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Primary 1- Term 4 Day 22 Wednesday 13th May

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Todays learning jobs are all themed to our story for today ‘Scribble Stones’, A Helicopter Story Approach sent by Mrs Brankin who is kindly helping with our blog  and home learning every other Wednesday.

Literacy and Health and Wellbeing –

Following on from our ‘Not just a Scribble’ story from a few weeks ago,  read the audio book “Scribble Stones”. After listening to the story act out some of the emotions and places the stones were placed. Think about if you were a stone where would you like to be placed.  The little stone talks about everyone having there own purpose, skill or job to do.  What do you hope your job is when you are a grown up?  Ask your grown up to write all of your ideas down as you work through these story questions.

 

Maths – sorting

Collect some stones from your garden or close-by your home.  Remember to keep safe and wash your hands before and after.

How many did you find? Can you sort them in different ways, maybe by size or colour?  Can you think of any other ways to sort your stone collection?  Can you even make a stone tower using your problem solving and balancing skills?  How many did you manage before your tower fell down?

Outdoor learning and Art –

If you go out on a walk collect a stone and paint it like the stones in the story. Then place the kindness stone around the community or at someone’s door to spread a little love. You could then write about where you have place your stone or share some photos of you stone.  If you cant do this, draw a design for your stone instead.

Physical Activity –

There are some stone-related fun games you can play on this link.  My favourites are stone-throw and hopscotch.

Stone throw challenge – Providing you have a safe space to gently throw your stones, choose 3 different sized containers and give each a different points value.  Step back and try to aim, then throw your stones one-by-one into the containers.  Can you get some stones into each containers?  How many points did you win?  Maybe you can challenge your grown up at home too.

https://artfulparent.com/10-diy-outdoor-games-to-make-rocks/

 

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Primary 1 – Term 4 Day 21 Tuesday 12th May 2020

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Tuesdays learning jobs…

RWI Phonics, word reading and spelling–

We have been using Ruth Miskin (RWI creator) youtube live videos but I have been made aware these are a little hit or miss with access.  I have only used these for the red group today as the other was not suitable.  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.

💗 + 💚Green literacy group –

Focus on speedy reading and spelling words with the ‘ar’ sound.  You will find this page in your sound booklet.  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.

words are – car, part, hard, start, star and sharp.

❤Red literacy group – Focus on speedy reading and spelling using set 1 sounds with these videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeiQZGRo28w

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

Continue to work through the ‘Talk4Writing’ home learning unit from last week at your own pace, picking and choosing parts to suit you, your time, ability, resources and interest of children.  This will be our final week spent on this unit of work

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 a link to some ‘cosmic kids Yoga’ if you want some inspiration…

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga/featured

Numeracy – continuing with ordinal numbers

Mental warm-up for our brains –

Lay out 10 of your favourite toys or things from home.  Can you arrange them in an order of most favourite to least?  Can you answer these 6 questions…

  1. Which toy is in 1st place?
  2. Can you think of another name for being in 1st place?
  3. Which toy is in 10th place?
  4. Can you think of another name for being in 10th place?
  5. Which toy came 5th?
  6. Which place does each toy come in?

We will use the story ‘Room on the Broom’ to apply our learning from yesterday about ordinal numbers.  If you have the book please use that or alternatively, here is an online reading.  As you are watching or reading, please think about the order of characters travelling on the broom.  Use you learning to either draw or make your own broom just like the one in the story, clearly showing the place of each character and your understanding of ordinal numbers.

Other tasks – science, maths and imaginative play

The witch in the story makes a potion and casts a magic spell at the end of the book to help her and all of her friends.  Can you make your own magic potion with interesting but safe things you can find outside or around your house?  Make sure you ask a grown-up to help and wash your hands before and after to keep safe.  Think about what how many ingredients your potion has, how you are going to mix them up, what your own magic word might be and what your spell is going to do?

Have fun and remember I would love to see some of your fabulous efforts!

 

 

 

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Primary 1- Term 4 Day 20 Monday 11th May 2020

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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

  1. 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 1st, 2nd, 3rd 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

  1. 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!

 

 

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Primary 1 – Term 4 Day 19 Thursday 7th May 2020

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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

  1. 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.

  1. Play the shape games found in the shape tab on Busythings.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

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Primary 1 – Term 4 Day 18 Wednesday 6th May 2020

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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

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Primary 1 – Term 4 Day 17 Tuesday 5th May 2020

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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.

  1. Play the shape games available on BusyThings.
  2. 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.
  3. 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)

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Primary 1 – Term 4 Day 16 Monday 4th May 2020

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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!
  1. 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!
  2.  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.

  1. 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 8th May so be quick.  I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

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Primary 1 – Term 4 Day 14 Thursday 30th April 2020

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Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and being kind and helpful at home.  Grown-ups please remember that completing all learning is in no way compulsory each and every day but trying to do aspects as often as possible will definitely ensure children’s progress in maintained.

Literacy –

  1. Phonics– Practice all sounds on your simple sound chart.  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 8

Green literacy group- sheet 17

Pink literacy group- sheet 33

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 –

On Tuesday we began a recap of our time learning from earlier in the school year.  We will continue this today with the tasks below.  If you didn’t get a chance to complete the tasks on Tuesday, it might be easier to do that first instead.

