Hello everyone! I hope you all had a lovely long weekend!

Last week I posted a whole week of learning tasks, forgetting it was a 3 day week for the children! Therefore, instead of me adding to that outstanding work today, I will give you all time today and tomorrow (Wednesday) to complete this. To access this learning, just go to the post prior to this one, it is all there for you. Look to complete tasks I had planned for the Thursday and Friday which were Inset day or of course any you did not manage to complete. Sorry I completely forgot as I was working all week in the hub and was trying to be organised! 😅 Sending love,

Miss Thompson x

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and had a lovely weekend.  I am working in the Hub again all of this week so have put our whole weeks learning into this one post and have had to slim down the additional learning a little, but I know you all have many of your own great ideas anyway!  This could also be a perfect time to catch up or spend extra time on any prior learning posts I have blogged over the last 6 weeks that you didn’t find opportunity to complete.  Of course I am always at the end of an email if you need anything.  Sending lots of love.

Get up and moving with this brain break materials.

Joe Wickes is still available daily for a quick, fun workout.  Or alternatively Oti Mabuse for some dance classes aimed at children.  Both can be accessed via YouTube.

There are many other YouTube based resources we have dipped into including any active learning material from Jack Hartman, JustDanceKids, Cosmic Yoga and GoNoodle.

Weeks Literacy – 

Monday’s plan for literacy –

• practice all of your sounds using your sound chart.
• play ‘Teach your Monster to Read’
• complete reading sheets – Red group- sheet 13, Green group- 22, Pink group- sheet 38
• Complete the ‘questions to talk about’ section detailed at the bottom of page
• Writing– Do the ‘Hold A Sentence’ on the bottom of the reading page detailed above in your blue jotter. Please do this on the lined section and look at your ‘reminder of writing skills’ sheet to help. Steps are 1. Grown up reads sentence. 2. Practise saying the sentence aloud a number of times until child remembers it. 3. Grown up models how to write the sentence (can use back pages of blue jotter or spare paper from home) 4. Child writes sentence independently without a visual. Encourage them to keep saying it as they write. 5. Check the writing. What went well, what do they need to remember for next time?

Tuesday’s plan for Literacy

• practice all of your sounds using your sound chart.
• play your ‘Race to the Pond’ game – choose a side to suit you.
• begin working on the next ‘Talk for Writing’ unit. https://www.talk4writing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Y1-Unit.pdf

Wedneday’s Plan for Literacy

• play the literacy games on ‘BusyThings’ using your login.
• access the JoJo Gnome Podcast at this link.  Listen to the story, talk about what you hear and complete the ‘story-starter’ writing task.

https://www.jojognome.com/podcast-20-jojo-gnome-and-the-pet/

Thursday’s Plan for Literacy

• repeat all of Monday’s routine outlined above but with the next reading sheet for your group.
• Red group- sheet 14, Green group- 23, Pink group- sheet 39

Friday’s Plan for Literacy

• repeat all of Tuesday’s routine outlined above.

Weeks Numeracy and Maths –

• I have saved 4 ‘BBC Bitesize’ number lessons into our account on BBCBitesize Daily Lessons.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize Click on the ‘MyBitesize’ tab and login to access Username – P1StNinsDundee, Password – St-Nins1. The lessons are number bonds, how to add numbers, add more and count on and subraction within 20.  Please complete as many or few of these as you want along with the linked tasks.
• Use the resources in your ‘home learning kit’ and previous blogs to do some of your favourite number games again.  Maybe you love finding numbers on your 100 square, adding or subtracting using your 10’s frames and counters or using your playing cards and dice to do calculations. 
• Use your ‘BusyThings’ login to play a huge range of number and mathematical concept games.

Lots to keep you busy!

Other learning tasks –

• Spend this week working through any of the home-learning topics provided on Dundee Science Centre.  We have looked at a few before but there is still lots of fun learning to explore.  Have fun!

https://www.dundeesciencecentre.org.uk/support-for-home-learning

• Lets take another look at a scavenger hunt we did way back at the beginning of this lockdown, aimed to promote postive wellbeing…

Remember if you need any help or just a chat, I am here!

