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Primary Two Home Learning Thursday 14th January

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Numeracy

Numeracy begins with an activity in our messy maths jotter. You can choose between ‘Green for go’ or ‘Pink for think’. Use the numbers below, add two and 5 to each number. Remember to use things like a whiteboard, number line, cubes and so on to help you work out which is which.

Green for go

1 4 15
 0 7 6
19 23 18

 

Pink for think

18 98 37
25 13 68
54 89 12

 

Today I have attached a PowerPoint for you to look at all about Mrs Odd and Mr Even. When you have finished looking at it you could create a world for Mr Odd and one for Mrs Even.

mrodd_mrseven

Below I have attached some activities for you to try. You do not need to do them all. Remember no work is posted tomorrow so you might do some today and some tomorrow.

Literacy

Thursday is our story writing day. Today I would like you to write a story all about elephants. Perhaps you go on a trip and find some wild elephants, do they need your help? Perhaps you are there to make a documentary all about them now that you know some elephant facts. When your story is finished you could draw a picture to show what happened in your story.

When writing your story remember

  • Capital letters and full stops
  • Finger spaces
  • Think about the size of the letters, are they tall, small or do they go under the line?
  • Make sure your writing goes from the beginning of the line to the end.
  • Check to see if your story has a beginning, middle and end.
  • Read over your story to check that it makes sense.

 

Today you should also be revising your tricky words and phoneme. Normally we would have a spelling test on a Friday, perhaps this is something you would like to do tomorrow?

 

Expressive arts

Today I would like you to draw an elephant. To do this, go to YouTube and type in great artist mom – elephant. Remember to pause as you watch to give you time to draw each part. You could also include a background. You might like to add colour to your picture, you could do this with paint, pens, pencils or whatever you have at home. Remember that you are the artist and it is up to you to decide how you want your final  picture to look.

 

 

Thursday 14th January 2021  click here to access the activities on a word document.

Literacy, Numeracy, Primary 2 20/21

Primary 2 Tuesday 12th January Home learning

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Tuesday 12th January 2021

Numeracy

Numeracy begins with an activity in our messy maths jotter. You can choose between ‘Green for go’ or ‘Pink for think’. Using only the numbers below create your own addition calculations (no subtraction today) and work out the answer. Remember to use things like a whiteboard, number line, cubes and so on to help you work out the answers.

Green for go

1 5 0
 9 3 2
7 18 11

 

Pink for think

95 14 75
31 16 2
42 11 26

 Today we will continue with some more revision.

  • Recite numbers forwards and backwards to 20/50/100
  • Count forwards and backwards in 2’s,5’s and tens.
  • Order random numbers to 20/50/100. Ask your grown up to give you no more than five numbers that you need to put in the correct order smallest to largest and then largest to smallest.
  • Previously you have learned about odd and even numbers. Today head to YouTube and read this story all about odd and even and tomorrow we will complete some odd and even activities.

 

Literacy

Comprehension

Usually in class you would complete questions that relate to your reading book, since it is the first week back you do not have a reading book so instead you can read and answer questions all about elephants.

(If you have access to Twinkl here is the link https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/44/6a/t-e-2550266-ks1-all-about-elephants-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity-aged-5-7_ver_3.pdf?token=exp=1610373580~acl=%2Fresource%2F44%2F6a%2Ft-e-2550266-ks1-all-about-elephants-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity-aged-5-7_ver_3.pdf%2A~hmac=e7327f79367c8a5cec0e8adde455230b5b7a1670fc1e79647b67313ee2233623 )

If you do not have access if will upload the text and questions. If you are in the yellow group then you should read an answer the first text. If you are in the purple group then you should try the second or third text and then answer the questions. If you’re not sure which group you are then please send me an email.

 

comprehension click on the word comprehension to access the activity.

Spelling

Each day (Monday-Thursday) you should be looking at your tricky words and phonemes. Why not try to make them a different way each day?

For example

Monday Rainbow writing
Tuesday Play dough
Wednesday Look, cover, write and check
Thursday Shaving foam/sand

 

 

Reading

Red Group

Your last book was Egyptian adventure or The Rainbow machine. This week your new book is The Evil Genie, this is a great story all about Floppy and his unfortunate adventure. This can be accessed via YouTube.

 

Orange Group

Previously this group were reading The magic key and Roy at the fun park. Your new book is The Dream this can be accessed via YouTube.

 

Green Group

Previously you were reading The toys’ party and A new dog. Your new book this week is ‘What a bad dog!’

 

Blue Group

Previously you were reading Lost in the jungle and The Lost Key, your new reading book is Red Planet. This can be accessed via YouTube.

