Good Morning Everyone.
Happy April Fools Day – did anyone get caught out this morning?
Here is a little clip giving you some information about why April Fool’s is celebrated throughout the world.
Reading
I hope everyone managed to have a read of Kipper’s Diary yesterday and were able to complete the follow up activities. Here is the link again as we are going to be using the book for a follow up task today.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/oxford-owl-ebook-collection
In your home learning pack you should have a copy of Roll, Read and Find. Here is another link in case you have misplaced it.
With the help of an adult, read through Kipper’s diary and select any words which you have found a bit tricky, such as went, day, was, sunny, windy and hot. Write these in pencil into the boxes numbered 1-6 ( so you can rub out and use the sheet again) then roll a dice ( or number bits of paper 1-6 if you don’t have a dice) and whatever number you get, read the word, then search through the book to find the word, you could even get an adult to challenge you to write them down without looking.
Phonics
We are not going to be introducing a new sound this week but focusing on consolidation of the oa and ai sounds from previous weeks.
Get an adult to challenge you to writing some words containing these sounds. Don’t forget to use the join we learned last week when writing the sound.
Have a go at sounding out and writing
l-oa -f s-oa -p t -oa -d c -oa -t b -oat -t r-oa -d
w-ai-t r-ai -l m-ai-l m-ai -d p-ai -d n – ai – l
Can you draw some detailed pictures to go with your words. Don’t forget to green for growth, tickle pink and write the date on your work.
Numeracy
Here are your daily Five for today. Remember to share with an adult how you have solved the calculation and what tool you have used. Let’s have a focus on doubles today…
5 + 5 = 2 + 2 = 4 + 4 = 3 + 3 = 1 + 1 =
I found this fun youtube clip called Dancing Doubles to support you..
If you are finding the daily Five too easy and want a challenge, this is a super website which I have used with classes before.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
There are options for addition, subtraction and ordering numbers. Start at level one and see how you get on.
Maths
This week we have been focusing on 2D shape.
Here is a great online game which incorporates not only shape but repeating patterns too (something which we focused on way back in term 1).
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
I would suggest starting at level one and working your way up to level 2 depending on how confident you feel.
Don’t forget you can visit Education City and play the game Bar -B shapes from yesterday’s tasks.
Health and Wellbeing
Yesterday I set you the challenge of designing a poster to display why and how we can keep ourselves safe from household products and medicine. Well done to those of you who completed the poster, I look forward to seeing them. Don’t forget you can email your efforts to our school email address.
wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk
Today I would like to ask the question, which are safe/unsafe for you to use. Can you come up with a list of household objects which are safe/unsafe. For example…
Safe Unsafe
tablet bleach
teddy bear kettle
You can draw/write these into your purple jotters.
RME
With Easter fast approaching I thought it might be a good idea to focus a little bit of our learning around this Christian celebration. What is Easter? What do we do differently during this holiday? Why do we celebrate Easter? Share your ideas with an adult.
Here is a link to the Easter story for you to watch.
Good luck with all of your home learning for today.
A little shout out to the kind friend in our class who sent in some writing for me yesterday, it made me smile so so much! A big thank you for brightening my day.
Oh and I found out yesterday that Amazon has made all their stories online free to stream. Audible Kids is fantastic, we started listening to Winnie the Pooh yesterday. Here is the link, there are so many books to choose from. Enjoy!
https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
One last thing! Mrs Anderson wanted me to remind you to keep going with her 30 day yoga and mindfulness challenge. Here it is again in case you have forgotten.
Happy Learning,
Mrs Stevenson
