Blending Wednesday

Today we are going to be reading and writing words that have letter blends at the start of the word. 

Warm Up:

• Watch this video on letter blends:

• Play this game 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.

• Remember to form your letters neatly.

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

Extra Challenge: 

• Write out the words in capital letters as well as lower case letters e.g. drum and DRUM.

• Try and write a sentence with some of the words you have written e.g. The frog and the crab got a drum.

Game to Support Learning: 

• To support reading, try and play this game:

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

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.

• Primary 1 sums are in red and Primary 2 sums are in blue.

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

Writing Tuesday

Just like we do in class on a Tuesday, today we are going to be writing sentences about a picture.

Warm up:

• Watch and join in with Jack Hartmans sentence rap.

• Tell someone at home how you write a sentence. What do you need to remember?

Main Task:

• Look at the picture below.  Talk about it with someone at home. What do you see? What is happening in the picture?

• Write a story about the picture using sentences.

• Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

• Remember to sound out your words and ‘have a go’ at writing them.

• Write your letters neatly on the line and keep reading your sentence back to make sure you haven’t missed any words.

Extra Challenge:

• Try to include a joining word in your story to join two sentences together – and, so, but, because.

• Can you include any th words?

Reading Game:

• To practise reading and writing sentences in order, play this game:

• https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/writingRunway/index.html

Addition Tuesday

Today we are going to be learning about doubles and near doubles e.g. if we know that 3+3 = 6 then we can use this to work out that  3+4=7 (it is a near double – you just add one more) .

Warm Up:

• Watch and join with these double videos:

• Can you tell your doubles to someone?

Main Task:

• Write these double and near double sums in your jotter with your answers.

• 2 + 2 =	2 + 3 =
  3 + 3 =	3 + 4 =
  4 + 4 =	4 + 5 =
  5 + 5 =	5 + 6 =
  6 + 6 =	6 + 7 =
  7 + 7 =	7 + 8 =
  8 + 8 =	8 + 9 =
  9 + 9 =	9 + 10 =
  10 + 10 =	10 + 11 =

Extra Challenge:

• Make up your own doubles, or near doubles, with bigger numbers  eg. 20 + 20 = 40 so 21 + 20 = 41.

Game to support learning:

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

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

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/archeryDoubles/index.html

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.

Obviously, with our class being a composite class, some of the work will differ for the Primary 1’s and Primary 2’s – please ensure you look out for the different activities for your child’s stage.

Take this opportunity to enjoy showing the people you live with how clever you are and what you have learned so far in p1/2. I can’t wait to hear how you all get on.

Miss Murray

Literacy – Phonics Monday

I can read and write words with th.

Today we are going to be learning all about the digraph ‘th’. Remember th can make 2 sounds:

• th like in the word thin, bath and three

• th like in the word then, this and that

**Look below to see how to set your work out in your jotter**

Warm up:

• Watch these two YouTube clips all about th:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U354eD-hgQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3INXFPrfJM

Main Task:

• In your jotter write some words with th at the beginning, middle or end of the word e.g  thunder, path, feather.

• Write a sentence with a th word in it. Remember a capital letter, full stop and finger spaces in your sentence.

• Draw a picture to illustrate your th sentence.

Extra Challenge:

• How many th words can you write in one sentence e.g. When I was three I hurt my thumb with a thorn.

Set it out in your jotter like this:

Reading Game:

• To practise your reading play the game below.

• Click on CVC or, if you want a trickier challenge, click on CVCC/CCVC

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/tellATRex/index.html

Place Value Monday

I can order numbers.

Warm Up:

• Primary 1’s:  watch this video clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndj6D-cWseA                 Count forwards and backwards to 30. Try starting from a different number each time e.g. start at 19 and count up to 30 or start from 25 and count backwards to 0.

• Primary 2’s: watch this video clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-azuApvA0                  Count forward and backwards to 100. Try starting from a different number each time e.g. start at 49 and count up to 100 or start from 37 and count backwards to 0.

Main Activity:

• Starting from 0, write your numbers in order. How far can you get?

• Write each row of numbers in order, from smallest to largest.

• Primary 1’s numbers are in red and the Primary 2 numbers are in blue.

• Primary 1	Primary 2
  1.    9      5      3      0	1.    79     25     13      0
  2.    10      9     11      13	2.    35    99      12    13
  3.    7      19      12       2	3.    17     90     89    28
  4.    15      8     11       12	4.   45     68     11     70
  5.    21     11      1       14	5.    2    100    14     52
  6.    26     19     30      20	6.   29     49     39    19
  7.    16     23     10      27	7.   66     23     18     27
  8.   12    17    7    30    25	8.   8   12   77   30   41

Extra Challenge:

• Make up your own maths problem.

• Write down 4 numbers and then order them yourself or get someone else to order them.

Game to support learning:

• Play the game below to practise ordering numbers.

• Click on ‘ordering’ and then either 1-20 or 1-100.

• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/chinese-dragon-ordering

Today we made the most of the sun and used chalk to write our numbers, count up in 10’s and write our words.

Today we did some more work on subtraction.

We know that when we subtract we count backwards and the answer is always less.

Literacy Homework

• Try playing this game at home – we play it in class and the children really love it:

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

• Please revise all common words learned so far.

• This weeks sound is th. Can you use your sound cards to make the th words below?

• thin	path	thorn
  three	bath	moth

• Please try and read as often as you can with your child. Can you find any th words in your book?

  Maths Homework 

  • Can you count to 100 in 10’s? Try watching this video to help you:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gmEe0-_ex8

  • Try logging into your Sumdog account and playing some numeracy games.

• Please complete the maths worksheet in pencil.

• Can you answer the following missing number sums:

  14 + ? = 16	4 +? = 7	19 + ? = 24
  6 + ? = 9	18 + ? = 21	10 + ? = 14