Week beginning: Wednesday 27th April – Friday 1st May
I hope you are all keeping well. If you did not get all last week’s work completed please do not worry. Spellings will begin this week and I have set out suggestions for daily activities linked to them. Again, complete what you feel is manageable for you and your child.
NEWCOMERS – continue to work on revising initial sounds (SATPIN) as well as counting to 10. There is also a video to watch on ‘Counting to 10’. See NEEWCOMERS folder in Home School Activities.
LANGUAGE & LITERACY
APPLES - medial ‘a’ words (i.e. hat, man, tap) – I have attached work for you to complete. 1.You may use the word cards and pictures to help you ‘sound out’ and ‘blend’ the words. This could be turned into a game – have all cards face down and take one at a time, turn it over and read the word. Maybe you could time yourself.
2.I have included some cut and stick activities for CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words with medial ‘a’.
3.Powerpoint for reading CVC words – this can help you to ‘sound out’ and ‘blend’ the sounds to read a CVC word.
I have also attached a CVC booklet if you wish to work on or feel your child can progress further – this is additional work and only an extra resource if you wish to use it. (Attachments – in Home School Activities/Literacy/CVC words).
PEARS – ‘oo’ sound (i.e. moon, pool, too) This week we are learning that ‘oo, o, ew, ue’ make the ‘oo’ sound. The action we make for this sound is as if we are pretending to be a cuckoo clock and stick our heads out and in saying ‘cuc-koo, cuc-koo’. Give it a go!
1.I have attached a powerpoint for you to watch which has some fun activities to complete.
2.I have also uploaded a poem for you to read and highlight the sound - (‘Look, Look!’) You may do a sound/word search on the text. See daily suggestions under spelling lists.
3. Word sort - cut out and sort into the same spelling patterns, i.e. moon, too, pool go together, few, new, chew would go together.
4.Activity pages – There are a variety of activity pages on the ‘oo’ sound – all giving practice reading and writing words with the ‘oo’ sound. Remember to try some of the suggested practical ideas with your phonics as well, i.e. paper square work for word building (see below). All linguistics work is in the ‘oo’ sound folder in ‘Home School Activities/Literacy’.
NUMERACY & MATHEMATICS
WORLD AROUND US
Our topic this term is ‘Animals in their Environment’. This includes work on baby animal names, animal homes, pets, wild animals and The Farm including the Production of Milk. To begin with this week, we are going to look at Baby Animals. I have uploaded a powerpoint for you to watch on ‘Animal Babies’. Have a look at information books you may have at home or look online and try to find out facts and information about Animals and their babies, i.e. a baby cow is called a calf. As there are lots of little baby lambs born at this time of year I had attached an overview page on ‘Sheep’ – providing fun facts about sheep and suggesting lots of fun activities to do. Why not try out some of the activities and try to remember some of the facts. Perhaps you will have some more fun ideas of your own. Find attachments in Home School Activities/World Around Us.
THE ARTS
‘Draw with Rob’ – why not have a go at following Rob on one of his ‘Draw with Rob’ Youtube videos. I know my own children have really enjoyed doing this, as have Mrs Morton’s. I have made a link for this in ‘Online Activities’. You could try drawing baby animals. Remember I would love to see some of your completed work.
P2 SPELLINGS
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Spelling rule |
PEARS 1 |
PEARS 2 |
APPLES |
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PEARS 1 & 2– various representations of the ‘oo’ sound APPLES – medial ‘a’ |
Look room Book good Too do few new Drew blew |
Look room Book good Food took Too fool
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Cap ram Hat tag Mad jab
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In the PEAR group I have made two spellings lists – PEARS 1 – is slightly more challenging. You will be able to judge which spelling list best suits your child. Also it is important to keep practicing those little CVC words as the medial sounds can be tricky so it would do no harm to practice the APPLES list if
you wish.
Suggested Weekly Phonic Activities:
Monday: highlight the sound, i.e. moon, few, do etc. from your list of spellings.
Word sort – cut out from a list of words and sort into their spelling groups, i.e. moon, pool, too and flew, dew, new
Tuesday: word building – use your spellings to ‘build’ words using paper squares. Cut out small square pieces of paper. Call out a spelling/word for your child to ‘sound out’ and spell. Write each ‘sound’ on a paper square and blend together, i.e. m – oo - n (moon) and h – a – t (hat), would be written on 3 pieces of paper, th – i – n - k (think) and s – a – n - d (sand) would be written on 4 pieces of paper.
Wednesday: Sound/word search – use a scaffolded text to search for and highlight the target sound in the words each week. An adult may read the text to the child and the child is to ‘listen for’ and ‘say’ the target sound every time they hear it in a word, i.e. if the sound for the week is ‘oo’ and the sentence is ‘There was a big moon in the sky’ then the child should say ‘oo’ after the word ‘moon’ is read out. In class we sometimes close our eyes so we can really concentrate on listening for the sound.
Thursday: Dictation – you can use your child’s spellings each week to make into a sentence. Call the sentence out slowly several times for your child to write down. Remember capital letters, finger spacing and full stops.
Friday: Spelling test – you may continue with a Friday test. Remember you deserve a little treat for all your hard work! Especially if you get them all correct!!