Health and Wellbeing

At the moment school is a bit different as we are all working from home, however I would like you to set yourself a target, it may be that you have a target each week or month. Your target can be for any area of the curriculum. Perhaps you will set yourself the target of always beginning your writing at the start of the line and writing to the end of the line. Perhaps your target is to count to 20 in 2’s. It can be anything you want to aim for. Talk to your grown up at home about what you would like to work on. Then each week on a Friday you could tell me something you have done that week that you are really proud of. This might be something that is helping you move towards achieving your target or it might be something else. I can’t wait to see all the things you are achieving.

Remember to keep reading over the poem ‘Mince and Tatties’ ready for our Scottish fortnight beginning next week.

Primary 3b 20/21

P3b Home Learning

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Hello P3b,

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a happy new year!

I wish we were all together to share our stories from over the holidays and hopefully we will soon enough.

Please find attached a document which tell you about your tasks for the day, a template for your weekly journal (weekly news) and a PowerPoint introducing our new topic.

I am looking forward to seeing all the fabulous work you produce at home.

Have a good day.

p3b mon 11 jan

weekly news document

birds 2

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Monday 7th December Primary 2 Literacy

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Monday 7th December

Literacy

Good morning everyone! Not long now and you will all be back in class.

Today begin by writing some news. You could write about what you have been up to at the weekend. Did you go for a nice walk or watch some Christmas movies?

Next I would like you to complete some spelling.

Yellow Group

If you are in the yellow group (last week you were looking at ‘oo’) then this week your tricky words are

  • are
  • Dad

 

This week your phoneme is ‘ck’

sack     back     neck     peck

pick      bucket   rocket

Remember to draw around your tricky words. What shapes do they make? Can you see smaller words within them?

 

Write each of your ‘ck’ words in a sentence. Remember to include a capital letter and full stop.

 

Purple Group

If you are in the purple group then last week you were learning ‘ow’ words. This week your tricky words are

  • one
  • first
  • little

Remember to draw around your words. What shape do they make? Can you see smaller words within them?

This week your phoneme is ‘aw’.

 

jaw     draw    hawk    crawl

awful   saw

Write each of your ‘aw’ words in a sentence. Remember to include a capital letter and full stop.

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Friday 4th December Primary 2 Literacy

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Good morning everyone!

For literacy on a Friday normally we would complete a spelling test for our tricky words and phoneme. At home ask your grown up to say each word and use it in a sentence so you can then write it down or spell it out loud.

If you do it on paper your grown-up could mark your work using brilliant blue and green for growth. Remember green for growth is fantastic as these are the words you need to work on.

On a Friday we would also take time to watch Geraldine the Giraffe and Alphablocks.

Today you could also divide a piece of paper into four and draw four of your phoneme words, remember to write the words underneath.

Also you could write some silly sentences, try to use as many of your words as possible.

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Primary 2 Wednesday 2nd December Literacy

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Wednesday 2nd December

Literacy

Remember to revise your tricky words and phoneme every day.

In class we have been exploring alliteration. This is when a sound is repeated. For example

She sells sea shells on the sea shore.

At home choose at least five objects and use alliteration to describe them. For example, a shoe, shiny shoe.

Then try some tongue twisters. Who can say them the best? Can you and your family come up with your own tongue twisters?

  • I scream, you scream, we all scream, for ice cream!
  • Peter Piper. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Orange Reading Group

Today (Wednesday) would normally be your reading day. Read your book aloud to your grown –up. Your new reading book is ‘The Magic Key’. You will find this on Youtube.

Blue Reading Group

Today (Wednesday) would normally be your reading day. Read your book aloud to your grown –up. You were reading ‘Lost in the Jungle’. Your new reading book is ‘The Lost Key’. You will find this on Youtube.

 

You can also use YouTube to watch Alphablocks or Geraldine The Giraffe.

Primary 3b 20/21

P3b Termly Targets

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Dear Parents/Carers, please open the link to see Primary 3b learning targets for this term. As the class are hard working and industrious, our work programme is well underway and the children delight me everyday with their enthusiasm for teaching and learning. Please keep looking at the blog as I will share the lovely learning ongoing. With kindest regards, Miss Barrett.

P3b Class Targets Aug – December 2020

Primary 3

P3a Active Literacy

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I have loved getting to know all the children during the short time I have been in Primary 3a. We have our Active Literacy programme up and running and have enjoyed using different materials such as elkonin boxes and pipe cleaners to practice our words each week.

We have also loved exploring and learning about our new topic which is all about Africa/Kenya. Why don’t you ask the children to show off what they have learned.