Category: School Updates

Good morning everyone,happy Friday! Hope you are all safe and well. I have a few links which will take you to activities. Enjoy!

From Mrs Anderson a link to her blog page (hints and tips for yoga)

www.sonshineyoga.co.uk/blog

Health and Wellbeing – Jigsaw is one of the tools we use in class to teach Health and Wellbeing. A bit of background information below-

How would children benefit if they could be aware of their thoughts and feelings as they happen, in the present moment, on purpose with no judgement?

This is what mindfulness means. It can be learnt, and techniques to develop it taught. It also needs to be practised. We believe mindfulness is a vital tool for life: not only does it support the regulation of emotion and build emotional resilience but also enhances focus and concentration; both helping to optimise learning.

Mindful children can more readily choose their responses to situations rather than react while caught up in the thought-flows and emotions.

In Jigsaw PSHE, mindfulness is developed through the ‘Calm Me’ time in each piece (lesson). This consists of breathing techniques, awareness exercises and visualisations – all tried, tested and very enjoyable activities for children and teachers alike.

Observing your thoughts and feelings, on purpose, in the present moment with no judgement… What a gift!

Jigsaw brings together PSHE Education, emotional literacy, social skills and spiritual development in a comprehensive scheme of learning.

Jigsaw have kindly given permission to us to offer Jigsaw learning opportunities for you to try at home. Please try out some of the activities.

http://families.jigsawpshe.com/stuck-at-home/       no password required

Literacy

Continue with ee and oo activities.

Rhyming words – How many words can you make that rhyme with sit, hen, mat, pan (you can use your jotter)

L.I. to create rhyming word families

S.C. I can change the first sound in a word to make a new word

Have a lovely weekend keep safe!

 

 

 

 

Lucy is still feeling a little blue

So tried some new things to do…

.         A healthy snack

dance moves for ballet.

That is sure to lift her mood and make her feel a little less blue.

Lucy plans to look for rainbows over the weekend and maybe get some photos – maybe you could too!

Could you use this when you are out for a walk ?

There are a few “American things” in there, but you could make up your own pictures and stick them on top instead? Like road signs, school crossing signs, church tower and so on.

 

This is a way of helping us to focus on the good stuff right now (the second page is just how to make a dice if you don’t have one!)

Gratitude Game – Big Life Journal

Every school in West Lothian has a member of staff whose remit involves finding out about the latest developments in H and WB in Scotland, and beyond. We meet regularly and the group have other healthcare professionals who are part of the team for advice.

They are keen that at this point in time our children, young people, parents and families have access to information to support all aspects of our Wellbeing.

With this in mind, they have created a useful list of resources and websites which are detailed in the document below.

 

HEALTH and WELLBEING for BLOG

 

There is information to help children when they are feeling:

anxious

restless

angry or annoyed

difficulty sleeping

showing gratitude and kindness.

(and it might just help us grown ups too!)

Miss Taylor

Hi P6/7

Here are the activities for this afternoon.

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More information about the tasks on class Teams.

Miss Taylor

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well and keeping yourselves busy. I have noticed that children have been making and sticking rainbows in their windows and chalking them on pavements. A rainbow has always been the sign of hope and children have been doing this to spread a little happiness at this difficult time.  Click on the word rainbow below it will take you to a link, you can print the rainbow,  colour it and put it in your window or draw one yourself. You can find lots of pictures online to help with the colours.

rainbow

Activity One Literacy  – I hope you all had a go at our new ee sound yesterday. Please continue to practice it. I would not normally introduce 2 sounds so quickly however, there are activities I can post to support both sounds. Give it a go, challenge yourself. New sound is oo. oo is the sound the ghost makes. He lives in the top right window of Inky’s vowel house and makes this sound because the light won’t go on.

 

 

L.I. To understand that two letters make can make 1 sound

S.C. I can say the sound to match the letter shape

S.C. I can blend this sound with other sounds to read words

S.C. I can write this sound by joining two letters

S.C. I can spell words with this sound

Practice saying the sound and blending it with others (as I said yesterday it maybe useful to have individual alphabet letters and ee and oo sounds on pieces of paper or card). Try to make the words – m-oo-n, b-oo-t, h-oo-t, f-oo-t, c-oo-k, h-oo-k, b-oo-k, l-oo-p, h-oo-d, f-oo-d, b-oo-m etc. You can write them, make up your own bingo game, draw a picture to match each word whatever helps you to recognize them. Good luck!

Activity 2 Numeracy – Continue to practice counting collections, extend the number in your collection. Are you estimations becoming more accurate? To support counting on and back it maybe a good idea to create your own number line. We use lots of different kinds of number lines in the classroom, it can be 0-10, 0-20, 0-30 or however may you feel comfortable with.

L.I. To add and subtract numbers

S.C. I can recognize numbers on a number line

S.C. I can say the number that is one more and one less

Practice saying the number that is one more and one less e.g. point to 11 ask the question what number is one more?, what number would be one less? extend by asking what would be 2 more, 3 less etc. Can you write the sum to match the action e.g. 11+1 =12

Activity 3 – Yoga. We all know how important it is to relax our body and mind try this 30 day Yoga Mindfulness Challenge. Start today!!

Hope you all have a great day, keep safe

 

 

Lucy is still feeling a bit blue

But is trying her best to find something to do!

She has been outside looking for signs of Spring and found crocuses in the garden.

She tried some yoga too – although that wasn’t one of the positions Mrs Anderson suggested!!

I wonder what she might do next? ….