Good morning, Grayling 1! We’re looking forward to seeing you today for live literacy and phonics at 9 and 11. If you are unable to join us please see below for the lessons we will be doing and keep scrolling down for today’s science activity.
I’d love to see you at 1:45 as well to share some of your literacy work and practise a bit of Zigzag Monster handwriting 🙂
Literacy
Watch this different version of Jack and the Beanstalk:
This version has some lovely language in it. The author has thought really carefully about the words he has used. This helps make it really interesting to listen to.
We have picked some of the words from the story, see if you can find the words that have a similar meaning. This is a great activity for building up your vocabulary. You can either print the sheet or use the image below – think of another word that means the same then write it in your red book.
Phonics
If you can’t join in with our live session at 11 then please watch Lesson 24 of the Year 1 Spring Term Lessons. We will be reviewing the graphemes we have learned for the long i sound: i, igh, y, ie and i-e
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw
We will use this game as part of the lesson. You can play it here
Science
In this lesson, we will be investigating which materials can be blown down by creating our own wind using a hairdryer. We will be experimenting with different types of materials which have different weights. We will be creating our structures to experiment with in the next lesson – ‘Will the wall I’ve built withstand strong winds?’ You will need playdough, twigs or sticks, hay or straw, sugar cubes, lego or plastic bricks and lastly glue or sticky tape. If you do not have these things, you can watch the teacher model this experiment. At the end please answer the questions and then draw the table into your book and sort the list of materials into heavy and light.
Click on this link to watch the lesson:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/which-materials-can-withstand-strong-winds-cruk2c