Hello Year1! We hope you are keeping well these strange and spirited time! Welcome to

the fifth edition of the Chatter. A massive thank you for all the hard work you have

been doing under very odd circumstances! We have heard of children making

themselves mini classrooms at home and being very grown up with their own work

spaces! Gosh! What a lot of business and very dedicated children we have in Year

1! We love this, keep it up! We know it can be a little tricky to feel ready to learn at

home so to begin with we wanted to remind you about your rainbow brains! We feel

SO proud of all of you! We miss you all! Enjoy the Year 1 Chatter!

It is more important than ever that you remember that it is your job to learn! You will have a

rainbow brain full of all the colours of the rainbow if you give your home learning your best

go! In school you are all amazing learners, and you can be that at home as well! Relaxing

and playing is even more fun when you feel successful in your learning and like you’ve given

your brain some exercise and a challenge.

Article 8 – Every

child has the

right to an

education.

You can do it! You can have a rainbow brain at home too!

Have a rainbow brain and say things like …

I am going to try!

I will give this a go!

I get better because I practice. I am still learning. I can’t do this, YET! I am going to listen carefully.

Once I have done my work, I can play and relax.

Don’t have a grey brain and say things like…

I can’t be bothered. I don’t want to do this. It’s too hard. I don’t care about learning. I can’t do it. I’ll do it later.

Animal revel!

Last week each member of Year 1 came up with a riddle

for you to guess the animal! Look below to find out if

you guessed right and catch up with what the staff

have been doing this week in year 1.

The animal that I was thinking of was - DUN DUN DUN!!! A Polar Bear! Did you know that even though polar bears have white fur their skin is actually black? How Bizarre! Who would have thought? I hope you’ve all been having a great week filled with fun, laughter and making lovely memories with your families. This week I have continued to go on my cycle rides regularly, as it is very important for your body to stay active so that your muscles and brain can function! I have also started to practice and improve on my drawing skills to keep me going - I started with doing a self-portrait of myself and maybe after 100 attempts it will start to look like me! When we are back we, should all draw each-other pulling a funny face and pop them up over the class - that would be great! I’m very intrigued and eager to find out what you have all been up to and will be looking forward to it very much! Until next week year one, take care - Vinnie x

Answer to my riddle: BIRD

Salaams Year 1s!

I thought I would greet you in my language this week as there is

something very special that I am doing - fasting! It's the month

of Ramadan. I am having such a good time fasting, it sounds

hard but it is fun. We all love a challenge right- it's like doing a

challenge for God not to eat or drink. So far I'm winning. Yay!

Though I must tell you I have become like a species from my

riddle because of the lack of sleep. I'm fully nocturnal! Hoot!

How are you all keeping up? I miss you and my greeting

reminded me of the different ways you used to say hello when

Miss Bowrey did the register with you all. We will be reunited

again! Love Shopna!

Hello Year 1! Did you guess what animal I was thinking of? You’ve got

it correct if you said SNAKE!! 🐍

I hope you’ve had a good week. We’ve had a busy week learning about

some of the world’s capital cities and where they are on an interactive

globe. We also explored their flags and had a go at replicating them to

stick into our book.

We re-potted some herbs in larger pots to help them grow bigger. So

now we have some plants to water on our balcony.

Next on our list, is to bake yet another cake! Although it’s been a little

tricky to get all of the ingredients to some recipes we’d like to make.

Have a great weekend and a good week ahead everyone. Stay

safe and well. Angela xx

Hi Year 1! My animal was a bat! Did you know the smallest

bat is a bumblebee bat and they are almost as tiny as a

bumble bee!

I had a mystery visitor this week, a cat came in through my

bedroom window and went to sleep on my bed! She was

very sweet and I let her stay for a little cuddle and then

threw her out!

I have ordered ANOTHER pair of jazzy dungarees. They are

yellow and blue. I will take a picture for next week’s chatter!

Stay safe lovely people, Miss Bowrey x

Hola year 1! Drumroll please for the big reveal… I am a fluffy, small

Squirrel!

