Good morning, everyone!

I hope you are all safe and well.

Here is this week’s check-in. Please help your child to add a comment to this post by Friday. They can just say hello and tell me how they are or they can tell me what they have been doing.

Mrs Graham has come across a John Lewis competition which hopes to raise funds for the N.H.S. Children are being asked to design their own Superbear! The winning design will be made and sold in stores to raise money. If your child would like to enter, click on the links below for all the details.

https://www.johnlewis.com/content/your-partners-through-it-all/feel-good-friday

JL-DesignYourSuperBear-Templatepdf

Good luck with any entries! 

Mrs Lindsay

Good morning and welcome to Home Learning Week 4. I hope you have all been enjoying the hot and sunny weather!

I have listed tasks which can be undertaken during the week and can be carried out in any order. Everyone is in a different situation so please do whatever you can with your child and don’t worry about completing them all.

Literacy

Spelling

Below are the phonemes/phoneme words/common words for each group. Try to practise them every day using a multi-sensory activity.  Multi-sensory ideas could include: making the words using play dough, painting the words, writing the words in a sand tray or on a whiteboard/chalkboard, as well as, writing the words on a computer then changing the font/size, writing the words using fancy letters or with eyes shut.  The words could even be written using the hand not normally used for writing.  Can you and your child think of any new multi-sensory activities to try? You could give your child a spelling quiz, either oral or written, at the end of the week to see how many words they can remember.

Reds

“tch” phoneme – watch, match, ditch, patch, witch, stitch, catch, hatch, snatch, scratch, kitchen                                                                                                                                                             Common Words – another, time, windy

Yellows

Same as the Red Group.  In addition, ask your child if they can think of any others words which have the “tch” phoneme. Please check that the words are spelled correctly and ask them to practise these words as well.

Greens

“au” phoneme – sauce, because, applaud, pause, Paul, Laura                                                                 Common Words – week, keep, when

Blues

All the letters of the alphabet. Please also try to practise saying them correctly and writing them using correct formation. Any colouring activities which could be undertaken would also be beneficial as this would help to develop finger muscles which would aid pencil control.

CHALLENGE ACTIVITY – Try writing a sentence for each word. Remember to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).

Reading

Please find the text below for your child’s group. Try to answer the questions in a sentence in the Home Learning jotter.

Strawberries

Grapes

Pineapples

Apples

Please complete pages 6 – 9 of the booklet pictured below (one page per day). Words could also be practised using paint, pasta and play dough etc.

Dictionary

Please find below the Dictionary booklets for each group with pages to be undertaken.

Strawberries

Please complete pages 3 and 4 of this booklet.

Grapes

Please complete page 4 of this booklet.

Handwriting

Please complete the page indicated below for your child’s group.

Strawberries

Grapes and Pineapples

Apples

Personal Reading

Please set aside time each day to spend some time reading for pleasure. There are lots of books to choose from on the Free Book Website. The link for this was posted last Wednesday. Have fun!

Numeracy

Please find below this term’s Learn Its/Counting activities and tasks for your child’s group. Workbook pages can be completed orally, on paper or in the Home Learning jotter. There are also two online activities on Studyladder for each group. Logins were given out to the children before we finished, as well as, enclosed in the Home Learning packs.

Circles

We spoke briefly about “quarter to” before we finished, please let me know if anyone is finding this tricky.

Squares

Triangles

Please continue to practise counting forwards to 10, as well as, counting backwards.  Also, practise writing numbers to 10 correctly and try to count different objects around the house e.g. spoons, crayons. Discuss numbers after/1 more, before/1 less and between, e.g. What number is 1 more than 2?, What number comes before 5?  What number comes between 7 and 9?

Numbers 1 More/1 Less

When completing the Time worksheet below, please write digital times as 2:00 and not 02:00.

Time Worksheet

Other Activities

Axel Scheffler has illustrated a story book for children to help explain the coronavirus.  If you and you child would like to share this book together, please click on the link below.

https://nosycrow.com/blog/released-today-free-information-book-explaining-coronavirus-children-illustrated-gruffalo-illustrator-axel-scheffler/

Using the links below you can print out some posters for your child to colour and display to remind people to stay at home at the moment in order to remain safe.

Stay at Home Poster 1

Stay at Home Poster 2

Stay at Home Poster 3

A fun scavenger hunt could also be done by all the family! Please see below.

Remember you can share any good pieces of work by emailing them to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk

I have loved seeing all the photographs of the children and their great jobs that have  already been emailed in. I have seen a fab World War 1 tank, a super reading job and a fab coronavirus time capsule sheet, as well as, children completing Time tasks and even doing extra Money jobs! Keep up the good work!

I will post our “Check-in Station” on Thursday so all the boys and girls can let me know how they are doing. It would be great if everyone could leave a comment.

I hope you all have a super week and keep safe everyone!

