The end of another week at home but still hopefully happy, healthy and learning!  Here are your learning jobs for today…

Phonics- 🎲

Practice all sounds on sound chart again.

💗Pink literacy group – revise the second ‘oo’ (short – look at a book) by getting your grown up to say each word on the ‘oo’ 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 – learn ‘oo – look at a book’ sound as above.  It is a long vowel sound which has 2 letters that make just 1 sound! Can you find it on your sound chart? Can you remember which letters combine to make the sound ‘’ow”? Can you remember the helpful rhyme – “blow the snow” and talk about the picture on the card at the top left of the page? Can you read and say some “ow” sound words? Next, play the ‘set 1’ side of ‘race to the pond’. 

❤Red literacy group – Focus in any sounds you are finding tricky to remember and then play ‘race to the pond’ on set 1 side only.

Reading- 📚

1. All learners login to your OxfordOwl account using the 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!  Or alternatively read a story from home.
2. Re-read your reading sheet from yesterday and see if you can read it a little faster but with a good storyteller voice! (Red- sheet 6, Green- sheet 15 and Pink- sheet 31Writing ✍In your blue jotter, above the ‘hold a sentence’ from yesterday, can you draw a picture of something that happens in your reading sheet. Or to challenge yourself, can you draw a sequence of pictures to show what happens in the short story you read?  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! 😭

Don’t forget to schedule in some brain breaks.  Maybe you can try some of the ’10 minute shake-up’ activities on the NHS site below.  Some of them require another person to play but this one you can do all by yourself…

https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups/crush-and-squirts-turtle-travel

Numeracy – Solving a Word Problem

Use a copy of the worksheet below to solve the following word problem using all of your number skills.  You will find a booklet of these in your home-learning pack.  Please choose the word challenge for your group, again this is printed on the front of your pack.

Tip: Remember to listen to the problem carefully, find things to model your thinking (maybe socks!) and what does ‘pair’ mean?  What type of calculation will we need to do to find the answer?

Triangles –  Ben has a pair of socks and his sister has another pair.  How many socks do they have altogether?

Circles –  Ben has 4 pairs of socks but his sister only has 1 pair. How many socks do they have altogether?

Squares – Ben had 4 pairs of socks but his sister has one more pair than him.  How many socks do they have altogether?

Other task – As we normally do some music on a Friday afternoon, use BBC Bitesize resources to complete this voice lesson.  Remember I have set up an account if you prefer to use that and this lesson is saved in ‘My Bitesize’ (username: P1StNinsDundee, password: St-Nins1)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4fgrj6

Have a great weekend everyone! Sending love x

Tuesday’s jobs…

Phonics- 

Practice all sounds on sound chart again.  Remember, it is important that we repeat this everyday!

💗Pink literacy group – revise ‘oo’ by getting your grown up to say each word on the ‘oo’ 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.  Can you pick one to create a funny sentence for?

💚Green literacy group – learn ‘oo’ sound as above.  It is a long vowel sound which has 2 letters that make just 1 sound! Can you find it on your sound chart? Can you remember which letters combine to make the sound ‘’oo”? Can you remember the helpful rhyme – “poo at the zoo” and talk about the picture on the card at the top left of the page? Can you read and say some “oo” sound words? 

❤Red literacy group – Focus in any sounds you are finding tricky to remember.  

Next login and play the game below to practise your speedy blending.
https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/fishy-phonics?phase=2#

Reading- 📚

1. All learners login to your OxfordOwl account using the 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 and see if you can read it a little faster but with a good storyteller voice! (Red- sheet 5, Green- sheet 14 and Pink- sheet 30)

Writing ✍

In your blue jotter, above the ‘hold a sentence’ from yesterday, can you draw a picture of something that happens in your reading sheet. Or to challenge yourself, can you draw a sequence of pictures to show what happens in the short story you read?  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! 😭

Don’t forget to schedule in some brain breaks.  Maybe you can try some of the ’10 minute shake-up’ activities on the NHS site below.  Some of them require another person to play.  But this is one you can do all by yourself!

https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups/jungle-jig-with-nala-and-simba

Numeracy –

Mental – Subitising is the ability to tell the number of objects in a set, quickly, without counting.  We have practiced this lots and lots in school to help us become confident with counting.  Use the song below to help you further develop your subitising.  It will help you get ready for our next job.

Activity – please complete pages 5 and 9 in you ‘Early Level Maths Record Book’.  They are revision of noticing patterns and using these to help you count.

Other tasks –

Play is very important in our learning!  Why don’t you play a game of hide and seek at home.  See if you can come up with the best hiding place!  Next, can you create an obstacle course using things around the house for your family to do?  How long does it take to complete and who is the fastest?  Don’t forget you can send in some photos if you want to share your creations!

Hello Everyone! Here is today’s learning…

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

https://youtu.be/oLaJ4jyKBUY

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 words ‘magic monday’ to see how many of your own words you can make. I will give you one to get you started- m-a-n = man
   

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 5

Green literacy group- sheet 14
Pink literacy group- sheet 30

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 – Finding the difference

Watch these videos to help you prepare for the game below…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p017l51x

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p017vmqp

Today we are going to practise finding the difference between 2 numbers using 10 of our double sided counters (in your pack). You will also need a cup and your number line. 

Using 10 of your double sided counters, shake them all up in a cup and then tip them out onto a surface. Which colour is there more of? Which colour has less? How many do you have of each colour?  Let’s try to find the difference between these totals…

1. Try counting on from the smaller number and stop when you reach the bigger number. For example if I have 9 red and only 1 blue counter, to find the difference I could start at 1  and count up to 9, this would be a difference of 8.
2. Or I can find the difference by taking away. Remember the biggest number must go first before subtracting the smaller number. For example if 9 of my counters landed on red and only 1 was blue, then the difference is 9-1=8 😀

Both strategies give the same answer and can be used to find the difference between two numbers.
Try it yourself by playing this game with your counters and use your number line to help!

Other task- Music/French

We love to sing the ‘I can sing a rainbow’ song both in English and French too! Can you remember how to do this? See if you can sing both versions at home to your grown up(s). Can you find and gather something at home to represent each of the colours and point to them as you sing the song. Get a grown up to point to an object and see if you can remember the french colour word.
Here are the words incase you have forgotten…

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!