Week beginning 22nd June
I cannot believe we are in our final week of P2! As it is the last week before the summer holidays it will be a little different. I have made a list of activities for you to try throughout the week. You do not need to do them all! There will only be one Assignment folder – anything that you complete, please upload on Teams or on personal blogs. The most important thing this week is that I want you all to have fun, spend lots of time outdoors, play with your toys, bake or watch movies. I would love to see what you get up to this week!
– Bug Club book
– Phoneme and common word revision
Common Words and Phoneme Words stg2
Shape Activities
- Name the 2D shape Powerpoint – discuss how many sides and corners each shape has.
- Use different 2d shapes to create your own summer picture.
- Count and colour the 2d shapes in the picture. 2d shape picture
- Everyday 3D shapes
- Colour the shapes, cut them out and stick them on the correct poster. If you don’t have a printer, do this verbally or find some objects around the house to sort!3D shape sorting cards 3D shape sorting posters
- End of Year Discussion Posters – Scroll through the posters and discuss each one with a relative. If you wish, note down some answers to each one!
- Summer-Themed-Craft-Activity-Pack
- summer learning grid p2 summer grid 2 summer online learning grid
- Outdoor Learning – Have a look at the National Trust Website which provides different outdoor learning ideas: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/50-things-to-do-before-youre-11–activity-list
Monday 15th June
Reading – Bug Club Book
Before clicking on your book have a look at the front cover. Do you think it is a fiction or non-fiction text? Why?
Open your book and look at the pictures only. Tell an adult what you think is happening in each picture or what you think each page is about?
Read the book to yourself and then to an adult.
Finally answer the bugs.
Spelling – phoneme story ‘a-e’
Sing the alphabet together then say what sound each letter makes.
Introduce the next phoneme. Say ‘a-e’ and ask your child to look at what your mouth does, what shape it makes? Then ask your child to say the sound and think about what their own mouth is doing.
Have a look at the following ‘a-e’ video which revises ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ too!
Write the phoneme in the air then on the table or carpet in front of you.
Read the phoneme story for ‘a-e’ to your child and ask them to touch their nose when they hear the phoneme.
Can they think of any other words which contain the phoneme?
Phoneme words – cake, bake, came, name, game, sale, brake
Common Words – take, gave, cold, don’t
Practise your spelling –Rainbow
Numeracy
This week we will be looking at area. First using non-standard units and then we will look at standard units of measurement. Can you find the items on this sheet around your house/garden and other items and measure them using non-standard units? This could be coins or any other non-standard unit you have in the house. In school we would use cubes or counters.
Measuring using non standard units
Topic
It is 2 weeks until we officially stop school for summer so why not try some of these summer activities from these activity grids?
Tuesday 16th June
Reading
Book of your choice, Bug Club book or listen to an audio book.
Spelling
Common words – take, gave, cold, don’t
- Use magnetic letters to make the first word.
- Read the word to your child and ask them to repeat it. Are they pronouncing it correctly?
- Ask your child ‘how many letters are in the word?’ and count them together.
- Ask ‘how many phonemes are in the word? How many sounds can you hear?’
- Children choose a spelling strategy to help them learn the word and practise spelling it.
- Jumble up the letters and ask your child to correct the spelling using their strategy.
- Trace the word in the air, on the table/floor, in the sand.
- Repeat this process for each of the common words.
Phoneme ‘a-e’
Choose one of the activities below to complete.
a-e-read-and-draw-activity-sheet
Choose *, ** or *** (do not do all three)
Numeracy
If you have powerpoint have a look at this powerpoint explaining calculating and estimating area.
Now try to calculate the area of these shapes.
Music
Make music from jam jars.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkgkwty
Wednesday 17th June
Reading
Book of your choice or Bug Club book.
Spelling
Can you spot which words are real and which are not in this worksheet? –
a-e-Split-Digraph-Colour-By-Phoneme-Real-and-Nonsense-Words
Numeracy
Try this area sheet, remember your cm2 units at the end of your answer.
Why don’t you have a go at this area game?
https://toytheater.com/area-climber/
Art
In this lesson draw along with Bob Price, the art director of the CBeebies show Pablo.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfrm6v4
Thursday 18th June
Literacy
Fact or Opinion
Have a look at the following PowerPoint to help you better understand the difference between a fact and an opinion.
Reading
Bug Club book or book of your choice.
Complete one of the book reviews below for a book which you have read this week. Remember to write in sentences and to use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, for names of people and for book titles.
Spelling
a-e-split-digraph-word-search(optional task)
Numeracy
Using squared paper you have at home or by printing out this sheet of 1cm2 paper create your own area robot.
What is the area of your robots head?
What is the area of your robots body?
What is the area of your robots legs?
What is the area of your robots arms?
Topic
Why don’t you try another activity from the summer learning grids?
Friday 19th June
Literacy
Elkonin boxes
Read out some phoneme words and ask your child to make and break them, recording their answers in their elkonin boxes.
Dictation
Read the sentences from the document below to your child and ask them to write them down. Remind them of the core targets – full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. How many words have they spelt correctly? Revise any phonemes or common words they have had difficulty with. Choose any sentences from week 4 up to week 25.
Active Literacy Stage 2 Dictated Sentences
Numeracy
Have a go at this online area game: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/area-builder/latest/area-builder_en.html
Why don’t you try this game with a family member or 2 if you have a dice at home? If you don’t have a dice you can use this online dice roller: https://www.random.org/dice/?num=2
- Choose a different colour pencil/pen, make sure the different players choose a different colour.
- Players take turns rolling the dice twice or rolling two die if you have them. Using the two numbers you have rolled draw a shape with that area. Eg: if you roll a 6 and a 2 you could draw a shape which is 2 boxes in length and 6 in width.
- Write the area in the middle of your shape.
- The game ends when players run out of room to draw.
- The winner is the player who has used the largest area/most squares.
HWB:
Why don’t you give a relative a massage or you could do some Cosmic Kids Yoga?
https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga/videos
Monday 8th June
Reading – Bug Club Book
Before clicking on your book have a look at the front cover. Do you think it is a fiction or non-fiction text? Why?
Open your book and look at the pictures only. Tell an adult what you think is happening in each picture or what you think each page is about?
Read the book to yourself and then to an adult.
Finally answer the bugs.
Spelling – phoneme story ‘o-e’
Sing the alphabet together then say what sound each letter makes.
Introduce the next phoneme. Say ‘o-e’ and ask your child to look at what your mouth does, what shape it makes? Then ask your child to say the sound and think about what their own mouth is doing.
Have a look at the following ‘o-e’ video which revises ‘oa’ too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQFilBxEseg&list=PLqk7ar-NaBVsbHQP5lR9atB716Pva16pf
Write the phoneme in the air then on the table or carpet in front of you.
Read the phoneme story for ‘o-e’ to your child and ask them to touch their nose when they hear the phoneme.
Can they think of any other words which contain the phoneme?
Spelling – Tic Tac Toe Activity
Phoneme words – home, rope, hope, stole, stone, smoke, awoke.
Common Words – home, more, school, Mrs.
Tictactoe activity instruction
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition, subtraction, multiplication or division questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Measure – Volume and Capacity
Have a look at the following video on some of the key vocabulary for volume and capacity and describing volume using a half and a quarter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B6a9O2rZ88
Print or write out the word cards below and discuss them. What does each one mean? Explain that we use this language to describe containers: full, half-full, nearly full, almost empty, empty. If you have some spare containers at home (such as old milk or juice bottles) let your child experiment with making containers that are full, half full, nearly full, nearly empty and empty. Try pouring from one container to another to change the volume and discuss which one holds more and which holds less. Take some pictures and post on Teams!
