Hello everyone – welcome to the last week of home learning! Well done to all of you for persevering and trying so hard for the last 8 weeks. I really cannot wait to see red classroom buzzing again and full of your smiling faces next Monday. Here’s the work for this week but as ever, only do what you feel you can.
Phonics.
Our focus sounds this week are: tw pt xt
- For the ‘big write’ this week use a torch, light sabre or anything you have at home to write the sounds in the air.
- Log onto Purple Mash, English, Phonics, Phase 4, Cloze and look for the blue box to complete the activity on ‘pt’ and the pink box for ‘tw’.
- Cut up a piece of paper to make 10 pieces. On three write the sounds for this week (one on each piece of paper) and on the other pieces write these 7 – o, ne, sle, cre, ke, in, ist. Try to match up any of the 7 to one of the key sound cards to make words 7 words. Sometimes the key sound will go at the beginning of the word but sometimes it will be at the end.
- Write out these key words in your best handwriting: kept, twin, twist, two, crept, next, slept.
- For a little bit of fun in our game this week I wonder how many words you can make out of the letters in the words HOME LEARNING? Try to remember how many you made and we will share next week. There may even be a prize for the most words created!
Numeracy – our focus this week is re-capping halving and adding 9. Last week we looked at halving (dividing by 2). The activity today is to play a game we’ve played in school before. You’ll need a plain piece of paper and a pen to play. You start off by picking any number (except 9) between 10 and 20. Then if you’ve written an even number you halve it, if it’s an odd number you add 9 to the number. The aim is to get to 1 as a final number.
eg) if I pick 17 (odd number) so add 9 = 26 (even so halve it) =13 (odd so add 9) = 22 (even so halve it) = 11 (odd so add 9) =20 (even so halve it) =10 (even so halve it) =5 (odd so add 9) = 14 (even so halve it) = 7 (odd so add 9) = 16 (even so halve it) =8 (even so halve it) = 4 (even so halve it) = 2 (even so halve it) = 1. Wow – that took a while! I wonder how many goes it will take you? You could challenge yourself with bigger numbers if you wish to. Have fun! Mrs Colin-Stokes