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.

Friday’s Mixture of Maths

Warm Up:

• Count forwards and backwards in 10’s.

• Try and start from a different number each time e.g.

50, 60, 70 etc.

40, 30, 20, etc.

• Watch this video to practise counting in 10’s:

Main Activity:

• Copy and complete these maths problems in your jotter.  Choose one column or both to complete – It’s up to you!

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

Extra Challenge:

• Can you make up your own maths problems to challenge someone?

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on this link and play the Basketball Game. 

Maths Topic Thursday

Time

Today we will be learning about telling the time to the nearest hour and half hour on an analogue clock, which just means a clock with hands.

• Remember when the big hand is at 12 it means o’clock and when it is at 6 it is half past the hour.

Warm Up:

• Find something in the shape of a circle to draw round.   Draw a circle clock face in your jotter with the numbers 1-12 around the face in the correct order and position.   Or make a clock face on paper. 

• Find 2 items which you could use as the long hand (minute hand) and the short hand (hour hand) to use on your clock face to practise telling time.

• Watch this video on o’clock and half past times:

Main Task:

• Look at these times with someone at home.  Can you read them correctly?  You can record them in your jotter if you want.

Extra Challenge:

• Can you draw an analogue clock, or make an analogue clock to show these times?

Resource to Support Learning:

• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock

Game to Support Learning:

• https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling_the_time#

Reading Thursday

Warm Up:

• Read your common words – how many can you read in 30 seconds?

• Write the alphabet in your jotter – write the uppercase and lowercase letters. Remember to form your letters correctly.

• Watch this video of our friend, Jack Hartman, acting out the alphabet…..

Main Task:

• Choose a story to read with someone.

• If you don’t have a book at home, click on the link below for The Book Trust and read one of the free online books . They are great fun and you can read along with them….

Book Trust

• Tell someone what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story.

• Who were the main characters in the story?

• Where was the story set?

• In your jotter, write down the title, author and illustrator of your story.

• Draw your favourite part of the story. Tell someone about your favourite part or, if you want to, have a go at writing why this was your favourite part.

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 link and play this reading game:  Tell a T-Rex

• Click on the CVCC/CCVC option on the menu.

Subtraction Wednesday

Today we will be learning all about 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:

• Go on a number hunt around your house. Can you identify the number before the number you find? Remember to find the number before, you must subtract 1.

• Watch this subtraction video:

Main Task:

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

Extra Challenge:

• Can you answer these missing number sums. Remember they are take away sums:

Game to Support Learning:

• Play the game below to practise your addition and subtraction.

• Click on the + or the – train.

•  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Blending Wednesday

Today we are going to be reading and writing words that have 4 letters. 

Warm Up:

• Play the game below on a tablet/phone or computer.

• Click on the first box with the option for ‘sp gr sl fl‘.                         https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html

Main Task:

• In your jotter, sound out and write the words for each picture.

• You can draw the picture to match if you would like to.

Extra Challenge: 

• Can you write out your words in capital letters as well as lower case letters?

• Can you write a sentence with any of the words from the sheet?

Game to Support Learning: 

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/helpAHedgehog/

Addition Tuesday

I can add doubles and near doubles

Warm Up:

Watch and join with this doubles rap!  You will remember it from class.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jOzhiACB68

• Can you tell your doubles to someone?

Main Activity:

Doubles and Near Doubles

Write the sums in your jotter with your answers.

Extra Challenge:

• Can you make up any of your own doubles or near doubles with bigger numbers?  eg. 6 + 6 = 12,  so 7 + 6 = 13

Game to support learning:

• Play the game below to practise addition.  Click on the link to doubles and/or number bonds.

• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Literacy – Writing Tuesday

I can write about a picture.

Today we are going to be writing about a piccture, like we normally do in class on a Tuesday.

Warm up:

Sort your common words into ones you found easy and ones you find tricky.

We all love Jack Hartmann videos in Primary 1!  Watch and join in with his sentence writing rap!

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.

Extra Challenge:

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

• Can you include any th words?

• Can you read your story to someone at home?

Reading Game:

• To practise your reading play the game below.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/helpAHedgehog/

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all safe and well and excited to learn from home!

Please take the time to read the letter Miss Ferguson wrote in your home learning pack you got on Friday – this explains how the blog will work and may answer any questions you have at the moment.

I will try and make the lessons as straightforward as possible and ensure any links can be used on tablets/phones as well as desktop computers.

Take this opportunity to enjoy showing the people you live with how clever you are and what you have learned so far in Primary 1. I can’t wait to hear how you all get on.

Miss Donald