Friday

Good morning Year 1,

Thank you for all your lovely work yesterday.

Here are today’s tasks.

Mrs E

Phonics

To start today's phonics please can you recap your phase 3 and phase 5 sounds that you find tricky. You can use your sound mats or you could use the flash cars on phonics play.

Can you now practice some of your tricky words- You need to be able to read and spell these! Practise the ones that you find difficult. Choose up to 5.

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/

This half term we are going to be looking at alternative pronunciations and alternative spellings. Today we are going to look at the alternative pronunciation for the ‘ea’ grapheme. Can you read these words?

sea, meat, treat, steam, repeat, head, deaf, bread, feather, instead. Use these games to practice the alternative pronunciation of the 'ea' sound

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Reading – Have you read any books from Big Cat Collins?

You should try to read one or two a week.

Remember Choose the colour above your home reading book. There is an activity to complete at the end of the book. Let me know what books you have read there are lots of dojo points on offer.

How to access free Collins Big Cat ebooks

Go to Collins Connect and click on the Teacher portal and enter:

Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk

Password: Parents20!

and click Login.

See Link below (more details on reading activities page on the class website).

Maths

Warm-up – Practice counting forwards and backwards

You choose - you can count in 1s, 2s,5s or 10. Practice the ones that you find tricky.

Practice using Whack-a-mole.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/whackAMole/index.html.

Today we are going to complete some maths challenges. Just write the numbers 1-12 and then write the answers or you can print off the answer sheet below and write the answers. If there are any you find too tricky just leave them out.

Literacy

Focus

To be able to identify exclamation marks and use them in sentences.

This lesson includes:

a video introducing you to exclamation marks
three activities to do at home

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7ms3dm

Learn

An exclamation mark looks like this: !

They are used to show surprise, shock or fear when we write statements. For example: I cannot believe it!

Another way exclamation marks can be used is at the end of a command, for example: Stop!

We can also use an exclamation mark to write an exclamation sentence. These sentences must start with what or how and include a verb. For example: What an amazing pirate you are!

Watch the video below to find out more.