Good Afternoon

I hope everyone is having a fabulous snow day and making lots of wonderful memories that you will look back on when you are all grown up!

It’s getting really cold outside now so if you are looking for some indoor activities to do here are a few ideas.

• Play a board game
• Play a card game
• Make up a dance routine
• Tidy/dust/vacuum your room
• Have a toy/book/clothes clearout
• Help someone to prepare dinner

Enjoy the rest of your day and stay safe.

Miss Cairney

Write a story or a poem about a snowy day. Can you use some of the wow words we have already discussed in class – powdery, deep, soft, thick, slushy, crunchy and drifting to describe the snow?

Carry out a science experiment using snow. Collect 2 tablespoons of snow in 3 different containers. Place them in different places in your home. Time how long each takes to melt. Can you explain why one has melted faster than the others? Write up your experiment.

Learn the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables. Can you make arrays using objects in your home?

Have fun playing in the snow!

Hi Primary 1 and Primary 1/2

Ms Fairnie and I hope you are having a great time in the snow!

We have a challenge for you.  Build a snowman taller than yourself!  Please ask whoever is looking after you to email photographs into school.

Remember you can also use the snow to write in.  Write as many sight words as you can and maybe you could use your sounds to think of your own words to write.  Numbers can also be written in the snow.  Challenge yourself to write your numbers in backwards order.

We also wonder if you can use any of our Boost Words when you are speaking today (delighted, grab, puzzled and dangle).  I’m sure many of you were puzzled when you woke up and then delighted to find out you had a snow day!  Grab the chance to have fun in the snow but don’t dangle and fall into it!  Mrs Miller’s best attempt at using all four this morning.  You will be able to do a better job!

Please remember to read your homework books.  Just to remind you we have attached the P1/P2 Winter Ready Pack.  It has lots of fun ideas for you to do.

Have fun in the snow!

P1 and P2 Winter Ready Pack

Mrs Miller & Ms Fairnie

Following on from Ms Drummond’s post, I would like to add some maths activities that we have been practising.

If you happen to build a snowman today, could you measure the height in cm, m, and mm? You could post the results and possibly a picture in the comments below and we can compare the results tomorrow.

You could try building some of the 3D shapes that we have been learning about in class. Remember the shapes of faces, number of edges and number of vertices will help you. Pictures would be great!

Enjoy your day! Mrs Gallagher

Here are some quick home learning activities that you can complete at home on your snowy day:

1. Practice your letter formation by either writing out the alphabet in homework jotters, or getting creative with shaving foam or toy cars! Can’t wait to hear all about it.

2. Write a letter to me from home telling me all about what you got up to on your snowy day off. Remember to include: “Dear Ms Balmer” and sign it off with your name. Think about all the things I’ll be looking for; capital letters, full stop, finger spaces. The challenge cup today will be a beautiful picture illustrating your letter.

3. Draw me a snowy picture and hide your spelling words in it. Let’s see if I can find them all:
Dragonfly group- oo
Butterfly group- oi
Ladybirds- ee

4. Skip counting: practice your skip counting backwards and forwards. Try counting in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s, 10’s, 100’s and 1000’s if you can! 😊 Try adding extra challenge and skip every second number.

5. Create your own adding sums using dice (if you have them, if not try playing cards or any other numbers you find around the house). Roll 2 dice and add the numbers in your head. Make it even harder by adding more dice or rolling lots of times.

Have an excellent day P2!

Ms Balmer

Good Morning to all the boys and girls who are missing their PE today because of the snow.

Today’s a great day to build up your fitness though! Wrap up warm and take a long walk in the snow, you’ll burn off lots of energy. Build a snowman and have a snowball fight to raise your heart rate. You could even try some gymnastic balances and rolls to see how it feels outside on a different surface.

When you’ve had enough outdoors and are back home you could warm up those cold bodies with some of our stretching exercises. Plan a gymnastics sequence which you could show classmates next week. Remember to be safe though so I don’t recommend practising gymnastics at home! Or if you have access to the internet you could find out some facts about a sports person from the Winter Olympics.

Have a good day!

