Year 1 Home Learning (in the event of school closure)
We recommend your child spends between 1 and 2 hours a day on the following activities. There is one main topic related project for you to try. Also choose several additional activities for some variety.
Topic related projects
Autumn term
TOYS – Draw a timeline of your toys (a toy from when you were a baby, when you were about 3 years old and today). Write a sentence about your timeline.
Spring term
HOMES – Interview your parents or grandparents to find out about what their bedroom was like when they were your age (did they share the room? What did they do in their bedroom – did they have a computer or TV? How was it decorated?) Discuss the similarities and differences.
Draw and label their bedroom and yours.
Summer term
GROWING
I-spy - Find out who lives in your garden Where do they live? Can you make a picture dictionary of the wildlife in your garden?
Make a who am I? Quiz (eg I spin a web. I have 8 legs. I frightened Miss Muffet! Who am I?
Additional activities
- read …
a picture book (fiction)
an information book related to our topic
rhymes and poetry ( choose and learn a poem)
- consolidate spellings learnt in spelling book (do a spelling quiz – or even 2 or 3 during the week)
- Play a game to practise number skills
- Practise writing numbers (number formation, two-digit and three-digit numbers, read and write number words)
- Estimate and measure how many buckets to fill your paddling pool?
- Follow a simple recipe
- Follow instructions to make something else
- Cut magazine pictures carefully to make a collage related to our topic or your interest
- Ball skills – throwing, catching, kicking, dribbling etc
- Practise skipping with a rope. Learn skipping chants or games
- Big body exercises – star jumps, touch toes diagonally ( left hand touch right toe … and behind your back!)
hopping, rolling (cycling?)
June 2009