As the school remains closed, I hope everyone is staying safe at home with their parents. Here are a few suggestions of how you can continue your learning at home :
Today is World Book Day
How many books can you read today, I wonder which one is your favourite?
Look at some of the titles on The First Minister’s Reading Challenge, some of these books are available as ebooks, how many can you read today, in class we really enjoyed the book about Solomon Crocodile, I wonder if you now have a new favourite!
Can you make your own book? Staple or stick a few pages together and then decide on your character for your book. Draw lots of pictures on each page to tell a story, if you can, have a go at writing this story, I can’t wait to see your books next week.
Can you create a story about a snowy day?
Doorway Online is a good resource to practise your sounds, this also helps you to blend the sounds together. Some of our recent sounds have been, ee, oa, oo, w, ch, ng and sh. Can you create words and sentences with these sounds?
I hope the weather improves quickly and it will soon be safe to return to school. I will post more suggestions of ways to continue your learning tomorrow. Remember you can post photographs of snow activities or reading activities on #SPSlovestoread or #SPSsnowday
As school is closed today you may want to try some activities listed below.
our new sound this week was “ch”, you could practise making “ch” with paint, coloured pencils, chalk or pens. You could even go outdoors and write “ch” in the snow.
create words and sentences with the “ch” sound.
have a look at your new words, which were issued on Tuesday, you could play pairs or snap with these words.
in class we’ve been creating hats for World Book Day, you could create another hat or t-shirt at home showing another book character.
design and create a bookmark, showing your favourite book character, can you write the character’s name on the bookmark?
create a snow creature or sculpture, can you measure it, what will you use to measure it?
read your favourite book, you’ll be surprised how many words you can read on your own now.
yesterday we were creating number stories for the number 8, you could make 8 snowballs and use these to create number stories, remember you should be able to make 9 number stories for the number 8.
play a board game.
use your research skills to look for transport pictures.
earlier this term we were looking at the cameras on the motorway to see what was happening to the traffic in Scotland, you can look again, I wonder if this will change throughout the day.
try any of the activities listed on the P1 homework grid, issued earlier this term.
Remember all school pupils should have been issued with login details for the Education City website. Lots of fun activities and games to reinforce learning.
The decision has been made to close all West Lothian schools today (Wednesday) due to the current and predicted weather. A group call has been sent to all parents/carers.
Please see link below to a copy of the letter issued to pupils telling you about an upcoming workshop. O2 and the NSPCC are delivering a session about online safety.
This year we are inviting all children to get creative in celebration of World Book Day 2018.
Since we have already dressed up as our favourite characters for Book Week Scotland, we decided to do something different this time.
Children are being given the opportunity to come to school wearing a t-shirt or hat (or both) that they have designed and created. This can be based on a book or book character of their choice.
Our hope is that this will encourage children to talk about their chosen story or character with their friends and peers across the school.
Whilst we encourage as many children as possible to take part, the activity is not compulsory and we do not wish to cause families any unnecessary expense. Please make use of old t-shirts etc and recycled materials that you already have at home so that no cost is involved.
In music and in dance, Mrs. Gillies had a Scottish focus this term. Recently Mrs. Gillies invited P1A and P1B to a ceilidh to allow the children the opportunity to show the dances and the songs they have been learning to their teachers.. Mrs. MacLean and Miss Wilson were so impressed to see how many dances and songs that the children could remember.
We have had such a treat this morning with Mrs Gillies. As we are coming to the end of our Scottish focus we wanted to celebrated all of the dances and songs that we have learned. Mrs Gillies very kindly invited us to our very own mini Celidh and we absolutely loved it! Here’s a sneak peak at what we got up to.
Today we did our maths outdoors. In class we have been having lots of opportunities to measure. We have been comparing volume, weight and length. We have also been choosing appropriate items to measure objects. Today with our learning partner we built snowmen. Some of us found this really tricky so we changed it to snow towers. After looking at a variety of objects, we choose our cubes to measure our snowmen or snow towers. After counting how many cubes, we then returned to the class to record our results.
We continued our topic on transport today. After finding out how difficult it had been for some people to travel in their cars today, we looked at the road cameras on different roads around Scotland. We found the M8 motorway close to our school was very busy and the cars were travelling very slowly. We brought snow into the classroom and tried to move our cars on an area with snow and an area without snow.
We would like to wish all our families a Happy New Year. We would also like to wish our pupils a warm welcome back to school. We hope you all had a lovely break and are ready for an exciting new term of learning at Simpson Primary.
