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 The SSPCA and BBC Bitesize have produced resources for Pre-school and Primary children……click on the following link and it will take you to their website.

https://www.scottishspca.org/education-resources

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

 Sensory Tray

  • Fill a shallow tray with salt or dry rice. Encourage your child to make marks with their fingers.
  • Top Tips: Explore, letters numbers and simple shapes as you play.

Squishy Bag

  • ¾ fill a large zip lock bag with paint/ custard or something of similar texture. Lock the bag and tape it onto a flat surface, explore pushing the contents around with fingers to make marks.

Shaving Foam Fun

  • Spread some foam onto a flat surface and encourage your child to use their fingers to make marks.

Fasten Fun

  • Collect a variety of clothing items with various fastenings. Poppers, zips, toggles and buttons. Encourage and support your child as they have a go.

Drawing

  • Encourage your child to draw a picture, using a variety of writing tools. Pencils, crayons and chalk.

Snipping

  • If you have child safe scissors at home, give your child old magazines or catalogues to practise snipping and cutting techniques.

Ball Skills

  • Play catch with a large ball. Practise throwing, catching, rolling and bouncing. Challenge: Try using a smaller ball such as a tennis ball

Share a Story

  • Encourage your child to choose a story. Start with reading the Title and the Blurb on the back page (it will give your child clues about the story). Talk about the main characters and events afterwards. Talk about what might happen next?

Rhyme Time

  • Read a rhyming story or say a nursery rhyme. Point out any rhyming words that you hear.
  • Encourage your child to say a word that rhymes with a given word.
  • Say some nursery rhymes together, encouraging your child to say the missing words.

Kiddle

  • Kiddle is the child friendly version of Google. Use this search engine to find out something about: Your favourite animal, Recycling, The weather and your own choice

Treasure Hunt

  • Write down 5-10 very simple instructions for your child to follow. Place them in a box and let your child choose one note or (clue) at a time. Read each note out loud.   Eg. “Get a teddy”, “put a doll on the bed”, “put a shoe under the chair”.

Shape Spotting

  • Collect and spot as many shapes as possible around the house or local area, take photographs of each shape. Challenge: If you are able to print your photos, encourage your child to group and sort all the shapes that are the same. Stick the pictures onto paper.

Shape Prints

  • Collect various house hold containers such as yoghurt pots, bottle lids etc. (recycling packaging works well). Provide paint and encourage your child to dip items in paint and print shapes onto paper. Talk about the shapes they are creating.

Number Songs

  • Encourage finger counting as you sing number songs. Encourage your child to show you numbers with their fingers.

Setting The Table

  • Give your child an opportunity to help set the dinner or breakfast table. Reinforce how many!
  • How many people? How many plates? How many forks? How many cups? Challenge: introduce new language- more, less, full and empty.

Rainbow Milk

  • Place skittle (sweets) around a small plate to form a complete circle. Pour milk into the centre and watch your rainbow appear.

Baking

  • Choose a simple biscuit or cake recipe.
  • Encourage your child to count and measure ingredients with you. Talk about how the mixture changes. How does it look now? How does it smell now? How does it feel now? How does it taste now?

Frozen!

  • Fill up small containers with water. Place small objects into the water such as flowers, figures, marbles etc. Ask your child to help you pop them in the freezer. Once frozen solid your child can explore the ice. Is there anything they can do to melt the ice faster??

Play Shop

  • Set up a shop using real food items such as tins, boxes and packets, real potatoes, carrots and onions. Children will be able to feel the weight differences and explore fruit and veg using their senses.

 

SIMPLE PLAY DOUGH

  • 1 cup cold water
  • 1 cup salt
  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
  • Add paint or food colouring
  • Mix the water, salt, oil and paint together
  • Gradually work in the flour until you get the consistency of bread dough.

