Hello everyone!
Well done on completing your first week of home learning. My own children were really tired after the end of their first week so if you were too I hope you’ve had a chance to rest and relax over the weekend. I bet you’ve all been out for walks and bike rides too.
These are the PHONICS sessions for this week. Again, you can choose to do one each day (like we do in school) or all in one go. This week we’re looking at: str shr thr and scr.
- Monday – Say the sounds and use a torch (or a light sabre!) in a dark room to write the sounds in the air.
- Tuesday – Log onto purple mash, English, Phonics, Phase 4, Cloze and find the activities for this week’s sounds.
- Wednesday – Try and think of words containing these sounds. Write them out using different colours – one colour for the vowels (aeiou) and another colour for the consonants (all of the other letters).
- Thursday – For the handwriting focus work write out the key words trying to join as much as you can. Key words: string, threw, scrap, shrink, through, street.
- Friday – Play a memory game with the people you live with using words contain this week’s sounds. The first person says ‘I looked in the cupboard and found string’ and then the next repeats what they said but adds an item, ‘I looked in the cupboard and found string and scrap paper’. See how far you can get. Do you remember playing this in school and we could remember over 20 in a row?!
This is the session for the MATHS on Mondays group.
Last week we looked at ways to quickly add 9 to a number. This week we’re looking at adding 11. The quickest way to add 11 is to add 10 to a number in your head and then add another 1 – so if you started with 6 you’d add 10 to make 16 and then add another 1 to give an answer of 17.
If we were in school we’d use counters but as you’re at home use anything you have 10 of (marbles, dried pasta twists, chocolates in wrappers). Ask someone you live with to play a game with you where you close your eyes and they put a certain number of the objects you’re using in front of you. You then open your eyes and add 11 to the number. Keep going until you can do it really quickly and accurately.
Have fun! If there are any problems, or you’d like to share anything you’ve done please send it to me. colin.stokes.a@claverley.shropshire.sch.uk