Good morning everyone! I hope you are all well today. Our virtual classroom is at 11am again today. We will be doing a new word aware word and a fun  game with the words we already know. Try and have a wee look over the word aware material below first if you can.

DAILY FEELINGS

Click below to tell me how you are feeling today and see who is our pupil of the day! I’m really enjoying seeing all the lovely comments you are leaving for your friends and I have heard that our pupils of the day have felt very special when they get their certificate! Please make sure to take a minute every day to do this.

Daily Feelings

SPELLING

Elkonin boxes and Common words

READING

Our reading task today is a follow on from last week when we worked on prove-it questions. This links to our Word Aware word of the week! I have attached a fun movie clip to help you think about finding proof to support your answers.

Prove It! Mike’s New Car

WORD AWARE

Click here to see what your new word is!

MATHS

Today I would like you to use coins to make amounts up to 20p. Make the amounts to 10p and if you manage that, keep going up to 20p.

I would like you to use the highest value coins for each which will mean you are using the least amount of coins possible. For example, 14p could be made in lots of different ways (14 x 1p, 7 x 2p, etc)but the highest value coins would be a 10p and 2 x 2p coins.

A common mistake when we first work with coins is to add in coins that don’t exist like 3p and 7p!

using coins to make amounts to 20p

Here is your mental maths for this week.

Mental maths

DANCE FITNESS WITH ZARA

To join any of these two fun dance sessions, get your dancing shoes on and click the links below!

10.30-11am for use on computer. If you want to use the mobile app the  room ID is 1448452

1.30-2pm for use on computer. If you want to use the mobile app the room ID is 1493365

Good morning everyone. I hope you all had a lovely weekend.

Remember to join our virtual classroom at 11am today. Please have your whiteboard and pen or paper and pencil handy.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

How are you feeling today? Here is your Daily Feelings questionnaire. Please do this as soon as you can so we can get our Pupil of the Day certificate made up. Click the link below to find out who our special pupil is today!

Daily Feelings

READING

Each book has a new fiction book added to their account. Your task for today is to read your book and answer the bug questions on each page. I would also like to hear from each of you about how you are managing with your reading. You should be starting to read the common words you know without having to sound out.

Ladybirds- Jay and Sniffer: The Bike Race

Glow-worms- Rat and Cat in Let’s Jump!

Spiders- Truck Town: It is Hot!

SPELLING

New phoneme ‘aw’

MATHS

More money work today. We have discussed that each coin has a different value. Using your counting skills, find the value of bundles of coins.

Counting coins

Good morning everyone! Remember our call at 11am this morning. We’ll try and cover our money talk that we missed yesterday and this weeks Word Aware.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

How are you feeling today? We had some lovely comments for our pupil of the day, Hunter, yesterday! Who’s turn is it today? Click on the Daily feelings link to get your questionnaire! It only takes a couple of minutes to complete. Please remember to email me a photo we can use on your Pupil of the Day certificate!

Daily Feelings

SPELLING

Tuesday is Elkonin boxes and Common words day. Click on the link below for the spelling lesson.

Elkonin boxes and common words

READING

As a follow on to our work on literal questions, we are now going to be looking at inferential questions. Click on the link below for your reading lesson.

Inferential questions

WORD AWARE

Have a wee look over our Word aware words before our call today as we will be talking about our new word.

Word Aware

MATHS

We have discussed what we know about money and how it is used. Today we are going to become more familiar with the coins we use. Try to have one of each coin to use (remember we have made up bags of plastic coins to be collected from school if you need them).

You will need 1p, 2p,  5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 (£2 if you have it but they are harder to find!)

Your first task will help you to recognise each coin. You don’t need to print this out. You can write the coin values and match your coins up. Keep working on this until you know all of your coins.

Coin Recognition Activity Sheet

The following task explores the value of each coin. Each coin is worth a different amount. Put your coins in order from the lowest value to the highest. (Again, the printed worksheet is not needed; you can lay your coins out in order or draw round them in order on a piece of paper)

Coin ordering activity sheet

Good morning everyone! It’s the 1st of February today; the shortest month of the year. Do you know how many days are in February this year?

