These are the words for the Islander group. Please copy them into your jotter.

Here is a passage for you to read. Please write the words which have the ‘ey’ phoneme.

Have a go at the read and draw activity too.

These are the words for the Mainlander group. Please copy them into your jotter.

Here is a read and draw activity for you to try.

Choose a ‘ff’ word and write a sentence using it. Remember a capital letter at the start, finger spaces between words and a full stop at the end.

Bug Club books and maths games are available for you. Please ask your teacher if you do not know your log in details.

Complete these calculations in your jotter.

This is a really great game for multiplication. Click the link to play the game. We have been looking at the 2x table, 5x table and 10x table but feel free to challenge yourself with any of them.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Your words this week are –

Click on this link to see a video clip of the ea joined phoneme and the sounds it can make Mr Spelling – ea clip

Read through these words with someone in your family try your karate spelling strategy with them –

 

Read through this passage and write out all the ‘ea’ words you can spot. Then have a go at the ‘read and draw’ activity below –

 

Click on this link to watch this clip of Mr Thorne telling us about the ‘ll’ phoneme Mr Thorne – ‘ll’

Read these words to a partner and try the karate spelling strategy –

Now have a go at this matching activity – draw the picture and write the matching word in your jotter –

 

Click on this link to play Hit the Button on Topmarks. You can choose your own challenge – try the doubles activity and see if you can beat your previous score!

Top Marks – Hit the Button

Also have a go at this game it’s called Range Arranger and it asks you to put numbers into the correct order, click on this link to play – Range Arranger – number ordering

Keep going with your poems, we will have the recitals in class on Monday 29th January – remember to add actions, use your voice to make your poem sound interesting and add a prop or two if you want!

Happy New Year everyone, we hope you all had a lovely time over the holidays. We’re back to it now!

This week for homework you will find your child has chosen their Scottish poem for the poetry competition on Thursday 8th February.

The choices this year were

The Snawman, Sair Teeth or The Dinosaur. Your child has had the opportunity to listen to all three and has made their choice. The poem will be in their bags. The children should start reading over their poems and be ready to perform in class on Monday 29th January.

Please feel free to add actions or props to your performance!

Good luck and have fun!

Apologies to P3C – Mrs Cree forgot to give out the homework jotters – it’s a bit Christmas Crazy at the moment!! You will have them tomorrow.

Here are your word lists for this week –

Get active with your spelling this week, you could –

• do JUMPING JACKS while you sound out your words
• THROW A BALL/SMALL OBJECT to a friend while you are sounding out your words – take turns each for each letter
• do HIGH KNEES while sounding out each word
• PRESS UPS/SIT UPS as you sound out each word

Here is a bit of Christmas Fun! Please choose at least 3 of the activities listed below (you can do more of course if you wish)

Have a go at these skip counting strips – choose any 5 strips to complete – will you choose skip counting by 2, skip counting by 5 or even a mixture of both? You can do more than 5 if you wish!

REMEMBER – tomorrow is your Christmas lunch! Yummy!!

 

Click on the passage to make it bigger, read the passage and write out the words with the -se pattern. Then answer the questions on the next picture. Write the answers in a sentence please.

Now copy this sentence for read and draw –

 

 

 

Have a go at this read and draw activity.

 

 

Here are your tricky words for the week – can you karate spell them?

Click on this link to see Geraldine Giraffe learn about the -ea joined phoneme – Geraldine learns ea 

Click on this link to see Geraldine Giraffe learn about the -se joined phoneme – Geraldine learns the -se joined phoneme

Click on this link to play Paint the Squares on the 100 square grid. 100 square grid This can help you to skip count in 2s, 5s and 10s. Try out some addition calculations with the grid – see if you can give yourself a challenge – here’s a few to get you started –

16 + 12 =             23 + 31 =           56 + 43 =                 67 + 22 =

 

Remember to check your for books and to play the Maths games.

 

 

 

 

Red/Blue

Now try these activities for your words –

Watch this clip of Mr Thorne talking about ‘tch’ Mr Thorne talks about ‘tch’

Green/Yellow

Now try these activities for your words –

Watch this clip of Geraldine learning the ay joined phoneme. Geraldine Learns ‘ay’

 

We are skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and have been grouping numbers together to answer multiplication calculations. What can you tell your grown ups about this?

Can you show them what you have been up to?

Have a go at this Top Marks game – Hit the Button Hit the Button

Choose your challenge level – remember you can skip count or draw groups to help you find the correct answer.

• This week our phonemes are ‘u’ as in ‘pull’ and ‘oa’

 

• Red/Blue Groups

• Green/Yellow

 

• Karate spell your words with a grown up or sibling. Take turns to spell out the words. Can you do it quickly?
• Read these sentences – copy them out and draw what they say –

The computer sat on a unit that had wheels.

The bull is eating french fries!

 

• Choose 5 of your words and write a silly sentence for each one.

Please remember you have your Christmas Song list in your bag – please try to sing your songs at home and learn the words as we will not have the song sheet on the day of the concert!

Here is a reminder of the date for your diary –

 

 

 

Our phonemes this week are ‘ie’ and ‘oy’

Red/Blue Groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green/Yellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try this fun active spelling strategy!

 

 

 

 

Now write a sentence for 5 of your spelling words.

Our tricky words are

together     buy      eye

Write out these words using 2 colours – one colour for the consonants and one colour for the vowels

(vowels – a e i o u)

Remember to check Bug Club for your books and maths games.

Tomorrow we are going outside for outdoor learning – the weather may be rainy – so please bring suitable clothing – wellingtons/jackets with hoods etc.

Look out for a letter in the bags about our ‘Coorie in Afternoon’ on Friday. It will be lovely and cosy!

 

Thank you everyone for having a go with your homework in your homework jotter. We are hoping to have TEAMS up and running soon, please bear with us as we get this organised.

This week we are all learning about ‘ea’. This can be a tricky one as it can make different sounds. The words we are looking at this week with ea make the e sound.

Red/Blue Groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green/Yellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week try out these active spelling activities –

Write out your words in CAPITAL LETTERS

Write a sentence for 5 of your words.

We are working hard on sentences in class – REMEMBER – capital letter, neat writing, finger spaces, interesting words, full stops.

 

Common words this week are

head   pretty   another

Have a go at using the pyramid word spelling strategy for these common words

 

Your Bug Club account has been updated with new books. Have a look through them and remember to answer the bugs.

Have you tried the maths games we sent out?