Topic Thursday

Today we are going to learn all about money 💰💵.

• We need money so we can pay for things. Can you think of any things you have bought using money?

• There are lots of different ways we can pay for items. We can use coins, notes or a credit/debit card. Look at these coins…

Warm Up:

• Go on a coin hunt!  Look around the house to see if you can find any coins.  Ask a grown up to help you.  When you have finished talk about the coins you have found 💰

• Put your coins in order, starting with the smallest VALUE (not the smallest size). Can you add any of the coins together?

• Watch this short sing along video that tells us about the coins 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p

Main Activity:

• Play this money game to practise using coins – Coin Game

• Have a look at the money jars below.  Can you work out how much money is in each jar?  If you have any coins at home you can use these to lay out the amounts shown on the sheet

Extra Challenge

• Can you use coins to put the correct amount of money in each jar below – remember there might be more than one way to make the amount

• You could draw around any coins you have at home to show the amount or just write down the value of the coins

Games to Support Learning:

• Click here to play this great money game:Toy Shop Money Game

• If you have time, watch this Numertime episode all about money – I remember how much you all loved watching Numbertime in class!

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.

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!

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.

Reading Thursday

Warm Up:

• Play Tell a T-Rex to practise your reading – click on CVC or challenge yourself to CCVC.

• Try this super website Oxford Owl – it will give you access to lots of age appropriate  books which are designed to help you read at your level. You can filter by age or level at the top. I have set up an account for our class:

  Click on ‘my class login’ at the top.

  Username:     woodlandsreading

  Password:     pupil

  Main Task:

Extra Challenge:

• Can you find any rhyming words in the story?

• Make up your own question about the story for someone else to answer!

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

Primary 1

Primary 2

 Topic Thursday – Position and Movement

Today we will be learning about the position of something compared to something else and learn about the language we use to describe where we, or things, are.

Warm Up:

• Watch this clip on BBC Bitesize about the different words we use to describe the position of things – click here

• Watch the video below all about position

Main Task:

Look at the pictures in the grid below and the answer the questions.

• For question 1 draw the picture in your jotter.
• For question 2  write the sentence, adding in the missing position words.

Extra Challenge:

• Play this tricky game to test your positional language – can you complete all 9 rounds?

Preposition Game for p1/2

Extra Extra Challenge

• For the extra extra challenge you will need:

a toy            a table                 a box    

• Carry out each instruction in the table below to make sure teddy is in the correct position:

• Can you use the positional language you’ve learned to make up some more instructions for someone?