Have a go at this reasoning question and explain your answer.

Next week we will be learning about doubling single digit numbers in Maths.

Dear Parents,

Below is the link to some activities you can do at home with your child to stay active:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X9frGTuKSeTM7k3fWHbxC–eZWBy1EP3?usp=sharing

Or you could do some Cosmic Kids Yoga or Just Dance videos on YouTube together with your child. I’ll put some of my favourite ones below. I’d love to know what you’re favourite ones are too.

Have a lovely day.

Ms Alys

Dear parents,

Find below the work for Thursday 5th March. We are looking forward to your children joining us back in school next week.

Reading: Complete tasks on Literacy Planet. Recap all the phonics sounds that your child’s teacher has sent you over the past 2 weeks. Can you child remember these sounds? Can they read and write words with these sounds in?

English: Day 4. In English today your child will learn “To make simple inferences of a character’s feelings or behaviour”. Retell the story of Beegu with your child. Think about the scene where Beegu is playing with the children in the playground and the teacher comes and takes him away.

Imagine you are one of the children, how would you feel? Ask your child to ‘freeze frame’ – think about body gesture and facial expression. Now imagine you are the teacher, does your expression change? Please email this picture to your class teacher because next week we will use it in class. 

Maths: Day 4 on the slides. Starter: Recap counting in 5s, enjoy this song together Main: Can your child spot the mistakes that have been made on the slides and rewrite the correct number sentences to match the pictures? For example:

Can your child complete the following activities.

Any questions, please ask your class teacher. We hope you and your child are doing well at home, we look forward to welcoming them back soon.

Here is your child’s learning for today:

Reading

Choose a book with a character in  it. It can be any book from your collection at home. Look at the setting of the book and describe where it takes place, for example a gloomy old castle or a small town. Can you draw a new setting for the character to go an adventure too? For example Little Red Riding Hood could visit the city.

Phonics play is a free website designed to help children recap and apply the phonics sounds they have learnt at school. Start with phase 1 and work your way up!

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

English

Today we will be looking at the character of Beegu and how she might be feeling as she explores the Earth. Pause the video on each page and ask your child – How do you think Beegu is feeling? Encourage your child to speak in full sentences using the sentence prompt on the slides ‘I think Beegu is feeling…because…’

Your child could draw a picture of Beegu and label the picture with different feelings using their phonics knowledge to sound out unknown words.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html 

Maths

Practise counting in tens following the link on the slides. Today you could try some practical grouping activities around the house. For example find 6 pairs of shoes, group them and then write a number sentence 2+2+2+2+2+2=12

Find three people and ask them to hold out their hands- write a number sentence and count how many fingers 5+5+5+5+5+5=

Take a photo and send it to your class teacher!

Don’t forget that Fully Booked Week is coming up in a few weeks and Year 1 are all going to design and make their own costumes. You should have received a letter on the parent portal which explains that everyone will be dressing up as an alien! So time to get creative, draw a plan and work on your own costume!

The Year 1 Team.

Dear Parents and Swimmers

I wanted to make contact with you all as a number of swimmers and parents have reached out to me with enquiries regarding the BISAC swimming scheduled for next weekend (14th & 15th March).

The safety of all swimmers within the Shrewsbury community will always be our first priority and with this in mind Shrewsbury International School are closely monitoring and following all guidance from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and other government agencies.

A decision has already been made by BISAC to postpone the following events:

• Junior (9yrs – 12ys) BISAC swimming (hosted by NIST) has been postponed until Saturday May 9th
• BISAC Swim Festival (7 – 8Yrs) hosted by Shrewsbury International School City Campus has been postponed until Saturday May 16th

A decision regarding Senior (13 years+) BISAC Swimming (Hosted by Ruamrudee) will be made on Monday 9th March, at this point, if the decision is made to go ahead with the swim meet, I will contact all swimmers for their entries on Monday 9th March.

Senior swimmers may enter a maximum of five events (including relays) and teams may enter a maximum of four swimmers per individual event. Due to the increased number of swimmers able to swim per event for seniors, we are in the lucky position that we do not need to go through a selection process. Swimmers are able to pick the events they feel are their strengths or favourites.