It was lovely to speak to you all last week! I really enjoyed hearing all

about what you have been doing. I was surprised to hear that a few

members of our class have lost 1 or more teeth- sounds like the tooth

fairy has been working hard. Keep up with all the hard work you are

doing and remember I would love to see all your lovely work. Stay safe,

Miss Odubajo xxx

We recommend keeping to a similar timetable for the next few weeks.

9:00 PE with Joe Wicks – do this everyday! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

9:30 Maths - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

10:30 Break

10:45 Handwriting-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NQ6uS8blwY

11:00 Literacy

11:45 Lunch

12:45 Mindfulness – Cosmic kids, Go noodle, Zen den (on YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzXFPh6CPI Remember to keep your brain and mind healthy by practise

mindfulness as well.

1:00 Wider Curriculum Science- Wednesday

Art – Monday Topic- Tuesday

PSHE- Friday Music

2.30 Golden time- Friday

3:00 Reading

Our rights

This week we will be continuing our exploration of the value Resilience by thinking about Resilience and history. We will be using VE day as our focus for this

reflection. VE day invites us to recall a time when a terrible conflict ended and people all over Europe could start the long process of rebuilding their lives after the

violence of World War Two. It was a time of great hardship for soldiers and civilians. All people had to show resilience to be able to help their communities to survive. For our families from Bangladesh the end of the Bangladesh Liberation War in December 1971 is

another example of the end of a conflict where a great deal of resilience was needed by many. As

your reflection activity for this week, I would like to invite you to have a conversation with relatives or

family friends who are in your household or available safely over the internet. If they are happy to talk about this, ask them about their stories or their parents

stories of resilience during those difficult times. How did people get through these hard times in living history?

Monday – Today is Monday – Monday Spaghetti! Monday 5th May 2020

Phonics

Literacy Starter

Use the 9 letters in the grid to create as many words as you can.

You can only use each letter as many times as it appears in the grid!

Literacy Go to the website below and watch the short trailer of this week’s book- The Tiger Who Came to Tea By Judith

Kerr.

https://www.tigerwhocametotea.com/watch-the-tiger-who-came-to-tea-trailer/ The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don't expect to see at the door is a big furry, stripy tiger. Write a predication of how you think

the story will end if you have not read the book before.

If you have, you will need to write down your favourite part of the book.

Sentence starters: I Predict…

I think… My favourite part was… I like the part when…

Break!

Maths Starter 11:00- 11:435

Remind yourself of what a part, part whole model is. Can draw part, part wholes for these number sentences? 4+1=5

6=2+4 10=5+5

12=6+6

Maths

LI: Part-whole relationships number

bonds

Today you are going to learn about the number bonds to

20. Go to the white rose website to watching the learning video. (https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/)

You can either print out the work sheet or copy the questions into your workbook.

Lunchtime!

Reading

Draw a line down your book, write real words on one said, and alien words on the other side. Now, put all the

real and fake words in the correct place.

quiz frem back chain

flaip mouse yewn blust

bleesh splike dentist cloin

Religious Education -

Belonging to a faith

Last session we looked at belonging. We belong to lots of

different things. You belong with your family and friends. You might belong to a choir, a dance group or a football

team. You belong to the Chisenhale Community. You might belong to a faith. How does it much you feel to belong? It might make you feel special, important, liked, loved or

included.

Some people belong to a faith or religion and some people don’t. That is fine, we are all different and that is what

makes our world so exciting.

Some people belong to the religion of Christianity, they are Christians. We have learnt about Christianity at school,

we have been inside the Christian place of worship called a Church when we did our Christmas production at St.

Barnabus. Christians all share a belief in Jesus. Have a look at the images below; they are all Christian signs of belonging. (cross, crucifix, Jesus, Virgin Mary, fish)

Christians might wear a cross on a piece of jewellery or as a tattoo. They might have a sign on their car or door

number. This is to show they belong to the Christian

faith, and to remind them of their faith.

