Year 1 trip to St Bees.

Year 1 had a great trip to St Bees. We had lots of fun on the beach. We had a scavenger hunt, explored the rock pools and learnt about the amazing work carried out by the RNLI. We were even lucky enough to have a ice cream which we enjoyed in the sunshine. 

Click on the link below or scan the QR code to watch our video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd8sxdnJhqM

Year 1 National Numeracy Day Fun - Wednesday 18th May 2022

We all had a great time making strawberry milk on National Numeracy Day. Our topic in maths was measuring so we had lots of fun measuring our strawberries, sugar and milk! 

Click on the link below or scan the QR code to watch our video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lezwpzin6nc

Year 1's elf, Twinkle, left a very special surprise for us today.  We found some skittles and magic water that made a magical rainbow.  It was amazing!  We also used the magic to make a special Christmas wish.

Homework for Friday 27th November

Reading - remember to read your reading book and return it to school every Monday and Thursday. Additional reading can be accessed on Get Epic reading, our class code is ajh4719.

Phonics - air as in hair and ure as in pure

Awesome group - Can you read and write these words? Hair, stairs, fairy, repair, pure, sure, manure and mature.  Can you write sentences using pull and put?

Brilliant group - Can you read and write these words hair, pair, stairs, fairy, sure, pure, cure and manure. Can you write a sentence using put?

Fantastic group - Can you read and write these words? hair, pair, fair, cure, sure and pure. Can you write a sentence using push?

Marvellous group - Can you read and write these words? this, that, them, with, path and moth.  Can you read these tricky words? I, you and my

Wonderful group -  Practice r. Can you make the sound? Practice writing r. Can you find anything that starts with a r sound at home?

Maths -

This week's work will follow on from last week. This week we have been learning to add more to a group. Ask your child to find a number of objects, count the objects. Now add more, how many have you got now? Tell this as a story (this is really important so that children learn the language of addition). First we had 5 Lego bricks, then we added 3 more Lego bricks, now we have 8 Lego bricks. Write this as an addition fact. 5 + 3 = 8

If you can any questions please send me a message on Dojo or email me. 

Awesome - totals up to 12.

Brilliant - totals up to 10.

Fantastic - totals up to 8. 

Marvellous - totals up to 5. 

Wonderful - collect items up to 5. Can you make a group that is more than this?

Homework for Friday 27th November

Reading - remember to read your reading book and return it to school every Monday and Thursday. Additional reading can be accessed on Get Epic reading, our class code is ajh4719.

Phonics - er as in fern and ir as in bird

Awesome group - Can you read and write these words? Fern, herb, butter, letter, number, girl, bird, twirl, shirt, third and first Can you write a sentence using your?

Brilliant group - Can you read and write these words fern, herb, number, letter, girl, bird, third and first. Can you write a sentence using our?

Fantastic group - Can you read and write these words? fern, herb, kerb, girl, bird, stir Can you write a sentence using we?

Marvellous group - Can you read and write these words? sing, sang, hang, long and bang  Can you read these tricky words? no, go and so

Wonderful group -  Practice u. Can you make the sound? Practice writing u. Can you spot this letter shape in a book or on packets at home?

Maths -

This week's work will follow on from last week. This week we have been learning to add. Ask your child to find two groups of objects. Count each group and then count all of the objects together. record this as an addition fact like this 2 + 1 = 3

If you can any questions please send me a message on Dojo or email me. 

Awesome - groups up to 12.

Brilliant - groups up to 10.

Fantastic - groups up to 8. 

Marvellous - groups up to 5. 

Wonderful - collect items up to 5. Can you write the number to match?

Reading - remember to read your reading book and return it to school every Monday and Thursday. Additional reading can be accessed on Get Epic reading, our class code is ajh4719.

Phonics - oi as in coin and oy as in boy

Awesome group - Can you read and write these words? coin, join, spoil, toilet, boy, joy, enjoy and annoy Can you write a sentence using there?

Fantastic group - Can you read and write these words? coin, join, spoil, boy, joy and enjoy Can you write a sentence using out?

Marvellous group - Can you read and write these words? toy, boy, joy, coin and join Can you read these tricky words? he, me and she

Wonderful group - Can you read these words? ship, shop, shut, mash, cash and push Try to write the sh sound.

