Reading Thursday

Hi Primary 1.  Hope you are good today!

Today we are going to complete a book review.  A book review helps other people decide if they would like to read a book.  You tell other people how much you liked the book and why.

Today we are going to complete a very simple book review where you will talk or write about your favourite part of the story, your favourite character and give your book a star rating out of 5!

Warm Up

Play Help a Hedgehog to Read.  Choose your own level.  How many words can you read before the time is up?

Main Task

• Choose a book you have in your house or log in to Epic Reading or Oxford Owl

Epic Reading class code is : jvy5210

Oxford Owl user: woodlandsreading    Password:pupil

• Choose one book to complete the task below.  You can write in your jotter or just talk about it with an adult…

Extra Challenge

If you wrote your book review on paper or your jotter,  why don’t you email me a photo of it and I can share your reviews on the blog.

You might make someone else want to read the book you have written about!

My email address is PDonald@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

Game to Support Learning

Job Mixer

Time Thursday

Today we are going to learn about telling the time.

We are going to tell the time to the o’clock.  That’s when the big hand, the minute hand is pointing to 12.  and the small hand, the hour hand points to the hour that it is.

So if the big hand is at 12 and the small hand is at 4 it would be 4 o’clock!

Warm Up

• Go on a clock hunt round your house.   How many clocks and watches can you find?  Remember there are 2 types:

• analogue which have hands:

• and digital, which have just numbers:

• Watch this Jack Hartmann video about the analogue clock:

Main Task

Watch the song about o’clock times and then see how many o clock times you can read correctly in the sheet below.

What Time is it?

Extra Challenge

Can you draw a clock face with any of these times on it? Or use this Online teaching clock to show the times.

Games to support Learning:

Telling the Time

Morning Primary 1!  I hope you have enjoyed all the sunshine we have had – I think it’s about to go away for a wee while 🙁   I wanted to have a BBQ today but I’m not sure if it will be a bit too cold outside.  I might just have one anyway!

Here are Wednesday’s Home Learning activities…….

Plural Wednesday

Today we are going to do some work on plurals. Plural means there is more than one of something.

When there is one of something we call it singular and when there is more than one of something we call it plural. 

To make something plural we just add ‘s‘ to the end of the word e.g. 1 cat and 5 cats. 

So adding ‘s‘ to the end of the word means there is more than 1 of something and it is plural. 

Warm Up:

• Watch this video to help you understand plurals:

Main Activity:

• Complete the worksheet below by adding s to the end of the word to make it plural

• If you would like to, you can draw pictures to go along with your writing

• Try and set it out like this:            1 cat        3 cats

Extra Challenge:

• Can you use any of your plural words to write a sentence? I came up with the sentence:         He had 2 fast cars. 

Game to Support Learning: 

• Match the singular with its plural and then choose a present for Lucy in this game – click here! (you can skip the advert after 15 seconds). 

Number Bond Wednesday

Today we are going to do some work on our number bonds. Remember, a number bond is an addition sum that we can recall and answer really quickly.

If we know our number bonds off by heart, it helps us as we start to work with bigger numbers. 

Warm Up:

• Jack Hartman has all the number bond videos for numbers from 1 to 10 on YouTube. Here is his video for number 8 – in the video he will show you all the different ways to make 8

• If you want to watch the number bond videos for all the other numbers….click here! The videos should play one after the next.

Main Activity:

Number Bond Worksheet

• Complete the addition sums below in your jotter. Try and answer the number bond sums quickly, without using your fingers!

• If you need  to use your fingers  remember to always take the big number and add on the small number. 

Extra Challenge:

• Look at the picture below. Choose a number and write it in the middle of a your flower and then write all the different adding sums that make that number in the petals – remember we call all the different ways to make a number our ‘Number Story‘. 

• Here are the number stories for 5 and 10….

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on the picture below to practise your number bonds. Choose ‘number bonds‘ and then ‘addition within 10‘

Morning primary 1

Happy Tuesday to you all.  Here are today’s lessons for you. 

Writing Tuesday

Today is the day we do some work on our writing 📝 .  Remember it doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to spell a word – just sound it out and try your best to write it 🤩.

Warm up:

• Start today by writing the alphabet in your jotter –  try and use your neatest handwriting

• Make sure you remember tall, fall and small letters

• You can choose to practice writing lowercase letters, uppercase letters or both!

Main Activity:

• Look at the picture below.  Talk about it with someone at home. Think about these questions:

• Write about the picture using sentences.  Say your sentences out loud before you write them and read them back to make sure they make sense

• Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops

The Paddling Pool

Extra Challenge

• Can you include a joining word – and, but, so or because – to join two sentences together?

• Can you use any describing words to add extra detail to your story e.g. rubber duck,  cold water.

Game to Support Learning:

• Dance along with Jack Hartman doing the alphabet

Addition Tuesday

Today we are going to do to solve some addition problems.

Warm Up:

Try to work out the answers before Jack tells you…

Main Activity:

Try to solve the problems below…

Extra Challenge:

Games and video to Support Learning:

• Click on the link to take you to a variety of problem solving games for 5-7 year olds: Top Marks Problem Solving Games

• Watch the ant solving the problem of making sure there are enough spaces for 29 ants: Ants problem

Morning Primary 1.

I hope you had a lovely weekend in the sunshine!

Can you believe it’s June already? I hope you’re all well and ready for some more Home Learning tasks. 

Phonics Monday

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

Warm Up:

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

• 

• Watch these clips to learn about ‘f’ and ‘ff’

Main Activity:

• Read the ‘ff‘ words on the poster below

• Choose a ‘ff’ 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 ‘ff’ sentence

Extra Challenge:

• Can you be a text detective and find any of the ff words in the wordsearch? Some of the words might be backwards – good luck!

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on the picture below to play this ‘ff’ game. You need to select the ‘ff’ sound too!

Monday’s Maths

Since today is the start of a new month AND a new season I thought we could do some work on months of the year and seasons of the year!

Today is the first day of June and it is the start of the season Summer. 

Warm Up:

• Can you remember how many months are in a year? Can you name them?

• Can you remember how many seasons there are? Can you name them? 

Sing along with these videos to help you remember the months of the year and seasons – I have put on your favourite seasons song! Remember in America they call Autumn, ‘Fall’. 

Main Activity:

• Have a look outside and see if you can spot any signs of summer

  What do the trees look like? Look at their leaves.	Is it dark when you go to bed or get up in the morning?
  What are people wearing?	What is the weather like?

• If you can, have a go at this ‘Signs of Summer Scavenger Hunt’. I managed to find 6 of the items – can you beat me?

Extra Challenge:

• Draw a picture of yourself in summer – try to include as many signs of summer as possible. Think about what you would be wearing and where you would be. What would the weather be like?

Game to Support Learning: 

• Play this fun game where you have to dress the character for the season….click here!

• Click on the link to play the months of the year game….click here!