Music
Try this sing-along version of ‘Under the Sea’ from The Little Mermaid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkusy4ylhiY
East Ayrshire 1st Level Home Learning Grid
Download the grid and do an activity or two of your choice!
FIRST LEVEL HOME LEARNING GRID
Tuesday 9th June
Reading
Book of your choice, Bug Club book or listen to the story of ‘Tiddler: the Story-telling Fish’ by Julia Donaldson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTQADUywZY How many of our previous phonemes can you spot?
Spelling
Common words – home, more, school, Mrs.
- Use magnetic letters to make the first word.
- Read the word to your child and ask them to repeat it. Are they pronouncing it correctly?
- Ask your child ‘how many letters are in the word?’ and count them together.
- Ask ‘how many phonemes are in the word? How many sounds can you hear?’
- Children choose a spelling strategy to help them learn the word and practise spelling it.
- Jumble up the letters and ask your child to correct the spelling using their strategy.
- Trace the word in the air, on the table/floor, in the sand.
- Repeat this process for each of the common words.
- Use some of these spelling cards if you wish: http://okscribbler.blogspot.com/2011/01/72-spelling-ideas.html
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition, subtraction, multiplication or division questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Measure – Volume and Capacity
Discuss the vocabulary your child was using yesterday to describe how much liquid was in a container. Colour in the following sheet to show containers that are full, half full, nearly full, nearly empty and empty.
Topic/Art and Design
Why not go a walk and find some stones to decorate? You could paint them and give them an Under the Sea theme. Once you’re finished you could use them to decorate your garden and upload your pictures to Teams.
Wednesday 10th June
Literacy – Grammar – Alphabetical order sheet
Spelling – Practise making your ‘o-e’ words and common words using your boards and magnetic letters, playdough, letter stencils, letter stampers, buttons, scrabble tiles or anything else you have in the house. You could also write them with your finger in sand, shaving foam or mud!
Time challenge – How many ‘o-e’ words can you list in 1 minute?
Sentence building – Choose 2 words and use them in sentences, remembering your core targets. Try using some interesting verbs or adjectives to make your writing more descriptive.
Numeracy
Measure – Volume and Capacity
- Warm-up – https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-capacity-volume/zj8njhv
- If you have Powerpoint, download this presentation introducing the terms litres and millilitres:
Presentation – Litres and Millilitres
- Try matching the ml to the correct jug.
- Activity Sheet – How Many Millilitres
- Optional: If you have a litre measuring jug and a few empty containers that hold different volumes, have a go at the following sheet: Activity Sheet – How Many Litres
- Capacity Countdown – Try this game where you have to read the scales in litres and half litres.
http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/capacity/index.html
RME
Have a look at this video on BBC Bitesize about one of the most important people of the Jewish religion – Moses. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/religious-studies-ks1-the-jewish-story-of-moses/zmfp382 Can you retell the story to an adult in your own words?
Thursday 11th June
Literacy – Writing
Have a look at the picture and write some sentences to describe what you can see. Remember our core targets – capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and using ‘and’ or ‘but’ to join sentences. Try to use some adjectives to make your writing more interesting!
Sentence Example: The huge grey shark has sharp teeth and a pointed snout.
under-the-sea-writing-stimulus-picture
Reading
Bug Club book, book of your choice, or listen to ‘The Smiley Shark’ by Ruth Galloway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaU7r2RDf0M
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition, subtraction, multiplication or division questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Measure – Mass
- Discuss the words ‘heavy’ and ‘light’. What do they mean? Can your child point out some things in the house that are heavy or light?
- Find 5 or 6 objects in the house and hold them in your hand one at a time. See if you can order them from heaviest to lightest. You could take a picture of yourself with your objects and post it on Teams! You could also write some sentences describing your objects e.g. The water bottle is heavier than the coin; The pencil is the lightest object; The coin is lighter than the teddy bear.
- Try this game where you weigh different objects and decide which one is heavier or lighter: https://www.turtlediary.com/game/heavy-and-light.html
Science
If you have the equipment, try this science experiment on salt water density:
Science Experiment Prompt Card
Friday 12th June
Literacy
Elkonin Boxes
Read out some phoneme words and ask your child to make and break them, recording their answers in their elkonin boxes.
Dictation
Read the sentences from the document below to your child and ask them to write them down. Remind them of the core targets – full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. How many words have they spelt correctly? Revise any phonemes or common words they have had difficulty with. Choose any sentences from week 4 up to week 25.
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition, subtraction, multiplication or division questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Measure – Mass
- Have a look at this Powerpoint and try to decide which object is heavier or lighter.
- Try ordering the objects from lightest to heaviest in this activity sheet
lightest-to-heaviest-activity-sheet
Other (Most can be accessed through YouTube)
- 9am PE with Joe Wicks
- 10am Music with Myleene Klass
- 11am Science with Maddie Moate
- 30am Dance with Oti Mabuse
- 1pm Maths with Carol Vorderman – themathsfactor.com
- 2pm History with Dan Snow – tv.historyhit.com
- 3pm English with David Walliams – worldofdavidwalliams.com
Monday 1st June
Every day this week Mr Smith will be posting virtual Sports Day challenges for children to take part in on the school blog homepage: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/gargiestonpsandecc/.
Reading – Bug Club Book
Before clicking on your book have a look at the front cover. Do you think it is a fiction or non-fiction text? Why?
Open your book and look at the pictures only. Tell an adult what you think is happening in each picture or what you think each page is about?
Read the book to yourself and then to an adult.
Finally answer the bugs.
Spelling – phoneme story ‘i-e’
Sing the alphabet together then say what sound each letter makes. (Phonics Song Youtube)
Say ‘side’ and think about what your mouth does. Look at a family member as they make the sound.
Write the phoneme in the air then on the table or carpet in front of you.
Read the phoneme story for ‘i-e’ to your child and ask them to touch their nose when they hear the phoneme.
Can they think of any other words which contain the phoneme?
Choose one word and use it in a sentence.
Phoneme words: side, hide, ride, shine, white, smile.
Common words: five, time, life, line.
Numeracy
Money – Counting in 5p’s Activity Sheet.
Topic
Watch this Under the Sea video
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zx676sg
Have a go at guessing what the Under the Sea picture is showing.
under the sea what can you see
Tuesday 2nd June
Reading
Read a book of your choice or listen to one of these books on Youtube:
Winnie and Wilbur Under the Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5YE4rxQJhg
Commotion in the Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pRhgZ8Jffs
Grammar – Alphabetical Order
Can you complete this alphabetical order challenge?
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition or subtraction questions to practise number bonds. Children can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or a piece of paper.
Money- Counting in 2p’s and 1p’s Activity Sheet
Topic
Look at this website and watch the video about the life cycle of a sea turtle.
https://www.seeturtles.org/sea-turtle-life-cycle
Have a look at the life cycle of the turtle here. Can you order the cards?
Why don’t you try make this 3D sea turtle if you have a printer?
Wednesday 3rd June
Literacy
Spelling – Each pupil should have a magnetic board with letters given to them last year. If you still have this at home you could use it to practise making your ‘i_e’ words and common words.
Spelling Common Words – five, time, life, line.
Phoneme ‘i_e’ Words: side, hide, ride, shine, white, smile.
Use a variety of spelling strategies to help remember the correct spelling of each word.
ALP – ‘i_e’ words – how many ‘i_e’ words can you list in 1 minute?
