Our learning for today…

Literacy

• practice all of your sounds using your sound chart.
• practise ‘red word reading’ with this PowerPoint presentation. Go up to and including the book colour of your Literacy group. Grown ups remember the children should no ‘sound out’ these words as they don’t follow the normal rules and that is why they are ‘red’ or tricky- remind the children ‘you can’t fred a red’. Encourage children to talk about what makes the word tricky eg ‘the’ – is sounds like the ‘e’ should be an ‘i’

red words1

• Pink and Green groups only – Use your sound booklet to practice the ‘-ir’ sound.  Can you read the words shown, talk about how many sounds they have and even try to write these without peaking?  Ask your grown-up to tell you them one-by-one.  To challenge yourself, try to write a sentence containing one or more of your words.
• Red group only – please play this game again to develop word reading confidence and fluency, choosing the phase 2 option   …https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/helpAHedgehog/index.html
• This is the first day of time given to working through the next ‘Talk4Writing’ home unit.  We will use this over the next 2 weeks (on Tuesdays and Fridays) so pick parts that suit you and work through tasks at your own pace.  Remember, these have been specifically created for parents and children to extend their literacy during the closure of schools so I hope they are ok for you all.  I have heard nothing to the contrary so  assume they are going well!https://www.talk4writing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/R-Mouse.pdf

Mathematics – measurement (length)1.Use this BBC Bitesize lesson to recap prior learning about length.  It will provide an introduction to remind you and also a few activities.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf4vbdm

2. Find 5 items/objects from around your house and arrange them according to their length.  Find something you have many of such as pegs, lego blocks, pieces of pasta etc (choose just one of these as your way to measure so as we can then compare) First,  guess how many of your chosen non-standard unit of measure you think each object with measure.  Next, actually measure each object.  Check how close your guess or estimate was.  Were you close, did you guess longer or shorter?  Look here is my example of how I got on…

3. Question to think about – what other ways can we measure the length of something?

Other learning tasks for today – (Health/Life skills)

1. Do a job in the house all by yourself.  Get a grown up to tell you about how to safely and effectively do it.  If you can take a photo before and after and send it into us so we can see your terrific tidying!
2.  Look at what you have in the house and talk to your grown-up about what you are having for you lunch or tea.  Can you make a part of it all by yourself or help a grown up to?  For example, can you make your own sandwich or maybe a healthy wrap, a fruit salad by carefully chopping or even pack yourself a lunch just like if you were ‘packed lunch’ at school.  Remember to take a picture of any of your creations and send them in for us to see!

All of the skills you practise in these tasks are important learning for life lessons.  Have fun!

June is here and I hope you have all had a lovely weekend in the beautiful weather summer has brought!   Here is today’s learning tasks…

Literacy – RWI

As I said in Friday’s post, we are out of the  reading sheets I prepared for the booklets in our home learning packs.  Look how much we have read whilst learning with the help of our grown-ups at home, well done!  I can’t wait to see you all and hear your lovely storyteller voices and see how they have developed!  So, our literacy will be slightly different. Please watch the below screen recording with details of how to access the new reading materials I will be setting.

1. Phonics– Practice all sounds on your simple sound chart. Play this word building game by using the sounds or letters in the words ‘SUMMER TIME SUN’ to see how many of your own words you can make. I will give you one to get you started-     t-u-m = tum!
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. Access your groups reading book on Oxford Owl as explained in the video above.
   RED GROUP – ‘Sun Hat Fun’ Ditty story 1 from pg6-9.  GREEN GROUP – ‘Rag the Rat’ and PINK GROUP – ‘The Troll in the Pond’.  Complete the ‘questions to talk about’ section detailed in your book please.  This is mostly found at the end.

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 (no copying!). 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? The sentences are:

RED – It is a fun hat.

GREEN – Rag the rat with his big top hat.

PINK – Will I stay or run away?

Numeracy – order of number

1. Mental – Get your grown-up to tell you 5 numbers and find each on either your number line or for extra challenge, use your 100 square.  ‘Thinking out Loud’ – Tell your grown-up how you found the number.  What number comes before that one and after it?  If using your 100 square, can you remember how we find 10 more or 10 less quickly?

2. Game – can you use your order of number learning to knock over the coconuts?  Choose the level to suit your understanding of number order

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

3. Apply your understanding of number order to complete pg 8 of your ‘Early Level Maths Record Book’.

Other learning task for today – Health and Wellbeing

1.Take time to look and talk with your grown-up about Phase 1 of easing the lockdown and what that means to you.  Use this helpful, accessible and child/family friendly sheet to help.

2. Draw around your hand and write something on each of your fingers that you are happy for.  Decorate your work to help it spread happiness to others.

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a lovely long weekend!

