Reading Thursday

Warm Up

Please choose a book from the Oxford Owl FREE eBooks list using the link below:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

You will need to create an account and sign up but it is a FREE resource and it will give you online access to lots of age appropriate  books which are designed to help your little one read at their level.

Read your chosen story with someone at home.

Main Task

Read the short story below about cat.  Then answer the questions.  You can answer them by talking to someone else or you can write your answers in your jotter.

Remember, you need to answer in a full sentence with a capital letter and full stop.  Not just with one word. So for question number 1 your answer would start:-

The cat is sat on the …….  .

Extra Challenge

Make up your own question about the story for someone else to answer!

Game to support learning

One of our favourite games from class:

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/helpAHedgehog/

Remember to practise reading your common words too!

Maths Topic Thursday

Positional Language

Today we will be learning about the position of something compared to something else and learn about the language we use to describe where we or things are.

Warm Up

• Watch these videos about days and months and sing along:

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zvxhyrd

Main Task

Watch this video and try to spot the monkey each time. Can you use the correct positional language to describe where the monkey is before the song tells you?

• For the next task you will need:

a teddy or other toy            a table                 a box    

• Carry out each instruction in the table below to make sure teddy is in the correct position:

• Can you think of any more instructions for your grown up to follow to put teddy in different places? Example:  Put teddy in front of the television.  Put teddy under the chair.

• Play ‘Where is Teddy?’  Hide your Teddy somewhere in the room and get someone to guess where Teddy is using positional language questions…is teddy under the couch?  Is teddy on top of the shelf?  Then swap and you have to do the guessing.

Extra Challenge

Look at the pictures in the grid and read the statements telling you where each object is. Draw the answer in your jotter for question 1 and write the sentence using the position words for number 2.

Game to Support Learning:

Click on the link below to play a game where you have to move objects to the correct position in the picture. TIP: click on the SLOW button on the start page as you can run out of time fairly fast.

Positional Language Game

Fun Finisher Task

Dance and sing along!

Rhyming Wednesday

Today our literacy work is all about rhyming. Remember – words that rhyme have the same sound at the end.

Warm Up:

• Watch these rhyming videos and play along

Main Activity:

• Look at the worksheet below. Pick the two words that rhyme in each row and write them in your jotter.

• If you can, try and come up with another word that rhyme too.

• Watch and listen to this rhyming story or choose a rhyming story you have at home (the Julia Donaldson books usually rhyme).
• Can you hear/find any rhyming words? 

Extra Challenge:

• Try and make up your own rhyming phrases for a witches cauldron like my example below:

Game to Support Learning:

• Have a go at playing this shark rhyming game Shark Rhyme

• Play along with Jack Hartman in this video below

Subtraction Wednesday

Warm Up:

• Can you remember any of the different words that mean the same as subtraction?

• Watch this video to practise reading and spelling your numbers. You could try and write them down if you would like to.

Main Task:

• Write down your subtraction sums in your jotter and then answer them.

• Remember to put the big number in your pocket and count back the small number using your fingers, or use a number line, to help you.

Extra Challenge: 

• Can you make up your own subtraction sums for someone else to answer?

• Remember to be the teacher and mark their work afterwards!

Game to Support Learning:

Click on the – train: Mental Maths Train

Literacy – Writing Tuesday

I can write a story about a picture.

Warm up:

• Practise you letter formation with Sky Writer:

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/skyWriter/index.html

• Have a look at the sentences below.  Mr Messy has written them all in the wrong order.  Can you unscramble them and read them out in the correct order.  Remember to use your karate move action to show where the full stop would be when you are reading the sentence.

Main Task:

• Look at the picture below and talk about it with someone at home.  This photograph was taken by Miss Murray on her family farm where she is staying at the moment.  Hundreds of lambs are being born at the moment – I think the current total is 800!  This is a picture of a mother with her three lambs – She had triplets!  The breed is ‘Scottish Blackface’ and the females in this breed have horns.

•   Have a look at the P1/2 blog for the 26th April to read the full story about the lambs from Miss Murray and see more pictures.

 Spring Lambs

• Write about the picture using sentences.   Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Ideas to write about:

 Challenge:

• Can you read your story to someone at home?

Story Writing Game:

• Use this fun spinner game to create a story starter for you to create a story.

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

This is the writing idea I got when I pulled the lever to spin the dials:

This is my attempt at writing a one sentence postcard to a wet squirrel who rides elephants:

Hi Mr Squirrel, 

Wish you were here because there are lots of swimming pools and lots of elephants.

See you soon. x

Phonics Monday

Today we are going to be learning all about the digraph sh.

Warm up:

• Can you read these words with the digraphs ch th wh?

• Watch these two YouTube clips all about sh:

Main Task

• In your jotter write some sh words. Sh can be at beginning, middle or the end of the word.

• Write a sentence with a sh word in it. Remember a capital letter, full stop and finger spaces in your sentence.

• Draw a picture to illustrate your sh sentence.

• Set it out in your jotter like this:

Extra Challenge:

• Can you make a Spring ‘sh’ flower like the one below?

Game to support Learning:

• Practise your digraphs playing this Digraph Planet Game

• Practise your blending with the game below. Challenge yourself by clicking on the ‘Phase 3 sounds’.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/viking/index.html

Monday’s Maths

Why was the number 6 scared of 7?……because 7, 8, 9!

Warm Up:

• Count in 2’s and 10’s:

• Try counting up in 5’s. Use the videos below to count along to and help you. Can you spot a pattern?

Main Activity:

• Today we are going to learn how to spell our numbers. Have a look at the poster below:

• Watch this video to help you learn the words:

• Can you match the numbers to their spellings?

Extra Challenge:

• Can you make your own poster (like the one above) to teach someone about how to spell their numbers to 10?

Game to Support Learning:

• Try playing this game to test yourself Number Name Pairs

Friday Spelling

Warm Up:

• Read your common words.

• Watch this video clip on spelling tricky words.

• Can you remember how to spell any of the words from the video? Try and spell them in your jotter.

Main Activity:

• Can you write your spelling words in capitals?

• Can you write your spelling words backwards?

• Can you write them in rainbow writing? e.g. you

Extra Challenge:

• Can you find any of these words in a book or a magazine?

• Can you use any of your spelling words in a sentence? Remember a capital letter, full stop, finger spaces and keep reading your sentence back to make sure it makes sense.

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on this link Spooky Spelling to practise your spelling (click on Year 1 or Year 2 at the top then choose a book).

• Play  for Sumdog Spelling 10 minutes.

Friday’s Mixture of Maths

Warm Up:

• Click on this link and play Hit the Button! Choose ‘number bonds’ or ‘doubles’.

• Watch this subatize video:

Main Activity:

• Copy and complete these maths sums in your jotter.

• Look for the Primary 1 and Primary 2 sums.

• Don’t be caught out by – and + sums!

Extra Challenge:

• Can you be the teacher and make up your own maths sums to challenge someone? Remember and mark their work afterwards!

Game to Support Learning:

• Log into your account and play Sumdog for 10 minutes.