  1. Play the game linked below.  You must set the clocks to different times and there are different levels to work through to suit how confident you feel.  When you hover over the text it will read the questions aloud for you.

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/on_time_game1.htm

2. Complete pg. 21 of your Early Level Maths Record book.

Other task – Science (Day and Night)

Last term we spent time learning about the wonders of the sky.  Use the resources on the BBC Bitesize lesson below (I have also saved it to our class login ‘MyBitesize’ section) to learn more about seasons, day and night and features of the sky.  There are learning videos and linked activities if you wish to do any of them.  There is even a quiz you can do!

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

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Primary 1 – Term 4 Day 13 Wednesday 29th April 2020

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Wednesday again so a break from the normal RWI routine.  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 todays activities…

Literacy – Mrs Brankin’s Helicopter story approach and linked task found below after some parent info.  Just scroll down if you want! 😉

The 2 links below are just for parent information if anyone wants to find out more about the ‘Helicopter Story approach’ we at St Ninian’s use as part of our literacy in P1.  You may have seen some of this work at our Bookbug event earlier this year too!  This approach looks to build children’s confidence as storytellers and storywriters and we have seen some great success with it this year so wanted to try aspect of it for home-learning.

This year I am lucky enough to have Mrs Brankin in the class for a time on Wednesdays and to get the  most of this time she takes some children for literacy using a ‘helicopter story approach’ linked to what we are learning across the curriculum.  I then take the others to learn some ICT skills in the computer room and then we switch over!  This means smaller groups, more teaching time and better for the learners success!

https://www.daynurseries.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1575572/helicopter-stories-unlock-childrens-voices

So now for the task for the children set by Mrs Brankin…At home listen to the story “I’m not just a Scribble” https://youtu.be/U8go4ZveIcU then act out some of the things that Scribble does.

Create your own scribble adding eyes, a mouth, arms and legs. You can even create a scribble family like my boy Clark did. Give your scribble a name, then tell a grown up a story about scribble and ask them to scribe/ write down your story about scribble.

Send your scribble drawings and stories to Miss Thompson who can share them with me and we can put them all together to create the adventures of scribble. I can’t wait to read them.

Numeracy/ICT –

See if you can log on to the device you are using and access the favourites section in BusyThings using your login details. Take your time when typing in the details.  Can you do this independently?

In the favourites you will see a range of saved games.  Please take time to play ‘Miner Birds – Addition and Subtraction’.  There are 3 levels to choose from and you play against the computer….I wonder who will be the winner?  You will have to use all of your numeracy skills coupled with your computer skills to win the game.  Play for around 15 minutes.

Other Tasks – Health and Wellbeing (PE)

Wednesday is our normal gym day so I have added a link to a fun dance lesson for age 5-9 from Scottish Youth Dance.  It last 25minutes and is themed to Hogwarts, casting spells, making potions and flying on broomsticks!  All you need is a clear safe space and something to be your wand, have fun!

Just follow this link, read the parent info and scroll down to choose dance class called

YCreate Creative Dance for ages 5 – 9 with Aimee:

https://ydance.org/participation/online-dance-classes

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Primary 1- Term 4 Day 11 Monday 27th April

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Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend.  Here is today’s learning…

First, here is the link to a listening and movement song to get you all awake and ready to learn.

Literacy – normal Monday routine…

  1. Phonics– Practice all sounds on your simple sound chart. Play this word building game by using the sounds or letters in the word ‘friendship’ to see how many of your own words you can make. I will give you one to get you started- f-i-sh= fish 🐟  😅 we will focus more on the theme of friendship later in our learning today. 

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 7Green literacy group- sheet 16

Pink literacy group- sheet 32Complete 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- adding and taking away game.
Use the photo and example shown below to help.

Get ready to play- Set up your cards face down and get a grown up to help you section off a double page in your jotter just like the photo. To make the game easier if needed, only put out cards 1-5. Next, get your counters all ready in a pile and place your 10s frame laminate beside everything else. We will play the game 8 times until all boxes are full and each should have an adding and a take away sum in the end.  you will also need a pencil.

Playing the game – turn over 2 cards and look at the numbers. Which is larger and which is smaller. Can you add these numbers together?  Use your counters to help show and prove your thinking! Practise representing your calculation as a number sentence (sum). Next subtract one number from the other, remembering that the biggest must go first! Again, you can show this with your counters, just like I have in the photo and show it as a sum in your jotter. With larger numbers you may not be able to show both calculations in counters in the 10s frames at the same time like I have. Mix up your cards and get ready to play again. Keep playing until all boxes are filled.

Other task – Health and Wellbeing

We will use the below link to a BBC Bitesize lesson focussed on friendship.

We all have lots of great friends in P1 and even though we can’t see our school friends everyday at the moment, they are still our good friends and can’t wait to play together again soon. Watch the videos in the lesson to help you to think about friendship and do some of the below activities- Who do you play with or talk to regularly in school? Draw pictures of them and write their names. What makes them a good friend to have?

Think about what Bill and Owen  in the video said about things they share. Draw or write down the things you share with your friends and the games you like playing together.

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