Deans Primary School Blog

Here are the fractions tasks for this morning 🙂

Circles – Fractions 28th April (1)

Circles – Fractions 28th April (2)

Squares – Fractions 28th April

Triangles – Fractions 28th April

I am on Teams ready to answer any questions you may have.

Happy Tuesday!

Good morning boys and girls, I hope everybody is ready for a terrific Tuesday.

Reading

Choose one of the activities from the guided reading grid supplied in your home learning pack. Remember to access the book of the week you can do so by visiting the website below or you can apply any of the tasks to a book of your choice from home.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page

User name deans12

Password mrsstevenson

Our focus book for this week is ‘Mix, Mix, Mix’. Re- read the book with the help of an adult.

Can you retell the story in your own words to an adult? You could even draw a story map of the order of the story to help you sequence what happens in the story. Below is an example of a story map for Little Red Riding Hood. This is a great visual way to help you recall the order of events in a story and a fun activity if you like drawing.

If you don’t have access to the reading grid, I have attached a copy below.

Guided Reading homelearning grid

Phonics

The new sound focus this week is ‘w’ which is a red sound (made using our lips) and it is stretchy like our snake. Yesterday I sent you on a word hunt for the sound and asked you to make the letter shape using any materials you found around your home. Today lets have a go at using the sound to make some words. Use your purple jotters. Have an adult sound out the letters and can you listen and slide them together to make a word.

w – e – b              w – ee – d          w – i – n – d             w- i – n

w – e – t               w – e – n – t        w- a – g                w – a – g – o – n

Then have a go at writing the word on your own and draw a picture to go with the word.  Remember to listen carefully to each of the sounds in the word and make sure you form each letter carefully and rest it on the line.

Here is our favourite friend Geraldine again to remind us all about the letter ‘w’.

Numeracy and Maths

Daily 9!!

Here are 9 questions to help you use all the strategies we have been working on in numeracy this year so far.

Today – Can you fill in the missing number to make ten?

2 + ____ =10                5 + ______=10              0 + _____=10

7 + _____=10               1 + _______=10          10 + ______=10

3 + _____=10               6 +________=10            9 + _______=10

Follow the link below to play a game online to help you brush up on your number bonds for 10.

https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Ten-Frame/

Maths –  Money

I hope some of you managed to catch the money lesson from Natwest yesterday over on Facebook live.

One of my little boys favourite game is to play shops. To help you get used to using different amounts of money why not set up your own shop role play area at home or in your garden.

You could decide what your shop is going to sell and collect lots of items and think about how much you would like to sell them for (pretend of course!) You can make price tags for your items and then invite members of your family to come shopping. You could even design signs for your shop.

Here are some images to give you some ideas.

Have an adult help you with writing out the prices. Don’t forget to use £ and p!

I would love to see some pictures of your shops if you decide to give it a go. Get an adult to take a picture and email it to our school office.

wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Health and Wellbeing

Road safety.

Do you know the green cross code?

It is very important that we know how to keep safe when crossing the road. Below is a very short clip outlining a few key messages for you to learn to help you stay safe when crossing the road with an adult.

Once you have watched the clip can you share with an adult 3 of the most important actions you can take when crossing the road.

Good luck with all of your learning tasks for today. I hope you find then fun and interesting. I will be back tomorrow with some more ideas for your learning. Enjoy the rest of your day.

Mrs Stevenson

Hello everyone! I hope you managed to pick up your new learning packs, these should keep you going for the next couple of weeks at least.

Literacy: I have included spelling lists again in your new packs so you can continue learning your next set of words each week. Remember to practise these throughout the week. See if you can find a new way to practise your words.

Listen to a story being read on:

https://www.storylineonline.net/

-note down the story you chose and say why you picked it? Give a review on it – what did you like/not like about it? Would you recommend it to someone else to listen to or read?

Numeracy – Write out your 5 times table and ask someone at home to check you have them all correct and to test you on these!

You can also watch the video below to help remind you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyDZ7f1RfE

IDL – Watch the story that tells the legend of how the Giant’s Causeway was formed using these two video clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHygfkHD5TE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNdhq1OOeU

Try retelling the story in your own words – you could do this as an extended story or as a cartoon strip with the story written underneath each picture. You could even try to write your own versions of this legend. You can use the comic strip template below:

Blank comic strip

Have a good day everyone!

Mrs Hillan

Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a great sleep and are feeling refreshed and ready for the day! Remember you can collect your new packs of work from the front of the school.  Here are some activities for you to work through.

Spelling

Follow the link for your group which will take you to a spelling game for your sound this week. Can you practise saying your sound out loud? Maybe you could try and make a song with all of your spelling words and perform it for someone in your family!

Green, Purple & Pink – https://go.educationcity.com/content/index/33485/3/1/1

Yellow – https://go.educationcity.com/content/index/34683/2/1/1

Blue – https://www.softschools.com/language_arts/phonics/games/r_blends.jsp

Numeracy

Here are some questions all about telling the time. Use this clock face to help you.

Can you write down the time 1 hour before:

• 8 o’clock
• 12:00
• Half past 3
• 4:30

Can you write down the time 2 hours before:

• 6 o’clock
• 11:00
• Half past 5
• 9:30

Can you write down the time 5 hours before:

• 12 o’clock
• 2:00
• Half past 7
• 10:00

Science

Here is a super fun science experiment for you to try at home! Please complete this experiment with the help of an adult and be sure to be safe when carrying it out! Take some pictures of you doing the experiment and send them to wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk so I can see all the fun you are having!

Reading 

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/?selLanguage=en&mode=hub.

When you open the site, click the pink button at the top which says “My class login”. The class login details are as follows: username – deansprimary2      password – missborsbey       Once logged in, click the button that says “My Bookshelf”.  This will take you to lots of ebooks. Please have a look below to find out which book to read. Once you have read the book, discuss what you have read. Can you write a new ending for the story?

Green group – Leek Hotpot

Purple group – By the stream

Pink group – Dad, can you do this?

Yellow group – Clothes for Rain

Blue group – Can you see me?

Have a great day and I will be back tomorrow with some more fun activities!

Before Break

Bonjour. Today we are going to be working out Time Taken for a journey. If you look in the folder for today / blog, you will find your work.

Like yesterday, you have to carefully read and understand the instructions / examples to be able to use the formula accurately. For Q. 8 you can use a calculator but still show some kind or working. If you don’t have a calculator just leave it out. Take your time especially with Q.10 and Q.11 as they are problem solving questions. Read them carefully.

L.I. – to calculate time taken for a journey

S.C. – I can use the formula accurately

I can show my working out

1. Read over my instructions
2. Read over the instructions / example in the folder/blog.
3. Start if you understand
4. Read again if you don’t and I’ll be back in 10 minutes.

Time Taken

Todays Answers

Break – Lunch

Criteria for Workout

Good morning and I hope you are all safe and well. I hope a grown up has managed to collect your P1 learning pack from school. Inside the pack there should be a Deans Den workbook for you to explore. There are different spring activities for you to complete and why not give some of the Spring craft ideas a go!! Ask a grown up to help you.

I hope you are all managing to access oxfordowl.co.uk. I would like you to explore the story, ‘The Hedgehog’ Look at the picture clues and talk over the story with a grown up. I have attached a link of instructions on how to make a hedgehog. Give it a go and remember to send photos of your work to the school e-mail and Mrs Rodden will send them on to Mrs Morrison. Have a lovely day!!