St Bartholomew's CE Primary

Phonics & Grammar Activities

• Spend 5-10 mins practising your sounds from your sound card sent home (on the yellow card) or see speedsounds chart above.
• Practise reading tricky words                 https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/TrickyWordTrucks.html 
• Write lists of real and nonsense words and practise reading them to someone else.
• here is a link of a buried treasure game you can print or copy the idea using bits of paper from home.                https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-763-editable-buried-treasure-phonics-game

RWInc Activities

Before clicking on the links below, log on to the Oxford Owls website and register for free and ask the device to remember the password, as this makes accessing the books easier.

Please read the book for your group and answer the questions.

Mrs Anchor

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/2092.html

Mrs Blears

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29273.html

Mrs Lee

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1220.html

Mrs Wadsworth

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29260.html

If your child can't remember what group they are in drop us an email so we can help. Oxford owls is free to join and has hundreds of books and activities to use.

Writing Activities

• Each day write a sentence or sentences about something you have done that day. 

Reading Activities

• Watch and listen to the story The Great Paper Caper by Oliver Jeffers.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5IxgE72EGw

• Discuss the story with your family.

  Think about the characters, and the main events in the story.

  Can you retell the story to someone else.
• Make a list of real and nonsense words and practice reading them to your family.
• Here is a link to a game that can be printed if you want to make a game at home.  
• https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-705-phase-5-buried-treasure-phonics-game

 There are lots of different ebooks the children can read on Oxford Owls website. They are reading books we use in school and they have activities the children can do after. Please aim for your child to read 1 or 2 books a week.  

You will need to register ( it is free) so you can access the books. Please access the books for children aged 5-6 as these are what they are reading in class.

 Have a go at writing a book review for one of the books you have a read. 

Think about: Write / draw your responses

• What was the title?
• Draw a picture about the story.
• Write a sentence to describe the story
• What was the best part of the story?
• Who were the characters in the story?  

     https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

Fun activities to try

Keep checking the list as we will add more things as we find them.

• Cosmic Kids yoga  - https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
• Joe Wicks PE lessons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0go1pTda8
• Watch the animals at Chester Zoo on the live web cam  https://www.chesterzoo.org/
• Play the games on Phonics play - Username: march20  password: home
• Make up your own game and teach someone else how to play it
• Paint stones / pebble to make a picture in your garden 
• Make and complete an obstacle course inside or outside
• Make a boat out of different materials and test whether it will float or sink                                                 https://www.consortiumeducation.com/classroom-ideas/make-a-boat-that-floats-floating-and-sinking-materials-ks1-science-dt-english?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=wallpost&utm_campaign=MakeABoatThatFloats&utm_content=blog 

Maths Activities

This weeks focus: Addition & Subtraction & Statistics

Over this week please complete these tasks.

• Using toys and objects at home, make some numbers sentences. Can you move the objects around to make different number sentences.
• Using +, -, =
• see image below to give you an example.  
•  Look at the pictogram below and answer the following questions.

1) Which fruit is the most popular?

2) Which fruit is the least popular?

3) Which fruits do more than 5 people like?

4) Which fruit do only 2 people like?

5) If you were to add your vote which fruit would you choose? Does that change the results for the most popular or least popular fruit?

• Now make your own pictogram on Purple mash and write your own questions for your family to answer. 
• https://www.purplemash.com/sch/stbarts-ol12

You can change the pictures by clicking on the picture and selecting a new category, remember all the pictures  need to be from the same category!

The Great Outdoors

Topic activities

Task 1 

Have a go at making paper aeroplanes. There are lots of videos on you tube on how to make different paper aeroplanes. Have fun experimenting. Does the different types of paper make a difference?

Task 2

make a poster to thank the different key workers that help us. It could be for the bin men, postmen, cleaners, shop workers and truck drivers anyone you want to thank. Display it in your window for everyone to see. 

Task 3

Carry on with your recycling at home, finding out what different objects are made from. Have you made a poster yet to encourage people to recycle?

Any posters you make send them to year1@st-bartholomews.lancs.sch.uk and we will put them on the website for everyone to see.

Topic books

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/12939.html

Our bean plant gallery

Keep sending in your photographs and we will keep updating the progress of your plants.