Choose 2 words and use them in a sentence.
Reading
Book of your choice, Bug Club book or log onto The World of David Walliams at 11am, where you can listen to one of David Walliams’ stories.
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition questions to practise number bonds. Child can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Money – Counting 5p’s and 1p’s Activity Sheet.
Topic/Art
Have a go at this how to draw a sea turtle video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=201&v=6DXTWTbd8G4&feature=emb_title
Thursday 4th June
Writing
Choose a scene. Can you describe the scene using your own words and some of the words from the word box? You could think about your senses, what can you see, hear, smell, taste and feel?
ks1_describe_the_scene_worksheets
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition questions to practise number bonds. Child can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Money – Counting money to £1 Activity Sheet.
Massage/Mindfulness
If you have powerpoint, you could download the Massage powerpoint, put on some relaxing music and give a family member a massage.
Why don’t you colour in an Under the Sea mindfulness colouring picture?
Friday 5th June
Literacy
Spelling – Elkonin boxes
Read out some ‘i_e’ words and ask your child to make and break them, recording their answers in their elkonin boxes.
Spelling – Dictation
Read the sentences from the document below to your child and ask them to write them down. Remind them of the core targets – full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. How many words have they spelt correctly? Revise any phonemes or common words they have had difficulty with. Choose any sentences from week 4, 8 or up to week 12.
Active Literacy Stage 2 Dictated Sentences
Numeracy
Money – Have a go at some of the money games on Topmarks https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/money
HWB
You could have a go at this Moana themed Cosmic Kids Yoga.
Other (Most can be accessed through YouTube)
9am PE with Joe Wicks
10am Music with Myleene Klass
11am Science with Maddie Moate
11.30am Dance with Oti Mabuse
1pm Maths with Carol Vorderman – themathsfactor.com
2pm History with Dan Snow – tv.historyhit.com
3pm English with David Walliams – worldofdavidwalliams.com
Wednesday 27th May
Reading – Bug Club Book
Before clicking on your book have a look at the front cover. Do you think it is a fiction or non-fiction text? Why?
Open your book and look at the pictures only. Tell an adult what you think is happening in each picture or what you think each page is about?
Read the book to yourself and then to an adult.
Finally answer the bugs.
Spelling
Consolidation Week – no new sounds or common words will be introduced this week. This week children will revise the phonemes – ow (owl), ou, igh and y
Task 1 – ask your child to say, make/break, blend, read and write words which contain the above phonemes. Use elkonin boards, magnetic letters, scrabble tiles or any other resources you have.
Task 2 – Dictation – Use some of the words from the above task in sentences and ask your child to write them down. Check your child’s work against the core targets. Do they have a capital letter at the beginning, a full stop at the end and clear finger spaces? Look at the formation of their letters. Do they sit on the line? Do they have clear ascenders and descenders and are the letters formed correctly?
You can practise forming letters in sand, shaving foam or in the mud.
Numeracy
Warm up – Sumdog
Daily 10 – ask your child a mixture of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Money – Making totals
Choose one of the following worksheets to complete.
Topic
Thursday 28th May
Reading
Visit the BBC Bitesize site for a fun reading lesson based on the Funny Bones Book.
Spelling
Same as Monday – choose different words
Grammar – Punctuation
Complete one worksheet. Choose from *, ** or ***
Numeracy
Warm up – Supermovers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-collection/zbr4scw
Daily 10 – ask your child a mixture of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Money
Complete either page 13, 14, 15 and 16 of the following document depending on the level of challenge your child is comfortable with.
Topic
HWB
Visit the Cosmic Kids Yoga website or access it through YouTube and take part in some relaxing yoga exercises.
www.cosmickids.com
OR
If you have PowerPoint you will be able to access the following document
OR
Plan and prepare a healthy meal with a parent. Use what you have learned about good hygiene when preparing food. What equipment did you need? Did you learn any new skills (peeling, chopping, zesting etc)?
Other
If your child has an interest in wildlife/birds you could check out some of the fun activities in the site below.
Friday 29th May
Reading
- Book of your choice, Bug Club book or log onto
https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/ or https://www.roalddahl.com/
- Tricky Words and Sight Words Song –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0
Alphabetical Order
Spelling
Same as Monday – choose different words
Numeracy
Warm up – Topmarks
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Daily 10 – ask your child a mixture of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Money
Money matching game
money-printable-flashcards-3rd-grade-uk
French
Use the link below to learn French vocabulary for family members.
https://www.french-games.net/frenchtopics
Other (Most can be accessed through YouTube)
- 9am PE with Joe Wicks
- 10am Music with Myleene Klass
- 11am Science with Maddie Moate
- 30am Dance with Oti Mabuse
- 1pm Maths with Carol Vorderman – themathsfactor.com
- 2pm History with Dan Snow – tv.historyhit.com
- 3pm English with David Walliams – worldofdavidwalliams.com
Monday 18th May
Reading – Bug Club Book
Before clicking on your book have a look at the front cover. Do you think it is a fiction or non-fiction text? Why?
Open your book and look at the pictures only. Tell an adult what you think is happening in each picture or what you think each page is about?
Read the book to yourself and then to an adult.
Finally answer the bugs.
Spelling – phoneme story ‘y’
Sing the alphabet together then say what sound each letter makes.
Point to each joined phoneme (see grid) and read them together with your child. Joined-Phonemes
Introduce the next phoneme. Say ‘y’ and ask your child to look at what your mouth does, what shape it makes? Then ask your child to say the sound and think about what their own mouth is doing.
Write the phoneme in the air then on the table or carpet in front of you.
Read the phoneme story for ‘y’ to your child and ask them to touch their nose when they hear the phoneme. y phoneme story
Can they think of any other words which contain the phoneme? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew5gLUbejSs
Phoneme hunt – choose a book and look through it to see if you can find any words which contain the phoneme ‘y’.
Common words: fly, bring, two and Mr.
Y words: fly, shy, cry, sky, why, dry myself.
Numeracy
Warm up – The Big Numbers song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dJWfQHF8Y
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 multiplication or addition and subtraction questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Money – Introduction
Introduce money by discussing what we use it for – to buy things we need such as clothes and food, and things we would like such as toys and treats. How have they seen you paying for things? Explain that there are different ways to pay for things, using cash or paying by card. Have they ever paid for anything themselves before? What was it?
Watch this video which introduces all coins to £2 and try to order the coins from smallest value to largest in this cut and stick sheet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs8F_g3MGtM
You could also access the Natwest website which has lots of money games, puzzles and interactive activities. https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/students/students-5-8/
Topic – Under the Sea
Complete the following STEM task: create your own boat out of tinfoil and see how many paperclips it can hold. Alternatively, if you do not have tinfoil or paperclips, design and create your own boat or submarine using recyclable materials. Post any pictures you take on Teams!
Tuesday 19th May
Reading
Book of your choice or Bug Club book.
Tricky Words and Sight Words Song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4
Spelling
Common words – fly, bring, Mr. two
- Use magnetic letters to make the first word.
- Read the word to your child and ask them to repeat it. Are they pronouncing it correctly?
- Ask your child ‘how many letters are in the word?’ and count them together.
- Ask ‘how many phonemes are in the word? How many sounds can you hear?’
- Children choose a spelling strategy to help them learn the word and practise spelling it.
- Jumble up the letters and ask your child to correct the spelling using their strategy.
- Trace the word in the air, on the table/floor, in the sand.
- Repeat this process for each of the common words.
Common word hunt – choose a book and look through it to see if you can find any of your common words in the text.
