Happy Friday everyone! Don’t forget our virtual classroom at 11am today. I will be having a little check in and chat and doing some number talks. Remember to send an email with any questions you may have and keep sending in your great work!

Could I please ask if you can have a look at yesterday’s Daily feelings quiz and fill it in if you haven’t already – along with today’s as well please. It is so lovely for the children to receive lovely comments to keep them motivated. It only takes a couple of minutes. Thank you!!

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Please complete our Daily Feelings Questionnaire as soon as you can every day; it only takes a couple of minutes. This allows us to put all your lovely comments together and send them to our Pupil of the Day. If you are our chosen pupil, make sure to say something nice about yourself and ask someone to send us a photo of you for your certificate.

Updated link as it wasn’t working before sorry! 

Daily Feelings

NUMERACY

Have fun with sumdog this week, you can log on and play the games at your leisure.

TRIANGLES

FRACTIONS

I hope you managed to find tenths of numbers yesterday and gave yourself a good challenge with my challenge questions.

Today we are going to look at fifths.

First of all lets share our counters into 5 equal groups using our counters.

Share 20 counters into 5 equal groups. Here is my example below.

Share 30 counters into 5 equal groups.

Share 10 counters into 5 equal groups.

Share 15 counters into 5 equal groups.

Share 5 counters into 5 equal groups.

Share 25 counters into 5 equal groups.

Fifths task

CIRCLES

I hope you feel a bit more confident when adding two 2 digit numbers.

You now have so many strategies to add and subtract

*Counting on and back

*Bridging

*Using a number line and a blank number line

*Relating to doubles and number facts

*Partitioning

Previously I have given you word problems to solve. Today your task is to create your very own addition word problems for me to solve. Keep your calculations within 100 and just go for it. Wonder if you can catch me out! Remember you need to work out the answer aswell so you know if I am correct or not. See if you can come up with 4 questions.

Remember the language task we did- refer to that if you need help with language.

Here is an example – Mel got 48 birthday cards and Tracey got 21 birthday cards. How many cards did they get altogether? 48+21 = 69

WRITING

Today we are going to write some sentences about what you can see. Click the link below for your task.

Adjectives and connectives task

Mrs Webb 🙂

We are so proud of all the hard work and effort that you are making. Give yourself a huge big pat on the back!! You are all trying your very best. Have a look through the pictures – can you spot yourself or your work? 

Also a huge well done to parents and carers. Thank you for supporting us through these times! 

Take care everyone and keep up the amazing hard work!! 

Mrs Deans and Mrs Webb 

Good morning everyone!

Don’t forget our virtual classroom at 11am today. I will be having a little check in and working on our writing structure related to our writing task this week. Remember to send an email with any questions you may have and keep sending in your great work!

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Please complete our Daily Feelings Questionnaire as soon as you can every day; it only takes a couple of minutes. This allows us to put all your lovely comments together and send them to our Pupil of the Day. If you are our chosen pupil, make sure to say something nice about yourself and ask someone to send us a photo of you for your certificate.

Daily Feelings

WORK TO BE PROUD OF

Check back later today for lots of lovely photographs of all your work on a seperate post.

NUMERACY

Have fun with sumdog this week, you can log on and play the games at your leisure.

TRIANGLES

FRACTIONS

I hope you had fun creating  your fact family triangles. Today we are going to use all the great dividing and multiplying skills to help us with todays task to find tenths of quantities.

Click below for your task.

Finding a tenth of a number

CIRCLES

I hope you had fun with your doubles yesterday. Can you set a 2 minute timer and write down as many doubles calculations as you can. Ready Steady Go…

Today we are going to look at adding two 2 digit numbers, using partitioning.

Partitioning to add

WRITING

I hope you thought of lots of great ideas to describe this imagine using your senses. Did you imagine yourself being there? I think I’d prefer to be there than in rainy Ayrshire at the moment!

Your task today is to write down as many adjectives (describing words) as you can to describe this picture. Think about your senses to help with this. This will help with our task tomorrow when we write a few sentences about what you see. I have started a grid for you to add to.

Adjectives word wall

Mrs Webb 🙂

Hello everyone! It’s your lucky day – you have Mrs Deans and Mrs Webb today.

We just wanted to tell you all how awesome you all are, you make us both so proud every day with all your super hard work. Remember to keep sending us in pictures, we love to see them!

Tomorrow we will be posting some of the super work that we have received, showing off all your fab work!

Don’t forget our virtual classroom at 11am today. Mrs Deans will be talking about money and also our new Word Aware word of the week.

Remember to send us an email with any questions you may have at all and we’ll be happy to help.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Please complete our Daily Feelings Questionnaire as soon as you can every day; it only takes a couple of minutes. This allows us to put all your lovely comments together and send them to our Pupil of the Day. If you are our chosen pupil, make sure to say something nice about yourself and ask someone to send us a photo of you for your certificate.

Daily Feelings

SPELLING

Spelling and Dictation

READING

Reading sequencing tasks

IDL

You have your Scotland grid to work through and the Scottish dance from Friday’s blog to get you moving around and a little fun exercise.

NUMERACY

A very well done to those who took part in our sumdog competition. Check below to see the results.

3rd – Jayden

2nd – Haylie

1st – Kayci

Woohoo!! Well done!!

Have fun with sumdog this week, you can log on and play the games at your leisure.

TRIANGLES

FRACTIONS

I got some really great work from you all last week, working on your multiplication and division facts. Today we are going to look at multiplication and division fact family triangles before we head back to look at finding tenths of quantities tomorrow.

