Year 1 English Home Learning Week beginning 22nd February 2021

Hi Year One,

I hope you have had a lovely half-term at home. This week, we will be having our zoom session on Monday afternoon at 1:30pm - I cannot wait to see you then.

Our English blog includes a phonics sessions (about 15-20 minutes long), ten minutes of reading and our English lesson (approximately 30-45 minutes long). You may choose to break the sessions up into parts rather than try and complete in one sitting. For example, you may choose to complete the ten-minute reading session at the end of the day. Deliver in a way that works for you at home. Remember the children will need brain breaks or movement between sessions to help them focus. Please just email me if you have any questions or would like some further support.

In English this week, we will be reading a story called ‘The Messy Magpie’. We will be exploring the key themes in the story and making links to our learning in science from last half-term. We will be learning to recall an instruction text about caring for our beaches, using maps and actions, and becoming familiar with instructional language. Next week, we will be writing our own instruction text about caring for our environment. We will then put all of our texts together to make a class book for other children to read.

I look forward to seeing pictures of your super work. Speak soon.

Monday

Phonics

Let’s begin by recalling our sounds.

Read the words below and notice the pronunciation of ‘ou’

out group soup cloud sound group you about

Now sort these words into two lists based on the sound made by the ‘ou’ grapheme.

Write 3 sentences trying to include some of the words above.

Reading

Time for ten minutes of reading. You may choose to read your banded reading book or click here to access a text from the Oxford Owl library. Remember to use your phonics knowledge to help you read unfamiliar words.

English

Today, we are going to read the story ‘The Messy Magpie’. Click on the video below to listen to the story or alternatively, click here to read yourself.

What do you think the key themes of this story are? Talk to somebody at home or write down your ideas.

Now read some of my ideas - did you think of similar?

Dropping litter and leaving rubbish behind

Not looking after our environment

Caring for nature, living things and our planet

Recycling

Working as a team

We are now going to answer some questions on the text. You do not need to print the questions, just record your answers on some paper. You will need to return to the story to help.

Tuesday

Phonics

Let’s begin by reading the words below. How many can you read in 30 seconds?

Today, we are going to learn to spell these words

could would should

Use the mnemonic ‘oh you lucky duck’ to help you spell these words.

Write each word as many times as you can in one minute.

Write the sentence

You should do that!

Reading

Read one of the texts below. Choose a text that you can mostly read independently. How many words can you read in 60 seconds? Read aloud three times. What are the key themes of the text? In the same way as we did yesterday, see if you can identify some themes from the text.

Text 1 - The Pup in the Mud

Text 2 - Zoom to the Moon

Text 3 - The Whoopsit

Text 4 - What Plants Need to Grow

English

Starter: Today, we are going to write some sentences. Read the sentence and say three times and then try to write without looking, using your phonics to help.

The park is full of litter.

I can see a magpie.

The grass was not green like it had been.

In our lesson, we are going to think about one of the key themes in this week’s story ‘The Messy Magpie’.

In the story, lots of rubbish is dropped or left behind by people. You are going to think about the message that you would like to give to the people who do this. Do you agree with leaving rubbish behind? What reasons for not dropping litter could you give to them to persuade them not to do it?

We are going to use role-play to rehearse our messages about dropping litter and leaving rubbish in our environment. Practice saying your message to a member of your family imagining that they are just about to drop some litter. Try to include a reason for not dropping it. Remember to talk in full sentences and to use a clear voice.

Try these sentences to help you get started.

Please think before you drop that litter. You are making our area look messy.

Do not drop that litter, please take it to a bin. It is spoiling our environment for animals.

Stop, do not drop! Rubbish needs to go in a bin. If you can not find one, then take your rubbish back home.

Keep rehearsing your sentences so that you can remember them. If you have a recording device such as a tablet or phone, you could record your voice so that you have your sentences ready for tomorrow’s lesson.

