Good afternoon!
Following on from Mrs McGarvey’s message on the app, I would love to know how all of the boys and girls are doing. Please could you help your child write a little message in the comments box below, just saying hello and letting me know how they are.
After a busy morning on my laptop and helping Robbie and Ava with their school work, I’m now enjoying this glorious weather in the garden!
Mrs Lindsay
Just a note to let you know about a fantastic website Miss Muir came across!
https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html
This website has lots of free books to read online. You don’t need to register or login. Books are organised into various different categories, if you search for an item you can filter the options to books for your year stage using the funnel button at the left of the screen (Pr. 1 is the ‘blank’ button before Year 1, Pr. 2 is Year 1, Pr. 3 is Year 2).
There is an option to have the book read aloud to you using the play button at the bottom left of the screen once you select a book to read. Words are highlighted as you read and there’s even a dictionary built in that you can search for the meaning of any words you are stuck on.
Have fun reading some new books!
Mrs Lindsay
Good morning and welcome to Home Learning Week 3. I hope you all had a lovely Easter in the sunshine and the Easter Bunny was good to you all!
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 it all.
Reading
Please find the text below for your child’s group. Try to answer the questions in a sentence in the jotter that was in your child’s Home Learning pack.
Strawberries
Grapes
Pineapples
Apples
Please try to practise saying and writing (correct formation) all the letters of the alphabet daily then complete pages 2- 5 of the booklet pictured below (one page per day). Words could also be practised using paint, pasta and play dough etc. Any colouring activities which could be undertaken would also be beneficial as this would help to develop finger muscles which would aid pencil control.
Dictionary
Please find below the Dictionary booklets for each group with pages to be undertaken. Dictionary booklets were given out in the Home Learning packs.
Strawberries
Please complete pages 1 and 2 of this booklet.
Grapes
Please complete pages 2 and 3 of this booklet.
Writing
Strawberries and Grapes
Spring Break was a very different holiday for us all. Ask your child to write about it. Include: what things they did instead of going out visiting new places or going outside to play with friends, what was their favourite activity to do and how have they kept in touch with family and friends? Remember to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation). Children can illustrate their writing when they are finished. You could use the jotter that was given out or your own paper.
Apples
Ask your child to choose an activity they really enjoyed doing during Spring Break. Ask them to draw a picture of themself doing it and remember to include all body parts in the correct places. They could then label the picture, using sounds/phonemes to “have a go” at writing some simple words. You could use the jotter that was given out or your own paper.
Handwriting
Please complete the page indicated below for your child’s group. Handwriting booklets were given out in the Home Learning packs.
Strawberries
Grapes and Pineapples
Apples
Personal Reading
Please set aside time each day to spend some time reading for pleasure.
Please find below this term’s Learn Its/Counting activities for your child’s group. There is also a link to Time worksheets/Clock Face activity (which can be used for extra practice) that can be printed out.
Circles
Squares
Triangles
Please continue to practise counting forwards to 10, as well as, counting backwards. Also, practise writing numbers to 10 correctly and try to count different objects around the house e.g. spoons, crayons. Continue to discuss numbers before and between, e.g. What number comes before 3? What number comes between 6 and 8?
Below is a link to sheets which can be printed out, completed and kept as a record of this unique time.
2020 Covid-19 time capsule sheets.pdf.pdf
Remember you can share any good pieces of work by emailing them to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk
I hope you all have a good week and keep safe everyone!
Mrs Lindsay
Good afternoon everyone,
Just a reminder that after today (3rd April) there will be a two week holiday from school work and that home learning will resume on Monday 20th April. If you need anything during this time the details of how to contact S.M.T. are on the app.
Here are some links to some fun Easter activities that you can print out and do if you wish:
Easter Mindfulness Colouring Sheets
I am aware this will be a very different holiday for us but I hope you can relax and enjoy spending time as a family whilst staying safe and well. I also hope the Easter Bunny is good to you! I’m missing you all and I hope to see you soon.
Mrs Lindsay
Good morning!
I hope you are all keeping safe and well, and had a good first week of home learning.
This week, please continue to work through the folder of activities sent home. This also includes website suggestions. The children could also continue designing and building a simple 3-d model of a tank. As we are an Eco School, children should try to use recycled materials in the construction of their models. Also, some other jobs which could be undertaken, include:
• READ, READ, READ
• Write a weekly diary entry describing what you are doing and how you are feeling.
• Find a news story that interests you online or on tv/radio and write about in in your own words. You could even draw or print a picture too.
• Spelling practise. Use spelling words from previous Blogs to practise rules. Use a variety of active spelling strategies and get an adult to test you.
• Write a mini book.
• Copy the front cover of your favourite book.
• Dictionary games, e.g. get an adult to time you finding words.
• Play ‘Stop the Bus’ alphabet game.
• Online Maths games, e.g. Topmarks
• Practise “Learn Its”/Times Tables
• Personal research about World War One.
