Year 1 Teacher- Mrs Watts

Teaching Assistant- Mrs Hartley

PPA- Mrs Chowdury

On Thursday 23rd April we are celebrating 'World Book Night'. This is the perfect time to snuggle up and share stories with your family at home. Look out for Mrs Watts reading one of her favourites,'The Highway Rat', on the school story page of Dojo!

Here is the planning for home learning week 3.

Stay strong and look forward to the happy times ahead!

#Team Dines Green 

Welcome to Year 1 Starlings Class Page

Teacher - Mrs Watts

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Hartley

As school is closing due to Covid 19 we are preparing resources, plans and activities for parents so that children can continue learning at home. 

We have attached documents to this page for you to access at home.

Your child will also have a pack of resources to take home.

I am always available to contact via 'Class Dojo' or email. Please contact me if you have any questions during the school closure period. 

Useful Websites for extra home learning

General

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1

The BBC Bitesize website has useful resources and games for maths, literacy (including phonics) and science.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/

Another useful website with interactive games for all areas of the curriculum. The ‘Homework Help’ section is also helpful with information on many topics.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Packed with resources! We use some of the maths games to support mental maths practice for example. Many games and activities linked to all curriculum areas. Links to other useful websites are also on here. You can search by subject or Key Stage

Literacy/Phonics

http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

A website with many games linked to different areas of literacy learning.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

A website children are familiar with as we use it in school. It links to the phonics phases and has some very good games for helping to consolidate phonics skills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/

Another site useful for phonics games and printable activities

http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/literacy_menu.html

Another useful set of games related to literacy/phonics. I especially like Airport X-Ray, Premiership Words and Silly Bull.

http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games-word-level.html

Useful reading/phonics games with many areas of learning e.g. alphabetical order, all phonic patterns, rhyme.

http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games-sentence-level.html

Lots of good ideas for supporting with punctuation and other sentence level learning.

Maths

http://www.maths-games.org/

Some of the same games also on Top Marks website. Lots of excellent ideas for practising mental maths skills.

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/

There is a small subscription to this website although many games you can try for ‘evaluation’ and can play anyway. I really like ‘Table Mountain’ for learning times table facts.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html

Excellent series of games and activities linked to all areas of mathematics. We have used some of the money activities and always use the large hundred square – excellent for supporting all calculations and counting activities.

http://nrich.maths.org/primary-lower

The nrich website contains many excellent maths challenges for children. The one, two or three stars show how challenging they are. Excellent for getting children to apply their problem solving skills across different areas of mathematics. Again, some of these ideas are adapted for use in the classroom. There is a good ‘student area’ with online activities

http://www.mathszone.co.uk/

Another site with many fun but challenging activities linked to all areas of maths.