Year 1 Homework – Term 1 – (Week 1-5)

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Week / English / Spelling / Mathematics / Science
1 / Emotions vs Actions
What is an emotion?
Give three 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 Words
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 — High–frequency 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, Susan, 2012, Developing early literacy: Assessment and teaching, 2nd edn, Eleanor Curtain Publishing, Australia
SLR — Strategies to support the four spelling knowledges
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 boxes
·  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