Weekly Overview

Monday

English: using adjectives to describe characters

Maths: Measuring length

Phonics: Snakes and Ladders/video phase 5 speedy sounds

Science: Exploring plants: Choose an activity from the foundation

subjects grid

Reading grid: choose your own activity

Spelling: Summer 1 week 1 words: play a game

Tuesday English: using adjectives to describe character’s feelings

Maths: Counting in 10s

Phonics: DJ Cows oi/oy –sound revision

PSHE: healthy food, healthy body: see foundation subjects grid

Reading grid: choose your own activity

Spelling: Summer 1 week 1 words: play a game

Wednesday

English: Write in role of a character using ?

Maths: Making equal groups

Phonics: Phonics Pop/Boggle -Sound revision

Art: explore colour: see foundation grid

Reading: Log on to ----- and listen to a story read by your teacher

Spelling: Summer 1 week 1 words: play a game

Thursday

English: Sentence Doctor

Maths: Adding equal groups

Phonics: Tricky word reading

Science: exploring plants: see foundation grid

Reading grid: choose your own activity

Spelling: Summer 1 week 1 words: play a game

Friday

English: Make a WANTED poster

Maths: Adding equal groups

Phonics: Choose a challenge RE: Ramadan: see foundation subjects grid

Reading grid: choose your own activity

Spelling: Summer 1 week 1 words: play a game

Year 1 Reading Grid

In addition to your daily read, please choose and complete one of the below reading tasks each

day. Record this in your reading response book.

My favourite part

Draw a picture of your favourite part

of the book. Write sentences to

explain why you like it using ‘because’

Missing character

A character in your story has gone

missing. Create a ‘WANTED’ poster for

your character.

Beginning, middle and end

Write about what happens at the

beginning, middle and end of your

story.

Make a quiz

Make a quiz about the book for your

family to answer.

Write 5 questions using a ‘?’. Make

sure you know the answers.

Character meeting

If you could meet one character from

the text, who would it be and why?

Blurb

Write a blurb for your book. Have you

‘hooked’ the reader in? Have you

included a small picture?

Recommend to a friend

Write a book review about any book

you have enjoyed.

What did you like about it?

How many stars would you give it?

What is it about? Why would your

friend like it?

Act it out

Act out a fiction book with toys or

become a news reporter and present

a report on information from a non-

fiction book.

Story map

Draw out your story in pictures.

Reading books:

Oxford Owl: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ - website with free colour e-books. Create your own

account: free access.

Collins Big Cat: https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/portal.aspx - free access to banded e-books

using this login – Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk Password: Parents20! (login using teacher sign in)

Spelling Activities

Roll a dice and complete the challenge

Spelling Games

Write your words

in rainbow

colours

Put each word

into a silly sentence

Outside, make

your words

using sticks,

stones and

leaves

Make each word

into a dot-to-dot

E.g.

Draw a flower

for each word.

Draw a petal

for each letter.

How many

times can you

write your

spellings in 2

minutes?

Find an interactive dice here:

https://www.teacherled.com/iresources/tools/dice

/

l a

s t

last

Monday’s learning

English: LO: to use adjectives to describe a character from your

story

Listen to ‘Beegu’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D84WWxB

hbn4

Draw a picture of Beegu in

your workbook.

Can you label your drawing

using adjectives?

Can you write descriptive

sentences using some of your

adjectives?

Challenge: join your ideas using

conjunctions.

Adjectives:

‘From the deep, dark space ship…’

‘The small, lonely alien…’

‘The friendly, curious creature…’

Use the word mat below to help you!

Complete your English writing in your work

book. Please remember your best

handwriting and think about your

presentation!

Checklist:

Capital letters and correct letter

formation

Finger spaces

Correct punctuation e.g. full stops,

commas, question marks etc.

Adjectives

Paint a picture in the reader’s

mind…

Phase 3 Sound Mat

Phase 5 Sound Mat

Maths: measure length

LO: measure in cm (centimetres)

At home find a ruler, tape measure or print a cm measure here:

https://printable-ruler.net/

Key vocabulary

Centimetre (cm): A centimetre is a unit of measure for length or

height.

There are 100 cm is 1 metre.

Choose your activities and challenge level:

Challenge: Draw 5 snakes, some long, some short but make sure

they are all different.

Bronze challenge: cut them out and stick them down in order,

longest to shortest.

Silver challenge: Measure from the snake from its tongue to its tail,

label each snake with its length in centimetres (cm)

Gold challenge: After measuring each snake, say how much

longer than your little finger each snake is.

A) B)

Select which challenge you would like to complete (A or B)/bronze, silver or Gold)

ULTIMATE Challenge: 10cm Master

Ask a grown up to help you find something that is EXACTLY 10 cm long. Choose 8

of your favourite toys. Are they longer and shorter than 10cm. How will you show

what you have found? Pictures? A table? You choose...

How much longer/shorter than 10cm is each toy?

Phonics

Create a game of phonics snakes and ladders to play together.

You could make this on plain paper, using chalk outside or use the

printable board below. Use the phase 3 and phase 5 sounds

above to fill your board. You don’t need to include them all!

