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I hope you are enjoying all the bear activities on this week’s learning grid. Primary 1 – Themed activities
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Primary 1 – Writing
Good Morning Primary 1!
Can you believe you only have one more week left in Primary 1?
Task 1 – Everyone changes even your Primary 1 teachers. Can you guess which one is your teacher?
Task 2 – Listen to the story ‘When I was a Baby’ and listen and learn ‘The Growing Up’ song.
Task 3 – Start to reflect on some of the changes you’ve made already.
- Have a chat with someone at home and think about the things you did as a baby.
- Reflect on your first year at school. Think about one thing you can do now that you couldn’t do before you came to school.
- Begin to think about next year and something you would like to learn or be able to do.
- Have a look at Mrs MacCallum’s Example
- Complete your own writing task – Writing 17th June
Task 4 – Watch the animation below and think about what you might like to be when you are older.
This would be a nice thing to draw and write about so you can look back on when you are older. When I grow up…
Primary 1 – Writing
Good Morning Primary 1!
We are really enjoying getting pictures and updates from you. Please keep sharing.
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Primary 1 – Writing
Good Morning Primary 1!
I have attached a short video clip for you to watch this morning.
Can you guess the story we are acting out?
To help children to write stories they need to hear stories, tell stories and read stories. So today’s writing task has three options which you can pick from.
Option 1: Choose a story and act it out using puppets or props. Someone could record you and you could send to your Primary 1 teacher to see if they can guess the story.
If you feel this is a suitable task for your child then your child should be encouraged to draw or write what they can and perhaps write/draw a list of props/puppets they require to retell the story.
Option 2: Choose a story and make adaptions to the story. You could adapt the characters in the story or what happens in the story by changing either the start the middle or the end.
If you feel this is a suitable task for your child then your child should draw and write one sentence or more to change the story they have picked.
Option 3: You can create and write your own story and then act it out using puppets or props.
If you feel this is a suitable task for your child then they should be encouraged to draw a detailed drawing and write at least one sentence to create a story with a start, middle and end.
I have also attached an updated Writing Planner including worksheets to match each suggested activity and these can be found by clicking the link below.
Writing Blog Materials 03_06_20
PRIMARY 1 – WRITING
Good Morning Primary 1!
I hope you all enjoyed the story ‘One Button Benny’. I certainly did.
It has been great seeing some of your very own robot creations. You have been so imaginative and creative with your use of materials.
Don’t worry if you haven’t made one yet there is still plenty of time.
Today your writing activity is to write instructions on how to dance like a robot.
First use the link below to warm up your robot moves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ulfVFtFBs
Then use the template below or your own format to write simple instructions for someone to recreate your robot dance.
- After the warm up spend some time deciding on four to six moves to include in your dance.
- Next get someone to film you performing your sequence of moves.
- Then watch the clip back and use it to help you write your instructions on how to dance like a robot.
- Then give your instructions to someone to perform your dance.
- Finally, watch your video as they perform your dance and compare the dances. Are the robot dances the same? Do you need to make any changes to your writing to help improve your instructions?
Remember when writing your dance instructions to include those bossy instruction words (First, Then, Next, After, Lastly) these will help the person reading your instructions know what order to complete the dance in. (e.g. First stand up with one arm up in the air and one arm down by your side.)
We hope this activity helps make you smile. We look forward to seeing your robot dance instructions, pictures and videos.
Primary 1 – WRITING
We just wanted to take this opportunity to tell all our Primary 1 pupils we are so proud of you. You are our little heroes. Keep up the great work, keep smiling, having fun and sharing your learning with us. 
This weeks writing task is to draw a picture of someone you are proud of. This might be yourself, a family member, a friend or someone who has inspired you.
You should write a description below your drawing to describe who you are proud of and why you are proud of them.
It has been a challenging few weeks but there is still so much to be proud of.
Below are some pictures to help you start to think about your own proud moments.
What we are looking for:
- a detailed drawing of the person you are proud of – this may include them doing the thing that makes you proud of them
- a sentence describing who you are proud of
- a sentence describing why are you proud of them
- capital letters, full stops and finger spaces
- correct spelling of common words
- attempts to sound and spell other and tricky words accurately
- well presented work
Challenge yourself:
- draw a picture of you and write a sentence to describe something your are proud of yourself for
- then draw a picture of someone you are proud of and write a description of who and why you are proud of them.
P1 WRITING
Thank you Primary Ones for sharing some of your fantastic writing. Please keep up the great work and keep sharing with us.
We know you will be still busy working your way through the packs we made before the Easter Break but we have added a few more writing ideas to this blog.
Formation Fun Below are some examples of formation activities that could be done outdoors in the wonderful sunshine or indoors. Many of you will have formed letters, keywords,your names and sentences in rice, Lego, shaving foam, using chalk and ‘magic’ paint (water!). Just use what you have.
Remember to have fun but now we move into the final term we are looking for your writing to be as neat as it can be.