Last week I posted a whole week of learning tasks, forgetting it was a 3 day week for the children! Therefore, instead of me adding to that outstanding work today, I will give you all time today and tomorrow (Wednesday) to complete this. To access this learning, just go to the post prior to this one, it is all there for you. Look to complete tasks I had planned for the Thursday and Friday which were Inset day or of course any you did not manage to complete. Sorry I completely forgot as I was working all week in the hub and was trying to be organised! 😅 Sending love,

Miss Thompson x

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and had a lovely weekend.  I am working in the Hub again all of this week so have put our whole weeks learning into this one post and have had to slim down the additional learning a little, but I know you all have many of your own great ideas anyway!  This could also be a perfect time to catch up or spend extra time on any prior learning posts I have blogged over the last 6 weeks that you didn’t find opportunity to complete.  Of course I am always at the end of an email if you need anything.  Sending lots of love.

Get up and moving with this brain break materials.

Joe Wickes is still available daily for a quick, fun workout.  Or alternatively Oti Mabuse for some dance classes aimed at children.  Both can be accessed via YouTube.

There are many other YouTube based resources we have dipped into including any active learning material from Jack Hartman, JustDanceKids, Cosmic Yoga and GoNoodle.

Weeks Literacy – 

Monday’s plan for literacy –

• practice all of your sounds using your sound chart.
• play ‘Teach your Monster to Read’
• complete reading sheets – Red group- sheet 13, Green group- 22, Pink group- sheet 38
• Complete the ‘questions to talk about’ section detailed at the bottom of page
• 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?

Tuesday’s plan for Literacy

• practice all of your sounds using your sound chart.
• play your ‘Race to the Pond’ game – choose a side to suit you.
• begin working on the next ‘Talk for Writing’ unit. https://www.talk4writing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Y1-Unit.pdf

Wedneday’s Plan for Literacy

• play the literacy games on ‘BusyThings’ using your login.
• access the JoJo Gnome Podcast at this link.  Listen to the story, talk about what you hear and complete the ‘story-starter’ writing task.

https://www.jojognome.com/podcast-20-jojo-gnome-and-the-pet/

Thursday’s Plan for Literacy

• repeat all of Monday’s routine outlined above but with the next reading sheet for your group.
• Red group- sheet 14, Green group- 23, Pink group- sheet 39

Friday’s Plan for Literacy

• repeat all of Tuesday’s routine outlined above.

Weeks Numeracy and Maths –

• I have saved 4 ‘BBC Bitesize’ number lessons into our account on BBCBitesize Daily Lessons.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize Click on the ‘MyBitesize’ tab and login to access Username – P1StNinsDundee, Password – St-Nins1. The lessons are number bonds, how to add numbers, add more and count on and subraction within 20.  Please complete as many or few of these as you want along with the linked tasks.
• Use the resources in your ‘home learning kit’ and previous blogs to do some of your favourite number games again.  Maybe you love finding numbers on your 100 square, adding or subtracting using your 10’s frames and counters or using your playing cards and dice to do calculations. 
• Use your ‘BusyThings’ login to play a huge range of number and mathematical concept games.

Lots to keep you busy!

Other learning tasks –

• Spend this week working through any of the home-learning topics provided on Dundee Science Centre.  We have looked at a few before but there is still lots of fun learning to explore.  Have fun!

https://www.dundeesciencecentre.org.uk/support-for-home-learning

• Lets take another look at a scavenger hunt we did way back at the beginning of this lockdown, aimed to promote postive wellbeing…

Remember if you need any help or just a chat, I am here!

We will return to our normal daily learning posts next week.  Thanks so much.  Lots of love

Miss Thompson x

Friday is here again and here are your last learning jobs for the week…

💗 + 💚Green literacy group –Focus on speedy reading and spelling of ‘or’ – please note the amended phrase on the picture card shown in your booklet.  This is to make it correct for our Scottish accent and location .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.

❤Red literacy group –Use the Ruth Miskin (RWI creator) youtube live videos again today.  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. Focus on ‘ch’,  speedy reading and spelling using set 1 sounds with these videos.

https://youtu.be/YzMembMYsP0

https://youtu.be/srhwXSDMxxc

https://youtu.be/OwUsvOCDITE

This is our final day working on this ‘Talk4Writing’ home learning unit. Please complete any learning tasks you wish to do. Let me know any of your feedback about this resource if you can.

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

Numeracy/ Problem solving – outdoor/active learning

Yesterday we took a look back at some prior learning on recognising or extending a pattern using shape, colour or objects. Today, we will apply this learning to solve some pattern problems…

I would like you to try to create 3 of your own patterns at home either inside or out in the garden if you would prefer. Can you make one pattern based around colour, a 2^nd based on shape and a final one on the objects you choose? Remember to take some photos and send them to me or our schools twitter page. We all love to see the learning you share. Talk to your grown up about the patterns you have created and then maybe muddle the things up and see if your grown up can recreate it in the same way.

here are some examples and photos as inspiration…

Other tasks – science, technology, art and design

Finish off your robot designs for the competition set yesterday and if you are ready and want to enter, get your grown-up to help you submit your wonderful idea.

https://www.ukras.org/school-robot-competition/draw

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!