ANY BOOKLISTS HERE ARE FOR THE OLDER WEEKLY PLANS – they are NOT for the new Flexible Blocks which have their own booklists accessible here: https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/flexible-blocks-booklists/
Flexible Blocks
English: Our flexible English puts the teacher in control. Plan a sequence of lessons tailored to your class. Find out about the advantages of English blocks.
Year 1 English Homework
For many parents, homework is the only picture they get of what their child does at school. For this reason, Hamilton have put a great deal of effort into writing suitable, fun and home-friendly activities for children and parents to share together. Children will benefit and so will parents and teachers!
The activities rehearse core literacy skills that you may wish children to practise or keep on the boil. Read our English homework blog for more advice about using them.
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Practise sounding out words to write words with the same start and end sounds but different middle sounds.
Draw their favourite thing to wear, write labels for its special features and a caption about why they like it.
Practise sounding out words to write short action phrases for words starting with the same sound.
Learn the nursery rhyme 'Hickory dickory dock' and make up own version for a new animal.
Practise writing skills by writing down favourite 'Knock, knock' jokes to share with the rest of the class.
Write and illustrate a short imaginative description of a favourite dream.
Develop descriptive writing skills by choosing a huge animal and writing unusual descriptive words and phrases to describe it.
Draw animals and practise sounding out words to write down the noises that they might make. Match animals to unusual noises.
Use their imagination to think up simple rhyming phrases and sound out words to enable them to write these down.
Write a short imaginative description of what their favourite summer holiday would be.