BABY OIL PLAYDOUGH RECIPE

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup salt
  • 4 teaspoons cream of tartar
  • 2 cups water plus food colouring
  • 2 tablespoons baby oil (other oil can work, too)
  • Place over low heat and stir often until playdough is consistency of mashed potatoes. Knead when cool

MASHED POTATO PLAYDOUGH

  • 5 potatoes or packet of smash
  • 3 cups flour
  • Bake potatoes in their skins until they are ‘eating consistency’ soft. Peel and then mash the potatoes. Combine three cups flour to every four cups of mashed potato and roll until you form a good dough.

SILK DOUGH

  • 2 cups of hair conditioner
  • 1 cup corn flour
  • Mix ingredients together to form a silky dough that will smell fabulous.

Useful web links

 

P1 Resources / Ideas

Numeracy Activities

  • Work with numbers within 100
  • Order, identify and write numbers
  • What number comes before and after?
  • Number bonds to 10
  • Add 2/3 dice together
  • Shuffle number cards within 10 and add/subtract to find the answer
  • Give your child simple mental addition and subtraction sums e.g. 4+2, 7-3

Time

  • Continue to refer to the time at o’clock and half past times
  • Continue to refer to the days of the week, months of the year and the date

Your child may enjoy episodes of Numberjacks on Youtube.

Numeracy Websites

Literacy Activities

Continue to revise all of the sounds, phonemes and common words taught so far. Can they spot these in any of their story books?

Daily diary – Ask your child to write a sentence and draw a picture about each day. Encourage them to sound out their words and spell their common words. Please remind them to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. To challenge your child they could write 2/3 sentences.

Write out the letters of the alphabet. Identify the letters your child needs more practise with

Talk to your child each day about books they have read

Your child may enjoy episodes of Alphablocks on YouTube.

Literacy websites:

 

 

P2 Resources / Ideas

Numeracy Activities

  • Count to 30 in 2s.
  • Count to 50 in 5’s
  • Count to 100 in 10’s
  • Practise building and drawing arrays, e.g 5 rows of 2 (5×2)
  • Draw a clock can you make different times on the clock – (o’clock, half past)
  • Play ‘Hit the Button’ (www.topmarks.co.uk) and practise your addition and subtraction.
  • Money up to 50p. Set up a shop and practise counting your money to pay for items – get an adult to check you are doing this correctly.
  • Browse other games on the Topmarks website and try out a few different games to revise things we have learned in class.
  • Your child may enjoy episodes of Numberjacks on Youtube.

Numeracy Websites

Literacy Activities

  • Continue to revise all of the sounds, phonemes and common words taught so far. Can they spot these in any of their story books?
  • Daily diary – Ask your child to write a sentence and draw a picture about each day. Encourage them to sound out their words and spell their common words. Please remind them to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. To challenge your child they could write 2/3 sentences.
  • Write out the letters of the alphabet. Identify the letters your child needs more practise with.
  • Talk to your child each day about books they have read.
  • Your child may enjoy episodes of Alphablocks on Youtube.
  • Read or listen to: a novel/comic/poem/picture book
  • Explore World Book Day website: https://www.worldbookday.com/
  • Explore BBC Author’s Live website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rhvg9r/by/date/2020/03
  • Explore Puffin website: https://www.worldbookday.com/wbdtv/
  • Remember to discuss your reading with a friend or family member and talk about anything you particularly enjoyed! Remember your reading skills: PREDICT, CLARIFY, SUMMARISE AND QUESTION

Literacy Websites

 

 

