Author: Mrs Knox

Parents/Carers your child was learning about the story behind the four elements of Glasgow’s Coat of Arms. Please ask them about these stories! 

We had fun learning our tch sound this morning. Followed by a bit of music,  learning about ta tete and rest  and then some research this afternoon!

 

 

We we learned how to join un and um today, look at this beautiful work from Rory C!

We have been learning about Charles Rennie Macintosh.  We had a go at making his beautiful rose. We know he designed lots of things like, furniture, posters, buildings and even schools!  By Max and Maya

This week is the last week of covering the Stage 2 programme for phonics. Next week is a consolidation/assessment week so the homework jotters will not be coming home on the 28^th October as we will be updating them. Please see attached this terms homework grid which can be started as of next week. The homework jotters will be coming home week beginning 4^th November. You will then have the rest of the term to work your way through the grid and we will request the jotters in for our next consolidation week closer to the end of term. Remember any road safety posters should be returned by this Friday, the 25^th.

bingo homework Oct – Dec

We have had so much fun developing our gymnastics skills this term. Mrs Knox was blown away this morning with how well we could use the hurdle step on to the spring board and the development of our backwards rolls.

 

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P3a.1 have been learning how to use commas to separate items in a list. Have a look at some of our awesome work!

 

 

We have been revising magic e today, we had lots of fun making magic e wands, playing games on the whiteboard, playing bingo and creating our own sentences.

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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.

 

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!