Morning Primary 1/2

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:

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:

• Primary 1’s: how quickly can you start from 30 and write down your numbers all the way to 0? Who can be the fastest!

• Primary 2’s: how quickly can you start from 100 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.

Primary 1 Worksheet

Primary 2 Worksheet

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?

Game to Support Learning:

• Practice your subtraction with this game – click here!

Morning p1/2. 

I hope you had a nice time over the holiday weekend. Here are today’s activities for you to try. 

Writing Tuesday

Today we are going to be writing sentences about a picture. I remember you were so good at this in class. 

Warm up:

• Play this game to help you practice writing sentences. Click on ‘Phase 3’: Writing Runway

• Watch this video about sentence writing:

Main Activity:

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

   

  Who is in the story?	What day is it? Is it the holidays?	What are they doing?
  Where are they?	What are they wearing?	Why are they outside?

• Write about the picture using sentences.  Say your sentences out loud before you write them.

• Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

• Write your letters neatly and remember to keep reading your sentence back to make sure it makes sense and you haven’t missed any words.

The Rainy DayHere are some words you could use in your story:

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. red boots, dark clouds.

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 uyu2215

• Select your name and you’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 uyu2215

• Select your name and you’re in!

Addition Tuesday

Today we are going 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:

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:

• Try making up your own addition sums with 3 numbers and get someone in your family to solve them.

• Remember to be the teacher and mark their work!

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on ‘+’ and then choose ‘three one-digit numbers’

Adding 3 Numbers  Game

Good morning p1/2. I hope you all managed to get outside and have some fun in the sun yesterday 😃 . Tomorrow and Monday are holidays so……NO SCHOOL BLOG on Friday and Monday!

Look where I was this week……our class potatoes are looking brilliant! I gave them some water and made sure there was enough soil. Do you remember when our potatoes will be ready to harvest? …..June!

Mrs McMillan has made a great YouTube channel with lots of techniques to help us all relax and stay calm if we are feeling a bit worried –  here’s the link if you would like to take a look.                        Mrs McMillan – Take a Moment

Reading Thursday

Warm Up:

• Watch this video to learn about the 6 important questions to think about when we are reading or writing a story

Choose A Book:

• Go onto Oxford Owl and choose a book to read with someone at home.

• Remember to click on ‘my class login‘ and enter woodlandsreading into the username and pupil into the password box.

• Talk about the story using the 6 questions:

  Who?	When?	Where?
  What?	How?	Why?

Main Activity:

• Primary 1

  Read the short story below about Tess 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.  Not just with one word. So for question number 1 your answer would start:- Tess has a _______  ________  ________ .

  Primary 2

  Read the short story below and then answer the questions in your jotter.

  Remember to write your answer in a full sentence with a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.  Not just with one word. So for question number 1 your answer would start:- The class are ______   _______ .

  Extra Challenge:

  • Pick a part of the story and make up your own illustration to go along with the story.

  • What do you think might have happened next in the story? If you would like to, write or draw what you think might happen next. 

  Remember to keep practising reading your common words from the Primary 1 and Primary 2 word walls.

  Primary 1

  

  Primary 2

  

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!

Literacy Wednesday

Warm Up

• Primary 1’s watch this video with all our jolly phonics sounds and actions – how many do you remember?

https://youtu.be/1Qpn2839Kro

• Primary 2’s watch this video with your digraphs –  can you join in? 

https://youtu.be/W8Jp5MutVlQ

Main Activity

• Look at the sheet below. Write a word that begins with each letter of the alphabet – maybe you could draw a picture of something that begins with that letter too.

• Remember to sound out your word when you are writing it and read it back to make sure you haven’t missed any letters.

• Primary 2’s try and include your digraphs too.

• Who can write a word for all 26 letters of the alphabet?

Extra Challenge

• Try and write you words in capitals as well as lowercase letters.

• Use your words to try and write a sentence – how many of your words can you get into one sentence?

Game to support learning

• Click on this link Little Bird Spelling to practise your spelling (click on Year 1 or Year 2 at the top then choose a book).

Subtraction Wednesday

Warm Up:

• Start from 30 and count backwards – try and write your numbers all the way to 0. Maybe you could challenge yourself and start from 100 and try and count all the way back to 0!

• Watch this video all about subtraction

Main Task:

• 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 tell someone all the things you know about subtraction?

• Maybe you could make a poster to teach someone how to subtract.

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on the – train: Mental Maths Train

Morning p1/2. Looks like it’s going to be another sunny day –  hopefully you’ll be able to get out and enjoy the sun for a bit. Here are today’s lessons – have a go and see how you get on. 

Writing Tuesday

Warm up

• Can you remember all our rules for writing? How many can you remember without having to look at the picture below?

Main Activity

• Here is a video of one of our favourite books that we read in class – ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’

• Listen to the story and try to join in with the rhyming

After you have read/listened to the story talk to someone about the story. What happened in it? Retell the story using your words.

After you have talked about the story write down and draw something that happened at the:

• BEGINNING of the story

• MIDDLE of the story

• END of the story

Extra Challenge

• Write down as many rhyming words as you can from the story. Can anyone get more than 3 pairs of rhyming words? I managed to get ‘boat’ and ‘goat’.

Fun Finisher

• Julia Donaldson’s husband has made up a song about the story – have a listen and see what you think!

Addition Tuesday

Today is our day to practise addition.

Warm Up

• Play Hit the Button to practise your number bonds to 10

Main Activity

Remember, when you are doing an adding sum, you can add the numbers in ANY order – even when you switch the numbers about, the answer is still the same e.g. 3 + 5 is the same as 5 + 3

In class, when we were adding numbers together, we found it was easier to swap the numbers around so we always started with the big number and then added on the small number

Have a go at the worksheets below. Look out for the different Primary 1 and Primary 2 worksheets.

Primary 1  –   write these in your jotter, please

Primary 2 Worksheet 

• Complete the worksheet below by writing the matching pairs in your jotter like this, please:

14 + 82 = 82 +14

• If you can, try and answer the sums too. You might need help from someone (or a calculator) to work out 3 of them! Good luck.

Extra Challenge

• If you have a dice at home, roll the dice twice then add the 2 numbers together. Switch the numbers round and write the sum the other way too!

• Look at the worksheet below to help you complete your extra challenge

• If you don’t have a dice, use this online dice rolling link: Online Dice

Game to Support Learning:

• Play Sumdog for 10 minutes – Mr Green is awarding Sumdog champions each week.