Year 1 Learning Project –Week 7 – Animals8th – 12th June 2020

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday FridayWriting/Topic Write about

the picture.Animal

comparisonAnimal group

fact fileList and describe

carnivores, herbivores

and omnivores.

Design and create an

animal mask

Phonics/spelling

Make your own words.

Weekly phonics

challenge.

Spelling practice – look, say,

cover, write, check!

Spelling, punctuation

and grammar activity mat

Common exception word mat -

are

Reading Read to an adult for 10 minutes each day / adult reads to child for 10 minutes each day

Maths Number of the day

Activity mat Greater than, less than or equal to 4 – Animal legs

Times tables games

Time challenge - subtraction

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Monday 8 th June Writing Challenge - Use this picture as the inspiration for your next great

story, poem or description. Challenge yourself to use some of the exciting vocabulary we've learned to make your writing even more amazing. The words in the box might

help you this week.

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adapt crept bounced investigate companion

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Monday 8th June Phonics – Make your own words

Can you use the blends and clusters in the red box to make some words in the

phoneme frames? One is done for you with ‘lf’.

sh e l f

Monday 8th June Maths – Number of the Day

56

Tuesday 9th JuneWriting - Comparison

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Today we would like you to choose two animals and compare them. The animals in the picture on the next page are just to give you some ideas, you can choose any two animals. Here are some questions to

help with your comparison:-What do these animals have in common? What is the same?

-What differences are there between these two animals?

The conjunctions 'and' and 'but' will help you to write your comparisons e.g. "Bears and birds both have two eyes but a bird can

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Tuesday 9th June Phonics – Weekly Phonics Challenge

Choose the sound for the phonics group you are in. How many words can you come up with that have this sound in them? Can you use your

favourite one to write a sentence? Can you find this sound in books and magazines at home?

Tuesday 9th June Maths – Activity Mat

Today we want you to use your number skills to answer these questions. Remember if you are stuck, to use objects from around your house – Lego, stones, buttons.

Wednesday 10 th June Writing – Fact file

Today we would like you to research one of these animal groups and write a fact file about it. Choose from:

mammals reptiles amphibians

fish insects invertebrates

Wednesday 10th June Spelling – Look, say, cover, write, check!

Today we would like you to practise a spelling strategy. It has 5 easy steps: 1. Look at your word. 2. Say your word. 3. Cover your word (use your non-writing hand or another piece of paper). 4. Write your word. 5. Check if you got it correct. You can repeat these steps until you can spell the word by heart. Choose 5 words from our tricky word mat to have a go at. There is a practise sheet on the next page. Just copy your 5 spellings into the first column to get started

Look, say then cover Write Check

4 =4 4Kangaroo

Wednesday 10th June Maths – Greater than, less than,

equal toToday we would like you to list animals which have greater than, less than or equal to 4 legs. Write the animal names into the correct column on the table. There is one example done for you

Carnivore Herbivore OmnivoreDescription Description Description

Animals Animals Animals

Thursday 11 th June Writing – Carnivores, herbivores and omnivores

Today we would like you to use a dictionary or look online to find the meaning of the terms carnivore, herbivore and omnivore. Can you write a description for each word? Can you name animals which belong to each group? Try to name as many as you can.

Thursday 11 th June Spellings – Activity Mat

Thursday 11 th June Maths – Times tables

Choose to count in 1s, 2s, 5s or 10s and play one of the games below. Have fun

Hop on one foot or skip until you can’t count any further. How far did you count? Try to beat this

next time.

Set a 2 minute timer and see how far you can count. Try to beat your own score or challenge someone else

to beat your score!

2….

4….

Play number tennis with a partner. See how high you can count. You could play it with more than 2

people

Friday 12 th June Topic – Animal Masks

Today it’s time to get creative. Use whatever materials you have to make your own animal mask. Take a look at the examples below. You could use paper, card, fabric etc. Have fun

Friday 12 th June Common Exception Word Mat

Friday 12 th June Maths – Time Challenge!

You will need a timer – set it for 4 minutes. You have 4 minutes to see how many of these subtraction questions you can answer before the time runs out. Make sure you do not guess, use your number skills to help you!