Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Hi Mercury Class,

I hope you are all well and working hard. Remember it is really

important that you are doing your phonics, reading, writing,

spelling and maths every day. Please keep sending any photos

of work or activities you are doing to

office@stjohnevangelist.islington.sch.uk so I can see how you are

getting on (and so we can post some on Twitter). I have seen

lots of your photographs already. Thank you so much.

Physical Task

Option 1: We have been trying out Andy’s Adventures in school, which we are thoroughly enjoying. If you fancy a go, log on to https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p06tmmvz/andys-wild-workouts Option 2: You could login to our brand new ‘Fitter Future’ account and access lots of fitness activities! https://www.fitterfuture.com/ The login details are Username: year3 and Password: year3 Click on workout! Lockdown Cardio Blast 4! Have fun!

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Maths Task

Mental/0ral Starter

Please log on to White Rose Maths https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

Watch the video clip for Lesson 2 – Time to the Half Hour We have looked at halving earlier, but it is important to consolidate what we have been learning in Year 1. Please complete the answers in your home learning books.

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Reading Task

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Writing Task

Can you write out the thank you letter in your best handwriting? Remember to use full stops and capital letters Remember finger spaces Can you writeon the line?

Phonics Task

Tuesday 7th July

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Set 1 - th Set 2 - igh Set 3 – ow Reading longer words – ay/ a-e/ ai Miss Connor’s Group please practise the ‘th’ thank you sound today. (Set 1) Miss Raheem Lee’s Group please practise the ‘igh’ (fly high) (Set 2) Miss Hanifin’s Group practise the ‘ow’ (brown cow) sound today. (Set 3) Miss Leane’s Group please practise the ‘ow’ (brown cow) sound today. (Set 3)

Please practise saying the sound, reading the sound alone, Fred talk (sound out) the words, and then read the words listed in the table. Can you now have a go at writing the words with the sounds you have been learning today. Try to make up some of your own words using today’s sound. Can you write real words and nonsense/alien words?

Miss Connor Miss Raheem Lee Miss Hanifin Miss Leane

thin think thing bath thank path

high sight might light fright bright

frown howl owl now down brown

frown howl owl now down brown

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Spelling Task

Please learn and practise the following 3 spelling words today, and then write 3 sentences containing the words:

sort group animals

Tuesday Science Task

Ask your child to generate a question that can be asked about animals. Choose one question and work with your child to turn it into a simple set of criteria by which to sort the animals. For example, ‘does the animal have fur?’ becomes ‘animals that have fur/ animals that do not have fur’.

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Weekly Prayer to practise and learn

Each week I will give you a new prayer to work on. This week please practise the lunchtime prayer so that we can say it all together when we get back to school.

Bless us O God, as we sit together Bless the food we eat today

Bless the hands that make the food Bless us O God

Amen

Daily Music Task

Today’s music task is to log on to https://www.youtube.com/user/SingingHandsUK

and listen to any song. Enjoy listening to this song and try to learn some of the actions and signs.

Mercury Class Tuesday 7th July 2020

Daily Something Extra you could try…

Have fun!!