P3 Resources / Ideas

Numeracy Activities

  • Practise times tables and division facts (focus on your own individual targets)
  • Practise counting in sequences forwards and backwards (2s, 3s, 5s, 10s and 100s)
  • Practise doubling and halving numbers from 1-100
  • Show someone in your house different strategies to work out calculations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).
  • Explore your cupboards and look for items that have ml/l and g/kg written on the labels
  • Find out about different currencies
  • Find out about different number systems from the past (e.g. The Romans, Vikings or Egyptians)
  • Look around the house for 2D and 3D shapes
  • Explore the angles around your house (which are bigger or smaller than a right angle)
  • Challenge yourself to partition the biggest number you can think of
  • Look around your house for items/food that is split into fractions or that you could split into (1/2, 1/4, 1/3, 1/5 and 1/10)
  • Practise building and drawing arrays, e.g 5 rows of 2 (5×2)
  • Draw a clock can you make different times on the clock – (o’clock, half past)
  • Play ‘Hit the Button’ (www.topmarks.co.uk) and practise your addition and subtraction.
  • Money up to 50p. Set up a shop and practise counting your money to pay for items – get an adult to check you are doing this correctly.

Numeracy Websites

Literacy Activities

  • Continue to revise all of the sounds, phonemes and common words taught so far. Can they spot these in any of their story books?
  • Find your phonemes in a reading book.
  • Have a race against a family member to see who can write the most common words in 1 minute.
  • Type your spelling words up on the computer.
  • Make a poster of all your phonemes with pictures to match.
  • Think of a mnemonic for your spelling words.
  • Revise all sounds and common words from previous homework tasks.
  • Dictation – dictate a simple sentence for your child and ask them to write it down. Try to include a common word or a phoneme from the list. Remember capital letters and punctuation! E.g. She stays very far away!
  • Create a story board using: https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator
  • Watch videos on Literacy Shed and write a story about what you have watched: https://www.literacyshed.com/the-ks1-shed.html
  • Daily diary – Ask your child to write a sentence and draw a picture about each day. Encourage them to sound out their words and spell their common words. Please remind them to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. To challenge your child they could write 5-10 sentences.
  • Explore World Book Day website: https://www.worldbookday.com/
  • Explore BBC Author’s Live website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rhvg9r/by/date/2020/03
  • Explore Puffin website: https://www.worldbookday.com/wbdtv/
  • Remember to discuss your reading with a friend or family member and talk about anything you particularly enjoyed! Remember your reading skills: PREDICT, CLARIFY, SUMMARISE AND QUESTION

Literacy Websites

 

 

P4 Resources / Ideas

Numeracy Activities

  • Practise the 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 times tables. Be a visible learner and decide which one you need to improve! Remember there are lots of songs on Youtube to help you learn them
  • Write a 2/3/4 digit number – What number comes before/after it? How many units, tens, hundreds etc. does it have? Do this for at least 5 different numbers.
  • Become a shape detective and search your house for 3D shapes.

Numeracy Websites

Literacy Activities

  • Continue to revise all of the spelling and common words taught so far. Can you make a quiz for your friends using your words/
  • Summarise key points you have learned from a recent: book/novel/comic/TV programme
  • Have a race against a family member to see who can write the most common words in 1 minute.
  • Type your spelling words up on the computer.
  • Make a poster of all your spelling with pictures to match.
  • Think of a mnemonic for your spelling words.
  • Revise all sounds and common words from previous homework tasks.
  • Dictation – dictate a simple sentence for your child and ask them to write it down. Try to include a common word or a phoneme from the list. Remember capital letters and punctuation!
  • Create a story board using: https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator
  • Watch videos on Literacy Shed and write a story about what you have watched: https://www.literacyshed.com/the-ks1-shed.html
  • Daily diary – Ask your child to write a sentence and draw a picture about each day. Encourage them to sound out their words and spell their common words. Please remind them to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. To challenge your child they could write 5-10 sentences.
  • Explore World Book Day website: https://www.worldbookday.com/
  • Explore BBC Author’s Live website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rhvg9r/by/date/2020/03
  • Explore Puffin website: https://www.worldbookday.com/wbdtv/
  • Remember to discuss your reading with a friend or family member and talk about anything you particularly enjoyed! Remember your reading skills: PREDICT, CLARIFY, SUMMARISE AND QUESTION

Literacy Websites

 

