As Part of mental health awareness week, the focus for the long weekend is going to be kindness.

Being kind is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and others.  It makes other people feel good but it makes you feel good too.

See how many acts of kindness you can complete over the weekend.   Use this kindness Bingo board.  Tick each square as you do them.

Hi Primary 1/2 😃,

As it is mental health awareness week I thought you might like a couple of wee activities during the week.  

I hope you all enjoyed the book that I posted on Monday – ‘Everybody Worries’ by Jon Burgerman. Here it is again, in case you missed it…

Everybody Worries

Do you remember the author of the story ‘Lucy’s Blue Day’ came in to talk to us and read his book to us at assembly? In the book, Lucy learned that #itsoknottobeok Here is an animated video of the book

Here is the link to Mrs McMillan’s YouTube channel. It has some  strategies you could use if you are feeling worried or a bit anxious – Take a moment with Mrs McMillan

Now, here are today’s literacy and numeracy lessons….

Blending Wednesdays 

Today we are going to learn about letter blends. Learning letter blends helps us to read and write.

Each letter within the blend is said individually, but quickly, so they ‘blend‘ together. bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fr, tr, fl, gl, gr, pl, pr, sl, sm, sp and st are all examples of blends. 

Warm Up:

• Watch this video and read along with the blends

• Can you read all the letter blends below? Remember to say each sound quickly so they ‘blend’ together! 

Main Activity:

• Write down the words from the sheet by adding the correct letter blend to the beginning of the word. Remember there will be 2 sounds. Can you hear them both?

• If you would like to, you can draw a picture next to your word

Extra Challenge:

• Try writing out the words from the sheet above in capital letters as well as lowercase letters e.g. glasses GLASSES

Game to Support Learning:

• This is a great game to learn about letter blends BUT it needs flash player so might not work on all devices –click here to try it.

Subtraction Wednesday

Today is our day we do some work on our subtraction skills. 

Warm Up:

• Go on a number hunt around the house and find as many numbers as you can – when you find a number, take away 1 from it e.g. if you find the number 16, take away 1 and your answer is 15 

• Remember – when you take away 1 you just go to the number before

• What is the biggest number you can find? I managed to find the number 100 in a book so I took 1 away and wrote down 99. Can you beat me and find an even bigger number?

Main Activity: 

Primary 1 Worksheet

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

• If you find it easier, you can draw the pictures to help you solve each problem – cross out the amount to take away, then count how many are left

Primary 2 Worksheet

• Lots of words tell you to take away e.g. subtract, minus, the difference between, less than, how many are left? 

• Can you solve these tricky subtraction problems?  You need to to really think about what the question is asking you to do.

Game to Support Learning:

• Practice your subtraction skills with this game – click here!

Extra Challenge:

• Sing along with this video all about subtraction – it really made me laugh! 

Morning p1/2

Happy Tuesday to you all. Here are today’s lessons for you. 

Writing Tuesday

Today is the day we do some work on our writing 📝 .  Remember it doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to spell a word – just sound it out and try your best to write it 🤩.

Warm up:

• Start today by writing the alphabet in your jotter –  try and use your neatest handwriting

• Make sure you remember tall, fall and small letters

• You can choose to practice writing lowercase letters, uppercase letters or both!

Main Activity:

• Look at the picture below.  Talk about it with someone at home. Think about these questions:

• Write about the picture using sentences.  Say your sentences out loud before you write them and read them back to make sure they make sense

• Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops

The Park

Extra Challenge

• Can you include a joining word – and, but, so or because – to join two sentences together?

• Can you use any describing words to add extra detail to your story e.g. blue bucket, green shorts

Game to Support Learning:

• Dance along with Jack Hartman doing the alphabet

Addition Tuesday

Last week we started to add 3 numbers together.  Remember – you can add numbers in any order, the answer will always be the same.

When you are adding 3 numbers, look for easy numbers to add together first:

• numbers that add to 10, then add the last number

• look for doubles and near doubles to help you add

• start with the largest number and add on the smaller numbers

Warm Up:

• Watch this video to remind you of ways to add 3 numbers

Main Activity:

Try adding these 3 number sums in your jotter. Remember you can add the numbers in any order…just look for the easiest way for you.

Primary 1 Worksheet

Primary 2 Worksheet

Extra Challenge:

• Play this game to test yourself on adding 3 numbers together. Click on ‘+’ and then choose ‘three one-digit numbers’

Adding 3 Numbers  Game

Morning p1/2 👋 

Back to Monday! Can you believe this is now our 9th Monday away from school – you’re all doing so well and I am still missing you all lots 🌈

Well done to JT for being one of Mr Green’s Sumdog Champions last week 🏆! Also, a very big well done to M-JS for her super reading on Epic and Oxford Owl – I couldn’t believe the number of books you read 📚! 

Today marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week. John Burgerman has written a fantastic picture book for children who are worried about Coronavirus. Click here to have a look at it – Everybody Worries 

Here are today’s activities for you to try – keep going and just try your best 😃 . 

Phonics Monday

Today we are going to do some work on our sounds and digraphs.

Warm up:

• How many of our digraphs can you remember?

• Can you read these words?

• Play along with this game – how many words can you splat?

Main Activity:

• Copy and complete the sheet below by adding  the missing digraphs to the start of each word

• If you would like to, you can draw a picture to go along with your words

Extra Challenge:

• Try making up a funny story with as many of the words from the sheet as you can. You don’t need to write the story down – you can just say it out loud. I managed 8 in my story below – can you beat me?

The whale invited the shark, the sheep and the chick over to his house. They were his three best friends. The sheep blew the whistle and the shark got a fright and fell off his chair and broke the whales favourite shell!

Games to support Learning:

Challenge yourself by clicking on the ‘Phase 3 sounds

• Viking Blending

• Help a Hedgehog to Read

Place Value Monday

Warm Up:

• Primary 1’s: Order and sequence numbers – Chinese Dragon Game

• Primary 2’s: Count in tens and units with this game – Place Value Basketball

Main Activity:

Primary 1 worksheet:

• Write these numbers from smallest to largest in your jotter

Primary 2 worksheet:

• Can you split these numbers into tens and ones? How many tens are in each number? How many ones are there? Remember ‘ones’ and ‘units’ mean the same thing

Extra Challenge:

• Can you write any numbers using things you might have in your house, or things you might find outside e.g. sticks, stones or leaves? Look at the pictures below for some ideas

Morning p1/2. We’ve all made it to Friday again….phew 😅. I hope you’ve all had a good week. Here are today’s activities for you to try. Have a good weekend and I’ll speak to you all again on Monday. 

Friday Spelling

Warm Up:

• Watch this video clip to help you learn tricky words – I really like these videos!

Main Activity:

• 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.

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:

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 uyu2215

Common Words:

Primary 1

Primary 2

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.