Good morning. We’ve made it to the end of the week. Hope you’re all well and managing to keep your spirits up.

Don’t forget you can do PE with Joe every day. It’s live at 9am.

Friday is assembly day.  Here is Fischy Music’s assembly if you would like to watch.

P1

Practise your phonics sounds from this week. Try the maths games on Education City or Top Marks.

P2

Try doing your own spelling test.                                                                              If you would like to do Beat That for this week click on the 10 link below. Remember to set a timer for 50 or 60 seconds.

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Try the maths games on Education City or Top Marks.

On a Friday we usually do Bounce Back our mental health and resilience program.

Our topic at the moment is friendship. Listen to this book which has 5 little stories about frog and toad who are friends with very different personalities.

Listen to this song.

Try making a friendship poster with drawings or cut out pictures of people being friends and doing things together.

Song for today

Maths

I have created 2 maths cities on Education City, one for P1 and one for P2. Log in and have a try.

There are some learn screens – Learn Screens help introduce or reinforce a topic. Great as part of a starter or for independent use. These can be watched. There are also some activities to try with related worksheets if you want to print them. Lastly, Play Live is a real time 60 second challenge in which students can play against each other in a competitive arena. This will help with quick recall of number facts for addition and subtraction.

PE with Joe is on live every day at 9am but you can do it anytime. Thursday is our PE/Outdoor learning day so give it a try today.

Or if you want to get outside why not try an ABC scavenger hunt. Go into your garden to see what you can find for the different letters of the alphabet.

Thursday is also our French day – listen to The Very Hungry Caterpillar in French.

 

 

Remember to check the weekly blog post for CLIC and phonics/spelling for the week.

Maths

If you are looking to do some written number work P1 have been working on subtraction (within 10) and P2 on addition and subtraction (within 20).

P1 try straightforward take away first       8-3=  5-2=   10-4=                  or try missing numbers    4-__=2         6-__=1

P2 Try adding 3 numbers     3+4+11=     5+8+3=                                            or missing numbers     19-__=12     __-2=11         3+__=20     8+__=20

P1 phonics – new sound ar

Yoga for today – Wednesday is usually our yoga day.

Art – some drawing to try with Steven Lenton and Lydia Monks. Please send a picture of any artwork you create.

Finally, I’m sure many of you will have seen children’s pictures of rainbows popping up in house windows. The idea is that children make a picture of a rainbow (sometimes with a positive message written on) and display in a house window to spread hope and happiness during this unsettling time. If your child has made one or would like to make one, please send me a photo of it as I would love to share a rainbow each day in my post to brighten up our day! 🌈😃

Song for today – try joining in.

P1

Count and exercise – for everyone to try.

P2

Maths game to help with addition and subtraction – count on and back.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/blast-off

Counting in 5s with exercise.

Writing – if you would like to try some writing here is a suggestion for today.

Listen to the story – The Smartest Giant In Town

P1 – Give your child the sentence starter – you will need to write this for them to copy.

The giant gave his …

then they can choose an ending

tie to a giraffe.

shirt to a goat.

shoe to a mouse.

sock to a fox.

Draw a picture and write the sentence – don’t forget finger spaces and the full stop.

P2 – Draw a picture and write about what happened in the story.

Don’t forget – try to use a wow word and a connective (and, but, so, because). Remember finger spaces and punctuation marks.

 

 

 

These activities can be done throughout the coming week. Spend about 5 minutes on each section (C, L, I, C) daily.

CLIC stands for –

C – counting

L – learn its (number facts which are learned for quick recall)

I – it’s nothing new (counting fact or learn it which can be applied to any object or amount)

C – calculations (add, subtract, multiply or divide)

P1 CLIC

C – comparing (which one id bigger?) or ordering numbers within 10

L – 1+1   2+2   3+3   4+4   5+5

I – doubling ( double 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

C – subtraction ( take away within 10 and count how many are left)

P2 CLIC

C – counting multiples of 5

L – 4+2   5+2   6+2   7+2   9+2

I – jigsaw numbers to 10 ( what must be added to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 to make 10)

C – subtraction ( take away within 20 using a number line)

P1

This week our sounds are

er – her, sister, under, winter, slipper, river, supper, number, butter,                silver

ar – arm, jar, farm, yard, star, scarf, sharp, dark, march, smart, shark

The usual homework activities can be done with the sounds. Practise writing the sounds or the words containing them.

Words of the week (common words) for this week are – live and give.

Try activities similar to the one we do each week for homework – how many of each word can you find. Practise writing the words.

