Good afternoon boys and girls,

It has been so nice to see your creations and work that you have been sending into the new email address! It is nice to be able to reply to you I hope it is putting a smile on your face. I know Mrs Melia and I are definitely smiling when we see all your hard work.

Today for maths can you practise saying the next number forwards and backwards. An adult at home will count to you for example 11, 12, 13 and you will need to say what comes next. Then try to do it backwards too for example 16, 15, 14 and you will say what comes before.

You might want to join in with this song to do some counting before you try your task.

You also have the game on education city where you can practise halving items.

Have a lovely day. It is another lovely day I hope you manage to get outside for some fresh air, maybe a walk or a cycle.

Good afternoon

Wishing Tree

One of your classmates came up with the idea of creating a wishing tree.   He drew a tree and then made leaves to add to the tree.  On the leaves he wrote things that he would like to do after lockdown.  Why don’t you try creating your own wishing tree.

My wishes would be –

Hug family and friends.

Take my children to the park.

Have a party with family and friends.

Numeracy

I would like you to choose one of the Number Talks challenges below.

Science

Daily Daft

Mrs Docherty

Here is a short story to share with children about worries and the current situation.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/jon-burgerman-everybody-worries-free-ebook/

We think you might find it helpful.

Stay safe, wash your hands, take care.

Mrs Melia and Miss Beaton

Good Morning everyone,

Hope you are all well.

For PE this morning we would like you to do a bit of yoga.

Yesterday Miss Beaton and Mrs Melia set you a lego challenge. For your Literacy today we would like you to think about your instructions for your lego creation.

You should include a list of what you need, this can be in pictures or a list or both. Then write 3 more sentences explaining how to build your park.

If your not sure pop on the TV and watch BBC Bitesize at 10am on BBC Scotland (also on iplayer). Today’s program is about instruction writing.

Remember you can email your lego challenge and instructions to us at wlpolkemmet-ps-primary1@westlothian.org.uk

We have seen some already they are fantastic! We look forward to seeing more.

Also on BBC Scotland at 10:20 you can watch One Night at the Museum. Where children are exploring the National Musuem of Scotland at nighttime! I wonder what they will find. What would you do if you were in the musuem?

For Science today, we are going to explore the properties of water. There are words we can use that describe how water changes: freeze, melting and boiling.

Freezing: put some water into an ice cube tray. Predict where will it freeze best? Once it has frozen, what around the house can you use to melt the ice? Can you find 3 things? Remember to ask a grown up for some help. Take a photo of what you use and write how long it took. Which was the fastest to make the ice melt? Which took the longest to melt the ice?

You can send us your pictures and answers to our Primary 1 email address.

Pop back later for some maths 🙂

Mrs Melia and Miss Beaton

Good Morning

Sorry for the issue regarding the new email address we hope to have the the problem solved soon.

We are going to start the day dancing with Oti.

I would like you to choose your favourite song and make up your own dance routine and then perform it to a member of your family.  Then try and teach them your routine using a clear set of instructions and demonstrations.

Literacy

I would like you to find something in your house and use as many adjectives as you can to describe it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zPVBm7yA7g

Mrs Docherty

Hi boys and girls,

Just posting the new learning grid with lots of new ideas to try.

homelearning grid may

Remember we have posted different tasks for the day and you have your lego challenge to try!

It’s beautiful outside. Miss Beaton is currently working away in the garden enjoying the sun. Make sure to try get yourself out as well even for a little walk.

Remember we will be making calls over the next two weeks, the phone number will be withheld it is just Mrs Melia or I checking in with you to see how your getting on 🙂

Enjoy the afternoon.

Good afternoon boys and girls,

I hope you have been working hard trying to say all your tricky words this morning!

I hope your as excited as Mrs Melia and I about the lego challenge! We can not wait to see your creation, read your instructions and be able to email back to give you our thoughts on your creation!

For maths today can you practise halving items.

Here is a little story to remind you, we listened to this one in class.

Can you make a sandwich and cut it in half? Can you cut a cake in half? You could have one half and you could give the other half to someone else. Can you get 4 pieces of lego and half them? Can you get 10 pieces of pasta and half them? How many pieces would you get?

I have also set a challenge on education city for you to try!

Have a good day

It is a lovely day today so make sure you go out and get some fresh air if you can

Miss Beaton and Mrs Melia

Good Afternoon

I hope you enjoyed this mornings activities.  This afternoon I would like you to try this ball challenge,

Numeracy

Choose a number and then write it as many different ways as possible – Can you think of different ways you can add up to make the number?  What about different ways to represent the number using drawings.

Here is an article with lots of examples of the different ways you can show numbers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7cthbk

Daily Daft

Health and Wellbeing

The National Literacy Trust have released this free e-book that has stories and poems to comfort during lockdown,

https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/9-12/book-hopes/

Mrs Docherty