Our New Sound

Today we have been learning about the ‘y’ to make an i sound.

We worked very hard with our partners to follow the 5 finger steps to learn our new sound. We always enjoy our phonics lesson and working with our partners.

#literacy #phonicsisfun

Homework

Click here for Spelling List

Being numerate helps us to function responsibly in everyday life and contribute effectively to society. It increases our opportunities within the world of work and establishes foundations which can be built upon through lifelong learning. Numeracy is not only a subset of mathematics; it is also a life skill which permeates and supports all areas of learning, allowing young people access to the wider curriculum.    (Education Scotland)

Click here for Maths Homework Grid

Monday 23rd September  – Family Numeracy and Maths Homework Challenge

Families can choose one activity (or more if you wish) from the grid and work on this together over the next two weeks.  How you record and share your homework is up to you! There are some suggestions on the grid but please feel free to be as inventive as you wish.  This homework will last two weeks. On Friday 4th October, the eldest child in each family should bring in their family homework and the pupils will get a chance to share their activity with the school community.  The homework should be carried out as a family and each activity can be simplified or extended to allow everyone to take part.  There are lots of real life challenges to allow our pupils to see the benefit numeracy and maths has on our everyday life.  These activities are designed to be fun, active and engaging for all our learners.  It will not only promote their numeracy, but it will also develop their problem solving, creativity and collaboration skills.

Please share your learning activities with us on twitter! @kirkhillPS and use our #

#kpsachievements #kpsmathsweeekscotland2019 #mathsweekscotland

 

Thank you for your support!

Local Area Walk

As part of our new topic on Monday the 23rd of September both P3a classes will be going on a walk in the local area.  During this walk we will be looking at our local environment and it’s amenities.  In a few weeks will be comparing our local area to Glasgow City Centre.

New Spelling Sounds

 

Click for Spelling Sounds – 16/9

Please see attached Homework Bingo Grid and read the instructions below.

Bingo Homework Term 1  – Grids are also stuck in Homework Jotters

Instructions for Bingo Grid:

Colour in each box after you’ve completed the homework task, you can work towards a homework bingo by completing 5 tasks in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally). You can use your homework jotter to compete any of your tasks, stick in pictures, paintings or photographs or you could even tweet us some pictures of you completing your tasks @KirkhillPS #p3homework. Aim to complete one spelling activity and one maths activity per week. The topic activities do not need to be completed every week and some tasks may take longer that one week. You do not need to hand in your jotter weekly, it is a multi-use jotter for across the curriculum which you are welcome to use for any of your activities. We will ask for the jotters to come in during consolidation weeks to update. We will use this grid until the October holiday. This term we would like you to read for enjoyment at home, please enjoy reading from your own books, the local library or you can borrow from the class library. Our spelling words will be updated weekly on our blog for you to learn. We hope you have fun doing your homework 😊.

Jotters will be handed out on Monday.

You will also see an overview of our Phonics for the first six weeks stuck in the jotter. Please ensure you hand in jotters on the 4th of October so we can update the grid after our consolidation/ assessment week.

 

Term 1 – Overview

Please find our overview for term 1. This highlights the areas that we will be covering in class.

Term 1 – Overview

 

Meet the Teacher PowerPoint

Click here to see the Meet the Teacher PowerPoint

Homework 9.9.19

Click here for homework – 9.9.19 – 13.9.19

Our First Blog of P3!

This week we started learning our new sounds using our brand new magnetic boards. We are working very hard to learn our phonics in a new way.

To start with we had our investigating eyes on and had to look for words with our new sound in a story. Then we started to work in pairs with one being the student and the other being the teacher. We tried hard to say the word, make the word, break the word, blend the word, read the word and write the word.

 

OUtdoor Learning Update

OUTDOOR LEARNING CLOTHING – AMENDMENT

Different outdoor learning experiences offer opportunities for personal and learning skills development in areas such as communication, problem solving, information technology, working with others and thinking skills. Learning in the outdoors can make significant contributions to literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing. Therefore, outdoor learning offers many opportunities for learners to deepen and contextualise their understanding within curriculum areas, and for linking learning across the curriculum in different contexts and at all levels.

(Learning and Teaching Scotland, 2010)

At Kirkhill Primary we strive to provide regular outdoor learning experiences for all our children.  As a school we have a fantastic outdoor space which can be used across the curriculum to develop our children socially, emotionally and academically. During last session we had a super Science Garden added to our fantastic Eco garden and we can’t wait to explore here and other areas of our school grounds!

To allow all pupils to access outdoor learning in the changeable Scottish weather, we would appreciate the children bringing in outdoor clothing (wellies, rain jackets and trousers) on days they will be learning outdoors. Class teachers will let you know via the class blogs the days that these are required so that you can keep them at home on other days.  Also, if you have any spare items which your child is not using any more and you are happy to give these to the school, please put this in a bag with it clearly labelled as spare clothing for the school to allow items to be shared with our families.

Thank you in advance with your support with outdoor learning and please get in touch if you have any questions. This support will allow our children to have a fantastic time learning outdoors come rain or shine!

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