Our daily live lesson is at 11am again. Check out my maths post below to see what we’ll be talking about today.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Mrs Webb and I would like you to complete a short questionnaire each day to let us know how you are feeling. As part of the questionnaire, you will see that we have chosen a Pupil of the Day. It is always nice to try and make others feel good so each day we want you to say something nice about our Pupil of the Day. Your compliments will all be put together and sent to whoever has been chosen for that day. If you are the pupil of the day, you can say something you like about yourself or something you are proud about yourself. You will be asked to enter your name at the top of the questionnaire but Mrs Webb and I are the only people who will see your responses and the compliments to the pupil of the day will not have your name beside them. We have some lovely photos of some of you doing your work that will be great to use to make your Pupil of the Day certificate with all the lovely compliments on it. If you haven’t sent us any photos, please send one and copy both Mrs Webb and I in. The certificates will be sent to parents’ email accounts and not posted publicly. Click on the Daily Feelings link below to access the questionnaire.

Daily Feelings 

READING

You all have new books allocated to your Bug Club accounts. Today your task is to read your book, make sure you are spotting all your common words and then answer the bug questions on each page.

Ladybirds- Zip and Zap at the Zoo

Glow-worms- King Pip and the Troll

Spiders- Sarah’s Tap Shoes

SPELLING

Our new phoneme this week is ‘ue’. Click on the link below for your phonics lesson.

ue Phoneme

MATHS

We are beginning a new topic on money today. I would like you to think about what you know about money. What is it used for? Why do we need it? What does it look like? Get a blank piece of paper and write/draw everything you know about money. (Parents please allow your child to work independently on this, without giving them ideas, so I have a clear idea of what they know)

We will be discussing this on our call today but for those who are unable to join us, you can send me your money work by email. I’m looking forward to hearing all of your ideas.

For our money tasks, you will need at least one of each coin. You can use real coins if you have them but we have made up wee bags of plastic coins that can be collected from the school if you need them.

Mrs Deans 🙂

The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2021 needs your help!

The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch will take place Friday 29^th – Sunday 31^st January 2021.

It is a huge citizen science project which requires YOUR help, all you have to do is watch the birds in your garden or local park for one hour and record what you have seen. It really is that simple!

Your results will help The RSPB detect if there are any species with declining populations that need focused conservation efforts.

Your results really are very important, even if you only see very few birds!

Please use the links in the school blog to access a guide on how to identify different bird species.  You will also find The Big Garden Birdwatch counting sheets, a guide to make a bird feeder and a presentation of last year’s birdwatch results.

Once you have completed the survey, please return the results to my email:  geraldine.mangan@eastayrshire.org.uk  by Friday 5^th February.

Remember to let me know where, what day and time you have seen the birds.  I will collate the data and notify RSPB.

Thank you for your help and happy bird watching!

Geraldine Mangan

EYP Logan ECC

Under 5s Counting Sheet

7-11 Counting Sheet

Good morning everyone! I hope you are all well. It was lovely to get to speak to some of you on our class call yesterday. I’m hoping to see you all again today.

SPELLING

Elkonin boxes and Common words

READING

Today each group has a sequencing task for their bug club book.

Ladybirds

Glow-Worms

Spiders

MATHS

Today is mental maths day! Have a go at these questions and then I’m hoping we can go over the answers during our call today.

Mental Maths

I hope you all managed to complete the days of the week tasks yesterday. Click on the link below for the months of the year task for today.

Months of the Year sway

FAMILY FUN SESSION- DANCE

Remember that the first EAC Live Family Fun Sessions start today.

To take part in Dance with Zara from 10.30-11am today click the link below

Morning Dance session

Or you can use the Vscene Mobile App – 1448452 (no PIN required)

To take part in the afternoon session of dance from 1.30-2pm click below

Afternoon Dance Session

Or you can use the Vscene Mobile App – 1451130 (no PIN required)

Enjoy your day everyone! Remember to get in touch by email if you have any work to show or if you need help with anything.

