BBC Bitesize lessons: Week 1 supporting resources
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Activities and resources to support the BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons.
From 20 April, BBC Bitesize has been publishing daily lessons in English and Maths for all ages. You’ll find a list of our supporting resources for the Week 1 lessons (starting Monday 20th April) below. Alternatively, take a look at this week’s lesson support.
Year 1: English
Expand the sections below to explore resources related to each daily English lesson. For more Year 1 English support, visit English: Age 5–6 (Year 1).
Monday 20 April: Talk about stories
Talk about a story and think about what might happen next. Can your child write some simple sentences about the story?
Practice activities:
- Finish the story [PDF]: Fill in the gaps in this story and write your own ending.
- Story cards [PDF]: Cut out the cards and choose any three. Tell a story based on the pictures!
More support:
- Storyteller videos: Watch our professional storytellers.
Tuesday 21 April: Write a postcard
Write questions to ask the children in The Magic Faraway Tree. Can your child write a postcard back home using capital letters and full stops?
Practice activities:
- What happens next? [PDF]: Write what you think Kipper is saying, and guess what happens next!
- Capital letters: Match lowercase letters to their capital letters.
More support:
- Storyteller videos: Take ten minutes out and let our professional storytellers take you on an adventure!
Wednesday 22 April: Write an invitation
Describe an exciting new land using noun phrases. Write an invitation using capital letters and full stops.
Practice activities:
- Write your own magic key adventure [PDF]: Imagine the magic key took you somewhere magical! Can you describe it?
- Capital letters: Match lowercase letters to their capital letters.
More support:
- Video: What are nouns?: Learn about common, concrete, and abstract nouns with this fun animation.
Thursday 23 April: Write a list
Make a list of fruits and vegetables using phonics to help your child’s writing. Write some instructions, using ‘and’ to join ideas together.
Practice activities:
- Make a gingerbread man [PDF]: Practise reading and following instructions to make a tasty gingerbread man.
- Match the pictures [PDF]: Cut out the cards and play pairs. Match the pictures that have the same vowel sounds.
More support:
- Phonics guide: Listen to all 44 phonics sounds, on their own and in example words.
Friday 24 April: Creative writing
Describe a magical plant or tree using adjectives. What kinds of plants would your child plant for friends and family members?
Practice activities:
- Roald Dahl: Propsposterous plants [PDF]: Can you invent your own extra-usual tree, plant, or flower?
More support:
- Biff, Chip and Kipper eBooks about plants: Read our pair of fiction and non-fiction eBooks all about plants.
Year 1: Maths
Expand the sections below to explore resources related to each daily Maths lesson. For more Year 1 maths support, visit Maths: Age 5–6 (Year 1).
Monday 20 April: Counting in 1s within 50
Your child will work with numbers up to 100, counting on or back from any number in steps of 2, 5, or 10.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Counting: Lesson 1
- Counting objects [PDF]: Count the objects in each picture.
- Three Little Frogs rhyme [PDF]: Sing this fun action rhyme together.
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Tuesday 21 April: Counting in 2s within 50
Your child will work with numbers up to 100, counting on or back from any number in steps of 2, 5, or 10.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Odds, evens, multiples
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Wednesday 23 April: Counting in 5s within 50
Your child will work with numbers up to 100, counting on or back from any number in steps of 2, 5, or 10.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Odds, evens, multiples
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Thursday 23 April: Representing numbers within 50
Your child will work with numbers up to 100, counting on or back from any number in steps of 2, 5, or 10.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Introducing number and place value
- Spot the number [PDF]: Practise representing numbers up to 50.
- Steps and slides [PDF]: Practise reading teen numerals.
- Race to 20 [PDF]: Practise writing numbers from 1–20 in order.
More support:
Year 2: English
Expand the sections below to explore resources related to each daily English lesson. For more Year 2 English support, visit English: Age 6–7 (Year 2).
Monday 20 April: Talk about stories
Talk about a favourite story and explain opinions using ‘because’. Can your child use simple sentences to predict what happens next?