Read the story of The Lost Coin (attached as a

PowerPoint presentation). Think about why does the woman not just settle for the coin she has but keeps searching for the missing one? They all belong to her. For

Christians this makes them think about how God cares for every single human and notices when we are lost. In the

story, the woman represents God and the lost coin is the lost person.

Tuesday – Today is Tuesday – Tuesday chicken

Tuesday 5th May 2020

Phonics

Literacy Starter

Judith Kerr uses the words 'big', 'furry' and 'stripy' to describe the tiger. Can you write down any more adjectives

you can use to describe the tiger? Eg: Fierce, large hungry tiger.

Literacy

Go to the Chisenhale website and watch the video of your

teacher reading one of their favourite books- The Tiger Who Came to Tea By Judith Kerr.

https://www.chisenhale.towerhamlets.sch.uk/learning/KS-1/creative-curriculum

If you have this book at home you can go and get it to

have a look at as well.

You can read the story if you don’t have it at home also-

https://idoc.pub/documents/the-tiger-who-came-to-tea-dvlr069wgplz Next, write about a time you have had someone for tea. Who was it? Was it for a special occasion? Did you have special

food? What did you eat? You can also draw a picture to illustrate your experience. Try to include adjectives to make

your work exciting and connectives.

Break time!

Maths starter

Here are the addition fact families for 4, 3 and 7.

4+3=7

3+4=7

7=3+4 7=4+3

Create the addition fact family for 2, 4 and 6 For a challenge, create the subtraction family as well.

Maths

Go to the white rose website to watching the learning video.

(https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/)

You can either print out the work sheet or copy the questions

into your workbook.

Lunchtime! Reading

Go to the Chisenhale Website and watch the video of Miss Odubajo reading Peace at last by Jull Murphy.

Pretend that you and Mr Bear are having a conversation. Write down what questions you would like to ask him and

the response he will give. Me- Hello Mr Bear, why did you not tell Mrs Bear to stop snoring?

Mr Bear – ‘I did not want to wake Mrs Bear up’.

Topic

Afternoon activity today is… TOPIC!

Last week we started our weather diaries! Continue with that

this week. Have you noticed any patterns? Today we are going to learn about how the weather affects us. We are

currently in the month of May which is in Spring…did any of the weather last week shock you? 1) Match the season to the months:

CHALLENGE: Write down or draw the weather you expect to see in each season? You can also add what types of

animals you may see or what happens to the trees and

leaves in each season.

2) Design an outfit for each season: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Can you write a sentence for each about

why you chose those items?

Wednesday– Today is Wednesday – Wednesday potatoes

Wednesday 6th May 2020

Literacy Starter Create a drawing of your favourite animal having tea with you! You might have a Panda or giraffe.

Literacy

Today we are going to imagine a different animal came to tea. How would your favourite animal or a

different animal behave if they showed up at your

doorstep? Make a story map of how your story will

unfold. What food will your animal eat? Will they watch TV with you and your family? Does your

animal stay over to meet Dad or someone else in your family?

Break time!

Maths Starter

Write all the numbers to 20 in words. Use your best handwriting and try your best to spell them correctly. Now check your work and edit any mistakes. (zero,

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,

seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty).

Maths

Go to the white rose website to watching the learning

video. (https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/)

You can either print out the work sheet or copy the questions into your workbook.

Lunchtime! Reading

Mr Bear eats a sandwich in the middle of the night.

Write a set of instructions to teach someone how to make their own delicious sandwich. After this maybe,

you can make your own sandwich following your set

of instructions.

Don’t forget to write a title and use time connectives.

Art

Afternoon activity today is… Art

Your art challenge for this week is to use things you

can find around your homes and have a monstrous fashion show…

We’d really like to see what you have created so please ask an adult if they can take a picture of you striking

a pose and send it to Ms Odubaju or Ms Bowrey at teachers@chisenhale.towerhamlets.sch.uk and we can

out it on next week’s Chatter

Don’t worry if not… You can always bring your designs and drawings in with you when we return to

school and we can share them then!

