Hello P1a,
Hope you are all safe and enjoyed the wear yellow and soak the teacher videos last week, if you didn’t see them have a look on Twitter or on our Teams page!! They were brilliant to watch! A huge well done to all of you who took part and big thanks for any donations.
P1 are going to have a Teddy Bear Themed week this week!
We would normally be doing our Topic Teddy Travels in link with St Andrew’s Hospice so I have planned some Teddy Bear activities for you so hope you enjoy them!
Please find ideas for home learning for this week below –
Maths
- Teddy Bear Dot to Dot – numbers recognition to 50! (Can find on our Teams page in Files section)
Click here for Teddy Dot to Dot
- This weeks activities on Studyladder are based on length and mass.
- You could arrange any Teddy Bears you have in order of length, starting with the longest or the shortest – send us some pictures please of this if you can!
- A Sumdog Challenge for you of answering 50 questions correctly (please contact me if you require your sumdog login details)
Phonics & Spelling
- This week I would like you to continue to work on revising the alphabet with focus on capital letters
- You could say the alphabet and write the alphabet in capital letters, you could try to play the game from last week which involved matching the lower letters to the capital letters
- You could write your Teddy’s name in capitals – Here is mine – SUNNY
- There are some capital letters activities set on Studyladder also
- Chilli challenge – This week the phoneme is: ng – we have not learned this phoneme yet but you can have a look at ng and have a go at the suggested activities
- have a look at Geraldine giraffe to help practice ng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQshNmncnBs
- Studyladder literacy activites set – lots of activities with phoneme ng this week
- Task 1 – read the following words and draw some pictures to match the words.
ring sing song long pong wing
- Task 2 – ng cut & stick sheets –you can also find this sheet saved in the files section through our Microsoft teams page
Kahoot Quiz – Join us for our weekly quiz on Friday morning at 11am. This week we will have a YES or NO quiz. You have to use your knowledge of your CVC words, common words and sounding out to read the question/statement and then answer.
E.g – Can a cat sit? The answer would be Yes!
– A man has six legs. The answer would be No!
Reading
This week your book is ‘A Home for Ted’ which can be found in the Oxford Owl eBook library.
You can also complete some of the interactive games that go with the book on Oxford Owl. If you would like your child to complete a written task, I have attached it below.
Click here for A home of Ted follow up task
Health & Wellbeing
- Continue to get your daily exercise, a walk with your family is good fun or exercise classes online with Joe Wicks or Cosmic Yoga or Jumpstart Johnny or any other good resource you have been using.
- Teddy Bears Exercise – have a look at the video below and join in some picnic exercise songs with your Teddy!
Teddy Bear Theme Activities
- Create a Passport for your Teddy – Have a look at the example and create a passport all about your favourite teddy. See template below.
- Teddy Bear Picnic Song – Listen to and learn the song to sing together at a Teddy Bear’s Picnic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_eKvc2PgQ
- Healthy Lunch – help an adult plan what you will eat at your picnic. Remember to think about some healthy snacks you and your teddy might enjoy to eat. You could also make some bear themed snacks to enjoy.
- Have your own Teddy Bear’s Picnic – Set up a pretend or real life picnic, indoors or outdoors, to enjoy with your family and teddies! Remember to send me some pictures on our Microsoft Team or on the school Twitter page.
- Story Time – Listen to Michael Rosen’s story, We’re going on a Bear Hunt on Youtube – You could go into the garden or on a walk and have your own pretend bear hunt. You could also create a map to recap the parts of the story and take this on your bear hunt with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL36gMrHJaI
Be Creative – Watch the performance of ‘I want my hat back’ – Jon Klassen. You could try to recreate your favourite story about a bear by making little paper puppets like in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBJmp1c3XIQ
Art and Crafts – Have a look at some of the ideas below and create a terrific teddy picture. You could do some fork painting to create your own Teddy picture or you can create a teddy picture and have a think about some descriptive words/adjective to describe your teddy.
Remember these are just suggested activities and we do not expect the children to complete all of them.
Stay safe and have a fun and cuddly week!
Miss McGhee
