Hello boys and girls

It looks like the nice weather is here for at least another day so I do hope that you are all enjoying the sunshine and getting outside to play.  Yesterday when Jim and I were out for a walk we saw a weasel out enjoying the sun. Unfortunately we didn’t have any phones or cameras but I have posted this picture to let you see what a weasel looks like.  It is not very often that you get to see them in the wild – especially not in Bathgate!

Weasels have lovely red, gingery coloured fur and white tummies.  They are very small and only about the length of a pencil case when they are fully grown. They have very sharp teeth and although they mostly eat mice and voles, they can catch rabbits and squirrels too.

Below is the link to today’s Story Time from Home. This week’s story writing is a little bit tricky so you might want to listen to the stories to help you with some ideas before you write your own.

https://vimeo.com/424868774

Although it’s only Tuesday, I am working in the hub school today, so I won’t be replying immediately to any messages or emails. You can still keep in touch however and I will get back to you on Wednesday.

Stay safe in the sun and have a nice day.

Miss McDermott

Good afternoon. I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are enjoying this lovely weather. I can’t believe it is June already.

I know that you all like to eat healthy meals so I thought that maybe this week you could set yourself a challenge.

Can you eat a Rainbow?

Can you try a new vegetable for lunch or dinner              OR

Can you eat 3 different colours of vegetables with your lunch or dinner?

You could keep a diary or a colour a rainbow in with all the different foods you eat.

Here is a little rainbow food song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkP-sewWCeE

This week we are looking at a new fairytale. This all about The Snow Queen.

What do you think it would be like to be in charge? Do you think you would be a good King or Queen?

Would you make people wear a uniform or allow everyone to eat chocolate with every meal or have to bow every time they saw you?

Why don’t you think of some rules you would put in place if you were a King or Queen.  You could make a poster to show your royal subjects.

Why don’t you design and make your own crown.

I made one by cutting out shapes. How will you make yours? What shape will it be?

Have a lovely afternoon.

Your Primary 1 teachers

Good morning, everyone!

Primary 2 children will  be learning about data handling this week.

Here are some video clips and games to get you started.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z4nyr82

http://toytheater.com/fishing/

http://toytheater.com/fruit-fall/

https://www.softschools.com/math/data_analysis/pictograph/games/

Here are the sheets and the PowerPoint to go with the learning activities on this week’s grid.

Minibeasts Block Diagram sheet

Pets Bar Graphs Differentiated Activity Sheets

Walk to school week data handling powerpoint

Venn Diagram Sweets Sorting Activity

Have a fun week.

P2A and P2B Teachers

Good morning, everyone!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and managed to enjoy our lovely weekend weather.

Here is this week’s Learning Grid:     Learning Grid week 9

This week’s digraph is   er   and here a short video to help you.

Here is a Mr Men story.  Can you find the   er   digraph?

There is a Maths blog and a Minibeast blog to help with activities on our Learning Grid.  Remember just to do what you can and what fits in with your family.

Have a lovely day.

Mrs Herbison

Hi Primary 3,

This week my story for you is ‘Pizza for Pirates’.

And below are the follow on activities you can do. Try to do at least two over the week.

Pizza for Pirates Reading Comprehension

1. How did George sail around the wide ocean blue?
2. What did George lose when he was gobbled by the whale?
3. Which word described how he moved on the beach? And why did he do this?
4. Why did the captain not want the pizza?
5. What made the digging for treasure hard?
6. Write down another joke about pirates.

Wonderful Writer George loves pirates. What do you like? Write an adventure story about a journey to meet what you love. You might meet mermaids or Steve from Minecraft or your favourite cartoon character.

Map Skills  Learn about map coordinates and have a go at the ‘Pirate Map Coordinates Worksheet’. You could also try making your own pirate map.

Book Review Print out the book review and complete (or create your own version)

Dynamic Designer Design and build a model boat that can float. It must be able to carry some pieces of eight (coins). Or you could design and make your own pizza but don’t serve it wet and soggy!

Word Wizard Find out the dictionary definition of the following words and write them in your own sentence: peered, burst, telescope, squawk, tentacle

Artistic Ace Draw a picture to represent part of the story and write at least 2 sentences to describe your drawing.

Rocking Researcher In the book George tells a joke about pirates. Can you find some more jokes about pirates? Try making a mini joke book.

Here are some files will help you complete your tasks.

