March 26, 2020
by Miss Early
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We are Thinking of You. Stay Safe.

March 25, 2020
by Miss Mearns
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Room 3 Primary 2

Good Morning boys and girls! I hope you are all well.

Some tasks for today are:

Literacy:

I have set some work on studdyladder to help you practise your a-e phoneme.
Oxford Reading Tree have opened their website for free and you can find similar book to those we use in school. You can find them at
http://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/
Can you read a story, write about your favourite part and draw a picture. (If you cannot access this use read a book you have at home).

Numeracy:

I have set up a subtraction challenge on your Sumdog account. Keep an eye out as I will be setting a class competition at the end of the week!

HWB:

Joe Wicks (The Body Coach) is doing online PE lessons every day at 9am on his Youtube account to get you up and moving! (I will be trying this at home too!)

French:

Today you would be learning French with Mrs May. She has asked if you can access the Tinycards Duolingo app or online to practise your French numbers!

Most of all enjoy spending time with your family!

Miss Mearns

March 25, 2020
by Mrs Brown
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Room 4 Primary 3

Good morning boys and girls,

Hope you all and your family continue to stay well. I continue to think of you all!

Some suggestions for today:

Maths/Numeracy

Mental Agility-Topmarks website- Mental Maths Train- Multiplication (10 minutes max.)
Interactive- Tomarks-Hit The Button (10 minutes max.)
Pencil Activity-Choose an activity or two from your Multiplication Booklet.

Literacy

Common Words: walk water picture once until

Write out each word three time- this could be on paper, chalkboard or type out on computer.
Write a sentence for each word.
Reading/Listening- Log on to Espresso- Go to First Level, select English and scroll to Traditional Tales watch and listen to Cinderella- watch once
After listening make a quick chart to record characters and setting
Watch and listen again and record the details in the chart

Characters	Setting

I have inserted the planning grid for Espresso- Parents can open this and scroll to the relevant teaching area. Please leave a comment if this has been a successful shortcut as this will be a good method of directing future teaching and learning.

Please find attached:DiscoveryEducationEspresso_CurriculumForExcellence_MappingGrid (1)

Thank you

Mrs Brown

EXTENSION

Make some puppets and retell/perform the story.

Health and Well-being

Try some Just Dance on Youtube or complete Joe Wick’s (Youtube) workout for today.

Make a picture of a rainbow and put it in your window- others will see this and know you are home schooling.

Remember if you would like to leave a comment, it would be lovely to hear from you!

Have a good day and remember these are just suggestions.

Regards

Mrs Brown

March 25, 2020
by Mrs MacFarlane
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Primary 4 Room 7

Wednesday 25th March

Good morning everybody, Thank you for sending me your emails, letting me know what you have been doing and attaching images of your work. This is a lovely way to keep in touch and I am enjoying reading your emails and seeing what you have been learning about. I hope you are all staying safe and exploring the apps and online learning that you took home last week. There are lots more online learning becoming available, so I will look at those today and list a variety of them over the next few days so you can have fun exploring them also. Today’s tasks are listed below.

Literacy – I have set you a task to complete on study ladder. Log in to studyladder using your username and password and complete the first 5 activities within the module set.

Numeracy – Access Topmarks online, choose a game and have some fun. Spend 30 minutes on the game.

Health and Wellbeing – Access PE with Joe (Joe Wicks Fitness for schools/The Body Coach) on Youtube. (I will also be doing this too, remember to have fun and drink plenty of water)

Modern Languages – Access Tiny Cards Duolingo online or on the tiny cards app – work on French basics.

From

Mrs MacFarlane😊

March 25, 2020
by Miss Early
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Room 1 and Room 2

Good morning,

It is Wednesday and that means it is our story writing day. Today’s writing your task is to write about being a superhero for a day. What superhero would you be? What are your special powers?

Be as creative as you like and pop it in your journal as we would love to hear your stories when we are all back at school.

Enjoy!

March 25, 2020
by Mrs Anderson
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Wednesday 25th March Room 1 & 2 Tasks

Good morning boys and girls in Rooms 1 & 2.

For Numeracy today try the following website – www.themathsfactor.com. Carol Vorderman’s maths school for 4-11 year olds is free for everyone to use while the schools are closed. You can watch her maths videos, play games and practise.

