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P1 Home Learning Thursday 23rd

Happy Thursday everyone, I can’t believe we have almost completed another week of home learning. Here is what we would like you to work on today.

Literacy
• Write a short letter to Miss Mackay or Mrs McKay all about your Easter holiday. If you click on the link you will see an example of how to lay the letter out. It would be lovely if you could write at least 3 sentences. You can also draw some pictures to go with your letter.

Letter to P1

Numeracy
• ‘The One Minute Challenge’, you will need to find something in your house to time 1 minute on. This could be a watch, phone, timer on the oven or egg-timer from a game, anything you can find. Then you need to see how many of each thing you can do in a minute. This could be, star jumps, skipping, toe touches, writing your name, staying quiet, how high can you count? How many sounds can you remember? Really you can do anything the more creative the better. It just has to be done in 1 minute! You could even challenge someone at home to see if they can beat your score.

Afternoon
• Please see weekly plan for information.

P1 Home Learning Wednesday 22nd.

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Good morning, we hope that you are all settling back in to home learning again. Here is what we would like you to work on today. Please also see plan for more details.

Literacy
• Our new sound today is ‘igh’.
‘igh’ is a moving vowel sound and comes from the Inky’s Vowel House.
• Can you think of any words that have the ‘igh’ sound?
• Does the ‘igh’ sound come at the start, the middle or the end of these words?
• Slide some sounds together to form words:
Night, fight, flight, knight, right, sight, light
• Now write these words and draw a picture to match. (Extension activity, write sentences.)
• Video to look at,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO8BS-GbHAo (alphablocks)

New letters for today M, N and Y.

Numeracy
• Mental maths as on weekly plan.
• Telling the time to whole and half hours. Ask someone at home to give you different times. You could use the clock that you made on Monday and with two pencils (one shorter than the other) practise how to show them on the clock. They could also display a time for you and you have to work it out.
• If you click on the link below there are two sheets with examples of telling the time in whole and half hours. If you can, you could print them out and complete or you could just look at them and discuss the times.

Whole and half hours

Topic
• See plan for topic information for today.
• Use or create your own version of the KWL grid to talk about what you already know and would like to know about people who help us in the community.

KWL-sheet

Story time
Today is Earth Day 2020 a day when we appreciate the planet that we live in. I think now that we all have to spend more time at home and indoors we are starting to appreciate our beautiful planet more and more. I found a lovely story by one of my favorite authors Oliver Jeffers called ‘Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth’ that I thought you would enjoy. Click on the link below for the story. There has also been a short animation of the book made as well but unfortunately I think it is only available on Apple TV. I will keep an eye out though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkcjKbbF9JA Here We Are story.

There are also a couple of nice activities that go with the story. You do not have to do them but I thought I would share just in case.
• Create some illustrations of planet Earth.
• Look at the page that shows night and day. Can you create two pictures of the same place at different times of the day?
HERE-WE-ARE

P1 Home Learning Tuesday 21st.

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Morning all, here is what we would like you to work on today. Please also see plan for more details.

Literacy
• Your common words for today are, he, was, for, on and are.

Brain Break!

One of our favorites 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpZ_5WjTvcE

Numeracy
• Mental maths as on timetable.
• Create a timetable for your day/week. Think about all the things you have to do in a day like getting up and dressed, doing your school work, helping at home, exercising and having fun.
• Have a look at the link below for an example of Miss Mackay’s routine.Click on the link below.

Miss Mackay’s timetable

Afternoon
• Mrs Grenfell will provide an art activity for you.

P1 Letter formation

P1 Monday the 20th of April

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Good morning everyone and welcome back to term 4 of P1! We hope that you have managed to have a nice Easter Holiday and look forward to hearing all about it later in the week. Here is what we would like you to work on today. Please also see plan for more details.

Weekly learning plan –

Home Learning Grid April 20th week 3

Literacy
• Our new sound today is ‘ng’.
Where is the ‘ng’ sound made? (Note for parents it is made with at the back of the throat with the tongue lifting up. It is an orange colour)
• Can you think of any words that have the ‘ng’ sound?
• Does the ‘ng’ sound come at the start, the middle or the end of these words?
• Slide some sounds together to form words:
King, sing, bang, pong, ping, song, long, strong, bang, fangs, lungs.
• Now write these words and draw a picture to match. (Extension activity, write sentences.)
• Videos to look at,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwoIHyRsETA clip about ng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmtOKfTEBh8 (song)

Numeracy
• Using the blank clock worksheet that you have cut out the numbers and stick them in the correct position around the clock face.
• Revise the days of the week and months of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMofxtDPUQ&vl=en Days of the week song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enDRrWyXaw Months of the year song.

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