Good morning Primary 1a, I hope you had a good day yesterday. Please practise all of your sounds today, you can sing along to your Jolly Phonics songs on YouTube. Read through your common words with someone in your family.
Remember to login to your Sumdog account and play some games. It keeps your brain active and can be lots of fun!
As today is your PE day why not try a workout with Joe Wicks or Jumpstart Jonny you will find both of these on YouTube.
I would love to see some pictures of you, completing one of your grid tasks, on Twitter. Have fun today and keep smiling!
I hope that you are all keeping safe and trying your best to remain focused on your learning.
I have set up a reading and spelling challenge on Sum Dog that I would like you all to try and complete. These challenges will encourage you to revisit some affixes that we have looked at in class and different areas of punctuation.
Remember to do some personal reading and record this in your reading log.
To continue developing your mental maths skills you should sign up for Maths with Carol Vorderman. The website is www.themathsfactor.com. This is a great free resource and a fun way to do your number work.
I have uploaded a Spanish language challenge from the British Council website. Choose one or two of these activities to complete in order to educate yourselves about Spanish culture and develop your knowledge of the Spanish language.
Keep working on your activity grids and try hard to post pictures on Twitter so that I can see your smiling faces.
I hope everyone is managing to work through the home learning grids with little complications.
How is everyones first week of homeschooling going? Feel free to tweet or email me any pictures or stories (@St_BarbarasPS / Shreenann@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk)
Additional Information will be posted in the upcoming weeks but for now why not try reading bingo, a task you could try complete each day. Reading takes you places- exactly what we need right now when we can’t go far.
Why not complete a Joe Wicks workout! This will link you to his YouTube Channel. Go to the ‘P.E with Joe’ section and let’s keep fit! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Reminder Sumdog challenges have been set for reading, maths and spelling, make sure to go on and give them a try. Well done to those who have been on already. You have until Friday to complete the challenges…GO GO GO!
Any questions you can get them to me via email or twitter.
I hope you had a great day yesterday. I enjoyed reading your tweets and getting to see your smiley faces in the pictures and videos. I am very proud of how hard you are all working!
Today I would like you to keep working through your learning grids, choosing some tasks to complete. Remember to take plenty of breaks and get some fresh air in your garden.
If you would like a change this morning and you would like to try a new workout, Jumpstart Jonny is great fun! https://www.youtube.com/jumpstartjonny
I have also signed you all up for Studyladder. https://www.studyladder.co.uk/ This is another great online resource, where you can access lots of great activities to keep your brain active. I will be setting you tasks each week. You each have your own username and password to login. Please email me if you wish to receive these details.
lmceleney@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
One last thing before I go 🙂 I cannot stop watching the live webcams at Edinburgh Zoo. The animals are far too cute and they are certainly cheering me up. My favourite is definitely the Panda cam! https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/
Here is Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 2 of “How to Train your Dragon”
After you have listened to both parts try to write some literal, inferential and evaluative questions and answers about the chapter. You can listen and watch more than once.
Just in case you have forgotten
Literal Comprehension – What it says
What is the Author saying?
Remember the facts
Identify the main ideas
Find the details
Summarise
Locate information and use clues to give meaning
Questions you should ask yourself
What words show the main ideas of the story?
How can you summarise what is happening?
What happens first, second, third and last?
How are the things that happen alike?
What things belong together?
Inferential Comprehension – How it says it
What am I understanding?
Read between the lines
Find clues/collect evidence
Have ideas
Make predictions
Judge the mood
Find the author’s point of view
Questions you should ask yourself
What is the author hiding?
What effect does this character have on the story?
What effect does this event have on the story?
What will happen now?
How can I prove my ideas?
What is the author’s message
Evaluative Comprehension – What it means to me
What do I think about this?
Why has the author written this way?
What are my feelings about these characters?
What are my feelings about these situations?
Questions you should ask yourself
Could this possibly happen?
Is this logical?
What other way could this story have gone?
Is my thinking fact or opinion?
Do I agree or disagree with the author’s message?
As you write your questions remember,
Inferential answers need evidence to back them up so inferential questions must be based on evidence in the first place.
Evaluative answers can be different for different people but again their views must be justified so your questions must relate closely to the story so that the opinion that they form makes sense.
I know that you might find the inferential questions tricky but that is why you need to collect your evidence first. Authors are always hiding something – sleuth them out!!
Write a short paragraph about what you have learned.
Please select a task from your grid today. Remember that there are set tasks waiting for you all on Sumdog and Studyladder.
Practise counting forwards and backwards in tenths starting at different numbers: eg 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 6, 6.1 or 29.1, 29, 28.9, 28.8, 28.7
Please complete four operation sums, one addition, one subtraction, one multiplication and one subtraction. Can you explain to a family member the steps that you followed?
Record yourself reading a short extract form your personal reader and watch it back. Did you sound fluent? Did you use the punctuation in the text as you read? Did you use expression? Did you use strategies for tricky words?
Learn to draw a beautiful Scarlet Macaw by following:
I would love to see some finished work by our amazing artists.
It is very important that you keep your mind and body active, but home learning is very different from lessons in school. Please feel free to adapt any suggested activities to suit your family life and remember to take regular breaks. You must also be missing your friends. There are many ways that you can keep in touch with your classmates and share what you have been doing.
If you need any further information or support with logins please get in touch by leaving a comment.
I hope everyone had a good sleep and is ready to learn! Please keep using the grid for activities to keep your brains active. I could see lots of good work on Sumdog yesterday. Just remember it is important to take breaks, just like we do in school.
I am missing you all and it would be lovely to see your smiling faces so please feel free to post on twitter or send me an email with pictures or just to tell me how you are doing.
AMcGill@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
I enjoyed reading Blubbering Bertha yesterday and today I am looking forward to joining the Joe Wicks Workout so I can have a treat tonight!
I hope you are all keeping well. I am missing all of your smiles. I have noticed some of you have been working hard on Sumdog – keep it up! Remember to log into First News and give some of the activities a try. I am loving all the pictures of you doing your workouts and writing your stories. Remember to use your grids to try a new task every day.
For those of you who love Strictly Come Dancing, Oti Mabuse is hosting dance classes every morning at 11.30. They are great fun!
I am sure some of you will be missing your usual yoga and meditation so I have included some little breathing tips below, a lovely way to end the day.
I hope you are all well and keeping safe. I am missing all of your smiley faces. Dippy is looking after our classroom and he said that it is just not the same without you all!
Keep working through your home learning grids. I would love if you could tweet a picture of you completing some of your tasks. Tag your post @St_BarbarasPS . This would make me smile!
I have also set you all a challenge on Sumdog. Remember your username and passwords can be found inside your diary.
Here is a fun little reading challenge for you to try.