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 multiplication or addition and subtraction questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Money
Recap on all the coins the children learned about yesterday. Read out some of the Fastest Finger Coin Recognition cards and see how quickly your child can point to the correct coin on one of the mats. You could even get a sibling or adult to join in using the other mat and make it a competition!
Fastest Finger Coin Recognition Cards
Fastest Finger Coin Recognition Coin Mat
Sumdog – I have set up a money challenge on Sumdog for you to take part in. There are up to 250 coins to earn if you complete it – good luck!
RME
BBC Bitesize activities on Judaism https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf4grj6
Have a look at this Powerpoint which tells the story of one of the most important people in Jewish history – Abraham.
Abraham and Sarah – Bible Story PowerPoint
Art and Design
Design your own sea creature. You can draw it using one of the templates below if you wish, or you could even make a 3D model!
Take a photo of yourself with your sea creature and post it on Teams.
Wednesday 20th May
Grammar – Exclamation Marks
Have a look at this Powerpoint and video on exclamation marks and try one or two of the activity sheets below:
T-L-5574-Using-Exclamation-Marks-Presentation_ver_1
Activity Sheets Character Exclamations
Spelling –
Y words: fly, shy, cry, sky, why, dry, myself.
Practise making your ‘y’ words and common words using your boards and magnetic letters, playdough, letter stencils, letter stampers, buttons, or anything else you have in the house. The following website has some active spelling cards you might want to try:
http://okscribbler.blogspot.com/2011/01/72-spelling-ideas.html
Time challenge – How many ‘y’ words can you list in 1 minute?
Sentence building – Choose 2 words and use them in sentences, remembering your core targets. Try using some interesting verbs or adjectives to make your writing more descriptive.
Numeracy
Warm up – Supermovers https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-money/zht4nrd
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 multiplication or addition and subtraction questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Money – Have a look at this counting in 2p, 5p, and 10p Powerpoint:
counting-in-2s-5s-and-10s-powerpoint
Pick one of the sheets from this document to complete: the easier ones have 1 star at the bottom and the trickiest sheets have 3 stars. It’s up to you which one you choose!
counting-in-2s-5s-and-10s-activity-sheet
HWB
Try making your own Rainbow Fish Fruit Skewers! Or choose another healthy snack you wish to prepare. You could share a picture of you and your snack on Teams once you have finished!
Thursday 21st May
Writing – Write an invitation to an Under the Sea birthday party. Write it from one sea creature to another and include some details of all the things that will be happening at your party! Remember our Core Targets and try to include some adjectives to make your writing more interesting. Have a look at the example below for some ideas!
Spelling – Practise some of your words using the active spelling cards: http://okscribbler.blogspot.com/2011/01/72-spelling-ideas.html
Numeracy – warm up – Sumdog or www.timestables.com
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 multiplication or addition and subtraction questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Money – Have a go at setting up your own shop at home. Find some toys or other objects and give them a price up to 20p. Use the coins below, make up your own on a piece of paper or use real coins if you have any! With an adult or sibling, take it in turns paying for items and giving change.
ICT
Learn more about computer coding in this BBC Bitesize video and game.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3tbwmn/articles/zykx6sg
Friday 22nd May
Literacy
Elkonin boxes
Read out some phoneme words from the list and ask your child to make and break them, recording their answers in their elkonin boxes.
Dictation
Read the sentences from the document below to your child and ask them to write them down. Remind them of the core targets – full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. How many words have they spelt correctly? Revise any phonemes or common words they have had difficulty with. Choose any sentences from week 4 up to week 22.
Active Literacy Stage 2 Dictated Sentences
Numeracy
- Warm up Supermovers (video of your choice) –https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-collection/z6v4scw
- Daily 10 – ask your child 10 multiplication or addition and subtraction questions. They can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
- Under the Sea Multiplication sheet
multiplication-maths-mosaic-activity-sheet
Other (Most can be accessed through YouTube)
- 9am PE with Joe Wicks
- 10am Music with Myleene Klass
- 11am Science with Maddie Moate
- 30am Dance with Oti Mabuse
- 1pm Maths with Carol Vorderman – themathsfactor.com
- 2pm History with Dan Snow – tv.historyhit.com
- 3pm English with David Walliams – worldofdavidwalliams.com
Monday 11th May
Reading – Bug Club Book
Before clicking on your book have a look at the front cover. Do you think it is a fiction or non-fiction text? Why?
Open your book and look at the pictures only. Tell an adult what you think is happening in each picture or what you think each page is about?
Read the book to yourself and then to an adult.
Finally answer the bugs.
Spelling – phoneme story ‘igh’
Sing the alphabet together (Phonic Song 2).
Then say what sound each letter makes.
Point to each joined phoneme (see grid) and read them together with your child.
Introduce the next phoneme. Say ‘igh’ and ask your child to look at what your mouth does, what shape it makes? Then ask your child to say the sound and think about what their own mouth is doing. Explain to your child that with our Scottish accent this phoneme sounds different in some words. The ‘igh’ in night sounds different to the ‘igh’ in high.
Write the phoneme in the air then on the table or carpet in front of you.
Read the phoneme story for ‘igh’ to your child and ask them to touch their nose when they hear the phoneme.
Can they think of any other words which contain the phoneme?
Phoneme hunt – choose a book and look through it to see if you can find any words which contain the phoneme ‘igh’.
Numeracy
Warm up Supermovers –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-collection/zbr4scw
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 multiplication questions. Child can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Together, create a page of a weekly engagement diary for an imaginary person. Keep the things that they might do on each day relevant to the character. Discuss morning, afternoon and evening by making up events that will fit into these time periods. Discuss why a diary like this is helpful.
Children could investigate on which day each month begins. You could show them calendars or planners from previous years to show that the first day of each month isn’t always on the same day. Once children have done this, say the rhyme 30 days has September or together make one up.
Topic – Under the Sea
Tuesday 12th May
Reading
Book of your choice, Bug Club book or log onto
https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/ or https://www.roalddahl.com/
Tricky Words and Sight Words Song –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0
Spelling
Common words – who, after, hand, right
- Use magnetic letters to make the first word.
- Read the word to your child and ask them to repeat it. Are they pronouncing it correctly?
- Ask your child ‘how many letters are in the word?’ and count them together.
- Ask ‘how many phonemes are in the word? How many sounds can you hear?’
- Children choose a spelling strategy to help them learn the word and practise spelling it.
- Jumble up the letters and ask your child to correct the spelling using their strategy.
- Trace the word in the air, on the table/floor, in the sand.
- Repeat this process for each of the common words.
Common word hunt – choose a book and look through it to see if you can find any of your common words in the text.
Numeracy
Warm up - https://www.timestables.com/
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 multiplication questions. Child can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Use a calendar to discuss and demonstrate the day/month/year convention for writing dates, for example, 8 February 2020 is written as 8/2/2020 or 8/2/20. Follow this with writing the date in words. Provide opportunities to convert between different ways of writing the date.
RME – Introduction to Judaism
Arts and Crafts
Make a paper octopus – print off the sheet below and colour it in – cut paper into (8) strips and fold (like a fan) – glue, tape or staple the strips to the bottom of your octopus. Take a photo of yourself with your octopus and post it on Teams.
Wednesday 13th May
Reading – Comprehension
Pages 1-3 only. Answer questions in sentences if you can.
Spelling
Practise making your ‘igh’ words and common words using your boards and magnetic letters, playdough, letter stencils, letter stampers, buttons, or anything else you have in the house.
Time challenge – How many ‘igh’ words can you list in 1 minute?