Book Review

Pirate Activities Just For Fun

Pirate Map Coordinates Worksheet

Pizza for Pirates Comprehension

Pizza for Pirates

Good morning,

First a highlight from my past week: On Saturday we went for a long walk to Muiravonside and had a picnic. The weather fantastic and when we got home we had a barbecue. Then we watched NASA on TV to see the new rocket SpaceX Dragon launch. After that, I slept in the tent in the garden with Sofia and Charlotte. Unfortunately, my bed deflated and had to be pumped back up in the middle of the night!

Remember, I would love to hear about your highlights too.

Please, check out the school website for the P3 resources for home learning this week.

https://linlithgowprimary.westlothian.org.uk/article/50794/P3-Home-Learning-Grids

This week my story is ‘Pizza for Pirates’, which I will post about separately. Here are this week spellings.

During the week let us know how you are getting on by emailing myself and Miss Ross.

Have a great day,

Mr Brice

Good morning everyone,

Welcome back after the weekend, I hope you all had a marvellous time enjoying the sunshine and warmer weather.

Can you believe that this is the start of another new month? Goodness me, the time is just whizzing past.

Do you know what our new month is called? Maybe some of you have a birthday in this month!

Week 9

Here is our learning grid for this week – Home Learning Week 9 wb 1.6.20 PDF

Here are some resources that might help you with this week’s learning:

Numeracy:

Skip Counting – Practical Activity Suggestions

Skip Counting By 2s Maze

Skip Counting By 5s Maze

Skip Counting By 10s Maze (If you are unable to print, why not follow the maze on the screen with your finger? Alternatively, you could create your own maze on paper together!)

Skip Counting with Money PowerPoint

Worm and Apple Skip Counting by 5s Crafts

Health and Well-being:

Staying Safe PowerPoint

Being Safe With Medicine Discussion Cards

Medicine or Not Discussion Activity (Please don’t feel you have to print any of the discussion activities – they are just ideas to form a conversation around!)

Literacy:

Name the Fairy Tale Summarising Activity

Expressive Arts:

Fairytale Art Ideas

I hope you all have a great week and remember to get outside and find time to play lots and lots as well as doing some lovely learning activities. We (all of your teachers) are SO proud of you right now and completely inspired by your patience, hard work, kindness and creativity. That goes for all the adults out there as well, juggling work and life and home schooling. You are doing a fantastic job.

Here is a little photo of Bennie enjoying the sun at the weekend – we had a lovely socially distanced visit to my parents in the countryside where he likes to run around their trees!

We would love you to send us a little email this week to tell us how everything is going or just to say hello and let us know you are keeping well. If you need any support or have any questions, let us know and we can try and help however we can.

Take care everyone,

Your P1 Teachers 😀

Good Morning, everyone!

This week Primary 2 and P2/1 are learning about Spiders.

Have a look at this Powerpoint and youtube video. They have lots of  interesting spider facts and pictures and will help you to make your own Spider Fact File.

Spiders Powerpoint

Can you make your own spider using paper or junk? Here are some ideas to help you.

Have a go at drawing a spider and a spider’s web.

Here is a spider board game that you might like to print out and play with your family. Or maybe you could design and create your own spider game.

spider board game

You might enjoy listening to this spider story which Miss McDermott also read as part of Story Time from Home last week.

I know lots of you like doing wordsearches so here is one to try. How many spider words can you find?

spider wordsearch

We hope you have fun with all our spider activities this week.

P2/1, P2A and P2B Teachers

Good Morning, everyone! Can you believe it is  the 1st of June today? I hope you have all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed our lovely weather.

Yesterday Mrs Boyle and I played golf which we haven’t been able to do for a long time. I wonder if any of you have managed to meet up with people you haven’t seen for a while?

Last week we had lots of examples of great work. We were learning about life cycles.

We have seen some very creative Minibeast art and craft.

Someone has been looking after caterpillars and one has turned into a butterfly.

I am sure you will continue to amaze us this week with all the wonderful things you are doing.

Here is this week’s learning grid.

Learning Grid week 9

This week we are practising the er sound in Phonics. Watch this clip to help you practise this sound.

If you have a dice you could play this er game. Throw the dice and whatever number you get, you have to read all the words in that line.

er dice game

Remember to have a look at our blog posts for Maths and Minibeasts today. The minibeast we are learning about this week has er at the end of its name. Can you guess what it is?

Have a good day. Enjoy your learning and try to share it with us if you can.

Mrs Mills