Addition Tuesday

Today is our day to practise addition.

Warm Up:

• Practise your addition playing Hit the Button

• Write down your numbers as far as you can – you can try and count up in 1’s, 2’s, 5’s or 10’s. Who can reach the highest number?

Main Task:

• In class we learned our number stories to 10.

• Remember a ‘number story’ includes all the different ways to make a number e.g. here are the number stories of 2 and 3:

• To remind you of your number stories, click on this link: Number Stories and it should go through each number story one after the next. If the link doesn’t work then type ‘number pairs’ into YouTube.

• In your jotter, or on a piece of paper, can you write down the number stories for numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Write down all the different ways to make each number, just like in the examples above.

• You can make you number stories colourful, or make them like a poster, if you wish.

• Do you remember the pattern we worked out in class? There are 2 ways to make 1, 3 ways to make 2, 4 ways to make 3, 5 ways to make 4 etc.

Extra Challenge:

• Can you write down the number stories for numbers bigger than 10?

Game to Support Learning:

• Play Sumdog for 10 minutes – Mr Green is awarding Sumdog champions.

Maths Topic Thursday – Symmetry

Today we will be learning all about symmetry – I remember we really liked learning about symmetry in class.  We made lots of symmetrical pictures using butterflies and scarecrows etc.

Can you remember what symmetrical means?

It means that both sides of something are the exact same – just like butterflies are.

Warm Up:

• Watch this video (and sing along) to remind you all about symmetry

Games to practise your symmetry skills:

• Click on these links to play different symmetry games: Symmetry Matching Game and Symmetry Sorting Game.

Main Activity:

• Go on a symmetry hunt. How many symmetrical things can you find in your house or outside?

• Try and use some different things you might have around the house, or outside, to make a symmetrical picture.

• Have a look at the pictures below for some ideas….you could use lego blocks, stones, leaves, or paint one half of a butterfly and fold it over.

Extra Challenge:

• Use one half of a photograph of yourself, or a cutting from a magazine or newspaper, and draw the other half to make the picture symmetrical. Look a the example below to help you!

Reading Thursday

You don’t have to wait until Thursday to read Primary 1.  You could be reading every day if you want!

Warm Up

Watch this Jack Hartmann video which tells us about 6 important questions to think about when reading a story, and also when writing a story.

6 Questions Rap

Choose A Book

Go to Oxford Owl and choose a book or 2 to read with someone at home.

 Talk about the story using the 6 questions:

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:-

Tess has a _______  ________  ________ .

Extra Challenges

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

How many rhyming words can you spot in the story?

Game to support learning

Play Tell a T Rex game

Remember to practise reading your common words too!

Literacy Wednesday

Warm Up

• Watch this video with all our jolly phonics sounds and actions – how many do you remember?

Main Activity

• Look at the sheet below. Write a word that begins with each letter of the alphabet – maybe you could draw a picture of something that begins with that letter too.

• Remember to sound out your word when you are writing it and read it back to make sure you haven’t missed any letters.

• Who can write a word for all 26 letters of the alphabet?

Extra Challenge

• Try and write you words in capitals as well as lowercase letters.

• Use your words to try and write a sentence – how many of your words can you get into one sentence?

Game to support learning

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

Subtraction Wednesday

Warm Up:

• Start from 30 and count backwards – try and write your numbers all the way to 0. Maybe you could challenge yourself and start from 100 and try and count all the way back to 0!

• Watch this video all about subtraction

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 tell someone all the things you know about subtraction?

• Maybe you could make a poster to teach someone how to subtract.

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on the – train: Mental Maths Train

Writing Tuesday

Morning Primary 1.  It should be another sunny day.  I hope you can get out in the sunshine for a while today.

Warm up

Write out the alphabet using lowercase or uppercase letters. Remember to make sure you are forming your letters correctly; think about tall, small and fall letters.

Play the game  below to see if you can tell the difference between read words and nonsense words.  You can choose different levels to suit how much of a challenge you would like.