Mrs Deans 🙂

Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Today we will be having our Vscene check-in at 11am. I hope you can all make it!

Today is Robert Burns’ birthday! Here is a wee activity about Robert Burns for you.

Robert Burns Poetry

SPELLING

ow phoneme sway

For your spelling today

• go over all phonemes covered so far
• watch the video of your new phoneme
• Work on formation of oa
• Listen to the phoneme story
• Use your oa phoneme word maker
• Read and spell all words on your list.

READING

Each group has been allocated a new book in Bug Club. Your tasks for today:

• Log in to your Bug Club account and find your new book.
• Read the words in the inside cover and make a flashcard for any words you are having difficulty with.
• Read your story.
• Answer all the bug questions on the pages.

Ladybirds- Shaun the Sheep: Too Many Jobs!

Glow-worms- Eco Apes Grow Food

Spiders- Can You See Cat?

MATHS

Last week when we did our before and after work, I noticed that a lot of you were needing a wee bit of work on writing the days of the week and months of the year. We have done a lot of work in class on saying the days and months but not much on writing them. We’ll do days today and months tomorrow along with mental maths. Please complete the tasks below for days of the week.

Days of the Week

Days of the week before and after

Number Formation Rhymes (in case any of you need it again)

EA LIVE FAMILY SESSIONS

East Ayrshire staff are offering families the opportunity to come and join in for a range of live online sessions. Click the link below to see the time table for the week. The first session is on Tuesday 26th January at 10.30am and repeated again at 1.30 allowing you to choose a time that suits best.  Click the links below for more details and how to access. Please follow the guidance if you would like to access it – not the link on our blog.

EA Live Family sessions wk 1

Live sessions Parent -carer Guidance Document

I’m looking forward to getting all your emails with your hard work! Have a great day everyone!

Mrs Deans 🙂

Good morning everyone! It’s Wednesday today which means you have two teachers! Mrs Deans has posted your spelling, dictation and reading and Mrs Webb has your numeracy and writing. Don’t forget you have your Scotland topic grid you can work away at.

We are looking forward to seeing you at 11am for our check-in today; keep your fingers crossed that we’re all able to join this time! See you then!

SPELLING AND DICTATION

Click here for Dictation and spelling sway

I’ve noticed it sometimes takes a while for the sound to play on the sway. I’ve given a written description on the task too in case you can’t get the sound working.

READING

Some work on literal questions today. Have a look at the sway and find the questions for your group.

Reading- literal questions

NUMERACY 

Well done to those of you that have completed the sumdog challenge!! You all did really well. Next time you log on you will have some coins as a reward! Well done!

I have set up a competition for you all to get busy with this week.  Good Luck!

TRIANGLES

FRACTIONS 

We have been looking at halves and quarters. From seeing your super work I can see that you all understand it really well.

Please click on the powerpoint below to follow your tasks for today.

Fractions

Once you have been through your powerpoint click below for your last task.

Task 4 fractions

CIRCLES

PLACE VALUE

Today we are going to be looking at the value of a number. The two phrases we talk about are quantity value and column value. 

Last week we looked at quantity value and I had some great work from you all. You were able to split the number up and show what each number was made up of. Today we are going to learn about the COLUMN VALUE.

column value powerpoint

WRITING

You all created super Newspaper Reports last week! I loved reading them all – well done!!

This week we are going to be looking at creating a fact file about Scotland. I have typed up some facts about Scotland although 3 of these are infact false – the rest are true. Can you use your knowledge or research online which ones are true and which ones are false. We will be using the true facts on Thursday and Friday.

Facts about Scotland true or false

Have a great day everyone. Remember if you have any questions then please don’t hesitate to send us an email.

Mrs Deans and Mrs Webb 🙂

VSCENE UPDATE- So sorry our meeting couldn’t get started everyone. I made lots of attempts to get in, as did Mrs MacColl but we think there’s an error in the system. We’ll try again tomorrow. I’m disappointed.

