Year 1

WELCOME TO YEAR 1

Welcome to Year 1!
At Stafford Leys we have three Year 1 classes:
Class 4 - Mrs Cotton
Class 5 - Miss Parmar
Class 6 - Mrs Rowley

We have super topics and exciting cross curricular lessons to engage the children in their learning. Please find below some general information about Year 1.

Homework will be set every week on Friday. This can be downloaded in the Homework section below. Please spend some time with your child completing this at home. Homework books must remain at home and if you would like to send us photo's of your child's completed homework please do so by the following Friday using our email: year1@staffordleys.com.
Please make sure reading books are in school every day with reading records. Your child's books will be changed once a week. These books must be returned every Thursday.
Please ensure all your child's items are clearly named including all their clothing items.
Your child should only bring in a water bottle and their school book bag into school.

Year 1 Remote Learning

Please find below each weeks remote learning activities for you to do with your child during the Covid school closure. Each week we will post a suggested timetable of activities for you to access. Each day's lessons will be posted the night before. Each week, please can you email one piece of english, one piece of maths and one other piece of work, such as phonics/topic to; year1@staffordleys.com.
A member of our Year 1 staff will be contacting you once or twice a week to see how things are going. We will not be setting homework during the school closure.
Thank you.

Snow Activities - Here are some activities you may like to complete on today's snowy day. Remote learning is also available below.

Update your weather chart - record today's temperature and compare it to last week's weather.
Snow Day write up activity - t-t-16677-snow-day-write-up-sheet.pdf
Explore the snow with your senses - t-tp-912-exploring-winter-with-our-senses-activity-sheet-.pdf
Instead of making a snowman, try sculpting another object: a snow castle, a snow banana, a snow bed – use your imagination!
Pack snow onto a tray or dish and paint it with water colors.
Make 20 snowballs and investigate the different ways you can make 20.
Throwing skills - Make a Bullseye target and throw snowballs at it. Record your best score!
Go on a nature walk and observe the changes. What's happened to the water in a pond or river?

This week's remote learning

Week 4 Timetable
This is our suggested timetable for the week. Online lessons will be available each day.

This week's lessons - Week 4

Monday - week_4_monday_lessons.pdf

Maths Workbook - maths_workbook_p35-37.docx
Geography resources - au-g-45-blank-world-map_ver_4.pdf, challenge_animals.docx

Tuesday - week_4_tuesday_lessons.pdf

Maths Target Activities - number-bonds-to-20-on-robots-activity-sheet.pdf, challenge_number-bonds-to-20-maths-.pdf
Geography - lesson_5_activity.docx , weather_chart_to_compare_to_france.doc
Maths - journal_activity.docx

Wednesday - week_4_wednesday_lessons.pdf

Maths - find_difference_la_journal_activity.doc, find_the_difference_journal_activity.doc, dnj.docx
Phonics - phonics_long_u_underpants-year-1.pdf
Reading Activities - week_4_reading_activities.pptx, what_is_the_weather_like_today_can_you_explain.docx, guided_reading_weather-clothes-sorting-activity_.pdf

Thursday - thursday_week_4_lessons.pdf

Phonics - phonics___yeti_words.pdf
Maths - thursday_subtraction_sheet.docx

Friday - week_4_friday_lessons.pdf

Maths - friday_number_bonds_to_20_worksheet.odt , friday_maths_challenge_worksheet.docx

This Week's Assembly by Mrs Hardy

Aarya the Alligator Assembly - aarya_the_alligator_-_ask_questions.pptx

Our new spellings are...
one once your
ask some come

Writing at Home

Please download the phonics mat to help support your child with writing at home.
phase_3_and_5_sound_mat.docx

If your child needs the phase 2 sounds then please download this one. phonics_mat_phase_2_and_3.docx

Strategies we use in school to support writing include the following:

Discussing what sentence we are going to write first.
Counting the words in the sentence.
Stretching the word out to hear all the sounds.
Using a phonics mat and common exception word mat.
Modelling the first sentence before they complete it.
Checking for capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Encouraging cursive handwriting and writing on the line.

How to challenge writing:

Include 'and' to extend sentences.
Include adjectives.
Use different sentence starters.
Handwriting - form all letters correctly, present work neatly.
Use ? and ! where appropriate.
Begin to spell words correctly.

Year 1 Common exception words

These are our Year 1 Common Exception Words - you may like to practise spelling these and thereafter writing them into sentences.

Click below to access some maths challenges:

year_1_chilli_addition_and_subtraction_maths_cards.pdf

number_bonds_to_20_challenge.pdf

Singing at Home!

When It's A Sunny Day
https://video.link/w/AxzGb

Click on the link above to join in with our singing assemblies at home. You may want to record yourself singing and email them to us for our Twitter Page/school website.

Mr Thorne's P.E. challenges

Beanbag Challenge

Towel Target Challenge

Mouse Trap Rolling Challenge

https://www.loom.com/share/5b1f580e18744288859552a9dec6071d

https://www.loom.com/share/5511105a20d64dc8a19abd887e722806

Walk the Plank Challenge

Part 1 video: Walk the plank challenge

https://www.loom.com/share/0a75d5aff5e24beba3d648be6a41f749

Part 2 video: Walk the plank challenge

https://www.loom.com/share/b8141e1edc1044deb8dad436961b9451

This week's Homework...
Click on the image to open this week's homework.

Our Maths Target is:
I know my number bonds to 20.

Target Challenge - I can say a missing number in my number bonds to 20. e.g. 14 + ? = 20

Please click on the phoneme to download the attached booklet to work on.

READING
Reading is an important part of your child's learning.
Click the link for 'Parent prompts for reading with children'.
For more reading content click on the owl to access the free Ebook library.

Click on the image to access Phonics Play Comics for more reading content.

Our P.E. Days are every Wednesday and Thursday.

Due to only being able to use outdoor spaces these days may vary. Your child's P.E. kit should be in school everyday and each item of clothing should be labelled with their name. Please ensure your child's earrings are not worn on P.E. Days.

Please click here for a link to our curriculum overview.

Our topic for next term is
Whatever the weather!
Click on the image to find out more!