Thanks to those of you who have sent emails, photos or comments on your learning progress so far, what a great job you and your grown ups are doing and it is so lovely to see so many of your smiling little faces! I miss you all!  Here are your learning jobs for today…

Literacy –

Login to https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources to play a range of phonics games, just like we did before the Easter break.  These will focus our attention on looking really close at the sounds within a word and help us in our next reading job.  On the site, there was a free code to access the full site as a parent during this home learning phase if any of you want extra games to play.

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

1. Using your ‘red word list’, see how many of ‘Red Words Set 1’ you can remember from before the holidays. Practice these again and focus time on any you are forgetting.  Remember ‘you can’t Fred a red!’  Now we will add the next 5 words form ‘set 2’.  We cannot add too many at a time as it will overload our working memory!

The words to add are – what, all, was, we and so.

It might help to put these on to 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….

what – I can’t hear any ‘a’ but instead it sounds like an ‘o’ (wh-o-t) !!! 🤔

Writing-

1. Write these 5 new red words, along with any from ‘set 1’ you have forgotten 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. (See photo above)

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

Mathematics –

We have been learning about data and know that data is a collection of information.  We already learned to sort information into groups, count and record using tally marks.  Watch this short video to remind you of this learning…

I hope this helped you to remember.  In class to help you, we said that ‘we close the gate’ when we get to 5 as a set of tally marks looks a little like a garden gate!  Can you draw some tally marks in the air and count all the way up to 30, remembering ‘to close the gate’ every group of 5 you reach? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. . . . 20 . . . . 25 . . . . 30

Activity  – A tally survey on passing traffic

Put on a timer and set to 5 minutes (you may have to adjust the time depending upon how busy your street is!)  In your small green jotter, get a grown up to help you to section of your page into either colours of vehicles or types of vehicles (eg, car, bicycle, van, lorry, bus etc).  Look out of your window and tally all of the vehicles you see passing during the time.  Remember to use the tallies accurately to record this.  How many of each colour or category did you find?  Which had the most, the least and how many vehicles did you spot all together?  What type of calculation is this?

Other learning – Science with the help of Dundee Science Centre

Just before our school closed,  our class visited Sensation, the science centre in town.  It was a great trip!  I noticed that they are posting some great science learning suitable for early years learners onto their website each week and this week is all about Spring! You can follow Dundee Science Centre on social media.

Access the link below and spend some time completing the Spring related activities, such as a fun scavenger hunt you can do with a grown up.  There is even a competition you can enter if you want to with some fab prizes.  All details are on the site below.  Have fun and remember to share your wonderful work with me or the schools twitter!

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

Hello Everyone! I have missed you all and hope very much that you and your families are well and you had the best Easter break possible considering the challenging circumstances. 🐥

Over the coming days I will give you all a little call to check in and hear your news. 📞🙂Also, remember you can send me your photos here on the blog or via email or the schools twitter account! It’s always great to see your little faces! 🥰

I bet you have had lots of Easter treats over the weekend so to get ourselves up and active, use the video link below to get yourself moving!

https://youtu.be/oLaJ4jyKBUY

Literacy – we will follow the a similar routine each Monday but with a different page of our ‘reading booklet’.

1. Phonics– Practice all sounds on your simple sound chart. Play this word building game by using the sounds or letters in the words ‘chocolate eggs’ to see how many of your own words you can make. I will give you some to get you started- get, chat, cot.
   Also, you can take time to practise your speedy blending using the game shown below.
   https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/fishy-phonics?phase=2#

2. Reading– Play some more of ‘Teach Your Monster To Read’ by logging in using your account details.
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 3

Green literacy group- sheet 12

Pink literacy group- sheet 27

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 – Lets begin our recap of subtraction

Mental and Activity

1. Take time to look at and talk about what we have learned about subtraction or take-away  in class using the poster from your pack to help.

🧸Collect 6 teddies or toys from home and place them on your sofa.
How many do you have all together? If we take some away, will the number get bigger or smaller?
🎲 Using your dice, roll and then take away that number of teddies or toys from the sofa.How many do you have left? Can you use the different strategies on the poster to show/prove and check this? Use you little green jotter if you want to show your learning. Do this until you roll all numbers on your dice please.

(Teaching points for parents to help if needed  – Remember, when we subtract the biggest number always comes first and after taking away, our answer gets smaller or less. Also, we can then use adding to check our answer eg 5-2=3 shows us that if we start with 5 then take 2 away, we are left with 3. Also, if we then combine the 3 back together with the 2 by adding, we then have 5 again. The fancy name for this is inverse operation and we will practice this more later.)

Other learning task- Art/Outdoor fun

Easter is a time of new beginnings and all around us in nature we see this. If you have a garden or outdoor area you can safely play in, see if you can create an Easter or spring-themed piece of artwork using the resources around you. Remember, just like when we have taken part in tasks like this in school, be safe and sensible by washing your hands and do not touch your face whilst working.  If you prefer, this can be done inside with items in your home. Don’t forget to send us some photos of your creations. Please see some examples below, but you can create whatever you want!

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
📊⏹⏺🔼📊

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