Our leader boards for Sumdog so far!
Top 5 for Reading (21 entries):
- Jack – P6
- Jake – P4
- Faith – P5
- Ellie – P4
- Charlie – P7
Top 5 for Maths (23 entries):
- Jack – P6
- Ula – P7
- Kayden – P3
- Ailidh – P5
- Pupil from P2
More Snow Day Activities
Hi, l hope you are all taking care and enjoying your second snow day. Here are a few activities and web sites to keep some of you busy and learning at home.
If you are allowed you could go outdoors, or if you prefer to stay indoors and cosy you could bring a tray/basin of snow indoors. Use the snow like a whiteboard and try to sound out and write words, form letters or numbers (using a stick/pencil or even paint) in the snow. Or you could try to see if you can remember how to spell some of your tricky words. Remember to use any of the stories/rhymes/mnemonics you made up to help you recall the patterns.
You could also try to make more rhymes/mnemonics to help you with other words you find tricky to spell e.g said – Snowy Afternoon In December (even though it is March!!) . We can add these to your tricky word keyrings when we are back at school. Remember to draw a picture to go with your mnemonic.
Ask someone at home to challenge you to a game of ‘Round the World’ (like we do in some of our group times). See who can recall the sound to match the colour in the vowel house e.g. yellow – oa, ow, o_e. Extra challenge see if you can think of a word with the sound colour.
You could use old books or magazines to cut out and build words. Try to make a sounds/tricky words poster.
Play snowman bingo – draw an outline of a snowman for each player. Then fill it with 4-8 of your target sounds/words. Make cards with the sounds/words on them. Take turns to turn them over or read them out. Cover the word using a counter, scrap paper, cotton wool snowballs (if you have any at home). First one to cover all of their words is the winner 😀.
If you have paper/reusable plastic cups write or stick your target letter/words onto them. Set them out like bowling pins. Ask someone to say the word/sound/number then see if you can use a cotton wool snow ball or scrunched up piece of scrap paper to hit the correct cup.
Spotty Snowman counting – draw the outline of two snowmen . Â You will need 5,10 or more counters, cut out bits of paper or cotton wool balls for each snowman. You can either start with them already on the snowman or put them on as you roll the dice. Use one or two dice. Roll and add or take away the number of items to or from your snowman.
Practice your typing skills for using Clicker on Dance Mat typing. Bit.ly/keyboardtyping
Read lots of books or if you prefer listen to online audio books. Storyonline.net
Sumdog Leaderboard … so far!
Our leader boards for Sumdog so far!
Top 5 for Reading:
- Jack – P6
- Jake – P4
- Faith – P5
- Jaxson – P3
- Emilia – P6
Top 5 for Maths:
- Ula – P7
- Jack – P6
- Pupil from P2
- Ailidh – P5
- Amen – P5
Family Photos Cancelled
Due to the school closure our opportunity for families to have their photo taken will be cancelled on Friday 2nd March. We will contact Tempest to see if we can reschedule this date. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Message for Primary 7 Pupils
This is a good opportunity for P7 pupils to continue to use their Yammer Group to share learning and what you have been doing in the snow.
Remember that Yammer is our professional identity and for sharing learning. Perhaps you could ask questions related to World Book Day or your IDL context of China. You could also share some photos of your snow day activities.
You can access the group by clicking here or logging into Glow, clicking on Yammer and then WL PUSCPS P7.
I look forward to seeing your posts.
Sumdog Snow Day Reading Competition for World Book Day
Join us for a whole school Sumdog Snow Day Reading Competition for World Book Day by selecting Reading Snow Day when you log into Sumdog. Your login and password should be in your homework diary.
To be able to take part in the Reading Snow Day competition, if children have not used Sumdog recently they might need to complete the assessment at the top of the login screen first. Once it’s done that then it should be okay to enter the contest.
Good luck!
Snow Day Learning Activities
Your teachers have set you some activities that you might want to take part in during your snow day! Please click on our blog and find the activities for your class or whole school activities.
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/puscpsnews/category/winter-ready/
Or use the Winter Ready tab to navigate to the learning ideas. 
PUSCPS World Book Day
As we were meant to be celebrating World Book day this week why not try out some of the activities below:
Tune into the biggest book show on earth by clicking here.
Click here to find out information about World Book Day due to snow closures and activities you can take part in.
Find some story time online videos here.
Use the comments section below to share your learning or send us a tweet @PUSCPS.
We will schedule our families reading together sessions and our PUSCPS World Book Day activities for another time and will alert you to the change in dates.
Why not share some photos of you reading or playing in the snow in your costume so we have a sneaky peak of who you are dressing up us. Send you photos to our Twitter feed @PUSCPS or our email address wlpuscps@westlothian.org.uk
Maths Sumdog Competition Results … So far!
So far in our Maths Sumdog Competition the Top 5 pupils for accuracy are:
1 – Jack – P6
2 – One of P2s
3 – Layla – P2
4 – One of our P3s
5 – Ula – P7
Keep going everyone!
Sumdog Help
To be able to take part in the Snow Day competition, if children have not used Sumdog recently they might need to complete the assessment at the top of the login screen first. Once it’s done that then it should be okay to enter the contest.
