I hope the day sees you and all your family well.
I'd like to offer some further guidance/suggestions for home learning, however before doing so I would like to assure you that we do not expect your children to be working 6 hours everyday. Activities and learning listed here can be spread over the week and are suggestions.
A further point to note is that many websites are struggling under the weight of extra traffic, not faulty logins. I am intending to upload a "Project" to www.myon.co.uk this afternoon but will explain a non-online version here in case access is problematic.
Tomorrow (Tuesday), I will be available to answer any questions you have regarding home learning. If you ring the school office between 1pm and 3pm, they will pass you on to me.
English
The focus of activities in English last week and for the rest of the term is comprehension. We have been talking about the stories we have shared and considered the actions of characters. What did they do? Why did they do that? Do you think what they did was a good idea?
Comprehension can be split into 6 main strands:
- Vocabulary
- Retrieval
- Inference
- Explain/Opinion
- Predict
- Sequencing
Consider the sentence: "Sam put on his hat and gloves to keep out the chill."
Building on the areas above, questions might be:
- Vocabulary - What does "chill" mean?
- Retrieval - What did Sam put on?
- Inference - Which season is the story in? (It doesn't say but the gloves imply winter).
- Explain/Opinion - Why is Sam putting on gloves?
- Predict - What do you think will happen next?
- Sequencing - This involves taking 4 to 6 events from a story and ordering them correctly.
As I said, I am hoping to put a project on myon with a task around a selected book but if this hits connectivity issues you can try the following.
- Choose a book from home to read. Consider one of the characters. What do they do in the story? Why do they do these things? Do you think what they did was the right thing?
(Last week we all read "Mr Wolf's Pancakes" and wrote about whether we thought what Mr Wolf did was the right or wrong thing). You could ask the children to give a written response or it could be a discussion. You could also choose 4-6 events from the story to sequence.
Maths
This week would have been a focus on the 4 basic operations of maths - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In the first instance, focus on addition and subtraction.
This game helps Year 1's understanding of how 24 is 20 + 4.
From the "Choose" drop down bars, select Level 2 and Partitioning:
And you are good to go.
If the children are secure on this you can try addition to 25:
Or even adding 2 two-digit numbers.
If they are trying this one remind them to use their tens and ones to help - they should know what you mean!
There are many other things I can suggest but I am aware this is getting a bit long. I will blog again tomorrow and also be available for your phone calls regarding any aspect of home learning tomorrow (Tuesday) between 1-3pm.
Wishing you all the very best,
Mr Jude