Main Activity The Easter holidays may not have been the holidays that we were expecting but I am sure you must have some exciting information to share. So we would like you to write a letter to a friend, family member or even your class teacher to tell us the best thing about your holiday.
Your letter should include:
- who it is to
- the date you have written the letter
- what you have enjoyed best about your holidays
- sentences including; capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
- who the letter is from
Challenge yourself
- you could ask a question in your letter
- think about the presentation of your letter – is your writing neat with well formed letters?
- proof read your letter before you send it to check for any mistakes
Writing activities you can do everyday
- help write the shopping list
- write a daily timetable
- create a fitness routine for you and another to complete
- keep a daily diary
- create a food menu
- write a song
- create a 2020 scrap book
Finally the more we make writing meaningful and fun the more we want to do it. So I hope this last idea is a fun one.
PRIMARY ONE – WRITING
Good Morning Primary 1!
We are so impressed to see all the learning and play you are doing at home. We have been enjoying seeing your messages and pictures on the blog or Twitter and hope to see many more.
WRITING ACTIVITIES
Before we finished we had been learning about procedural writing. We used sequencing words – First, Next, Then and Finally to write sentences to help others wash their hands in the correct order.
So before we start our writing the first thing we need you to do is complete an Easter Project this can be either making a chocolate nest cake or designing an Easter card or painting an Easter egg.
Then we need you to write instructions for people to follow to help them recreate your Easter Project.
Remember to Include a title that matches your activity e.g. Make a Easter Cake , Painting a Patterned Egg or Making a Bunny Card.
You will also need to include a list of what Ingredients or materials are required.
Then write or cut and stick your instructions for someone to follow to recreate your project. If you feel it would be too much for your child to write all the sentences you can write the instructions on bits of paper, cut them up and get them to stick in the correct order e.g. write each of the following words on separate pieces of paper – chocolate. melt the First – Children would then order this – First melt the chocolate.
Children should be encouraged to read and write words they know and then use their sounding out skills to help with other words. Sentence punctuation can also help determine the order of the sentence and clues such as “Where would we find the capital letter?”or “Where would we find the full stop?” will help your child.
Remember to include capital letters, finger spaces and full stops in your instructions but most of all remember to have FUN!
Finally post lots of pictures for your Primary 1 teachers to see.
We are aware that these activities might be challenging to do in the current situation so should you not have access to the required materials then please complete one of the writing tasks from the writing grid in your child’s home learning pack. You can find a copy of the grid below.
Primary 1 – Numeracy
Number Talks
Snack Time
Without counting how many stars does Mrs MacCallum have for her snack?
(* Information For parents – Children might say “I think 10 because I can see 5 and 5 and I know double 5 is 10.” or “I think 10 because I can see 4 and 4 and 2 more which is 10” “They may also say 20 because I know Mrs MacCallum likes to eat chocolate” or something else a bit random. The purpose is to begin to spot patterns that help with quick mental calculations. Children wont always get it correct first time and sometimes will just guess. So spend time together spotting patterns and discussing different ways you can get the correct answer.)
Numeracy – Subtraction
Mrs Macallum – begins to eat her snack. Can you write a number sentence to find the missing amount eaten by Mrs MacCallum?
Use your snack or toys to create subtraction problems for those in your house.
Working a home has it downside Mr MacCallum wants some snack. Can you help Mrs MacCallum share her snack equally?
How could we forget Baby Mac? His bowl is at the ready. Can you share the left over stars equally between 3?
Your turn- Share a given quantity equally of crisps, sweets, lego or building blocks with a parent and or sibling and make a number or letter.
Taking the learning outdoors
Don’t forget to get outdoors and get some fresh air.
Today our outdoor learning activity was collecting leaves from the grass in the back garden. We each had our own bag and collected as many leaves as we could. We then counted how many we had in our own bag and then counted how many we collected altogether as a family.
Primary 1B’s very first post
What a great few weeks we have had and we are now all settled in to our new class.
We hope you enjoy looking at some of the things we’ve been learning and will get more photographs uploaded as soon as we can.
This week we got a new reading book it was called The Library. We had a great discussion about Simpson Library and many of us had visited the library. If you visit over the long weekend please let us know.
We looked at the different kinds of books we can find in a library – fiction and and non fiction.
We have been learning all about the characters in the story and have enjoyed playing lots of games to help us learn the characters names. 
Pairs Character Snakes and Ladders Snap
We have enjoyed getting homework and even have our homework bags home this weekend to practice our keywords.
As part of our writing this week we retold the story of Incy Wincy Spider.
This helped us to think about our Mindset and just like Incy when faced with a challenge we know we have to keep trying and never give up. 
In Mathematics we have been learning about shapes and went on a shape walk in our playground.
In Numeracy we have been exploring ways to make 5 and having fun playing lots of dice games.
In the gym hall we have been learning about keeping ourselves safe and staying in our space bubbles
We have been to the community wing to play lots of listening games to help us learn all our new friends names.
Please complete the P1 Tea Towel form and return by Friday 20th September.