Sentence building – Choose 2 words and use them in sentences, remembering your core targets. Try using some interesting verbs or adjectives to make your writing more descriptive.
Numeracy
Ask your child to close their eyes for 1 minute or 60 seconds and put their hands up when they think that amount of time has passed. Discuss why they put their hands up when they did. Did you guess? Did you count to 60? Repeat this asking your child to count to 60 and see if they get any closer.
How many seconds are there in half a minute? Establish that there are 30 seconds in half a minute and ask your child to close their eyes for 30 seconds. Are they able to judge this from their estimation of 1 minute? You could explore multiples of seconds, e.g. 1, 5, 10, 15, 45 seconds and 11_2 minutes (or 90 seconds). Discuss the length of an hour. Can they imagine what it would be like to close their eyes for this length of time?
Make three lists: in 1 second I can …, in 1 minute I can …, and in 1 hour I can …. Ask your child what things they think they can do in those time periods. Take feedback and add their suggestions to the lists. Discuss what they have said. If appropriate, try out some of the suggestions for 1 second and 1 minute
HWB
Visit the Cosmic Kids Yoga website or access it through YouTube and take part in some relaxing yoga exercises. Perhaps choose one which has an Under the Sea theme.
Thursday 14th
Grammar – question words
Spelling – Common words wordsearch
Numeracy
Warm up – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 multiplication questions. Child can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Time – Using a calendar challenge cards
Friday 15th May
Literacy
Elkonin boxes
Read out some phoneme words from the list and ask your child to make and break them, recording their answers in their elkonin boxes.
Dictation
Read the sentences from the document below to your child and ask them to write them down. Remind them of the core targets – full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. How many words have they spelt correctly? Revise any phonemes or common words they have had difficulty with. Choose any sentences from week 4 up to week 18.
Active Literacy Stage 2 Dictated Sentences
Numeracy
Addition and Subtraction – Under the Sea themed task
Monday 4th May
Reading – Bug Club Book
Spelling – Stage 2 Assessment a
It would be good to have an idea of where children’s understanding is at with the phonemes we have been learning so this week is going to be a consolidation/assessment week and we will learn a new sound next week.
The first part of the assessment is to see if children can recognise the sound that the phoneme makes, children reads the phoneme and if they get it right if you put a tick below the phoneme and if they get it wrong put a dot.
For the second part children have to attempt to read the word. If they can read the word, please tick the box, and if they can’t please put a dot.
For the final part children have to attempt to read the word and then write the word below.
Numeracy
Time – Children should explore the term quarter past. This video below explains it really well for the children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UoJA7hJnZE
To further explore this you could use the Topmarks Teaching Clock https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock
Children could practise quarter past using the play-doh clock or they could try this quarter past worksheet.
Topic- Under the Sea
You could try one of the activities from the Under the Sea grid or these two websites have some great Under the Sea activity ideas.
https://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2015/06/ocean-activities-for-kids.html
https://theimaginationtree.com/15-creative-ocean-themed-activities/
Other (Most can be accessed through YouTube)
9am PE with Joe Wicks
10am Music with Myleene Klass
11am Science with Maddie Moate
11.30am Dance with Oti Mabuse
1pm Maths with Carol Vorderman – themathsfactor.com
2pm History with Dan Snow – tv.historyhit.com
3pm English with David Walliams – worldofdavidwalliams.com
Tuesday 21st April
Reading
Read a book of your choice, Bug Club book or log onto The World of David Walliams at 11am, where you can listen to one of David Walliams’ stories.
Spelling – Stage 2 Assessment b
This assessment is similar to the assessment from yesterday; however it is just different phonemes and words.
The first part of the assessment is to see if children can recognise the sound that the phoneme makes, children reads the phoneme and if they get it right if you put a tick below the phoneme and if they get it wrong put a dot.
For the second part children have to attempt to read the word. If they can read the word, please tick the box, and if they can’t please put a dot.
For the final part children have to attempt to read the word and then write the word below.
Numeracy – Digital Time
This fun song helps explain digital time very clearly to the hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENOYemdWU08. Today’s job is looking at quarter past on a digital clock. If you can explain to children what quarter past would look like on a digital clock and have a go at this digital time worksheet.
Wednesday 22nd April
Reading
Book of your choice, Bug Club book or log onto The World of David Walliams at 11am, where you can listen to one of David Walliams’ World’s Worst Children stories.
Literacy- Stage 2 Phonemes Assessment
Please try the final assessment in this document with children (page 5/5). If you can see if children can read the words in the lists labelled a and b, if they can read the word either highlight/colour or tick the word.
Numeracy
This YouTube video explains the concept quarter to in detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAyvTcIkWQ
Children could try this quarter to worksheet, drawing the hands of the clock to show the different times.
Topic- Under the Sea
You could try one of the activities from the Under the Sea grid or these two websites have some great Under the Sea activity ideas.
https://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2015/06/ocean-activities-for-kids.html
https://theimaginationtree.com/15-creative-ocean-themed-activities/
Thursday 23rd April
Writing – Sea Creature Fact File
Using either the template given or another template or a hand drawn format you could create a fact file for a sea creature. You could research some facts about your chosen sea creature. What do they look like? Where do they live? What do they eat? Are there any interesting facts about your sea creature?
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition questions to practise number bonds (this could be to 10, 20, 50 or 100, depending on how much of a challenge children want. Child can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
You could practice telling the time on one of these games.
https://www.helpfulgames.com/subjects/mathematics/tell-time.html
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time
1/5/2020
Literacy
Read out some phoneme words from the list and ask your child to make and break them, recording their answers in their elkonin boxes.
Common Words and Phoneme Words
Dictation
Read the sentences from the document below to your child and ask them to write them down. Remind them of the core targets – full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. How many words have they spelt correctly? Revise any phonemes or common words they have had difficulty with. Choose any sentences from week 4, 8 or up to week 12.
Active Literacy Stage 2 Dictated Sentences
Numeracy
Match the analogue to the digital clock in this online game.
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L9643/index.html
Practise 2, 5 or 10 times table on Hit the Button https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Topic
If you wish you can select an activity of your choice from the Under the Sea grid.
Other (Most can be accessed through YouTube)
9am PE with Joe Wicks
10am Music with Myleene Klass
11am Science with Maddie Moate
11.30am Dance with Oti Mabuse
1pm Maths with Carol Vorderman – themathsfactor.com
2pm History with Dan Snow – tv.historyhit.com
3pm English with David Walliams – worldofdavidwalliams.com
30/4/2020
Literacy – Writing
Write a story about a sea creature of your choice. What happens to it? Where does it go? What other creatures does it meet? Try to give your story a beginning, middle and end and remember our Core Targets: capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and using ‘and’ or ‘but’ to join sentences.
Numeracy
Discuss the difference between analogue and digital clocks and look at some examples in the house or on the internet. Discuss what a digital clock looks like when it is 4 o’clock – 4:00 and half past 4 – 4:30. Discuss some more examples of o’clock and half past times on a digital clock.
Play this game of Time Dominoes together.
Additional Tasks:
Under the Sea mindfulness colouring.
Daily 10 – Children answer 10 addition and subtraction questions on their whiteboard, paper or orally to practise number bonds to 10, 20 or 50.
Practise 2, 5 or 10 times table on Hit the Button https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Other (Most can be accessed through YouTube)
9am PE with Joe Wicks
10am Music with Myleene Klass
11am Science with Maddie Moate
11.30am Dance with Oti Mabuse
1pm Maths with Carol Vorderman – themathsfactor.com
2pm History with Dan Snow – tv.historyhit.com
3pm English with David Walliams – worldofdavidwalliams.com
29/4/2020
Literacy
Spelling – Each pupil should have a magnetic board with letters given to them last year. If you still have this at home you could use it to practise making some phoneme and common words from the list.