Good morning wee superstars! I got another batch of excellent work sent yesterday. I was also delighted to have emails waiting for me this morning with work from last week to look through.

I have to apologise for a wee mistake I made in the number pattern task yesterday! I didn’t even spot it. Well done to those who corrected it.

VIDEO CALL

I am excited about our video call at 11am today. I had a wee trial run with Mrs Baillie yesterday and we managed to get logged in fine by following the link and entering the code. The details for the Vscene call are in a post below  and the  meeting PIN codes will be sent by text. Alternatively you can just use the big button to the right and put in the details.

Today we will focus on how to use Vscene. When asked to enter name, please type your child’s name. We will make sure everyone knows how to switch their mic on and off. You will be asked to keep your mic switched off until it is your turn to speak and we will do some turn taking games to get warmed up.

You can put your camera on if you want to but that is your choice and you will never be asked to turn your camera on.

Reading

Ladybirds task

Glow-worms task

Spiders task

Spelling

Today we are using our Elkonin boxes to spell out the ea spelling words. I have made a sway to help get you started and  to introduce your new common words. Watch the sway then write all of your spelling words into your elkonin boxes. Practise reading and writing your new common words which are each, eat, year and ask.

Spelling- Elkonin boxes and Common Words

Maths

A wee bit of work today on understanding ‘before’ and ‘after’. In our mental maths task we have some revision of days of the week and months of the year that ask for before and after. You will also be asked for numbers before and after. I’ve made a queue of toys. Who is before Buzz? Who is after Jessie? Can you make a queue of toys and make your own before and after questions about it?

Now try some before and after number work. Remember, you don’t need to print tasks out;  writing them in your jotter is perfect!

before after within 20

before after within

Your mental maths task is covering time, 2D and 3D shape, number patterns and before and after. Copy the answers into your jotter.

Mental Maths

Have a great day and remember to email me if you need any help with anything and if you have work to send.

Mrs D 🙂

Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Mrs Webb and I are so proud of how well you’ve all been working. We have had some great examples of work sent to us. Keep sending us all of your hard work!

Tomorrow at 11am we are excited to be having our first live check in with you! We really hope that you are all able to join in. We will be sending out more details by text.

Don’t forget that your packs are in school ready to be collected. 

READING

New books for the week have been allocated in your Bug Club account. Please read them through. You can listen to the book being read and then have a go reading yourself. Your reading task for today is to complete the bug questions on each page.

Ladybirds- Pippa’s Pets: Scaredy Cat

Glow-worms- Rat and Cat in The Dance

Spiders- Look Up, Look Down

Every Bug Club book has a list of key words and some tricky words to practise inside the front cover that we usually go through on flashcards in class. Make sure you can read them all and look out for them in your book. If there are any you find difficult, make a flashcard for each and keep going over them along with any of the common words you are working on. (the insides of cereal boxes are ideal to cut up for flashcards)

SPELLING

Click the link below for your new phoneme lesson, spelling list and activities to complete.

ea Phoneme lesson

MATHS

We had some great number pattern work last week. I have created another task to practise counting forwards and back within 30 and have a further challenge to count forward and back in 5s today.

Use your laminated hundred square and whiteboard pen from your pack to help you find the counting in 5 pattern. It should go 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30…

Some of the digits are difficult to write properly.  I have made a sway with number formation rhymes to help you! Use these to practise writing any digits you have been finding tricky. Writing them over and over can help you get used to it.

Sway Number Formation Rhymes

I can continue number patterns to 30

I can count in 5s number patterns

30 MINUTE FITNESS

It’s important that we stay active to keep our bodies and minds healthy. My challenge to you today is to take part in 30 minutes of activity. You can choose what that activity is. I’m going to take part too; I’m really hoping it’s not too rainy so I can get out a walk with Evan and Blair. Send me an email telling me what you chose. Have fun and stay safe!

Mrs D 🙂