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.

Reading Thursday

Warm Up

• Read your common words. How many can you read without help?

• Play this game to see if you can spell some of your common words.  Click on the Year 1 box.

http://www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

Main Task:

• Choose a story to read with someone.

• If you would prefer to, click on the link Book Trust and read one of the free online books .

• Discuss or write in your jotter the title, author and illustrator of your story.

• If it is a story you haven’t read before, can you predict what you think the story is about or what might happen, based on the front cover and the blurb.

• Discuss with someone the main things that happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story.

• Who were the main characters in the story?

• Where was the story set?

• Who was your favourite character in the story?  Draw the character in your jotter and write about why you liked them so much.

Extra Challenge:

• Can you list 3 new words you learned from your story?

• How many  joining words (and, but, because) can you find in your story?

Game to Support Learning:

• Play 10 minutes on Sumdog Reading.

The next link is for a website called Teach Your Monster to Read.  It is a free online interactive teaching resource which helps young readers.  All you have to do is register with an email address.  No payment required.

• https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/

Maths Topic Thursday

Time

Today we will be learning about days of the week and months of the year.

Warm Up

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tx0rvuXIRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omkuE6Wa5kQ

Main Task

• Play this fun game with Adventure Man to help you learn about the days of the week:

https://www.abcya.com/games/days_of_the_week

• Look at the days of the week trains below.  In your jotter, write the day of the week that comes next on each train.

• Can you write the days of the week in order?

• Play this fun game with Adventure Man to help you learn about months of the year:

https://www.abcya.com/games/months_of_the_year

• Look at the worksheet below.  Can you order the months of the year?

Extra Challenge

• Look at the calendar for this month of April below and use it to answer the questions below.

• How many days are in April?

• What is today’s date?

• What was yesterday’s date?

• What will the date be tomorrow?

• What day was it or will it be on:

• 8th April?

• 19th April?

• 24th April?

• 27th April?

• What was the date:

• 3 days after 3rd April

• 2 days before 13th April

Hi boys and girls,

Today is World Earth Day.  It is held on 22nd April every year and it is a day to celebrate our planet and think of ways we can look after it even more by making sure we recycle, save water, plant some plants, put rubbish in the bin, and take time to notice nature all around us.

Here is a wee song about Earth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBmZjOHrVJ0

If you are out on a walk this week here is a nature scavenger hunt for you to do while you are out.  Can you spot everything on the list?

Happy hunting!  Happy Earth Day!