Good morning and welcome to Home Learning Week 5. I hope you are all safe and well.
I have listed fewer tasks to be undertaken this week as Thursday is an in-service day and Friday is a holiday. Hopefully the sun will be shining to allow us all to enjoy the outdoors! These tasks can be carried out in any order. Everyone is in a different situation so please do whatever you can with your child and don’t worry about completing them all.
Literacy
Spelling
Below are the phonemes/phoneme words/common words for each group. First have a chat about the spelling rule for the phoneme words and check your child knows the meaning of each word. Then try to practise them every day using a multi-sensory activity. Multi-sensory ideas could include: making the words using play dough, painting the words, writing the words in a sand tray or on a whiteboard/chalkboard, as well as, writing the words on a computer then changing the font/size, writing the words using fancy letters or with eyes shut. The words could even be written using the hand not normally used for writing. Can you and your child think of any new multi-sensory activities to try? You could give your child a spelling quiz, either oral or written, at the end of the week to see how many words they can remember.
Reds
“wr” phoneme – write, wrist, wrote, wrong, wrinkle, wren, wreck, wrap, written Common Words – gave, family, how, might
Yellows
Same as the Red Group. In addition, ask your child if they can think of any others words which have the “wr” phoneme. Please check that the words are spelled correctly and ask them to practise these words as well.
Greens
“ew” phoneme – drew, flew, chew, grew, threw, blew Common Words – what, many, soon, book
Blues
All the letters of the alphabet. Please also try to practise saying them correctly and writing them using correct formation. Common Words – a, at, the
Any colouring tasks or pencil control activities (please see link below) which could be undertaken would also be beneficial as this would aid development of finger muscles which in turn would help with writing letters and numbers.
CHALLENGE ACTIVITY – Try writing a sentence for each word. Remember to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).
Reading
Please find the text below for your child’s group. Try to answer the questions in a sentence in the Home Learning jotter.
Strawberries
Grapes
Pineapples
Apples
Please complete pages 10 – 12 of the booklet pictured below (one page per day). Words could also be practised using paint, pasta and play dough etc.
Handwriting
Please complete the page indicated below for your child’s group.
Strawberries
Grapes and Pineapples
Apples
Personal Reading
Please set aside time each day to spend some time reading for pleasure. There are lots of books to choose from on the Free Book Website. You can access this website using the Free Books tab at the beginning of this blog. Enjoy!
Numeracy
Please find below this term’s Learn Its/Counting activities and tasks for your child’s group. Workbook/textbook pages can be completed orally, on paper or in the Home Learning jotter. Worksheets can be printed out, completed orally or in the Home Learning jotter.
Circles
Squares
Triangles
Please begin to count forwards to 20, as well as, counting backwards. Try to count different objects around the house e.g. spoons, crayons. Discuss numbers after/1 more, before/1 less and between, e.g. What number is 1 more than 12?, What number comes before 15? What number comes between 17 and 19?
10 – 20 Number Formation Worksheet
Other Activities
Below are some home learning ideas for each year group for the topic “Dinosaurs” which I thought we could work on for the next two weeks. You and your child can choose as many activities as you would like to complete over the next fortnight. Below are a few links which you might find helpful when completing some of the tasks. Books and the internet may also be needed for research but please only do what you are able to. Have fun!
I hope you and your child enjoyed the visits to the safari park and Hogwarts. I know I did! There should be another virtual trip this week. Please keep checking the school app for details.
Remember you can share any good pieces of work by emailing them to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk
I have loved seeing all the photographs of the children and their great jobs that have already been emailed in. I have seen fab time, dictionary and handwriting jobs, a super Agent 85 tank, as well as, children baking and undertaking W.W.1 personal research! Keep up the good work!
I will post our “Check-in Station” on Tuesday so all the boys and girls can let me know how they are doing. It would be great if everyone could leave a comment.
I hope you all have a super week and keep safe everyone!
Mrs Lindsay