• Choose an aspect of our class topic, World War One, and undertake a drawing or a painting.
• Still Life Drawing – Choose something at home to draw, e.g. a bowl of fruit, a view from a window.
• Easter Art – Decorate a hard boiled egg or make an Easter bonnet.
• Home Baking
Below are also some free resources that are provided daily that the children could do. We all really enjoyed reading “The World’s Worst Children” and “The World’s Worst Children 2” by David Walliams in class so I’m delighted that he is putting up a free story every day on his website.
As I said last week, you can work through these activities in any order and at any pace. As every families’ circumstances are different, don’t worry if you don’t get them done. Please make sure in the days ahead you are making lots of time for play and having fun at home, this is more important than any task I set.
If you manage to complete a piece of work or participate in an activity you are particularly proud of and would like to share a photo, you can email them to:
gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk
When sending an email could you please include the pupil’s name, class (Room 5) and the word Twitter within the SUBJECT BOX of the email as this will be used by all staff. Your photos could then be shared onto the school twitter account for everyone to see!
I’m missing all my Room 5 boys and girls but we all have to stay at home at the moment to stay safe. I will hopefully see you all soon.
Mrs Lindsay
Good afternoon!
I hope you and your family are keeping well. Please tell the children I am missing them already and Room 5 was a very quiet place today.
I posted last week some ideas for activities to do at home for those already self-isolating and I will copy these onto the bottom of this post too. A folder of work with activities and website suggestions has also been given out which you can work through in any order and at any pace. However, as every families’ circumstances are different, don’t worry if you don’t get it done. Please make sure in the days ahead you are making lots of time for play and having fun at home, this is more important than any task I set.
Take care of yourselves and I will hopefully see you all soon.
Mrs Lindsay
• READ, READ, READ
• Write a weekly diary entry describing what you are doing and how you are feeling.
• Find a news story that interests you online or on tv/radio and write about in in your own words. You could even draw or print a picture too.
• Spelling practise. Use spelling words from previous Blogs to practise rules. Use a variety of active spelling strategies and get an adult to test you.
• Write a mini book.
• Copy the front cover of your favourite book.
• Dictionary games, e.g. get an adult to time you finding words.
• Play ‘Stop the Bus’ alphabet game.
• Online Maths games, e.g. Topmarks
• Practise “Learn Its”/Times Tables
• Personal research about World War One.
• Choose an aspect of our class topic, World War One, and undertake a drawing or a painting.
• Still Life Drawing – Choose something at home to draw, e.g. a bowl of fruit, a view from window.
• Easter Art – Decorate a hard boiled egg or make an Easter bonnet.
• Home Baking
For pupils who are currently absent or self- isolating the following activities could be undertaken at home:
• READ, READ, READ
• Write a weekly diary entry describing what you are doing and how you are feeling.
• Find a news story that interests you online or on tv/radio and write about in in your own words. You could even draw or print a picture too.
• Spelling practise. Use spelling words from previous Blogs to practise rules. Use a variety of active spelling strategies and get an adult to test you.
• Write a mini book.
• Copy the front cover of your favourite book.
• Dictionary games, e.g. get an adult to time you finding words.
• Play ‘Stop the Bus’ alphabet game.
• Online Maths games, e.g. Topmarks
• Practise “Learn Its”/Times Tables
• Personal research about World War One.
• Choose an aspect of our class topic, World War One, and undertake a drawing or a painting.
• Still Life Drawing – choose something at home to draw, e.g. a bowl of fruit, a view from window.
• Easter Art – decorate a hard boiled egg or make an Easter bonnet
• Home Baking.
I hope you are all well and taking care of yourselves.
Mrs Lindsay
Welcome to Room 5’s Homework Blog
This week Spelling, Reading, Numeracy and I.D.L. homework has been issued.
Please try to practise cvc words/phoneme words/common words each night using a multi-sensory activity in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday. 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 think of any new multi-sensory activities to try? These jobs do not have to be returned to school.
Blue Group:
Please complete page 1 of the CVC Booklet and return to school on Friday.
Words for the Green Group:
Consolidation week for “ue”, “aw” and “oi” phonemes and common words. Please practise: glue, clue, crawl, awful, moist, toilet, other, very, there, their, some
Words for the Red Group:
comb, lamb, climb, crumb, dumb, green, people, which, another
Words for the Yellow Group:
Same as the Red Group. In addition, think of at least two words of your own which have the “mb” phoneme. Write them down on both post-its given out in school on Monday. Are the words spelled correctly? Keep one post-it at home and bring the other into school to allow practice to be done in class too.
Challenge Activity – Try writing a sentence for each word. Remember to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).
