Hello Year One, welcome to Week 5 of learning!

Thank you all for your hard work, I am so proud of how hard you are all working and your fantastic attitudes to online learning. I have loved seeing the work you have been uploading and what you have been getting up to at home - keep up the good work! 

Below you will find the suggested timetable for this week where you will find some of the activities you could be having a go at home this week.

Children's Mental Health and Well-Being

This week is children's Mental Health Week so take a look at the activities below and get involved with this year's theme: EXPRESS YOURSELF!

Here is a virtual assembly uploaded via Oak Academy which introduces Children's Mental Health Week and this year's theme: 

https://classroom.thenational.academy/assemblies/childrens-mental-health-week-2021

Here are some short videos talking about the importance of mental health and looking after our mental well-being. The videos offer a few suggestions on how to keep our minds fit and healthy and reminds us of the importance of expressing ourselves. 

Children's Mental Health Week:

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=childrens+mental+health+week+

We All Have Mental Health:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxIDKZHW3-E

There are also lots of activities and online resources which can help you look after your mental health and well-being. Here are some which focus on this year's theme: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/childrens-mental-health-week/zk37bdm

Phonics - For our Phonics this week we are going to recap all the phase 5 sounds we have learnt this year. 

Monday - Reading words - Allow your child to independently sound out these words. 

Tuesday - I Spy Activity - Can you use a reading book to find all of our phonemes that we have learnt and write them on your sheet. Don't forget, you need to sound them out before you can write them. 

Wednesday - Buried Treasure Activity - Can you sort these words into real or fake words. This doesn't have to be printed, you can write them on paper and sort them into real or fake words.

Thursday - Car Park Game - Call out a sound and ask your child to park their car/toy/cover the correct sound. Can they then think of a word that has this sound in? Extension: can you give your child a word with one of the sounds in and they have to find the sound that is within the word?

Friday - Charades - Allow your child to read the cards independently, can they act them out for you to guess. Extension - can they draw a picture for each card?