Happy Monday!

Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a good weekend. It was good to see some drier weather although it was, and still is, bitterly cold. I am sure you were all hoping for some snow like other parts of the country.

Just a couple of wee reminders today. If you haven’t appeared on the weekly slide show and haven’t sent me any photos please do so as soon as possible. If you would like to send me a video of the poem ‘Crocodile’ if you have managed to learn it that would also be great.

Remember we are having our virtual class meeting on Wednesday at 10am. Please see Friday’s blog post for more details. I am sure you will be excited about seeing everyone – I know I am!

Please see below this week’s grid and activities.

Have a good day!

HAPPY FRIDAY 5TH FEBRUARY

Morning everyone! Another cold and damp day! Thank you to those people who have been sending me videos of the poem. You have until Monday to send them to me.

I have exciting news for next week. We have arranged to have a virtual class meeting on V-scene so that we can all catch up with each other. It will be on WEDNESDAY 10th FEBRUARY at 10am and will last for 20 -30 minutes. Mrs McKee will be sending you out details by email on how to access this online. I am sure you will all be so excited to see each other again.

Looking forward to seeing you all next week! Have a great weekend!

THURSDAY 4th FEBRUARY

Good morning everyone. How are we all feeling today? It’s nearly the end of the week so I am feeling happy.

If you haven’t already sent me a video of you reciting ‘Crocodile’ could you please do this by Monday. Hopefully, next week, one of the other teachers will be able to pick a winner from our class.

I am in school today but will reply to your emails as soon as I can.

Have a good day!

Tuesday 2nd February

Good morning everyone! Thank you to everyone who has been sending me photos and videos. You’ve all been working really hard and doing lots of super work. I have made up another wee slide show of some of the class. If you are not included this week you’ll feature in week 3. Someone in the slide show is learning the names of the bones of the body. Can you see who it is?

Hello EVERYONE! week 2

Today why don’t you post a comment in the comments box about something you are good at e.g. riding your bike, telling the time, playing the piano or helping around the house. I am sure lots of you have talents that I don’t know about.

Monday 1st February

I can’t believe it’s the first of February! I hope some of you managed to do some bird watching at the weekend. I saw lots of sparrows, some starlings, some pigeons and two crows. Sadly I didn’t see any of my favourite bird the robin or penguins my other favourite birds! I wonder why I wouldn’t see a penguin in my garden? There was a brilliant programme on over the holidays about all the different types of penguin there are in the world. My favourites are the Emperor and the Rockhopper.

This week we have added the lists of common words for consolidation. Most of them are on the little cards we send home but obviously you don’t have the ones since Christmas apart from on the grid. I hope everyone has been practising all their single sounds as we are moving on to two letter sounds.

This week, 1-7 February, is Children’s Mental Health Week. There will be a post on the main blog with more information. During such surreal times I think it is important that everyone is looking out for each other both adults and children. If there is anything I can do to support anyone please get in touch. As they say ‘a problem shared is a problem halved’.

I have lots of fantastic photos and videos from last week and I will be making up a wee slideshow – look out for it tomorrow. Everyone is working so hard. Well done boys and girls and a big thank you to everyone who is supporting you at home!

Have a good day!

1.2

I am also encouraging the children to not just read their book but to think a bit deeper about what they are reading and develop their comprehension skills.
This can be done through:
Answering questions about what is happening in the story, describing the characters etc.
Sequencing a story and writing a sentence about what is happening in the beginning, middle and end of the story.
Answering true/false questions.
Finding the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Looking for tricky words in the book.
Predicting what might happen next.

1.2 – plan (1)

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Common Words Stage 1 Weeks 9-16

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