Month: May 2020

Hi everyone

Monday would have been a holiday for you all this week so try to spend at least a little bit of your day off relaxing with a story!

Drama is a great way to combine reading, listening and talking. Think about your favourite story and how you can act it out. We tried puppets – wooden spoon puppets are easy to make and you can do them double sided for different characters! We also gave mask making a go and retold the story of the Gruffalo. See what creative ways you can come up with to retell a story of your choice. As well as puppets or masks you could try creating a comic strip version of your story, recording it on a device to make it an audio book, using a computer program to create your own online story, adding songs and actions to the story, and so on.

Keep trying out the Listening and Talking games listed on this blog and make sure to let us know if you invent any of your own.

The weather is meant to be beautiful this week so try to take advantage if you can and get outside! Here are some outdoor literacy ideas to help you:

List of ideas for outdoor activities –

https://childhood101.com/outdoor-literacy-ideas/

Literacy challenge cards for outdoors –

file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/Outdoor%20Literacy%20Challenge%20Cards.pdf

file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/More%20Outdoor%20Challenge%20Cards.pdf

Spelling practise, outdoor ideas –

file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/Outdoor%20Spelling%20Ideas.pdf

Punctuation game for outdoors –

file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/Outdoor%20Punctuation%20Game.pdf

The end of this week would have been our sports day. Have a chat with someone at home about what sports day activities you most enjoy. See if you can think of any way to recreate some sports challenges during your outdoor exercise time this week.

Writing is a good way to manage your feelings about everything that is happening in the world at the moment. Try keeping a journal, diary or scrapbook where you can draw or write about what is going on in your life during this time. If you know anyone who might be lonely at the moment, try writing them a letter! Older relatives especially enjoy getting post – we did this for my Gran who is 88 and cannot leave her home or recieve any visitors at the moment and it made a huge difference!

I hope you are all doing as well as you can and are staying safe! 🙂

Hi everyone

Hope you are all doing well! Here are some Literacy ideas for you for this week:

Reading

• RWI – keep logging into YouTube Ruth Miskin channel for the Daily Speed Sound lesson.
• Try to share a story every day with someone at home – this can be an ebook, an audiobook, a story book or a story that you make up for yourself.
• Phonics games can be found for free at the following link – give some of them a try. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/index.htm#
• The Literacy Trust family zone has activities for children of all ages – give some of them a try and don’t forget to post your favourites! https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/
• BBC Authors Live has a page of events free to access https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rhvg9r/by/date/2020
• Try out some of comprehension activities saved in your class teams.
• Create a portrait of a character – choose your favourite book character and write a description of their looks and personality.

Writing

• Try out one of the following creative writing prompts – share your story with us.  creative-writing-prompts

Listening and Talking

• How many words can you think of to describe the signs of Spring you see on your daily walk?
• Talk about your “Wish List” for after Lockdown ends – what are you going to do first? We tried this out at home this week and came up with – give grandparents a big cosy, go swimming and keep going for walks every day because it’s fun to explore new places near our house!
• Try out some of these tongue twisters – what one is hardest? https://www.engvid.com/english-resource/50-tongue-twisters-improve-pronunciation/ 

Hi everyone!

I am working in the Hub on Monday and Tuesday this week but here are some literacy ideas to keep you going:

Have a look at https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dd/bookcamp/2020/05/08/another-bunch-of-borrow-box-reviews/ – lots of reviews of different books you can borrow for free to read or listen to. Try borrowing some of the books or even writing your own review about a book you have enjoyed reading at home.

Outdoor ideas – can you try any of our listening and talking games while out for exercise? Look at the earlier blog post for ideas.

Can you find any interesting information to read outside? We’ve been searching while exercising this week and have come up with maps, graffiti, wildlife lists, window signs, etc.

See what ideas you can come up with for practising your reading outdoors – we love green word hopscotch in our house! You can find lots of ideas here https://www.ourwhimsicaldays.com/home/sidewalk-chalk-literacy-games#_a5y_p=4194688

This link has 36 different reading games for all ages – from initial sounds to grammar rules. See what game you like best https://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/readingmachine.shtml

Stay safe and keep reading!

 

 

Hi everyone, I hope you are all staying safe! Here are some literacy challenges for this week. You can complete as many as you like, feel free to comment on the Blog, and/or share photographs to let me know how you get on!

1) Have a look at some of the listening and talking games in the blog post below. Try one out at home.

2) Have a look at the RWI post and practise the appropriate speed sounds. If you are not in a Read Write Inc group, follow this link and try out one of the reading skills games.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/reading

3) Make time to read for enjoyment – try reading to someone at home if you can. Remember, it doesn’t have to be a human! Here is Tallulah, one of our cats, enjoying a story about Mickey Mouse 😊

 

4) Watch a video, read a book, or listen to an audio book, etc, and discuss the Book Talk questions with someone at home.

• What did you enjoy about this story?
• What did you not enjoy?
• What puzzled you?
• Did this remind you of anything else you have read, or an experience you have had?

 

Hi Everyone

Miss Niland has found these amazing resources to help us keep practising our Speed Sounds. Have a look for your group below and give it a try.

Ditty Groups

• The following links are to practise Speed Sounds:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29318.html

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26333.html

• RWI online ditties can be found here:

https://cdn.oxfordowl.co.uk/2020/03/25/12/12/55/1a5fba52-4af4-4008-9fcf-56517ab25cb7/RWI_OnlineDitties.pdf

• Speedy Green words linked to ditty books can be found here. These words should be read quickly, without using Fred Talk:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29096.html

 

Green and Purple Groups

• This link can be used to practise Set 2 Speed Sounds:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29317.html

• Speedy Green words linked to green and purple story books. These words should be read quickly, without using Fred Talk:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29098.html

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29098.html

 

Pink and Orange Groups

• This link can be used to practise Set 2 Speed Sounds:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29317.html

• This link can be used to practise Set 3 Speed Sounds (usually beginning at Orange level):

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26334.html

• Speedy Green words linked to pink and orange story books. These words should be read quickly, without using Fred Talk:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29093.html

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29099.html

 

Yellow Group

• This link can be used to practise Set 3 Speed Sounds:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26334.html

• Speedy Green words linked to yellow story books. These words should be read quickly, without using Fred Talk:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29095.html

 

Blue and Grey Groups

• Continue practising your Set 3 Sounds using the following link:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26334.html

• Speedy Green words linked to blue and grey story books. These words should be read quickly, without using Fred Talk:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29094.html

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/29092.html
Any questions, just leave a comment and I will try my best to help.