St. Barbara's Primary School

Good morning Primary 1 and happy Friday!😁

I hope that you all managed to get logged in and had a little read at one of the online books.  Today read it again and try to use expression in your voice.  Revise all initial sounds and phonemes.  Choose a fun way to practise the words shop, ship, fish, chat, chin, dish, the, thin, and that. You could paint them, use coloured pens or pencils and do rainbow spelling,  use chalk, play-doh, practise in sand or use shaving foam (my favourite). Here is a little game to reinforce “sh, ch and th”.
https://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L7855/index.html 

Practise number bonds to 10.

As Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, let’s take a little bit of time to say an Our Father to pray for all of the people who are ill in our world.  I hope that you managed to read the Easter story that Mrs Connelly sent you.

I have a little challenge for you over the next week. Let’s see who can make an Easter Bonnet. Maybe you could post a picture of you wearing it on Twitter? I’d love to see them all.

Have a super weekend and Easter break. Wishing you and you families a happy and holy Easter🐣 Hopefully the weather will be kind to us and you can play in your gardens and go for walks and cycles.

Take care,

Mrs MacLeod 😁

🐰I hope the Easter Bunny brings you lots of chocolate eggs.🍫

 

We have a special birthday boy in our class today!

Happy birthday Jack 🎈🎂

We hope you have had a wonderful day filled with plenty of birthday cake🎂

Love Miss McEleney and all your friends in P1b 😀

Good afternoon Primary 3,

I hope you are all having a lovely day.

I have had some messages to say a few of you have had trouble accessing hit the button. Here is the link to the website. I hope this helps you find it.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

I should of also said earlier that for your hit the button challenge I just want you to choose a set of questions to try. You may pick between multiplication or division and select which one you are going to try the same way we do in class. Once you have given it a go you may want to challenge yourself and choose a trickier set of questions.

Good Luck!

Miss McMullen

Good Morning Primary 3,

Thank you to everyone who has been in touch for their spelling words and to send me pictures of all of your hard work. I’m so proud of how hard you are all working. Keep the pictures coming as it’s putting a smile on my face.

Today I would like you to choose a story you enjoy and spend some quiet time reading. As today is our writing day, try and write a different ending for the story you choose. We did this before in class and you came up with some fantastic ideas!

I have been trying hard to beat my top score on hit the button and I think I should be the new class champion. Unless any of you think you are up to the challenge of taking the top spot. Have a go today and tweet me your score. Let’s see who is at the top of the leader board by 3:00pm today.

Remember to take plenty of breaks and get some exercise.

Miss McMullen x

Good morning Primary 2,

Did you play any April Fools tricks yesterday? Or did you fall for any tricks? I hope you all had a lovely day yesterday and are ready for Thursday’s home learning.

Why not start the day off with writing our daily calendar news, you can start by singing our days of the week and our months of the year song. Then complete this task by copying it into your jotter and filling in the missing words.

Today is ________ the _nd of _____. April is the _th month in the year. April is the season of ______. It is _______ outside today.

 After this I would like you to practise reading all of your common word flash cards. Why not make it fun by playing SPLAT! Stick your words on your wall and ask a parent to call out a common word for you to READ and SPLAT.

Remember to continue to work through your Sumdog challenges- reading, spelling and maths. You have until Friday, GO! GO! GO!

For today’s health and wellbeing task, I would like you to try and develop your food preparation skills- peeling and grating. We enjoyed learning about healthy food and maintaining a healthy diet in class this term.

I have attached a skills guide but you can also get a video of the skills by logging onto:

• Foodafactoflife.org.uk
• Top of page, click on 5-7 years
• Click on cooking
• Click on videos
• Scroll down page until you come to peeling and grating videos.
• Enjoy!

Have a terrific Thursday boys and girls! Remember you can posts pictures of your home learning to our school Twitter.

