Good Morning Primary 1!  Can you believe it’s another Friday already?  That’s 8 Fridays away from school now!  I am missing you all.  Hope you are all doing well.

I see that LM and CT have both become Sumdog Champions recently!  Well done you two!

I also see that LM and CM have been on the EPIC reading site and have been doing a little bit of reading!  Well done both of you too. 

Friday Spelling

Warm Up:

• Watch this video clip to help you learn tricky words

 

Main Activity:

Spelling words	him	not	can	if

• Can you write your spelling words in CAPITALS?

• Can you write your spelling words in bubble writing?

• Can you write them in rainbow writing? e.g. they

Extra Challenge:

• Be a Text Detective and have a look around your house. How many of your spelling words can you find? 

• Can you use any of your spelling words in a sentence?

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:

• Count along with this video – count in 2’s, 5’s or 10’s

Main Activity:

• Copy and complete these maths problems into your jotter.

• Don’t be caught out by – and + sums!

Good Luck!
·       Double 5  =
·       3 + 4 =
·       7 – 2 =
·       11 + ? = 14
·       5 + 4 =
·       2 more than 13 =
·       1 less than 19 =
·       15 – 1 =
·    Order the numbers: 11     4     13      9      7
·       Copy and complete: 0  10 __ 30   40   __  __  70  __  90

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on this link and play the Basketball Game 🏀

Extra Challenge:

• I saw these activities online and thought I’d share them with you in case it’s sunny over the weekend 😎 . You could use any of your own toys! 

Morning Primary 1

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.

Choose A Book: Go onto Oxford Owl  or Epic Reading! and choose a book to read for enjoyment. Oxford Owl: username ‘woodlandsreading‘ password ‘pupil‘ Epic Reading: class code jvy5210 Common Words:

Topic Thursday

Today we are going to do some work on patterns. 

 

Warm Up:

• Watch these videos to remind yourself what a pattern is

Main Activity

• Play this game to complete the patterns…… click here to play!

• Complete the patterns below by drawing what comes next in your jotter

• If you have colouring pens or pencils, you could add some colour to your pattern  

Extra Challenge

• Use things you might have in your house or outside e.g. lego bricks, stones, pasta (if you have any left!) to make your own cool pattern. 

Morning Primary 1

 

Phonics Wednesday

Today we are going to be doing some revision on our digraph ng.

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!

Subtraction Wednesday

Warm Up:

• How quickly can you start from 30 and write down your numbers all the way to 0? Who can be the fastest?

• Here are some videos to help you:

Main Activity:

• 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 answer these tricky missing number sums?

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

·         10 – ? = 8	·         6 – ? = 3	·         5 – ? = 1
·        14 – ? = 10	·         4 – ? = 2	·         7 – ? = 6

Game to Support Learning:

• Practice your subtraction with this game – click here!

Hi Primary 1! 

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!

These are the login instructions:

For Laptops/Chromebooks:

• Go to www.getepic.com/students

• Log in with your class code jvy5210

• Select their name and they’re in!

For iOS / Android:

• Download the Epic App

• 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.

Writing Tuesday

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:

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.

 

 

Addition Tuesday

Today is our day to practise addition.

Warm Up:

• Practise your addition playing Hit the Button

• 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 Stories and 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.

Maths Topic Thursday – Symmetry

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

Games to practise your symmetry skills:

• Click on these links to play different symmetry games: Symmetry Matching Game and Symmetry Sorting Game.

Main Activity:

• 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!