Use the questions below to talk about the book with someone at home.
Extra Challenge
Read the short story below about Jess 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.
If you are writing the answers, remember to try and answer in a full sentence with a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.
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!
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?
https://youtu.be/uyee7EKTdo4
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.
Dictated Sentences
1. He has a big, red car.
2. My pet crab sits on the rug.
3. She had fish and chips for lunch.
4. This pond is not deep for the frog.
5. I went to the shop with my dog.
6. I hurt my foot in the park.
7. The sheep went to church with the farmer.
8. Three is not a big number.
9. The shark has lots of sharp teeth.
10. The man needed a stamp for his box.
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
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.
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!
https://youtu.be/vZjsLK5vwNU
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?
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!
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.
Today we are going to practise lots of different maths skills .
Warm Up:
Can you…..
Count from 0 to 100?
Count to 100 in 10’s?
Count to 100 in 5’s?
Count to 20 in 2’s?
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.
___, 12, 13 ___, 15. ___
5 + 5 =
1 + 2 + 1 =
10, 20, 30 ___ 50 ___
6 – 2 =
7 + ___ = 9
5 – ___ = 4
4 + 9 =
20, __, 19, ___17, 16
10 + 10 =
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?
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?
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!
