Year 1

Castles

and Dragons…

General Tasks

To help with learning from home the Government has set up the Oak National Academy. This offers 180 video lessons each week across a broad range of subjects from Reception to Year 10 and are free to use. The Oak National Academy can be accessed here: https://www.thenational.academy/ In addition, the BBC is running programmes and resources for pupils of all ages, with many famous faces presenting lessons. These resources can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/learn https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znwrcqt

Phonics Tasks One of the key learning in Yr1 is phonics. These are the letters and sounds individual letters make as well as groups of letters together. Look at the Phonics Tasks in your Easter Pack. Please could you do one task per day.

• Phonics Play – Lots of phonics games and activities. This can be found at: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ with the Username: March20 and the Password: home

• Another phonics page we use is Monster Phonics: https://monsterphonics.com/ with the Username: login and Password: homelearning

• The last phonics we would recommend is Oxford Owl: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/learn-to-read-phonics/

Weekly Reading Tasks There are some really great ideas on previous project packs so feel free to do the ones you have not completed yet. Here are some additional ideas are:

• Read a novel (chapter book) to your child, such as David Walliams or Harry Potter.

• Listen to a story (BBC bedtime stories – a new one every day)

• Make a new front cover for a book you have read. Who would you put on the front?

Weekly Maths Tasks Again, look at previous projects for some great ideas about what Maths you can do daily. Pick one a day. Here are some additional ideas:

• Set up a tuck shop for daily snacks where they get given a set amount of money for the day to buy snacks.

• Make a timetable of the day looking at the days of the week, as well as the time each activity is starting. Draw the clock, with the long hand the minute hand and the short hand the hour hand.

• Go on a shape hunt. First one to find 3 triangles. Do the same for circles, rectangles, squares.

Other Weekly Tasks Science

• Spot some signs of Spring in the garden… • What animals can you find (be careful to

put them back where you found them….) PE

• Start each morning with a good wake up! Daily 30mins exercise by logging onto YouTube and watching Joe Wicks (PE with Joe) who is doing it live every morning at 9am. If you miss this time, then previous exercise routines are on there.

History • Find ‘Horrible Histories’ on BBC (Internet)

and write 3 interesting things you have learnt from each program. (there are also games linked to each one)

Design Technology • Help make some cakes or biscuits for the

family. Don’t forget to wash up afterwards.

Castles

English

• Write a castle acrostic poem (Activity Sheet 1)

• Poetry - “Anyone seen my Dragon?” (Activity Sheet 2)

• Read the fun fact sheet on Castles together – then see how much information you can find by answering the questions. You may want to work through the questions with an adult (or older brother/sister) (Activity Sheet 3)

• Find some pictures of dragons. Which one do you like best and why? Draw a large dragon egg and inside it write words that you would use to describe it. (ferocious or kind, scaly skin or soft skin) Use the words collected in your egg, to write 5 sentences about the dragon inside the egg. Don’t forget capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and that it makes sense. Can you use and in one your sentences and because in another?

Maths

• Fractions – halves and quarters (Activity Sheet 11)

• 3 maths games to play together (Activity Sheet 12)

Art/Design Technology

• Design a personal coat of arms on a shield (Activity Sheet 9)

• Colour in sheets on a castle theme (Activity Sheet 10)

• Make a model of a castle. You could use cardboard boxes and tubes, building bricks or empty packaging.

• Make a dragon puppet. You could use an old sock, paper or lolly stick. What would your dragon say? Who would it talk to?

• Draw or paint a picture of a dragon. What colours can you see? What does your dragon look like? Can you tell someone else about your dragon?

