Happy Wednesday!
Welcome back boys and girls, I hope everyone had a lovely long weekend and you are feeling refreshed and ready for Wednesday’s home learning tasks. Don’t forget you can work your way through the home learning packs too and use the blog for any additional tasks you would like to complete.
Miss Stanway sent us teachers a little clip to share with you all. I know how many of you had wobbly teeth before school closed so I thought it would be fun to share ‘The Tooth fairy in Lockdown’, it made me giggle, I hope it does the same for you.
https://vimeo.com/visiblefictionsM
Reading
It’s a short week this week for learning but let’s focus on another new book from the oxford owls ebook selection.
Visit
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
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Password: mrsstevenson
Access the book – ‘Top Dog’
Have a go at some before reading questions with an adult-
- Can you make a prediction about what is going to happen in the story?
- What do you think Top Dog means?
- Who do you think the main characters will be in the story?
- Where do you think the story takes place?
Now have a go at reading the story with an adult. Remember all the things a good reader does to be successful… can you share them with your adult.
- Point to each word
- Use the pictures for clues
- If we are unsure of a word sound it out
- Look for words we know
Once you have read the book have a go at both of the activities at the top of the page. They focus on matching the sentence to the picture and listening for the ‘o’ sound and sorting some words into two groups. Good Luck!
Phonics
Last week we focused on the new sound ‘w’. Here is a clue for this weeks’ new sound.. can you guess what it is..
That’s right it’s ‘ng’ – it’s made up of 2 letters which make one sound coming from the back of your mouth.
In your pack you should see this sheet
What words can you think of which contain this sound? Here is a clip to help you.
Now, why not have a go at sounding out and writing some ng words and drawing some pictures to go with your words.
k – i – ng s – i – ng s – o – ng p – o – ng
b – a – ng f – a – ng l – o – ng l – u – ng -s
Finally I would like you to have a go at writing a silly sentence with as many ‘ng’ words as possible. Don’t forget all the things a proper sentence needs.
- Full stop at the end
- Capital letter at the start
- Finger spaces between the words
- All the letters resting on the line.
Numeracy and Maths
Money
I hope you liked last weeks’ coin toss game and it helped you begin to get to grips with all the different coins, their values and maybe even making some totals by adding their values. Let’s continue with the theme of money and jump onto Facebook and catch up with Natwest Monday Sense Monday (even though it’s Wednesday!) Monday’s (4th May) lesson was all about saving money, something which I should probably watch too!! You will need an adult with a Facebook account to help you access this lesson.
Keeping with the theme of saving money I thought I would set you all a little challenge to design your own money box using recycled materials. There are loads of ideas out there especially on Pinterest. Here are a few that I liked, they may just give you some inspiration.
I would love to see some of your money boxes, so if possible have an adult take a picture and email it into the school office.
wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk
I really do look forward to receiving pictures of your fantastic work at home, it makes my day!
Health and Well being
Last week we looked at crossing the road safely and thought about the key messages of STOP, LOOK and LISTEN. Today we are going to expand on them a bit further.
The 6 steps of the green Cross Code.
With the help of an adult explore the website
Can you list the 6 key steps and explain them to an adult.
Visit the early section of the road safety Scotland and navigate to ‘green cross code pics‘ game to match the key words to the pictures. Feel free to explore the rest of the website, there are some great games to play to help you learn more about keeping safe on the road.
Have a great rest of the day and I hope you have enjoyed today’s learning tasks. I shall be back tomorrow with more!
Mrs Stevenson