Wednesday

Phonics

Let’s begin by recalling our sounds. Click on the video below.

Read the following words

mould shoulder boulder

What do you notice about the pronunciation of the ‘ou’ grapheme in these words?

Read the sentence below

There are too many boulders.

Let’s finish by playing a game of sentence substitution. Click here to play.

Reading

For our reading today, we are going to read the same text as yesterday. Choose the text that you read below. Read aloud as though you are reading to an audience. Now try answering the questions.

Text 1 - The Pup in the Mud

Text 2 - Zoom to the Moon

Text 3 - The Whoopsit

Text 4 - What Plants Need to Grow

English

Today, we are going to write our messages, rehearsed yesterday, in speech bubbles. We are going to write in full sentences.

If you recorded your messages yesterday then spend a few minutes listening to them and saying them again out loud. Do not worry if you were unable to record your messages, you can practice saying your sentences before you begin to write. Try saying your sentence using noisy punctuation just like we do in the classroom. This helps us to remember what we are going to write. Repeat two more times and then write your sentence.

Please send a picture of your writing to Mrs Claxton or Miss Hughes, we look forward to reading your messages.

Thursday

Phonics

Begin by writing our phase 5 graphemes. Use the sound mat below to help.

We are going to read the text below and spot any words containing the ‘ou’ grapheme. Make a list as you read.

Now read this sentence and say it three times before writing it by yourself.

Could I have some soup?

Reading

Time for ten minutes of reading a book at your colour book-band. Are you ready to try a book on the next level? Remember to email your teacher if you would like to exchange your reading books. You can click here to access a text from the Oxford Owl library.

English

Today, we are going to listen an instruction text about looking after our beaches. This links back to our science lesson when we were learning about beach habitats. We shared ideas and identified rules for taking care of the beach and protecting organisms living there. Can you remember some of the important rules we shared?

Click on the video here to listen to the text. A written version of the text is below. At this stage, the children need to focus on listening to the text rather than reading it.

How to take care of our beaches

Have you ever visited a beautiful beach? If so, you will know how wonderful it is to spend time there. Unfortunately, people have been leaving rubbish and unwanted things behind. This looks terrible and it is harming the natural home of many living things.

We must all take care of our beaches and protect the natural world. Please follow these instructions when you next visit a beach.

1) First, find a space on the beach to relax or play. Make sure you do not sit on any minibeasts!

2) Then, take your time to enjoy the beach. You could build a sandcastle, do some digging or go for a paddle in the sea.

3) Look for interesting shells but remember to leave them behind when you leave.

4) Take photographs of living things such as crabs or flowers. Do not touch them and do not take them home.

5) Finally, when you leave, collect your belongings and take them away with you. Make sure you do not leave any rubbish behind.

Now that we have listened to our instruction text, we are going to create a text map using pictures and some words, just like we do when we create a story map. Here is mine to help you.

In tomorrow’s lesson, we are going to use our text map to help us learn the text.

Friday

Phonics

Let’s begin by spelling some words we learned earlier this week.

could would should

Write each word five times trying to spell them correctly independently. Use ‘oh you lucky duck’ to help.

We are going to read some words containing more than one syllable. Have a go and clap the syllables.

shoulder-bag couldn’t soup-bowl housework countdown wouldn’t outsider grouping rounders

We are going to finish the week by playing Tricky Word Trucks - how many can you read?

Click here to play.

Reading

Today, we are going to have ten minutes of reading for pleasure time. Choose your favourite book and share with a member of your family. What is it that you enjoy so much about this book? Are there any other books with a similar theme that you would like to read. Make a wish-list of books you would like to read.

English

We are going to spend today’s lesson learning to recall the instruction text ‘How to take care of our beaches’. First, listen to the text from yesterday. Now take out your text map and use to help you join in with the video. When you feel ready, try retelling the text using your map and actions without the video. You might choose to add or change part of your text map to help you to do this. You are going to learn the text so that you can perform it to your family.