Good morning and welcome to Home Learning Week 6. I hope you are all safe and well, and enjoyed a lovely long weekend.

I have listed tasks which can be undertaken during the week and 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

“ea” phoneme – bread, head, deaf, ready, dead, instead, pleasant, pheasant, weather, feather, wealth, learn, earth                                                                                                                Common Words – children, because

Yellows

Same as the Red Group.  In addition, ask your child if they can think of any others words which have the “ea” phoneme. Please check that the words are spelled correctly and ask them to practise these words as well.

Greens

Consolidation Week – Please practise the phoneme and common words from the last two weeks (see “Green – Spelling” tab at the top).

Blues

All the letters of the alphabet. Please also try to practise saying them correctly and writing them using correct formation.                                                                                                           Common Words – I, in, it

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.

Pencil Control Activities

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.

Strawberries

Please copy this passage into the Home Learning jotter and fill in the missing words. Then try to answer the questions in a sentence.

Grapes

Please try to answer the questions in a sentence in the Home Learning jotter.

Summarising Task

Ask your child to choose a book of their choice and read it together. Then discuss the main point(s) from the beginning, middle and end of the story and ask your child to draw a picture to illustrate them. Next, ask them to write a few sentences to describe what is happening in each of their pictures. Try to use the words “At the beginning of the story”, “Then” and “Finally” at the start of the sentences. This could be done on a piece of paper (like the picture below) or in the Home Learning jotter.

Pineapples

Please try to answer the questions in a sentence in the Home Learning jotter.

Summarising Task

Ask your child to choose a book of their choice and read it together. Then discuss the main point(s) from the beginning, middle and end of the story and ask your child to draw a picture to illustrate them. Next, ask them to write a few sentences to describe what is happening in each of their pictures. Try to use the words “At the beginning of the story”, “Then” and “Finally” at the start of the sentences. This could be done on a piece of paper (like the picture below) or in the Home Learning jotter.

Apples

Please complete pages 1 – 4 of the booklet pictured below (one page per day). Words could also be practised using paint, pasta and play dough etc.

Dictionary

Strawberries

Please use page 6 of the Dictionary booklet shown below to discuss “Guide Words” with your child and then complete pages 9 and 10.

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 (see tab “Free Books” at the top).

Numeracy

Please find below this term’s Learn Its/Counting activities and tasks for your child’s group. Textbook/workbook 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. There are also two online activities on Studyladder for each group. Logins were given out to the children before we finished, as well as, enclosed in the Home Learning packs.

Circles

For question 2 on page 82, if possible, ask family members.

Squares

On page 30, when children are asked to make a lunch graph for their class, if possible, ask family members and complete the graph (like the one shown on the workbook page) in the Home Learning jotter or on paper.

Triangles

Please continue 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 14?, What number comes before 12?  What number comes between 16 and 18?

1 – 20 Number Formation Sheet

Ordering Numbers Worksheet

Other Activities

Below are some home learning ideas for each year group for the topic “Dinosaurs” which you and your child can continue to work on, choosing as many activities as you would like. There are also 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!

Primary 2

Dinosaur Fact Cards

Label the Dinosaur Worksheets

Dinosaur Colouring Sheets

Bravery Posters

 

Primary 3

Dinosaur Fact Cards

Dinosaur Colouring Sheets

Dinosaur Fact File Sheets

Dinosaur Skeleton

Sorting Dinosaurs Worksheet

Bravery Posters

There are also some mindfulness colouring sheets which can be accessed using the link below and a lovely Art activity (see picture below) which could be undertaken by the whole family!

Mindfulness Positivity Colouring Sheets

I hope you and your child enjoyed the visit to the Science Centre last week. 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 included some of these jobs in the “WOW Work” tab at the top. Please remember our blog is public so I can’t use any photos that have children in them. Names will not be matched with photos. Mrs McGarvey is able to use photographs of the children on Twitter. I have seen pictures of a boy sitting working at his desk, a great W.W. 1 tank, a rocket flying off to space and a carnival in the garden that have been sent to Mrs McGarvey this week!

I will post our “Check-in Station” on Thursday so all the boys and girls can let me know how they are doing. It would be great if everyone could leave a comment. Please tell the children I am missing them all and I am so proud of them for trying hard with their home learning.

I hope you all have a super week and keep safe everyone!

Mrs Lindsay