Home Learning 10.6.20

Good morning children, how are you today? I hope you are all well and looking after one another. Here are your learning tasks for the day:

Maths

Calendars Days and Weeks

Warm Up

Calendars have the days of the week and the dates written on them.

Watch this clip about how to read a calendar.

Main Task

Read the book ‘Calendar Maths’ I have assigned you on the Epic reading site.  Ask a grown up to help you with any tricky words.

Look at this calendar for the month of June:

Answer these questions using the calendar above. Write your answers in your jotter.

Fun Finisher

Today’s date is 10th June. This can also be written as 10.6.20 since June is the 6th month of the year.

Play this game about dates on the calendar:

Literacy

Reading

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

Main Task

Read this description of the book with a grown up to help with any tricky words:

Now try answering these questions on what you have read about the book.

Fun Finisher

Calling all budding artists! 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:

 

 

 

Home Learning 9.6.20

Good morning boys and girls, I hope you are having a good day. Here are today’s learning tasks:

Number

Multiplication and Equal Groups

Warm Up

Watch this clip about making equal groups and multiplying them to find the answer:

Main Task

Draw these groups of items and write the times table sum under it:

 

Challenge

Can you work out the answers to these sums? Use small objects to help you make the groups then add them up to find the answer.

Fun Finisher 

Play this game about multiplication:

Game 1 (scroll down the page to start playing).

Game 2

Literacy

Sounds – ff, ss, ll.

Warm Up

Sometimes a letter is doubled but it only makes one sound. Watch these clips about the double letters’ff’, ‘ss’, and ‘ll’.

Main Task

Draw the pictures and write the words for the ‘ff, ‘ss’ and ‘ll’ sounds.

Challenge

Can you be a detective and find any ss, ff, or ll sound words in this word search?

Fun Finisher

Play these ff, ss and ll sound games:

 

Home Learning 8.6.20

Good morning boys and girls, I hope you have had a good weekend and are ready for for learning. Here are your tasks for today:

Number – Greater/ Less Than

Warm Up

Numbers that are ‘greater than‘ means they are bigger.

Numbers that are ‘less than‘ means they are smaller.

This poster shows we can use a special symbol instead of writing the words ‘greater than’ or ‘less than’ as well as the ‘equals’ sign.

Watch these clips about numbers that are greater or less than one another and how to use these special symbols:

Main Task

Copy these number statements into your jotter to say if the numbers are greater or smaller than one another.

Challenge

Try making up your own number statements to say whether numbers are greater or smaller than each other.

Extra Challenge

‘Greater than’ and ‘less than’ symbols can be used in sums too. Watch this clip about comparing adding sums to see which is greater or smaller than one another:

Can you make up some sums to compare saying whether one is greater or smaller than the other like this:

5 + 3  ›  2 + 5

Fun Finisher

Watch and sing along with this ‘greater’ and ‘less than’ song:

 

Literacy -Spelling

This week’s spelling words are:

have, your, by, only.

Use a dice if you have one and play this game to help spell your words. If you don’t have a dice practise writing each word in all the different ways.

 

Challenge

Write a silly story using all your words. Read it to a grown up.

Fun Finisher

Test your spelling skills with this game. Choose ‘Year 1’ (that’s the same as Primary 2) and then select ‘Tricky Words’.

 

 

 

 

Home Learning 5.6.20

Maths 

Data Handling – Recording Information

Warm Up

We can collect and find out information from charts and tables. In this clip we are going to find out how to conduct a survey about favourite pets and record the answers in a tick chart.

Main Task

Here are the results of a survey about favourite ice creams. The information is recorded on a chart with a tick. Look at all the different flavours written down the side. When a person  chooses a flavour as their favourite it is recorded with a tick beside it.

Use the chart above to answer these questions. Write your answers in your jotter.

Challenge

Can you make a survey in your family about favourite things. It could be about favourite colours, fruit, sweets or anything else. Record the answers in a tick chart, a bit like the one above about favourite ice creams.

Fun Finisher

Play this game and learn more about data handling:

Literacy

Syllables

Spoken words can be broken into syllables or parts. Watch this clip about syllables.

