Home learning tasks

By Year1 on March 20, 2020

Home learning tasks

Don’t forget to look at Sumdog for maths, reading and spelling challenges which will be updated each week.

Maths – Exploring coins!

Collect any loose change and empty your piggy banks.

What is the value of each coin?

Can you make 10p using only 1p coins?

Draw around each coin and write a number sentence.

1p+1p+1p+1p+1p+1p+1p+1p+1p+1p =

Can you make 10p using 2p coins? Can you make 10p using 5p coins? Now try making 20p using these coins.

Choose a total and explore different ways of making that amount.

English

Keep practising your phonics and read your home reading book. Remember to explore the vocabulary and discuss the questions at the back of the book.

Watch this story about a brave knight.

Choose one of these activities

Draw a story mountain or story map to show the events in the book.

Draw a cartoon strip of the main events in the story.

Make a timeline of events from the story.

Challenge

Can you write your own story about the brave knight?

Spelling

Practise these words.

no, so, go, said, like, was

Try writing them in the air, on someone’s back, in the sand or bubbles in the bath. Perhaps you could write or say a sentence with each word?

Science

Look outside. What flowers can you see?

Draw a picture of one of the flowers you can see.

Add these labels to your picture:

Stem Leaf Petal Root

Challenge: What does each part of the flower do?

Topic

We are beginning our topic on castles!

Watch this video about a castle.

What are the main features of a castle?

Draw or print a picture of a castle. Add labels to the main features.

Challenge – Why were castles important in the past?

Year 1