Morning p1/2. Happy Friday to you all! Here is today’s lessons. Have a great weekend in the spring sun ☀️ .

Friday Spelling

Warm Up:

• Read your common words.

• Watch this video clip on spelling tricky words.

• Can you remember how to spell any of the words from the video? Try and spell them in your jotter.

Main Activity:

• Can you write your spelling words in capitals?

• Can you write your spelling words backwards?

• Can you write them in rainbow writing? e.g. you

Extra Challenge:

• Can you find any of these words in a book or a magazine?

• Can you use any of your spelling words in a sentence? Remember a capital letter, full stop, finger spaces and keep reading your sentence back to make sure it makes sense.

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.

Friday’s Mixture of Maths

Warm Up:

• Click on this link and play Hit the Button! Choose ‘number bonds’ or ‘doubles’.

• Watch this subatize video:

Main Activity:

• Copy and complete these maths sums in your jotter.

• Look for the Primary 1 and Primary 2 sums.

• Don’t be caught out by – and + sums!

Extra Challenge:

• Can you be the teacher and make up your own maths sums to challenge someone? Remember and mark their work afterwards!

Game to Support Learning:

• Log into your account and play Sumdog for 10 minutes.

Reading Thursday

Warm Up:

• Practise your reading with this game: Help a Hedgehog to Read

• Read your common words from the Primary 1 and Primary 2 word walls below. How many can you read without any help?

Primary 1

Primary 2

Main Task:

• Choose a story to read with someone.

• If you would prefer to, click on the link Book Trust and read one of the free online books .

• Discuss the title, author and illustrator of your story.

• If it is a story you haven’t read before, can you predict what you think the story is about or what might happen, based on the front cover and the blurb.

• Who were the main characters in the story?

• Where was the story set?

• Who was your favourite character in the story?  Draw the character in your jotter and write about why you liked them so much.

Extra Challenge:

• Can you be a Text Detective and name any capital letters you find in your story?

• Can you find any words in your story with the digraphs ch sh wh th?

• Can you find any words in your story that have 6 letters?

Game to Support Learning:

• Play 10 minutes on Sumdog Reading.

• The next link is for a really good website called ‘Teach Your Monster to Read’.  It is a free online resource which helps young readers.  All you have to do is register with an email address.  No payment required.

Teach Your Monster to Read

Maths Topic Thursday

Today we will be learning about the days of the week and months of the year.

Warm Up:

• Watch these videos about days and months and sing along

Main Activity:

• Click on this link to learn some more about the days of the week and play some games: Days of the Week Game

• Complete this worksheet in your jotter:

• Play this fun game with Adventure Man to help you learn about months of the year: Months of the Year Game

•  Look at the worksheet below.  Can you order the months of the year? Can you think of any celebration that happens in each month e.g. which month is Hallowe’en or Valentines Day in?

Extra Challenge:

•  Look at the calendar for this month and use it to try and  answer the questions below.

Morning p1/2,

Have a great Wednesday – the sun is shining again! Here are todays lessons for you to try:

Blending Wednesday

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

Warm Up:

• Play this game on a tablet/phone or computer: Forest Phonics. Click on the first box with the option for ‘sp gr sl fl‘.

• Watch this video on letter blends:

Main Activity:

• In your jotter, sound out and write the letter blend at the start of each word.

• Remember to form your letters neatly.

• If you would like to, you can draw the picture with the word.

Extra Challenge:

• Write the words in capital letters as well as lower case letters e.g. flag and FLAG.

• Try and write a silly sentence with some of the words you have written e.g. The crab wore a dress and glasses.

Game to Support Learning:

• To support reading, try and play this game. Click on Phase 2 or Phase 3:

Help a Hedgehog to Read

Subtraction Wednesday

• 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:

• Primary 1’s: can you write your numbers backwards from 20?

• Primary 2’s: can you write your numbers backwards from 100?

• Watch these videos to help you:

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 answer these tricky missing number sums?

• Put the number in your pocket and count back using your fingers until you reach the answer. How many fingers did you need?

• Remember they are take away sums:

Game to Support Learning:

• Play the games below to practise your subtraction.

• Minus Mission

• Click on the – train: Mental Maths Train

Good morning p1/2,

It looks like it’s going to be another sunny day – hopefully you’ll get to go outside and enjoy some of the lovely spring sunshine! Have you seen any spring daffodils or buds on the trees?

Here are today’s activities for you to have a go at – remember just to try your best and do what you can. I can’t wait to see some of the super work you have been doing!

Writing Tuesday

Today we are going to be writing a story about a picture of a family at home – just like you and your family at the moment!

Warm up:

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

• Watch this video to help remind you how to write a sentence.

Main Task:

• Look at the picture below.  Talk about it with someone at home. Who is in the picture? What are they doing? What time of day is it?

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

• Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

• Try to include a joining word (and, so, but, because) to join two sentences together.

• Can you use any describing words to add extra detail to your story e.g. The grey cat is on the round rug.

Remember to keep reading your sentence back to make sure it makes sense and you haven’t missed any words.

Extra Challenge:

• Can you read your story to someone at home?

• If you would like to, draw a picture of what you think might happen next in the story.

Addition Tuesday

Today is our day to practise addition.

Warm Up:

• Can you remember your double facts to 10?

• Watch this video to help you…..

• Practise your double facts using Hit the Button

• Click on the ‘doubles’ and then press ‘doubles to 10’.

Main Task:

• Copy and complete these double and near double sums in your jotter.

• Remember for near doubles you use your knowledge of double facts to help you. First, add the double then take away 1 or add 1 e.g. 5 + 6 is the same as 5+5+1 or 6+6-1

Extra Challenge:

• Try these missing number sums.

• Remember when you are doing missing number sums, put the number in your pocket and count on using your fingers until you reach the answer. How many fingers did you need to use to ‘add on’.

Game to Support Learning:

• Use this dice game to roll the dice and add the numbers together – Dice Game

Hi p1/2,

I hope you all managed to have a nice Easter – did you get any Easter eggs? The weather has been so lovely and sunny. There has been about 500 lambs born on my Dads farm over the holidays….they are enjoying running and playing in the sun.

I hope you and your families are all safe, happy and well.

Here are Mondays online lessons….

Phonics Monday

Today we are going to be learning all about the digraph ch.

Warm up:

• Can you remember what a digraph is?

• Watch these two YouTube clips all about ch:

Main Task

• In your jotter write some words with ch e.g  chin, chat, rich.

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

• Draw a picture to illustrate your ch sentence.

• Set it out in your jotter like this:

Extra Challenge:

• How many ch words can you write in one sentence e.g. The chick sat on the bench and had a chat and his lunch.

Game to support Learning:

• Practise your blending with the game below. Challenge yourself by clicking on the ‘Phase 3 sounds’.

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