Say your name out loud and count how many syllables your name has. Say all the names of everyone in your family, clapping out the syllables. Who has the most or least syllables in their name?

Main Task

Divide a page in your jotter into 3 columns. Say the words at the bottom of this worksheet out loud. How many syllables does each word have? Draw the picture and write the word in the correct column to show how many syllables it has.

Fun Finisher

Play this syllable game:

 

Home Learning 4.6.20

Maths – Money          

Warm Up

Play this game and put the coins in order of their value, starting with the smallest value coin up to the coin that has the largest value.

 

Watch this video clips about money and paying for things using different coins:

Main Task

Use real coins to draw round in your jotter to make each purse hold 20p.

Challenge

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Two 10p’s is the same as 20p. Look at these purses. How much is in each? Write the answer in your jotter.

 

Fun Finisher

Try playing these money games:

Literacy

Writing – Fairytales

Warm Up

Fairytales are stories that can be set in imaginative places, with good and bad characters and usually a problem that has to be solved before there is a happy ending.

Watch this clip to help you write your own fairytale.

Main Task

Read along with this ‘Jack and The Beanstalk’ book.

As you read the book think about WHERE the story takes place, WHO the good and bad characters are, WHAT happens and how does it END? 

Now you are going to write your own fairytale in a setting of your choice, with your own charcters and events that happen.

Make a plan in your jotter and jot down some important words  or drawings. Remember to include all of these things:

Here are some ideas of WHERE your story might take place (the setting), WHO the good and bad characters might be and some magical items that be in your story (the PROPS). You don’t have to use these ideas, you can use your own imagination.

Write your own story and read it aloud to a grown up. Draw a picture too.

Fun Finisher

Watch some fairytales on this site:

Home Learning 3.6.20

Good morning Primary 2, here are your learning tasks for today.

Number

Subtraction – Counting Backwards

Warm Up – Mental

Start at 20 and count back to 0.

Start at 20 and count back in 2’s to 0.

Start at 100 and count back to 0.

Start at 100 and count back in 10’s to 0.

Start at 100 and count back in 5’s to 0.

Main Task

Watch and sing along to  this clip by counting back in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s:

Copy and complete the missing numbers by counting back in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.

 

Fun Finisher

Play these games to help count back in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. Choose ‘Sequencing’ then ‘Simple Sequencing’ and select ‘Even Numbers’.

Or choose ‘Sequencing’ then ‘Counting in Multiples’ and then ‘Multiples of Five or Ten’.

                 

Literacy

Reading – Fiction Books

Fiction stories are imaginary stories. There are lots of different types  of fiction stories. Watch this clip to find out more about the different kinds:

Warm Up

At the weekend a real rocket ship named ‘Dragon’ was launched into space.

Watch the launch into space of ‘Dragon’ on the BBC Newsround site by clicking on the image:

You are now going to read a fiction book about space that I have assigned you on the Epic reading site by clicking the image below. Remember to check your mailbox if the book does not appear on the screen.

Main Task

After reading your book you are going to write a book review. Think about where the story took place (setting) and who were the main characters.

Then think about what the main thing that happened was at the beginning (first), middle, (next) and the end (last) of the story.

Draw some pictures showing who was in the story, where they were and what happened too.

Fun Finisher

Listen and read along with a real astronaut as she reads the story ‘If I Were An Astronaut’ on board the International Space station.

 

 

 

 

Home Learning 2.6.20

Good morning boys and girls, I hope you are enjoying our lovely summer weather but be careful to protect yourself with sunscreen and a hat. Here are your learning tasks for today.

Number – Multiplication 

Multiplication is just adding the same number repeatedly. Look at this poster that explains this:

Warm Up

Watch this clip to see how the multiplication sign is used instead of adding the same number again and again:

Main Task

Draw these groups or sets of objects in your jotter and write the number you added repeatedly under each picture with the answer beside it.

Now  write the multiplication sum too. Well done now you can multiply!

Fun Finisher

Play this game to help you make repeated adding sums into multiplication sums:

Literacy

Sounds – ‘ph’

The sound ‘f’ can be written as ‘ph’.

