Old Monkland Primary School & Nursery Class

Hi Boys and Girls,

Along with lots of other schools in the Coatbridge cluster, we thought we would do a Uniform Day (as opposed to a non uniform day) on Thursday 21st May,  just as a little bit of fun for all of our pupils.

So look out your Old Monkland Uniforms and we would love to see your pictures in your class team. We would love to see as many of your pictures as possible and we could create a whole school video collage of your pictures.

Stay Safe

Mr Henderson

Logging in to Oxford Owl

Resilience Alphabet

Good Morning everyone, I hope you  are well and  had a lovely weekend even though the weather wasn’t very nice. Hopefully the sunshine will come back soon! Its another week of home learning for us all and new learning grids have been posted for you here and in your class team.

Sumdog
I have created new Spelling and Grammar challenges for you this week. Remember the Maths challenge is for you to take part in the NLC competition, you can join in at anytime.

Oxford Owl
I have created a new class login for you to use on Oxford Owl, instructions for logging in and accessing e books are attached above. This week I would like you to read 2 books, ‘Winnie and Wilbur Stay at home‘ and ‘Everybody Worries‘. The Winnie and Wilbur story has some suggested activities that you can find on Page 2-3. For ‘Everybody Worries’, you could try some of the activities suggested on Page 22-23.

Resilience Alphabet
In these strange and challenging times, its important for us all to talk about how we are feeling. Choose a different letter of the Resilience Alphabet everyday and complete the activities. You can do them in any order you like, I hope you enjoy them!
I would love to see more of you log into Teams this week, take care everyone and remember to get in touch anytime, I would love to hear from you.

Miss Sharkey x

Happy Monday Primary 2/3

I hope you have all had a lovely weekend. What have you all been up to?

Microsoft Teams

From today we will begin using Microsoft Teams to stay in touch and deliver tasks for you to try at home. If you have not yet tried to access Teams please try to log in and leave a wee comment. Let us know if you need any assistance in getting set up. Old Learning Grids and associated worksheets are already loaded onto our Teams and I can see some people have managed to download these from our Files. Over the weekend I posted the new Learning Grid for the next few weeks along with associated worksheets. These can be found in the ‘Learning Grids’ and ‘Instructions and Worksheets’ folders in the Files section. I have pinned the latest Learning Grid to the top of its folder. I will be available through teams to answer questions you have or to keep in touch. I have been missing you all and it is so lovely to hear how you have been getting on and see pictures too. Each group’s taught sounds and common words are also available from our Files. I will still be posting tasks here on the website too so if you are having trouble with Teams you can still access them.

New Home Learning Tasks

Our new Learning Grid has 4 Literacy tasks, 4 Maths tasks, 4 Health and Wellbeing tasks and 4 tasks which include focuses from our past topics, Australia and Dinosaurs. There’s also French, Science, Dance and ICT tasks too. Remember you can dip in and out of the current and previous Learning Grids if there are tasks you particularly enjoy. I will also continue to post wee activities you might enjoy now and then. I know I’ve spent a lot of time cooking and dancing in my kitchen to keep me busy when I’m not working. I also quite fancy building a den in my living room!

Sum Dog Winners

This week’s Sum Dog leader boards have been jam packed with fantastic scores, I have been so impressed! Here are last week’s winners.

Maths – Cal with 350 correct answers. Well done to Kroy, Leo, Grace Samantha, Mia and Charlie who also answered over 250 questions correctly!
Grammar – Samantha with 208 correct answers. Well done to Charlie, Grace and Mia who also answered over 150 questions correctly!
Blue Spelling Group – Daniel
Pink Spelling Group – Leo
Green Spelling Group – Lilly
Purple Spelling Group – Samantha with 259 correct answers!
Well done to everyone who took part in these challenges.

Sum Dog Challenges

This week’s Maths challenge is the North Lanarkshire Council Contest. The last day for this is 21^st May at 8pm. We need 10 people in our class to take part for us to appear on the leader board. At the minute 8 have joined in so we’re almost there! I have still created Spelling and Grammar challenges for this week. These end on Friday at 12 noon.
Remember, Sum Dog challenges are optional and you can take part in as little or a much as you like.