Practice activities:
- Story Generator [PDF]: Pick a type or genre of story, character and setting and put them together to think up a story idea.
- Write your own magic key adventure [PDF]: Imagine the magic key took you somewhere magical! Can you describe it?
More support:
- Storyteller videos: Take ten minutes out and let our professional storytellers take you on an adventure!
Tuesday 21 April: Write a diary entry
Write a diary entry to describe an amazing adventure, and practise asking questions. Can your child write in full sentences using words like ‘if’, ‘because’, and ‘but’?
Practice activities:
- Write your own Winnie story [PDF]: Follow the prompts to create your own tall tale.
- Conjunctions: Practise using conjunctions like ‘if’ and ‘because’ in sentences.
- Sentences and questions [PDF]: Practise writing different kinds of sentences, including questions.
More support:
- Storyteller videos: Take ten minutes out and let our professional storytellers take you on an adventure!
Wednesday 22 April: Write about a character
Describe a new land using noun phrases, and write a mini-chapter about a character your child meets there.
Practice activities:
- Character profile [PDF]: Complete this character profile to collect ideas about the lead character in your story.
- Super villain! [PDF]: Invent and describe your own vile villain!
More support:
- 4 fun ways to develop characters for a short story: Every story needs a star! These four fun activities will help any aspiring author dream up some page-turning protagonists.
Thursday 23 April: Create instructions
Make a list of fruits and vegetables and explain why they were chosen. Write an introduction to a set of instructions and use bossy verbs to explain how to care for a plant.
Practice activities:
- Make a time capsule [PDF]: Choose items to put in the time capsule and explain why you chose them. Can you draw your time capsule?
- Make a banana milkshake [PDF]: Practise reading and following instructions to make a tasty banana milkshake.
More support:
- Writing non-fiction for fun: Practise writing instructions, reviews, scrapbooks, fact-files, and more!
Friday 24 April: Creative writing
Describe a magical plant or tree using adjectives. What kinds of plants would your child plant for friends and family members?
Practice activities:
- Roald Dahl: Propsposterous plants: Can you invent your own extra-usual tree, plant, or flower?
More support:
- How gardening can cultivate your child’s maths skills: Find out how to grow your child’s maths skills in the garden, no matter the size of your green space or your green fingers.
Year 2: Maths
Expand the sections below to explore resources related to each daily Maths lesson. For more Year 2 maths support, visit Maths: Age 6–7 (Year 2).
Monday 20 April: Find 1 more and less
Your child will be able to count up and down from numbers up to 100.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Place value to 30
- MyMaths: Place value tens and ones
- Counting up to 10: Practise counting up and down up to 10.
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Tuesday 21 April: Counting in 1s, 2s, 3s, and 5s to 100
Your child will count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 starting from 0. They will use objects, songs, and number lines to practise counting in steps.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Counting 2
- Counting objects [PDF]: Count the objects in each picture.
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Wednesday 22 April: Find 10 more and less
Your child will count out loud in steps or groups of 2, 5, and 10, starting from 0, as well as counting backwards.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Place value to 30
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Thursday 23 April: Tens and ones
Your child will use place value to understand the value of tens and ones.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Place value tens and ones
- MyMaths: Number and place value
- Spot the number [PDF]: Build numbers from 20–100.
- Memory [PDF]: Using facts to add and subtract whole tens.
More support:
Year 3: English
Expand the sections below to explore resources related to each daily English lesson. For more Year 3 English support, visit English: Age 7–8 (Year 3).
Monday 20 April: Nouns
Identify different types of nouns – place, person and thing.
Practice activities:
- Words, sentences, and texts [PDF]: Practise reading and writing words, sentences, and whole texts – including different types of nouns.
More support:
- Video: Grammar games: proper or common nouns: Help your child learn how to identify common and proper nouns with these fun grammar games.
Tuesday 21 April: Pronouns
Identify pronouns and know when to use them instead of a noun.
Practice activities:
- Pronouns, verbs, and the past tense [PDF]: Practise using pronouns, including plural and possessive pronouns.
More support:
- Video: What are pronouns?: Learn all about when to use pronouns.
