Good morning boys and girls This is our last day in Primary 1!  Can you believe it?  Neither can I.

It has been a really strange 3 months for everyone and I am so sad that I didn’t get to finish primary 1 in school with you all.  I miss you all very much and I am so proud of every single one of you.  I can’t wait to see you all in August!

I have put together a slide show of some of the photographs from over the year  – lots of happy memories. 

 

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Last Day Activities

Have a look at the activities below and pick one to do today….

Fill in the sheet below with all the things you would like your teacher next year to know about you:

Draw a picture in your jotter and write about your favourite day in primary 1.

Have an amazing summer everyone.   Have fun, stay safe and stay happy!

See you all in August.

Miss Donald  x

Morning primary 1! I hope you are all feeling good today! Did you know that today is World Olympic Day?

World Olympic Day is a celebration of sport, health, and being the best you can be. Olympians, athletes and fans all over the world are going to get active in the WORLD’S BIGGEST 24-hour digital Olympic workout and Woodlands thought we could all take part! 

• You can find out more information about World Olympic Day by clicking here.

• Visit this site to join over 20 famous athletes from all around the world hosting different workouts for you to join in with…click here.

Warm Up:

• Read along with this non-fiction book to learn all about the Olympics

Main Activity:

• Have a go at completing the sentences on the worksheet below by adding in the missing word. You can write your answers in your jotter or just discuss them with someone at home – you choose!

Fun Finisher:

• Watch the video to learn all the different sports that people compete in at the Olympics

• Pretend you are an Olympic athlete. What sport would you compete in? Would you win a medal? What would you do to celebrate your win?

• Draw a picture of you competing in your sport and write down how you would celebrate. 

 

1. Good Morning Primary 1!

I hope you’ve had a good weekend and are full of energy for North Lanarkshire’s Virtual Sports Day!

Mr Green has put information on the home page of the blog for you to take part in the Sports Day Activities.

Good luck and have loads of fun!

Let me know how you get on. I’m sure you’ll all be amazing!

 

Good Morning Primary 1!

It’s the last Friday of the term!  The last Friday of your first year at school!  I can’t believe we have been away from school for nearly 13 weeks.  I can’t wait until we can all be in school together again.

Health and Well-being Week – Friendship and Kindness Friday

Today  we are going to learn about the importance of being kind and what it means to be a good friend.

Warm Up:

• Watch this video to learn about what makes a good friend.

One of the things that makes a good friend is being kind.  Being kind to others makes others feel good, but it also makes you feel good too.

Main Activity:

• There are a few activities here.  You can choose just one if you want or you can do all of them.  It’s up to you.

• Can you complete all these acts of kindness to complete this Kindness Bingo card?

Here is a list of questions about kindness that the adults at home can ask you and talk about with you.

• Build a Friend – What makes a good friend.  Talk about what makes a good friend with someone at home.  How would you like your friends to treat you?  How do you think a friends should treat another friend?

• Draw a picture of a friend and get an adult to write your ideas about what makes a good friend round your drawing.  There are a couple of examples below to give you an idea.

 

Extra Challenge:

• Make a family kindness jar!

• A family kindness jar is one of the many ways we can teach our children about the benefits of being kind. Through activities like this, we can teach our children that being kind is not only beneficial to others, but to ourselves, as well!

   

  Supplies:

  • pen/marker

  • jar – like a used jam jar 

  • paper

  This is such a simple activity that takes minimal supplies. All you need is those three things and your family members!

  Directions:

  1. Gather your supplies and your family!

  2. Take turns coming up with random acts of kindness that you would like to complete as a family, and write them down on your pieces of paper.

  3. Put all of your papers in the jar, and decide on how often you are going to complete these acts of kindness. Weekly, monthly?

  4. Take turns drawing an act of kindness out of the jar and completing them as a family!

  You could also make a kindness jar but choose to do it this way instead which is lovely:

  

Fun Finisher:

• Log into your Epic Reader account – I have assigned some non-fiction books to you all about kindness and friendship.

Remember that The Smartest Giant in Town is one of the kindest people, as he gave all of his clothes away to those who needed them more.