I look forward to hearing from you all on Teams!

Miss Bennett x

Good Morning boys and girls

It is another week of learning from home! Your new Home Learning grids will be posted on the blog today so look out for them. I have also posted them on our Primary 3/4 Teams page under ‘Files’. I hope you enjoy them!

Oxford Owl

You will notice on your Home Learning grid this time around I have made a class login for Oxford Owl which has hundreds of free e-books that you can enjoy reading. I have attached instructions on how to access the account and pick a book on Microsoft Teams. Your task is to pick a book to read and then complete a reading activity on it. The reading activities can be found in Microsoft Teams too. However each week I will post some recommended books for your group. You can search for this or chose a different one it is completely up to you! Here are this weeks recommendations:

Blue Group – Cool Clive

Red Group – Eric’s Talking Ears

Orange Group – Escape of the Giant Chicken

Green Group – Goal!

Sumdog

Well done for all your efforts on Sumdog last week and a big pat on the back to the winners from the competitions and challenges. You might have seen or will see a wee message from me when you log in to Sumdog with a wee reward so well done you! 🙂 I have entered you into the North Lanarkshire Sumdog Challenge for this week. It started on Friday 15th May and ends at 8pm on Thursday 21st May. We need 10 children to take part to get onto the leaderboard. Remember if you answer 100 questions you win an item for your house. I have also set a new Spelling challenge for you all which starts today and ends on Friday morning. Good Luck!

Spelling 

I have attached this weeks spelling words for you. Again like the last Home Learning sheet your words will be uploaded weekly and you have to choose a spelling activity or game to practise your words. If you can, write some sentences or a paragraph with some of them too. Here they are below:

Weekly Spelling words 18.5.20

Microsoft Teams

Please remember that as of today the 18th of May we will be using Microsoft Teams to help you with your home learning and keep in touch with you. Well done to those of you who have set up already. It has been lovely to chat to some of you about what you have been doing too. I am looking forward to hearing from more of you soon! If you are still having problems getting set up please leave a comment below or email Mr Henderson and someone will be able to help you.

Have a super day! Missing you all

Miss Marchant 🙂 x

Good Morning boys and girls,

I hope everyone had a nice weekend and managed to keep busy.

Your new learning grids and activities have been posted on our blog by Mr Henderson. You can also find these activities in our Primary 4/5 class team, under the ‘Files’ section.

If you have any questions about any activities or need any help, please get in contact with me.

Epic

You will notice on your home learning grid, that I have created a log in for our class. Please see attached instructions and activities on Mr Hendersons post for you to follow and complete. I have assigned a book for each group and I will continue to do this each week. This week I have assigned a book linked to our topic called,  ‘Apache’ Tribe. I hope you enjoy this!

You can also access thousands of other books and audio books. Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing and I will try my very best to help!

Spelling

Each groups spelling words will be uploaded each week.  Please refer to your grids and complete a spelling task each week using your groups words. I will be setting weekly spelling challenges on Sumdog. Well done to the pupils who tried really hard in our competition last week. Keep it up!

Microsoft teams 

As of today, we will be using Microsoft teams. This will let us keep in contact with you and support you with your home learning. Thank you again to everyone who has already set this up. I have loved catching up with you all. I look forward to speaking to more of our class soon! Please get in contact if you are having any issues setting this up.

I hope you all have a great week and enjoy your new home learning activities.

Missing you all,

Miss Davidson x

Here is the latest home learning activities from Miss Miller. A reminder that all of these activities and resources are also available within your class team.

P7 Home learning Grid May 2020 PDF

Here is the latest home learning activities from Miss Jones. A reminder that all of these activities are also available within your class team.

Home Learning Grid 18.05.20

Here are the latest home learning activities from Miss Davidson. A reminder that all of these activities are also available within your class team.

Primary 4.5 Work Pack May

Epic Instructions and activities

Lava Lamp experiment

P.E circuits

P4.5 Spelling bingo

Science Experiment – volcano

Totem Pole Activities

Weekly spelling words 18.5.20

Circles Multiplication

Squares multiplication

Triangles multiplication