Learn With Kathryn

If you want additional activities for over the summer, check out these simple escape rooms. They are aimed at and use Year 1 objectives, but can suit slightly younger students with a little support, or older for independent play.

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Fancy a board game? Set yourself up a zoom call with your friends or family and play a game. Thanks to Even Leed for creating the resource.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PSuCnBjGwtlDC-PThP-51DTS-GJEkqO9/view?usp=sharing

Online Board Games.pdf

After creating our own fantasy creatures we then had a writing session where we wrote descriptive sentences. Have a go!
https://youtu.be/5cPW-7QYQMA

LO: Describe a fantasy creature. In the lesson prior we designed our own fantasy creatures. In this lesson we are writing sentences about our new creatures. We will put these into a story ne...

Last week I started a unit on Myths and Legends. We then looked at Fantasy creatures and designed our own.

https://youtu.be/MrqYYQprgIY

LO: design a mythological/fantasy creature This video introduces some mythological and fantasy creatures before giving guidance on how to draw your own.

Last week I finished a unit on poetry. We concluded with a shape poem based on our topic of Space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnsZhchYc0I

Writing a shape poem. This is the final lesson of a sequence on poetry. We have learnt about similes and alliteration in prior lessons, and planned our own poems that day before t...

Following on from my repeated addition video, please see my video on arrays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRWrm-bqsvU

Count and make arrays This is an introduction lesson to multiplication. We have previously learnt about repeated addition, and so we are now learning how we can layout practical a...

In this video I will sort food in my kitchen into different food groups. This is an introduction and in future we will look at the food groups that make up the food pyramid.
https://youtu.be/a0PUmCNyiqQ

Different groups of food This is an introduction to different groups of food, before the food pyramid and eat well plate is introduced. Students are encouraged to look around their k...

In this video I will model how to add equal groups together to find the total. We will be recording it as repeated addition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97kt7uhSoBE

Adding equal groups or Repeated addition This video models how to use toys and money (notes) to create repeated addition sentences.

Here is a video about making equal groups out of numbers to 20. It is a precursor to division.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3AqCNXbig

Making Equal Groups This is an introduction to multiplication (arrays) and division (sharing) with a Year 1 class. It also shares examples of activities you can pause to ask you...

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Here is a video introducing a unit on rhyming words and uses nursery rhymes as a focus for this lesson. Credits go to Twinkl for the power point mentioned at the end.
https://youtu.be/RL7H7yuitGs

Nursery Rhymes This is the first lesson on rhyming words for Year 1. It uses some nursery rhymes to introduce the unit. The activity after uses a twinkl activity that I sav...

Check out my video on Alliteration for Year 1's.
Credits go to Twinkl for the original power point that I then edited in Google Slides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhSZhpnwr-w

Introduction to Alliteration This is the introduction lesson for a Year 1 class to Alliteration. This is part of a poetry unit, but can also stand alone as a literacy feature to improve ...