Category: Primary 1

Good Morning Everyone!

I hope you all had a great Monday and are ready for Tuesday’s tasks. Remember to keep working through the at home learning packs  (week 2) and checking in here for any extra activities.

Reading

For reading today I thought you could explore this website.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-school/oxford-owl-ebook-collection

I have set up a class account for us  –

Username: deans12   password: mrsstevenson

There are lots of super ebooks for you to practise your superb reading skills with our favourite characters Biff, Chip and Kipper! I thought today we could all have a go at reading ‘Kipper’s Diary’ (level 1+) and complete play activity one and two as a follow up.

Remember to be good readers we always –

• Follow the words with our fingers
• Use our word attack skills to sound out tricky words – (look at the first letter, chunk the word into syllables/chin drops)
• Use the pictures to give us clues

Seeing the book is all about the weather and how normally part of our daily routine in class is recording the weather,  why don’t we all have a go at being meteorologists? Look out of the window everyday and record what the weather is like in your purple jotter. Don’t forget the date and even challenge yourself to write a sentence, for example,

Today the weather is cloudy and I am going to go and play in the garden.

Numeracy

The Daily Five

Here are your daily five for today.  Pop your answers into your purple jotter.

Remember to look at the symbol and choose a tool to help you find the solution. You could even make your own number line to help you.

10 – 5 =             5 – 5 =            3 + 2 =

6 + 1 =              5  + 0 =

Maths

Yesterday I sent you all on a 2D shape hunt. I would love to see any pictures you made. Remember you can email photographs to the school email address

wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk

I know that Mrs Stewart is going to tweet any examples of excellent home learning! So get snapping and emailing anything you are proud of.

Today I would like you to have a go at naming 2D shapes and identifying how many sides they have. Here is a shape word mat to help you.

The first activity asks you to write the name of the shape and complete how many sides it has. Some of the shapes are what we call irregular (they look a bit different, but we can identify them by counting their sides) Have a go! Again you can print this page or simply copy into jotters.

2D name the shape

Finally just for fun I have added a colour by shape worksheet.

2D colour by shape

I have added another game to our class section on Education City. It is called Bar -B Shapes to help you recognise and name 2D shapes. You will find it under our home learning section. Good Luck!

 

Health and Well being

Yesterday we began to look at household products and how they should be stored and used in a way that can keep us safe. Today I would like you to think about the question –

How can we stay safe at home?

Talk to an adult and share your ideas together. You could even design a poster displaying your ideas on how to keep safe at home. For example, drawing a locked medicine cabinet or keeping household cleaning products in an out of reach cupboard.  I have attached a template for you to use below.

-being-safe-around-medicines-design-a-poster-activity-sheet-english

Here is brief  youtube clip about medicine safety as a little reminder.

I hope you all have a great day.

Don’t forget to do your daily workout with Joe Wicks, listen to a read aloud from the link yesterday and get some time outside in the fresh air.

Has anybody been counting the rainbows and teddy bears in the windows on their daily walks?

I would love to see any pictures of your windows if you have made a display for your local community.  Speak to you all tomorrow.

Mrs Stevenson

 

 

 

Good morning all, hope everyone is safe and well. Children should be working from week 2 of their work packs, but remember there is also a Deans Den workbook to explore as well.

Snack time is a very important part of our time together in Deans Den as it enables the children to take responsibility for setting the snack table and helping to prepare food. We had learned to make our own sandwiches, prepare fruit and wash and dry our own dishes!! I’m sure this is a task they could help with at home! I have included a link to Big Cook, Little Cook, a well known children’s cooking show on CBEEBIES. Hope you enjoy and it may inspire you to try some cooking as a family.

Good Morning all, happy Friday!! We usually head to the gym hall with P1 where we learn to move around the gym hall safely, find our own space and learn to move our bodies in different ways. Could you try out these skills in your garden? Yoga is another way of keeping our bodies fit and healthy and I will post a link to Cosmic Yoga, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Give it a try!! Have a lovely weekend and I will check in again on Monday.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?source=hp&ei=HcJ9XvHDJq-WlwSk9pWACA&q=youtube+cosmic+yoga+the+very+hungry+caterpillar&oq=youtubec+cosmic+yoga+the&gs_l=psy-ab.

Good morning all!! I hope your day is going well so far. I hope the number formation practise is going well. Today, I would like the children to work on matching numbers to its correct quantity. Cut up pieces of paper and write one number (up to 10) on each piece. Jumble the numbers up and let your child pick out a number. Say they pick the number 5, then they have to go and find 5 objects (eg: toys) Have fun!!

Good Morning Everybody!

Have a go at teaching an adult our welcome song, don’t forget the actions too.

I hope everybody is working through the week 1 activities and consolidating all of our learning and having some fun too!

Yesterday I made a cake with my little boy and if you have the ingredients available I would thoroughly recommend doing some home baking. It’s a great way to practise all the measuring you have been working on with Mrs Lockhart and of course you get a tasty treat at the end of it all!!

This is the recipe I used…

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-victoria-sandwich-recipe

This is the finished cake! It’s a bit wonky but we tried our best.  Have a go yourself and take some pictures of the finished masterpiece, you could even write out some of your own instructions on how you made it!

 

Lets have a go a learning a new sound…..

The sound for this week is ‘oa’ . If you remember, this sound can be found in Inky’s vowel house. It is a black tunnel sound and our lips stay round when making this sound.  See below for the story which goes with this sound. A good little reminder to help you with the sound is ‘when two vowels go walking the first one does the talking’.. you say the first sounds alphabet name and the second sound is not pronounced.

2 VH story for parents

Below is the Jolly Jingle for this sound…just for fun!

Once you have got to grips with making and saying this sound, here are a few activities you can have a go at to help you consolidate. If you have a printer, you can print them out or simply just display them on your screen and use your jotters to complete the task.

oa roll and read mat

oa workbook

Write the oa word worksheet    

I hope everybody has a good day.

Mrs Stevenson

 

Good morning all, hope everyone is safe and well. On the previous post I have uploaded a copy of the number formation rhyme cards that we use at group time to help us form our numbers correctly. Give them a go!!

During our time together we love to read stories. Some of our favourite books include: ‘The Gruffalo’ ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ ‘Room on the Broom’ and ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ Ask your child to re-tell the stories and if you google the story titles, some are shown on the internet. I know you can access The Gruffalo via BBC I-player.

Hope you all have a lovely day, stay safe everyone xx

Good Morning Everybody!

I hope everybody is safe, well and enjoying some precious time at home with your families. You should hopefully have got your work pack at home and can start working your way through some of the week 1 activities. Remember you can also use your purple jotters for any writing, drawing or numeracy that you would like to practise and your education city passwords/usernames are stuck into the inside cover.

I will start putting some extra little activities up and will be saying hello most days so be sure to keep checking our blog. Here’s one to get you started.

We have recently been learning all about time… can you practise reciting the days of the week in order? You could have a go at writing them out, cutting them up and putting back in order using your jotters for this. Here is a link to the song we use in class to help you.

If you fancy a little challenge, have a go in French!

 

Have a good day everybody and stay safe!

Mrs Stevenson