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24.4.20 Home Learning

Good morning boys and girls.  That’s the end of another week of home learning.   I hope you’ve enjoyed your home learning tasks and you have had some fun being active outside in the sun.

Our home learning tasks for today:

Maths – Time

Warm up

  • Watch this video to explore time

It is a long one so you can skip parts or watch some of it later.

Main Task

P2 – O’clock and half past

  • Copy and complete

P3 – O’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.

  • Copy and complete

Fun Finisher

  • Play Sumdog maths for 15 minutes

Literacy – verbs

Warm up

Explore this clip to find out more about verbs and have a go at the verbs quiz- BBC Bitesize

  • Write/draw as many verbs as you can think of.

Main Task

  • Copy and complete

  • Challenge – Make up your own sentences using these verbs – ran, swim, jumped and dance.

Fun Finisher

  • Play a game of verb charades with someone at home.  Someone has to act out the verb while the other person guesses what verb is being acted out.

Friday Fun  – Fancy a virtual trip to the zoo?  Why not join Chester Zoo for a fun virtual day at the zoo.  Just follow the links on this website – Chester zoo

Have a lovely weekend boys and girls!

23.4.20 Home Learning

Maths -Position and Movement

Warm up – Compass points

  • Watch this video

  • Can you make up your own top tip to help you remember North, South, East and West

Example

 

Main Task – Location on a grid

  • Look at the grid below and write down where each animal can be found.

Fun Finisher

  • Explore more about grid referencing by playing this game.

Literacy – Writing – Story settings

Warm up

  • Watch these videos to explore story settings

  • Write/draw 2 or 3 different story settings

Main Task

  • Choose one of these story settings

  • Make up a story using your chosen setting.
  • Remember to use adjectives to describe the setting in your story.

Fun Finisher

  • Make your story into a short book.
  • Give the story a title, draw matching pictures, write a blurb.

Home Learning 22.4.20

Maths – Addition and Subtraction

Warm up- Addition and Subtraction Links

  • Explore the links between addition and subtraction
  • Watch these videos

 

Main Task  – Links between addition and subtraction

Complete these fact families

 

Fun Finisher

  • Make up your own fact family triangle, ask someone at home to complete it.
  • Topmarks Maths – Choose level 1 or 2 and focus on your subtraction skills.

Literacy – Reading

  • How many of these words can you read?

P2

P3

  • Keep  a note of the words you can’t read and keep working on them over the next few weeks.

Main Task – Reading Comprehension

P2 – Read the passage and answer the questions

  

P3 – read the passage and answer the questions

Fun Finisher

  • Play Sumdog Reading for 15 minutes

Home Learning 21.4.20

Our learning tasks for today:

Maths – Multiplication

Warm up

P2  – watch these videos on the 2 times table

P3 – watch these videos on the 5 times table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Jo26EyoYg&t=6s

Main Task –

P2

  • Chant the 2 times table – use a quiet, loud, funny voice
  • Copy and complete

P3

  • Chant the 5 times table – use a quiet, loud, funny voice
  • Copy and complete

Fun Finisher

  • Have fun playing this game Funky Mummy – focus on the times tables game.

Literacy – Phonics

 Warm up

  • Explore the sounds below:

P2 – ee, ea and y sounds

P3 – o, oa, ow and oe

  • Write down as many words as you can remember.  If you have different colours available to you,  write the sound in a different colour.

Main Task  – Phonics Flowers

  • Choose one of the sounds you have learned above.
  • Draw a flower and write the sound in the middle.
  • Write words with that sound in the petals.

Example

Challenge – can you spell the words without looking at your flower?

Fun Finisher

  • Have fun playing phonics games on this website – you choose the sound and the level you would like to work on – Phonics Bloom

 

 

 

Home Learning 20.4.20

Good morning boys and girls.  I hope you managed to relax and have fun over the Easter Holidays.

Our home learning tasks for today are:

Maths – Addition

Warm up – Mental maths timed challenge.

  • Time yourself, how quickly can you complete these sums?

1. 3+2= 6+6=  8+3=  9+8= 7+7=  5+4= 12+4= 15+5=  9+7=   10+13=

2.  6+6=  9+5=  12+12=  15+4=  20+10=  17+4=  16+7=  13+7=  14+12= 23+6=

Challenge – talk about some of the strategies you used to help you complete the sums above.

Main Task –

P2- Doubles/Near Doubles

  • P2  – Copy and complete

  • P3 – Adding on 10

Copy and complete

Fun Finisher 

  • Play Topmarks Daily 10 – choose level 1 or 2 and focus on your addition skills.

Literacy -Spelling

Warm up

  • Rainbow write the words below – write your words 5 times, using a variety of different colours

P2

now

down

look

too

P3

house

about

your

day

made

Main Task 

  • Choose one of your words and create an acrostic poem.

Fun Finisher

  • Spend 15 minutes playing Sumdog Spelling

 

Home Learning 3.4.20

 

Good morning boys and girls!  That’s the end of another week of home learning. I hope you have enjoyed your week.  Here are our tasks for today;

Maths – Symmetry

  • Watch this video to remind yourself about symmetry.

  • Play these symmetry games-

Topmarks Symmetry Matching 

Tomarks Symmetry Sorting

Main Task – Easter Symmetry

  • Copy and complete;

Fun Finisher

  • Create your own symmetrical Easter egg.
  • Play Sumdog Maths for 15 minutes

Literacy -Punctuation

Warm Up

  • Punctuation Hunt – Look in books, magazines and newspapers at home.  What punctuation can you find?
  • How many full stops?
  • How many questions marks?
  • How many exclamation marks?
  • Did you find anything else?