E.g.

OR

Try this fun phonics video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPW-ZkhRUPY

Challenge: write the sounds down as you hear them. Can

you say them all afterwards?

P

ho

nic

s Sn

ake

s an

d La

dd

ers

Tuesday’s Learning

English: LO: To use adjectives to describe a character’s feelings

Listen to ‘Beegu’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D84WWxBhbn4.

Pause the video at different points and

write a word to describe how Beegu is

feeling – use the word mat below to help

you

Draw an outline of beegu in your

workbook

Write the describing words you have

collected on Beegu’s tummy to describe

how she feels on the inside.

Put your words into sentences.

Conjunction:

Conjunctions are joining words that link

together parts of a sentence. They can be

used to join together two clauses in a

sentence. However, the clauses need to

make sense on their own.

If you want to work on your conjunctions try

this fun game:

https://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames/co

njunction.html

Complete your English writing in your work

book. Please remember your best

handwriting and think about your

presentation!

Checklist:

Capital letters and correct letter

formation

Finger spaces

Correct punctuation e.g. full stops,

commas, question marks etc.

Adjectives

Paint a picture in the reader’s

mind…

Example

Beegu is feeling lonely.

Challenge: explain why she feels

this was using conjunctions

‘because’ or ‘when’

Beegu is feeling lonely because

she has no friends.

Phonics

Phonics

Play ‘DJ Cows’ and practise ‘oi, oy’

Visit: http://www.ictgames.com/hybrid.html

Challenge: Can you create your own word search using different

‘oi/oy’ words for someone in your family?

You could draw your own, use the printable frame below or make

one online at:

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupFo

rm.asp?campaign=flyout_teachers_puzzle_wordcross

Challenge: Can you make up some silly sentences using the oi/oy

words you found? Write them in your work book.

E.g.

The boy boiled the toy in the soil.

Don’t forget to use your best handwriting and remember that the

‘y’ in ‘oy’ has a descender which drops below the line. E.g. boy

Select oi,oy

Complete the sound

pattern word search

To select a word click

on the first and last

letter – this will

highlight the word

within the word

search (see below)

Maths

Maths: Count in 10s

LO: to count in multiples of 10

Practice counting forwards in 10s up to 100. Use the video link to help you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftati8iGQcs&list=PLM95cb_Szq3am4n6jJ

w127QbBlDivZgIc

Here are some problems that will need you to use your knowledge of

counting in 10s. For your answer, try to explain how you know.

Choose your activity and level of challenge:

Bronze challenge: Which missing

number is the arrow pointing to?

Silver challenge: Which missing

number is the arrow pointing to?

Gold challenge: Can you create your own for a family member

to complete?

A) B)

Challenge: choose any number between 1 and 100. Can you count forwards

and backwards from this number, in 10s?

You may wish to use a number square to help you: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

What patterns do you notice?

Wednesday’s Learning

English: LO: To write ‘in role’ using question marks

Listen to ‘Beegu’ read by Mr Ince.

Beegu talks in a different language.

We know this from the speech

bubbles in the story

Look at the pictures below – What

do you think Beegu would say?

Draw or print speech bubbles below

and write what you think Beegu

might say or a write a question

Beegu might ask – don’t forget to

use a ?

Question Marks:

Watch this fun video about question marks

at: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=question+mark+video

+ks1&docid=608010413475367172&mid=4B3F127D0582304276D4

4B3F127D0582304276D4&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

You can practise using question marks

with this interactive game: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8x6cj6/articles

/zcm3qhv

Complete your English writing in your work

book. Please remember your best

handwriting and think about your

presentation!

Checklist:

Capital letters and correct letter

formation

Finger spaces

Correct punctuation e.g. full stops,

commas, question marks etc.

Paint a picture in the reader’s

mind…

Example

Phonics

Practise your sound recognition by playing this fun game: https://www.ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html

OR

Use the Boggle board below to find as many words as you

can.

b c b s

l ue r c

aw d ew r

l c t n

Challenge: Can you use these words in a sentence?

Click on the sounds; ue,

ew, au, aw

A green GO sign will

appear.

Click on the sign and it will

take you to the game.

You will need the sound

on.

Pop the digraphs as they

float by

Maths: Multiplication

LO: to make equal groups

Key vocabulary:

Equal: To have the same amount or value.

1. First, count how many pots there are, these are our groups.

2. Next, look at how many pencils are in each pot (group), are

they equal?

3. Finally, can you complete the following sentence:

There are _____ equal groups of _____ pencils.

Bronze challenge: Jack is trying to

make equal groups of 3. Can you

help him complete this?

Silver challenge: I

would like to split this

bag into 6 equal

groups of 4 balls. Can

you draw this for me?

Gold challenge: Can you create your own equal group problem

for a family member to solve?

Example: Look at the bowls of fish. Each bowl has 2 fish inside, they are equal.

There are 5 bowls of fish all together.

This means that there are 5 equal groups of 2 fish.

Extra Challenge:

Can you find objects in your house which there are lots of (e.g. spaghetti,

pasta, marbles, cereal etc.?)

