget to come and say hello!

With very best wishes from everyone in Year One. 

BBCBitesize Go to Learn and Revise for lots of games and mini lessons revising key skills to get ready for Year 2

Topmarks Maths Interactive Games https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Oxford Owl for Home - Great for reading, phonics  and maths. home.oxfordowl.co.uk  

Daily Maths

We will add the daily Whiterose activity sheets for the following week, as soon as they become available.   Whiterose: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

Trek to Tokyo!

This message is from our local School Games Organiser. It aims to encourage our school children to take part in at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day over the summer holidays. 'To commemorate the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which have been postponed until 2021, Hampshire SGOs would like to challenge families to keep active by engaging in the ‘Trek to Tokyo’. This is a 6-week challenge for the summer holidays, asking pupils to complete daily physical activities and creative challenges throughout the week. Pupils can earn miles for each activity completed and record daily miles on a chart as they Trek towards Tokyo. Each week, a new booklet can be downloaded from the Energise Me website www.energiseme.org. Bronze, Silver and Gold Certificates will be awarded when you reach certain milestones en route! Please, please, please help the Hampshire SGO network by engaging as many pupil as possible, and by actively promoting this initiative to your school community. We look forward to continuing this journey with you all. Below is the link to the launch video to have a look at. https://youtu.be/UsHIBSXxjss

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From now on we are changing the format of weekly suggestions, to hopefully make it a little clearer and so that there is only minimal printing/downloading required. 

Free access to educational websites- (which will also help develop computing skills!)

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/Enter code- UKTWINKLHELPS Twinkl contains is a huge array of resources including mindfulness colouring; handwriting practise; reading activities; wordsearches and games…

See below for some printables.... For the interactive pack (the last document), you just click the links to be taken directly to the activities.

No need to complete/print them all, just select ones that you feel will be most relevant for your child, and you can always jot answers down, to save paper!

http://www.ictgames.co.uk/ is always free and has a variety of appealing games eg.

• Maths: Place value- shark numbers; arrow cards; lifeguards; counting caterpillar

Addition/subtraction- ten frame; part-part-whole (numbers to 20); 100 hunt (10 less/more); sum scales (to 20); save the whale (number bonds to 10); funky mummy; archery doubles. There are also other games relating to other areas eg. multiplication/division; fractions; measurement and shape

• Phonics/writing: The Dinosaur’s eggs; LCWC; Tell a T-Rex; phonics finder; writing runway; writing repeater; sentence substitute; writing runway

Phonics- https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/  Free access code- Username: march20   p/w: home     Select ‘interactive resources’

Children can play games to recap their phase 2, 3 and 5 sounds and tricky words.

For a challenge, they could have a go at some of the phase 5b and 5c activities which covers alternative pronunciations and alternative spelling patterns.

At the bottom of the page there are also some printable resource sheets.

Reading- As well as the reading books being sent home, parents can sign up to view free ebooks on the Oxford Owl website. This gives you access to books and you can sort by the colour band you child is on. You can access this site by following this link: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/read-with-oxford/ 

The author Oliver Jeffers is sharing one of his stories each day at 6pm with a question and answer session on Instagram. Alternatively, videos of him reading are being added to his website each day. The children will be familiar with many of his books!

https://www.oliverjeffers.com/books#/abookaday/

There are also printable activities/crafts to be found at:

http://www.oliverjeffersworld.com/#home 

Science- Try and look in the garden or around the house as some flowers. Can you draw a picture of it and write the name?  Use your tree dials to see if you can identify the trees around where you live.

Watch this youtube video and label the parts of the plant. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLhTgTwbYMI

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1science.html A nice simulation. 

Reading

Your child will read on a 1:1 basis with a member of staff at least twice per week. At this time, if they are ready, they will be able to exchange their book.

In addition, they will have a weekly 'guided group reading' session and will have the opportunity to visit the library (Monday- 1M and Friday- 1RB) where they will be able to return their current book and then select/scan out a new one. 

Key word recognition- your child will also start to bring home a red 'Key word reading book' (once we have updated our records and know which words they need to work on). This will contain a small number of words, specifically for your child to learn. Then once per week, depending on which group they are in, the teaching assistant will see if they are confident in reading these words and if so, issue new ones. (These books are not for writing in but details can be found in the front cover of the book).

Remember, when hearing your child read, little and often is best ie. five minutes, five times a week. As well as decoding the words, discuss what they are reading and ask questions to check they are following and understanding.

In addition to listening to your child read, please read to your child as this will support your child in learning to 'behave like a reader', by copying what they see and hear. Sharing and repeating favourite stories together encourages children to join in. The local library can be an exciting place to develop their love of reading- both for a purpose, and of course, for pleasure! It is always lovely to see the children's confidence grow and once they feel they have 'learnt to read', they really start to enjoy fact-finding and exploring different kinds of books and therefore 'reading to learn'

And finally... try to make reading fun. Keep it positive and praise your child as much as you can. They may be conscious that they are not at the same level as a friend, but we always reiterate that this does not matter, as long as they are continuing to practise and are enjoying their reading as they will still be making good progress. 

Spellings

The children will have a weekly spelling test on a Tuesday when they will also be given a new set of spellings to stick in to their red book and learn for the following week. (Some will be linked to the sound they have been looking at plus a couple of tricky key words). Please encourage them to practise at home. (You will find some fun activity suggestions within the front cover of the book). This will start from around week 3. These books are not for writing in, but again, details can be found inside the front cover.

http://www.highfrequencywords.org/

Click on '100hfw list pre cursive' (left side) and you will be able to download key words to practise reading with your child.

For a further challenge, they could learn to spell some of these (particularly our 'non negotiable' words in year 1, which are: all, are, have, put, said, some, they, was, what, when, you) and there are further, trickier words if you click on 'Next 200hfw pre cursive'

NB. It is not an expectation that the children have to be able to read all of these words by the end of year 1, but any practise you can do will be very beneficial to them!

Thanks.

The children should now recognise the phase 2, 3  and 5 sounds in random order (and once confident, without any picture clues!) The sounds are also in the centre of their reading records, for your reference.

It is also very beneficial to practise reading words containing these sound patterns (and identify in books) as well as spelling words - concentrating on carefully segmenting each sound (we add 'sound buttons' at school) they can hear eg.

'shelf' has four sounds: sh-e-l-f

'chair' has two sounds: ch-air 

'saw' has two sounds: s-aw

'homes' has four sounds: h-o-m- (e)- s (the o__e go together. The children recognise this as a 'split vowel digraph')

Thank-you for you support.

It is important that the children form lower case single letters correctly and this is where we will start from/revise from September.  Please refer to the 'Letter formation- families' poster which show the order in which we practise letters. Feel free to print a copy of this to pop up in your child's room, or to trace/help them with their writing at home.

The four 'families' are: curly caterpillar letters; long ladder letters; one-armed robot letters and zig-zag monster letters. Children often find a,d and g tricky and do not always start these in the correct place, or move in the right direction when forming the letter.  Also, it is worth noting that all letters, except 'd', start at the top of the letter. Often, children can get into the habit of starting 'm', 'n' and 'r' at the bottom instead!

During the course of the year, we will start some basic joins during our daily handwriting sessions -eg. two or sometimes three letters together. There are lots of variations, some of which are considerably harder and this will continue in to year 2. We are not at this stage expecting children to join their writing but towards the summer term, will be encouraging them to use some simple joins that they have remembered/mastered eg joining 'ee' or 'oo' together.

If you would like to support your child further, they can practise joining the letters in their first name (apart from the capital!) and also spelling the days of the week (always starting with a capital letter!)

Many thanks.