Things to do over the summer

We are coming to the end of Year 1 and are getting ready for the summer holidays.

This doesn’t mean that all the hard work has to stop! You can support your child at home in many ways over the summer holidays to help them prepare for Year 2. Below are a list of useful websites for maths and literacy games.

Maths
http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html
http://mathszone.co.uk
http://games.e4education.co.uk/groupone/

Literacy
http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html
http://games.e4education.co.uk/groupone/

You should also have received some leaflets about activities which are going on through the summer holidays. Here are some of the events which are going on.

Looking back

Today, in ICT we are revisiting what we did this term.  What was your favourite?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/octonauts/games/octonauts-amazon-adventure/  – develop mouse control

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/octonauts/games/octonauts-deep-sea-rescue/ – clicking on the mouse

We can be on board a pirate ship.

http://www.earlylearninghq.org.uk/pirate_game/Main.html

Swimming under the sea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/

Be a waiter in restaurant

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/all-at-breakfast-game

Painting

We have been painting! We have used water colours to paint the background of our under the sea moving picture. We blended blue and green paint together to make the sea two toned. Have a look.

Perfect pointing

Today in Read Write Inc we have been practising our sounds and perfect pointing with our partner when reading our books. Can you practise your perfect pointing at home using your home reader?

Solving money problems!

We had to think of all the different possibilities for the cost of buying a balloon from the shop.

We used different approaches to record the possibilities.

Some of us tried using a systematic approach.

Can you have a try at thinking of different possibilities of making an amount using the coins below

Moving pictures

We have been designing our own moving pictures in topic. We thought about what our under the sea scene would look like and what materials we will use to make it.

Sammy the shape eater

Today a naughty fish came into Year 1 and ate some of our 2D shapes. He left us a message saying how many sides he had eaten altogether. We had to solve the problem of what shapes could he have eaten. Have a look…

All the possibities

Today Year 1 have been finding all the possible ways to organise our lady birds with different amounts of spots. Have a look. We chose how we recorded our working out.

Problem solvers!

We are working out a ladybird problem! 3 ladybirds have landed on our playground and we are finding all the possible totals we could get with 3, 2, 4, 5, 7 spot ladybirds. Could you do a problem like us?

In ICT Today

This is the link for the Espresso Site.  We can use this to find out about the news.

http://espresso.covlea.net/espresso/modules/news/index_ks1.html?source=espresso-homepage

As well as the news it also links us to events that are happening – One you might know about is Ramadan.

Can you click on the links to find out about Ramadan?  Does your family celebrate in the same way?