Maths -

This week's work will follow on from last week. This week we have been systematically recording number bonds for a number. Ask your child to find the correct number of objects. Keep them all in one group and write the number fact for this eg 3 + 0 = 3. Now move 1 object over and record this eg 2 + 1 = 3. Keep going until all of your objects have moved. Your systematic number bonds should look like this;

3 + 0 = 3

2 + 1 = 3

1 + 2 = 3

0 + 3 = 3

If you can any questions please send me a message on Dojo or email me. 

Awesome - groups up to 10. 

Fantastic - groups up to 8. Can you split up your groups another way?

Marvellous - groups up to 5. 

Wonderful - groups up to 3. Please support your child to write their facts.

Reading - remember to read your reading book and return it to school every Monday and Thursday. Additional reading can be accessed on Get Epic reading, our class code is ajh4719.

Phonics - ow as in snow

Awesome group - Can you read and write these words? snow, blow, grow, show, throw and pillow Can you write a sentence using like?

Fantastic group - Can you read and write these words? snow, blow, grow, show, crow and throw. Can you write a sentence using out?

Marvellous group - Can you read and write these words? snow, blow, grow and show? Can you read these tricky words? the, and, to

Wonderful group - Can you read these words? chin, chip, chat, much and such. Try to write the ch sound.

Maths -

This week's work will follow on from last week. In school we have been drawing part whole models and then writing the number facts to match. Please ask your child to find a number of objects. Split them into 2 parts, now draw the part whole model and matching number facts for your number. I have added a picture of this below so that you can see what a part whole model looks like. If you can any questions please send me a message on Dojo or email me. 

Awesome - groups up to 10. How many different ways can you split up the same number?

Fantastic - groups up to 10. Can you split up your groups another way?

Marvellous - groups up to 6. 

Wonderful - groups up to 5. Please support your child to write their facts.  

Homework for Friday 6th November

Reading - Remember to read your book and bring it back to school on Monday.

Phonics - Awesome - ow as in cow. Can you read and write these words?

cow, now, town, brown, shower and flower. Practice the tricky words come and some.

Fantastic - ow as in cow. Can you read and write these tricky words?

cow, now, how, town, down and brown. Practice the tricky words come and some.

Marvellous - ch at the end of a word. Can you read and write these words?

much, such, rich, lunch and munch. Practice the tricky words no and go.

Wonderful - Can you read these words? up, cup, pup, cut, mug and rug

Can you write the letter u?

Maths

In class we have been practicing finding parts of a whole number. You will need some small objects that can be picked up in your hand easily - marbles, lego bricks or pieces of pasta will work. Ask your child to pick up a number of pieces - this is the whole group, now ask them to put some in each hand - these are the parts of the number that make the whole group (ie 3 and 2 make 5) Can you make the whole group using different parts?

Remember to take a picture and send it to me on Dojo or to my email address - a.walsh@stmarys-harrington.cumbria.sch.uk

Awesome and Fantastic- make groups up to 10

Marvellous - make groups up to 6

Wonderful - make groups up to 4

Homework for Friday 23rd Oct

Reading - Please read your home reading book. Can you read 2 more books on Epic Reading? 

Phonics - Over half term please focus on tricky words. I have set words for each group. Try to make sure your child can read these words. If they achieve this then try to see if they can learn to write them too!

Wonderful - he, me, be, we

Marvellous - the, them, they, this, that, then

Fantastic - here, were, when, what, one, once

Awesome - some, come, love, have, said, little

Maths - Practice all of the skills we have learnt this term: counting forwards and backwards, one more and one less, ordering numbers and comparing numbers. 

Have a fantastic half term Year 1! You have all worked very hard and I am very proud of every single one of you!

Homework for Friday 16th October

Reading - Remember to read each day using your school reading book or Get Epic reading - our class code is ajh4719.

Phonics - 

Wonderful - ck - Can you find 3 things that have the ck sound at the end? Black, sack, backpack, snack, track, duck and muck are some ideas. Practice writing ck.

Marvellous - ar - Can you find 3 things that have the ar sound in them? Farm, farmyard, card, park, car, star and carpark are all ideas. Practice writing car, star, card, hard, park and dark.

Fantastic - or and ar - Can you find 2 things that have or (cord, corn, horn, fork) and 2 things that have ar (farm, farmyard, card, park)? Practice writing stork, born, sort,  start, park and hard.

