Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

Literacy-L.I To revise Block 2 sounds and tricky words and to practice letter formations. To blend and segment sounds to read and write words and sentences.Lesson 1.Revise the sound ai (action: hand to ear and say ai)Build or write the words nail, gain, maid, fair, tail, plain, hair, mail. Sound each letter as you build, blend the sounds to read. Identify rhyming words.Practise writing the sound ai thinking carefully about letter formations.Adult write out the sentences: Ray had a pain in his leg. They sat him on a chair.Ask your child to circle the tricky words and ai/ay sounds. Read the sentences. Read all the tricky word flash cards. Write a selection of tricky words. Say a word and ask your child to point at the correct word.

Lesson 2.Revise the sound ay (action: taking a coin out of the palm of your hand as if to pay)Build or write the words pay, hay, way, day, clay, say, bay. Sound each letter as you build and blend the sounds to read.Practise writing the sound ay thinking carefully about letter formations.Adult write out the sentences: Fay, Bob and Meg sail on the ship. They all sail to the bay.Ask your child to circle the tricky words and ai/ay sounds. Read the sentences.Read all the tricky word flash cards. Ask your child to write some tricky words.

Lesson 3Use your sound cards to revise all the sounds.sh/ch/th/wh/ai/ay/ee/ea/igh/-y/ao/ow/oo/ew/oi/oy/ou/ow/au/awLay the sounds out, if it is too many select a few. Say a word: boy. Ask your child to point to the sound in the word, they may need help to segment the word-sound it out together.Repeat for a few words: Think, cash, book, chair, cry, claw.

Use your tricky word cards to revise all the tricky words.Block 1I/the/to/he/me/is/his/put/was/want/saw/noBlock 2go/be/she/are/they/all/some/come/saidLay the cards face down, ask your child to turn one over and read the card, can they put the word into a sentence? Repeat 5 times.

Use Doorway Online to practice letter formations. Practice each letter on the tablet then on paper or a white board. Talk about small letters, tall letters and letters with tails.

Lesson 4Revise the sound ai and ay. Ai in the middle and ay at the end.Revise all the sound flash cards.In your dictation jotter write the words; chain, play, snail, day, pray. Sound each letter as you build and blend the sounds to read.Adult model sentence writing using the sentence, Sam laid the cat on the chair. Talk about capital letters, finger spaces, letter formations etcAsk your child to write: Sid paid for his hair cut.Play a game from Topmarks.

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

Extra Suggested Literacy Activities:

Play

Follow this link for games to practice spelling, tricky words and letter formations.https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/

Play I spy Pick items around you that contain the digraph sounds taught so far. They do not need to begin with this sound, it may be in middle or at end of the word. Sound splat Write some of the digraph sounds taught so far onto post it notes or small pieces of paper. Lay out on floor or table. Adult reads out words from spelling lists containing these sounds one at a time, child has to find the sound from the word and splat it with their hand as fast as they can saying the sound as they do it.

Middle PigUsing sound cards or a white board. Make a word e.g. fish, cover or rub out the middle sound. Player 2 has to guess the middle sound.

Watch and Listen Watch the Alphablocks episodes about ai and ay read and write the words as they make them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfX7tS5jdI8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROKNNvuGpEo

Listen to the ai/ay songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5rSw9mATGo

Watch the ai/ay rulehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrIyCT7nK0

Writing-L.I To use knowledge of sounds and tricky words to write independently.The two stories we are looking at this week involve the main characters trying really hard to achieve something and not giving up until they manage it.

Think back to when you first started school last summer. There are lots of things you can do now that you couldn’t do then. Learning these new skills have all required lots of hard work and practise from you to be able to achieve them.

Which new skill are you particularly proud of being able to do now? It could be knowing your sounds, making a really impressive race track, writing words or being able to count to big numbers.

Draw a picture of you doing that new skill and write about what you have drawn. Remember to include what helped you learn it. If you can, write about how you feel about learning this new skill.