Multiplication and Division Fact Triangles are a good way of understanding Fact Familys. This helps you learn the relationship between multiplication and division of numbers.

Fact family shows sets of related numbers.

The largest number is always at the top of the triangle.

The multiplication sign is always at the bottom. 

Two dividing signs are always at the side.

This fact family tells us

30 ÷ 10 = 3

30 ÷ 3 = 10

10 x 3 = 30

3 x 10 = 30

Each triangle gives us 4 facts. Each answer is the number that is not used out of the three in the calculation.

Parents

To practise multiplication, cover the largest number with your thumb and ask your child to say both multiplication facts.

To practice division, show the largest number and cover-up one of the others.

e.g. for the above triangle, cover the 30 and ask your child to tell you what 3 x 10 is and 10 x 3 is or cover the 10 or 3 and ask them what 30 ÷ 3 is and 30 ÷ 10 is.

Your task today is to make your own fact family triangles of the 10 times table. You can complete the following worksheet or you can give your self a challenge by creating these on your own using your answers from Fridays task, drawing triangles in your jotter. You should have 12 triangles in total when you are finished.

Fact family triangles

CIRCLES

Today we are going to look at doubles. When you double a number you add the same quantity again.

If I say double 2, your calculation would be 2 + 2 =

Have a look through this power point. You can count the spots on the lady birds back to help you find the answer to each doubles question.

Doubles power point

Now complete the task below. Just draw the lady birds into your jotter, drawing the same amount of dots on the other side and write the calculation below.

ladybird double worksheet

Keep practising your doubles. It is really good to know them off by heart when it comes to doing calculations in your head.

Below is a fun game you can go on and play to help you learn your doubles.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

WRITING

Have a look at this picture. What can you see? Can you imagine yourself standing here. Think of your 5 senses. What do you think you could see, hear, taste, feel, smell? Have a little brainstorm and tell someone at home your ideas.

Have a great day everyone. Every day we are one step closer to seeing your smiley faces 🙂

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 🙂

Happy Friday everyone! You have all done so well this week. You should be so proud of yourselves.  I really do love seeing all your pictures and videos of your hard work. It makes me smile so much!

Then we fill in the missing numbers to find our answer. 9 + 6 = 15

Good Morning boys and girls!! Mrs Deans and Mrs Webb here. We both hope you are all doing great. We are so delighted to be hearing from so many of you and love seeing all your hard work.

Don’t forget our virtual classroom at 11am. Today we will be doing a new word aware word as well as having a wee guessing game with the words we already know. The word is ‘fiction’ so have a think about what it means before our call. It was lovely to see so many of you yesterday! You will be aware that there are technical difficulties with Vscene. Please stick with us and hopefully it’ll be fixed soon.

Remember to contact us with any questions you may have. Just drop us a quick email. Take care and have a great day.

IDL

I hope you enjoyed your quiz on Scots language. Here are the answers below. Did you test anyone else in your family?

Scots language quiz answers

NUMERACY

A very well done to all that competed in the sumdog competition. I can see your results and see how hard you have been working so give yourself a huge pat on the back!! You have been rewarded with some coins 🙂

It has been so exciting checking the leader board each day.

The scores are in, check below to see who is 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

3rd place – Jayden

2nd place – Callie

1st place – Harley

You have been rewarded some extra coins 🙂

Well done!!

I know so many of you loved it so I’ve created another one for you. Have fun!!

TRIANGLES

FRACTIONS

Today we are going to start off with some quick warm up questions. We are finding halves and quarters of amounts and linking this with dividing by 2 and 4. Click below for your questions. Use your counters to help you or you can draw out the quantities and group them with circles.

division mental maths

We are going to be exploring tenths today. Click the power point below for a little introduction.

tenths power point

Follow up

Task

Below I have created flash cards just using pens and paper. I’d like you to create your own. If you do not have any spare paper then take some out of the back of your jotter. Starting with 0, 1/10, 2/10, 3/10, 4/10, 5/10, 6/10, 7/10, 8/10, 9/10, 10/10 or 1.

I also made tens frames – you can do this with the squares in your jotter and cut them out. Here is a copy of my tens frames if you are able to print them – Tens frames

Can you show tenths from 1/10 (1 tenth) all the way to 10/10 ( 10 tenths or 1 whole) by colouring them in? Then order them correctly from smallest to largest and largest to smallest.

Can you match the shapes with their fraction and order them? You can also play pairs with someone in your house. Pair up the fraction with the shape.

CIRCLES

ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION

This week week are going to be looking at adding and subtraction and looking at various strategies to help us solve calculations.

When we add we count on and the quantity gets higher. If we add on 1, it is one more than the number before.

When we subtract we count back and the quantity gets lower. If we take 1 away, it is one less than the number before.

Please complete these  calculations to show that you remember how to count on and count back, remembering to check the calculation for the + or – sign. You can use your 100 square to help you.

addition and subtraction mental maths

Next we are looking at adding by combining groups together and counting them all to find a total.  Click on your task below.

Counting to find a total

WRITING

This week are are going to be doing a little bit of persuasive writing about castles. We are so lucky to have lots of famous castles in Scotland. Have you ever been to any? Do you know of any?

Have a look through this powerpoint which shows us the main features of a castle.

Castle powerpoint

Have a think about what persuasive writing is – if you are trying to persuade someone to do something- what are you trying to do?

SPELLING AND DICTATION

Spelling and Dictation Sway

READING

We did some work on literal questions last week. I’d like everyone to have a bit more practise before moving on to our next skill. I would like you to answer the questions given but also to try and create your own questions.

Literal Questions

Mrs Webb and 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