Reading Thursday

Warm Up

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

• Watch this video to practise naming the capital letters…..have a go at writing them in your jotter afterwards.

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 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?

• What do you think might have happened once the story ended? Draw what you think would have happened to the characters next. If you would like to, you can try and write your new part of the story along with your drawing.

Extra Challenge:

• Can you find any th, sh, ee, oo or wh words in your book?

• Can you name the capital letters you find in your book?

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on the CVCC/CCVC option on the menu and play this reading game:  Tell a T-Rex

• Play 10 minutes on Sumdog Reading.

Maths Topic Thursday

Shape

Today we will be learning about 2 Dimensional (flat) and 3 Dimensional (solid)  shapes.  

Warm Up:

• Watch these videos about 2D and 3D shapes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beTDz9HSNOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A

Main Task:

• Shape Hunt – Go on a shape hunt around your house with a grown up.  How many 2D and 3D shapes can you find around your home?  What made the shapes? A picture? a coaster? A ball?  A box of tissues? A tin of beans? A box of cereal?

• Use the templates below to help you know what shapes you are looking for.  Who can find the most shapes?

Extra Challenge:

• 2D shape Riddles – grown ups can read the riddle and you see if you can guess the correct shape.

• Can you make up your own shape riddle to ask anyone else in your house?

Games to Support Learning:

• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
• https://apps.mathlearningcenter.org/geoboard/

Morning primary 1. We have decided that today you should wear your school uniform when you are learning from home. Please go and change into your uniform now…..

…….APRIL FOOLS

Blending Wednesday

Today we are going to be reading and writing words that have letter blends at the start of the word.

Warm Up:

• Play this game on a tablet/phone or computer: Forest Phonics. Click on the first box with the option for ‘sp gr sl fl‘.

• Watch this video on letter blends:

Main Activity:

• In your jotter, sound out and write the letter blend at the start of each word.

• Remember to form your letters neatly.

• If you would like to, you can draw the picture with the word.

Extra Challenge:

• Write the words in capital letters as well as lower case letters e.g. grass and GRASS.

• Try and write a silly sentence with some of the words you have written e.g. The frog did a big jump up the tree.

Game to Support Learning:

• To support reading, try and play this game. Click on Phase 2 or Phase 3:

Help a Hedgehog to Read

Subtraction Wednesday

Today we will be doing some more work on subtraction.

• Remember when we subtract the number always gets smaller; we count backwards.

• Minus, take-away, less than and subtract all mean the same thing.

Warm Up: 

• Try and count backwards from 30.

• Watch these videos to help you:

Main Task:

• Write down your calculations in your jotter and then answer them.

Extra Challenge: 

• Can you answer these tricky missing number calculations?

• Put the number in your pocket and count back using your fingers until you reach the answer. How many fingers did you need?

• Remember they are take away calculations:

Game to Support Learning: 

Addition Tuesday

Today we are going to do some more work on our adding.

Warm Up:

• Watch the video below to practise your number bonds to 10.

• Can you write down the 11 different ways to make 10?

Main Task:

• Copy and complete these addition sums in your jotter.

• Remember when you are adding two numbers together put the big number in your pocket and add on the small number on your fingers.

• When you are doing missing number sums, put the number in your pocket and count on using your fingers until you reach the answer. How many fingers did you need to use to ‘add on’?

Extra Challenge:

• Can you make up your own missing number sums to challenge someone?

• Can you be the teacher and teach someone how to do missing number sums?

Game to Support Learning:

Play the two games below to practise addition.

• Hit the Button!
• Mummy Maths.

Literacy – Writing Tuesday

I can write about a picture.

Today we are going to be writing about a swimming picture.

Warm up:

Read your common words.  See how many you can read correctly.

Here is the list of all your common words:

Watch this video about sentence writing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tChuU2owaOI

Main Task:

• Look at the picture below.  Talk about it with someone at home.
• Write about the picture using sentences.  Use the words to help you.  Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
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Extra Challenge:

• Try to include a joining word – and, but or because – to join two sentences together.

• Can you include any wh words?

• Can you read your story to someone at home?

Reading Game:

• To practise your reading play the game below.

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/fishy-phonics?phase=2

Morning Primary 1.  I hope you have had a lovely weekend.  Enjoy the sunshine in your back garden today! x

Literacy – Phonics Monday

I can read and write words with wh.

Today we are going to be learning all about the digraph ‘wh’.

**Look below to see how to set your work out in your jotter**

Warm up:

• Revise all your sounds – sing the songs and do the actions!!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wpdvv

• Watch these two YouTube clips all about wh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mppiO8xtYoA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuYZVrh1iPc

• In your jotter write some words with wh in the word e.g  whale, what, when, .

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

• Draw a picture to illustrate your wh sentence.

Extra Challenge:

• How many wh words can you write in one sentence e.g. The whale’s whiskers went white when he whispered.

Set it out in your jotter like this:

Game to support Learning:

Practise your blending with the game below…

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

Place Value Monday

Warm Up:

• Count up to 100 in 10’s.

• Now try counting up in 2’s. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 etc.

• Watch these videos to help you practise counting in 2’s:

Main Activity:

• Complete these questions in your jotter.

Extra Challenge:

• How far can you count up in 2′s? Can you write them in your jotter?

• Can you count objects in 2’s e.g. socks or shoes?

• Can you spot a pattern when you count up in 2’s?

Game to Support Learning:

• Play with this number square SPLAT!

• Count up in 2’s or 10’s and splat the numbers.

Hi Primary 1,

I hope you have enjoyed your first week of home learning! Miss Murray and I have enjoyed creating activities this week for all the Primary ones! We hope that all the parents and carers have enjoyed it as well. 🙂

I have been doing home learning with Rosie and Lyla too!  They weren’t super excited to have Mummy as their teacher at first, but they are mostly enjoying it now!!  We are trying to keep to a timetable, but it’s hard sometimes to keep to it when we are in all day.

We have been getting out for our exercise and fresh air once a day though,  and we have also been getting fit with Joe Wick’s live P.E. sessions every morning too.  You should try it next week if you didn’t do it this week!

I hope you are all keeping safe and well and keeping everyone else in your house smiling.

Have a lovely weekend and remember to check in on Monday for more maths and literacy activities!

Miss Donald x

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 a vertical line? e.g.

p

u

t

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  at the top then choose a book).

• Play  for Sumdog Spelling 10 minutes.