Awesome  - or and ar - Can you find 2 things that have or (cord, corn, horn, fork) and 2 things that have ar (farm, farmyard, card, park)? Practice writing stork, born, sort,  start, park and hard. Can you write these sentences by yourself? I went to the park in the car. I  eat my corn with a fork.

Maths - ordinal numbers

Wonderful - make a line of 3 toys. Can you say which toy is first, second and third?

Marvellous - make a line of five toys. Can you say which is first, second, third, fourth and fifth?

Fantastic - make a line of five toys. Can you say which is first, second, third, fourth and fifth? Can you write 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th?

Awesome - make a line of ten toys. Can you say the position of each toy?

Can you write 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th using numbers and words? 

Homework for Friday 9th October

Reading - Remember to read each night! 

Phonics

Wonderful - k - can you find 3 things that start with k? (kitten, key, kangaroo, kitchen or kettle) Practice writing the letter k.

Marvellous - oo - Can you find 3 things that have the long oo sound in them? (boot, kangaroo, toothbrush, spoon, balloon, book or broom are ideas)

Practice writing moon, book, room and boot.

Fantastic - oo - Can you find 2 things that have the long oo sound (boot and spoon) and 2 things that have the short oo sound ( sounds like a u as in hook or foot) 

Practice writing - hook, foot, book, cook, spoon, broom. Talk about which words you say with a long sound and which you say with a short sound. 

Awesome - oo - Can you sort these words into short or long oo? Hook, boot, foot, cook, look, shoot, room, moon, book, took. (short oo words will vary according to accents so explore with your child how you say these words. Can you write a sentence using 3 of these oo words?

Maths

Ordering numbers

Wonderful - Give your child the numbers 1 to 5 on pieces of card or paper. Can they put them in the write order? 

Marvellous - Give your child the numbers 1 to 10 on pieces of card or paper. Can they put them in the correct order? Practice writing each number correctly.

Fantastic - Give your child 3 numbers between 1 and 12, can they put them in order from smallest to largest? Practice using different numbers. Practice writing the numbers to 15.

Awesome - Give your child 5 numbers between 1 and 20, can they put them in order from smallest to largest? Practice using different numbers. Practice writing the numbers to 20. 

Homework for Friday 18th September

This week we have been learning letter blends, where two letters work together to make a new sound. For homework can you find some things that begin with the sh sound. Take a picture of one and upload it to our class dojo page for me to see! If you haven't joined yet I have sent an invitation to your email address.

We have also tried counting objects to ten, keep practising this at home. Ask your child to find or bring you groups of objects up to ten. For example, can you find me 6 spoons? Can you bring me 4 socks? Can you make a group to ten crayons. Again take a picture and send it to me via class dojo.

Have a lovely weekend year 1! I'm looking forward to seeing you all again on Monday!

Wednesday 16th September

Hello year 1

We are resuming our online learning for anyone who needs it.

You will all have received an invitation to join class dojo by email, this morning. Please check your emails.

You will need to join our class dojo so that you can upload homework tasks as well as online learning.

You will also receive an invitation for get epic reading. Using our class code will allow you to access extra reading books without having to wait to change your book in school. It is vital that everyone reads every day at home.

I know that you are all keen to learn and I can't wait to see your work.

If you need any help please contact me on

a.walsh@stmarys-harrington.cumbria.sch.hi

Take care 

Ms Walsh

Friday 11th September

A huge welcome to everyone in Year 1!!!

I am really looking forward to working with you this year. You have all worked really hard this week and I am very impressed with your skills!!! 

Each week I will set a phonics/spelling activity and a maths activity for homework. These will reinforce what we have been doing in school. 

This week I would like everyone to find 3 things at home that begin with the sound h. Please don't bring your items into school. Please take a photograph of your things and email it to me at

a.walsh@stmarys-harrington.cumbria.sch.uk

For maths you need to find 10 objects at home and then sort these into groups. Ideas for this could be; lego/ duplo bricks grouped according to colour or size, animals or soft toys grouped according to type or colour, packets or tins sorted into shape or socks sorted into colour or pattern. When you have finished take a picture and include it in your email!

I can't wait to see what you get up to!!! Remember to return your reading book on Monday!

Take care

Ms Walsh