How are you all? If there is any work or other activities that you have been getting up to that you would like to share with me I would love to hear about it! Or if you have any questions about anything on the blog then you can email me at:
PDonald@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk
Reading Thursday
Warm Up:
Practice your reading by playing this game from class…click here to play!Who can get the highest score? Choose either Phase 2 or Phase 3.
Read your common words. How many do you know without any help? (I have put them at the bottom of this lesson incase you don’t have them at home).
Main Activity:
Primary 1
Read the short story below about Jack and then answer the questions. You can answer the questions by talking to someone at home or you can write your answers in your jotter.
Remember to try and answer in a full sentence with a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.
Today we are going to be doing some revision on our digraphng.
Warm up:
Watch these two YouTube clips all about ng
Main Activity
In your jotter write words with ng in them
Write a sentence with a ng word in it. Remember a capital letter, full stop and finger spaces in your sentence.
Draw a picture to illustrate your ng sentence.
Try setting it out in your jotter like this:
ng words:
_____________ ______________
_____________ ______________
_____________ ______________
ng sentences:
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
ng picture:
Extra Challenge:
Can you be a Text Detective and try find some ng words around your house or outside?
Can you use stones or sticks or lego blocks etc. to write ng?Have a look at this picture for ideas – people have used all different things to write their sounds:
Game to support Learning:
Play this game to revise your digraphs. Click on Phase 2 or Phase 3 – Reading digraphs game!
I hope you have had a good long weekend. I am missing you all very much. Welcome back to your online ‘class’.
EPIC READING!
As well as the Oxford owl login I gave you last week, for online reading books, I have created a class login for another online reading site called EPIC!
After launching the Epic app, Select “Have an account? Log In” then click “Students & Educators”
Log in with your class code jvy5210
Select their name and they’re in!
In Other News…
Look at what I went to check on……our class potatoes are looking brilliant!I expected them to be a gonner but they are doing so well!
I was also thinking about the skills we had been learning about in class.
Can you remember any of the skills which make you a good communicator? See below…
And then there is the skill of Self-Management which we were learning and really enjoying. So many of you were impressing me by talking about this skill and telling me which bits you are good at and which you might need to work on.
You could still be practising these skills at home at the moment!
(The last picture says accessing support – sorry for the dodgy camera work.)
Mrs McMillan has also posted a message and video on the main school blog page to one of her favourite breathing techniques which can help when you feel you might be getting close to losing your cool… Here is her video:
Have a go at today’s maths and literacy lessons below.
Morning Primary 1. Happy Tuesday to you all. I hope you had a nice break from school work over the long weekend.
Here are today’s lessons for you to have a go at…..
Warm up:
Do you have any play dough, plasticine, a squishy or something else you can squeeze? Mixing flour with a little water can make a dough too)
Lets warm up and strengthen our hand and finger muscles for writing with a bit of Dough Disco, just like we have had fun doing in class!!!
Dough Disco is a series of fine muscle exercises that were invented by Shonette Bason Wood.
Don’t worry if you don’t have anything to squeeze, doing the actions will still help your hands warm up a bit.
Click on the following link to go to the Dough Disco with the inventor herself:
Main Task:
Today we are going to write about the picture.
Look at the picture below. Talk about it with someone at home.
A Rainy Day
Here are some questions to talk about:
Who is in the story?
Where could they be?
What are they doing?
Where are they?
What can you see?
How do you think they feel?
Write about the picture using sentences.
Here are some words you could use in your story:
boots
boy
girl
rain
umbrella
clouds
Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Try to include a joining word (and, so, but, because) to join two sentences together.
Extra Challenge:
Can you use any describing words to add extra detail to your story?
Example: red boots, dark clouds.
Fun Dough Disco Challenge
Can you find a favourite Disco song to do some Dough Disco to? The one we used a lot in class was Proud Mary by Ike and Tina Turner:
We used to roll the dough at the ‘rolling’ bit. It starts slow and speeds up so we had to go faster and faster! Do you remember boys and girls? Seems like such a long time ago now.
I hope you can have some fun dancing and squeezing your dough to some disco songs! I’m sure your grown ups will have their own favourite disco songs too.
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 Storiesand 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.
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
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!
Go to Oxford Owl and choose a book or 2 to read with someone at home.
Click on ‘my class login’ at the top and then ‘My Bookshelf’.
Username: woodlandsreading
Password: pupil
Talk about the story using the 6 questions:
Who?
When?
Where?
What?
How?
Why?
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!
