Good morning Everyone!
Today is your last chance to email your baby photo’s to lucy.brown@westlotian.org.uk so that your teachers can take a guess !
Here are the answers to the teachers baby photos:
- Mrs Tomczynski
- Miss Sneddon
- Mrs Lejkowski
- Miss McMorran
- Mrs Robb
- Miss Reilly
- Miss Brown
- Mrs Quin
- Mrs Fawkes
- Miss Meldrum
- Mrs Henderson
- Mrs Galloway
- Mrs peat
- Mrs Brown
- Mrs Aitken
Check to see how many you got right!
Good afternoon everyone!
Did you manage to spot any changes in your environment? You might have noticed that the seeds you have planted are beginning to grow or that the caterpillars you are caring for are getting bigger and bigger…
Change happens to us all. We all grow as we get older.
So we thought it would be good fun to play a game of ‘Spot your teacher!’ Have a look at the photo below and see if you can guess who the teachers are from the pictures using the numbers next to them.. You will notice that we have changed quite a lot!
If you can get a piece of paper and a pen or pencil, copy this list of all your teachers names and choose which number should match which teacher. For example: if you think Miss Brown is number 5 then put a 5 next to Miss Brown’s name.
Here is a list of all your teachers:
Miss Brown
Mrs Tomczynski
Miss Sneddon
Miss Meldrum
Mrs Brown
Mrs Robb
Miss McMorran
Mrs Aitken
Miss Reilly
Mrs Lejkowski
Mrs Galloway
Mrs Fawkes
Mrs Henderson
Mrs Quin
Mrs Peat
And then if you like you could send me a picture of when you were very little to lucy.brown@westlothian.org.uk and I can get the ladies to guess who it is
Have Fun everyone!
Literacy is not just reading. The basics of literacy are observing, listening, talking and describing, mark making and writing. Many of the skills are inter-related (e.g. making a shopping list requires you to observe what you already have and listen to what the family would like for meals before writing the list! We know that you all do activities like this, so be confident that you are educating your child in literacy!
Key Skills:
- listening, talking, observing and describing– you do all of these in any face-to-face conversations with your child such as planning activities or discussing clothes for the day. Adding other games such as clapping out some names or common words helps your child understand the structure of words, and the concept of syllables. After reading your child a story, ask the child to tell you about it is a great way to check that they have listened and understood.
- reading– when reading with your child, use the pictures to back up what the words are saying. Reading can happen in many ways as well as bedtime stories. Try looking for environmental print when out for your daily walk – ask if the child can tell you some signs they see (e.g. McDonalds, Tesco, bus stop, ladies or gents toilet, road signs). Reading recipes or instructions (these could be words or pictures e.g. cake recipe or instructions for building a lego model) all counts too!
- mark making and writing– as your child learns to write, they begin by giving meaning to the random marks they make.These marks can be made with pens or pencils, but also with paint, chalk, water, sand, stones which can mark the path etc. Have fun and experiment with different ways of making marks! Other activities such as sewing or scissor skills are also really good preparation for writing, so giving your child a pair of suitable scissors and some paper or a magazine is a great activity.
Over the next few weeks, Miss Brown and Mrs Robb will suggest some literacy tasks which can help to develop these skills. Please feel free to try them and to adapt/ extend them. Remember that we would love to see pictures of your activities along with the child’s explanations (that is literacy!) on your Learning Journals!
Learning Today…… Leading Tomorrow
