SEND Home Learning Ideas for Year 1

Maths:

• Practise number formation to 10 using; shaving foam, paint, flour, play dough, cornflour and water, coloured cooked spaghetti
• Find/dig for numbers to 10; number hunt around the house/garden, number hidden in sand/shaving foam
• Using paint, crayons, chalk, pencils and old wall paper to mark make and practise pencil grip to form numbers.
• Oder numbers to 10

Phonics:

• Hunt and say phase two letter sounds.
• Match initial sounds to house objects
• Match house objects to initial sounds
• Create cvc words using magnetic letters or letter cards. Use picture prompts of (cat, dog, cup, mat, pop, can.. etc.)
• Phonics speed trail game
• Digging in the sand to find letters. Can you find the letter D for dragon

Writing:

• Practise letter formation using; shaving foam, paint, flour, playdough, cornflour and water, coloured cooked spaghetti.
• Say and hold a simple sentence to describe what George looks like.
• Say and hold a simple sentence to describe what the dragon looks like.

Topic:

• Explore (virtually) Windsor castle http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_vt_windsor_castle.shtml
• Use junk modelling to create your own castle.
• Use natural materials to create the tallest and strongest tower. Which material is better?
• Listen to the Grande old Duke of York: March to the beat. Can you recite some of the poem
• Play with small world castle, knight, dragon and dungeons

Sensory play:

• homemade rubbery goop using bi-carbonate soda, water and flour)
• Primary colour experiment using hands and big paper
• Colourful spaghetti worms

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