Thank you for posting on Twitter your favourite books. Many of these are new to me so once we’re back at school I need to order some of these titles for our class library. Keep posting your favourite books please.

To help continue our reading skills, we need to keep practising our common words. To help with this I’ve added some activities on Education City for all P1s. I wonder how many of you will complete these. We’ve been so impressed at how many of you have been attempting online activities,

Lots of you have also been inventing your own games to practise these words. I’ve seen using a Nerf gun and reading the word when you hit it, playing pairs and writing the words on big paper and rolling a ball, when the ball lands on a word, you have to read it. I’ve also seen 2 children pick up a piece of Lego every time these see one of their common words in a book, you can then use the Lego to build a tower, I wonder how high these towers can be. Can you think of any other game to help learn these words. You should have lots of common words in your red reading bags. All of your P1 teachers are looking forward to seeing new ways to help learn your words.

If your want to continue with our class Reading books, you can join Oxford Owl. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/     On Oxford Owl there is a section on ebooks. Today you could look at these books, they will practise the words you have been learning.

Hi Everyone! We have been enjoying seeing how some of you have been participating in the activities we have set. We look forward to hearing a little more about how you are doing.

Your Religious and Moral Education activity this week (or over the holidays)  is to look at the Easter story.

1. Discuss with your talk partner (your adult) about what you think Easter is.
2. Get an adult to open this link and read the story to you.                   P1 Easter Story
3. Can you retell some of the story in your own words?
4. Select an activity to complete.

• Make a miniature garden showing the three crosses, the tomb and the stone that was rolled away. (You will need; a container, sticks, a stone, soil and some leaves or grass)

• Create a book titled ‘The Easter Story’. Draw a picture/ write a sentence to show what happens first, then and at the end. Share your book with someone in your house.
• Use your imagination to make a model last supper. Build it with lego or use an old box as the table. Make Jesus and the disciples from paper or play dough.

• Look at some of the symbols associated with Easter,  such as Easter bonnets, bunnies, eggs, chicks, candles and crosses. See if you can find and count each one here –   Easter Symbols
• Design and draw your own Easter bonnet which could have one or more of the Easter symbols on it and if you have the materials, you could make it to wear. The easiest way to make a hat is to staple, glue or stick a strip of paper to fit your head and then add your pictures to it. Everyone in your home could join in and you could have an Easter parade.

We can’t wait to see how creative you will be with your ideas. Good luck!