Finally, remember Capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

Reading-L.I To use knowledge of sounds and tricky words to read independently. To read texts for enjoyment. To listen to texts and respond to questions or retell the story in your own words. To look at the features of a non fiction text.Remember to check your Learning Journal every Monday for your new group readers.

Enjoy reading The Very Quiet Cricket and the Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

Do you have any information books in your house to find out more information about bugs and insects?See if you can learn 3 new facts, quiz a friend or family member during a phone call or video call.

French-L.I - To say the days of the week in French, To say names of fruit in FrenchCan you remember how to say hello and introduce yourself?Bonjour. Je m’appelle __________

Listen to and singing along to the French Greetings Songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkJ88ygPY0

A little more advanced, good to hear French and the pronunciations.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BgyvEXTZbk

This week we are thinking about saying how you are.

ça va? (pronounce- saa vaa) How are you?ça va bien. (pronounce- saa vaa be-en) I’m good/wellça va mal. (pronounce- saa vaa mal) I’m not good/unwell.comme çi, comme ça. (pronounce- Comm see comm saa) I’m okay.

Ask your child to repeat each feeling. Put thumbs up for ça va bien. Wave thumbs from side to side for comme çi, comme ça Put thumbs down for ça va mal

Play a Game- give your child a thumb action and see if they can remember the correct phrase.

Can they have a little conversationAdult BonjourChild BonjourAdult Comment t’applles-tu?Child Je m’appelle_____Adult ça va?Child ça va bien merci. Et toi (and you)?Adult Comme çi comme ça merci.

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

Art- L.I I can use a variety of materials to create symmetrical pictures and collages. I can watch and follow instructions After reading The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle or watching on the link below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfL0g-XRxnA

Make, paint or draw your own spider like the one in the story. It is symmetrical just like the butterflies we explored last week. Can you try to make sure your spider is symmetrical too so the it has the same number of legs on each side, its eyes are in a similar position on each side and the body shape is similar?

Try weaving your own spider web just like the spider in the story. Use a paper plate or card to cut a circle with holes punched around it for threading. Use wool or string to thread a wed through the holes. You can add you own spider too!

Music-L.I Inspiried by a range of stimuli I can investigate rhythm and sound.Following on from your sound picture of minibeasts, we’re going to learn a song about one of the creatures you drew.

1. Listen to the song about a Caterpillar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfX7tS5jdI82. Now see if you can follow the words of the song and try to join in.3. There are lots of actions that we can add to this song. Words that we can add an action for are:

crawled – mime crawlingtake a nap – put hands together and lean head on hands to take a napspun a chrysalis–spin around or do a spinning action with hands.Wake up wake up sleepy head– jump upLook at me – point to yourself or spread your arms like a butterfly.Try adding the actions or your own actions as you listen to the song.

4. Now try to sing the song and add as many actions as you can remember. 5. Look at the grid below (at the end of the learning grid). You will see that there are four

creatures. Owl, spider, ladybird, caterpillar. Each of these creatures / words, has a different sound Owl – one sound

Spider – two soundsLadybird – 3 sounds

Caterpillar – 4 sounds6. See if you can clap/tap the rhythm of the words as you go from one box to the next. You could

try going across the way, up and down or backwards, or rotate the grid round 4 ways giving different sound patterns.

7. Now see if you can find a different sound for each picture and try to play your grid. Remember to play the correct rhythm for each picture!

Listening and talking: I can listen to a text and respond.

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

I can share my ideas and opinions. I can ask questions to develop my understanding of a text.Listen to the stories and then talk about them.

Listen to The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEPYKmIt4dUWhy did the spider not answer any of the animals?Do you think it is okay that the spider didn’t reply to the animals?If the spider did speak what do you think she might say?Where was the spider building her web? How do you know?Can you remember the 10 animals that tried to speak the spider?Can your child ask you some questions about the story.

