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

Welcome to Wednesday!  Here are your learning jobs for today…

In school on Wednesday’s we are usually very busy doing our literacy and numeracy along with ICT and PE too!  So I will try to cover all of these in today’s activities all based around the latest ‘JoJo Gnome Podcast’

Watch the following podcast, ‘Sow and Grow with JoJo Gnome’.  It is the latest episode in the JoJo Gnome series.  You can click the link here or use the website below.

www.jojognome.com

https://www.jojognome.com/podcast-22-jojo-gnome-sows-grows/

Listen to the podcast and then do the following cross curricular learning activities based upon the story today..

1 – Talking and Listening

Listen to the podcast.  Talk to your grown up about the story and activities.

Focus for talk – The story talks about how the mean Giant cannot share even though he has lots of everything and others have none.  Can you think of a time when you have had to share, even when you didn’t want to?  Why was this the right thing to do?  Listen to your grown up tell you about a time they had to share with others.

2 – Writing

Use your imagination to complete the ‘magic seed story starter’ task given in the podcast (around 7 minutes in).

3 – Expressive Art and Literacy

Can you draw what your magic seed might grow into?

4 – Music

Zac and mum try to chop down the beanstalk to save them from the angry giant in the story.  Can you remember the ‘Chop Chop Choppity Chop’ rhyme song we did with Mr McLean when he visited us in school?  Can you play and sing it at home and try to think of and remember as may healthy foods we can put in our pot.  I have typed out the words to help if you need them…

“Chop chop chopity chop.

Chop off the bottom and chop off the top.

What we have left, we can put in the pot.

Chop chop chopity chop!”

5 – Numeracy-ICT

1. There is an unhappy caterpillar in the story we listened to. He did not want eaten up when Zac ate the delicious strawberry.  Play this caterpillar number game to practise your ordering and/or sequencing of number.

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

2. Zac thinks he can just take one of the Giants strawberries and it  won’t be noticed. Use your 100 square (learning pack) to find 1 less that the following numbers and put your counters on them.  What do you notice?

14, 19, 36, 43, 49, 54, 58, 65, 67, 76

6 – Science – Planting activity

https://youtu.be/Myym0xUBsng

7 –  Health and Wellbeing/PE –

Emotional wellbeing – In the story podcast, JoJo is given a job from his Mum but he doesn’t do the job very well!  I’m sure you can do better… help your grown-up by doing a job at home.

Physical activity (Dance) – Thinking of Giants…

https://youtu.be/Q4WBd_BGYRU

Tuesdays learning jobs…

RWI Phonics, word reading and spelling–

We will continue to use the Ruth Miskin (RWI creator) youtube live videos to help structure our learning. I like to watch these beforehand to make sure they are suitable for us so don’t worry about the date shown.  I have been informed some of these are not opening properly so I will try to post links but also the site needed and video titles as a back-up.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ

Above link is to the RuthMiskin Live YouTube channel.  To locate videos, scroll down a little and you will find set 1 lesson videos followed by set 2.

💗 + 💚Green literacy group –

Focus on speedy reading and spelling using set 2 sounds with these videos.  This one focuses on the sound ‘air’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MldqP9QXlXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za4fVA-xfAI

❤Red literacy group – Focus on speedy reading and spelling using set 1 sounds with these videos. There is a focus on the sound ‘v’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXCjdnO3lYQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN0dLz6yAXA

Talk 4 Writing – Literacy unit we will use over the next 2 weeks.

Please work through this at your own pace, picking and choosing parts to suit you, your time, ability, resources and interests of your child.  This is our first time using this so any feedback is welcome!

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

Don’t forget to schedule in some brain breaks.  Maybe go for a walk to get some fresh air or use one of the brainbreak resources we have used recently.   Here is one if you need inspiration…

https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups/woodys-antique-shop-dash

Mathematics – Recap of 2D shape

1. https://youtu.be/OEbRDtCAFdU

Use the video above to recap our learning about 2D shapes and their properties.

2. Play the shape games available on BusyThings.
3. Activity – see if you can find a range of 2D shapes at home and talk to a grown up about its name and properties including sides and corners.
4. Complete section 1 and 2 of pg26 in your Early Level Maths Record Book.

Other task – Continue with your competition entry for ‘Design your own Super-bear’ (see yesterday’s blog for further details)

Today’s learning…

Before we get busy, here is a fun movement song to wake us all up and get our brains and bodies ready to learn.

https://youtu.be/oLaJ4jyKBUY

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 ‘primary 1 are the best’ to see how many of your own words you can make. I will give you one to get you started- s-t-a-r = star!

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 reading sheet booklet.

Red literacy group- sheet 9

Green literacy group- sheet 18
Pink literacy group- sheet 34

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 –

Use the ‘BBC Bitesize’ link below and work through the ordering numbers lesson.  This will recap prior learning and will link to your number tasks later in week. 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/zr6q7nb

Other tasks – John Lewis ‘Design a Super Bear’  competition

John Lewis are running a ‘design a super bear’ competition at the moment.  All you need to know to take part can be found at this link (scroll down a little to find)

https://www.johnlewis.com/content/your-partners-through-it-all/feel-good-friday

This will be your ‘other task’ for today and tomorrow if you wish to take part.  Entries close on the 8^th May so be quick.  I can’t wait to see what you come up with!