Take care,

Miss Shreenan 😊

Good morning Primary 7,

It’s Thursday which means it’s time to get our imaginations flowing and do some creative writing. Today I would like you to use the picture below to write an interesting story. Remember to take care with your use of punctuation and try to challenge yourself by using some amazing descriptive vocabulary.

 

How did you discover this new planet? What is it like?     Does anyone live on this planet?

 

 

I would love to read your amazing stories, feel free to email them to me:

sreid@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk

I know how much you all love playing the Countdown number challenge in class so why not go on to the website below and see if you can reach your target number using the four number operations.

http://happysoft.org.uk/countdown/numgame.php

I hope you all had a chance to either watch or carry out yesterday’s science experiment. Who made an accurate hypothesis (predicted what would happen) and now understands why the diet can floated and the regular can sank?

If you aren’t too sure how the experiment worked here is an explanation:

How Does the Experiment Work?

The simple answer is that the density of the cans causes them to either float or sink. The cans of diet juice are less dense than water, so they float. The cans of regular juice are more dense than water so they sink.

Now you may be wondering why the density of the cans is different. The answer, is the type of sweetener used in each can.

• Sugar is used to sweeten regular cans of juice, a lot of sugar. This large quantity of sugar causes the can to become more dense than water.
• Artificial sweeteners are used in diet juice. However, a smaller amount of artificial sweetener is used which causes the can to be less dense than water.

So there you have it, even though the cans were the exact same shape, size and volume        (330 ml) the densities were different.

Have a terrific Thursday everyone and I look forward to reading some of your exciting stories. Remember to complete day 2 of your April maths calendar.

Mrs Butler 🙂

Good morning everyone 😀

It’s Thursday and you have all wowed me with your amazing efforts already this week🌟 Reading your replies and tweets has put a giant smile on my face. I am missing you all but you are all continuing to make me very proud to be your teacher. Keep it up Superstars!

I would like you to start off today with our morning prayer. I would also like you to say a  Hail Mary for people across the world who are suffering. You could also sing the Lent song you learned in class to someone in your family.

I couldn’t believe how many of you logged on to Sumdog yesterday to complete challenges and to take part in our class maths competition. Most of the class have started and the leaderboard is looking very close. Remember the competition closes on Friday at 2.30pm and shortly after I will be revealing our winner, who will be crowned this week’s Maths Champion.

Today you could practise the sh, th, ch and ng phonemes. Listen and sing along to your jolly phonics songs, say the sounds whilst doing the actions and try to write down some words which contain each of these phonemes. I’m sure you might also like to go back and watch Geraldine the Giraffe on her sound hunt. There is a video for each of these sounds 🦒

You could add some more fun into your day by tuning in live to listen to David Walliams reading one of his stories at 11am. His stories are very funny and star some of ‘The World’s Worst Children’.

I have another little challenge for you today which you might like to try. Can you create your own little imaginative world and hideaway by building a den in your house? You could use lots of different materials that you can find around the house, such as pillows, fabrics and pegs. Will it become a hidden castle or an amazing space rocket? Wherever your imagination takes you I cannot wait to find out. Tweet me a picture and leave me a little message. @St_BarbarasPS

Have an amazing day and remember to take plenty of breaks.

Miss McEleney 😀

 

 

 

Good morning boys and girls, I hope that you are all managing to work hard and have fun!

Today I would like you to practise all of your initial sounds and common words.  Playing SPLAT is a fun way to read your common words with a family member.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2HYM9VXz9k

As you do not have reading books I hope that this link will help you to continue to practise your reading everyday.

Connect OpenPage – Redirect

Click on the TEACHER portal and enter

Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk

Password: Parents20!
Try to read two books each week.  Some children may be on pink level and others on red or yellow.  Please choose the level to suit your child.

I would like you to try and read one of these books today and write a sentence or two about the story.

Numeracy –

Watch number pairs to 10 with Jack Hartmann and try to join in.

Practise adding to 10.

 

As it is Springtime why not try this scavenger hunt, either in your garden or on a Springtime walk.

Sing your spring song to someone in your family. Have a great day!

Love Mrs MacLeod x