Year 1 & 2

If you would like to contact your child's teacher please email directly: mrs.corley@stmarys.leics.sch.uk  mrs.sluce@stmarys.leics.sch.uk  mrs.mosedale@stmarys.leics.sch.uk  mrs.ohara@stmarys.leics.sch.uk

Welcome to the Year 1 and 2 Home Learning Page.

We hope you are all keeping safe and well.  Thank you so much for the photos that have been sent in so far.  It is great to see the children having so much fun with their home learning.

 

Please find below specific activities and resources for English, Maths and Topic which will be updated weekly. You can also continue to use Active Learn for online Maths games and reading books.

Week beginning 1st June 2020

Welcome back to Home Learning! We hope you had a great half term and enjoyed the wonderful weather.  We will continue to provide Home Learning for Year 1 and 2 on this page.  We really enjoy seeing what you have been doing so please continue to send us photos of your fantastic activities.

Phonics

At St Mary's, Year 1 and 2 children follow the Letters and Sounds scheme for Phonics.  Online Phonics lessons continue to be available every day.  Year 1 lessons are available from 10.30am and Learning to blend lessons from 11am at the link below. 

If you're in Mrs Mosedale's Phonics group, practise writing contractions and use them in your own sentences.  For example, cannot - can't. I can't believe how warm it is today.  How many different contractions can you remember? Here are some to get you started:

is not - isn't         do not - don't        could not - couldn't       I will - I'll

English - Writing activity (Mon - Weds)

This week, we are going to be exploring 'bubbles'.  Please watch and listen to the story Bubble Trouble.

Imagine you were floating away in a bubble.  Write about what could happen to you in full sentences and really try your best to use your imagination.  Use the following questions as prompts to guide you with your writing.

How did you get in there?

Where would you go?

What might happen?

How would you get out?

* Watch this space for an additional writing activity about Bubble Trouble for Thursday and Friday. *

Maths Activities

Please follow the link to the White Rose Home Learning website.  You will find a daily lesson and, as our school subscribes to White Rose, a link to the activity sheet underneath the web link.  If you can't print out the activity, your child could still show their working out and answers on a separate piece of paper.

Year 1

Worksheets to accompany White Rose lessons

Answer sheets

Year 2

Worksheets to accompany White Rose lessons

Answer sheets

Topic activities

 

This week, we would like you to continue with our History Challenge.

St Mary's Community Art Project
 

Thank you very much for those who have sent in their fantastic pictures so far.  If you walk past school, you will notice that they have been laminated and are looking great hanging along the school fence!  If you haven't completed yours yet, don't worry, it's not too late.  You can still send one in!

From Mrs Ayres' letter dated 6.5.20 - School is really quiet without the children and we miss them so much.  Wouldn't it be fantastic if every child drew a self-portrait of themselves on an A4 sheet with their arms outstretched which we could put on the perimeter fence?  Not only would it brighten up the fence but it would be a daily reminder of who makes our school community so special.  If you would like to take part in this please draw yourself with your arms outstretched, colour carefully and add your first name only.  On your daily walk you can post your pictures in the letter box on Station Road outside Picasso class or post them to school if you don't live close by.  We look forward to receiving them.

Week beginning 25th May 2020

As it's Half Term this week, we won't be setting any Home Learning activities.  Please take the time to enjoy yourselves and hopefully the lovely weather (fingers crossed)!  We will continue to set Home Learning activities for both Year 1 and 2 children from the week beginning 1st June.

All of our Year 1/2 team send their best wishes and we hope you are all keeping safe and well.

Take care!

Week beginning 18th May 2020

Hello everybody! We hope you're all keeping safe and well and you enjoyed our video!  We also hope that you have been enjoying the activities that we have put on this page for you.  If you see any other games or activities that you think your friends would like, please let us know so we can share them with others.

 

If you are in Mrs Mosedale's Phonics group, you can recap on our work on homophones with these activities on BBC Bitesize Daily.

English activities

This week you will be exploring Instructions.  We use instructions in so many different aspects of our lives.  Let's see how many different types of instructions you can explore this week! As always, it would be great to share your great work in our Home Learning Photo Gallery.

Year 1

Year 2

 

If you would like an extra challenge, you could see how quickly you can recall your 2x and 5x tables on Times Tables Rockstars and Hit the Button.

Week beginning 11th May 2020

Phonics

 

At St Mary's, Year 1 and 2 children follow the Letters and Sounds scheme for Phonics.  Online Phonics lessons continue to be available every day.  Year 1 lessons are available from 10.30am and Learning to blend lessons from 11am at the link below. 

Further online Phonics lesson from BBC Bitesize Daily

If you're in Mrs Mosedale's phonics group, your suffix this week to recap on is -er.

Write a list of words which contain the suffix -er.  For example, bigger, tighter, straighter etc.  How many more can you find?  Try to remember the different rules eg. doubling the consonant for words with a short vowel sound (big to bigger) and changing the y to an i (funny to funnier).

Now try to include them in sentences and write them down. (Don't forget your capital letter and full stop, question mark or exclamation mark!)

English Activities

This week, the theme for our English activity is friendship.  We think it would be lovely for the children to share their pictures and writing about what makes a great friend in our Home Learning Photo Gallery. 

For more details, please read the introduction document below and email your completed work to your class teacher. (For GDPR reasons, please do not include children's names.)

