Hello Primary 1,

What beautiful weather we had at the weekend. Hopefully you all managed to get out in it for a while and had a nice weekend.

I hope you have had a good day so far.

Here are a few activities you can try.

Why not try math drop. You need a piece of paper, pencil and some coins. Draw circles on the paper and write numbers in the sections.  Drop the coins onto the paper (be gentle, you don’t want too many run away coins), then add up the numbers.

If that is too easy use three coins or make the numbers bigger.

Or give scribble art a go.

Draw a scribble on a piece of paper and see what you can turn it into, or swap scribbles with someone in your family and see what you both come up with.

A lovely activity you could do is the John Lewis Teddy Bear design competition.  #designyoursuperbear

https://www.johnlewis.com/content/your-partners-through-it-all/feel-good-friday

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Hope you have a lovely afternoon and evening.

From the Primary one teachers

Good morning, everyone!  What a wonderful Monday morning it is. The sun is shining and the sky is blue.  It’s a wonderful day for some outdoor learning activities.

I hope you all had a super weekend and were outside enjoying the sunshine.  I have to thank all of you for sending me lovely emails about all the wonderful activities you have been doing with your families.  It is so nice to see and hear all the different things you have been doing.  One boy in our class helped the Scouts ‘Hike to the Moon’.  He measured out a circuit in the garden and worked out how many laps he would need to do to walk a mile – 68!  He did that and then bounced to the moon on his trampoline, brilliant.  Some other boys and girls have been planting lots of seeds and one boy in our class made a mini greenhouse for all his seedlings and plants.  I have asked Mr Herbison to make one for me!  Some girls have been painting outdoors and one girl used so many different skills to design and create an amazing house, with a door that locks, for her robot dog!  Keep sending me your emails of what you been doing.

I had a lovely weekend with my family.  We went a walk along the river on Saturday afternoon.  It was nice to see families out walking together but we all kept our distance from each other.  I enjoyed yesterday in my garden.  I was planting some seeds and planted up a couple of hanging baskets, too.  I was looking at my apple trees and noticed bees buzzing around.  My son managed to take a couple of photographs of the bee on the apple blossom.

This week is National Gardening Week 2020.  There are so many different ways you can get involved in gardening, even if it’s just in a little box.  You don’t have to have a garden to grow something.  You can have a look at this link for ideas.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/get-involved/national-gardening-week/

Have a great day, everyone.

Mrs Herbison 

Hello everyone

Hope you are all safe and well and had a little break from home learning at the weekend.

I hope that you will enjoy this week’s learning activities and I love hearing how you are all doing your own things too – your grown ups are all being very good teachers and keeping you all busy!

Below is the link to the first Story Time from Home for this week and as usual it is linked to the writing activity. I have also included a little reading challenge on this week’s video so watch carefully!

https://vimeo.com/412030228/fb1b400078

You can read lots of super books on the Oxford Owl website.  I have attached a link to the website and an instruction sheet with our class login if you want to have a look.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

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Here is the link to the video that I have made to help with this maths activity.

https://vimeo.com/410757668/43ac30f682

Have fun and don’t get too wet – I look forward to seeing the photographs!

Miss McDermott

Good morning, everyone!

Welcome to the start of a new week.  It`s another sunny day!

I am really enjoying finding out about all the lovely activities you have been doing! Did you see our Celebrating Success SWAY? Please keep in touch!

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Good morning Primary 1,

We hope you had a lovely weekend in the sun. Perhaps you could ask an adult to help you add a comment to this post sharing what the best part of your weekend was? My best part was trying a new recipe which turned out pretty tasty and sitting in the garden to read a great book.

Our weekly learning grid and resources can be found on the school website in the Home Learning part of the Parent Zone, but I have also attached them at the top of this post for ease. Here are some related activities that you might like to explore at some point if it fits in with your routine.

Literacy:

Visit the website www.phonicsbloom.com and explore some of the word building games to help your reading and writing. In class, we have played ‘Fishy Phonics’, ‘Odd and Bob’ and ‘Odd Sound Out’ but it is worth exploring some more of the available games and phases as there are lots of ways to challenge yourselves.

Numeracy:

This week we are focusing on fractions and on splitting whole objects into smaller parts of equal size.

Why not watch the following BBC Bitesize song about halving and quartering – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z6bq6sg – it has a nice focus on sharing!

If you want to take this further, you could give try sharing a some objects equally between two people, or splitting them in half. Tell an adult how you can make sure that sharing is fair and see if you can explain to them why halves must always be equal parts.

STEM:

We are continuing to learn about living things and their life cycles. Here is a song that you can join in and move to, while the words talk about some features of living things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzN299RpJHA

We are looking forward to hearing about and/or seeing photos of any visual representations of life cycles that you make this week at home. You are all so creative, I am sure you will impress us!

Thank you for sending us lots of news, photos and questions – we are enjoying hearing and seeing what you are up to. We miss you all very much.

Take care and please remember – only do what you can; you know best how to organise home learning around your commitments and schedules, so please don’t feel under pressure and let us know if we can support you in any way.

Have a wonderful week,

Your P1 Teachers