Use a variety of spelling strategies to help remember the correct spelling of each word.
Common Words and Phoneme Words
ALP – Select a phoneme. How many words containing this phoneme can you list in 1minute?
Choose 2 words and use them in a sentence.
Select 3 common words you find tricky and use your finger to write them on someone’s back! Can they guess the word?
Numeracy
Try setting the analogue clock to o’clock and half past times in the game below.
https://www.abcya.com/games/telling_time
Under the Sea
Select an activity of your choice from the Under the Sea grid or try one of the Under the Sea crafts from Monday
28/4/2020
Literacy – Grammar
Have a look at the powerpoint about question marks and have a go at some of the challenges.
Complete this sheet by adding question marks to the right sentences.
Reading – Bug Club book, book of your choice or log on to The World of David Walliams at 11am where you can listen to one of his ‘World’s Worst Children’ stories.
Numeracy
Discuss the term ‘half past.’ Where is the big hand when it is a ‘half past’ time? Where is the small hand? You could use the Teaching Clock on Topmarks to help. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock
If you have a printer/play-doh or spaghetti you could print out this clock and create different times with play-doh or spaghetti for the big hand and small hand.
Complete one or two of the ‘o’ clock and half past’ worksheets or discuss these.
Other (Most can be accessed through YouTube)
9am PE with Joe Wicks
10am Music with Myleene Klass
11am Science with Maddie Moate
11.30am Dance with Oti Mabuse
1pm Maths with Carol Vorderman – themathsfactor.com
2pm History with Dan Snow – tv.historyhit.com
3pm English with David Walliams – worldofdavidwalliams.com
27/4/2020
Hope everyone had a lovely weekend. Please see below today’s suggested activities. Please feel free to do as many or as little as you wish. Remember they are not compulsory. Feel free to post work on children’s blogs or on Teams.
Literacy – Spelling
This week we will revise previous phonemes and common words. Have a look at the words on the list and decide which ones you need to practise most.
You could do this in any way you wish. Why don’t you create a spelling octopus, make your words with play doh if you have some at home or create flashcards for tricky phoneme or common words?
Common Words and Phoneme Words
Reading – Bugclub
Read your Bugclub book or a book of your choice.
Numeracy
Time
Discuss the term o’clock. Where is the big hand when it is an o’clock time? Where is the small hand? You could use the Teaching Clock on Topmarks to help.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock
Explore this through this time game. https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time
Daily 10 – Children can answer 10 addition/subtraction/multiplication questions on their whiteboard or orally to practise number bonds to 10, 20 or 50.
Art and Design – Why don’t you have a go at one of these Under the Sea crafts if you have the things to make them in the house? I would love to see your creations.
Other (Most can be accessed through YouTube)
9am PE with Joe Wicks
10am Music with Myleene Klass
11am Science with Maddie Moate
11.30am Dance with Oti Mabuse
1pm Maths with Carol Vorderman – themathsfactor.com
2pm History with Dan Snow – tv.historyhit.com
3pm English with David Walliams – worldofdavidwalliams.com
24/4/2020
Literacy
Spelling – Elkonin boxes
Read out some ‘ou’ words and ask your child to make and break them, recording their answers in their elkonin boxes.
Spelling – Dictation
Read the sentences from the document below to your child and ask them to write them down. Remind them of the core targets – full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. How many words have they spelt correctly? Revise any phonemes or common words they have had difficulty with. Choose any sentences from week 4, 8 or up to week 12. For the ‘ou’ phoneme the suggested sentence is: The men found a golden ring on the ground.
Active Literacy Stage 2 Dictated Sentences
Numeracy
Visit the following website ABCYa to revise odd and even numbers or times tables.
https://www.abcya.com/games/number_ninja_multiples
https://www.abcya.com/games/number_ninja_odd_even
23/4/2020
Writing – Under the Sea Acrostic
Numeracy
Visit http://www.timestables.com/ and practise your times tables.
OR
Visit topmarks and work on number bonds to 20 or your times tables.
OR
SumDog.
Time – Talk about yesterday, today and tomorrow. Ask children to give some examples of what they did yesterday, what they have done and are going to do today and what they are expecting to do tomorrow. Tease out the fact that yesterday is the day before today and tomorrow is the day after today. Develop this into a discussion about weekdays and weekends. What is different about them, what is the same, in terms of what they do? Ask them questions such as What is the day before Friday? What is the day after Tuesday? What day is between Sunday and Tuesday? Can children order the days of the week? Do they know what days are the weekend and what days are weekdays?
French
With Mrs Campbell the children have been learning French colours and the numbers 1-10 and they have learned French body parts with myself. This resource has some games which children can use to help them with this vocabulary. I have also added the links to some French songs on Youtube.
https://www.french-games.net/frenchgames
22/4/2020
Literacy
Spelling – Each pupil should have a magnetic board with letters given to them last year. If you still have this at home you could use it to practise making your ‘ou’ words and common words.
Spelling Common Words – round, found, wish, men
Phoneme ‘ou’ Words – count, house, round, out, shout, sound, mouse
Use a variety of spelling strategies to help remember the correct spelling of each word.
ALP – ‘ou’ words – how many ‘ou’ words can you list in 1 minute?
Choose 2 words and use them in a sentence.
You could create a spelling fish using your common words or phoneme words, using different coloured pens and pencils.
Reading
Book of your choice, Bug Club book or log onto The World of David Walliams at 11am, where you can listen to one of David Walliams’ World’s Worst Children stories.
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition, subtraction or multiplication questions to practise number bonds. Child can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Visit https://www.timestables.co.uk/ and practise your 2, 5 or 10 times table. You could even explore other times tables.
Massage
If you have PowerPoint you will be able to access the following document.
Topic
Please feel free to complete an Under the Sea activity from the topic grid.
21/4/2020
Reading
Read a book of your choice, Bug Club book or log onto The World of David Walliams at 11am, where you can listen to one of David Walliams’ stories.
Grammar – Verbs
Use the PowerPoint from Twinkl to learn about verbs then complete the verbs worksheet.
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition or subtraction questions to practise number bonds. Children can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or a piece of paper.
Time
Children will be aware of common devices used to measure time, e.g. a clock, but might not be aware of how many different clocks there are in their environment. Ask them to explore where time is shown at home. Use this online interactive clock to display and discuss different times with your child you can look at analogue or digital time. Can you ask your child to display different times, eg: half past 12, 3 o’clock? If half past and o’clock is too simple you could even explore quarter to and quarter past. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock
Art and Design/Literacy
You may have heard on the news over the holidays that Captain Tom Moore walked 100 laps of his garden to raise money for the NHS, so far he has raised over £27 million. You can read the story on Newsround. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52277760 It will be his 100th birthday on the 30th of April and the care home which he lives in have said that he would love to receive birthday cards from boys and girls all over the UK. If you would like to you could make him one and post it to:
Captain Tom Moore
C/O Post Office Limited
67 Bedford Road
Marston Moretaine
MK43 0LA
Bedfordshire, England.
20/4/2020
Hope everyone had a lovely Easter break. There are some activities for you to do below, please do these at your leisure, posting any work you wish to on Teams or children’s individual class blogs.
Every week we will have a Superstar task. Superstars will be posted on the blog every Monday. This weeks Superstar task is related to children’s new topic ‘Under the Sea’. If children could post any of their Under the Sea work on Teams or their individual class blogs I will provide Mrs McKee with a Superstar every Monday.
