Morning everyone! I hope you are feeling good today 😎. 

There are two American astronauts 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀 being sent up to space later today 🚀. The launch of Falcon9 is happening around 9:30pm – it is quite late but if you are allowed to stay up you can watch it live here: NASA LIVE

If all goes to plan you should be able to see the roc ket from your window. It will pass around the UK about 9:45pm and look like a bright light moving in the sky – can you spot it 🚀?!

Now, here are today’s lessons…

Blending Wednesday 

Today we are going to do some more work on letter blends – sometimes letter blends are called ‘consonant blends’.  

Each letter is said individually, but quickly, so they ‘blend‘ together. 

Warm Up:

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

• Try and say the letter blends in this video along with Jack Hartman

Main Activity:

• Write down the words from the sheet by adding the correct letter blend to the beginning of the word

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

Extra Challenge:

• Can you use some of the words above to write a sentence? How many words can you get in your sentence?

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

Game to Support Learning:

• Play this game and fill in the missing blend at the start of the word…. click here to play

Number Problem Wednesday

Today we are going to do some work on number problems.

Solving number problems means you’ve got to use your brain and think about what you have been asked – is it an adding sum or a taking away sum?

Lot of words give you a clue and help you work out if you have to add or subtract. Look at these posters to help you:

Warm Up:

• Watch this video about solving word problems

Main Activity:

Can you solve these tricky addition and subtraction problems?  You need to to really think about what the question is asking you to do – is it an adding sum or a take away sum? Remember to look for clues in the words that are used!

Primary 1 Worksheet

Primary 2 Worksheet

• Do as many of these as you can – there are ALOT of sums!

Extra Challenge:

• Can you remember all the words that mean ‘subtract‘ and all the words you remember that mean ‘add‘? Look back up to the top of this post at the ‘word clue’ posters if you need some help!

• Maybe you could make a poster, like the ones above, with all the words that mean ‘subtract’ and all the words that mean ‘add’

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on the picture below to play ‘Robot Addition‘

Morning p1/2,

It was such a nice day yesterday – it looks like today is going to be sunny too! 

Well done to KP, BP, BL and MJ-S for all their super reading on Epic Books 📚

Here are today’s online activities….

Tuesday’s Literacy 

Today in literacy I thought we could do some learning on fiction and non-fiction books.

Warm Up:

• Have you heard of ‘fiction books‘ and ‘non-fiction books‘? Try and have a guess at what you think the words might mean then watch the videos below to see if you’re right!

https://youtu.be/7RRPqkPnRl8

Were you right? So, fiction books are made up stories that are not real and non-fiction book have facts, they teach us something and have information that is true.  

Main Activity:

• Read the title of each book from this worksheet and decide if it is fiction (made up – not real) or non-fiction (real information, teaches us something)

• You can write the titles of the books (or draw pictures of the titles) in your jotter under the headings Non-Fiction and Fiction or just discuss them with someone at home

Extra Challenge:

• When I did a hunt around my house I found some nonfiction books; I found a dictionary, a recipe book and a book all about birds.

• Go on a book hunt around your house and try and find some fiction books and non fiction books – how many of each can you find? Can you beat me?

Game/reading to Support Learning:

• Click on the link below and compare the fiction and nonfiction books. You can read along with the books or press on the button and listen to them be read to you

• Non-fiction books vs Fiction books

Fraction Tuesday

Today we are going to learn about fractions. Fractions are when something is split into equal parts – all the pieces need to be the same size.  

‘Half‘ is a fraction. Sometimes it is written like this ‘1/2‘. Half means 1 whole split into 2 equal sized pieces. 

Warm Up:

• Watch this video all about half

Main Activity:

• Look at the worksheet below. You can draw the shapes in your jotter or just talk about them with someone at home. Which pictures show half 1/2?

• Draw your own pizza or cookie like the ones below. Afterwards, cut your cookie or pizza in half and share it with someone

Extra Challenge:

• Maybe you could ask an adult to help you divide things into 2 equal halves e.g. fruit, your toast or a tasty sandwich

• Try and share out some sweets or toys between 2 people so each person has an equal half

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on the link and play the game about half. How much of the shape is shaded? Remember if it is a half then equal sized parts must be coloured in…. click here to play!

• Here is a NUMBERJACKS all about half 

Hello p1/2.

Tomorrow and Monday are May holidays so today will be the last online lessons until Tuesday 😎!

I saw these art activities online and thought I’d share them with you incase you wanted to do them over the holiday weekend.  Reading Thursday 

Warm Up:

• How many of these common words can you read before the girl on the video says them? Good luck – you’ve got to be quick!!

Main Activity:

Choose a Book:

• Click on these links and go onto Oxford Owl  or Epic Reading! and choose a book to read for enjoyment.

• There are Biff, Chip and Kipper stories and lots of other great books for your level.

Game to Support Learning:

• 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.

Topic Thursday

Today we are going to do some work on information handling. We can find out lots of information from pictures, charts and graphs.

Warm Up:

• Watch this clip all about finding , using and creating information in a graph –  click here

Main Activity:

• Look at the pictogram below and try to answer the questions at the side

Extra Challenge:

• Can you gather information from your family and record it in your own chart e.g. you could find out their favourite flavour of crisps or favourite chocolate bar

Game to Support Learning:

• Play these games to work on your data handling skills –

Data Handling Game 1

Data Handling Game 2 

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