Maths Activities

Please follow the link to the White Rose Home Learning website.  You will find a daily lesson and, as our school subscribes to White Rose, a link to the activity sheet underneath the web link.  If you can't print out the activity, your child could still show their working out and answers on a separate piece of paper.

Year 1

Year 2

Other Topic activities

Science Challenge

Last week we introduced a Science Challenge to investigate the parts of a flower.  Don't worry if you haven't had chance to complete it yet.  You can always have a go this week.  As always, it would be great to see your finished work so please email it to your class teacher.

VE Day 8th May 2020 - 75th Anniversary

Here is a powerpoint to find out more about VE Day and some fun colouring sheets.

Mrs Mosedale asked her Nanna who is nearly 92 how she celebrated VE Day on 8th May 1945.  She was 16 at the time and lived in the outskirts of Leicester.

She said, "The news that the war was over came in the middle of the night.  We joined the neighbours in the street...In the evening my sister and I went into town joining the crowds of people at the Clock Tower...lots of young soldiers, rejoicing, dancing, singing.  Then home. Buses were curtailed (stopped running) early evening.  Work to be done next day.  Street parties were to come.  Much relief as you will imagine."

It would be great to see photos of how you celebrated VE Day.  Please email them to your class teacher and we will share them in our Home Learning Photo Gallery.

Home Learning - Week beginning 4th May 2020

English activities

Phonics

At St Mary's, Year 1 and 2 children follow the Letters and Sounds scheme for Phonics. 

Online Phonics lessons will be available every day.  Year 1 lessons are available from 10.30am and Learning to blend lessons from 11am at the link below. 

If you're in Mrs Mosedale's phonics group, your suffix this week is -en.

Write a list of words which contain the suffix -en.  For example, loosen, tighten, straighten etc.  How many more can you find?

Now try to include them in sentences and write them down. (Don't forget your capital letter and full stop, question mark or exclamation mark!)

Writing activities for Year 1 and 2

This week we would like your child to enjoy listening to stories that they have never heard before.  They can then choose a writing activity to complete for that story.  Below is a link to the Storynory website.  It has a large selection of audio stories including Fairy Tales and Aesop's Fables.

Ideas for writing activities

• Draw and write about your favourite character from the story.
• Draw and describe the setting of the story.
• Draw and write about a main event from the story.
• Write a review for the story you have listened to. (See worksheet below to fill in or as an idea of how to set it out.)

Year 1 - VE Day Wordsearch

Year 2 - VE Day Reading Comprehension - 3 levels

Maths Activities

Please follow the link to the White Rose Home Learning website.  You will find a daily lesson which usually includes a video and activity to accompany it.  If you can't print out the activity, your child could still show their working out and answers on a separate piece of paper.

Year 1

Year 2

Topic Activities

It has been lovely to see photos of your Art and Design Challenges so far.  You have done a fantastic job.  Well done! (Details of this challenge are at the bottom of the page).

If you have finished that, here is a Science Challenge to investigate the parts of a flower.  As always, it would be great to see your finished work so please email it to your class teacher.

Geography game - Pirate Bunnies: World Adventures

Home Learning - Week beginning 27.4.20

English activities

Phonics

At St Mary's, Year 1 and 2 children follow the Letters and Sounds scheme for Phonics. 

From Monday 27th April, online Phonics lessons will be available every day at 10.30am at the link below. 

Phonics Comics

 

Children in Mrs Mosedale's Phonics group could also continue with their work on suffixes. 

How many words can you think of that you can add the suffix -ful to? For example, powerful, wonderful, careful.  Try to include them in sentences and write them down.

Writing Activity for Year 1 and 2

This week we would like your child to write a diary about their week at home. Please click on the links below with further information and a PowerPoint to help support the learning. This work can be completed on paper (no printing required!)

Maths Activities

Please follow the link to the White Rose Home Learning website.  You will find a daily lesson which usually includes a video and activity to accompany it.  If you can't print out the activity, your child could still show their working out and answers on a separate piece of paper.

Year 1

Year 2

Topic Activities

Please continue with the Spring Art & Design Challenge.  Details are at the bottom of this page.  It would be great to see your finished work by Friday 8th May.  Please email photos to your child's class teacher and we will share them in our Home Learning Photo Gallery.

Home Learning - Week beginning 20.4.20

 

English Activities

Writing Activities for Year 1 and 2

Describe this picture of Winnie the Pooh and his friends enjoying Springtime.

Write in full sentences to describe what you can see in the picture above.  Try your best to use interesting verbs and adjectives. 

(Please send us photos of your fantastic writing and we will post them on the Home Learning Photos page.)

Spring Poetry

Here you can find ideas and resources to help you write your own Spring Poem.

Supporting resources for Spring Poetry activities

Other Year 1 English activities

Other Year 2 English activities

Maths Activities

Please follow the link to the White Rose Home Learning website.  You will find a daily lesson which usually includes a video and activity to accompany it.  If you can't print out the activity, your child could still show their working out and answers on a separate piece of paper.

Year 1

Year 1 Maths Mats

Year 2

Year 2 Maths Mats

Topic Activities (for Year 1 and 2)

Spring Time Art and Design Challenge

Please find details of our Topic Activity below.  It would be great to see your finished pieces of work so please email a photo by Friday 8th May 2020.  We will then share them on our Home Learning Photo page. 

This BBC Bitesize Science lesson is a good recap and supports our work on the seasons.