Friday 19 February 2021

Amethyst, Diamond & Emerald Blog - Monday 22nd February 2021

 Welcome back everybody! We hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable week and feel well rested for the next half term. We would love to see any photos or hear about any of the things that you did - big or small!

ks1@downhallprimary.com

Please also use this email address if you wish to submit any work and receive more specific marking and feedback on what your child is doing well and suggestions for further improvements. All you need to do is ask!

Year 1 - English

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-and-respond-to-a-story-6cr66e

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-tell-a-story-from-memory-68v3gc

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-describe-using-senses-6dhkcr

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-use-capital-letters-for-names-cmt3ee

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-link-our-reading-to-our-own-experiences-cth68r

Year 1 - Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/spring-week-7-number-place-value-within-50/

This has 5 videos, one for each day.

Monday: Count in 2’s activity

Tuesday: Count in 2’s

Wednesday: Count in 5’s activity

Thursday: Count in 5’s

Friday: This marks the end of our unit on Place Value (within 50). In the home learning folder there

is a small assessment activity to review all that you have learnt. Don’t forget, you do not have to

print the sheets out, you can just write the answers down on a piece of paper.

Other worksheets can be also be found here in the Home Learning folder labelled by year group and day:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg


Year 2 - English

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-and-respond-to-a-story-64rpar

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-tell-a-story-from-memory-c4wkat

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-character-6rtp6t

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-show-not-tell-how-a-character-is-feeling-6mr66d

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-make-inferences-based-on-what-is-said-and-done-71h38d

Year 2 - Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/spring-week-7-geometry-properties-of-shapes/

This has 5 videos, one for each day.

Monday: Recognise 2D and 3D shapes

Tuesday: Make 2D and 3D shapes activity

Wednesday: Count sides on 2D shapes

Thursday: Count vertices on 2D shapes

Friday: Draw 2D shapes

Any worksheets can be found here in the Home Learning folder labelled by year group and day:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg



Year 1 - Phonics

Monday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IW5VQREDfI&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHYn40Dv4gIRCIoiUg2cA-0&index=26

Tuesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4NdaRiRKxQ&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHYn40Dv4gIRCIoiUg2cA-0&index=25

Wednesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfxxCYBPMyM&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHYn40Dv4gIRCIoiUg2cA-0&index=24

Thursday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKMkkCbdOR4&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHYn40Dv4gIRCIoiUg2cA-0&index=23

Friday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IytnBmNmI8&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHYn40Dv4gIRCIoiUg2cA-0&index=22

Year 2 Phonics/Spelling

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

User name: jan21 Password: home

This week we have 2 main activities that you can spread out over the week.

Investigating Alternative Spellings: /oo/ or /yoo/

Spend 2 or 3 days working on the Phonemes Spotter and Word Sort games.

See if you can find other examples in books.

See if you can put some into sentences.

Spelling Rules - Verbs: Adding -ing, -er & -ed

This is on Phonics Play - click on the Resources tab, then Phase 5.

Scroll right the way down and you will see it there. Once you click on the tab you can follow

through the different activities.

Create your own lists as you search for other examples.

Project Learning

History - A new unit on The Great Fire of London:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-was-life-like-in-the-17th-century-6dk3ed

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-did-london-begin-6wu64c

Science - A new unit on Plants. In the first lesson we plant a bean. If you want to try this, any type of

bean or seed will work just fine. If not, you can just watch the video:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-do-i-plant-a-bean-cgwp6e

Music - A new unit on Pitch:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-pitch-c8tkat

Big Cat Ebook Library

Don’t forget to use this as much as possible. If you feel you need more books or your child is

finding the books quite easy, please email us and we can amend their bookshelf. Here is the link:

https://ops.collinsopenpage.com/sso/login?service=https%3A//ebooks.collinsopenpage.com/wr/index.html&eulogin=true

Maths Homework Book

Please complete page 33 this week.

We hope you have a good week!

Best wishes

KS1 Team