Year 1 | Mapledene Primary School

Year 1

Welcome to Year 1 2019/20

Learning at home updates:

Have a go at the Doodle Easter Challenge https://www.doodlemaths.com/spring-challenge/
Join the parent Facebook group 'At Mapledene we care and share for our little people' for regular updates from Miss Johnson and Miss Ellgood and a chance to share your children's work.
Check out our 'Learn it with Mapledene' YouTube channel for stories, handwriting lessons and rhyme time all done by our teachers!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfdasSwHVsKAQ4xO5RGgQSA/videos

Supporting your child with their learning at home

Encourage your child to go on the following websites to help them to become more confident with targets on the National Curriculum at home. Some of these are also available to dowload as apps.

Read Write inc Videos (updated daily)

Hit the Button 'Number Bonds to 10', 'Number Bonds to 20' and 'Doubles to 10' will help your child to practise key arithmetic skills that are required in year 1.

Phonics Play A variety of games to help support the skills of blending sounds for reading. It is particularly important that year 1 children become confident at reading new and 'alien words'.

Multiple Frenzy Practise recognising multiples of 2, 5 and 10.

Reading Games Take a look at these Topmarks games to help develop reading and sentence skills.

Spelling games Topmarks games that will help to support spelling- including days of the week, alphabetical order and words with suffixes.

Dinosaur Discovery A game linking dinosaur knowledge with science investigation skills.

Home learning projects

Check out these projects to engage your children whilst they are learning from home.

A visit from a real life explorer...

An EGGciting discovery

'It's a Party'

A visit to Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Center for Year 1's topic 'A Passport Around the World'.

Looking for signs of Autumn

Useful Videos and Games

These online games and videos are a great way for your chid to share their learning with you and revise what they have learnt at school during the week.