Its the last week before the summer holidays already! Just 2 and a half days of home school left, you have made it!

This week we ask you to  continue to revise and practise of  all your learning and skills in literacy.   See below for everything you should be confident and independent with.

Spelling up to the end of term

For the last few weeks of term we are going to focus on making sure you are really confident with all the sounds and common words you have learned so far this year.

Sounds

Sunflowers, Daisies and Butercups – Can you write at least 3 words for each sound?  

sh       ch        th         ng        wh      ph       ee       oo       ck       ai        oy       oa

qu       ay       ea       ow       ue         aw    oi      au     ew      ow(owl)    ou      igh

Poppies – Continue to concentrate on 3 lettered words and sounding out.  Work through the words in the link below for the next few weeks.  Read a 3 letter word out to your child and ask  them to make up then write a simple sentence for it.

Poppies Blending

Common Words

Can you write each word correctly in a sentence? Work through the common word list below, take four a day for the next few weeks.  Read the word out to your child and ask  them to make up then write a simple sentence for it.

Sunflowers, Buttercups and Daisies Common Words

Poppies Common Words

Reading

Log in to Oxford Owl website, Browse ebooks

Poppies -Find  Level/Band 2 Red. Choose any book

Daisies and Buttercups – Find Level/Band 4 Light  Blue. Choose any book

Sunflowers –  Try a more challenging level. Find Band 9 Gold. Choose any book

Good morning P3/2.  Can you believe we’ve come to the end of another week?  Here are today’s learning tasks:

Maths – Length

The length of something is how long it is from one end to the other.

Watch these clips about measuring lengths of things using the non standard units of  hand spans

Task

Use your hand and foot spans spans to measure these items.  If you don’t have an item at home, measure something else.

Record your answer on a piece of paper

Fun Finisher

Watch the Number Jacks trying to solve the problem of measure.

Literacy – Plurals

When there is one of anything we say it is singular but when there are more than one we call it plural.

Warm Up

Watch these clips about how to make words plural by adding ‘s’ or ‘es’:

https://youtu.be/lD1OaD4FBqM

Main Task

Add ‘s’ or ‘es’ to these words.  Write them on a sheet of paper and draw a picture to match.

Remember –

Fun Finisher

Play this plural game:

(Press ‘Skip Advertising’ to start the game).

Sun Safety

The month of June is officially the first month of summer.  The sun can be hot some days and we need to be careful not to get sunburn. Today we are going to learn about how to stay safe in the sun.

Warm Up

Watch this clip to remind you of the 5 main things to remember to keep yourself safe in the sun.

Main Task

Draw a beach bag like the one below.  Draw and label all the things you need to put in it to keep yourself safe in the sun when you go outdoors in sunny weather.  Remember you need at least 5 things. Colour it in with pens and pencils.

Challenge

Can you create a pair of fun sunglasses that protect your eyes from the sun and fit on your face? Here are a few ideas or use your creative skills and design your own.

Fun Finisher

Watch and read along with this story about sun safety:

The Cat in the Hat’ is a fiction rhyming book and lots of funny things happen in it. Listen and read along to the story

Have a look at these descriptions of the book.

And answer some of these questions below

Get your paper, pencils and pens at the ready and learn how to draw the hat from ‘The Cat In The Hat’ story by following these step by step instructions:

Add and Subtract within 20 Hexagons and Pentagons

Add and Subtract beyond 20 Octagons

Good morning P3/2, we hope you had a great weekend? What did you get up to??? Grace found a big stick and chased her daddy with it!  He he he!  Did you do the St Andrew’s Hospice Water Bucket Challenge?  There’s lots of videos on the Ladywell Primary School Twitter Page of the teachers and pupils getting soaked! Check them out, What a giggle!!

Spelling up to the end of term

For the last few weeks of term we are going to focus on making sure you are really confident with all the sounds and common words you have learned so far this year.

Sounds

Sunflowers, Daisies and Butercups – Can you write at least 3 words for each sound?  

sh       ch        th         ng        wh      ph       ee       oo       ck       ai        oy       oa     

qu       ay       ea       ow       ue         aw    oi      au     ew      ow(owl)    ou      igh

Poppies – Continue to concentrate on 3 lettered words and sounding out.  Work through the words in the link below for the next few weeks.  Read a 3 letter word out to your child and ask  them to make up then write a simple sentence for it.

Poppies Blending

Common Words

Can you write each word correctly in a sentence? Work through the common word list below, take four a day for the next few weeks.  Read the word out to your child and ask  them to make up then write a simple sentence for it.

Sunflowers, Buttercups and Daisies Common Words

Poppies Common Words

Reading

Log in to Oxford Owl website, Browse ebooks

Poppies -Find  Level/Band 2 Red. Read Top Dog and do the activites at the top of the book.

Daisies and Buttercups – Find Level/Band 4 Light  Blue. Read Dragon Danger and do the activities at the top of the book.

Sunflowers –  Find Level/Band 8 Purple. Read The Flood and do the activities at the top of the book

Maths

Below is an overall assessment of what you should be really confident with, for the next few weeks concentrate on practising all that you have learned so far.  These were posted right at the beginning but they cover everything you should know.

Octagons and Hexagons

First Level Mathematics and Numeracy Home Activities

Maths assessment first level

Pentagons

Early Level Mathematics and Numeracy Home Activities

early-level-baseline-maths-test

Get your thinking caps on and try this problem.

Inside Triangles

Inside Triangles – Now you give it a try!

Join Winnie and Wilbur for some stay at home fun. Share this story with an adult.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/winnie-and-wilbur/

Follow the links at the end for follow up work.

Well, I can quite believe we’ve made it to JUNE! Well done for being so strong and keeping safe with your families for this long! It’s going to  be another beautiful couple of days so try to take some of your learning outside…read in the shade, record your work in chalk on the ground etc…

LITERACY

Vowels and Consonants

Watch this clip about which letters of the alphabet are vowels and which are consonants:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxfyjty/articles/zs2crdm

Main Task

This picture tells you which letters are vowels and which are consonants:

The vowels are pink and the consonants are blue.

Divide a page in your jotter into two and write the heading ‘Vowels’ and ‘Consonants’ at the top. Draw a picture beginning with each of the letters below in the correct column. Write the letter that your picture begins with beside it. For example:

   k

VowelConsonantSortChart

Fun Finisher

Play these games about vowels and consonants:

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3

Challenge

Can you find all the vowels and follow the trail to get the dragon back to his mother?

consonants-and-vowels-maze-activity-sheet-english_ver_1

Top Tip for finding words with no vowels.

Think of words ending with ‘y’ (fly, cry etc). Can you find 3 more?

READING – login in to oxford owl website and the click the links below

Poppies

Read this book out loud with a parent then try the activities

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1223.html

Daisies and Buttercups

Read this book out loud with a parent and try the activities

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1355.html

Sunflowers

Read this to yourself and try the activities. To practise reading out loud you could read just 2 of the pages to an adult when you have finished.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1269.html