Hello everyone,

I hope everyone is doing well and it was fabulous to see you on the screen last week during the red class meeting on Monday and the spellings on Friday. This is the work for this week – please don’t feel you have to do it, it is just so you are able to access the same phonics and numeracy as the children who are in school. It’s great that you’re all keeping up with your reading too. As i’m typing this, my children are building a huge snowman in the garden. I hope you all really enjoy playing in the snow too!

Missing you all- from Mrs Colin-Stokes

Phonics- w/b 25th January

The sounds for the week are: sc st sp sl sn sm sk

1. For our ‘big’ writing today I had planned for you to use chalk to write the sounds on your drive or on the pavement but if the snow is still here you could use a stick to write in the snow!
2. Log onto Purple mash and follow the usual English, Phonics, Phase 4, Cloze then click on the brown one for sc sk sm and sn and green for sk and st.
3. For today’s ‘creating words’ task please try to recall some of the words you made when on purple mash and write them using pyramid writing.

r

ri

ris

risk

4. Please write out the key words for these sounds trying to join as much as you can. Words are: cost best last chest task sleep snack roast scream splash smash risk.

5. For the game this week see if someone will play with you. Pick 1 of the sounds and write it out in front of you. Play ‘word tennis’ with one player going first by making up a word from one of the sounds, then the other player. Keep going until one of you can’t think of a word. The winner gets a point. Play again with another sound with the other player going first this time. See who gets to 5 points first.

Numeracy – w/b 25th January

The focus for this week is adding 20 to a given number.

1. Make some cards out of paper with numbers 1-9 on them. Shuffle them up then place them face down in front of you.Turn them over one at a time and add 20 to the number you see eg)if you pick up a 7 you say 27 because you’re adding 20 (2 tens) to the tens column but you don’t change the number in the ones column.
2. Now make  some cards with 10-19 written on them. Play the same game adding 20. This is more challenging as this time you’re starting with a 2 digit number which already has a digit in the tens column and the ones column eg) if you start with 12 (which is one ten and two ones) and you’re adding 20 you’ve now got 3 tens in the tens column and the 2 stays the same in the ones column so the answer is 32. Keep playing until you feel confident. If we were in school, we’d use base 10 equipment of cubes on to help us. You could use lego (if you have any) in strips of 10 or you could cut up paper and have long strips of paper for the tens and little ones to represent the ones. I’ve added some photos to show you ones I made. Have fun! .Maths a – adding 20