Items you might want to use could be… Saucepans

Some blankets or cushions Towels

Socks Scarves

Recycling (boxes, tubes, tub and lids)

Thursday – Today is Thursday – Thursday salad

Thursday 7th May 2020

Phonics https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Literacy Starter

Remind yourself of your story. Can you add some cool actions as you read it to your parent/carer?

Literacy

Yesterday we planned our stories by drawing a story map. Today we are going to create a newspaper report! You may

have seen many newspapers as you walk into Mile End station or outside your local corner shop. A newspaper

often reports on news stories. They are written in the past tense because they are reporting on things that have already

happened. They also include a headline that grabs your attention and will have a picture with a caption underneath.

Have you read a newspaper? In your books or you can use a piece of paper you are going to pretend you are writing a newspaper report about

your animal you have chosen visiting your house for tea.

Break time Maths starter

You’ve got 2 minutes to find as many sphere items as you can! GO!

You’ve got 2 minutes to find as many cylinder items as you can! GO!

Maths

Go to the white rose website to watching the learning video.

(https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/) You can either print out the work sheet or copy the

questions into your workbook.

Lunchtime!

Reading

Watch the video of Miss Odubajo reading Peace at Last again. Could you record your own voice reading the story

with lots of expression?

Science Physics – Physics is finding out about different forces such as pushing or

pulling, discovering about light and studying space. Recap – Last week we looked at forces, we learnt about pushing and pulling. A

push is a force that pushes away. A pull in a force that brings things close. Think of 2 things that involve pushing (pushchair, trolley, bike pedals, bath tap,

TV remote buttons, swing), and think of 2 things that involve pulling (wheelie suitcase, pull along toy- like a dog).

Today we are going to be learning about how different objects move. What does move mean? How many ways can you make your body move? (twisting,

jumping, walking, running, hopping, spinning, bending) Find a way to create a ramp. This could be using a pile of books, DVDs or a

box, then putting another book at an angle or an upside down baking tray.

Now can you gather together a selection of items. Here are mine, you could find

ones similar to mine if you like! We are going to see which item rolls down the ramp best. Put all your objects in a line of which you predict will roll down the

best to the worst. Now explain your prediction. I predict the tin foil ball will roll the best because it’s the lightest object. I predict the lego brick will be the

worst because its bumpy.

Now carry out your experiment. Take each item and roll it down the ramp.

Where your predictions correct? Did anything surprise you? Why did some items roll better than others?

There are some items like the glue stick that will roll down well on its side on the curved edge, but won’t roll from top to bottom. Are there any other items

you’ve collected that are the same?

Friday – Today is Friday – Friday is fish day

Friday 8th May 2020

Literacy Starter

Today we are going to practise our cursive handwriting.

Literacy Read your newsletter report from yesterday. Check if you have

forgotten to add capital letters and full stops in the correct

places. Have you added any speech and exciting adjectives? Now you need to draw a picture of your animal or person and add a caption.

Why do you think it is important to add a caption to a newspaper report?

Break! Maths Starter

Can you measure how long some items are in your home? You could use your feet to count the paces. How many paces long is

your sofa? How many paces long is your bed? How many paces long is your fridge? Which is the longest? Which is the

shortest?

Maths Today we are going to play a game involving a snail!

https://nrich.maths.org/8303

You can print the board or draw a copy of your own!

Lunchtime!

Reading

Draw your own front cover of peace at last. You may change Mr and Mrs Bear into a cat and dog or maybe

you and your teddy at night.

PHSE – Jigsaw

Today in Jigsaw we will be learning about the importance of

self-belief and managing our emotions.

Starter: Tell your parent/guardian

how you would normally manage your emotions in school or at home.

Watch the clips on CBBC explaining

ways we can identify and manage

our feelings. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmmgrj6

Complete activity 1 and 2 in your writing books.

Golden club ideas This is a chance for you to practise doing something you love and to learn a

new skill. Remember you can take a picture of what you have done and you may see it in next week’s Chatter.

