Primary 1

Home Learning - Primary One

Dear Parent/s,

I hope you are all keeping well during these unexpected times we are living in and that the Primary Ones are settling into their new routines. Please find your next 4 week block of learning and resources below. It is set out as follows:

Timetable Week 1

Week 1 Resources

Timetable Week 2

Week 2 Resources

Timetable Week 3

Week 3 Resources

Timetable Week 4

Week 4 Resources

Videos

Grow in Love (Focus on Theme 7)

You will notice in your timetables that I have referred to spring and minibeast videos during weeks 2 and 3. These videos were too large to include alongside the other resources and therefore you will find them at the bottom of the resources list.

Wishing you all a wonderful Easter, albeit very different to ones you have celebrated in the past. I am really missing the children and the busy, fun, vibrant atmosphere and nature of our classroom very much. I hope you all continue to stay healthy and safe during these times.

Best wishes,

Miss Murray

Timetable Week 1

Home Learning Timetable WB 20th April.docx

Week 1 Resources

Timetable Week 2

Home Learning Timetable WB 27th April.docx

Week 2 Resources

Timetable Week 3

Home Learning Timetable WB 4th May.docx

Week 3 resources

Timetable Week 4

Home Learning Timetable WB 11th May.docx

Week 4 resources

Sorting sounds game

Signs of Spring

Spring

Baby animals in spring

Baby Lambs

Butterflies Flying

Minuscule - The Ladybug

Dragonflies For Kids

All About Insects for Children

Dear Parents,

See photo below which shows a free password for our religion teaching scheme "Grow in Love". Click on junior infants (purple book) and we have been focussing on Theme 6:Holy week and Easter.

Home Learning notes and plans- support for parents.

All videos and links mentioned in 4 week learning pack. Please click on/copy and paste from below...

World Book online- 3000 free e books

Read with phonics- Phonics Games (this is excellent for P1 and can easily be downloaded onto any device)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qpn2839Kro - Jollyphonics phase 2

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares - 1-30 numberline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8m6YFr0gig - pronunciation of all sounds taught to date

http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/hanging_monkeys_US.swf - blending CVC word game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train - from this, you can choose addition or subtraction 1-10 games

http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/washing_line_rhyme_US.swf rhyming game- find the word that rhymes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games variety of early years games

https://www.learningliftoff.com/kindergarten-science-learning-game-push-pull/ - world around us- push or pull?

http://www.ictgames.com/soccer_subtraction.html - taking away-maths

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html - click phase 2 - phonics blending- is it a real or a fake word?

https://www.math4children.com/new%20quizzes/Pre-K/size-lighter-heavier.html maths heavy or light?

https://www.mathgames.com/skill/K.44-light-and-heavy heavy or light?

www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/shapes_shoot.htm finding 2D or 3D shapes

https://www.scienceforkidsclub.com/jungles.html - finding jungle facts

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/earth/jungles.html - finding jungle facts

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ - OXFORD OWL literacy- free levelled e-books

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/helpAHedgehog/index.html - blending/phonics game

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html - choose the initial sound game (all of these games are age appropriate)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting counting games-choose underwater counting, teddy numbers, ladybird spots, or helicopter rescue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25_u1GzruQM the animal boogie song

https://www.splashlearn.com/measurement-games maths-capacity game

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/DragonsDen.html phonics blending game- choose phase 2 (or 1 if you would like a recap also)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXgW9UCgpc8 - youtube story 'The story who came to tea'

https://www.tigerwhocametotea.com/activities/ - linked activities to 'The tiger who came to tea'

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families Maths- choose adding 1-10

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train choose adding or subtracting 1-10

https://www.gruffalo.com/ explore the Gruffalo website

http://ictgames.com/cvcPop.html CVC phonics reading game

https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/full-stop-beginner-1.html full stop sentence game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns Maths- making patterns with shapes

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/simple_patterns/eng/Introduction/MainSession.htm Maths- making patterns

https://www.turtlediary.com/game/ordinal-numbers.html - maths ordinal numbers

https://www.primarygames.com/math/moreorless/ Maths more or less game

http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/hanging_monkeys_US.swf phonics blending game

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ phonics- choose phase 2 or phase 1 games

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering maths-capacity

https://www.readwithphonics.com/ phonics games

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers/easter Easter counting

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/animals/jungle/animaljunglecreate.htm make a jungle

http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Naming-Positions-The-Picnic-677 positional language

http://www.abcya.com/shape_patterns.htm shape patterns

http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/magneticletters/ magnetic letters online

Don't forget movement online games:

Cosmic Kids Yoga
Brain pop
PBS Steve songs
The learning station
Have fun teaching
Just dance (youtube)
Go noodle
5 minute love kids workout- the body coach

Numeracy

World Around us Powerpoints

Rainforests

Jungle animal videos

Reading book resources and the little busy lamb

Plaudough sounds and the Gruffalo resources

Movement and Energy

The children were challenged to make 'something that moves' in the investigation area this week. The used a trial and error approach to explore and find out what worked and what didn't. The teamwork, discussion, helping, perseverance, exploration and discovery during this task was excellent. It also helped with the children's joining and connecting skills, figuring out how to attach one object to another based on the material. Well Done everyone!

In the Jungle

This week we opened our new Jungle areas of learning with the roleplay and the small world jungle being major hits during play based learning. Have a look at the children enjoying their new roleplay, acting as animals and booking trips in the travel agents to go on a safari. Also, we enjoyed PE out in the sun this week. Here, the children are improving their ball skills.

Shared Education Dance Lesson with Knockevin!

A fun week!