History / Geography

• Barnaby Bear visits Edinburgh Castle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zxsgkqt Draw and Write down 4 things that you have learnt. (Activity Sheet 4)

• Compare your home to a castle (Activity Sheet 5)

• Use the Internet to find out how you became a Knight and answer these questions. (Activity Sheet 6)

• Find out about castles from this English Heritage video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXXDThkJ3Ew From this Label a castle (Activity Sheet 7)

• Find castles on the map and see if you add some more (Activity Sheet 8)

PE and Games

• Play some of the games the children of medieval times played (Activity Sheet 13)

Music

• Warm up your voice and body by joining in with ‘Sound Parade’, ‘Funky Chicken’ or ‘Clap Your Hands’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI5t9QbozBQ&t=325s

• Join in with the actions and the words of ‘Castle Song’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEbrwAIEDRI

• Listen to a part of the Jack and the Beanstalk story each day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks1-jack-and-the-beanstalk-pt1/zjnc7nb

PHSE

• Castles were built to make people feel safe. Think about what makes you feel safe (Activity 14)

Activity Sheet 1 – Write an acrostic poem about a castle. An acrostic poem has the topic idea down the left side of the poem. Each letter in the topic word starts the first word of that line. Here is an example:

Now write one about Castles….

C _________________________________________________

A _________________________________________________

S _________________________________________________

T ________________________________________________

L _________________________________________________

E _________________________________________________

S _________________________________________________

Activity Sheet 2 – Write a poem based on poem “Anyone seen my dragon?” 1. Read the poem “Anyone seen my dragon?” by Roger Stevens. Read it out loud. Focus on the rhythm of

the poem. 2. Underline and draw a line to connect the words that rhyme (these are words that sound the same). 3. Now create your own poem based on this one, ie Anyone seen my cat? (or any other animal). Think

about using descriptive words such as; hairy, black, fuffy, sleak, etc. Also the type of cat; tabby, rag doll, tortoiseshell, etc. Start with the chorus, then work through the verses about the cats behaviour; She sits and purrs. She sleeps all day. She climbs trees. She brings dead mice into the house.

Anyone seen my Dragon, Daisy? Anyone seen my DRAGON? Scary, Scaly Tall ‘n Taily Daisy the Dreadful Dragon. She’s got bad breath. A temper true. Eat’s old ladies (children too). She breathes out fire. She puffs out smoke. She’ll singe your hair. She’ll make you choke. Anyone seen my DRAGON? Scary, Scaly Tall ‘n Taily Daisy the Dreadful Dragon. She soars about. She seeks out food. Makes loud noises (mainly rude).

Yes she’s grumpy. Yes, she’s smelly. Big Butt always blocks the telly. Anyone seen my DRAGON? Scary, Scaly Tall ‘n Taily Daisy the Dreadful Dragon. And she’s breastly. And a pest. But I love her (she’s the best). Please send Daisy Back to me. Treat her well. Or you’ll be tea… Anyone seen my DRAGON? Scary, Scaly Tall ‘n Taily Daisy the Dreadful Dragon.

Activity Sheet 3 – Fun Fact on Castles Read the writing and answer the questions.

Activity Sheet 4 – Barnaby Bear Watch the video of Barnaby Bear visiting Edinburgh Castle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zxsgkqt Either and Write 4 things that you have learnt.

Activity Sheet 5 – Castle verses Home

Most of us live in a house or flat, not a castle. Think about how your house is similar and different to a castle.

Think about: My home A stone castle

Doors: Does your front door have a window? How does a castle door help keep enemies out?

Windows: How many windows does your house have? What are they made from?

Walls: How thick are the walls of your house? What are the walls of your house made from?

Defences: How do you keep people out of your home? What ways were castles defended?

Bathrooms: How many do you have in your house? Do you have running water?

Lighting: How do you light your home?

Heating: How did they keep warm in medieval times?

Home sweet home: How do you decorate your home? Do you have carpets?

Bigger is better: How many rooms do you have in your house? How many people live there?

Activity Sheet 6 – How do you become a Knight? Any free man could become a knight, but the cost of owning a horse and providing your own armour meant that they mainly came from wealthy noble families. Using the Internet, do some research to help you discover the steps to knighthood!