Wednesday 22 April: Adjectives
Identify adjectives in a sentence and to decide which ones to use in different situations.
Practice activities:
- Writing silly sentences [PDF]: Practise writing sentences in cursive, using verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
- Roald Dahl: Find awesome antonyms [PDF]: Explore weird and wonderful adjectives with this Roald Dahl activity sheet.
More support:
- Creative writing: Find lots of ideas for using interesting words when you are writing stories.
Thursday 23 April: Verbs
Identify verbs in a sentence and to decide which ones to use in different situations.
Practice activities:
- Word meanings: Draw lines to link the verbs with their meanings.
- Modal verbs [PDF]: Cut out and make the die, and then complete sentences using the different modal verbs.
More support:
- Video: Grammar: Verbs and tenses: Learn about irregular, modal and imperative verbs and the past, present and future tense.
Friday 24 April: Adverbs
Identify adverbs in a sentence and to decide which ones to use in different situations.
Practice activities:
- Adverbs of time: Drag the correct adverb into each sentence.
More support:
- Video: Grammar: Adjectives and adverbs: Find out what the difference is between adjectives and adverbs, and when to use each with lots of examples.
Year 3: Maths
Expand the sections below to explore resources related to each daily Maths lesson. For more Year 3 maths support, visit Maths: Age 7–8 (Year 3).
Monday 20 April: Write 3 digit numbers
Your child will write 3 digit numbers in words and numerals.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Place value HTO
- Home survey [PDF]: Practise counting things that move.
- Game show prizes [PDF]: Practise splitting numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones.
More support:
Tuesday 21 April: Place value for 3 digit numbers
Your child will recognise the place value of each digit in a 3 digit number.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Place value HTO
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Wednesday 22 April: Compare 3 digit numbers
Your child will compare two 3 digit numbers or amounts to see which is bigger and which is smaller.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Greater than and less than
- MyMaths: Ordering whole numbers
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Thursday 23 April: Order 2 digit numbers
Your child will order three or more 2 digit numbers/amounts from highest to lowest, and from lowest to highest.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Greater than and less than
- MyMaths: Ordering whole numbers
More support:
Year 4: English
Expand the sections below to explore resources related to each daily English lesson. For more Year 4 English support, visit English: Age 8–9 (Year 4).
Monday 20 April: Pronouns
Identify pronouns and know when to use them instead of a noun.
Practice activities:
- Pronouns, verbs, and tenses [PDF]: Learn when to use pronouns, including plural and possessive pronouns.
More support:
- Video: What are pronouns?: Learn all about when to use pronouns.
Tuesday 21 April: Expanded noun phrases
Understand what expanded noun phrases are and be able to write them.
Practice activities:
- Comprehension: The Suitcase [PDF]: Read the story snippet and answer the questions to see some noun phrases in context.
More support:
- Video: Phrases and clauses: Ideas to support your child’s understanding of sentences, phrases, and clauses.
Wednesday 22 April: Verb families
Identify verbs and their verb families and write verbs in the past tense.
Practice activities:
- Pronouns, verbs, and the past tense [PDF]: Explore verb families and see how verbs change when using different tenses.
More support:
- Video: Grammar: Verbs and tenses: Learn about irregular, modal and imperative verbs and the past, present and future tense.
Thursday 23 April: Adverbs
Identify adverbs and adverbial phrases and know that they are used to add description to verbs.
Practice activities:
- Adverbs of time: Drag the correct adverb into each sentence to express time.
More support:
- Video: What are fronted adverbials?: Learn how and when to use adverbials for time, place, manner or number.
Friday 24 April: Prepositions
Identify prepositions in a sentence and write sentences using them.
Practice activities:
- Make a sentence [PDF]: Using these word cards, see how many sentences you can make that include prepositions.
More support:
- Grammar in Year 4: Find out more about prepositions and prepositional phrases.
Year 4: Maths
Expand the sections below to explore resources related to each daily Maths lesson. For more Year 4 maths support, visit Maths: Age 8–9 (Year 4).