Have a look at a snapshot of photos from our week. The children enjoyed making dinosaurs out of fruit- during this activity they worked in teams to share ideas and decide on which dinosaur to make. Sharing ideas, imagination, leadership and communication skills shone through during this activity. We made volcanoes and the blue brontosaurus in the creative area, focussed on CVC blending as a literacy challenge during play, sorting dinosaurs using different criteria, finding real and fake sounds in the sand- just to name a few activities!

Volcano Experiment

The children used the language of prediction during a volcano experiment during 'World Around Us' this week. they mixed baking soda, washing up liquid, water and vinegar to see what would happen and we enjoyed some WOW moments with the results!

Have a look at some of our other photos, which show 'estimating' in maths, CVC blending in literacy, taking turns and team work to make posters in arts and crafts. The children learnt to retell the stories of 'we're going on a bear hunt' and 'The little blue brontosaurus' using actions and loud voices- ask them to tell you the stories at home!

Teamwork

The children were challenged in teams to make a large dinosaur skeleton. They had to arrange, cutting, sticking and arranging the pieces together. It required perseverance, teamwork, communication and patience. Well Done everyone, great teamwork!

Sensory Music- Shared Education

Junk Model Dinosaurs

The children were so excited to make dinosaurs from junk art, and had been collecting resources for a while! During this activity, they learnt many skills such as perseverance, concentration, constructing a trial and error approach, finding resources, experimenting with tools and reflecting on their work. The final results were fantastic!

Dinosaur play based learning fun!

The children had a great time during play based learning this week. They are acting as 'teacher's by teaching each other new sounds we have learnt, making dinosaur masks and baby eggs, making shape patterns, matching dinosaurs, using stencils, creating lego dinos and lots more! You can also see photos of us learning our new skill of 'addition'. We are combining two groups together to find a total amount, using 'butterfly spots'. Maybe you can try some addition at home!

Using ICT- animation and the Green Screen!

The land of the Dinosaurs!!

This week we started our new topic, 'Dinosaurs'. The children enjoyed learning the names of dinosaurs and shared their previous knowledge. Have a look at our photos showing us making dinosaur fossils, using the new roleplay, dinosaur small world and investigation areas.

Our brilliant new PE equipment!

A fun Christmas week!

Our fantastic P1s before their Christmas Production!

Here come the elves!

A wintery week!

The children have had a wonderful introduction to Winter this week, kicking off with a winter themed sensory play session with Knockevin school. Whilst here, we explored ice and snow, made winter biscuits, made penguins, enjoyed winter stories and played with arctic animals. We enjoyed playing in the new arctic world, our dance skills are improving during PE and we learnt the new 'c' and 'k' sounds. Our story in Literacy was 'Polar Bear Polar Bear' and we focussed on finding 1 more and 1 less in Maths. Austin and Darlene also showed us the new Eco Code for our school. Towards the end of the week, everyone enjoyed a lovely Christmas dinner!

A snapshot of our week

Mexico Art and Food

This week the children completed their Mexican people, feel free to come to the classroom and have a look! As you can see from our photos, we have some great developments in literacy, where children are learning and engaging in assisted blending, and in numeracy where the children are learning the language and the actions of '1 less than'. The children enjoyed lots of table top games, junk art, matching jigsaws and sorting animals during play.

Two of the highlights of our week included our art workshop with Jennifer, and making Mexican food. During art, we made Mexican people and colourful clothes using a range of fabric. We explored colour and texture and the finished results will look excellent when we add the final touches next week. We also made Guacamole by chopping the avocado, tomatoes and lemon and mixing it all together. Some of us loved it and some of us hated it, but we all had the confidence to try!

Antibullying week

Shared Education with Knockevin

The children took part in circle times as part of Antibullying week. We looked at power points, told stories, sorted kind and unkind actions, and roleplayed some age appropriate scenarios. Enjoy our photos which show some of these activities as children enjoying the roleplay, non fiction focus in Literacy and counting accurately in Maths.

Our New Topic is Mexico!

This week we took part in a science experiment involving using our senses. We rotated around tables and experimented taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing. Tasting was a great surprise as everyone had to close their eyes! Also, we opened our new Mexican restaurant which was a great hit. Everyone is learning to act out their previous experiences in a restaurant and we have some super chefs!!

Our amazing trip to W5!

Maths Week!

We had a fantastic time in Primary One celebrating Maths week. We had additional maths resources to experiment and use during play based learning and e focussed on 2D shape, finding 1 more than and number recognition during our lessons. Children were encouraged to used the Interactive whiteboard for maths games, aswell as working with a partner. Other lessons were steered towards 'problem solving' for Maths week. For example, during World Around Us we investigated which materials we could or could not use to make a boat for a goat, and in Art we used 3D shape models to make a house for a mouse, experimenting how to join and fit together.

Making Fruit Salad!

A very busy week in P1!

We found it very tricky choosing photos for the website this week as the children were so busy, as they are every week. Some highlights of the week included making toast and noticing changes caused by heat in 'world around us', using 'The haircut' and 'Percy the Park keeper' as our book for reading and writing, focussing on counting accurately to 10 and learning our new sound 't'.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The children had a wonderful time this week exploring play based learning activities linked to the hungry caterpillar. We made a display for our classroom my making individual caterpillars, we counted caterpillars accurately to leaves, we played fruit and vegetable board games and used sorting rings to sort healthy and unhealthy foods. We also enjoyed an Autumn walk during 'world around us'. Enjoy our photos!

A busy week in P1!

A visit to the beach

Today we visited the beach. It was a perfect end to our first few weeks at school. Everyone was on their best behaviour, we collected shells for our sand area in the classroom, and loved digging and playing with friends! See also, some photos which show our numeracy work from this week. We are encouraging lots of accurate counting in a line, well done everyone!