Year 1 Homework – Term 1 – (Week 1-5) Remember to READ EVERY NIGHT! Practice your reading goal Don’t forget to fill in your Read It! Home Reading Log Have you reached the 100, 150 and 200 club? Reading Eggs - Week English Spelling Mathematics Science 1 Emotions vs Actions What is an emotion? Give examples What is an action? Give three examples. Consonants and vowels Circle the consonants blue and the vowels red Skip Counting Practice your skip counting orally in two’s up to 100. External Features What features do you have that differ from animals? Why do they differ? 2 Noun Describe a noun and give an example. Sounds in Write a number under each sound (not letter) you hear in your words Eg: i n - s i n- c er e 1 2 1 23 1 1 Calendar List four things you might find on a calendar How many days are there in a month? 3 From a story you have read, write a sentence that describes: - what is hapenning (Verb) - who or what is involved (Noun) ; and - the surrounding circumstances (Adjectives) Sentences Write 5 sentences. Use one spelling word in each sentence. Make sure your sentence includes who, what and where. Partitioning Draw a picture to illustrate the following: - 6 apples broken into three parts - 10 pencils put into two piles - 9 books put into four groups Environment vs Habitat What is the difference between an environment and a habitat? 4 From the following sentence, identify the Noun and Verb. “Jimmy and Karen skipped happily along the beach” Sentences Write 5 sentences. Use one spelling word in each sentence. Make sure your sentence includes who, what and where. Addition “When Dad and I went fishing, he had already caught two fish, then I caught three more”. How many are in : - the first part; - the second part; and - the whole 5 Give the definition of - author - character; and - vocabulary Alphabetical Order Write your spelling words in alphabetical order. Length What are the opposites of - Taller - Longer - Wider - Thicker Online Learning Spelling City http://www.spellingcity.com/ Study Ladder http://www.studyladder.com.au/?lc_set=
Year 1 Unit 1 Spelling overview Lesson concepts Week Focus Spelling knowledge – Visual (V), Phonological (P), Morphemic (M), Etymological (E) Suggested spelling words CORE WORDS OPTIONAL WORDS Weekly overview Resources Spelling — Regular one-syllable words with letters and common letter clusters that correspond to sounds heard Spelling — words using visual memory Sounds of language — Manipulating sounds: phoneme deletion, phoneme substitution Letters of the alphabet — Common vowel and consonant digraphs, common consonant blends 1 Diagnostic assessment V P M N/A school-based diagnostic spelling assessment word sort introduction Website — C2C Spelling Curriculum into the classroom (C2C) — Spelling P–10 Text — Bear, Donald. R; Invernizzi, Marcia; Templeton, Shane; Johnstone, Francine, 2012, Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, 5th edn, Pearson, Boston Text — Hornsby, D; Wilson, L, 2011, Teaching phonics in context, Pearson, Australia Text — Hill, 2012, Developing early literacy: Assessment and teaching, 2nd edn, Eleanor Curtain Publishing, Australia SLR — 2 Short vowels CVC revision P bat sad sit lid but bud red pet rod hot pre-test short vowel revision onset and rime revision post-test 3 Initial ‘r’ blends — br, cr, dr, fr, gr, tr P brim crab crop drag drip frog from grub grin trip pre-test word sort word slides letter boxes post-test 4 Initial ‘l’ blends — bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl P blot clap club flag flat glad plug plus slip slow pre-test word sort word slides letter post-test 5 Initial ‘s’ blends — sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st P scab skip skin smog small snap spill spot stop step pre-test word sort word slides letter boxes post-test