Reading Thursday

Warm Up

Watch this video to help you with some of the tricky words:  Tricky Words Song

• Read your common words. How many can you read?

Main Activity:

• Go onto Oxford Owl  or Epic Reading! and choose a book to read for enjoyment.  OR choose a book you have at home.

Oxford Owl: username ‘woodlandsreading‘ password ‘pupil‘

Epic Reading: class code jvy5210

Use the questions below to talk about the book with someone at home.

Shape Thursday

Today we are going to do some work on shape.

2 Dimensional shapes or 2D shapes are flat, like these:

circle

square

triangle

rectangle

3 Dimensional shapes or 3D shapes are solid, like these:

sphere

cube

pyramid

cuboid

Warm Up

• Click on the links below to take you to fantastic videos and quizzes to teach you about 2D and 3D shapes!  

What are 2D Shapes?

What are 3D Shapes?

• Go on a shape hunt round your house.   How many 2D and 3D shapes can you find?

Main Task

Jack Hartmann again! 😉 Watch his 2D shape video and name the shapes:

Watch this Jack Hartmann video about 3D shapes:

Look at the 2 worksheets below and talk to an adult about the answers.  You can record the answers in your jotter if you want to.

• Can you talk about the properties of these 2D shapes?  That means what is it about the shape that makes it that shape?  How many corners/vertices does each one have?  How many sides / edges does each one have?

Extra Challenge

Can you talk about the properties of these 3D shapes?  That means what makes them this shape?  How many faces does each one have?  How many corners / vertices does each one have?  How many edges does each one have?

So a cylinder has 3 faces (2 flat and 1 curved face) and 2 edges, but 0 corners (or vertices)

You might need to find objects in your house that are these shapes, as it is hard to tell properly from just a picture. 

Click on this link to watch a video and find a quiz for the properties of 3D shapes.  It’s definitely a challenge for you!

What are the Properties of 3D Shapes?

Games to support Learning:

Shape Patterns

3D Shape Quiz

Shape Monsters

Book Review:

Hi Primary 1.  I had another book review sent to me so I thought I’d post it for you to see.  Another great full star rating review!  Well done!

Dictation Wednesday

Today we are going to do some dictated sentences – we used to do them in the morning to warm up our brain 🧠. Miss Donald would read out a sentence and you had to write the sentence on your whiteboards – do you remember? 

Just like in class – have a go and try your best!

Warm Up:

• Warm up your brain by reading these words on the video – can you read them before the man on the video says them?

Main Activity:

• For this activity you will need to ask nicely for an adult or a brother or sister to help you. Ask them to please read out the sentences below and then you write them down in your jotter

• When your helper is reading the sentences, ask them to please read them slowly and read them a few times so you remember them

• Remember a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. Try and write in your neatest handwriting with small, tall and fall letters. 

• Read your sentences back after you have finished to make sure you haven’t missed any words. 

Extra Challenge: 

• Why not draw your own illustrations to match your sentences.

• Can you make up some dictated sentences for someone in your house? Remember to mark their work afterwards and make sure their sentences are correct!

Game to Support Learning: 

• Click on the picture below and have a go at ordering sentences with Writing Runway

Subtraction Wednesday

Today we are going to do some work on our subtraction skills.

Remember there are lots of words that mean subtraction – have a look at the picture below to remind you…

Warm Up:

• Watch this funny video all about subtraction

Main Activity:

• Answer these subtraction problems in your jotter. Remember, when you are subtracting you have to count backwards…the number always gets smaller.

• Take the biggest number then subtract the smaller number from it.

Primary 1 Subtraction Problems

Extra Challenge:

• Can you start from 30 and write your numbers back to 0?

Game to Support Learning:

• Log into your Sumdog account and have a go at practising your maths skills

Writing Tuesday

Morning Primary 1. Happy Tuesday!

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.

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

Main Task

• Here are two videos of one of our favourite books that we read in class – ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ by Giles Andrea.  The first one is the story being read and the second one is an animated version.  Watch both if you like!

After you have read / watched it can you write a story map about it?  You can draw the setting and the characters and then write a sentence or two each about something that happens at the beginning, the middle and the end of the story.

Remember to use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence and full stops at the end.

Can you use a joining word?

Extra Challenge

Write a sentence about your favourite part of the book and why it is your favourite part.