1. At what age did a boy begin training to become a knight

2. What was a boy training to be a knight called?

3. Why did the boys training to be a knight play wrestling and tag?

4. What other duties did the boys have to do?

5. What skills would a boy learn?

6. At what age would a boy become a squire?

7. What were the duties of a squire?

8. At what age would a squire become a knight?

9. What happened at the ceremony when a squire become a knight?

Activity Sheet 7 – Labelling a castle Find the different parts of a castle by watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXXDThkJ3Ew Use this words:

• Battlements

• Bailey

• Portcullis

• Tower

• Barbican

• Drawbridge

• Moat

• Arrow Loops

Activity Sheet 8 – Castles of the United Kingdom

Use an atlas to find the location of the castles and mark them on the map. Can you find a castle that is not on the list?

Activity Sheet 9 – Designing a shield Shields were coloured so that knights could be spotted on the battlefield – after all, you don’t want to attack the wrong person! The shield was an important part of a knight’s armour. Take a look at the basic shield designs below. Experiment using different colour combinations on the shields.

A knight’s shield may also have an animal such as a bird or a lion. This would have also appeared on the cloak covering your armour and cloth covering your horse. Think about which animal you would like to have on your shield and what it represents about you. Draw out your shield design and include the animal of your choice.

Activity Sheet 10 – Colouring in sheets.

Activity Sheet 11 – Fractions

1. Show your child some objects that can be cut in half…

Can any of these objects be cut in half in more than one way?

2. Which circles have been split into equal halves?

3. Match the halves to make 5 complete shapes.

Problems to solve

4. Find half of each amount. I would get the same amount of objects from around the home, ie pieces of pasta, and put them into two equal groups.

5. Find half of the sheep

6. Take two square pieces of paper, two circular pieces of paper and two rectangular pieces of paper. Show your child 4 equal parts by folding each shape in half twice. Can they do it? Can you fold any of the shapes in a different way and still get 4 equal parts?

7. Colour a quarter of each shape. Can you colour it in different ways?

8. Tick the shapes that show quarters.

9. Share each quantity into 4 equal groups.

Activity Sheet 12 – Maths Games to play

Maths Game 1: Count Down! This game is a simple at home version of the TV favourite and can be played with any number of players.

https://youtu.be/RZgkr5_Xn58

What you need to play:

• 4 ‘large number’ cards with the numbers 25, 15, 20 and 10 on them

• A set of cards with the digits 1-10 on them, with at least two cards for each number

How to play:

• Step 1: Set out 4 large number cards (25, 50, 75 and 100) face down and mixed up.

• Step 2: Do the same with the 1 – 10 cards, making sure you have at least 2 cards for each number.

• Step 3: Players take it in turns to select one of the big number cards or one of the small number

cards, until there are 6 cards laid out all together.

• Step 4: Someone who is playing the game needs to generate a 3-digit number. This can be by

throwing a dice, or selecting cards from a pile of 0 to 9 cards.

• Step 5: Once the number has been generated, turn over the six cards and players have to try and get

to that total using any of the six number cards and any of the four operations.

• Each card can only be used once and the winner is the first person to reach the total, or the player

who is closest after a set length of time.

• The game can be adapted for different children, by choosing the numbers on the cards carefully and

having them aiming to reach a 2-digit number, rather than a 3-digit number.

Maths Game 2: Salute

This simple game is all about bringing together verbalisation and maths.

What you need to play:

• Two willing participants

• Cards numbered 1-10 (these can be made from a sheet of paper)

How to play:

• Step 1: The game starts with the two players facing each other.

Each person selects a numbered card and sticks it on their

forehead, so the other player can see.

• Step 2: The person leading the game gives a statement, such as

what the sum of the two numbers is, the difference between

the two or the product of the two etc…..

