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.                                                          
• Play some of the English games on BBC bitesize, there are lots of games you can complete and daily lessons. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zncgvk7 
• Have a go at putting the correct punctuation in the sentences in the below sheet.

Writing Activities

Writing a story - using your garden as the setting

• Read any stories set outside, in woods, gardens etc to give you ideas.
• Draw a map of your garden 
• Think of two characters who could live in your garden, and write a character description for them. You can use the character description sheet below or make your own. 
• Write your own  story map - think about what might happen to your characters, you need a beginning, a middle (the problem) and an ending ( the solution)
• Write your story on paper or using Purple mash.    https://www.purplemash.com/sch/stbarts-ol12
• Don't forget your illustrations!

Reading Activities

 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.

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

Can you find any books about The Great Outdoors to read?

• Practice reading the common exception words in the resources box below, Can you use them in a sentence?

Parents information sheets

If your unsure how to teach phonics or reading this article gives you useful information and advice.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/learn-to-read-phonics/

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 
• Have a picnic 
• Paint a rock and leave it for someone to find on your daily exercise
• Make a garden lantern. Paint a jam jar on the outside and place a tealight inside to shine in the evening. (adults only to light the tealight)
• Have a go at some of the lessons on BBC Bitesize
• Have a treasure hunt in your garden
• Bird watch - how many different birds can you see
• Make an obstacle course  
• Make a healthy snack 
• Send a postcard to a friend
• Make Daisy chains 
• Paint a self portrait

Maths Activities

This weeks focus: Fractions 

(to be finished this week)

Fun activity: Learn the songs for the x2, x5, x10 timetables on Education city, homework.

  https://go.educationcity.com/

Over this week please complete these tasks

• See how many food items you can split into halves and quarters.
• Using playdough see how many shapes you can halve equally and cut into quarters.
• Can you use different objects and split into groups halve snad quarters, try using buttons, cars, marbles, pasta shells etc
• Watch the halves and quarters powerpoint on Twinkl    https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/roi-n-5170-halves-and-quarters-powerpoint  or use resource below. 
• Complete the homework Fraction activities on Education city. 
• Complete the activity sheets below 

Remember you can use objects to help you or draw dots or objects like we would do at school. 

The Great Outdoors

Topic activities - to be finished this week

To explore what happens when different materials get wet.

Make a house for one of your toys / or teddy that you can keep outside. It rains a lot in Whitworth so you need to think about which materials will keep it dry.

Try these different activities to find out the best material. 

• Education city - Homework : Waterproof materials       https://go.educationcity.com/
• Science experiment 

           https://www.science-sparks.com/how-waterproof-is-it/

• Watch the video clip on What materials are waterproof?      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nd42ISTOJI
• Design your house on paper - label the materials you will use.
• Make your house with the materials you have chosen - Take a photograph
• Leave your house out in the rain and then see if it kept dry inside.
• Write an evaluation - Did it work? Why did it keep your toy dry? Why didn't it keep your toy dry?

Send any photographs to year1@st-bartholomews.lancs.sch.uk and we will put them on the website for everyone to see.

Topic books - see if you can find any other books about materials and their properties.

Bin Gobblins

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.