Monday 20 April: Place value for 4 digit numbers
Your child will practise using place value for numbers up to 4 digits (thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones).
Practice activities:
- Making numbers [PDF]: Make numbers using a place value grid.
- Higher or lower [PDF]: practise making and saying numbers up to and beyond 1000.
- Drag and drop place value: Make the biggest number you can.
More support:
Tuesday 21 April: Find 1, 10, 100, and 1000 more
Your child will find 1, 10, 100, and 1000 more than any given number up to 10,000.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Working with thousands
- Place value pandaemonium [PDF]: Practise place value with friends.
More support:
Wednesday 22 April: Rounding numbers
Your child will round numbers up or down to the nearest 10, 100, or 1000.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000
- MyMaths: Solving problems by rounding
- Rounding numbers: Problem solving using numbers.
- Running track [PDF]: Practise finding the value halfway between multiples of 10.
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Thursday 23 April: Negative numbers
Your child will count forwards and backwards in negative numbers (for example counting backwards in 2s past 0).
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Introducing negative numbers
- Negative Line-up [PDF]: Read and order negative numbers.
More support:
Year 5: English
Expand the sections below to explore resources related to each daily English lesson. For more Year 5 English support, visit English: Age 9–10 (Year 5).
Monday 20 April: Similies and metaphors
Understand and use similes and metaphors.
Practice activities:
- Simile pictures [PDF]: Write a simile to describe each picture.
More support:
- How to find the perfect words for your story: Make language sparkle by creating striking similes and wielding unusual words.
Tuesday 21 April: Similies, metaphors, and alliteration
Understand and use similes, metaphors, and alliteration.
Practice activities:
- Striking similes [PDF]: Choose unexpected words that will create an original picture in the reader’s mind.
More support:
- How to write your best story ever!: 10 top tips to help your child write amazing stories.
Wednesday 22 April: Write a newspaper report
Use alliteration in a newspaper report.
Practice activities:
- Newspaper headlines [PDF]: Choose your favourite headline and tell a story based on it.
- The Daily Rant [PDF]: Choose the best words to fill in the gaps in the newspaper report.
More support:
- Writing non-fiction for fun: Practise writing articles, blog posts, diaries, fact-files, and more!
Thursday 23 April: Suffixes
Identify and see how to use -ing words.
Practice activities:
- Roald Dahl: Suffixes [PDF]: Make your own words by adding and changing suffixes, like ‘-ful’ and ‘-ing’.
More support:
- Video: What are prefixes and suffixes?: Learn how to use prefixes and suffixes, and find out some common examples.
Friday 24 April: Write a poem
Use -ing words in a poem.
Practice activities:
- Who Has Seen the Wind?: Perform the poem. Can you talk about what it means?
More support:
- Video: Ben Davis’ top poetry writing tips: The self-declared Captain of Poetry shares his top tips on writing great poems.
- Poetry eBooks: Discover a wide range of free poetry eBooks.
Year 5: Maths
Expand the sections below to explore resources related to each daily Maths lesson. For more Year 5 maths support, visit Maths: Age 9–10 (Year 5).
Monday 20 April: Negative numbers on a number line
Your child will identify and position negative numbers on a number line.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: Negative numbers 1
- Negative numbers: Order the numbers from smallest to largest.
More support:
Tuesday 21 April: Add and subtract 4 digit numbers
Your child will add and subtract numbers with more than 4 digit numbers using formal methods.
Practice activities:
- MyMaths: More addition and subtraction
More support:
Wednesday 22 April: Estimating in multistep problems
Your child will tackle multistep problems, including problems that require estimating and rounding.
Practice resources:
- MyMaths: Estimating introduction
- MyMaths: Rounding and accuracy
More support:
Thursday 23 April: Multiples and factors
Your child will solve problems using their understanding of multiples and factors.
Practice resources:
- MyMaths: Multiples
- MyMaths: Factors and primes
- Frog hop [PDF]: Learn to recognise multiples of 2 and multiples of 10.
- Multiple link [PDF]: Practise using sequences of multiples and common multiples.
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