Fun Finisher

Here is a song version of the story for you to listen to.  Can you join in with the rhymes?

Addition Tuesday

Today we are going to be revising our doubles to 10 and also learning more about doubles to 20.

Warm Up

Watch and Dance to this Dancing Doubles video.  Can you add the doubles to 20?

Main Task

Copy and complete these doubles sums in your jotter.  You can use objects to help you count or the number line below.  Try to do as many in your head as you can though.  If you learn your doubles off by heart it will make adding a lot easier for you.

Extra Challenge

This task is about near doubles.  If you know your doubles, then you should be able to quickly work out a near double.  Have a go!

Games to Support Learning

Hit The Button

Archery Doubles

Morning Primary 1.

I hope you have had a good weekend.  We have earned a class certificate from the EPIC reading website:

Well done to everyone who has been reading the books and helped our class achieve this badge!

Book Reviews

Last week for literacy I set the extra challenge of taking a photo of your book review and sending it to my email address so I could let you see them!  Thank you so much to these girls who did.  It was so lovely to see some of their work and the books you chose to read.

Well done!  I would definitely want to read both these books based on your book reviews!

Phonics Monday

Today we are going to do some work on our sounds and learn about the sound ‘ee‘. 

Warm Up:

• Can you read these words with some of our digraphs?

• Watch these clips to learn about ‘ee’

Main Activity:

• Read the ‘ee‘ words on the sheet below

• Choose an ‘ee’ word and try to write a sentence with it. Remember to begin with a capital and end with a full stop

• Draw a picture to illustrate your ‘ee’ sentence

Extra Challenge:

• Can you be a text detective and find any of the ee words in the word search? 

Games to Support Learning:

• Click on the link to play this ee game to make ee words.

• You could make your own SNAP game.  You will need:

• Paper

• A pen or pencil

• Scissors

• Make 2 sets of of all the diagraph sounds you have learned: ch, sh, wh, th, ng, ff, oo, ee.  Shuffle both sets up to play Snap or pairs:

• Or you could make 2 sets of ‘ee’ words, or any of the words you are learning to play snap or pairs.

Place Value Monday

Today for maths we are going to be revising  the value of the digits in a number depending on where they are placed.

Warm Up:

•  Order and sequence numbers – Counting Caterpillar Game

• Watch this video about place value in teen numbers:

Main Activity:

• Look at the worksheet below.  Count how many tens and how many units in each set of blocks.  Like this:

• Have a go at this one too – this time you have to write the ten and the units in separate boxes.

Extra Challenge:

Games to support Learning

Candy Machine

Mixture of Maths Friday

Today we are going to practise lots of different maths skills .

Warm Up:

• Can you…..

• Here are some videos to help you…

• This one is a funny one 😁….

Main Activity:

• Answer these maths questions – you can write the answer in your jotter or work with an adult and just say the answer out loud. 

Extra Challenge:

• Can you make up your own mental maths questions for someone to answer? Remember to be the teacher and mark their work afterwards! How many of your questions can they get right? 

Game to Support Learning:

• Here is a link to lots of really good games on TopMarks to practise your addition and subtraction – you can choose to play any game….click here to play or click on the pictures below.

Rhyme and Spelling Friday

Morning Primary 1!  Friday again.  I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Today we are going to do some rhyming work.  Remember words rhyme when they have the same sound at the end.  Like  fit and sit, or hen and pen.

Warm Up

Watch the video and join in – Can you spot the words that rhyme and the words that don’t rhyme?

Main Task

Have a go at finding and matching the rhyming words.  You can write them in your jotter to practise your writing and spelling if you want.  Or you can just talk about it with your adult.

Extra Challenge

Below is a list of the spelling words for primary 1.  Can you spell some of them?

Why don’t you practise spelling these words over the next two weeks.  If you have some chalk you could practise spelling them on the pavement outside your house?

When you have written a word can you think of any other words that rhyme with it?

big – wig – pig

get – let – met 

Games to Support Learning

Partners in Rhyme

Match the Rhyming words

Spooky Spellings

You could also play this game as a family:  One person starts with a word and then each person one after the other has to say a word that rhymes with it.  So the 1st person might say cat, the next person bat, the next sat and so on until you can’t think of any more rhyming words.

You could play a ‘speed round’ or a ‘slow round’.  Have fun!