Your teachers are Mrs Humphreys (1H) and Mrs Costello and Mrs Smith (1CS), and your learning support assistants are Mrs Smith and Mrs Johnson.

vhumphreys@edwardfrancis.essex.sch.uk

lcostello@edwardfrancis.essex.sch.uk

hsmith@edwardfrancis.essex.sch.uk

The beans are out and ready to be collected if you would like to grow a plant and happen to be walking near the park. Please observe social distancing and don't all go immediately - just if you are out for your exercise, and please wash your hands when returning home, or use hand gel.

Thank you,

Mrs Humphreys

From here on, you will find a weekly document that outlines the suggested learning for the week. This may be too much for some children, so just do as much as you feel is appropriate for your child.

Stay in touch and stay safe!

Dear Children,

As you are going to have to stay at home for a while, we wanted to let you know about some things that you could do at home:

Reading

• Read and listen to books -  as many as you can - in really fun places! Build a den out of sheets and cushions and read in there. Now, it's getting a bit warmer, find a comfortable place to sit in the garden and read. Read your reading books, read your books from home and when you run out of those have a look at these online suggestions:
• Online book services: Oxford Reading Tree website if your adults register https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/pages/library-page), https://worldbook.kitaboo.com/reader/worldbook/#!/ (I believe that you can access free books)
• Use the Essex Library Services online resources (see document below). There are e-comics as well as e-books
• You can listen to stories at: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen (we were going to read the Tales of Peter Rabbit as part of our learning after Easter and it's on there) and https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/bedtime-stories 

Phonics

• Use phonicsplay.com to play games, practise your phase 5 sounds every day if you can (these are the really tricky ones!) 
• I have put a little tutorial for you on how to use Phonics Play at: 

https://www.loom.com/share/6b3cd94a07394571b2aac1c18e198567

• You can access it for free using these login details:

Username: march20

 Password: home

• Phonics mats and activities can also be found on Twinkl

Spelling

• Use your home-school booklets to be able to read and spell all of the words within it by the end of the year.
• Use Spelling Shed to practise your phonics and spellings (https://play.edshed.com/)

Mathematics

• Use you home-school programme number grid to immediately recognise the numbers up to 30 at least, ideally 100. Practise writing them in digits and in words. (Please find it below to download)
• Practise adding and taking way to 30 using your number line or a number grid.
• Use Numbots to practise your number bonds (https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/20386) and practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Some of you might even want to start learning the 2, 5 and 10 timestables.
• Here are some tutorials for some games we have played at school:

https://www.loom.com/share/aa1e61e27bcf4bdb9225428341b51d4b

https://www.loom.com/share/1187f7c9636f4d32a301092078ae31fa   This link works now!

Other suggestions

• Log on to Purple Mash - you can use the whole website but we may set you some 2Dos as well to keep you occupied (https://www.purplemash.com/sch/edfrancis)
• I have set you some 2Dos now, linked to our theme of Space, so please take a look if you have a moment. https://www.loom.com/share/de453ada5dfe4b5496fb41bedc7a2207

• Look on the school website for any activities that we have put on, and any tutorial video links that we make that you can watch, in order to practise the year 1 curriculum at home (these will be on youtube, so please make sure that a responsible adult supervises your access to them)
• Spend time being active either inside or outside in the garden exploring (your garden will be starting to change and grow at the moment; flying insects will start to make an appearance - we will be studying plants next term, can you take photos of, draw pictures of, write about the changes happening in your garden)
• The Scouts have created a part of their website that is dedicated to fun and interesting activities that can be done indoors: https://www.scouts.org.uk/the-great-indoors/ Take a look!
• Do the 30-day Lego challenge!

We hope that you all keep well and these activities help you to keep learning!

Mrs Humphreys, Mrs Costello and Mrs Smith

Wk commencing 30th March 2020

Please see below the activities that we would have been doing in school next week, if you want to have a try at them. Please continue to practise your reading, phonics and number recognition and counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Please watch these videos as they might help you completing the activities:

Maths

Maths 1 - Adding and subtracting word problems

https://www.loom.com/share/009117d2e659470fba460f63c6a4d7ef

Maths 2 (Do this before Maths 3) - Finding the difference using bars

https://www.loom.com/share/c252cf47360641a790394d2a9aa841fd   Watch this first.

https://youtu.be/222pMK3vwwE  Example of using the bars.

Maths 3 - Finding the difference on a number line

https://www.loom.com/share/811616ddfd55463bb63f60edc25b560c

English and theme work

The English and theme continues from last week but now I have found Loom, I can take you on a guided tour of the websites and what you might look out for.

https://www.loom.com/share/4839fe718cca4062ba41946a88c182c8

Remember you are trying to make an information (non-chronological report) booklet about Space. You could include learning about the Sun, the Moon, Famous Astronauts and the Planets, and any other ideas that you have. Include: a main heading, sub-headings, pictures and information/ facts.

Find videos about Space on:

BBC Bitesize website https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkvv4wx/resources/1

StoryBots on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2ZXRh74WU

Learn facts about Neil Armstrong from the National Geographic Kids website.

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/neil-armstrong-facts/

All the documents that you will need are below.

Wk commencing 23rd March 2020

Maths

Next week, we shall be working on combining coins to make a total amount of money. Here are some videos to show how you might work on adding amounts of money.

1 star challenge

https://youtu.be/AKcWFMXsQwg

2 star challenge

https://youtu.be/sOgO4_JGT94

3 star challenge

https://youtu.be/JoeifseEbk0

If you get on really well with this, you can start to think about getting change, but only from 10 and 20p.

English and theme work

https://www.loom.com/share/4839fe718cca4062ba41946a88c182c8

Over the next two weeks, we are going to make a non-fiction booklet about Space. You could include learning about the Sun, the Moon, Famous Astronauts and the Planets, and any other ideas that you have.

Find videos about Space on:

BBC Bitesize website https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkvv4wx/resources/1

StoryBots on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2ZXRh74WU

Learn facts about Neil Armstrong from the National Geographic Kids website.

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/neil-armstrong-facts/​​​​​​​

You can access all of the resources available on Twinkl (for free) by registering and putting in the code below.

www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS