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A message for P3A!

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Hi everyone!

I have prepared a couple of videos for you to watch about our Jump Strategy for Addition and Subtraction problems 🙂

If you are still unsure about counting off the decuple, here is a video that will remind you how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MghhFLwlrVE

Here are the examples that I used in the videos, why not challenge yourself further by making some of your own – I know some of you can even work with thousands, hundreds, tens and ones! 🙂

 

Any other P3 classes feel free to join in too! 🙂

I hope you all have a wonderful and restful Easter break,

Miss McGregor 🙂

Primary 1

Primary 1 – Numeracy

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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?

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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.

Parents/Carers, Primary 1

Primary 1B’s very first post

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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.

Primary 6

#SPSSnowDay Number 3

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Good Morning P6

Despite the bad weather preventing us getting to school, we can still continue our learning at home.

  • You can continue to work on allocated Snow Day activities on Education City.  Why not explore some of the other curricular areas too?
  • You could also log on to Sumdog or play some games on Top Marks for further Maths and Numeracy practise.
  • Continue to read your novels for our First Minister’s Reading Challenge and if you have your passport at home remember to add any books you finish.
  • Find out more about your favourite author – e.g. when and where were they born?;  have they always been an author?;  who or what inspires them to write?;  what other books have they written if any?; what other interests do they have?.
  • Create a poster or factfile with the information you gather.  Why not use ICT and upload your work to Teams or Yammer?

Be creative, use your imagination and have fun!

Don’t forget to upload your photos #SPSLovestoRead, #SPSSnowDay

 

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Another #SPSSnowDay

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Happy World Book Day!

All P6 pupils should continue to access the variety of Numeracy, Reading and Spelling activities allocated in the Classwork tab of Education City.  The allocated activities can be accessed by clicking on the Snow Day folders, but please explore some of the other areas of the curriculum and activities too.

Since we are not at school to celebrate World Book Day please also visit the website www.worldbookday.com and try out some of the fun activities on here.

It would also be great to see everyone get a little creative in celebration of the the day and send pictures of you reading somewhere a little different.  We had some great examples in the snow yesterday – can we add some more today?  Why not create something in the snow related to one of  your favourite novels or characters?  Or if you’d rather be warm indoors how about creating a model, painting a picture or even baking and decorating a cake along the theme of your chosen book?

We’d love to see your ideas so don’t forget to tweet #SPSSnowDay #SPSLovestoRead