Watch these clips about the ‘ph’ sound:

Main Task

Read this story  about best friends Frankie and Fred. Ask a grown up to help you with some of the tricky words if you need to. Can you spot all the ‘ph’ words? Can you find lots of last week’s ‘ff’ words too?

Divide a page in your jotter into two columns. Write all the ‘ph’ words in one column and the ‘ff’ words in the other. Read all your words aloud to a grown up.

Challenge

Time yourself reading the ‘ph’ words aloud. Can you get quicker each time? Record your fastest time in your jotter beside your list of words.

Fun Finisher

Sing along with Jack Hartman with the ‘ph’ song.

Play this ‘ph’ game by clicking the ‘ph’ sound:

Home Learning 1.6.20

Good morning boys and girls, I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. Can you believe that we are into the new month of June and it is now officially summer!

Here are your learning tasks for today.

Number – Addition

Warm Up

Watch this clip about how a number can be split  into two and when you add both numbers together you get the total. Learn about maths mountains and how to work out the total. The ‘total’ or ‘sum’ is always at the top of the mountain.

 

 

 

Main Task

Can you work out the missing number so that both numbers add up to the total at the top?

Write an adding sum in your jotter like this:

1 + ? = 20

Fun Finisher

Play this number game. Choose ‘number bonds’ and select ‘Make 10’, ‘Make 20’ or ‘Make 100’.

Here is another good game to play. Choose ‘+’ and then ‘Bonds to Make 10’, ‘Bonds to Make 20’ and ‘Bonds to Make 100 (Tens)’.

 

Literacy

Spelling/Mnemonics

Here are this this week’s spelling words:

you, was, went, his.

Warm Up

Draw a rainbow in your jotter. Write your spelling words along each arc of the rainbow using pens, pencils, felts etc.  like this:

Main Task

Mnemonics

Mnemonics help us to remember how to spell tricky words.

Watch these clips to learn how to spell tricky words:

Can you use your spelling words to make up your own mnemonic? Remember – make your first word the word you are spelling, for example:

you – you or us?

Fun Finisher

Try playing the spelling game ‘Spelling Tricky Words’.

Home Learning 29.5.20

Number 

Place Value

Warm Up – Mental Maths

Work out the answers to these sums mentally in your head:

Watch this video clip about place value.

Main Task

Look at this picture showing numbers on the train carriages. Can you see the pattern in the numbers?

Now answer these questions about number patterns. Write the answers in your jotter.

Challenge

Can you count on from 100? How far can you go? Can you write some of the numbers past 100?

Fun Finisher

Can you order numbers from the smallest to the largest and largest to smallest? Try this game to find out how good you are. Choose ‘Numbers’ and the ‘Numbers up to 100’.

Literacy 

Vowels and Consonants

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

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:

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?

Top Tip for finding words with no vowels.

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

 

Home Learning 28.5.20

Number

Rounding to the Nearest 10

Here are 2 posters explaining how to round numbers to the nearest 10 by looking at the unit number.

If the number ends with 1, 2, 3, or 4 round it DOWN. If the unit number is 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 round the number UP to the next ten.

Watch this video clip about how to round numbers up or down to the nearest 10.

Main Task

Round these numbers to the nearest 10. Write your answers in your jotter.

 

Remember, if the number ends with 1, 2, 3, or 4 round it DOWN. If the unit number is 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 round the number UP to the next ten.

Use this number square to help you decide whether to round the number up or down.

Fun Finisher

Play this game about rounding numbers to the nearest 10.

Literacy

Reading/Writing

Warm Up

Click on the picture below to take you to the ‘Epic’ reading site. Click on your name and it will take you to the comic book I have assigned to you. Check your mailbox at the top right corner if the book does not appear immediately.

If you have a problem using this link, follow these instructions.

After reading your comic book, watch this video clip about how to make a comic book.

Main Task

You are now going to make your own comic book page.

Here is an outline of a comic book page.

Design your own comic  using your imagination or maybe use characters from your favourite book or perhaps a superhero film. Make up a scene about something exciting or funny that happens.

Fun Finisher

Read this comic about a boy called Jojo and what happens on his birthday: