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Primary 1- Term 4 Day 11 Monday 27th April

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

 

Phonics fun!


We have been working hard to learn some of our very first sounds. Here we are even trying to blend together or ‘squeeze up’ these sound to read a whole word! Luckily Fred the frog was there to help us and we did a great job! When we weren’t working with our teacher, we were trying to represent some of our sounds using different things, like the Kapla (wooden blocks) shown in the photo. Libby made a fantastic 3D ‘m’ and turned it into a garage for some cars and Emily even made her whole name!