Hi Primary 6,

I hope you’re all having a lovely day in the snow.  If you’re looking for something to do I’ve suggested a few activities below:

Literacy: My Snow Day Recount

Write a recount about what you have been doing on your snow day today. Remember the features we looked at in the football match recount and wrote in our Blackridge Walk recounts. You can write it on paper, Microsoft Word or even Sway!

To make your recount even better, make sure you’ve been out to enjoy the snow and then you can tell me all about it!

You should include:

• A title – grab the reader’s attention
• First paragraph – introduce your recount and give the reader an idea of what it’s about. Maybe include an opinion. Make the reader want to read on!
• Main part of text – write it in chronological order (the order it happened). Remember all the important details. Include your opinions and feelings, maybe even a quote (what someone said – remember speech marks!)
• Conclusion – summarise your recount.
• Use headings to separate your paragraphs.
• Include pictures or photos if you want to engage your reader even more.

Maths : Snowy Volume

Keep up your skills in measuring volume.

• You could estimate how much snow is in a container, a handful or even a snowball. Then measure it to see if you were right. Let it melt – does the volume change? Why or why not?
• Make some 3D shapes with the snow then calculate their volume – measure their length, breadth and height then multiply them.

You could practise some other areas of measure too, for example:

• Measure the height of your snowman
• Calculate the area of your snow-covered garden
• Weigh your snowball. Does the weight change when it melts? (Don’t let it melt all over the house!)

Can you come up with some other measuring activities? Let me know!

Of course, a bit of times tables practice never goes amiss.

Naturecam competition

We need to start getting organised with our video. Without giving too much away in public before the final production (!) you could be having a think about the following:

• A to do list. What do we need to get organised? What do we need to think about? What tasks need done? What jobs could people take on?
• The video. What do you think the end project should look like? A lot will depend on what the camera catches but can you come up with a rough idea of what order it will go in and how we can put it all together? What will it contain?
• Research task – can you find out about the habitats of the animals we’ve seen so far (or hope to see) and how they have adapted? How will they cope in the snow?

Enjoy your day, make sure you get some time out in the snow and keep warm!

See you tomorrow,

Miss Reid

Primary 7

I know you will all be out enjoying the snow, but learning and teaching can be great fun outdoors! So after you have had some fun lets see if we can write some

Snowy Poetry:

Brainstorm words you can use to describe snow. Using those words, write a poem about your favourite snowy memory of the day!

Then try this and we will debate your thoughts!

Write a balanced argument about
“Should schools close when it snows?

•  3 good and detailed arguments for closing schools
• 3 good and detailed arguments against closing schools

An introduction and a conclusion

Typical phrases (Some people may say that…, It is a fact that…, Statistics show that…, Many believe…)
Connecting words and phrases (On the other hand…, However…, Despite that…, Moreover…, Therefore…)
Facts and opinions
Remember to:

• Ensure correct punctuation and a variety of punctuation, if you can
• Keep sentences varied for interest (Including simple, compound, complex, questions etc.
• Group ideas carefully together in paragraphs
• Check your spelling
• Use your device to collect and record your ideas videos each other!

Maths

Find the missing angles in a traiangle – you know what to do!

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/pdfs/find_missing_triangle_angles.pdf

Last but not least get some great pictures for your year book!

Enjoy

Ms D!

Hi Primary Five,

Hope you are all having a lovely snow day.
Most important task: Have fun in the snow! You could add pictures of your snowmen or igloos in the comments…

If you are too cold now and looking for an activity you can choose some, or all, of the following..

Draw a picture of how you felt when you found out it was a snowday! Can you write a paragraph describing how you felt and what you did. Try to include some of what we were working on in writing yesterday, actions to explain feelings. Remember one or two great sentences are better than a paragraph that hasn’t been planned and structured.

Draw a picture, or write about, what you did today. Who were you with? Adding detail is the important focus, think of our writing improvements.

Write a list of words to describe the winter weather. I bet you coud get 25+ with some effort!

If you have access to a computer please keep searching for appropriate whale jokes. Post in comments if you’d like to.

Of course it’s always great to go onto Sumdog and see how much you can improve your score, maybe get a new trick for your pet. Email me results if asked please.

Assembly words practice (if possible) or work on a mini ocean fact file.

lastly, but definitely not least, we need to keep the times tables practice going! You know which ones you need to work on. That would be a super fantastic way to spend a little bit of your snowday.

See you all tomorrow!