Hamilton Home Learning
For English, children should start working from the Hamilton Home Learning packs.
For English, children should start working from the Hamilton Home Learning packs.
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Our expectations are that Year 1 children should be:
- leaving spaces between words
- joining words and joining clauses using 'and'
- beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
- using a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I'
- beginning to use a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week
- saying out loud what they are going to write about
- composing a sentence out loud before writing it
- sequencing sentences to form short narratives
- re-reading what they have written to check it makes sense
Storytelling Dice Game
Are your children looking for inspiration to write their own story? This fun dice game is great for encouraging your children to branch out and get creative during independent writing tasks. With a variety of traditional fairytale settings, the good, the bad and a selection of fun props, there are endless possibilities!
Are your children looking for inspiration to write their own story? This fun dice game is great for encouraging your children to branch out and get creative during independent writing tasks. With a variety of traditional fairytale settings, the good, the bad and a selection of fun props, there are endless possibilities!
Writing Challenge Cards
Some lovely challenge cards to cut out and choose to provide as prompts for your children.
Some lovely challenge cards to cut out and choose to provide as prompts for your children.
Spellings - Common Exception Words & High Frequency Words
Pupils are taught to read and write words using the phonemes they have been taught so far - grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPCs). E.g. C-A-T is cat, CH-UR-CH is church.
Common exception words are words where the usual GPC rule doesn't apply; such as the common exception words "friend", "there", "they" and "said". Some of these exception words are used frequently, therefore children are introduced to common exception words in year 1 and year 2.
High frequency words are common words that appear often in written text. They are a mixture of decodable words (GPCs) and common exception words.
By the end of each year group, children should be able to read and write most of the common exception words and high frequency words.
Please practise the words listed below. Feel free to be creative and use games and activities to suit your needs.
Pupils are taught to read and write words using the phonemes they have been taught so far - grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPCs). E.g. C-A-T is cat, CH-UR-CH is church.
Common exception words are words where the usual GPC rule doesn't apply; such as the common exception words "friend", "there", "they" and "said". Some of these exception words are used frequently, therefore children are introduced to common exception words in year 1 and year 2.
High frequency words are common words that appear often in written text. They are a mixture of decodable words (GPCs) and common exception words.
By the end of each year group, children should be able to read and write most of the common exception words and high frequency words.
Please practise the words listed below. Feel free to be creative and use games and activities to suit your needs.
Extra English topics have been divided into different subheadings. If you click the underlined headings below, it will take you to the document/site that you require. These are:
Craft Activities
This will require children to read and follow step by step instructions. The crafts themselves are just a fun way of doing this. A possible extension could be to let the children write their own step by step instruction of a task of their choice i.e. how to brush brush your teeth.
Games and short activities
These are designed to be a fun way to either relax the children in an educational sense, or to revise their skills.
The website Words for Life has some lovely literacy activities to do with your child as well, accessible here:
http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk/5-7
Craft Activities
This will require children to read and follow step by step instructions. The crafts themselves are just a fun way of doing this. A possible extension could be to let the children write their own step by step instruction of a task of their choice i.e. how to brush brush your teeth.
Games and short activities
These are designed to be a fun way to either relax the children in an educational sense, or to revise their skills.
The website Words for Life has some lovely literacy activities to do with your child as well, accessible here:
http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk/5-7