Home Learning 13.5.20

Maths

Time – Months and Calendars

Can you read the months of the year from this poster?

Can you say the months of the year with your eyes closed?

Warm Up

Sing and dance along to this rap about the months of the year.

Main Task

Watch this video about time and CALENDARS.

Here is a calendar showing all the months of the year and any special events that happen in each month. The red circles around the number tells you the date the event is on.

Can you answer these questions by looking at the calendar? Write your answers in your jotter.

Fun Finisher

How many months can you find in this wordsearch?

Challenge

Can you make your own calendar by drawing a grid with 12 boxes and writing the months at the top of each box?

January	February	March	April
May	June	July	August
September	October	November	December

 Draw some pictures in the correct box showing the month some special occasions are in your family (birthdays, Christmas, Halloween, Valentines Day, Easter, Bonfire Night, Robert Burns’ birthday, St. Andrews Day etc).

Literacy

Sounds – ‘ew’ ‘ue’ and ‘u-e’.

Warm Up

Watch these clips about the ‘ew’ ‘ue’ and ‘u-e’ sound;

Main Task

Can you read these ‘ew’, ‘ue’ and ‘u-e’ words out loud? Time yourself to see how quickly you can read them.

Copy and complete this worksheet in your jotter;

Fun Finisher

Watch and listen to this story with the ‘ue’ sound in it called

‘Mr. Fortescue’

Challenge

Play this game but watch out! It has another sound in it that makes the same sound – ‘ui’ (suit, fruit)