Cooking https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/kids-cooking

ICT club

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games

Music – Learn a new song

https://www.outoftheark.co.uk/ootam-at-

home/?utm_source=homepage&utm_campaign=ootamathome2&utm_medium=banner

How did your Golden Club go last week? The great thing about home Golden Clubs

is you can swap each week if you like! Here are some more ideas for what this

Fridays Golden Club could be for you!

You could try doing

some potato printing!

You could print some

aliens or monsters, or

make some greetings

cards to send.

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids

Check out the Tates website, it is

full of art ideas, beautiful art

work to look at and learn about,

and even a gallery of children

work. You could create a piece of

art to send to them!

You could create you own fashion

show. Create a catwalk, maybe with

your toys or siblings watching. Then try

on different outfits and strut down the

runway. You could put on some silly

combinations of clothing and play some

funky music. Strike a pose and send a

pic to the chatter!

Create a performance

of your favourite

song. Maybe you

could perform it over

video call to a

friend!

If you have a pet you could

teach them how to do a new

trick, or just give them some

attention and love.

What amazing things have you been up to in your Golden Time this week?! A

massive thank you to the children who have sent their pictures to share! You are

stars! If you want to feature then send your pictures to teachers@chisenhale.towerhamlets.sch.uk.

The year 1 team wanted to wish a massive happy birthday to all of you who

celebrated their birthdays in the month of April. We hope you all had a fabulous

birthday and was creative in the way you celebrated.

VE Day

Friday is a special day which marks the 75th Anniversary of the end of the fighting in Europe during the Second World War, VE Day. In her Chatter sent out on Monday

Ms Taylor will be giving you some ideas of how to mark this day at home, as we might have done in school.

Show Casing our Home Learning

Well done you for doing such amazing home learning! We would love

to continue to see what you have been up to next week! If you would

like to have your home learning featured in the next year 1 Chatter,

please email us a photo to teachers@chisenhale.towerhamlets.sch.uk.

This week I have

been learning about

different capitals in

the world.

I made a weather

wheel!

We hope you enjoy this week’s edition of the chatter and ideas for home

learning as well as continuing with your Study Ladder activities.

https://www.studyladder.co.uk/

From us all in Year 1– Stay safe and keeping smiling!

Additional websites

BBC Bitesize are offering daily lessons and activities that you might find

useful to look at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zjpqqp3/year-1-lessons/1

Remember to keep your brain and mind healthy by practising mindfulness as

well- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_0P5grVoyg

Stay active - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBTvnJpwcKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LPrhI0v-w

Curious maths- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWKuiktSh-

V3E4ysPU0VC3Q

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3rbg82

Audible- https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

Don’t forget The Government have enabled free access to resources for

Phonics teaching on the link below.

Google ‘Ruth Miskin Training’ and then click on You Tube Channel to watch

the Parent Introduction video.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ

This will help you understand the structure of the lessons which run from

9am.

Each lesson is ten to fifteen minutes long and

available for 24 hours. Don't worry if you

miss a lesson. Once each set has been shown,

one a day will be replayed from each set.

Speed Sounds Set 3 - for children in Year 1 and

2 that can read Set 2 Speed Sounds

• Set 3 Speed Sounds and Word Time 10.30 am

• Set 3 Spelling 10.45 am

Writing Inspirations! (By special request! )

Design a classroom!

What kind of book corner would it

have?

What kind of carpet?

Would it have tables and chairs?

What exciting things would you

include?

Design a garden!

Would your garden have play

equipment, a slide or swings?

Would it have a vegetable patch

or fruit trees?

Would there be a pond or a

swimming pool?

Imagine you have opened your

own pizza restaurant!

What will you include on your

speciality pizza?

Would toppings and what

designs?

Will you create a face on the

pizza, a rainbow for the NHS or a

flower?

If one of your toys could come to life

and talk which one would you pick?

Would they be friendly or nasty?

Would you pick a small toy to sneak

places for you?

Would you pick a cuddly toy to hug

you?