Please read/discuss the following pages:
Apples: Pages 1 – 8 of “Fun at the Beach” and practise Key Words for Thursday
Pineapples: Pages 1 – 16 of “A Ball Called Sam” for Thursday
Grapes: Pages 1 – 16 of “The Singing Giant” for Thursday
Strawberries: Pages 1 – 16 of “Magnets” for Thursday
Circles: Please continue to practise tasks outlined on the Big Maths Sheet. Also, complete the Four Times Table worksheet and practise. Please return the worksheet to school on Friday.
Squares: Please continue to practise tasks outlined on the Big Maths Sheet. Also, complete the sheet indicated in the Mental Maths Booklet and return it to school on Friday.
Triangles: Please continue to practise counting forwards to 10, as well as, counting backwards. Also, practise writing numbers to 10 correctly and try to count different objects around the house e.g. spoons, crayons. Continue to discuss numbers before and between, e.g. What number comes before 5? What number comes between 8 and 10? Please complete the Addition worksheet and return it to school on Friday.
As you are aware the children have been working hard on our inter-disciplinary topic World War One. As part of this, I would like them to design and build a simple 3-d model of a tank. As we are an Eco School, children should try to use recycled materials in the construction of their model. All model tanks should be brought to school by Wednesday 1st April, in preparation for sharing their learning with others. Many thanks for your support with this task.
Welcome to Room 5’s Homework Blog
This week Spelling, Reading and Numeracy homework has been issued.
Please try to practise cvc words/phoneme words/common words each night using a multi-sensory activity in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday. 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 think of any new multi-sensory activities to try? These jobs do not have to be returned to school.
Words for the Blue Group:
peg, men, neck, up, mum, run Please complete cvc sheet and return to school on Friday.
Words for the Green Group:
boil, spoil, coin, moist, toilet, join, their, some, them, last
Words for the Red Group:
knock, know, knee, knight, kneel, knew, under, were, thing
Words for the Yellow Group:
Same as the Red Group. In addition, think of two words of your own which have the “kn” phoneme. Write them down on both post-its given out in school on Monday. Are the words spelled correctly? Keep one post-it at home and bring the other into school to allow practice to be done in class too.
Challenge Activity – Try writing a sentence for each word. Remember to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).
Please read/discuss the following pages:
Apples: Pages 1 – 8 of “Floppy Floppy” and practise Key Words for Thursday
Pineapples: Pages 1 – 16 of “Be Quiet!” for Thursday
Grapes: Pages 1 – 16 of “Stone Soup” for Thursday
Strawberries: Chapter 2 of “Rollercoaster” for Thursday
Circles: Please continue to practise tasks outlined on the Big Maths Sheet. Also, complete the Three Times Table worksheet and practise. Please return the worksheet to school on Friday.
Squares: Please continue to practise tasks outlined on the Big Maths Sheet. Also, complete the sheet indicated in the Mental Maths Booklet and return it to school on Friday.
Triangles: Please continue to practise counting forwards to 10, as well as, counting backwards. Also, practise writing numbers to 10 correctly and try to count different objects around the house e.g. spoons, crayons. Continue to discuss numbers before and between, e.g. What number comes before 4? What number comes between 7 and 9? Please complete the Addition worksheet and return it to school on Friday.
Welcome to Room 5’s Homework Blog
This week Spelling, Reading and Numeracy homework has been issued.
Please try to practise cvc words/phoneme words/common words each night using a multi-sensory activity in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday. 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 think of any new multi-sensory activities to try? These jobs do not have to be returned to school.
Words for the Blue Group:
top, dog, pop, log, can, cot Complete cvc worksheet and return to school on Friday.
Words for the Green Group:
jaw, draw, hawk, crawl, awful, saw, very, took, fast, there
Words for the Red Group:
off, cliff, cuff, stiff, different, three, room, long, tree
Words for the Yellow Group:
Same as the Red Group. In addition, think of two words of your own which have the “ff” phoneme. Write them down on both post-its given out in class on Monday. Are the words spelled correctly? Keep one post-it at home and bring the other into school to allow practice to be done in class too.
Challenge Activity – Try writing a sentence for each word. Remember to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).
Please read/discuss the following pages:
Apples: Pages 1 – 8 of “A Good Trick” and practise Key Words for Thursday
Pineapples: Pages 1 – 16 of “Rush Hour” for Thursday
Grapes: Pages 1 – 16 of “How Does Water Change?” for Thursday
Strawberries: Chapter 1 of “Rollercoaster” for Thursday
Circles: Please continue to practise tasks outlined on the Big Maths Sheet. Also, complete the Two Times Table worksheet and practise. Please return the worksheet to school on Friday.
Squares: Please continue to practise tasks outlined on the Big Maths Sheet. Also, complete the sheet indicated in the Mental Maths Booklet and return it to school on Friday.
Triangles: Please continue to practise counting forwards to 10, as well as, counting backwards. Also, practise writing numbers to 10 correctly and try to count different objects around the house e.g. spoons, crayons. Continue to discuss numbers before and between, e.g. What number comes before 3? What number comes between 8 and 10? Please complete the Addition worksheets and return them to school on Friday.
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