Challenge – Have you found any other punctuation marks? Find out why we use them.

Main Task – Punctuate the sentences

  • Copy and complete;

Fun Finisher

Play these punctuation games

Roy the Zebra Full Stop Game       

Turtle Diary Punctuation Game

That’s us finished for the Easter Holidays.   I hope you all have fun and enjoy eating some chocolate.

Please remember to;

 

Our next home learning blog will be posted on the 20.4.20.

Home Learning 2.4.20

Maths – Multiplication

Warm up 

  • P2 – Practise counting in 2’s and 10’s.
  • P3 – Practise counting in 5’s, 10’s, 3’s and 4’s

Main Task

  • Watch this video to learn more about array patterns

  • Can you make up your own array pattern?

 

  • P2 – In your home learning jotter, write out the 2 times table.
  • P3 – In your home learning jotter, write out the 5 and 10 times table.

Challenge – can you count in 4’s?  Have a go at writing out the 4 times table.

Fun Finisher

  • Can you find objects around the house and group them together in sets of 2, 4, 5 and 10.

Literacy – Writing – Characters

Warm up

  • Think about characters from stories.
  • Choose 2 or 3 of your favourite characters, draw them and write words to describe them.

Main Task  – Creating a character

  • Watch this short video on creating a character.
  • Create your own character. Use adjectives to describe your character.

Challenge – create a short story about your character.

Fun Finisher

  • Play a game of Who Am I?
  • Here are the rules of the game if you are unsure how to play it – Who am I?

Home Learning 1.4.20

Maths – Subtraction

Warm up

  • Topmarks Daily 10 – This week choose level 1 or 2 and focus on your subtraction skills.

Main Task

  • P2- Subtraction Sums

Copy and Complete

8  – 6 =

8 –  4 =

9  – 3 =

7 – 7 =

10 – 8 =

12 – 6 =

15 – 6 =

23 – 3 =

20 – 10 =

27 – 8 =

  • P3 – subtraction sums

25 – 10 =

38 – 8 =

19 – 6 =

27 -8 =

59 – 6 =

21 – 11 =

35 – 7 =

99 – 10 =

67 – 9 =

73 – 5 =

Fun Finisher

  • Make up some of your own subtraction sums for someone to complete at home.  Be the teacher and mark their work.

Literacy – Reading – Non-Fiction

Warm up

  • Find out more about fiction and non-fiction books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yIL8bJm_PE

  • In your home learning jotters, write down something you have learned about fiction and non-fiction books.

Main Task – Non Fiction Reading

  • Explore this website to find out more about Spring
  • Take notes on what you’ve read.  Use bullet points to organise very important points.

Fun Finisher

  • Make a fact file using the notes you have taken.
  • Play Sumdog Reading for 15 minutes.

Home Learning 31.3.20

Maths – Time

Warm up

  • Watch some of these videos on time

 

  • Write down 5 things you have learned about time.

Main Task

  • Record each activity you did yesterday.
  • Write & draw what you did.
  • Then draw a picture of a clock showing the time you did it.

Example

9.00am Had breakfastImage result for picture child having breakfast cartoon  

Fun Finisher – Timer Task

  • In one minute – how many star jumps, tuck jumps, side to side jumps can you do?
  • Start a timer, close your eyes, open them when you think the minute is up.  How close to the minute did you open your eyes?

Literacy – Phonics

  • Explore these sounds;

P2 – ay (day) ai (paint)

   

P3 ey (key)  ea (sea)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFGBy8uDnjI&t=5s

         

Main Task

  • Choose a few of the words you have learned above

Did you spell  all the words correctly, without looking?

Challenge – Think about other ways to make that same sound.  Write down other words that make the same sound but with a different spelling.

Example   pea – see             chain – snake

Fun Finisher

  • Use chalk, sand, steam from the bathroom, foam to write words you have learned today.

 

Home Learning 30.3.20

Maths – Addition

Warm up – Target number

Choose a number – write down as many addition sums as you can for that target number.

Main task – Missing Number Calculations

P2

8 + ______ = 16

4 + ______ = 12

6 + ______ = 9

15 + ______ = 19

12 + _______ = 23

_______ + 5 = 20

_______ + 8 = 17

_______ + 4 = 10

_______ + 10 = 19

_______ + 9 = 12

P3

12 + ______ = 20

19 + ______ = 23

50 + ______ = 61

28 + ______ = 35

68 + ______ = 77

_______ + 9 = 19

_______ + 20 = 100

_______ + 10 = 23

_______ + 9 = 34

_______ + 8 = 23

Fun Finisher

Play this game on Topmarks – Hit the button – Focus on the number bonds game.

Literacy – Spelling – Waterfall Words

Write each word 3 times using Waterfall writing (as shown above.)

P2

Will

With

See

For

P3

Don’t

Old

I’m

By

Time

Main Task

Make up your own silly sentences using your spelling words.

Challenge – How many of your words can you find in books/magazines/newspapers around the house?

Fun Finisher – 

Depending on what you have available to you at home, have a go at one of these spelling games;

  • Spelling Puzzle: Make a home-made puzzle by writing the words in large on a piece of card.  Cut it up and then piece it back together again?
  • Spelling Word Race: Create two teams with a player from each team taking the ‘pen’ at a time. Someone calls out the word and the two players race to write the word first.
  • Type it out: Open up a document to type on. Get someone to call out the words for you to spell.   Then play around with the word; increase the font size, change the colour etc.
  • Online Spelling game – Have a go at this online  spelling game  – Spooky Spelling