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

Main Task

• Here is a video of one of our favourite books that we read in class – ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’.  Listen to the story and try to join in with the rhyming.

• After you have read it choose your favourite character from the story to draw in your jotter or on paper.

• Write some words to describe your character with help from adult.

• Use the words you have written to write a few sentences about your character.

• I  asked Lyla (my youngest daughter, who is 6) to do this activity and here is hers which you can use as an example:

Remember to use capital letters and full stops.

Can you use a joining word?

Extra Challenge

Make up your own new character for ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’ story.  Draw your new character and write about them.

Fun Finisher

Remember in class when I used to sing part of the story to you and I had made up my own tune?  Well it turns out that the author’s husband had already made up a tune.  Here is his version of the song.  Sing along while you watch!

Boys and girls – I actually prefer my own tune for the song! 😉  Don’t tell anyone.

Addition Tuesday

Hi Primary 1!  Today is our day to practise addition.  Have a go and see how you get on.

Warm Up

Click on the link below to play Hit the Button to practise quick recall of your number bonds…

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Here is a wee Numbertime video for you to watch today! It is all about addition. We know how much you enjoy Numbertime.  Remember to watch out for our favourite –  El Nombre!

https://youtu.be/rQD3N5OXBGM

Main Task

Complete the sums below in your jotter.

Remember to put the bigger number in your pocket and count on the smaller number.

Use small objects from around the house or a number line to help you.

Extra Challenge:

Addition card game (if you have a pack of cards at home)

Using a deck of cards, this game can be played with 2-4 players. Each player picks up two cards, they then need to add the two numbers together and give the answer to the sum. If they get it right, they get to keep the cards. If they don’t, they have to put their cards back to the bottom of the pile. The student with the most cards at the end wins!

Game to Support Learning:

• Play Sumdog for 10 minutes – Mr Green is awarding Sumdog champions.

Good morning Primary 1.  It’s another Monday and the sun is shining again! Here are today’s online lessons  for you to have a go at.

Phonics Monday!

Last week I put on a link for  Oxford Owl – it will give you access to lots of age appropriate  books, including Biff, Chip and Kipper ones,  to help you read at your level. You can filter by age or level at the top. I set up an account for our class:

Phonics Monday

Today we are going to be doing some revision on our digraph oo.

Warm up:

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

• Watch these two YouTube clips all about oo:

Main Task

• In your jotter write some oo words.

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

• Draw a picture to illustrate your oo sentence.

• Try and set it out in your jotter like this:

Extra Challenge:

• Can you be a Text Detective and try find some oo words around your house?

• If you would like to, try and make an oo poster  like the two below or choose another one of your digraphs (sh ch th wh) to make a poster about:

Games 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’. Viking Blending

Place Value Monday

Warm Up

• Watch this video to practise counting by 5’s:

Main Activity

• Complete the worksheets below in your home learning jotter. Remember to look out for the different Primary 1 and Primary 2 worksheet….

Primary 1 worksheet:

Extra Challenge

• How far can you count up in 2’s, 5’s or 10’s? Write them in your home learning jotter – who can get to the highest number?

Game to Support Learning

• Count in tens and units with this game: Place Value Basketball

• Order and sequence numbers: Chinese Dragon Game

Happy Friday Primary 1 and happy May!  It’s a new month.

  I  hope you are all doing well and trying to stay happy and busy in lock down.  Missing you all! I hope you have a lovely weekend. I’ll be back on Monday with more learning for you all 🙂

If you are looking for something to do over the weekend, here is the link to the Art for Kids Hub that we liked to use in class. Have a go and see how you get on drawing the different things!

Friday Spelling

Warm Up:

• Watch this video clip on spelling tricky words.

Main Activity:

• Can you write your spelling words in CAPITALS?

• Can you write your spelling words in bubble writing?

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

Extra Challenge:

• Be a Text Detective and have a look around your house. How many of your spelling words can you find?

• Can you use any of your spelling words in a sentence?

Game to Support Learning:

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