School at Home: Free Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic (UK & US)

Free resources to support families through the COVID-19 pandemic (In shaa Allaah). Included are daily lessons, worksheets and many more.

UK WEBSITES

  1. BBC Daily Lessons: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons

2. Maths Genie: https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/homeschool.html

3. Oak National Academy Online Classroom: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom

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Year 2: Spelling Practice Week 8 The /ɔ:/ sound spelt a before l and ll

Y2 Spelling Practice Spring Wk8Y2 Spelling Practice, week commencing: 4th March 2019

The /ɔ:/ sound (‘or’) is usually spelt as a before l and ll.
Regular sounds: ball, wall, call, always, talk
Common exception word: pass
(*plus a homework sheet (page 6) for more able children)

Worksheets: Year 2 Spelling Practice Week 8 or download here.

Instructions to make flashcards: In order to make your “/ɔ:/ sound” words flashcards you will need cardstock (cereal box), printer, glue or double tape, scissors, laminating film (optional). Continue reading

Year 2: Spelling Practice Week 6 the /aɪ/ Sound Words Worksheets and Interactive Games

Y2 Spelling Practice Spring Wk6 Image-page-001Weekly Spelling Practice, week commencing: 11th February 2019

The /aɪ/ sound spelt –y at the end of words.
Regular sounds: cry, fly, sky, July, dry
Common exception word: grass

Worksheets: Year 2 Spelling Practice Week 6 or download here.

Interactive Games: Spelling Check Games

Instructions to make flashcards: In order to make your “/aɪ/ sound” words flashcards you will need cardstock (cereal box), printer, glue or double tape, scissors, laminating film (optional).  Continue reading

Year 2: Spelling Practice Week 5 “il” words

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  • Y2 Spelling Practice Spring Wk5 Image-page-001Weekly Spelling Practice, week commencing: 4th February 2019

Regular sounds:
pencil
lentil
basil
April
utensil

Common exception word:
steak

Resources: Year 2 Spelling Practice Week 5

or download here.

Instructions:

In order to make your “il” words flashcards you will need cardstock (cereal box), printer, glue or double tape, scissors, laminating film (optional). Continue reading

Year 2: Spelling Practice Week 4 “al” words

Y2 Spelling Practice Spring Wk4-page-002Weekly Spelling Practice, week commencing: 28th January 2019

Regular sounds:

metal
coral
pedal
oval
animal

Common exception word:

break

Resources: Year 2 Spelling Practice Week 4 or download here.

Instructions:

In order to make your “al” words flashcards you will need cardstock (cereal box), printer, glue or double tape, scissors, laminating film (optional). Continue reading

Year 5 Maths Curriculum | Spring Term

Below are the Year 5 Maths lesson plan ideas for Spring term 2019.

Year 5 Spring Term 2019 Maths Lesson Plans-page-001(2)

1. Number and Place Value
– Interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through 0.

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2. Addition and Subtraction:
– Add and subtract whole numbers with more than four digits, using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction).
– Decide which method (including mental strategies) to use and why. Continue reading

Year 2 Maths Curriculum | Spring Term

Below are the Year 2 Maths lesson plan ideas for Spring term 2019.

Year 2 Spring Term 2019 Maths Lesson Plans-page-0011. Time
– Tell and write the time to 5 minutes including quarter past/to the hour, half past and o’clock.
– Know the number of minutes in an hour and hours in a day.

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Download the worksheets here and here. Continue reading

Year 5 Autumn Term 2018 Homeschooling Lesson Plans Part 1

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Below are our homeschooling lesson plans for Year 5 (Autumn Term Part 1) that I created using the National Curriculum Framework document in England as a guide and some worksheet ideas.

Theme: Vacation

English/Literacy:
1. Writing Non-Fiction: Vacation diary + recount our last vacation using the mind mapping technique (where we travelled; how did we get there; what the weather was like; the food, things we bought, things we did etc).
2. Design a travel brochure using images or graphs.
3. Apply knowledge of morphology & etymology when reading new words (root words, prefixes, suffixes) to include: re-, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-, -ation, -ous.
4. Spell some words with silent letters (worksheets).
5. Homophones (worksheets).
6. Reading Fiction: Why the Whales Came – explore the vocabulary in the text.
7. Writing Fiction: Recognise and use similes and metaphors.
8. Reading Non-Fiction: Ibn Battuta (the Greatest Explorer of all Time).
9. Reading Poetry: The First Men on Mercury – investigate irregular plurals e.g man/men.

Maths/Numeracy:
1. Secure place value to at least 1,000,000 (worksheet 1 worksheet 2). Continue reading

Year 2 Autumn Term 2018 Homeschooling Lesson Plans Part 1

Year 2 Autumn 1 Term 1 2018 Lesson Plans-page-001 (1)Below are our homeschooling lesson plans for Year 2 based on the National Curriculum in England:

Theme: Vacation

English/Literacy:
1. Vacation diary + recount our last vacation (where we travelled; how did we get there).
2. Revise the GPCs and the common exception words taught in Year 1.
3. Read words of two or more syllables that contain the same graphemes.
4. Continue reading the Oxford reading tree books level 2.

Maths/Numeracy:
1. Counting review – up to 100.
2. Counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s forward and backward.
3. Recognise the place of value (tens, ones). Continue reading

Free Maths Worksheets for Primary School | Reception and Year 1-6

Maths worksheetsAssalamu’alaikum,

Here is a good maths blog that has a lot of free maths worksheets for Reception and Year 1 to 6. They are arranged in years, based on the UK curriculum i.e Year 1 is for children aged 5/6.

The links below will take you to the Maths blog site.

Reception Maths Worksheets (4 to 5 years old) Continue reading