Good morning and welcome to Home Learning Week 8. I hope you are all safe and well, and you are enjoying the long weekend with your family. As Monday is a holiday (please take the day off and have fun), I have listed fewer tasks to be undertaken this week. 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 playdough, 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
“th” phoneme – then, this, them, there, these, father, mother, that, rather, gather, their, those Common Words – spring, sunny, home
Yellows
Same as the Red Group. In addition, ask your child if they can think of any others words which have the “th” phoneme. Please check that the words are spelled correctly and ask them to practise these words as well.
Greens
“ou” phoneme – count, house, round, outside, sound, mouse, found Common Words – wish, men
Blues
All the letters of the alphabet. Please try to practise saying them correctly and writing them using correct formation. Consolidation Week for Common Words – Please practise the common words from the last three weeks (see “Spelling – Blue” tab at the top).
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 – Ask your child to write a sentence for each word. Remind them to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).
Writing
Strawberries, Grapes and Pineapples
Ask your child to write a letter to someone that they are missing right now. It could be to a friend, family member, someone from school or someone from a club. Ask them to tell this person what kind of things they are missing doing and what they’re most looking forward to when we no longer have to stay at home. Also, ask them to tell the person what they have been doing to keep busy. Remind your child about V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation). Please use the link below to access letter templates. It is also fine to use your own paper if you are unable to print these out. Use the picture below to help with the layout (please ask your child to write the date under the address, as this is what we did in class). If possible, perhaps your child could post it to the person.
Apples
Ask your child to choose a person they are missing right now. It could be to a friend, family member, someone from school or someone from a club . Ask them to draw a picture of them on a blank piece of paper, including all body parts in the correct places. Then use sounds/phonemes to “have a go” at writing some words around the picture, explaining what they miss doing with that person. If possible, perhaps your child could post it to them.
Reading
Strawberries, Grapes and Pineapples
Ask your child to choose a book of their choice to share with you. It could be one that you have at home or one from the Free Book Website (see tab “Free Books” at the top). Then ask them to create a new front cover for the book based on what they have read. Please remind them to include the title, the author and the illustrator. This job can be completed in the Home Learning jotter or a piece of paper. Also, ask them to be a text detective and see if they can spot any of their spelling words for this week in the book.
Apples
Please try to practise all words in the booklet pictured below, using paint, pasta or playdough etc.
Also, ask your child to choose a book of their choice that you can share together. It could be one that you have at home or one from the Free Book Website (see tab “Free Books” at the top). Then ask them to be a text detective and see if they can spot any of the words from the booklet above or their common words for this week in the book.
Handwriting
Please complete the page indicated below for your child’s group.
Strawberries
Grapes and Pineapples
Apples
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.
Circles
We were working on “halfway between”, “estimating” and “rounding to the nearest 10” before we finished, please let me know if anyone is finding this work tricky.
Squares
We spoke about “rounding to the nearest 10” before we finished, please let me know if anyone is finding this tricky.
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. Continue to discuss numbers after/1 more, before/1 less and between, e.g. What number is 1 more than 11?, What number comes before 14? What number comes between 15 and 17? Also, begin to discuss numbers 2 more/2 less, e.g. What number is 2 more than 17? What number is 2 less than 20?
Other Activities
Aldi’s have great Eco friendly Art ideas (please see picture below) that I thought the children would enjoy undertaking as we have done a lot work on recycling this year.
I have included the grid with non-screen activities (please see below) again to give your child another opportunity to undertake more of the tasks.
I hope you and your child enjoyed the visit to Disneyland and the Titanic 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 great jobs that have already been emailed in. I have included some of these 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. This week I have seen photos of a boy helping out at home by hanging out the washing, as well as, reading to his younger brother and having fun outside that have been sent to Mrs McGarvey.
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