Listen to The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdiGEjz5b0QWhere do you think the little cricket’s mummy and daddy are?Why do you think the cricket didn’t make a sound?I wonder why he could make a sound in the end?Can you remember the 10 insects he tried to say hello to?Can your child ask you some questions about the story.Science- L.I I have observed things in the environment over time.Spring is a time of new life. Lots of animals have their babies in spring so that the babies can grow big and strong while the weather is warm and there is lots of food around. Birds are very busy making their nests just now and lay their eggs in them. You have maybe seen and heard them when you are outside! Do you know what other animals lay eggs?

The worksheet in the link below asks you to put a selection of animals into two piles, one of animals that lay eggs, like birds, and one with animals that grow inside their mothers and are born, like humans. Alternatively, you could draw the different animals and put them into the two different piles or just have a discussion with your adult about which of the animals pictured lay eggs and which don’t.https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-sc-141-egg-or-not-activity-sheet

The reason birds make nests is to keep their eggs warm and safe. Why don’t you try making a nest for some pretend eggs? Remember your nest needs to be strong enough to keep the eggs safe and warm and cosy for the eggs too! What are you going to use to make your nest – twigs or straws or pieces of paper? You could even collect some small smooth stones and paint them to look like eggs and add them to your nest.

Here are some examples of homemade nests! We would love to see any pictures of yours!

Numeracy and Maths

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

L.I- To sequence, order, add 2 or 3 numbers within 10, 20, 50, counting in 2s, 5s, 10s. To double/ half a given number using finger patternsL.I-To understand the terms whole, half, quarter.. To be able to split a whole item into halves or quarters and recognise these fractions.Mild Spicy HotActivities for daily number warm up:Daily number warm up, Counting forwards/ backwards within 10, 20, 50. Say number before or after a given number, give missing numbers from a sequence. Count forwards and backwards in 2s, try it in 5s and 10sUse finger patterns to make doubles facts, show 1 finger on each hand - double 1 is 2, show 2 fingers on each hand - double 2 is 4, etc. Can you flash the correct finger pattern for the doubles fact without having to count? Can you do this with bunny ears so you can’t see your fingers?Use finger patterns to make doubles plus 1 facts, eg: show 1 and 1 on your fingers, what does that make? What if you add 1 more? Try this with other doubles facts.Instead of doubling can you half the number of fingers you show? Show 10 fingers, now show half of 10. Show 8 fingers, now show half of 8. Do you notice a pattern or link between doubling and halving?

To continue with number and addition reinforcement try some of these gameshttps://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescueThis game is more of a challengehttps://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/chopper-squad

Maths Focus: FractionsActivities

1.Watch the link below for a nice story explaining what whole and half of an object is.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVaxiJB6FlsCan you complete the worksheet below, if you don’t have a printer at home and adult could draw the shapes for you to colour half.

If you have sandwiches or fruit for lunch can you cut the whole sandwich or pieces of fruit into 2 pieces or half so each piece is the same size? When you fill your glass or cup can you try to half fill it?

2.Watch the link below to find out more about halves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUfLWCNkH6wContinue to look at different ways to make half of an object. Can you cut a piece of paper exactly in half so each piece is the same size? Can you fold a napkin or towel in half? Can you draw some shapes on a whiteboard and colour half of them? Try to write the fraction sign for half.Look at the shapes in the sheet below. Decide if half of them is coloured or not.

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

3. Watch the link below for Numberjacks - Fraction Actionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C44WxGkJlCgUse a paper plate or cut out a circle to make a pizza shape. Think about which topping you like on your pizza, ask an adult what they like.Decorate half of the pizza with your choice of toppings and decorate the other half with your adult’s choice. You should each have the same size of piece, Ask another 2 adults or your brother or sister what they like, make another pizza with 4 different types of toppings, can you share the pizza equally into 4 or quarters? Write the fractions sign for quarter.Try to make a pizza to be shared equally between 3 people. This is called a third. Write the fractions sign for third.