P5 Resources / Ideas

Numeracy Activities

  • Practise the 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables
  • Write out the common multiples of the 3 and 4 times tables
  • Write out the common multiples of the 6 and 8 times tables
  • Write down the factors of 12, 18, 20 and 32
  • Find fractions of as many whole numbers as you can using the times tables facts e.g. ¼ of 16 = 4, ½ of 40 = 20
  • Can you think of any situations you may be in, where understanding what percentages are would help you?
  • Write out as many percentages as you can as a fraction e.g. 50% = ½
  • How many £1 are there in £20? How many 50p are there in £10? How many 20p are there in £2? How many 10p are there in £5?
  • Think of your favourite meal. Can you work out how much it costs to buy all of the ingredients required for that meal? (Use tesco.com or an adult for help finding the cost of each item)
  • Count up (and down) in 10s and then 20s to 200
  • Mentally add the doubles of all the numbers from 1 to 100 e.g. 46 + 46 or 28 +28
  • Mentally calculate what needs to be added to a 3 digit number to make the next multiple of 100 e.g. 245 + ? = 300 or 762 + ? = 800
  • Practise mentally adding any pair of 2 digit numbers e.g. 16 + 33 or 57 + 81
  • Practise telling the time using a digital and an analogue clock – don’t just stick to quarter past/to or half past/o’clock times!

Numeracy Websites

Literacy Activities

  • Read a chapter in a book you have at home. Can you identify any words, which contain a prefix? How many did you find? Repeat the activity above for suffixes
  • Use a recipe at home and pick out all of the ‘bossy’ verbs that you can find
  • Re-write a passage (1 or 2 paragraphs) from a book you have at home. Swap a few of the words within the passage for ‘silly’ alternatives. Challenge an adult at home to find the silly words and suggest what should really be there
  • Can you create 10 HOTS (high order thinking skills) questions that you could ask a classmate to answer about a book you have at home
  • Write 5 boring sentences. Now up level them and make sure they each contain an example of VCOP
  • Create an acrostic poem about the Corona Virus. Make sure you include information about your thoughts and feelings in the poem.
  • Think of your favourite board game. Write a set of instructions that you could give to someone else your age, who has never played that game before. Don’t forget to include a list of equipment too!
  • Write a letter to your teacher telling him/her about what you have been doing while you have been away from school. Make sure you lay the letter out in the correct style
  • Watch the lunchtime news. Now write a few paragraphs, summarising all the main stories. Create an eye-catching headline for each main story too.
  • Ask an adult to dictate some sentences to you which contain some of your words
  • Play ‘be the teacher’ and challenge an adult to spell some of your words – be sure to choose the trickiest ones!
  • Use the following active spelling strategies to practise your words: hang-man, tennis, rainbow writing, pyramids, cut and stick letters, use your weak hand
  • Create a story board using: https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator
  • Watch videos on Literacy Shed and write a story about what you have watched: https://www.literacyshed.com/the-ks1-shed.html
  • Explore World Book Day website: https://www.worldbookday.com/
  • Explore BBC Author’s Live website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rhvg9r/by/date/2020/03
  • Explore Puffin website: https://www.worldbookday.com/wbdtv/

Literacy Websites

 

P6 Resources / Ideas

Numeracy Activities

  • Practise the 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables
  • Write out the common multiples of the 6 and 8 times tables
  • Write down the factors of 12, 18, 20 and 32
  • Find fractions of as many whole numbers as you can using the times tables facts e.g. ¼ of 160 = 40, ½ of 340 = 170
  • Can you think of any situations you may be in, where understanding what percentages are would help you?
  • Write out as many percentages as you can as a fraction and a decimal e.g. 50% = ½ = 0.5
  • How many £10s are there in £250? How many 50p are there in £16? How many 20p are there in £24? How many 10p are there in £5.60?
  • Think of your favourite meal. Can you work out how much it costs to buy all of the ingredients required for that meal? (Use tesco.com or an adult for help finding the cost of each item)
  • Count up (and down) in 10s and then 20s to 200
  • Mentally calculate the doubles and halves of decimals eg 2.6 + 2.6 = 5.2     eg   9.0 halved is 4.5
  • Mentally calculate what needs to be added to a 3 digit number to make the next multiple of 100 e.g. 245 + ? = 300 or 762 + ? = 800
  • Practise mentally adding any pair of 2 digit numbers e.g. 16 + 33 or 57 + 81