P2

This week our spelling pattern is ie

Link to a youtube video on similar sounds

lie, die, pie, tie, cries, flies, going, both

Spelling activities can be done using the words.

This week try

*Pyramid Words- Write your spelling words in a pyramid shape. Start with the first letter. On the next line, write the first two letters. On the third line, write the first three letters. Continue until you have written the entire word. Example: them
t
th
the
them

*Spelling Flowers- Draw a picture of a great big flower. Write each of your spelling words on one of the flower petals or on a leaf. Draw extra flowers if you run out of room.

 

*Squiggly Spelling Words- You are going to write your spelling words two times. First write in regular letters. Then write the words again in squiggly letters!

 

*UPPER and lower- Write your spelling words two times each. The first time, write each word in UPPERCASE letters. Write your words a second time in lowercase letters.

 

 

Remember to check the guide for learning at home to plan out your day.

Education City and Sumdog log ins are in the pink homework books.

Maths games to try today

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering              Choose to order numbers up to 10, 20 or 100.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button     Number Bonds – addition to 10 or make 10 for P1                                                                                addition or subtraction within 20 for P2

100 indoor activities -choose a couple

https://www.thebestideasforkids.com/indoor-activities-for-kids/

 

 

Before 9am	MORNING ROUTINE	Have breakfast, get dressed, make bed, tidy bedroom
9am – 10am	SCHOOL WORK	Education City, Sumdog, Google Classroom Activities or.. Write a daily diary about what is happening and how you are feeling? Draw a picture of what you see outside Read a book for 20 mins
10 – 11am	FREE TIME	Get some fresh air if possible Chat with your friends Have a snack
11 – 12pm	SCHOOL WORK	Check out suggested school websites eg Newsround, BBC Bitesize, Scottish Book Trust Google Classroom Activities
12 – 1pm	LUNCH	Make your own lunch, have a break
1 – 2pm	100 indoor activities QUIET TIME	Look at the list of indoor activities and choose a couple.  Remember to tag us on our Twitter page @abbotswell so that we can see all the great things you are up to! Have some quiet time.  Read a book, do some mindfulness exercises, play with your pet
2 – 3pm	KEEPING ACTIVE	Do some exercise, look on youtube for kids exercise, Cosmic Yoga, Zumba, Go Noodle
3 – 4pm	FREE TIME	Have fun!  Chill out doing something you enjoy
4 – 5pm	TEA TIME	Help out making the tea, tidy the house

 

We’d love to see all the things you’ll be doing during the day so please either tag us on Twitter @abbotswell or email photos to Mrs Douglas (EmDouglas@aberdeencity.gov.uk), Mrs Tysom (CTysom@aberdeencity.gov.uk)

REMEMBER TO KEEP WASHING THOSE HANDS

Infant classes will not be using Google Classroom however support packs ( jotter, pencils, word bank, number square etc.) have been sent home in book bags.  Some digital resources can be used at home and many will be accessible through phones, tablets or laptops.  Rest assured, we will keep in touch over the coming days and weeks. We will continue to do all we can to support you and your family.

Could you give me an email address so that we can keep in contact as we are unfortunately having to stop using Class Dojo in the next 2 weeks. My email address is SCallum@aberdeencity.gov.uk .
From next week, please check the school website and the class blog for suggested activities and resources.

After Class Dojo finishes we will be using Marvellous Me. You will find a note with how to connect to it in your child’s book bag.

This week we have the Christmas Concerts on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. Children just come in school uniform.

School is closed on Thursday for polling.

Friday is Christmas Jumper Day and we have our Christmas cinema afternoon when the children go to watch their chosen films.

P1

This week our letter sounds are ai and j. Letter ai homework should be completed for Wednesday and letter j homework should be completed by Friday.

P2

This week our sound is ss.  The children will get 6 words with the ll pattern and 2 common words to learn for homework. Please write each word twice in the homework book and complete for Friday. Spelling test will be on Friday.

P1

The P1 children will be introduced to two new common words which can be reinforced at home by completing the common word homework for Thursday. Words for this week are if and of. You may need to help your child writing the number after counting the words together. Please write each word 2 times. The second word wall is now in the white book for practise of the words at home.

P2

P2 common words will be the last 2 words on the spelling list each week. This week our words are said and here.

 

Reading

Reading books will be taken in this week for Christmas and reading homework will continue after the holidays.

 

Maths

 

Both P1 and P2 will do some Christmas related shape and number work this week.

 

Topic

Our focus this week will be the Christmas Concerts and more Christmas art and craft activities.

This week’s star of the week is Faye. She has been doing amazing Christmas art and craft.

Well done Faye.