Hi Primary 1,

Today we are going to focus on gratitude as part of mental health week. 

This means that we are going to think about the things we are grateful or thankful for.  What makes you happy and what are you really glad about? 

Focusing on and thinking about the things that make us really happy helps feel better, even if it’s something really small like the sun shining,  what you had for lunch or your favourite toy.

Here are some things that I am grateful for…

• My family – especially Rosie and Lyla who are keeping me busy and entertained during lockdown.

• All of you – my primary 1 class who I have loved teaching in your first months of school.

• My cat Wilbur

Think about and draw 3 things that you are grateful for.

Hello primary 1.

Tomorrow and Monday are May holidays so today will be the last online lessons until Tuesday 😎!  Hope you have a great weekend!

I saw these art activities online and thought I’d share them with you in case you wanted to do them over the holiday weekend.

Reading Thursday 

Warm Up:

• How many of these common words can you read before the girl on the video says them? Good luck – you’ve got to be quick!!

Main Activity:

Click on these links and go onto

Oxford Owl  or Epic Reading! and choose a book to read for enjoyment.

Choose a Book:

• There are Biff, Chip and Kipper stories and lots of other great books for your level.

Game to Support Learning:

• Practice your reading by playing this game from class…click here to play! Who can get the highest score? Choose either Phase 2 or Phase 3.

Topic Thursday

Today we are going to do some work on information handling. We can find out lots of information from pictures, charts and graphs.

Warm Up:

• Watch this clip all about finding , using and creating information in a graph –  click here

Main Activity:

• Look at the pictogram below and try to answer the questions at the side

Extra Challenge:

• Can you gather information from your family and record it in your own chart e.g. you could find out their favourite flavour of crisps or favourite chocolate bar

Game to Support Learning:

• Play these games to work on your data handling skills –

Data Handling Game 1

Data Handling Game 2 

Hi Primary 1,

I hope you all enjoyed the story book that I posted on Monday’s literacy blog – ‘Everybody Worries’ by Jon Burgerman –  a book for children who may have worries about the Coronavirus.  

Here it is again, in case you missed it on Monday…

Everybody Worries

As it is mental health awareness week I thought you might like a couple of wee activities about this during the week.  Today the focus is worry.  Have a think about some things that you worry about.

Remember the book Lucy’s Blue Day – It’s ok not to be ok!

It also helps to talk about things that you are worried about with other people and not keep it all to yourself.  Talking about it makes us feel better.

Talk with an adult about some things that worry you and what kind of things you could do to feel better when you are worried….

Talk to an adult about what is making you feel worried

Take deep breaths

Count to 5

Do some exercise

Cuddle someone in your family, or a teddy

Here is the link to Mrs McMillan’s You Tube channel called Take a Moment with Mrs McMillan.  It has some more strategies you could use when you are feeling worried and anxious.

Take a moment with Mrs McMillan

Blending Wednesdays 

Today we are going to learn about letter blends. Learning letter blends helps us to read and write.

Each letter within the blend is said individually, but quickly, so they ‘blend‘ together. bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fr, tr, fl, gl, gr, pl, pr, sl, sm, sp and st are all examples of blends. 

Warm Up:

• Watch this video and read along with the blends

• Can you read all the letter blends below? Remember to say each sound quickly so they ‘blend’ together! 

Main Activity:

• Write down the words from the sheet by adding the correct letter blend to the beginning of the word. Remember there will be 2 sounds. Can you hear them both?

• If you would like to, you can draw a picture next to your word

Extra Challenge:

• Try writing out the words from the sheet above in capital letters as well as lowercase letters e.g. glasses GLASSES

Game to Support Learning:

• This is a great game to learn about letter blends BUT it needs flash player so might not work on all devices –click here to try it.

Subtraction Wednesday

Today is our day we do some work on our subtraction skills. 

Warm Up:

• Go on a number hunt around the house and find as many numbers as you can – when you find a number, take away 1 from it e.g. if you find the number 16, take away 1 and your answer is 15 

• Remember – when you take away 1 you just go to the number before

• What is the biggest number you can find? I managed to find the number 100 in a book so I took 1 away and wrote down 99. Can you beat me and find an even bigger number?

Main Activity: 

• Write down your subtraction sums in your jotter and then answer them

• If you find it easier, you can draw the pictures to help you solve each problem – cross out the amount to take away, then count how many are left

Game to Support Learning:

• Practice your subtraction skills with this game – click here!

Extra Challenge:

• Sing along with this video all about subtraction – it really made me laugh! 

Morning primary 1

Happy Tuesday to you all.  Here are today’s lessons for you. 

Writing Tuesday

Today is the day we do some work on our writing 📝 .  Remember it doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to spell a word – just sound it out and try your best to write it 🤩.

Warm up:

• Start today by writing the alphabet in your jotter –  try and use your neatest handwriting

• Make sure you remember tall, fall and small letters

• You can choose to practice writing lowercase letters, uppercase letters or both!

Main Activity:

• Look at the picture below.  Talk about it with someone at home. Think about these questions:

• Write about the picture using sentences.  Say your sentences out loud before you write them and read them back to make sure they make sense

• Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops

The Park

Extra Challenge

• Can you include a joining word – and, but, so or because – to join two sentences together?

• Can you use any describing words to add extra detail to your story e.g. blue bucket, green shorts

Game to Support Learning:

• Dance along with Jack Hartman doing the alphabet

Addition Tuesday

Today we are going to add 3 numbers together.

Remember – you can add numbers in any order, the answer will always be the same.

When you are adding 3 numbers, look for easy numbers to add together first:

• numbers that add to 10, then add the last number

• look for doubles and near doubles to help you add

• start with the largest number and add on the smaller numbers

Warm Up:

Main Activity:

Try adding these 3 number sums in your jotter. Remember you can add the numbers in any order…just look for the easiest way for you.

Primary 1 Worksheet

Extra Challenge:

• Try making up your own addition sums with 3 numbers and get someone in your family to solve them.

• Remember to be the teacher and mark their work!

Game to Support Learning:

• Click on ‘+’ and then choose ‘three one-digit numbers’

Adding 3 Numbers  Game

Morning Primary 1

I hope you’ve all had a good weekend.  I am still missing you.  This is our 9th week away from school now!  I can’t believe it.  I really enjoyed getting an email from NG to hear how she and her family were and to  all about what she has been getting up to.

Well done to CT for 20 minutes reading on Epic reading too!

Remember, you can get in touch with me about anything at all via my email:

PDonald@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

Today marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week. John Burgerman has written a fantastic picture book for children who are worried about Coronavirus. Click here to have a look at it – Everybody Worries 

Here are today’s activities for you to try – keep going and just try your best 😃 . 

Phonics Monday

Today we are going to do some work on our sounds and digraphs.

Warm up:

• How many of our digraphs can you remember?

• Can you read these words?

• Play along with this game – how many words can you splat?

Main Activity:

• Copy and complete the sheet below by adding  the missing digraphs to the start of each word

• If you would like to, you can draw a picture to go along with your words

Extra Challenge:

• Try making up a funny story with as many of the words from the sheet as you can. You don’t need to write the story down – you can just say it out loud. I managed 8 in my story below – can you beat me?

The whale invited the shark, the sheep and the chick over to his house. They were his three best friends. The sheep blew the whistle and the shark got a fright and fell off his chair and broke the whales favourite shell!

Games to support Learning:

Challenge yourself by clicking on the ‘Phase 3 sounds

• Viking Blending

• Help a Hedgehog to Read