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Thursday 24th April 2020

Good morning Team Aitken!  

Get your brain working with today’s Think Outside the box Thursday! What could it be?! (saved below) 

Maths: 

Brain workout – quick fire halves! Find half of: 

2 , 6, 8, 12,  4 

Today we are going to continue our learning on fractions. We are learning to find quarter today!  

Here’s another little video before you start: https://vimeo.com/409271440 

The password is Year1 

Now go to https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/ 

Open up Summer Term Week 2 and go to Lesson 2 finding quarter (part 1) 

Play the video and complete Flashback 4 (week 4 day 2) first and then you can have a go at the activity – see below attached.    

Want more maths?  
How many ways can you find quarters at home?  

 

English 

Mrs Smart’s group  

Today we are going to read the well-known story about a little boy’s lost toy dog – Dogger by Shirley Hughes.  

Before you listen to the story, please take time to look at the file Dogger.png  
Can you think of 3 words to describe this picture?   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNOYgRf5jes If you have the book at home, do read it instead. 

After you have heard the story. Have a think about how Dave must have felt when he lost Dogger. Can you think of words to describe how he was feeling. Have you ever lost anything that was precious to you?  

We are going to write our own version of Dogger about a toy that we lose and find again. This may take you 3 days to do a really good job!  

Today you are going to plan your story only. Have a look at Mrs Smart’s example of a story plan with a beginning, middle and end  - see Forgotton Flora Plan.pdf for an idea for a story about losing a favourite toy and finding it again.  

Now use the planning file – plan doc.pdf which has 3 boxes to draw pictures of your beginning, middle and end. Under each box is a small space to write short sentences about the pictures for each part of your story.  

Please do not try to write the whole story in your plan! This is just a plan! 

Good luck! The best stories come from good plans!  

 

Read Write Inc 

 ***PLEASE NOTE YouTube VIDEO TIMINGS BELOW FOR YOUR RWI GROUPS!*** 

Read Write Inc and Ruth Miskin Training are providing daily videos. Follow them on YouTube or look below. 

PLEASE NOTE that these specific daily YouTube videos only last 24 hours. If you miss one, just look below to catch up. We will continue to post the daily sounds, spellings and sentences. Visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ  

Miss Aitken’s group (set 3) 10.30am 

Focus Speed sound is: 

‘ew' as in “ Chew the stew”. It sounds like ‘oo’ ‘poo at the zoo’. 

Follow the spellings on YouTube (link above, see timings) or complete the ones below: 

Spellings (don’t forget your dots and dashes): 

1) chew   2) flew   3)   renew 

Write these sentences using the focus sounds 

1) The bird flew up high. 
2) Screw the top on the bottle. 

  

Mrs Fetherston’s group (set 3) - 10.30am  

Follow the spellings on YouTube (link above, see timings) or complete the ones below: 

Focus Speed sound is: 

‘ew' as in “ Chew the stew”. It sounds like ‘oo’ ‘poo at the zoo’. 

Follow the spellings on YouTube (link above, see timings) or complete the ones below: 

Spellings (don’t forget your dots and dashes): 

1) chew   2) flew   3)   renew 

Write these sentences using the focus sounds 

1) The bird flew up high. 
2) Screw the top on the bottle. 

  

Mrs Smith’s group (set 3) 10.30am  

Follow the spellings on YouTube (link above, see timings) or complete the ones below: 

Focus Speed sound is: 

“ew” as in ‘Chew the stew.’ (set 3) It sounds like ‘oo’ ‘poo at the zoo’. 

Spellings (don’t forget your dots and dashes): 

1) chew   2) stew   3) renew 

Write these sentences using the focus sounds 

  1. The new baby bird flew out of the nest. 

  1. Please put cashew nuts into the stew. 

  

  Miss Tranham’s group (set 2) – 10am 

Follow the spellings on YouTube (link above, see timings) or complete the ones below: 

Focus Speed sound is: 

“ee” as in ‘What can you see?’ 

Spellings (don’t forget your dots and dashes): 

1) tree   2)  free  3) three 

Write these sentences using the focus sounds 

1)  Get up that tree. 

2)  You can have three sweets. 

  

Helpful links for parents and carers https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/ 

Topic 

Today's learning intention is ‘I know that animals belong to different groups.’ 

There are 5 main animal groups according to certain similarities; amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles. 

Amphibians: live on land and in the water; have webbed feet; breathe with lungs and gills; are cold blooded; have moist skin (no hair or fur); lay many eggs; have four legs (sometimes none). 

Birds: have feathers and wings; lay eggs; have two legs; no ears (just ear holes); are warm blooded. 

Fish: can breathe underwater using gills; live in water; have scales and fins (no hair or fur); are cold blooded; lay many eggs. 

Mammals: have hair or fur; give birth to ‘live young’ (do not lay eggs); mothers nurse babies with their milk; breathe air through lungs; some live on land some live in the water; on land have legs and ears; are warm blooded (humans are mammals!) 

Reptiles: have scales (not fur); dry skin; usually lay eggs (some give birth to live young); ear holes instead of ears; four legs or no legs at all; are cold blooded. 

We will talk about insects in another lesson.

Below I have attached informative illustrations (including the facts above about each animal group).  
I have also attached the group names as headers and some pictures that you can cut out and sort. You may like to write your own animal group names for sorting. 

You could gather up all your animal toys (add a ‘Mythical Creature group’ for unicorns, Pokemon etc if necessary, but try to avoid confusion) and sort them into their correct groups. Talk about each animal and why you think it belongs in a certain group. Ask your adult to check. 

Take a photo or video and share if you can, we would love to see! 

BBC Bitesize has some great videos that explain each of the main animal groups. Watch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv 

 

SPaG 

Here are the next set of tricky red words– let’s rap with Jack Hartmann: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boSwtN7RWtU