Here is a further link to a 7 Days of Kindness Calendar, which links into 2020’s Mental Health Awareness week, of which the focus was Kindness:

7 Days Of Kindness Calendar

Hi primary 1!

I hope you are all enjoying our Health and Well being week. How did you get on with the exercises yesterday? Did you have fun?

Remember to check out Mrs McMillan’s ‘Take a Moment‘ videos…..click on the picture below to visit her YouTube page.

Today we are going to have a look at what we are good at and share some of our aspirations and goals for the future. 

Warm Up:

• Watch this video and listen to some of the children sharing their goals and setting targets for themselves

https://youtu.be/XGd0gq5Fgjc

Talk to someone at home about your learning. 

• What do you think you are good at?

• What do you think your next steps will be – what would you like to get a bit better at?

Main Activity:

Have a look at the questions below – talk to someone and answer the questions about what you would like for your future.

If you would like to, you could draw a picture of yourself when you are older and show all your aspirations in your picture. 

 

Where would you like to live and why?

What job would you like to do and why?

What hobbies and interests would you like to have?

What places would you like to visit?

What qualities (kindness, bravery, humour etc.) would you like people to see in you?

Fun Finisher:

• Listen to this story about Eli’s bucket list. A bucket list is a collection of goals, dreams and aspirations that someone has. 

https://youtu.be/z1HbFzpnB9o

Good morning primary 1.  I hope you are all feeling very fit and healthy!

Today we are going to carry on with more of our Health and Well being learning and focus on our physical health and keeping our bodies healthy. 

Warm Up:

• Watch the video to find out what we need to stay healthy

Main Activity:

• One of the things we need to do to keep healthy is EXERCISE. Children should try and do 1 hour of exercise each day to keep their bodies healthy🏃🏽‍♀️🚶🏽‍♂️🕺🏽⛹🏽‍♂️🚴🏽‍♀️🤸🏽‍♂️💃🏽 . 

• Your main activity for today is to try and do 1 hour of exercise. You could go a walk, make up a dance routine, play football, go a cycle or ride on your scooter – whatever you find fun!

• Here are some exercise activities you could try:

Shake your Sillies Out https://youtu.be/NwT5oX_mqS0

P.E. with Joe Wicks https://youtu.be/Rz0go1pTda8

Kids Zumba https://youtu.be/ymigWt5TOV8

Just Dance for Kids https://youtu.be/gCzgc_RelBA

Kids Workout

• What do you notice about your body after you have exercised? Feel your heart 💓- is it beating faster? Do you feel hot after you have exercised 🥵?  Are you sweating?  Do you feel thirsty?  Remember to drink water after you have exercised to keep your body hydrated.

Fun Finisher:

• How many of the tips for staying healthy can you remember from the ‘Warm Up’ video?

• Look at the poster below to remind you…..

• Have a go at making your own poster to teach people how to stay healthy – you could maybe put it up in your house, or on a window, for people to see!

Morning primary 1!

I hope you enjoyed the start of our Health and Wellbeing week yesterday.

Remember: your brain🧠  works better when your body and mind are healthy!

Today Miss Murray and I thought we could do some work on our emotions and feelings. 

It is so important to talk openly about how we are feeling – this helps us recognise and understand different emotions. 

 

Warm Up:

• Listen to this song all about feelings

• Listen to this story ‘The Colour Monster’ by Anna Llenas

Main Activity:

• How many different emotions/feelings can think of?

• Have a look at the worksheet below – can you match the picture with the feeling? You can just talk about it, you don’t need to write anything down. 

• Make a list, or talk to someone, about:

5 things that make you happy

4 things that worry you

3 things that make you laugh

2 things that make you sad

1 thing that makes you angry

Fun Finisher:

• Just like in the worksheet below, pick four feelings and draw a face to show what that feeling would look like.

• You could try and get someone in your house to guess the feeling by just looking at the faces you drew!

• Afterwards, give an example of a time when you have experienced each of the feelings you drew.

Game to Support Learning: 

• Watch this video and play along at guessing how the girl is feeling….

Good Morning Primary 1!