Reading – Bug Club Book
Spelling – Phoneme Story ‘ou’
Sing the alphabet together then say what sound each letter makes. Phonics Song
Say ‘ou’ and think about what your mouth does. Look at a family member as they make the sound.
Write the phoneme in the air then on the table or carpet in front of you.
Read the phoneme story for ‘ou’ to your child and ask them to touch their nose when they hear the phoneme.
Can they think of any other words which contain the phoneme?
Choose one word and use it in a sentence.
Numeracy
Daily 10 – ask your child 10 addition questions to practise number bonds (this could be to 10, 20 or 100, depending on how much of a challenge children want. Child can answer verbally or write the answers on a whiteboard or piece of paper.
Time – What is meant by the word time? Give your child some examples. Use some words related to time in a sentence for your child. Ask your child if they can suggest any words which describe time. Make a list of these. Introduce any of the words in the vocabulary below that children have not said and give examples of how they would be used in a sentence.
Time Vocabulary – time, yesterday, today, tomorrow, morning, afternoon, evening, midnight, night, day, week, month, year, days of the week, months, seasons, late, early, on time, soon, never, sometimes, always, past, future, weekday, weekend, now, present
Topic
Under the Sea – choose as many or as few as you would like to complete at a time of your choosing. Have Fun!
Other (Most can be accessed through YouTube)
9am PE with Joe Wicks
10am Music with Myleene Klass
11am Science with Maddie Moate
11.30am Dance with Oti Mabuse
1pm Maths with Carol Vorderman – themathsfactor.com
2pm History with Dan Snow – tv.historyhit.com
3pm English with David Walliams – worldofdavidwalliams.com
3/4/2020
Because it is the last day before the Easter holidays, you can choose some activities from the Easter grid below to do either tomorrow or if you’re looking for something to do over the holidays. I have included some of the documents you might need underneath. Enjoy, and I hope you all have a nice break from doing work, spending time with your family. Spring.Easter-Grid.
easter-egg-mindfulness-colouring
2/4/2020
Reading – a book of your choice. Are there any of your phoneme or common words in your book?
Literacy – Elkonin boxes. Use your phoneme words: owl, brown, growl, now, crown, allow, cow and separate the words into their different sounds. eg: g r ow l, h ow l. Either draw the boxes for the children to complete or use this template. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/public/gargpr23c/uploads/sites/9756/2020/03/26201042/Elkonin-boxes.pdf
Dictation – Read the sentences from the document below to your child and ask them to write them down. Remind them of the core targets – full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. How many words have they spelled correctly? Our ow sentence is: We found a brown cow in our garden. Revise any phonemes or common words they have had difficulty with. Choose any sentences from week 4, 8 or up to week 12. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/public/gargpr23c/uploads/sites/9756/2020/03/25153709/Active-Literacy-Stage-2-Dictated-Sentences.pdf
Numeracy – Try this addition colour by number sheet or practise your addition, subtraction or times tables on topmarks, bug club or sumdog. (easter colour by number)
PE – Try Mr Smith’s name PE challenge on the blog. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/gargiestonpsandecc/
Dance – Oti Mabuse (11:30am) https://www.youtube.com/user/mosetsanagape
Science – Maddie Moate (11am) https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=science+with+maddie+moate
Music – Music with Myleene Klass (10am) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ
Maths – Carol Vorderman (1pm) – themathsfactor.com
History – Dan Snow (2pm) – tv.historyhit.com
English – David Walliams (3pm) – worldofdavidwalliams.com
1/4/2020
Reading – a book of your choice or sign onto the World of David Walliams at 11am where you can listen to one of David Walliam’s boos. Also, Audible are offering free audiobooks for as long as schools are shut https://stories.audible.com/start-listen.
Literacy – please complete a spelling flower or rainbow for phoneme words or common words.
Spell me doodle rainbow writing
Phoneme words- owl, brown, growl, now, crown, allow and cow.
Common words- how, where, now and too.
Choose a common word and a phoneme word. Write a sentence for each word.
Numeracy – Number processes worksheet (number processes 2)
Practise number processes on hit the button – addition, subtraction and multiplication.
PE – PE with Joe Wicks (9am)
Dance – Oti Mabuse (11:30am) https://www.youtube.com/user/mosetsanagape
Science – Maddie Moate (11am) https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=science+with+maddie+moate
Music – Music with Myleene Klass (10am) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ
Maths – Carol Vorderman (1pm) – themathsfactor.com
History – Dan Snow (2pm) – tv.historyhit.com
English – David Walliams (3pm) – worldofdavidwalliams.com
31/3/2020
Morning everyone.
Reading – A book of your choice or sign on the World of David Walliams at 11am where you can listen to one of David Walliam’s books.
Writing – Can you try and write an acrostic poem using the word CASTLE either using this template or on paper? (Castle-acrostic)
Numeracy – Can you try this number processes worksheet which is revision of nearer the start of term? (Number)
Number games on SumDog or Topmarks.
Other
PE – PE with Joe Wicks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy1yab7jAcU
Dance – Oti Mabuse (11:30am) https://www.youtube.com/user/mosetsanagape
Science – Maddie Moate (11am) https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=science+with+maddie+moate
Music – Music with Myleene Klass (10am) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ
Maths – Carol Vorderman (1pm) – themathsfactor.com
History – Dan Snow (2pm) – tv.historyhit.com
English – David Walliams (3pm) – worldofdavidwalliams.com
30/3/2020
Morning everyone! Hope you all had a nice weekend.
Reading – Bug Club books have been allocated online.
Spelling – Phoneme Story ‘OW’
Sing along to the Phonics Song on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELlZKpi1Zs&list=PLsvyXpV3qbcRibLb-S65ZQ6jPlSEjczOY
Say ‘ow’ (owl) and think about what your mouth does. Look at a family member as they make the sound. What does their mouth look like?
Write the phoneme in the air then on the table or carpet in front of you. Write the phoneme on someone’s back.
Read the phoneme story for ‘ow’ to your child and ask them to touch their nose when they hear the phoneme. Can they find the words written down?
Can they think of any other words which contain the phoneme?
Choose one word and use it in a sentence.
PE
If you are up for a challenge why don’t you try Joe Wick’s PE on Youtube? Or enjoy the nice day and go a lovely walk with your family.
Numeracy
Log onto SumDog, Bug Club for HAM games or visit this website to practise times tables: https://www.timestables.com/
Topic
Why not have a go at one of the activities on the Knights and Castles grid? https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/public/gargpr23c/uploads/sites/9756/2020/03/24184623/Knights-and-Castles.pdf
27/3/2020
Daily 10 27.3.20
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- 5 x 4 =
- 10 x 7 =
- 5 x 9 =
- 5 x 7 =
- 2 x 8 =
- 10 x 11 =
- 2 x 12 =
- 5 x 12 =
- 10 x 6 =
25/3/2020
Morning everyone! Miss Kinnaird is tired after her workout yesterday so she will be doing hers later on. For PE Joe Wicks workout is available from 9am onwards or you can go onto Youtube for Cosmic Kids Yoga (a lot of the children enjoy this).
For literacy there are four new common words this week: what, many, soon and book. Practise these in any way you wish or I would love to see some sentences.
For numeracy I will attempt to upload a skip counting / multiplication by 5 sheet in the assignments option. It seems that people are having difficulty accessing this so I will also put a screenshot of it up and you can even discuss it with children. On Sum Dog there is a Multiplication Challenge for Children to do.
