Good morning and welcome to Home Learning Week 11. I hope you are all safe and well.
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 playdough, painting the words, writing the words in a sand tray or on a whiteboard/chalkboard, as well as, typing the words on a computer then changing the font/size, writing them using fancy letters or with eyes shut. The words could even be written using the hand not normally used for writing. You could even try tracing the words on your child’s back with your finger and asking them to guess which word you have “written”. 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
“ve” phoneme – have, give, live, leave, believe, retrieve, starve, relieve Common Words – own, small, something
Yellows
Same as the Red Group. In addition, ask your child if they can think of any other words which have the “ve” phoneme. Please check that the words are spelled correctly and ask them to practise these words as well.
Greens
“y” phoneme – fly, shy, cry, sky, why, dry, myself Common Words – bring, two, Mr.
Blues
All the letters of the alphabet. Please try to practise saying them correctly and writing them using correct formation. Common Words – can, we, into
CHALLENGE ACTIVITY – Ask your child to write a sentence for each word. Please remind them to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).
Reading
Please find the text below for your child’s group.
Strawberries
Please ask your child to read “Hello, Earthling” and complete the follow-up work in their Home Learning jotter or on paper.
Grapes
Please ask your child to use the map of “Baxendale Village” to complete the follow-up work in their Home Learning jotter or on paper.
Pineapples
Please ask your child to use the pictures below to help them write out the instructions of “How to make a mask” in the correct order. This work can be completed in their Home Learning jotter or on paper.
Apples
Please try to practise all words in the booklet pictured below, using multi-sensory activities, such as, painting the words, making them using playdough or even “back writing”.
Also, please complete pages 9 – 12 of the booklet pictured below (one page per day).
Grammar and Punctuation
Please find the tasks below for your child’s group.
Strawberries
Please ask your child to complete this work in their Home Learning jotter or on paper.
Grapes and Pineapples
Below is a link to a worksheet with a picture of a swimming pool scene at the top. Please ask your child to look at the picture carefully and discuss with them what different things are happening. Then ask them to write a sentence for each thing. Ask your child to write as many sentences as they can. Please remind them to use capital letters and full stops in their work, as well as, use their knowledge of phonics to spell unfamiliar words. The worksheet can be printed out and sentences written on the sheet or in their Home Learning jotter/paper.
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. Worksheets can be printed out, completed orally, in the Home Learning jotter or on paper.
Circles
Sorting Halves and Quarters Worksheet
Stained Glass Windows Worksheets
Halves and Quarters Worksheets
Squares
If possible, please print out the sheets below (using the link What is a Quarter? Activity) and use it to explain to your child when we cut an object into quarters, we cut it into four equal parts. Each piece is a quarter.
Triangles
Please continue to count forwards to 20, as well as, counting backwards with your child. 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 19?, What number comes before 17? What number comes between 13 and 15? Also, continue to discuss numbers 2 more/2 less, e.g. What number is 2 more than 11? What number is 2 less than 14?
Other Activities
It is Father’s Day on Sunday 21st June. Below are some links to activities which your child might like to do.
Drawing and Colouring Sheet for Dad
This week is Burnside’s Got Talent Week! If your child would like to participate, take a picture or record a video of their talent (people have chosen to sing, dance, play an instrument, tell a joke or perform gymnastics, football skills and magic tricks in previous years) and tweet the photo or video of their performance on Twitter this week. Tweet @burnsideprim and we will retweet. There will also be a special certificate on the app for you to download for everyone taking part. I can’t wait to see what the children come up with!
It is also Sports Week. Two new activities will be posted every day on the Burnside School App at 9am (there is an overview of these below) and you can email pictures of your child’s efforts to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk and/or tweet their pictures/videos to @burnsideprim and @ActiveSchoolsSL, including the hashtag #BurnsideForGold
Sports Week Activities Overview
Remember you can also 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 sent 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 a video of a boy carrying out a Science experiment where he made Non-Newtonian liquid, as well as, pictures of another boy looking very proud of the rainbow tank and the mini allotment he made which were sent in.
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
