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Hello P2/1!

I hope you are all well!

Thank you to everyone for logging into GLOW and joining the learning in our google classroom.

If you are having problems logging onto GLOW, please look for your password and username in your home learning pack which was given out at school.  If you didn’t receive one of these, please contact the school using our email address and we can help you.

SchoolMail@crossarthurlie.e-renfrew.sch.uk

Our class code for the google classroom can be emailed to you.

I will now post all online learning activities on the Google Classroom as most of you seem to be using this.

Please get in touch with the school office if you are having any problems and we can help you.

Thank you,

Mrs Brown

Good morning everyone.
Today is our last day of on-line learning this week.
Here are some tasks for you to try.

Literacy

Task 1
Key Comprehension Unit 11

Task 2
Log on to Education City
Literacy > Early *** > Daily Dunk – Spell days of the week

EducationCity

How did you get on? Are you confident spelling the days of the week? Is there one that you keep finding tricky? Which one?

Task 3
Reading – choose a favourite book, snuggle up with someone in your house and enjoy reading together

Numeracy

Task 1
Complete Mental Maths for Wednesday and Thursday

Task 2
Number Hunt – go on a number hunt around your house. What numbers did you find? I’m going to do this too, I’ll aim to find 10 different numbers and will post an up date later once I’ve completed it.

Task 3
HEXAGONS – Subtraction facts for 18, 19 and 20

SQUARES – Pupil Sheet 43 in Homework pack – subtraction facts for 8, 9 and 10

Good Morning boys and girls. Hope you’re all continuing to enjoy some exercise. Today my girls have talked me into trying the new Cosmic Yoga Trolls Adventure – Josh had recommended it last week and I did tell them about it! So I will need to look out my pink Poppy wig and yoga mat to join in. What exercise are you going to include in your day?

Remember to fit in what you can and I will be on throughout the day to help you.

Literacy

Task 1
Log on to Education City
Literacy > Early*** >Roots to Fortune – adding -s and -es to nouns

EducationCity

Task 2
Plural Assignment

Task 3
Look, cover, write and check the days of the week in your spelling jotter – yesterday you wrote them once. If you have already written them 3 times then you could do a spelling activity, like Hangman or chalk your days of the week on the ground outside. 🌞

Numeracy

Task 1
Complete Tuesdays mental maths – see Monday’s post for all columns

Task 2
Top Marks website – Daily 10 Game
Choose Level 1> Choose Addition >

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

HEXAGONS >Choose Number bonds to make 20
SQUARES > Choose Number bonds to make 10

Task 3
HEXAGONS
Mind map the story of 20 in your jotter – use different colours for each calculation
You could use 20 coins, 20 stones, 20 Lego bricks, 20 pencils or 20 of something else you have to help make these calculations. To show you how to get started I’ve made a short video clip. Please find it in our Numeracy tab in class work on Google Classroom.

SQUARES
Mind map the story of 10 in your jotter – use different colours for each calculation
You could use 10 coins, 10 stones, 10 Lego bricks, 10 pencils or 10 of something else you have to help make these calculations

Happy Monday morning everyone.
I hope you have all had a lovely weekend. I baked a carrot cake with my girls, it was a very messy activity but we had lots of fun weighing out the ingredient and it was absolutely delicious!

This week we have only 3 school days as Thursday is an in-service day for the teachers and Friday is a holiday. So we are not going to do our usual spelling tasks, I am going to challenge you to learn to spell the days of the week. I have put tasks in our Literacy plan to help you achieve this. You can do it!

I will be on Google Classroom throughout the day to help you, if needed, and remember just do what you can, you don’t need to complete all of the tasks.

Literacy

Task 1
Spelling – copy the days of the week into your jotter, remember to use a capital letter at the start of each day.

Task 2
Log on to Education City
> Literacy > Early *** > Nothing But Net – Days (ordering letters)

EducationCity

Numeracy

Task 1
Complete Monday’s Mental Maths

HEXAGONS

SQUARES

Task 2
HEXAGONS -Addition facts for 18 and 19 – copy the calculations and complete them in your Numeracy jotter.

SQUARES – Home Activity 4 in Home Learning pack – Addition facts 9 and 10

Task 3
Log onto Education City
Numeracy > Early > Early *** > How we Roll – add and subtract

EducationCity

Good morning everyone. Today is the last day in April, what month will it be tomorrow and how many days are in that month?

Here are some tasks for today. Remember you don’t need to complete everything, just do what you can and what fits in around your day.

Literacy

Task 1
Writing – Hello to Spring! – draw a picture which shows your vision of this poem

Task 2
Active spelling – use the spelling grid provided in Home Learning Pack to choose a spelling activity – complete with all 10 words

Task 3
Oxford Owl Reading Resource – in the Classwork tab under Literacy please click on ‘Oxford Owl Reading Resource’ for instructions. Remember it is important for you to be able to read aloud yourself.

If you can’t get onto Google Classroom please contact the school office using the email:

SchoolMail@crossarthurlie.e-renfrew.sch.uk

Task 4
Handwriting Booklet – choose a page in your handwriting homework booklet to complete – Remember all capital letters need to touch the line above and sit on the line

Numeracy

Task 1
Complete Thursdays mental maths

HEXAGONS

SQUARES

WHOLE CLASS TASKS

Task 2 – We are learning about data handling.
Can you collect information from members of your family about their eye colour or hair colour? You might need to phone or send a message to some family members to check what colour they have!
Use tally marks to collect this information – use the sheet below to gather your tally marks, an adult might need to help draw it into your jotter.

