Home Learning P1/2/3 – Red Group

Phonemes to revise

  • ow – snow, grow, blow
  • aw – saw, law, awful
  • oi – soil, boil, foil
  • au – sauce, pause, because
  • ew – flew, grew, drew
  • th – think, thorn, thick
  • ow – owl, brown, growl, now
  • ou – round, round, mouse, house

Spelling words to revise

  • yellow, grow, again, food
  • very, took, fast, there
  • their, some, them, last
  • blue, best, number, other
  • because, week, keep, when
  • what, many, book, soon
  • this, that, then
  • how, where, now, too
  • round, found, wish, men

Some ideas for Spelling and Phonics revision

  • Rainbow letters – write your words using a range of different colours
  • UPPER and lower spelling – write each word in upper case and then lower case
  • Pyramid spelling – write your words in a pyramid, starting with one letter at the top, two letters underneath, then three, and so on…!
  • Backwards spelling words – write your words backwards!
  • Write a sentence or a silly story using as many of the words as you can.
  • Phoneme hunt – look for as many examples of your phoneme as you can in a book or magazine.
  • Type them spelling – type your words. Change the font and colour for each word

 

Reading, Writing, Listening and Talking activities you can do

  • Read for enjoyment daily – nothing improves your reading like reading regularly
  • Keep a list of the books you read and review some of them – you could record video reviews or review in a written format of your choosing. You could even take photographs of every book you read and count them all at the end of each week!
  • Create an information poster about your favourite book character. Remember to include a character picture, text and colour!
  • Ask someone to give you a letter of the alphabet. You have two minutes to think of an animal, place and food/drink beginning with that letter!
  • Practise handwriting – use doorway online for handwriting formation
  • Practise your typing skills – use BBC Dance Mat Typing
  • Write a story or diary entry about a day at home!

 

Maths Challenges

  • Practice your times tables! You should focus on the 2x, 5x and 10x – but why not challenge yourself to learn different tables?!Times Tables
  • Ask someone for a number between 0 and 100. Now write down as many addition, subtraction questions you know that can make that number!
  • Gather some of your toys together. Now put them into order. First tallest to shortest. Then shortest to tallest. Then heaviest to lightest. Then lightest to heaviest.
  • Add up all the ages of people in your house!
  • Create a maths board game to play with others!
  • Find a pattern in your house, e.g. wallpaper, tiles, on the duvet. Can you describe it? Draw and colour in the pattern.
  • Walk around your house. How many shapes can you see?
  • Can you find a cube, sphere, cuboid and a cylinder?
  • Create a symmetrical picture!

 

 

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