Try and exercise today at some point too. Why not try a Joe Wicks Body Coach live workout or kids workout (you will find these on You Tube). They are great fun to get you moving.

Have fun today and stay home.

Mrs Anderson, Mrs Early & Mrs Mooney

March 25, 2020
by Mrs Doyle
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25th of March Room 5 📚

Morning boys and girls 🌈,

Hope you are all well 💜

As today is Wednesday and we love to do our story writing why not write a story . You can make it about anything you like ! Just remember to include WHEN, WHERE, WHO and try to include at least 3 things that happened . If you would like some ideas to help you then why not use the story spinner website that we use in class 😄

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-s

You could also practise some subtraction sums today on some paper or on topmarks .

https://www.starfall.com/h/addsub/addsub-l

?sn=math1–math0

Remember to keep active too 🚶🏽‍♀️🏃. Why not try Joe Wicks if you haven’t already or type Just Dance into You Tube and do one of your favourite dances 💜

Take care boys and girls

Mrs Doyle 💜

March 24, 2020
by Mrs Brown
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Help Viewing Espresso Videos at Home

Espresso- Videos not working

Espresso-

My video or activity isn’t playing correctly

Please note that if you are not using Internet explorer 11, Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome as your web browser, then please contact our School support team directly on 0800 6 527 527.

Internet Explorer 11

Select the Tools icon:
Select ‘Internet Options’ from the drop down menu
From the ‘Advanced’ tab scroll down to the ‘Multimedia’ sub header
Ensure that the ‘Play animations in web pages’ and ‘Play sounds in web pages’ are both ticked.
Apply your changes before exiting Tools
Refresh your page

Microsoft Edge, Flash settings

On your computer, open Microsoft Edge.
On the top right-hand corner, click the 3 horizontal dots icon.
Click Settings near the bottom of the menu that appears
Click View advanced settings under the Advanced Settings header
Toggle Use Adobe Flash Player to On

Google Chrome

Browse to the Espresso home page: https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/home
Select the padlock icon located at the start of the address bar
Next to the Flash options choose the drop down menu and select “Allow”
You will be prompted to reload the page to finalise

Interactive whiteboard users

For the drag and drop activities to work on interactive whiteboard, you need to enable Touch Events API on Chrome settings:

Close Chrome.
Connect the SMART Board interactive display to the computer.
Restart Chrome
In the Chrome browser, enter chrome://flags in the address bar.
Browse to Touch Events API.
Select Enabled in the drop-down menu.
Restart Chrome.

March 24, 2020
by Mrs Brown
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Free Reading Resources-Audible Books (6 languages available)

Amazon has cancelled the subscription of books and audio stories for children while schools are closed. Children anywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including stories across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning and just being kids!

All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet using the following link:

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

March 24, 2020
by Mrs Brown
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Room 4, Primary 3

Hello lovely my boys and girls,

I hope you are doing ok – I am really missing you all and hope you are you families are keeping well.

Sorry I missed you all last week, my daughter was unwell and my family have had to stay at home and are still here. She is on the mend and we are doing some home school work too.

You were all issued a ‘Home Learning Plan’ in-case the time came that we all had to stay off school. We discussed all the different activities when they were issued.

So just a reminder. You all have details for :

Sumdog, Studyladder and Espresso through Discovery Education.

You all also should have been given booklets to continue to practise your Times Tables- x2/x3/x4/x5/x10- you are all doing so well and improving your speedy recall, so keep practising!
You have a booklet to learn about Aspects of Measure which has some nice ideas. I’ll add more Studyladder Resources for this next week.

Remember there are lots of great free games on Topmarks including The Mental Maths Train which we use to practise our mental agility- lots of different settings for the four operations- addition/subtraction/multiplication/division. We have yet to cover division but that doesn’t need to stop you giving yourself a challenge.

Remember Storylineonline is good for stories and there are lots in Espresso too!

I hope you find included additional ideas from NLC’s Literacy and Maths & Numeracy Activities.

Remember to keep fit too,if you can, and try some Just Dance or Joe Wicks workouts on Youtube.

For relaxation ZenDen is also available for free on Youtube and there are lots of nice children’s bedtime meditation programmes too.

These are all just ideas and will work differently for different families. I am sure you are all on your best behaviour for your parents/carers- keep being good.

Mrs Brown

First Level Mathematics and Numeracy Home Activities x

First Level Literacy Home Activities (2)