It’s our second last Monday of the school year!  Can you believe it?

I hope you are all happy and healthy and ready for another week!

Health and Well-being Week!

It isn’t long to go now until the end of term.  This week is going to be slightly different. Instead of our normal learning activities, this week your Home Learning is going to be focusing on Health and Well being each day.

We have created some fun, healthy activities for you to try out at home each day – just try your best and do what you can👍🏽 . 

Remember: your brain 🧠 works better when your body and mind are healthy!

Today we are going going to be learning about eating a balanced, healthy diet

🍦🍌🍍🍓🍽🥕🥝🍝🍩🍟🌭🥩🍗🍣

Warm Up:

• Watch this video to learn about eating a balanced diet

• Click on the picture below and visit this great website to find out more about what humans need to do to stay healthy – there is a fun quiz too! 

Main Activity:

• When Miss Murray and I were in school on Friday we were so excited and harvested our class potatoes 🥔 – we really REALLY wished you had all been there with us! Look how many potatoes we grew…..they look delicious! Potatoes are vegetables.

  What do you think the potatoes could be used for?

• Look at the sheet below, can you name a food for each letter of the alphabet? You can write them down in your jotter or just discuss them with someone at home – you choose. You could have a look around your kitchen if you are stuck!

• After you have come up with a different food for each letter, can you say whether you should eat A LOT of each food you have come up with or eat a SMALL AMOUNT of that food each day? 

Extra Challenge:

• Can you challenge yourself to taste a new food you haven’t tasted before? Are you brave enough to taste a new fruit or vegetable? GOOD LUCK👏🏽 !! Let me know how you get on. 

Fun Finisher:

• Try and create your very own healthy, balanced lunch or dinner. What will you put in your lunch box or on your plate?

• Maybe you could ask if you can help to prepare lunch or dinner for your family?

• Log into your Epic Reader account – I have assigned some non-fiction books to you all about eating a balanced diet. 

Game to Support Learning:

• Help the farmer catch his fruit in this game – Catching Fruit

• Sing along with this fun vegetable song

Spelling Friday

Today we are going to do some work on our spelling. 

 

There are lots of different things you can do if you aren’t sure how to spell a word ✍🏽:

· Say the word out loud slowly and think about the sounds you can hear at the beginning, middle and end.

·  Can you hear a little word you know inside the word e.g. sandle

·  Say the word out loud and listen for the syllables. Spell each syllable separately e.g. car–a–van = caravan

· Do you know a word that sounds a bit like your word? How is it spelt? E.g. lunch –> bunch

⭐⭐The most important thing with spelling is just to have a go and try your best to spell your word – it doesn’t matter if you are wrong ⭐⭐!

Warm Up:

• Practise your spelling with one of out favourite games from class….Forest Phonics

• Watch this video to help you spell some of the tricky words

Main Activity:

• Have a go at spelling your spelling words – ask an adult if they can please read out your spelling words and then you write them down.

• Keep practising the words you find tricky! 

Spelling Words

Extra Challenge:

• Use some of these activities to practise your spelling words:

Game to Support Learning: 

• Click on the picture below and play ‘Spooky Spellings‘. Click on the number at the top and then choose a book. 

Mixture of Maths Friday

Today we are going to practise lots of different maths skills🧠 .

Warm Up:

• Can you…..

Count backwards from 30 to 0?

Start from 100 and count backwards in 10’s?

Count to 50 in 5’s?

Count to 20 in 2’s?

• Here are some videos to help you…

 

Main Activity:

• Answer these maths questions – you can write the answer in your jotter or work with an adult and just say the answer out loud. 

___, 14, 15 ___, 17
4 + 4 =
3 + 1 + 3 =
15, 14, ___ 12___
7 – 2 =
8 + ___ = 11
9 – ___ = 7
5 + 7 =
10 – 1 =
3 + 10 =

Extra Challenge:

• Can you work out these tricky problems and guess the number?

• In the 3rd question – a dime is worth 10 pennies 

Game to Support Learning:

• Here is a link to lots of games on TopMarks to practise your maths skills – you can choose to play any game….click here to play or click on the pictures below.