Good morning boys and girls, I hope you all had a lovely weekend and managed to make the most out of the lovely weather we’ve been getting 🙂 As always grown ups, do whatever is manageable. I will hopefully have the tabs above updated this week to include different activities across the curriculum if you are looking for extra things to do. They won’t be fully completed as I will just keep adding to them as we go.
As usual, send any pictures of the learning throughout the week before Friday afternoon for our ‘Fantastic Work Fridays’ and If there is anything I can help with please email me. Remember that this address is used by all of the classes, please put Miss Laidlaw Room 4 to ensure I don’t miss any.
gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk
Reading
Remember to try 20 minutes of personal reading each day. If you are limited at home with reading books, I have collated some online reading/eBook resources in the tab at the top or you could read comics, blogs, magazines and personal fiction/non-fiction books you have at home. Below are some reading activities that can be done with personal reading (there are lots more on the ‘reading’ tab).
This week I thought our reading and comprehension could link in with our Dinosaurs topic.
Click the link below for the correct group to find a PDF to read all about dinosaurs. Try to answer the questions in complete sentences.
Strawberries and Pineapples
Dinosaurs Reading Comprehension
Grapes and Lemons
Dinosaurs Reading Comprehension
VCOP
Remember, VCOP (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation) are tools that we use to help improve our writing and add detail. This week’s focus is Punctuation. Click the link below for the correct group.
Strawberries and Pineapples
Punctuation
Grapes and Lemons
Punctuation
Writing
This week’s writing task is to write a letter to someone that you are missing right now. It could be a friend, family member, someone from school or someone from a club. You could tell this person what kind of things you are missing and what you’re most looking forward to when we no longer have to stay home. You could also tell them what you have been doing to keep busy. Think about all of the things a letter needs and of course remember all of our writing targets like wow words, connectives, capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
Spelling
* Say, make/break, blend, read and write your words.
* Suggested spelling activities are at the top of the page
* Remember to test yourself on how much you remember at the end of the week and practise any you still find tricky.
Activity 1 – Counting
New pods for everyone this week (as well as the shape ones that should still be there) is a variety of ‘counting’ activities to revise.
Activity 2 – Learn Its/calculation
Below are some games to reinforce fast recall of number bonds, addition facts and doubles
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/addition-and-subtraction
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Activity 3 – 2D and 3D shapes
Hope you got on ok with last weeks Shape revision on study ladder and managed to remember lots. I will leave those pods active so that you can continue these if you haven’t managed to have a go yet. Here are some more activities to keep practising.
Just like this, you can have a shape hunt around your house to see what 2D shapes and 3D shapes you can find and sort.
Click the link to find a few 3D shapes worksheets – All About 3D Shapes Worksheet
Just like this worksheet, you can draw 2D shapes, label with their name, number of edges and number of vertices (the pointy corners).
Activity 4 – Measure
Continuing on from last week where we began to look at measure. Click on the link below to keep learning about measuring height and length.
Measuring Height and Length (2)
- Joe Wicks PE (every morning at 9am)
- Active Schools Challenges (Twitter – every Monday, Wednesday and Friday)
- Jump Start Jonny (New videos every Monday or lots available on website)
- GoNoodle (Dance, exercise and mindfulness videos available)
Last week I mentioned our mini topic is Dinosaurs! This will be our topic focus for May
Click the link below to find activity ideas. For some of these activities there are activity sheets to match – I’ll put them in the tab at the top of the page – or you can make your own.
Extra Activities
- Art – Thanks to Mrs Steele for spotting this fun outdoor art activity
- Browse the curriculum tabs at the top of the page(from Tuesday)
- Take part in our virtual school trip
- Complete this weeks Wednesday Challenge (or any of the previous weekly challenges)
Have a great week everyone!
Miss Laidlaw🌈
