Home Learning blog - Day 5 (11.01.21)

Hello Year 1! 

Welcome back to your home learning blog! 
I would like to start this week off by congratulating all of you who worked so hard last week! I was so very impressed with your commitment to your learning at home and I am so excited to see what you achieve over the next weeks. 
We now have a Year 1 email address, so please send your work to that instead.
​The email is: 
Year1@st-agnes.towerhamlets.sch.uk

As promised, here are some of your acrostic poems using the word 'Fantasy'. Can you spot yours? 

I think they are all absolutely brilliant!! 

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Let's get started on this weeks learning...

Reading:
This week we are all going to look at the same books during this time. I will post questions or activities for you to complete using the books. 
You will need to go to the Oxford Owl website: 
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ 

You may need to register an account but then you can access a 'free e-library'. 
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​At the top of the page there is a search bar - type in 'Everyone got wet'. This is the title of the book we will be looking at first. 

Before you open the book, let's spend some time today thinking about the title. ​

• Can you read the title out loud? 
• Is anyone wet in the picture you can see on the front cover? 
• What could make them wet? 

Ok, now we're reading to start reading the book. Remember to sound out the words you don't recognise and use the pictures to help you read. 
Read up to page 23 only and answer the questions below. Can you write your answers down and send them to me! 
Why do you think no water came out of the hose? 
What do you think will happen next? 

Tomorrow we will read the book again, all the way to the end to see if your prediction is correct! 
There are play activities too, try to resist the temptation to do these today as I will instruct you when to do these over the next couple of days. 


Phonics:
Let's continue with Phase 4. I have loved seeing you progress with phonics too in the pictures you have been sending through! 
If you are introduced to a sound you don't know - pause the video and make up your own rhyme for it, just like we do in school! I would love to see some of these. 

​English: ​To draw inferences based on what is being said and done.

Today we are starting our new book for this term, it is about a boy called Max. 
Here is his bedroom. It looks a little bit different to mine, do it look different to yours? 
Think about these questions while you look at the picture. 

• What do you see?
• What could the story be about?
• What might be happening? 
• What do you notice about Max? 
• Why is he wearing a wolf suit? 
• How is he feeling? How do you know? 
• What do you think he is thinking? (Use his facial expression to help you) 

For your task today, please draw a picture of Max. Then imagine you are Max and write what you are thinking. This could be done in the form of a thought bubble.   

Maths: To add by counting on. 
We are moving on from 'Place Value' and onto 'Addition and Subtraction' this week. Here is the link for the lessons, today's is called 'Add by Counting On Activity'. 
whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/spring-week-2-number-addition-and-subtraction-within-20/
You have an activity to have a go at today: find a dice and make some number cards on paper. Turn the cards over, roll the dice and add the two numbers together by counting on - just like they did during the lesson! 

Have lots of fun!! 

PE:
Today we would be having a PE lesson in the afternoon. Go to the website imoves found here:
imoves.com 
You will need to register, but its all for free!  

The activity that I would like you to move around with is called: Power of Yet - Growth Mindset 

Try and copy the dance moves and you could try and sing along too! It took me a couple of tries to follow along without getting muddled, but I managed in the end. 

Let me know how you get on!! 


I hope you have had a wonderful day Year 1. Keep up all your hard work and I'll be back in touch tomorrow! 

​Miss Kennedy x