Numeracy Websites

Literacy Activities

  • Read a chapter in a book you have at home. Can you identify 5 words and look up their meaning in the dictionary.
  • Use a recipe at home and pick out all of the adjectives that you can find.
  • Re-write a passage (1 or 2 paragraphs) from a book you have at home. Swap a few of the words within the passage for ‘silly’ alternatives. Challenge an adult at home to find the silly words and suggest what should really be there
  • Can you create 10 HOTS (high order thinking skills) questions that you could ask a classmate to answer about a book you have at home
  • Write 5 boring sentences. Now up level them and make sure they each contain an example of VCOP
  • Create an acrostic poem about the Corona Virus. Make sure you include information about your thoughts and feelings in the poem.
  • Think of your favourite board game. Write a set of instructions that you could give to someone else your age, who has never played that game before. Don’t forget to include a list of equipment too!
  • Write a letter to your teacher telling him/her about what you have been doing while you have been away from school. Make sure you lay the letter out in the correct style
  • Watch the lunchtime news. Now write a few paragraphs, summarising all the main stories. Create an eye-catching headline for each main story too.
  • Ask an adult to dictate some sentences to you which contain some of your words
  • Play ‘be the teacher’ and challenge an adult to spell some of your words – be sure to choose the trickiest ones!
  • Use the following active spelling strategies to practise your words: hang-man, tennis, rainbow writing, pyramids, cut and stick letters, use your weak hand
  • Create a story board using: https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator
  • Watch videos on Literacy Shed and write a story about what you have watched: https://www.literacyshed.com/the-ks1-shed.html
  • Explore World Book Day website: https://www.worldbookday.com/
  • Explore BBC Author’s Live website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rhvg9r/by/date/2020/03
  • Explore Puffin website: https://www.worldbookday.com/wbdtv/

Literacy Websites

 

 

P7 Resources / Ideas

Numeracy Activities

  • Practise the 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables
  • Write out prime numbers to 100.
  • Pick 5 numbers and write down the factors for each.
  • Draw out a fractions table to show different fractions of a whole.
  • Write a weekly shopping list and use online resources to calculate the cost of your shopping. Can you find the cheapest prices?
  • Write out as many percentages as you can as a fraction and a decimal e.g. 50% = ½ = 0.5
  • Think of your favourite meal. Can you work out how much it costs to buy all of the ingredients required for that meal? (Use tesco.com or an adult for help finding the cost of each item).
  • Count up (and down) in 5’s, 10s, 3’s, 4,’s etc. and then 20s to 200.
  • Continue to work on your speed and accuracy for mental adding and subtracting – ask someone to call out numbers and time how quickly you can answer 10 in a row.

Numeracy Websites

Literacy Activities

Complete the following tasks using your reading for pleasure book.

Note: these can be repeated using different books.

  • Create a new character for your book, include a character description – what they look like, their personality etc.
  • Write a summary of your book in your own words.
  • Clarify at least 10 tricky words from your book. Note down their definitions.
  • Write a book review for you book – how would you sell this to others?
  • Create a new front cover and blurb for your book.
  • Write a new exciting ending. Remember to write in the same style as the author, include up-levelled VCOP and make sure it makes sense!
  • Answer the following questions in detail.
  • What would be a better title for this story? Why did you pick it?
  • How would the story change if you took out a key event in the story?
  • What character would you like to be friends with? Give detailed reasons.
  • Explain clearly how you are similar or different from the main character?
  • What questions would you like to ask the author?

Literacy Websites

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