Task 3 – Use your tally marks to create a bar chart to show your findings. Use a different colour for each bar and remember to use one box for one tally mark.

Can you answer the questions about your graph and write your answers down?

Good morning! What are you going to order for lunch today? I really am missing our wee check in every morning while you order lunch.

Remember I’ll be on Google Classroom throughout the day to see how you are all getting on and answering any questions you have.

Literacy

Task 1
Key Comprehension – Unit 19

Task 2
Active spelling – use the spelling grid provided in Home Learning Pack to choose a spelling activity – complete your chosen activity with all 10 words, this can be done in orange jotter – see yesterdays blog for words.

Numeracy

Task 1 – Complete Wednesdays Mental Maths

HEXAGONS

SQUARES

WHOLE CLASS

Task 2 – We are learning to use tally marks.

Log onto Education City
> Numeracy > First > First * > Hit a puck

Task 3 – Collecting Information – Spring tally mark sheet –

We are learning to use tally marks to count and collect data.
Draw the table at the bottom of the page into your Numeracy jotter.
Count the objects, place a tally mark in the table for each item and then total your tally marks.
Remember we group tally marks in fives so that its easier to count the total. Put the first four tally marks standing up tall (IIII) and the fifth one goes diagonally across the first four (\)
Which object was most popular?
Which object was least popular?
What is the difference between the most and least popular?

Hi everyone, hope you all had a good sleep. Can anyone tell me what today’s date is please?
Here are some tasks to try today and remember to include some form of daily exercise too.

Literacy

Task 1
Write out second 5 words three time into red or orange spelling jotter

Task 2
Write two sentences in your spelling jotter using spelling words in each sentence

Task 3
Today we are learning about adverbs. Adverbs are words which describe verbs.
Remember a verb is an action or doing word.
Write answers in your Literacy jotter.

Numeracy

Task 1
Mental Maths – complete Tuesday’s column

HEXAGONS

SQUARES

HEXAGONS
Task 2 – Education City
Numeracy > Early > Early *** > Prince Charming missing number problems to 20

https://go.educationcity.com/

Task 3
Copy and complete in Numeracy jotter from below, subtraction and missing number calculations from 16 and 17.

SQUARES
Task 2 – Education City
Numeracy > Early > Early*** > Sleepy Sheep Add up to 10

https://go.educationcity.com/

Task 3
Copy and complete in Numeracy jotter from below, subtraction and missing number calculations from 7 and 8.

EXTRA NUMERACY GAMES for everyone – Education City
Early > Early** > Mummy Sheep > check +/ – number sentences,
Early > Early** > How we Roll add and subtract
First > First* > Snakes and Adders, add multiples of 10

Good morning everyone, hope you all had a lovely weekend. I am looking forward to reading your weekend news.
Here are some tasks to try today.

Our sound this week is ‘oy’ this makes the same sound as our words from last week like ‘coin’ and ‘foil’ but has a different spelling. Instead of ‘o i’ , our words this week contain ‘o y’ like toy.

Literacy
Task 1
Write out your first 5 words three times into usual red or new orange jotter

Task 2
Complete Spelling Sheet 28 in Spelling booklet

Task 3
News Writing
In your literacy jotter I would like you to write about your weekend. What did you do on each day? What did you do for your daily exercise? How are you feeling?
Try to:
write at least 3 sentences – using capital letters and full stops correctly
include your feelings
draw an illustration

Numeracy

Task 1
Complete Mondays mental maths column

HEXAGONS – write the odd numbers in your Numeracy jotter

SQUARES – write the odd numbers in your Numeracy jotter

HEXAGONS
Task 2 – Log onto  Education City >
>Numeracy > Early > Early *** > Water Raider Number facts for 15, 16, 17…

EducationCity

Task 3 – Addition facts for 16 and 17 – copy and complete in Numeracy Jotter

SQUARES
Task 2 – Log on to Education City >
Numeracy > Early > Early *** > Water Raiders Number Facts for 6, 7, 8 and 9.

EducationCity

Task 3 – Addition Facts for 7 and 8, Home Activity 3 – in Home Learning Pack

Life in the Past

Please find today’s task for our Life in the Past topic in the classwork section on Google Classroom to learn about schools in the past.

Good Morning everyone. I hope you’ve been enjoying some of our learning tasks this week. How did you get on with Oxford Owl website? Please leave a comment on the link under Google Classroom Classwork tab.

Here are some tasks for today:

Literacy

Task 1
Writing – Message in a Bottle

Task 2
Active spelling – use the spelling grid provided in Home Learning Pack to choose a spelling activity

Task 3
Reading – Oxford Owl Reading Resource – in ‘Classwork’ tab under Literacy. Choose a book to read aloud to an adult and discuss.  If you can’t access Google Classroom please choose your own book to read aloud to an adult.

Numeracy
Task 1 – Complete Thursdays Mental Maths

HEXAGONS

SQUARES

Task 2
Copy and paste the Top Marks Shape Patterns link below into a new browser window. Work through the levels to investigate shape patterns.

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

Task 3 – Shape Hunt – We are learning to identify 3D shapes.
First of all have a look at the 3D shape word mat below to remind yourself of their names.

Now copy the table below into your maths jotter.

Now it is time to go on a shape hunt around your house or garden. You could colour the 3D shapes on your table as you find them.

Good Luck!