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Well-Being Wednesday w/ Mr Mutch #1
My P2s know that Wednesdays are special, they even have a special name. We call them Well-Being Wednesdays, at school we try to cover our Health and Well-Being topics on that day. So, I was thinking how do I do that for the blog.
Taking inspiration from all the lovely colouring I’ve seen, I’ve had some time to myself and coloured in my own Johanna Basford colouring page. It was very detailed and my pencils were not small enough, although it was difficult it was really relaxing.
Because this is all quite new to us all, I want to record what I am doing in many ways just like you are doing in your journals and on sway.
I’ve decided to cover my journal with a blank sheet of paper and for each day I’m going to put a small doodle or picture to mark something that happened that day. I can’t wait to see how it looks in a few weeks time. It could be my own personal where’s wally.
My first few drawings are; 1 – Day one it all started 2 – My Thumper story and 3 – Today I made some yoghurt bark.
If you want to join in, it would be great to see pictures of them in the coming weeks and if you start now you can easily catch up, its only been three days.
Happy Doodling on this Well-Being Wednesday.
Mr.Mutch
Numeracy Grid 1 – Resources for Parents – Mild challenges
In school numeracy is often taught using practical materials, in particular numicon and ten frames.
Ten frames
A ten frame is a rectangle split into 2 rows and 5 columns.
It is used to show numbers that are less than or equal to 10.
Placing objects on the frames helps children to visualise different ways to represent numbers.
You could download and print the ten frame sheet below from Twinkl
twinkl-blank-ten-frame-activity-sheet-landscape-1-per-page
or
make your own.
An empty egg box can be a great 10 frame.
It is a great way to help children organise amounts to count.
Numicon
The links below open free resources from the numicon website that I find helpful, although I do recognise that you might not have access to a printer.
Numicon_pcms_Shapes,_Numerals_and_Number_Words_1-10_(Actual_Size)
Numicon_pcms_shape_numeral_word_cards_1_to_31
Numicon_pcms_Adding_Facts_to_10
Numicon_pcms_Adding_Facts_to_20
How to make your own numicon – a bit fiddly but a great measuring activity for older children.
Mrs Fraser’s Challenges
Hello- You know I love you to have a challenge ! So…. I’ll pop a challenge up here every now and again- have a go with your family and see how you get on.
You can write about the challenge in your journal or share a sway about how you got on.
Numeracy Grid challenge – Mental Maths activities – Spicy Level but suitable for all
Have you managed to do any maths this week. Don’t forget all those practical tasks you are doing at home already use maths in them. We have finally found the time to bake in the Flockton house and we are playing Monopoly which is getting a little heated at times!!!
Some teachers may have some Sumdog activities for those of you that use it in class but feel free to try out other maths apps and websites as well as your practical activities such as weighing or measuring.
Here are a few suggestions –
‘Daily 10’, you can chose all sorts of areas of maths and change the challenge level (Free online)
Multiplication tables – ‘DK Multiplication’ is a hit in our house (Free app)
Carol Vorderman is providing maths tutorials online for those working at the Hot stage.
Most pupils should be familiar with ‘Topmarks’ games (Free online)
P3 love BBC Supermovers, this has songs to dance to and includes everything from Addition to Multiplication. It’s also a little easier than Joe Wicks!!!
We all have our favourite games but leave a comment to share your favourite maths related game (Virtual or not) We might all be reminded of some favourites.
P3
Play Sumdog with Mr Reid and Miss Deans – Spicy/Hot – Numeracy
Good morning everyone
If your child has a Sumdog account, they will be able to play with Mr Reid and Miss Deans between 12pm – 1pm today.
Mr Reid will be playing – Animals
Miss Deans will be playing – Cycle Race
Each game will start on a 5 minute interval, meaning that the first game will start at 12pm, then 12.05pm, 12.10pm etc.
When selecting ‘Who do you want to play against?’ – Select ‘Class’.
We have added every teacher to each class, so we should all be able to play together!
We look forward to playing Sumdog with you all.
Literacy Grid 1 – Letter Formation mild challenge – Curly Caterpillar Letter Family
Letter Formation
Choose a family of letters to practise each day.
Watch the videos to help you form the letters
Good morning boys and girls,
I spent yesterday making some resources to help you with this challenge.
These resources help you learn to form the
curly caterpillar family of letters.
They almost always begin with a curved line to the left.
The letter can begin at the top or sometimes in the middle but they NEVER begin at the bottom.
Before you start to form your letters warm up your hand by creating curved patterns.
Here are some ideas for covering an egg shape with curved patterns.
Remember to
- check your seating position, pull the chair in
- put your feet flat on the floor
- use your helping hand to hold the paper
- hold the pencil with a comfortable grip – sometimes we call this froggy fingers
These videos will help you learn how to form the curly caterpillar short letters
a c o s
These videos will help you learn how to form the long and tall caterpillar letters
d f g q
Information for parents and carers
I can write leaflet – I sent this home with P1 children in their journal
Any opportunity to practise these different strokes will help your child with their letter formations.
You do the Marking – Literacy MILD
Morning Everyone,
I hope you all enjoyed our first day of online learning and are ready to start Day 2. I’ve decided to keep my own Learning Journal completing some of the activities from the grids. Yesterday I decided to write a story about Thumper from the Mild column.
I thought about the W5 (who, what, when, where & why) and then decided to write my story. One thing my P2 class know very well about me is that I make so many mistakes and the pupils always help me to correct my work. Sadly I forgot to check my work before I took a photo of it.
Could you check my work for me, what mistakes have I made and what should I do to fix them?
I look forward to reading your feedback, Mr.Mutch
Have a G.R.E.A.T Day!
Tuesday Tunes: HOT Literacy Haiku Poem Challenge- Miss Deans
Good Morning Everyone!
I hope you are all settled into our home learning experience and have had time to relax and chill and do fun things!
You may still be getting to grasp with our learning grids and trying to decide which task to do first, one of our hot literacy challenges is to create a Haiku poem, FUN FACT ALERT!!!
Did you know that Haiku poems can feature in songs, so far I have found lots that unfortunately you may not know but your parents would, HOWEVER I have managed to find one that actually we have featured in an assembly before, Can anyone correctly guess this song ? Please leave your answers in the comments.
Thanks Miss Deans 🙂