• Step 3: Each player has to work out what number is on their own

card, based on what is written on the other person’s head and

the rule given.

Maths Game 3: Multiplication Bingo

Bingo is a fun game that can be enjoyed by people of all ages, and this version puts a mathematical twist on

this classic game, as a way to boost multiplication skills.

What you need to play:

• Paper to write numbers down on

How to play:

• Step 1: In this mathematical version of the game, all players write

down 5 numbers, which are multiples of a given times table. For

example: if they were doing the 5 times table, they might write 10, 35,

45, 50 and 60.

• Step 2: A third person can lead the game and call out multiplication

questions from the chosen times table, or they can be written on

cards, jumbled up in a pile for players to take turns picking and reading

out.

• Step 3: If the player has an answer to the question on their bingo

board, they can cross it out. First person to cross out all their numbers is the winner.

Activity Sheet 13 – Medieval games to play

Nine Man Morris

A game for two players using a board as set out opposite. Each player needs nine coloured counters.

• Players take it in turns to place their counters on the board, anywhere they choose!

• When all counters are placed, players take it in turns to move their counters. A counter can be moved from one circle to another along the lines but may not move into a ‘slot’ already occupied.

• When a player gets three tokens in a row (a mill) they can take any of their opponent’s counters which are not in a mill.

• If all the opponent’s counters are in mills then a player can take any counter.

The game is over when a player cannot move or only has two counters left.

Oranges and lemons

Say the bells of St.Clements You owe me five farthings Say the bells of St.Martins

When will you pay me? Say the bells of old Bailey

When I grow rich Say the bells of Shoreditch

When will that be? Say the bells of Stepney

I do not know Says the great bell of Bow

Here comes a candle to light you to bed Here comes the chopper to chop off your head!

Oranges and Lemons

• Four players, two with orange bands and two with yellow bands, form an arch.

• Remaining players line up and pass under the arch as the song ‘Oranges and lemons’ is sung.

• The player who passes under the arch when the words ‘chop off your head’ are sung is taken prisoner. They must then choose which team to join, oranges or lemons? They then line up behind their chosen team.

When all players have been taken prisoner the two teams hold a tug of war. The winners are proclaimed the ‘Spring team’ and the losers the ‘Winter team’.

Bocci

Requires two sets of coloured balls (tennis balls work well) and a small Bocci ball (a golf ball is fine).

• Played as two teams on an area of flat clear grass.

• The youngest player from either team rolls the Bocci.

• All other players have two chances to roll their ball to get closest to the Bocci.

The nearest ball gains a point for their team.

Prisoner’s base

The object of the game is to be the team with the most prisoners at the end of the time limit. You need at least ten players on each team and a large marked out playing area with a chalked line across the middle. A prisoner area is also marked out for each team about 10 metres behind the middle line.

• Each team picks a person to be the prisoner for the opposing team, normally their fastest runner!

• The teams try to free the prisoner by sending a team member through enemy lines and trying to run back without being captured. Both teams can attempt this at the same time.

• If caught, the team member joins the original prisoner in prison.

• Further team members are sent to rescue prisoners. They can choose which prisoner to rescue. Note: the rescuer is safe whilst in the prison.

The winning team is the team with the most prisoners at the end of play.

How many miles to London?

One player is chosen as ‘it’ and is then blind folded.

• Other players stand at a starting line and ask ‘it’ for directions. ‘It’ tells them how many steps to take forward, backwards, left and right they must go. Players must follow these directions.

• ‘It’ is then taken to the starting line and then follows his own directions. When ‘it’ reaches the final destination he must try to touch another player. Players can duck and sway to avoid being touched but must not move their feet.

• If a player is tagged they then become ‘it’.

Activity Sheet 14 – Think about what makes you feel safe

All of us worry about things. Sometimes when things are scary it can make us

feel unsafe.

Talk to your mum, dad or carer about what makes you feel safe.

Draw some pictures of things or people who make you feel safe.