Here is your child’s learning for today. Remember to look at Monday’s guidance for any topic learning suggestions too. Any work that your child completes can be handed in to the class teacher upon your child’s return to school.
Reading: In English we are looking at past tense verbs. Can your child spot any past tense verbs in a book of their choice? If not, can they spot present tense verbs and change them into past tense?
English: Day 4 on slides provided on Monday. Recap with your child how to change verbs into the past tense. Shout out some words in present tense to them, e.g. play, walk, swim, eat, sleep, run… and see if they can shout back the past tense e.g. played, walked, swam, ate, slept, ran. Perhaps your child could make a poster linking past and present verbs. Today your child will act as a teacher, they will self mark their own holiday recount. In school we use green and orange highlighters to mark. Using the orange highlighter/pen they should highlight all the correct capital letters, the full stops and past tense verbs. Using the green highlighter/pen they should highlight any errors they have made. Then using a green pen they should correct these errors. See example below and remind your child that mistakes are great! They are proof that we are learning. Your child shouldn’t be afraid to make a mistake.
Maths: Day 4 on slides provided on Monday. Starter activity: Recap using comparative language to talk about the size of objects (tall, taller, tallest, short, shorter, shortest). Have a go at using real life objects at home and ordering them by size. Main: Today your child will learn about equal groupings – this links to early multiplication and division. It is important at this stage you only talk about ‘groups’. Model sharing objects between you and your child “I have 4, you have 6. Are the groups equal?” Discuss why/why not? “If we have 10 objects, how can we share them equally between us?” Let your child investigate how to share them “Yes that’s right… There are 2 groups of 5 sweets. There are 10 sweets altogether” Activity: See if your child can find different ways of sharing different amounts equally between 3 or 4 groups. Use the sentence stem: “There are __ groups of __ sweets. There are __ sweets altogether.”
Any questions please don’t hesitate to contact your class teacher. We hope you enjoy learning practically at home with your child.
The Year 1 Team.