Year 1 Home Learning

Year 1 Home Learning Menu
Year 1 Home Learning Menu
Take a look at the learning ideas menu below. Pick one at a time that you and your child would like to work on. Take your time to explore this idea and develop it into a mini project with your child. We look forward to seeing your work.
Oracy Retell a fairytale, try to use expression and remember all the important parts. Can you dress up as one of the characters? Use props? add some actions? |
Reading Read a story every day with a grown up. (Websites of ideas for stories if you are short of books) https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/our-recommendations/100-best-books/
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Maths Count to 100 every day with Jack Hartmann – You Tube Make your own toy shop/ greengrocers. Make your own price tags and use coins to pay for items. How much would 2 items cost? Can you use different coins to make the same amount? |
Creative
Design and make a rocket from junk or lego.
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The world
Find out about Easter, how and why is it celebrated. Make an Easter card for a relative or neighbour.
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Ethical Sort household recycling and think about how we can use less plastic, waste less food etc.
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Knowledge
Make a fact file about something you are interested in. What facts would you include? (Your hobby/ Space/ dinosaurs/ your favourite animal).
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Wales Look at a Welsh famous artist and have a go at drawing/painting or sculpting in their style e.g. Martyn Evans, Kyffin Williams, Helen Elliott, Gwen Heeney.
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Writing Choose your favourite story then write and illustrate your own version of the in a zigzag book. (look at http://www.lovemybooks.co.uk make and do for ideas of a zig zag book) |
Science/Cooking Find a recipe and make it. Take a photo of your delicious creation and tweet it to us. |
Digital
Use a phone/ tablet to take a photo of your drawing/lego rocket model and email it to your nanny or grampy. Or even tweet it to us at:
@romillypsyear1
Look out for our tweets too! Please follow us on twitter. |
Health/Wellbeing Create a poster or leaflet informing others how to keep bodies and minds healthy. Cosmic Yoga/ Zen Den – You Tube Catch a Brain Wave – You Tube Spend time outside in the garden – make an obstacle course, plant some vegetables. Design your own miniature garden. Do some yoga outside. Practise throwing and catching a ball in the garden. |
Enterprising
Draw a picture of a house or school in the future. Label the picture to explain the details. What would you put in your house/school? |
Life skill Learn to master a skill that you have struggled with: eg, tying a knot or a shoelace, telling the time, using a knife and fork.
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Relationships
Complete a random act of kindness to a family member. Face Time or Skype your cousins/grandparents/elderly neighbour. |
Invention Design and make a fairground/carnival game. Write down the rules so that you can teach your friends. We’d like to use it in our role-play or outdoor area. |
Twinkl are offering free access to all pupils, we use this in school for age appropriate resources for Year 1.
www.twinkl.co.uk/offer enter the code: UKTWINKLHELPS
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Year 1 Websites for Home Learning
Literacy
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
http://www.lovemybooks.co.uk/5-7-years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zncgvk7
Maths
https://nrich.maths.org/primary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zjxhfg8 https://uk.ixl.com/math/
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.coolmathgames.com/
Humanities
Have you filled a Bucket Today? - https://youtu.be/3EuemNAo6XE
https://theimaginationtree.com/
https://world-geography-games.com/world.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cbeebies+festivals&go=Search&qs=ds&form=QBVDMH
Expressive Arts
You’ve got a Friend in Me Makaton - https://youtu.be/bb3xY1XJHjo
A Million Dreams Makaton - https://youtu.be/eLv9GPtsHbw
https://theimaginationtree.com/
https://theimaginationtree.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/easy-simple-stem-activities-challenges/
Health & Wellbeing
Catch a Brain Wave https://youtu.be/1spJn2oXNmc
https://www.elsa-support.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20-relaxation-cards-for-children.pdf
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=peace%20out%20for%20kids&qs