Year 1 - Class 3 - Northcote Primary School

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Guidance to parents September 2020

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Welcome to Class 3

Hello everybody, my name is Mrs Pitfield and I am your teacher in Year 1 Class 3. Mrs Clarke and Mrs Davies will also be working with us.

Welcome to Y1

Important Information

Our school day starts at 8:50am and finishes at 3:20pm.

Class 3 will have PE on Tuesdays. Please ensure your child’s PE kit is in school as soon as possible. PE kits will be sent home at the end of each half term.

In order to keep everyone safe, please stand behind the marked area at drop off and pick up times. This will ensure all children have space to enter and exit the class safely and apply hand gel. Please wear a face covering if you are able to.

All children will require a water bottle. Please ensure this contains water only. Children will be able to refill their bottles in class.

Well done to last week’s Bug Club Reading Star!!

Look at all the fun we’ve been having in Year 1!

We’ve been using our senses in Science to feel for treasure in the sand, smell secret scents, listen to musical instruments and taste blindfolded! We went on a senses walk in the playground to find out all the things we could see, hear, smell and feel outside. We will be looking carefully this week to find animals in camouflage!

Home Learning

Our class page will be updated regularly with home learning tasks for children who are isolating at home. These will be linked to some of the work we will be doing in class. Please feel free to send in pictures of your child’s home learning as we would love to see what they are doing. You can email me at v.pitfield@northcote.liverpool.sch.uk

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Class 3 Home Learning Week Beginning 16th November

Class 3 Home Learning

Please send in any pictures to us of the work your child is completing at home – we’d love to see it!

Week Beginning 16th November 2020

Reading

Follow this link to find out how to get a specially designed library card to use in Liverpool libraries that have reopened as well as some digital reading material!

https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2020/09/peck-up-a-my-first-library-card/?utm_source=ehuacuk&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=646

Follow this link for access to free books, exclusive videos and recommended reads from a popular children’s author or illustrator on a weekly basis!

https://wordsforlife.org.uk/virtual-school-library/

Bug Club

All children have now been allocated a login for Bug Club. Bug Club gives your child access to at home reading books at their specific reading level. Children can access the reading books online and progress through the reading levels with your support at home.

Children are expected to read at least 4 books per week. Each week we will be celebrating the child who reads to most books in a week, awarding them Bug Club Star.

More information can be found in the letter below. If you have any questions about Bug Club or need your child’s login information, please email me at v.pitfield@northcote.liverpool.sch.uk

Your child can login to to Bug Club here: www.activelearnprimary.co.uk

Bug Club Parent Letter

Bug Club Reading Star

The child who had read the most books each week on Bug Club will get a certificate! Please remember that the children must complete the Bug challenges along the way in each book for it to show up in the library. When it is in the library it will tell me that they’ve read a book.

Any problems please email me – v.pitfield@northcote.liverpool.sch.uk

Writing

For the next two weeks we will be looking at a story from another culture. Handa’s Surprise is a great story set in Africa. You can listen to the story here:

Task 1: Draw a story map to show what happened in the story. Use a picture for each part. There is an example below to help you.

Task 2: Sentence writing

Finish the sentences below by choosing two words to describe the fruit:

The monkey stole the ____________ ___________ banana.
The elephant stole the ___________ ____________ mango.
The ____________ stole the ____________ __________ avocado.

Can you remember what a sentence needs?

A sentence needs:

to start with a capital letter
finger spaces between words
to end with punctuation, like a full stop
to make sense when you or someone else reads it

Do you need help? Here are some resources to help with sounding out words and recognising capital letters:

Phase 2 Sound Mat

Phase 3 Sound Mat

Upper and Lower Case Letters

Phonics

The following games and resources are available to help you with your Phonics:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b01cz0p1/alphablocks

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

Remember to use the sounds you know when you are reading and writing.

Spellings

Spellings for this half term include age-related spellings from the National Curriculum, alongside spellings from the units of work being covered in the Northcote Humanities Curriculum. We will not be testing the children on spellings this half term but we expect children to start recognising them in their reading and attempting to spell them in their writing.

Please take some time to help your child practise reading and writing the spellings for this half term.

Maths

Can you count in different ways? Watch the song and sing along to help you count in steps of 2 and 10.

Task 1: Fill in the missing numbers on a the number lines:

Science

Animals Including Humans

Do you know what animals like to eat? Animals are either carnivores, herbivores or omnivores. Do you know what these words mean?

Task: Watch the BBC Bitesize video to learn about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. When are are finished, check your learning by taking the quiz.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/z96vb9q

D&T

What vegetables do you like to eat? Plan a healthy vegetable salad with your favourite vegetables. Draw a picture of it and label each vegetable. Talk to an adult about the different vegetables.

Can you name the vegetables in the salad below?