Skip counting and multiplication of 5
Please find attached a knights and castles learning grid also, choose as many or as few as you would like to complete whenever you wish. I would love to see your learning. Enjoy!
23/2/2020
Hi everyone, just to make you aware that I have set up an online Microsoft teams account through the children’s glow sign on. I will be uploading work for children to complete every day at their own leisure. I know just now is a very confusing and tricky time for everyone so please do not stress out about getting all of this completed. The most important thing right now is that we all try and stay safe.
20/3/2020
Can I just say how much of a pleasure it has been teaching all of your lovely children up until this point. We had a fantastic last day for the foreseeable with sweeties, a movie, making mothers day cards, building, colouring and drawing. I have my fingers crossed that this will all pass quicker than expected and all the children will be back together in P2A soon. Here’s some pictures of what we have been doing the past few weeks.
28/2/2020
Solo talks will take place on Monday and Tuesday the 2nd and 3rd of March. If children can bring everything in on the Monday- USB sticks with powerpoints/posters/books/notes etc. If you need till the Tuesday to get organised then bringing it in on the Tuesday is also fine.
Here is our class jigsaw for term 2.
28/1/2020
Today in numeracy we were looking at position and movement. Creating mazes and discussing the directions the marble had to move in, programming the b-bots, coding our way through mazes, giving our blindfolded friends directions and creating maps and writing instructions to go with it.
28/1/2020
Today we learned about Charles Rennie Mackintosh and began creating beautiful watercolour inspired pieces.
22/1/2020
A lot of the children seem to be bringing in tic tacs for their snack the last couple of weeks. Can I please ask that they do not bring these in as they seem to not be finishing them during break and are eating them in class. Thank you.
20/1/2020
Today we were working hard learning our new sound ‘ea’ and looking at our common words.
14/1/2020
Over the last couple of days we have been working so hard creating our beautiful pointillism highland cows. Don’t you think they look fantastic?
14/1/2020
This week we have been focusing more on subtraction and using different strategies to help us solve calculations.
13/1/2020
What a hectic first week back! It was so good to see all the children back after what sounds to be a lovely Christmas holiday for all. Happy New Year to everyone. Just to inform everyone that as of next week our library time will now be Tuesday before break as COGS groups will now be starting back as of next week so we have had to change our allocated time slot.
19/12/2019
Children can bring a game from home for tomorrow if they wish. Please avoid games with lots of small parts that could go missing and more expensive games as I would hate for them to be damaged. Thank you.
19/12/2019
We had lots of fun baking festive Christmas biscuits this week. We were so good at following the instructions and designed some fantastic creations.
26/11/2019
Today we were showing our understanding of the ‘oa’ sound that we have been learning about this week. We were creating oa words, writing sentences with oa words, finding it in a passage and in books, reading oa words and using our Active Literacy strategy with our learning partner to practise our oa words.
25/11/2019
Children have received two tickets for their nativity performance on Monday 9th, these should be in their bag. Also in their yellow book there is a label to tell you what part your child has and what they should wear on the night if this is possible, thank you.
22/11/2019
Every Friday we are enjoying partnering up with our reading buddy to improve our reading skills. Our reading buddies can’t believe how good we are getting at reading.
5/11/2019
Today in numeracy we were looking at measuring using non standard and standard units.
31/10/2019
Some of our super sentences from last week!
31/10/2019
In numeracy we have been looking at estimation and rounding.
31/10/2019
Happy Official Halloween from P2B. Here is a picture of us looking spooky on Kilmarnock Halloween. We had lots of fun through in Base 2 on Friday with Halloween music, bobbing for apples, pinning the smile on the skeleton, playing and creating Halloween crafts.
22/10/2019
I hope everyone has had a lovely October holiday, it was lovely finding out from the children today what they have been busy getting up to. Children should have a label in their yellow book regarding Halloween on Friday. Children can bring a Halloween costume to change into at lunch if they would like to dress up, children should not come to school in their costume. If children could bring in a small snack and an apple on Friday then that would be great as we are going to be having a base Halloween party in the afternoon.
9/10/2019
We have been working really hard over the past few weeks on our sentences. Here is some of our sentence work on whiteboards.
9/10/2019
In numeracy today we were looking at skip counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. The children all worked extremely hard on their jobs.
4/10/2019
Children should have received their parents evening appointment today. This is stapled into their yellow books.
1/10/2019
We were busy during numeracy time continuing on with our odd and even number jobs.
We continued to work on our ‘wh’ sound through our literacy activities.
30/9/2019
Today we learned our new sound ‘wh’. We did a super job of breaking our words up into the individual phonemes in elkonin boxes and then created sentences using our ‘wh’ words
Today we enjoyed the nice weather outside and were very busy showing our odd and even number work.
25/9/2019
This afternoon for STEM we built a dinosaur out of marshmallows and straws/cocktail sticks. It was a very messy and tricky job but we tried our best and managed to create some super dinosaurs. Some of them were even able to stay standing when we let go of them and we got to enjoy some marshmallows afterwards.
25/9/2019
We have been very busy in P2A during numeracy time today. We have been looking at odd and even numbers and ordering and matching the number names zero to twenty.
11/09/2019
It was lovely to meet you all today. I had planned to discuss a few things before giving you all the opportunity to explore the classroom and activities with your child. Please see below.
Dinosaurs – We are enjoying learning all about dinosaurs and have began setting up a dinosaur role play area. If children have anything dinosaur related that they wish to bring in then children can do this but I would advise them to be labelled so that they can be returned safely.
Homework – Children should have an active spelling literacy grid in a polypocket with a spelling strategies card, their words of the week, a wordsearch and a graffiti wall worksheet. They will get their new words every Monday and also a numeracy activity which will be linked to what we are doing in class, Bug Club books will be allocated online. Children should keep all the word lists in this polypocket and could continually revisit these at home (if you wish to get a folder which closes so things are safer then feel free to do so). Children should hand in any homework they have done on a Friday (If it suits better to return it the week later on Monday then feel free to do so). If you have lost any of these things then please put a note in your child’s yellow book and I will be sure to get these sent home. I will be printing out additional copies of the graffiti wall and wordsearch worksheet as I am aware lots of children have already completed these. If children are doing any rainbow, squiggly, pyramid or bubble writing etc at home I would love to see this too.
Gym – Gym days are on a Tuesday and Friday, you can see what we will be covering in our term 1 jigsaw. Children should have a gym bag in class with shorts and gym shoes.
Library – Library is on a Wednesday if children could please bring books along to change.
Yellow Book – If there are any issues or concerns please do not hesitate to write in your child’s yellow book and I will get back to you.
It was lovely to meet you all, thank you for coming to visit our classroom.
Term 1 Jigsaw
This is our class jigsaw to show you a brief overview of the things we hope to cover until Christmas.
10th September
Today we took our learning outside. We have been focusing on information handling over the last two weeks and today we were able to sort ourselves into a Venn diagram, depending on different criteria. Whilst we were out we also managed to measure the length of a Tyrannosaurus-Rex. We measured out 12 metres and then we lay down to see how many of us together measured the same length as the T-Rex, 10 of us! I think we were feeling glad of a lie down after a busy few weeks in P2A.
Classroom Charter
We have been working on creating our classroom charter which we chose to be superhero themed. We came up with three classroom rules that we must all follow: we will listen to each other, we will respect our classroom and we will be kind to everybody. We also looked at the UNICEF Rights of the Child and decided as a class that Article 28, Article 12 and Article 31 were very important rights that we felt had to be displayed on our charter.