We will return to our normal daily learning posts next week.  Thanks so much.  Lots of love

Miss Thompson x

Friday is here again and here are your last learning jobs for the week…

💗 + 💚Green literacy group –Focus on speedy reading and spelling of ‘or’ – please note the amended phrase on the picture card shown in your booklet.  This is to make it correct for our Scottish accent and location .Think about how many sounds each word has, the placement of these and if there are any other special friends in the words.  Choose 3 words and create a sentence for each.  Try to make your sentences as descriptive and exciting as possible.

❤Red literacy group –Use the Ruth Miskin (RWI creator) youtube live videos again today.  Remember don’t worry about the date shown on the video, I like to watch these beforehand to make sure they are suitable for us but where possible and appropriate. Focus on ‘ch’,  speedy reading and spelling using set 1 sounds with these videos.

This is our final day working on this ‘Talk4Writing’ home learning unit. Please complete any learning tasks you wish to do. Let me know any of your feedback about this resource if you can.

https://www.talk4writing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Reception-Unit.pdf

Numeracy/ Problem solving – outdoor/active learning

Yesterday we took a look back at some prior learning on recognising or extending a pattern using shape, colour or objects. Today, we will apply this learning to solve some pattern problems…

I would like you to try to create 3 of your own patterns at home either inside or out in the garden if you would prefer. Can you make one pattern based around colour, a 2^nd based on shape and a final one on the objects you choose? Remember to take some photos and send them to me or our schools twitter page. We all love to see the learning you share. Talk to your grown up about the patterns you have created and then maybe muddle the things up and see if your grown up can recreate it in the same way.

here are some examples and photos as inspiration…

Other tasks – science, technology, art and design

Finish off your robot designs for the competition set yesterday and if you are ready and want to enter, get your grown-up to help you submit your wonderful idea.

https://www.ukras.org/school-robot-competition/draw

Our jobs for today are below…

Phonics– Practice all sounds on your simple sound chart.  Play the phonics and reading games I have saved into the favourites section of BusyThings.  Use the login in your home-learning pack to access this resource.https://www.busythings.co.uk

1. Reading– As well as some of the games above which will develop confidence with both phonics and reading, work on the next reading sheet from your booklet.  Do the speed sounds, green words, red words and the short story.

Red literacy group- sheet 12

Green literacy group- sheet 21

Pink literacy group- sheet 37

Complete the ‘questions to talk about’ section detailed at the bottom of page

4. Writing– Do the ‘Hold A Sentence’ on the bottom of the reading page detailed above in your blue jotter. Please do this on the lined section and look at your ‘reminder of writing skills’ sheet to help. Steps are 1. Grown up reads sentence. 2. Practise saying the sentence aloud a number of times until child remembers it. 3. Grown up models how to write the sentence (can use back pages of blue jotter or spare paper from home) 4. Child writes sentence independently without a visual. Encourage them to keep saying it as they write. 5. Check the writing. What went well, what do they need to remember for next time?

Mathematics– position and direction recap

Last week we recapped our learning about shape and previously in school we learned about spotting, talking about, extending and creating patterns using colour, shape or type of object. Play these games to practise your understanding of pattern.

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/simple_patterns/eng/Introduction/default.htm

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/patterns_and_patterns/eng/Introduction/default.htm

Other learning task – science, technology, art and designWatch the online author reading of the story ‘Robot Rumpus’ to give you inspiration for your design challenge today.

Wouldn’t it be great to design and create your own robot for the future that helps with something but didn’t get up to the same mischief as the robots in the ‘Robot Rumpus’ story. The following ‘Draw your own Robot’ competition for 5-7 year olds is open now and has some great prizes, so why not give robot design a go! You are all very creative and full of great ideas so I can’t wait to see what you come up with. Just do it for fun or if you want to enter, all of the details can be found on the following link. Competition closes on the 8^th June and the winner is announced on the 30^th. Good luck!

https://www.ukras.org/school-robot-competition/draw

We will continue this task tomorrow so take your time to come up with something unique!

I hope you have all had a lovely long weekend and are excited to get into our home-learning jobs for this week! For today’s learning I have posted some of what I had planned for last Friday after forgetting it was a holiday mixed in with parts of a normal Monday’s home-learning plan.

