Author: Mrs Dick

Good morning,

Here are the links for this week

At the Vet’s

Butterflies

Eco Apes Use Rubbish

IGH Power Point Presentation

At the Fun Fair

RRS Article of the Week P1-3 01.06

Weather Diary

My Body

P1-Learning-Grid-1st-June-Updated

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with the literacy task of rhyming words this week? I have found a video to help you learn more about rhyming words. There is a little challenge in this video because you need to think of rhyming words too.

Literacy

Today is set to be one of the last really hot and sunny days for a while. Somewhere in your garden, or in your house, can you create a reading den? Put something nice and comfortable in your den to sit in and maybe some of your favourite soft toys too. Spend some time relaxing in your reading den and read one of your favourite stories to your soft toys. It doesn’t matter if you can’t read all the words, use the pictures in your book to tell the story too. Have fun!

Numeracy

A sumdog challenge has been set for you. This challenge is called ‘Numbers’. The skills set in this challenge will link in with activities from our learning grid this week about missing numbers and ordering numbers too. The challenge will begin at today and finish on Thursday evening. Have fun!

Mrs Currie

Hello everyone.  Please find all the work you need for your learning starting on Monday 1st June. I have updated the grid below to contain the Gruffalo sheet that was missing.  It is at the very bottom of the grid so you need to scroll all the way down.

P1-Learning-Grid-1st-June-Updated

We are learning the igh sound this week. Here is the power point presentation to help you with this sound:

IGH Power Point Presentation

Here are the links you need for more information for the reading book you have been assigned:

At the Vet’s

Butterflies

Eco Apes Use Rubbish

At the Fun Fair

The powerpoint is attached here for parents to discuss ‘My Body’ and the health and wellbeing theme this week:

My Body

If you wish to use the template for creating your weather diary this week:

Weather Diary

Final link, this is Mrs Conway’s Rights Respecting Schools activity for this week:

RRS Article of the Week P1-3 01.06

As always, please get in touch if you have any questions.

Have an excellent week,

Mrs Currie

Hello everyone, this is your grid for the week beginning Monday 1st June 2020.

As always any questions or if you would like to share work please use the comment section or the email address at the top of the grid.

Learning Grid Week 9

Active Learn Primary Login Information

Escape from Black Mountain WB 01.06

Further Spelling Activity Suggestions

RRS Article of the Week P2 01.06

*I am currently having an issue with setting the Sumdog challenge I will update you when I have this fixed*

Hopefully the Sumdog issued has now been resolved.  Please let me know if there are any further problems.  Thank you.

Mrs Currie

Good morning everyone.  It is Mrs Currie back today, thank you to Mrs Docherty for looking after our blog post yesterday.  Remember if you want to send me any examples of work or just to say hello use either the email address at the top of the weekly grid or the comment section on this post.

Self-Assessment

This week we are focusing on thinking about our learning over the week. Think about the questions and talk about them with someone at home or write them down.

• What have I learnt?
• What have I found easy?
• What have I found difficult?

There has been lots of fabulous work going on with our Global Goals and RRS. Please remember to send your RRS work to Mrs Conway. brogan.conway@westlothian.org.uk

Literacy

Take a look at the success criteria and see if your writing has met each of them.

Now highlight or underline the parts of your writing that answer the questions below. If you have missed out one, you can up level your writing by adding it to your writing.

• What will you make?
• How big will it be? What will it look like?
• What purpose will it serve?
• Who will you invite to help you in this project?
• What could possibly go wrong with it? What will you do to prevent this?
• Where will your Lego creation be located?

Numeracy

The answers for the estimates will vary so I have just provided the actual answers and working.

I hope you have had a lovely week and that you have been enjoying the sunshine.

Mrs Currie

 

Good morning everyone.  Mrs Currie is back today, thank you to Mrs Docherty who looked after our blog post yesterday.  Remember if you want to send me any examples of work or share something you have done this week use the email address at the top of the weekly grid.

This week we are using The Fist Of Five to assess our learning.

You can either show your score to someone at home or if you have recorded work in your jotter, draw a circle and put little lines coming out of it to represent your fingers.

I have completed the ai and oa spelling activity below. How did you do with this activity? What fist of five would you give for your understanding of the ai and oa sound?

I have shared my free writing story with you. I decided to write a story about swimming in the sea because it is one of my favourite things to do when I am on holiday. Can you spot any mistakes in my story?

I tried to include all of the success criteria in my story too:

• A capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end of every sentence
• Use at least one conjunction (joining word eg and, because)
• Use at least one adjective (describing word eg a colour)
• Make sure you form your letters correctly

Did you manage to include all of the criteria in your story? Show your fist of five for this.