4. Learn a little more about fractions and how to make sure each is the same size by watching Titch and Tedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Y1ij68b_gCut a piece of wool or string that is 10 cm long. Can you cut it exactly in half ? Work out what half of 10 is and try to measure it to make sure you have cut it exactly in half.Cut a piece of wool or string that is 8 cm long. Do the same as above but try to make sure you cut your wool or string into quarters. Did you spot the easy way to do this by thinking about halves?Cut a piece of wool or string that is 9 cm long. Can you cut it into thirds?

Just for funA silly song to memorise and sing, There was an Old lady Who swallowed a fly.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a13-JbxC98

Play – Kims GameAsk an adult to lay 10 items on a tray. You get 60 seconds to look at all the items and memorise them. Can you remember all the items? Now look at the tray again, 2 items are missing, what are they?

Play- Hunt the Thimble (it can be any small object)The Hunters must leave the room while the Hider hides the thimble (object).On return to the room the Hunters start looking, the Hider tells the hunters if they are hot or cold until they find the ‘thimble’ Hot = close, getting hotter = closer boiling= u are so close etcCold = nowhere near freezing= even further away,Hunter to find the object gets to be the next Hider.

Paint on the ground or walls using water and paint brushes - decorating paintbrushes are fun for this.

Health and Wellbeing and talking and listeningL.I - I am learning skills and strategies that will support me in challenging times.LI – Within real and imaginary situations, I share experiences and feelings, ideas and information in a way that communicates my message.

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

The two stories we are looking at this week involve the main characters trying really hard to achieve something and not giving up until they manage it. If you have completed the writing activity you will have also written about a skill you have worked hard at acquiring since you started school.

What helped you learn that skill? What helped the spider make her web or the cricket learn how to make a noise? Both the spider and the cricket keep trying and didn’t give up even when it was really hard work – this is called resilience.

With the help of your adult, discuss some of things that can help you to be resilient. Examples could include taking a brain break and asking others for help. Ask your adult what helps them to be resilient. Then think about what things do not help you be resilient – for example – getting angry or throwing a tantrum.

The link below is to a lovely book called “The Most Magnificent Thing” which is a story of a girl who really wants to make something and uses some very good strategies to help her and also uses some very bad strategies which do not help her!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM8oN4yzJqw

As an optional activity you could turn some of these suggestions to help you achieve your goals into a poster and put it up in your room to help encourage you to not give up when things are tough!

P.E- L.I- To move and control my body well, To describe how my body feels after exerciseTry this animal HIIT workout. Can you do all of the movements. Think about how your body feels when you have done them. Are you hot? Breathless? Any tired muscles?Can you create some new moves and give them insect names?

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

A Message from my Teacher

Dear Boys and Girls, we hope you and your families are all well. We can’t believe it has been 8 weeks since we last saw you all.

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

We hope that you have been managing to get out into the sunshine to play and exercise. We hear there are baby signets along the canal, have any of you seen them?

Thank you again to Mrs Guinney for providing another fun music lesson with lots of great ideas.We hope you have a fun week thinking about mini beasts and enjoy the stories.

Next week we will move on to a new topic.Have a great week, lots of love from Mrs Lawrence, Mrs Perez and Mrs Swinson.

Send photos of your work and successes to kendal.gater@craiglockhart.edin.sch.uk to be loaded onto our school website and post work onto your class Team/Nursery, P1 Learning Journal

Daily tasks:

Start each day with the calendar; talk about the day of the week, the month, the season, the weather and how you are feeling today.

Read for at least 15 minutes

Take some daily exercise- Check out Joe Wicks Body Coach for kids at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LPrhI0v-w

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

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Primary 1 Weekly Home Learning Grid for School Closures Week 8 25 th May 2020 Below are lots of links to resources and activities, some of which you can download from Twinkl. Twinkl is available to parents for home learning purposes for free by using this code: UKTWINKLHELPS

This week we are using the Stories The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle as a theme to support the learning. You can find the animated stories on You Tube.

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