Literacy – normal Monday routine of RWI

1. Phonics– Practice all sounds on your simple sound chart. Play this word building game by using the sounds or letters in the words ‘Marvellous May’ to see how many of your own words you can make. I will give you one to get you started-     s-m-e-ll = smell!
2. Reading– Play some more of ‘Teach Your Monster To Read’ by logging in using your account details. I see some of you have been very busy with your monster over the last weeks, well done!
3. Also, work on the reading of the speed sounds, green words, red words and the short story on your next reading sheet booklet.Red literacy group- sheet 11 Green literacy group- sheet 20 Pink literacy group- sheet 36

Complete the ‘questions to talk about’ section detailed at the bottom of page

4. Writing– Do the ‘Hold A Sentence’ on the bottom of the reading page detailed above in your blue jotter. Please do this on the lined section and look at your ‘reminder of writing skills’ sheet to help. Steps are 1. Grown up reads sentence. 2. Practise saying the sentence aloud a number of times until child remembers it. 3. Grown up models how to write the sentence (can use back pages of blue jotter or spare paper from home) 4. Child writes sentence independently without a visual. Encourage them to keep saying it as they write. 5. Check the writing. What went well, what do they need to remember for next time?

Numeracy – a look at ordinal numbers

1. Use the ‘BBC Bitesize’ link below and work through the ordinal numbers lesson. This will ensure we remember the vocabulary 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd etc. I have also saved this lesson into the ‘MyBitesize’ area on the site is you wish to login:

Username – P1StNinsDundee, Password – St-Nins1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhw8d6f

2. Use your learning to complete pg 7 of your ‘Early level maths record book’. The bottom of this page with give you an opportunity to use your ordinal number learning and use your 100 square and counters to help you to complete the top of the page.  It asks you to find the number before, after and between.

Other tasks – further time that would have been given on Friday to explore the resources below

Finish exploring the resources available from Dundee Science Centres Space Week to extend your learning and understanding of outer space.  Again, just pick and choose the parts that interest you.

https://www.dundeesciencecentre.org.uk/space-week

Linked outdoor learning or creative indoor challenge – can you build your own rocket to take you to outer space by using things you can find either outside in your garden or inside your house?  If you have any construction materials such as lego maybe you could use this.  Get building and get creative!

Our jobs for today are below…

Phonics– Practice all sounds on your simple sound chart.  Play the phonics and reading games I have saved into the favourites section of BusyThings.  Use the login in your home-learning pack to access this resource.

https://www.busythings.co.uk

1. Reading– As well as some of the games above which will develop confidence with both phonics and reading, work on the next reading sheet from your booklet.  Do the speed sounds, green words, red words and the short story.

Red literacy group- sheet 10

Green literacy group- sheet 19

Pink literacy group- sheet 35

Complete the ‘questions to talk about’ section detailed at the bottom of page

4. Writing– Do the ‘Hold A Sentence’ on the bottom of the reading page detailed above in your blue jotter. Please do this on the lined section and look at your ‘reminder of writing skills’ sheet to help. Steps are 1. Grown up reads sentence. 2. Practise saying the sentence aloud a number of times until child remembers it. 3. Grown up models how to write the sentence (can use back pages of blue jotter or spare paper from home) 4. Child writes sentence independently without a visual. Encourage them to keep saying it as they write. 5. Check the writing. What went well, what do they need to remember for next time?

Mathematics– Recap of 3D shapes

1. https://youtu.be/guNdJ5MtX1A

Use this 3D shape song to recap some of our 3D shape learning, including shape names and properties.

2. Play the shape games found in the shape tab on Busythings.
3. Activity – see if you can find a range of 3D shapes at home and talk to a grown up about its name and properties including sides and corners.
4. Complete section 3 of pg26 in your Early Level Maths Record Book.

5. If you have any 3D shapes at home, see if you can build a marvellous model.

Other task –

Before we had to stopping attending school as normal, we had just finished learning about the wonders of the sky and last week we took a little look back at that learning.  Use the resources available from Dundee Science Centres Space Week to extend your learning and understanding of outer space.  Just pick and choose the parts that interest you.  We will use this resource again tomorrow too so plenty of time to explore.

https://www.dundeesciencecentre.org.uk/space-week

There will be no learning tasks posted tomorrow as it is a holiday day so take time off to have some fun with your family for the day.  I forgot about this exciting news at the beginning of the week and prepared learning for Friday but will just use this for Monday instead so it may not follow the ‘normal’ Monday schedule we are used to.  Lots of Love

Miss Thompson