Mrs Lindsay

Hi boys and girls,

I hope you’re enjoying the home learning activities for this week. Tomorrow I thought we could do something a bit different and go on a ‘virtual’ school trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. There is a live lesson all about monkeys this Thursday at 12pm on their Facebook page. During the lesson, there will be a question and answer session if you have anything you would like to ask Shonagh. After the lesson, there will be a fun quiz to test your knowledge. If you can’t tune in at 12pm, don’t worry. You can still watch the video at a later date. Last week’s lesson about penguins is still available too! You can access their Facebook page by clicking on the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/blairdrummondSP/

Good afternoon!

Following on from Mrs McGarvey’s message on the app, I would love to know how all of the boys and girls are doing. Please could you help your child write a little message in the comments box below, just saying hello and letting me know how they are.

After a busy morning on my laptop and helping Robbie and Ava with their school work, I’m now enjoying this glorious weather in the garden!

Mrs Lindsay

Just a note to let you know about a fantastic website Miss Muir came across!

https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html

This website has lots of free books to read online. You don’t need to register or login. Books are organised into various different categories, if you search for an item you can filter the options to books for your year stage using the funnel button at the left of the screen (Pr. 1 is the ‘blank’ button before Year 1,  Pr. 2 is Year 1, Pr. 3 is Year 2).

There is an option to have the book read aloud to you using the play button at the bottom left of the screen once you select a book to read. Words are highlighted as you read and there’s even a dictionary built in that you can search for the meaning of any words you are stuck on.

Have fun reading some new books!

Mrs Lindsay

 

Good morning and welcome to Home Learning Week 3. I hope you all had a lovely Easter in the sunshine and the Easter Bunny was good to you all!

I have listed tasks which can be undertaken during the week and can be carried out in any order. Everyone is in a different situation so please do whatever you can with your child and don’t worry about completing it all.

Literacy

Reading

Please find the text below for your child’s group. Try to answer the questions in a sentence in the jotter that was in your child’s Home Learning pack.

Strawberries

 

Grapes

 

Pineapples

 

Apples

Please try to practise saying and writing (correct formation) all the letters of the alphabet daily then complete pages 2- 5 of the booklet pictured below (one page per day). Words could also be practised using paint, pasta and play dough etc. Any colouring activities which could be undertaken would also be beneficial as this would help to develop finger muscles which would aid pencil control.

 

Dictionary

Please find below the Dictionary booklets for each group with pages to be undertaken. Dictionary booklets were given out in the Home Learning packs.

Strawberries

Please complete pages 1 and 2 of this booklet.

Grapes

Please complete pages 2 and 3 of this booklet.

Writing

Strawberries and Grapes

Spring Break was a very different holiday for us all. Ask your child to write about it. Include: what things they did instead of going out visiting new places or going outside to play with friends, what was their favourite activity to do and how have they kept in touch with family and friends? Remember to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation). Children can illustrate their writing when they are finished. You could use the jotter that was given out or your own paper.

Apples

Ask your child to choose an activity they really enjoyed doing during Spring Break. Ask them to draw a picture of themself doing it and remember to include all body parts in the correct places.  They could then label the picture, using sounds/phonemes to “have a go” at writing some simple words. You could use the jotter that was given out or your own paper.

Handwriting

Please complete the page indicated below for your child’s group.  Handwriting booklets were given out in the Home Learning packs.

Strawberries

Grapes and Pineapples

Apples

Personal Reading

Please set aside time each day to spend some time reading for pleasure.

Numeracy

Please find below this term’s Learn Its/Counting activities for your child’s group. There is also a link to Time worksheets/Clock Face activity (which can be used for extra practice) that can be printed out.

Circles

Time Worksheets

Squares

Time Worksheet 1

Time Worksheet 2

Clock Face Activity

Triangles

Please continue to practise counting forwards to 10, as well as, counting backwards.  Also, practise writing numbers to 10 correctly and try to count different objects around the house e.g. spoons, crayons.  Continue to discuss numbers before and between, e.g. What number comes before 3?  What number comes between 6 and 8?

Time Worksheets

Clock Face Activity

 Other Activities

Below is a link to sheets which can be printed out, completed and kept as a record of this unique time.

2020 Covid-19 time capsule sheets.pdf.pdf

Remember you can share any good pieces of work by emailing them to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk

I hope you all have a good week and keep safe everyone!

Mrs Lindsay

Good afternoon everyone,

Just a reminder that after today (3rd April) there will be a two week holiday from school work and that home learning will resume on Monday 20th April. If you need anything during this time the details of how to contact S.M.T. are on the app.

Here are some links to some fun Easter activities that you can print out and do if you wish:

Easter WordSearches

 

Easter Baskets

 

Easter Mindfulness Colouring Sheets

 

I am aware this will be a very different holiday for us but I hope you can relax and enjoy spending time as a family whilst staying safe and well. I also hope the Easter Bunny is good to you! I’m missing you all and I hope to see you soon.

Mrs Lindsay