Good morning everyone,

We hope you and are families are all safe and well. We have been doing PE every morning. Keeping active, keeps us happy and healthy so keep it up. This morning we are suggesting some dancing with Oti,

For Literacy this morning we are going to write a description. This is Panda.

In your jotter we would like you to draw a detailed picture of Panda. He is visiting Polkemmet so perhaps include a drawing of the school or your classroom in your detailed picture.

Then we would like you to describe him. What does he look like? Here is an example of a sentence you could include,

The panda is black and white. He has 2 legs and 2 arms. 

When you are writing your sentences remember,

1. Capital letters at the beginning of a sentence.
2. Finger spacing – if using your own finger is too tricky use another pencil like this.

1. Full stop at the end of the sentence – not a football and not floating in the air, a small dot on the line.
2. Sound out your words – what is the first, middle and last sound. Say the word slowly to help you.
3. Use your word walls to help spell tricky words.

If you need a brainbreak here are some songs to get you moving,

The Granny singing about full stops and capital letters:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-english-capital-letters-full-stops/zjmrhbk

The alphabet song:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-english-alphabet-with-naomi-wilkinson/zjjy2sg

Remember you can still do the Sumdog ch word challenge or try Teach your Monster to Read.

Pop back this afternoon for more ideas 🙂

Mrs Melia and Miss Beaton

Good Morning

Lets start the day with Cosmic Kids Yoga.

Writing

Make up your own imaginary creature, think about what it would look like, where it lives and what it eats.  Draw and write a description of your character.

Remember to try the challenges on Sumdog.  You also have passwords for IDL and Education City.

Mrs Docherty

Good afternoon boys and girls!

I hope you have had a lovely morning.

Try counting forwards and backwards with Jack Hartmann today using the video below

This afternoon for maths when you are on your daily walk take a piece of paper and a pen or pencil with you. Can you write down all the different numbers you spot? Here are a few things you could look out for registration plates, house numbers, street signs.

For our healthy eating topic we would like you to talk to someone at home about the kinds of foods you would eat together e.g. cereal and milk, fish and chips, mince and tatties. Draw some of these foods in your jotter or on a piece of paper. Draw pictures of foods that do not go together e.g. mash and spaghetti, pickles and ice-cream.

Have a lovely afternoon

Miss Beaton and Mrs Melia

Good afternoon everyone,

This afternoon here are some activities for Music and Technologies.

Music
Mrs Keenan would like you to complete two activities this week for Music.

1) Listen to “The Sugar plum fairy ” as you watch line rider;

2) Ask an adult to help you make a simple maraca;

1. Take a clean yoghurt pot or something similar.

2. Add some lentils/broth mix/rice.

3. Make a lid by putting paper over the top. Secure with tape or elastic bands.

4. Play your new instrument!

Technologies
Use WordArt to create a word cloud on the topic of Spring. You can see the one I made if you click on the link below:
https://wordart.com/hwulv4s8361q/word-art

1)Type your chosen words into the boxes on the left
2)Click ‘Visualize’
3)Edit it by changing the font, colour, shape, image etc.

The website to visit is:
https://wordart.com/

Once you have made it you can share your word art with others by clicking on the ‘Share’ button at the top. It might even let you share the link as a comment on this blog post! Ask an adult to help you share it with someone by sending them the link as a message or email.

Have fun! 🙂
Mrs Harding

Good Morning everyone,

For PE this morning we are going to do a bit of yoga. Here is a cosmic kids yoga about Squish the fish.

For Literacy this morning we are looking again at the ch sound. Ch can be at the beginning or end of a word. Here is a short film to remind you,

Can you think of words that begin with ch and end with ch? In your jotter draw two things in the blank space, that use the ch sound. Here is a song to give you some ideas,

Now write a sentence using your ch words, for example

I sat on a chair.

Remember to use capital letters, finger spacing and a full stop.

In Sumdog we have set a ch word challenge. Why not have a go.

We would also like you to have a go at some blending. Follow this website and use your Discovery Espresso logo in the from of your jotter.

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/activity/item815026/gradef/module61932/index.html

Play one of Scraps blending games. You choose.

Remember to pop back this afternoon for some maths 🙂

Mrs Melia and Miss Beaton.

Good morning everyone!

This video should get you ready for Literacy:

Literacy
Last week quite of lot of you managed to log in to sumdog.com and had a go at the grammar challenge I set you. I have made a new challenge for this week so please log in again and give it a go! There is also the spelling challenge from yesterday to complete as well. (The challenges last until Friday.)

Please remember to practise reading your tricky words from your word wall or word list as well.

Maths

Following on from yesterday’s post on money, here is a money challenge:

How many different ways can you make the total 20p using different coin combinations?

List them in your blue jotter and comment here with how many ways you could find. HINT: there are a lot!!!

Play this Toy Shop Money Game. Select ‘Mixed Coins’ and then select a total that you are happy working within. If it is too easy, select the next highest total. If it is a bit tricky, you could try a smaller total.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Have a good morning 🙂
Mrs Harding

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you all had a good morning. This afternoon let’s have a go at French and Technologies/Art.

French

Watch this video of a boy called Angus who visits a school in France. Play along with the guessing game, ‘En France ou en Ecosse?’

en France = in France
en Ecosse = in Scotland

In your blue jotter, write the title A l’ecole. Draw a picture of the French flag in the middle of your page (google it if you can’t remember!) and then draw some of the famous landmarks from France (from the video) around it.

Technologies / Art
Create your own pixel masterpiece using the online creator I have posted below. You can choose what to create. Some examples include a Minecraft style character, a superhero, a Spring animal or scene.

https://www.abcya.com/games/pixel_art

I hope you all have an enjoyable afternoon and let me know how you get on.
Mrs Harding 🙂

Good Afternoon Primary 1!

I hope you have had a lovely day, it is such nice weather again. I hope you have managed to enjoy some of it either in your garden or if you go for your daily 1 hour exercise.

This afternoon for maths join in with this song to count to 100

Why not sing with Jack Hartmann to practise the story of 8(number bonds) . Then can you complete page 5 of your workbook which is the story of 8.

Remember your sumdog challenge is up and running so please have a go! Mrs Melia and I will be on to have a look to see how well you are doing!

For French Mrs Grenfell would like you to make the rainbow. Can you colour the correct colour for each French word? Before you start why not listen to the rainbow song first to remind you of the colours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARBKK0-sJGU

You can either print this picture and colour the sections the correct colour or make it in your jotter following the rainbow below.

Rainbow