Can you sort these objects into equal groups?

See if a family member can record this in the way you have…

There are _____ groups of _____ ___________.

Thursday’s Learning

English: Sentence Doctor

Why not make yourself a doctor hat… a grown-ups

white shirt makes a great doctors coat… you could

set up a mini doctors surgery at home.

You could use some material and learn how to make a sling when

you have treated your sentences. Practise on one of your toys or

teddies. You’ll find instructions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwfBGkBXkFA

Play Sentence Doctor online at: http://sentenceplay.co.uk/SentenceDoctor.

html

Select ‘How to play’ and

read with a grown up.

Select ‘Problem

Punctuation’ and help

diagnose the poorly

sentences

Ask a grown up to print or copy out the poorly sentences below on to strips of

paper. These are your patients. Line them up outside the door and help one at

a time: diagnose their problem then make them feel better by re-writing them in

your work book.

E.g.

Sentence: The alien was called beegu.

Diagnosis: no capital letter for a name.

Treatment: add a capital letter for a name.

The alien was called Beegu.

Beegu missed her family

she didn’t have any friends.

She thought she heard hur mother

calling.

Beegu is yEllow lonEly.

Did she hear her mother.

The litul people were friendly.

Beegu was lost. Because her ship

crashed on Earth.

Beegu wonted to play with the

children.

Her mother wasn’t calling. it woz just

the telephone.

Phonics

Let’s practise reading and writing some tricky words

today.

You can also practise your tricky

words on Phonicsplay.com

Phase 5 – Tricky word trucks –

Phase 5 all HFW

Play a game of BAM!

You will need:

Lolly sticks (alternatively you could write each word on a small

piece of paper and screw them up.

Marker

Word list

A pot

2+ players

Getting Ready:

Write a word from the list below onto each lolly stick/scrap of

paper

On one/two lolly sticks write the word BAM!

Place all sticks in the pot, word side down

How to play:

Set a timer for 3 minutes

Take turns to choose a stick and read the word written on it.

If you read it correctly you keep it.

If you read it incorrectly you put it back in the pot.

If you pick the stick that says BAM! You must put all your sticks

back in the pot.

The winner is the person who has the most sticks when the time

is up

Maths: Multiplication

LO: to add equal groups

Yesterday we looked at making our own equal groups. Today we will begin

adding equal groups together.

For the following equal groups, choose your level of challenge:

Bronze challenge: represent each group with loose parts (e.g.

pasta, pebbles etc.) Can you count the total?

Silver challenge: Draw these equal groups pictorially and record

your totals.

Gold challenge: Can you think of another way to record this?

Think of the different maths we have learnt in the past.

Groups of 5

Groups of 5 Groups of 10

Look at these bikes. Each bike has 2 wheels. There are 5 bikes. I could say

that there are 5 equal groups of 2 wheels.

I want to find out how many wheels there are all together.

I can do this by representing the wheels with objects, or pictorially as an

image:

I can count that there are 10 wheels altogether.

Friday’s Learning

English: LO: to use adjectives to describe a character from your

story

Listen to ‘Beegu’ read by Mr Ince

Beegu needs a friend. Can you help

her?

Design and make a WANTED poster

for a friend for Beegu.

Think…

What might this friend be like?

Think back to the ideas you used on

Monday and Tuesday…

What is important in a friend?

Plan

Draw (or print below) some thought

bubbles and fill them with things you think

are important in a friend.

Use the pictures below to help you.

Check

Write

Create a WANTED poster.

Draw a picture of a friend for Beegu.

Describe what this friend looks like and

describe the qualities this friend should have.

Can you include a question at the end asking

for help?

Don’t forget to use your plan!

Don’t forget…

Use the sound mat to help

your spelling.

Best handwriting please.

Friend

Phonics Challenge Day

Challenge 1

Hide the following words around the house or garden.

Shout out one of the words and race to find it. Whoever

finds it first is the winner.

crayon sound thirteen blue skirt

lawn phonics chewing tie launch

Challenge 2

How many of these items can you spot

outside today? Tick them off as you find

them.

Can you add some more to the list for your

family to find?

What do you notice about the type of

digraph in each of these words?

Challenge 3

I spy with my little eye…

Play phase 5 ‘I spy’ using the pictures and

grapheme cards below

Maths: Multiplication

LO: to add equal groups

1. Can you write repeated additions for the following equal groups?

2. Instead of counting the objects individually to find your total, you could

use your knowledge of counting in 5s and10s?

Challenge:

Bronze challenge: Can you represent the following repeated additions as

images?

Silver challenge: Can you find the totals by counting in either 2s, 5s or 10s?

Gold challenge: Can you create your own repeated additions by making

equal groups of objects around the house?

1. 5 + 5 + 5 =

2. 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 =

3. 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 =

Yesterday we looked at these bikes. We decided that there were 5

groups of 2 wheels. We also counted that there were 10 wheels all

together.

Instead of using pictorial images to represent this, we could use a number

sentence.

2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 10

This is called a repeated addition.

The number 2 represents the 2 wheels, instead of using the image.