Well, we have made it to Friday and I am so impressed by all of your efforts to keep working hard at home. I miss you all and hope you have a relaxing 2 weeks off. Stay safe everyone and remember to be kind to your grown ups at home!

Literacy – we will follow the same routine as Tuesday

Phonics- 🎲

1. Practice all sounds on sound chart just like yesterday
2. 💗Pink literacy group – revise ‘ee’ by getting your grown up to say each word on the ‘ee’ page of your ‘speed sounds’ booklet and without looking, can you count the sounds using your ‘Fred fingers’ and try to write a few of these in your blue jotter. Next play your ‘race to the pond’ game using the ‘set 2’ side. Use the counters and dice provided.

💚Green literacy group – revise ‘ee’ sound as above but please play the ‘set 1’ side of ‘race to the pond’.

❤Red literacy group – play ‘race to the pond’ on set 1 side only.

(see photo below)

Reading- 📚

1. All learners login to your OxfordOwl account using details provided on your ‘home learning folder’ and select a book to read or have read to you. There are some RWI ones on here that you may recognise from school! 
2. Re-read your reading sheet from yesterday (see above photo)  and see if you can read it a little faster but with a good storyteller voice! (Red- sheet 2, Green- sheet 11 and Pink- sheet 26)

Writing ✍

In you blue jotter, above the ‘hold a sentence’ from yesterday, can you draw a picture of something that happens in your reading sheet. Try to include as much detail as you can. My advice would be to avoid felt tip pens as they will leak through to the next jotter pages! 😭

Numeracy and Data Handling/ Outdoor Learning

Being Friday, we are used to getting outside and learning in the fresh air. If you can and have a space to safely do so, go outside and collect 20 items you can easily find and safely collect. If you can’t do 20, just do as many as is safely possible. (Or alternatively, this activity can also be done inside your house.) Next,  sort these items into groups or categories, maybe by type, size, material, texture or even colour! I know you will have lots of great ideas of your own. Finally, can you count how many things are in each category and record this using tally marks, just as we practised the other day.

Early Level Maths Record Book – complete page 29 to consolidate this learning. Get your grown ups to use the ‘teachers notes’ box at the bottom of the page if they need some help with the instruction.

Other curricular tasks- Expressive Arts and Health and Wellbeing

1. Dancing- there are some great dances available on this link. The livestream is at 11.30 each day! You all have some fabulous moves so I can’t wait to hear what you think of dancing with Oti, a professional dancer and celebrity from Strictly Come Dancing 🕺 💃 

https://www.youtube.com/user/mosetsanagape

2. This week has been very different and at times maybe quite challenging for us all, but it is important to remember that there are lots of good things to be thankful for. Take part in this scavenger hunt at home to help you to focus on happy thoughts. 🥰 

Remember I am here if you need me and I can’t wait to see you all soon. Sending lots of love 💕

Miss Thompson

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing ok! Please find details of today’s home learning tasks below.

Phonics-

Login to https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources to play a range of phonics games, a few of which we have already played before in class. We all loved the buried treasure game, learning to spot real or nonsense words! This will focus our attention on looking really close at the sounds within a word and help us in our next reading job.

Reading – Focusing on Red Words (tricky words we cannot ‘Fred’ or use our blending skills for)

1. Using your ‘red word list’, learn the 10 words in set 1. Can you read these, remembering ‘you can’t Fred a red!’ It might help to put these into separate ‘flash cards’ using paper from home if you have some. What is the tricky part of the word? What sounds in the word don’t say what they are supposed to? I’ll help you all with one to get you started….

the – the ‘e’ doesn’t make its proper sound, it makes an ‘i’ sound instead!!! 🤔

Writing-

1. Write these red words (the first box, set 1 only) into your blue jotter and circle the part that makes it tricky.  Do this at the top of a new page.
2. Below this, in your jotter, see if you can write a funny sentence using some of the red words you have learned today. Use your sound sheet to help if you need to.

❤Red group – 1 sentence. 💚Green group – 2 sentences. 💗Pink group – 3 sentences

Mathematics – shape and data collection
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We have previously learned  lots about shape and began learning to record information using tally marks to keep it organised and easy to count.

Using your green jotter, in each corner draw the following shapes, a circle  , a square , a triangle and lastly a rectangle. Look at my example jotter page below. Go on a shape hunt around your house looking for examples of these shapes. When you find one, record it in your jotter using a tally mark.
Remember the important thing about tallies is that they are grouped in 5s. And, when you get to 5, remember to ‘close the gate’ like we talked about in school.  Look at my example below. See how many shapes you can record using tally marks in 5 minutes!!! 🕑

Questions to think about-

1. How many of each shape did you find?
2. Tell your grown up about the qualities of each shape, for example how many sides or corners? 3. Can you count up all of your tally marks to find the total number of shapes you found in 5 minutes?

Other – Health and Wellbeing as Wednesday is normally our PE day

We spent a great deal of time earlier this term learning about the importance of being fit and healthy as we grow and throughout our lives. Part of our time in the gym hall was learning to use exercise to raise our heart rate and in turn get fit!

1. Can you remember some ways your body shows it has been exercising? What might we notice, see, hear if someone has been exercising? 💪🏼

2. Can you think of 3 different exercises, ways to move your body or fitness stations for you and your family to do at home today? 🧘🏻🤸🏻‍♀️🏋🏻‍♂️

3. Help your grown up to prepare your lunch today, remembering that the food we eat gives us the fuel and energy we need to learn and grow! 🍎 “You are what you eat”

4. At 1pm, the Active Schools service will be posting live physical activity stream on the following link. You might want to take a look…

Dundee Active Schools have been working to pull together as much information as we can, to provide all the children of Dundee with ideas of how to remain active throughout the period of the…

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Have fun and remember to be kind to your grown ups!
Miss Thompson x