Changes to the timetable for this week
As teachers will be doing Parent Meetings throughout the week, there will be no checkouts and the 'virtual' school day will finish at 1:45pm. In the extra afternoon time, it would be great if you could do some reading and creative writing with your children. There are also lots of great lessons available online at Oak Academy that they could complete during this free afternoon time.
Hangout link: https://meet.google.com/chd-miqm-ffb
Whole School assembly link: https://meet.google.com/cmf-jfbi-fcr
Lesson 1 - Generating rhetorical questions
Children will recap the events of the fire from King Charles II's perspective and generate rhetorical questions for each image on the story map.
Lesson 2 - Shared Write
Today we will write write our first diary entry together. We will use the first three pictures from our story map.
Lesson 3 - Independent write
Building on our knowledge from lesson 2, we will know be using our toolkit to write about the final three pictures on the story map. Today's lesson will focus on independent writing
Tuesday Lesson
Wednesday Lesson
Thursday Lesson
We will have a spelling test on Friday 027/02 and Friday 06/03
Here is a list of our spellings so that you can practise. We will be looking at these words in English.
Both spelling tests will be on these words so that we can make sure that we are experts.
-Tallest
-Biggest
-Thickest
-Lightest
-Fastest
-Where
-Our
Children can participte in daily Read Write Inc phonics sessions at 9:30am. This lesson follows the same structure as we do at school so they can do independently.
Please click here to find the daily lesson
E.g. 'er' Speed sound and spelling lesson below.
Each video will only be there for 24 hours so make sure you do it on the right day!
Mandela:
Username = mandelab3
Password = readingb3
Kandinsky:
Username = Kandinsky School21
Password = school21reading
Pankhurst:
Username = pankhurstb2
Password = School21
The Collins big cat website also has book banded e-books: https://collins.co.uk/pages/big-cat-ebooks
One of the most important forms of home learning is reading. We would like all children to read for at least 20 minutes (to you or to themselves if they are older). Ask them questions about what they've read (italics for more challenging questions):
What happened? (Can you summarise in four sentences? First... Next... Then... Finally...)
Were there any words you didn't know/ you need to clarify? (Encourage children to re-read the sentence with the word in it to try to understand if from the context themselves before telling them what the word means - they can also look at pictures to help with what it means, and think of words they do know that are similar to it).
What characters were there? What were they like? (How do you know this?)
What powerful word/ phrases did the author use? What's the effect of this on the reader?
What's one sentence that stood out to you? What makes it so powerful?
What do you predict will happen next? What clues in the book make you think this will happen?
Please also have a look at our 'Story Time' page where you can find books read by your Reception teachers.
In Year 1 the children should still be encouraged to use their phonics sounds to spell words. However, there's a set list of words that the children need to be able to spell correctly by the end of the year. Please use this as a reference so that you can support them with the correct spelling during home schooling.
The children should also know how to spell the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Every Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:00-3:15