Good afternoon Primary 1.

I hope you have had a nice busy morning.

For maths today, Why not exercise with Jack Hartmann and practise counting to 100. Remember to keep counting even when you are doing the exercise!

Today we are going to focus on 2D shapes. Have a look a this powerpoint to remind yourself of the shapes. We have looked at in class. Once you have done that I have set you a challenge on SUMDOG for you to practise your 2D shapes. Lets see how many you can remember.

2D Shapes PowerPoint Story

Health and Wellbeing – keeping healthy

Today for our keeping healthy topic we would like to you look at the eat well plate and discuss with someone in your house about how to have a balanced diet. What should you be eating more of? What should you be eating less of? Click the link below where you will find the eat well plate PowerPoint.

Healthy eating powerpoint

Have a lovely afternoon

Miss Beaton and Mrs Melia

Primary 1 just a reminder about the maths challenge that you can be completing. It is so simple just answer the maths question of the day. Click the link to make the picture bigger…. Today’s challenge Write these numbers in order from smallest to biggest….

2, 5, 7, 4, 9, 10

Daily Maths challenges April

Enjoy

Miss Beaton and Mrs Melia

Morning everyone,

Hope you managed to get outside and enjoy the sun for a little yesterday. Did you manage PE with Joe yesterday?

This morning for PE, lets try something a bit different. You could workout with Joe or why not try a dance class with Oti. Here is her Shrek dance, it’s lots of fun.

For Music this morning, we are singing songs linked to our topic which is eating healthily. Here are some for you to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JldSBUQB34

Rhythm: Can you clap the syllables in some healthy food? How many claps is apple (2 claps) or banana (3 claps). Can you find a food with 4 claps?

For Literacy, keep doing you daily tasks and practise your tricky word wall. Pick two or three of the words you are finding a challenge to remember and get creative. Using whatever you have lying around to try make the word. Here are some I’ve made to give you some inspiration.

I used dried pasta, lego and cereal to make the words above. But you could use anything. If you don’t stick anything down then you can reuse your pasta or cereal like we do in class. Remember to take a picture in your head to remember the word for tomorrows word wall.

In your ‘writing sentences’ booklet in your pack complete p. 3.

There is also some games set in classwork on Education City. Why not have a go.

Pop back this afternoon for your new blog 🙂

Mrs Melia and Miss Beaton

Good afternoon boys and girls,

I hope you have managed to complete your tasks set this morning and that you have enjoyed getting back to your learning.

This afternoon for Maths we are going to look at symmetry. Can you tell someone at home what it means when something is symmetrical?

Remember its when the something  is the same on both sides.

Today can you play this game on topmarks where you need to match up the pictures to make them symmetrical.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching

Can you find things in your house that are symmetrical?

Why not try to make your own symmetrical picture today? Make sure it is the same on both sides. You could make a face, a butterfly, a house or a flower.

Remember you can complete your SUMDOG challenge too!

For health and well-being we are going to be focusing on healthy eating. This afternoon can you listen to the three videos below on espresso. Remember your login details are in your blue jotter.

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/ey_food/videos/video_healthy_eating.html?source=search-all-F-all-all&source-keywords=healthy%20eating#

You can also play the little game where you need to sort the fruits into the correct category.

Once you have listened to the videos can you make a list in your jotter of your favourite and least favourite foods. This can be done with labelled drawings.

Have a lovely afternoon everyone 🙂

Miss Beaton and Mrs Melia

Good Morning girls and boys,

For Literacy this morning we are looking at the ‘sh’ sound. Remember ‘sh’ can be at the beginning or end of a word. Here is a wee song to remind you,

Can you think of 4 words with the ‘sh’ sound? Tell them to someone in your house.

In your blue jotter draw 2 pictures of things with the ‘sh’ sound such as ship, shoe, fish or dash. Remember to add lots of detail.

Once you have drawn your pictures can you write the word next to it using your knowledge of sounds – think about what the first sound is, the middle sound and the last sound.

Then, can you think of a sentence with the ‘sh’ sound and write it on the lines underneath. For example, The fish is on the dish. 

Remember to practise reading the words on your tricky word walls. And there is a Sumdog spelling challenge for sh words for you to try this week.

For PE, are you still keeping up with Joe Wicks? I’m joining in with you – it certainly gets your heart pumping! I wonder what he will be dressed up as today?

For French, we learned the names of the colours in French. Can you remember any of them? Some are quite similar to the colour names in english. Can you name the colours of the rainbow in French with Camembear (click on link)?

http://portal.headstartlanguages.com/home/rainbowfun

And here is a wee song,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzR_d6uJkb8

You can also pick some things to do on your home learning grid, if you are still looking for things to do.

Pop back this afternoon for maths and health and wellbeing tasks.

Bye for now 🙂

Mrs Melia and Miss Beaton

Good Morning Primary 1,

We hope you and your families are all well and safe and have enjoyed the Easter break.

Here is the April Primary 1 learning grid for you to work on while we are still working from home. (Click on it to enlarge)

For both Literacy and Maths there are daily activities to keep practising. You can pick and choose from the different activities in the lists. Some are linked to the daily posts on the blog.

If you haven’t already had the chance to login into the oxford e-owls books here is the link:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/?login=true

We will still be posting twice a day on the blog a variety of different things for you to do. And we would still love to see all your work, it really does bring a smile to our faces to see how well you all are. Remember to mark your emails P1 and send them to,

wlpolkemmet-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Keep following the school twitter page for more ideas. You will find it at,

@wlpolkemmetps

You can also comment here. We look forward to hearing from you all.

Mrs Melia and Miss Beaton

To finish of Friday why not try some baking.

Can you make some Easter crispy nest cakes

Here is the link to the recipe

Easter crispy nest cakes

Miss Beaton and Mrs Melia wish you all a Happy Easter. It will be a bit different this year but we hope you all stay safe! Don’t eat too much chocolate! We look forward to hearing from you all after the holidays. We will be back here on Monday the 20th of April to share a new learning grid with you and share lots of learning ideas on the blog! Keep safe everyone!

A little song for you to join in with whilst washing your hands!

Morning everyone,

The past couple of weeks have been a bit different for us all, but we hope you have enjoyed all the learning activities in your packs and on the blog.

In preparation for our Easter holidays we have found some more Easter and Spring themed activities for you to do.

Top marks have lots of Spring maths games (click here). You can choose which one you would like to do.

If you need a wee break why not get active with the Singing Walrus.

Today have some fun and go on a rainbow scavenger hunt. How many can you find?

Look out for our next post at 10:30 for some more Easter ideas.

Stay safe

Mrs Melia and Miss Beaton