Can you believe it is nearly the Summer holidays? I now feel like the time is flying past. This week the teachers are back in school for the first time since we closed and I’m sure it will be strange. I’m only in one day but I’m already looking forward to a socially distanced catch up with the teachers that are in at the same time. We’re going to start getting ready for when we can reopen, starting with clearing out a lot of our own resources and bringing them home (not sure where I’m going to find space for them!). You’re tasks this week are a lot more interesting though. Below is a grid of STEM (Science Technology Engineering Maths) activities for you to choose from. You could try and enlist the help of someone at home or even be the teacher and teach it to a sibling. Most of all, have fun!
Monday 8th June
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.
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
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
Pentagons
Early Level Mathematics and Numeracy Home Activities
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Sumdog Contest
A new North Lanarkshire Sumdog contest starts tomorrow and runs until Thursday 11th June. Give your brains a workout and help us get on the leaderboard! We need 10 players in each class for that class to qualify.
Mental Maths – Pentagons and Hexagons
Have a go at this rainbow challenge. Pentagons see how many colours you can do. Hexagons you could try any or all of the colours or get an adult to change the numbers and try adding/subtracting to 20 and numbers up to 100. I tried this with my little girl and found it easiest to read the PDF myself. You could try one colour each day for a quick mental workout.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/cloud-rating-1/zkgt7nb
Triangles Problem Solving
FUN Printing!
Why not try out some cool printing art using paint and used kitchen paper rolls? Be as creative as you can and have fun! Act of kindness: why not take a picture of your lovely art and email or message it to a loved one that you’re missing ? It will make them smile and brighten their day!
Winnie the Witch
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.
Wear Yellow Week
As part of our Wear Yellow Week to raise money for St. Andrew’s Hospice here’s some Summery activities with a twist.
Can you design a flower using only yellow? You could use any materials you can find, paint, torn paper, natural materials, wool, pen, etc. Here are just some of the tones and shades of yellow.
Design Your Own Flower Activity
My Flower Design Activity Sheet
Or try weaving a sunburst. Can you make one using only yellows? Don’t worry if you can’t, have a go with whatever strings, ribbons and wool that you can find.
cfe2-t-2545598-sun-burst-weaving-craft-instructions
Remember to share photos of anything you do. If you share on Twitter we’ll be able to show St. Andrew’s Hospice too.
Happy Monday 1st June
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
Fun Finisher
Play these games about vowels and consonants:
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
Measuring Capacity
A good concept to do outside while it’s nice, especially if you have a paddling pool out. Pick the worksheet you’d like to try, they are levelled using 1, 2 and 3 stars.
Use words like full, nearly full, half full, half empty, nearly empty and empty to describe how much liquid is in a container.
We can use smaller containers to fill larger one and say how many times the smaller one has to be filled to fill the larger one. Try estimating first.
Find an assortment of containers and order them from least to most depending on how much water they will hold. Can you find a way of checking?
tp-n-109-measuring-capacity-home-learning-tasks_ver_2
https://nrich.maths.org/10656 Compare the cups activity
https://nrich.maths.org/10337 Bottles 1
https://nrich.maths.org/10382 Bottles 2
https://nrich.maths.org/13664 A pouring problem to watch and talk about.
