Hello Boys and Girls

I can’t believe that it’s the 1st of May already. Well done to everyone who has been taking up the challenge of making their own calendars – they all look fantastic and will help you practise your days, months, seasons and numbers too.

We do have another calendar in our class as you know and I have brought this home too. Here’s the picture for the month of May!

The grown ups won’t be surprised that’s its got cats on it but you will be able to tell them it is actually “kitten yoga”.  Perhaps this isn’t  a yoga pose that you can try at home though.

Here is the link to today’s Story Time From Home which does include both my cats – Tufty and Cleo. Did you know it is the 20th Story Time video already?

https://vimeo.com/413672744/f84cf82b20

I do hope that you enjoy it. I thought you might also enjoy seeing this lovely rainbow made out of plastic bottles.  It is outside my neighbours house so that everyone in my street can see it and hopefully it makes them feel a little more cheerful.

I am working in the hub school today so I won’t be able to check or reply to messages today.

Please enjoy the holiday weekend and take some time off from your home learning to do something nice.

Missing you all very much!

Miss McDermott

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you are having a nice day. I have a little art activity for you that I saw online and thought was nice.

Remember when we explored the visual elements in class? We talked a lot about the one called LINE. We experimented with different types of lines – wavy, straight, vertical, horizontal, broken, thick, narrow, etc.

This art activity is based on using straight lines, both vertical and horizontal, to create a tartan background; a bit like we did in Scottish Week.

Here is my tartan background – I used five colours. Can you spot all the patterns? Patterns are important when you create a tartan.

Next, we draw and colour the outline of any shape that reminds you of Scotland. I drew a thistle. Do you know why I chose this flower? Stick your drawing on top of your tartan background and HEY PRESTO, you have a lovely Scottish piece of artwork!

You could choose a different picture – like somebody doing some Scottish dancing, a stag, a highland cow, a squirrel, a Scottie dog, or something else that you think of.

Last night I was playing my violin for the first time in a while and I thought I would play a Scottish song for you to link in with our Scottish art. I hope you like it. It is called The Rowan Tree. You might have to plug your headphones in because the volume is not very high.

Take care everybody and have a great afternoon. We miss you all very much and love hearing from you. Remember to check out our school twitter tomorrow to see photos of all the fantastic work and play children in our school have been getting up to!

From your P1 Teachers!

Good morning everyone. I hope you had a nice afternoon and evening.

With the weather not being quite as nice at the moment, why not try some exercises indoors. Why not work with a grown up to make up your own set of challenges. Choose 6 activities, write them on a piece of paper, roll a dice and that will choose what exercise you do.

What will you put into your challenge? Can you make up any of your own new moves?

Or why not make up a dance routine to one of your favourite songs? Have a go at this dance routine to help inspire you.

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

I have been busy at home with my boys. Like all of you, they have been busy doing lots of activities. My boys and I love to draw and do craft activities so we decided to make an egg carton into some flowers.

If you have an egg box that is being thrown out, why not make some flowers too. Decorate them with nice bright colours. Pens, crayons or paint work best.

My boys actually delivered them to their Grandma’s doorstep to cheer her up.

Lastly, thank you for the messages and pictures you have sent. It is so nice seeing everything you are doing and seeing how hard you are all working.  Although it is hard not seeing your smiling faces each day, you are making us all very proud.

Again, if you have any questions, please get in touch.

Keep up the fantastic work! Have a lovely day!

The Primary one Teachers 

Good Morning Primary 2b

I hope you enjoyed reading and writing poems yesterday. I have been out lots of walks and on these I noticed lots of shadows. I thought you might like to have some fun learning about shadows and making shadow pictures.

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOIGOT88Aqc

I have found a you tube link to help you learn about shadows and some ideas to use  your own toys to help make some shadow drawings. If you have time I would love to see these and share them on twitter.

I found this poem about shadows mabye you can make some actions to go with it and perform it to your family.

Lets Play Shadows Poem

Lets play shadows in the sun

I can make my shadow run!

I can make my shadow crouch down small

Or reach up, very, very tall

I can make my shadow jump around

Or do patterns on the ground

My shadow is weary, see him creep,

Slowly curl up, go to sleep.

Below are some ideas to use some toys to make shadow pictures.

Have fun using shadows!

Mrs Boyle

Hi everyone! I hope you are all having a good week.

You should now all have your Sumgog usernames and passwords and i have noticed some of you have been on. If you could try and log on if you haven’t already this would be great, as we will be starting to set tasks for the pupils over the next few weeks.

https://pages.sumdog.com/  

Riddles 

A Riddle is a type of poem that describes something without actually naming what it is, leaving the reader to guess.

Can you guess the 3D shape in this riddle? Comment below with your answers.

Below is an attachment for more riddles if you enjoyed this one. Have a go, some of them are tricky!

Shape Riddles

Can you make up your own riddle? Send me an e-mail with your riddle and i will see if I can guess what you a describing, it doesn’t have to be a shape. Please don’t make it too hard!

Have a great day.

Miss Ross 😀

Good morning, everyone!  I hope you are having a good week.  I have enjoyed reading your emails and spending time outdoors.  Even though it was cooler yesterday and a little rainy, I still enjoyed my walk along the river.  I saw many squirrels and a couple of rabbits.  I could also hear lots of birds singing in the trees.  Have you noticed any wildlife when you have been outdoors?  Let me know what you have seen?

Today is the 100th birthday of Captain Tom Moore.  He has been in the news quite a lot over the last few weeks.  Here is a link to Newsround where you can find out a little more about him.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52437767

I hope you enjoy learning a little more about Captain Tom Moore.  Can you find out the name of the song he has been singing?  Let me know if you find out.

Have a great day, everyone!

Mrs Herbison 

Good afternoon boys and girls,

I hope you are all having a lovely day so far. During this time at home we have to make sure that we keep our bodies and minds active. I have been trying to do Joe Wicks most days with my big boy and girl if I can’t get outside. I have put the link below if you want to try it.

A good way to relax is with Cosmic Kids Zen Den. This one talks about all our different feelings and emotions that we have.

I wonder if you can show emotions using your face and ask an adult to guess what it is- you do this in drama with Mrs Chisholm.

To finish off today I thought I would share a collage I made of my family keeping active . We have even managed to find some rope swings and Roxy, our dog, had a swim to cool down in a local river.

Keep safe Primary 1 we are missing your smiling faces.

All the P1 teachers.

Good morning, everyone.  I hope you are well and had a wonderful day yesterday.  My day begins by reading emails and I always enjoy finding out about the activities you have been doing with your families.  Yesterday, I read an email telling me all about someone in our class helping their family by counting all the cows and their calves every morning – super outdoor numeracy activity.  I enjoyed reading about another pupil who used chalk to practise writing phonics on the garden path.  I also know that many of you have been helping to make lunch and dinner at home, fantastic skills.

One pupil in our class also made lunch and dinner for the birds in their garden – bird feeders.  This is a super activity to do at home and you can enjoy watching the birds in your garden.  I really enjoy sitting quietly and spotting all the different birds.  It’s quite exciting watching them flying to the bird feeders.  This is an activity you could possibly do, too.

I hope you like my photographs.  I took them last June in my mum’s garden.  It was very exciting watching the mummy feed her chick.

Here is a link to the RSPB website where there are lots of ideas:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/games-and-activities/activities/make-a-speedy-bird-cake/

Let me know if you see any birds.

Have a great day!

Mrs Herbison