Year 1/2

Week 4 - Moday 11th May 2020

Remember children:

always wash your hands twice to the tune

of the Happy Birthday song. I thought you

may like to sing it in French this week:

Good morning children,

Your teachers really miss you! HUGE ‘virtual’ hugs to all of you! I hope you are well and happy, enjoying your time at home with your family. Make sure you are eating well, drinking lots of water and getting enough sleep. Keep smiling and keep doing some work. Here are some more very exciting suggestions of work to do at home this week! Have fun growing potatoes!!! Art classes, meditation, yoga and lots more. Learn about the world in which you live. Fly to the moon! Visit ‘You Choose’ for films, dance and amazing footage of a Cheetah and other fascinating animals! Don’t forget children, you can give me your work by sending it to: shareyear1.2@swbschool.net . We shall put your work on the website in the Gallery section! Have a happy and fulfilled week my lovely children, all my love Caroline xxx

REMEMBER: KEEP YOURSELF SAFE ONLINE CHILDREN!!!! PLEASE ASK YOUR PARENTS BEFORE YOU GO ONLINE AND ASK THEM TO CHECK WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT AND ALWAYS SKIP THE ADS.

Morning Dance

Morning Dance – get ready for the day’s learning (please ask your family if they would like to join in)

Literacy

Literacy

Daily Journal/Diary - Grammar:

Keep a daily Journal/Diary. Write about your day. What you did, what you can see out of the window etc. Your grammar lesson this week will explore further last week’s lesson on Nouns.
These can be Proper Nouns (the name of a name of a city Limehouse etc.) Remember children that proper nouns always begin with a capital letter.
Common Nouns are the names of things for example, bird, table, egg.

Example (Proper Noun): My sister Samah drew a beautiful picture today.

Example (Common Noun): I ate eggs this morning.

Watch this video to help you understand the 2 different types of nouns:

What are nouns?A noun is a word for a person, place, or thing. Find out how you can use them in your writing with this Bitesize Primary KS1 guide.

Reading:

To find books online:
Type in and search: Book Trust Online Stories.
They have many stories your children can read aloud online.

Please also check out Oxford Owl for free e books and lots more: oxfordowl.co.uk

Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat. This chapter is called Gobbolino the Kitchen Cat.

You can read the words for yourself, as the narrator is telling you the story.
Retell the story writing it down and checking your work including: capital letters, full stops and spelling.
Read your story to your family.

Illustrate you by drawing a beautiful picture of Gobbolino (see also your Art lesson below).

Spelling:

Handwriting Practice:

Spelling:

Your spelling sheets are attached. These cover the next 14 weeks.
Do one sheet per week.

I will be giving you an unseen spelling test on Mondays!

This weeks spelling test.

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Hand Writing Practice:

Your weekly spelling sheets are attached. These sheets are for the months of May and June There are 19 sheets attached.

Maths

Maths

Times Tables: please learn 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s and 4s. Ask your family to test you. Practice your tables EVERY DAY children.

This week we are going to revisit Number Bonds.

Please complete the number bonds to 100 rocket race worksheets attached. Some of these worksheets are harder than others. Do what you can and ask your family to help you if you need to.

Please check out this number bond song to help you!

LET’S HAVE A BREAK BEFORE WE LOOK AT SCIENCE/IPC Topic – Our World, let’s do some Cosmic Yoga!

YOGA

Please check out this video, it’s out of this world!

Science/IPC

Science/IPC

This week in science we are going to investigate how different fruit and vegetables grow. For example, does a potato grow above the ground or below the ground? At the end of this lesson you will be able to grow your own potatoes at home!

Here is an investigation sheet. Do your own research on the internet young scientists! Record (write down) what you discover from your investigations. (fruit and veg. investigation sheet attached).

Please look at the Potato Life Cycle sheets (attached). If you don’t have a printer at home, copy the sheets onto paper by hand and sequence the 4 pictures before you grow your own potatoes!!! How exciting!

We are now going to learn how to plant our own potatoes. Please watch this video before you begin you experiment:

Here is a list of things you will need (equipment) to grow your own potatoes:
Gardening gloves/rubber Gloves (always wear gloves when you are gardening in order to protect yourself from germs and infections)
Watering can
A supervising adult or older brother or sister
1 old potato with sprouted ‘eyes’ (see video above).
Compost/soil
Large flower pot/bucket
If you do not have a garden, you can grow potatoes on a balcony or another small outdoor space (for example, outside your front door)
Don’t forget to water your potatoes!
You should have lots of potatoes in approximately 2 months time!
Before you plant your own potatoes have a look at the Science Experiment Recording sheet (attached) before you begin your experiment (Growing Potatoes).

Geography

Geography

This week we shall explore the weather and countries that make up the United Kingdom. Please check out this video:

Your next task is to draw a map of the United Kingdom and label it. Please see the Art lesson below to help you.

Let's explore the UKWhich countries are part of the UK and what are their capitals? Find out more with Bitesize KS1 Geography.

History

History

This week I thought you may like to travel out of Our World (IPC topic). Let’s fly to the moon children and meet Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon in 1969. Enjoy the trip children! Buckle up trip it may be a bumpy ride!

Who was Neil Armstrong?27 April - Learn about Neil Armstrong's historic voyage to the Moon.

Art

Art

Draw a picture of a cat. This video will help you draw your picture of Gobbolino The Witch’s Cat. Enjoy!

Draw a map of the United Kingdom. Please label it referring back to the Geography lesson above

Cookery

You can only make this potato salad with Mummy/Daddy or another Grown Up – DO NOT do this alone it could be very dangerous!!!! The children in this video are Milo and Finley. Milo is young and that is why he only uses a BLUNT knife. Finley is MUCH OLDER than you that is why he was allowed to use a SHARP knife.

WARNING: DO NOT USE A SHARP KNIFE. Let your grown up do the cutting up of the spring onions.

PE/Keep Fit/Dance/Singing

PE/Keep Fit

Please click on this video link for Joe Wicks Workout –
PLEASE BE CAREFUL! DO NOT HURT YOURSELVES – ASK YOUR GROWN UPS TO JOIN IN!!!

Dance/Singing

Watch Lauren’s wonderful lesson that you can do at home by clicking on:

‘Music and Dance’ at the top of the Home Learning page…. It is next to ‘ ‘classes’.

Music

Music

Listen to some lovely relaxing music.

Listen to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – think about the weather for each season….Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

YOU CHOOSE!

YOU CHOOSE!

We begin with the amazing footage of a domestic cheetah and other wild animals. This is especially for the animal lovers in year 1/2. This video is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!!!