Number Talks

I looked at the 2 jars for number talks and have shared my strategies with you. Did you use the same strategies as me or something different?

Counting on is a very good number talks strategy. This episode of numberjacks explains counting on well. Why don’t you watch it:

How do you feel about using the counting on strategy for number talks? Show your fist of five for counting on.

The weekly grid for next week will be getting posted this afternoon to allow parents time to prepare for the following week.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with your typing using Dance Mat Typing? It’s on the ‘Something Fun’ section of your learning grid this week.  I know my typing skills have improved during this time, it is a great skill for life!

Literacy

Your writing challenge is all about Lego this week. I have found these interesting facts about lego on the National Geographic website. I picked my favourite three facts for you to read. Enjoy reading them!

1. The name “LEGO” came from taking the first two letters of the Danish wordsLEG GODT, meaning “play well“.
2. The famous LEGO brick that we play with today is more than 50 years old. The bricks made way back in 1958will still fit perfectly with those you play with today!
3. Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in a year would reach more than five times round the world.

Numeracy

Here is a game all about number patterns. You need to complete the number pattern by dragging numbers to the correct place.

https://www.freeteacher.co.uk/maths_y1_patterns_numberpatterns.html

Have a lovely day

Mrs Currie

Good morning everyone.

Here are your links for this week

Week 8 beginning 25th May 2020

oa worksheet

ai worksheet

What Is In My Net

Shadows in the Sun

Goldilocks and the Clever Plan

Animal Homes

Have you managed to spot any birds yet?

I have had a lot of Jackdaw birds visit my garden.  At first I thought they were small crows but then I researched some information and found out about what makes them different from a crow.

Literacy

If you want to do a little more practise on ai and oa use the following resources.

Here is a video link for a clip about the sound ai.

What oa words can you make using these beginning sounds, the oa middle sound and then the end sounds.

Maths

To continue to practise your estimation skills try this simple Pasta Game (you do not need to use pasta, you could use lego bricks, sweets, coins, counters etc.)

Pasta Estimation

Resources – 2 players (or more), Bag of pasta

• Using a bag of pasta, put your hand into the bag and take a handful out
• With your eyes closed spread out your handful on the floor and then open your eyes and estimate how many pieces you have (give yourself a short time limit to do this otherwise you will end up counting and we want to estimate first!)
• Once you have estimated, then count to get an accurate answer
• How close were you? However many your estimate was away from the accurate answer then this is your score
• The next player then repeats this process
• Whoever has the lowest score at the end is the winner
• You can decide how many times you repeat these steps in one game
• GOOD LUCK!

Don’t forget you can get in touch using the email address at the top of the weekly grid or use the comment section below.

Have a lovely day

Mrs Currie

Good morning everyone,

Here are the links you need for this week.

Learning Grid Week 8

Escape from Black Mountain WB 25.05

Active Learn Primary Login Information

Further Spelling Activity Suggestions

RRS Article of the Week P2 25.05

Literacy

How are you getting on with the spelling rule of magic e?

Have a look at these sentences, by accident I have misspelled the words that should have magic e.  Can you be the teacher and spot my mistakes?

• I like to maik houses and towers using lego.
• When I go to PE I lick to climb on the ropes.
• When It is my birthday I always get a delicious birthday caik.

Numeracy

I have used square paper to draw a shape.  How many squares does my shape take up?  This is the area of the shape in square units.

Research

At the weekend I had a visitor in my garden.  I took a photograph of it.

What type of creature is this?  I have named it Norman.  What do you think would be a good name for it?

Have a lovely day

Mrs Currie

Good morning everyone!

I hope you are getting on well with the grid this week.  Please find below the links needed for this week.

Week 8 beginning 25th May 2020

oa worksheet

ai worksheet

Active Learn :

What Is In My Net

Shadows in the Sun

Goldilocks and the Clever Plan

Animal Homes

Literacy

Last week we introduced Reading Wise, a group call email will have been sent to you with your log in details.  Please find the instructions below.

Reading Wise Login Information

Continue using this site to work on your phonics and decoding skills.

Maths

You have been set a Maths challenge to look at the length of spoons.

Here are spoons from my kitchen in order of size, smallest to largest.

I used pasta twirls to measure my spoons.

         

I noticed that not all my pasta twirls were the same length, is this a good measuring device? Why?

Here is a game you can play which will help you with the maths language largest/biggest and smallest.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/lets-compare

Have a lovely day everyone,

Mrs Currie