Year 1 and 2

Year 1 and 2 Home Learning Matrix

Stage 1 Matrix Week 1-S1T2Wk1 Final.pdf

Term 2 Theme: Stories by Mem Fox Week 1

Literacy Links and Hints

T2W1T1 Wilfred...Mon.mp4

Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge

Written by Mem Fox

Listen to Miss Tillot read the story and complete Task 1 , 2, 3 and 4 from the Matrix this week.

Task 3 - Story Starter

Mrs Haynes has written an example of a story of her favourite toy coming to life. Read it with someone at home.

Possum Magic

Written by Mem Fox

Listen to Miss McKay read the story and complete Task 5, 6, 7 & 8 from the Matrix this week.

T2W1T5 Possum magicWed.mp4

How Grandma Poss turned the Wombats Blue

By Ms Hopkins

When Grandma Poss was a little baby possum she was out looking for some food and came across a mob of Aboriginal people at their campfire. One of the men played a didgeridoo and another man was wearing a special head dress. He was a healing man and knew special bush magic.

Baby Poss ran through the special gathering and was hit by the magic of the healing man. From that day, baby Poss had special powers.

Poss grew up to be a very clever possum and had a wonderful time helping the other bush animals and playing fun tricks on them. As time passed, Poss had baby possums of her own and then they had babies too. She became known as Grandma Poss, a kind, caring, funny old possum who knew bush magic. She used this magic to turn the kookaburra’s pink and wombats blue. She even made her grandson Hush INVISIBLE!

Task 7 - Write a story using your own ideas about how wombat ended up blue.

Our children in Year 1 and 2 will have different writing skills. Some will write one sentence, others will write a few sentences, some will write a paragraph or a page. A great way to engage children in the writing process is to have them tell you how Grandma Poss changed the wombats blue. Let the children write to their ability and encourage them to stretch out words and sounds to spell unknown words. Expect ‘miss-takes’. Most importantly enjoy the creation of ideas and the story making process and have FUN!!!

Numeracy Links and Hints

Song of the Week

Daily warm up: Start at any number between 1 and 30 and count up as far as you can. Then sing along to our song of the week.

Number Talk

T2W1NUMBERTALKThu.mp4

Choose a number. Use words and pictures to create an A4 poster showing everything you know about your chosen number.

Counting Collections

T2W1COUNTINGCOLLECTIONS1Mon.mp4

Place three to five handfuls of (counters, Lego, toothpicks, pegs, icy-pole sticks) on the floor. Using plastic cups, count 10 counters into each container. Describe the number in tens and ones. How many counters are there in this group altogether? How did you work it out?

Make Thirty

T2W1MAKINGTHIRTYThurs.mp4

Throw a dice and pick up that number of icy-pole sticks, toothpicks, pencils, pegs, etc. When you have 10 or more single sticks, make a bundle of 10. When you get three bundles of 10 (30) you have ‘made thirty’.

Target Number

T2W1TARGETNUMBER1Tue.mp4

Select a target number (choose a number between 1 and 10). Roll a dice, child says the number on the dice and counts how many to get to their chosen number. Can you choose a higher target number and count how many?

Online Learning Resources

BBPS has a subscription to the following online learning resources to support your child while learning from home. Check Seesaw for your child's individual passwords to access each site.