Full event details are available on the swimming blog, please click here and have a look this weekend and consider what may be your chosen events.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Director of Aquatics

Here is your child’s learning for today.

Reading 

Choose some books from this link: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ 

Ask children to predict what might happen in the story based on the front cover. Encourage them to explain their predictions. For example ‘I think the story will be about space because I can see a spaceship and an alien’. Read the stories together and see if their predictions were correct. 

Keep practising sight reading ‘red words’ (words which cannot be sounded out, they must be learned by sight) 

I, the, my, you, said, your, are, be, of, no, what, all, was, we, so, to, me, call, her, there, want, go, old, some, he

English

Day 2 on slides. Read Beegu again and ask the children to discuss their favourite parts of the story. Children to draw a picture of their favourite part and write a sentence to match. The sentence must have a capital letter, finger spaces, full stop and use the word ‘because’. For example: 

My favourite part of the story was when Beegu found the puppies because she was so happy. 

Maths 

Day 2 on slides. Keep practising writing number sentences to match the repeated addition pictures. Complete the worksheet in the folder. 

Here is a Cosmic Kids yoga video that we use in school – your children might enjoy doing something active at home!

Here is a fun video about the planets 

Many thanks, 

The Year 1 Team 

We hope you have had a good weekend. Here is the learning for today – Monday 2^nd March.

Reading: Please continue to read with your child every day. Here are the web links to the ebooks where you can find many fiction and non-fiction books for your child to choose from. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

storylineonline.net

There are also books on Literacy Planet for your child to read.

The links for all the work for this week can be found by following this link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X8ZaqVDuv3QYoy6UV3IevATZCRqw7MkG

English: This week we are starting a new book – Beegu. Before you read the book or watch the video of the book being read please watch video – Year 1 Hook 2020. Then show the children the front cover of the book on slide 2 of the PDF. Discuss these questions with your child: Where is the story set? Who is the character? Where do you think he is going/come from? How do you think he is feeling in the picture?

Here is a link of the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaX_zGZO0Y8

Maths:

Start by counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Use the videos from last week if needed. By counting in 2s count the legs of the aliens. Then ask you child to write a repeated addition number sentence to show this eg: 2+2+2+2+2=. Then do the same with the apples and fish, hands etc. Encourage the children to complete the sentence on the slide using the mathematical language. Can you find anything else around the house you can put into groups? For example, the shoes in a cupboard into pairs.

Topic:

There are two topic lessons which can be done at any point over this week.

Lesson 1. Watch this video and go through the facts about Neil Armstrong on the slides. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbTaDOuSePk Once you have watched the video discuss with your child what you can recall about Neil Armstrong. Is there anything else you can tell us about Neil Armstrong?

Lesson 2: Recap the main life events of Neil Armstrong then cut out and order the life events from the sheet.

Science:

This Science lesson can be done at any point during this week.

Recap that different objects can be made from different materials: wood, rock, fabric, plastic, metal, glass. Go around your house on a material hunt. See what you can find. Take a picture of the different objects. Can you label each object and the materials they are made from?

Have a lovely day,

The Year 1 Team

Here is your child’s learning for today. Thank you to all of the parents who have been in email contact so far. It is lovely to see what the children have been learning at home.

Reading: Please continue to read with your child every day. You can also read books online too on websites such as Oxford owl.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

You could also listen to a story being read from a website such as storylineonline.net and ask your child questions about the text or ask them to re-tell the story.

English: We have finished writing our recounts in class and editing our work. Your child could demonstrate what they have learnt by writing a recount of this week remembering to use past tense verbs, capital letters, full stops and finger spaces independently. We have been practising making our sentences longer by using ‘and’ or ‘because’ so can they do this too?

Maths: Your child can practise all of the skills they have learnt this week to ensure they are secure. Can they count forwards and backwards in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s? Can they solve problems involving counting in these steps like in the example on Day 4 of the Maths slides?

The children have really enjoyed finding out different facts about Space this week, reading Space stories and looking at non-fiction books about Space. Your child could write a list of their own questions that they want to find out the answers to about space and discuss them when they return to school.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 1 Team.