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P1 Mrs Davenport Wednesday 22.4.20

Good morning,

I hope you are all getting on well with the weekly grid this week. The link is posted again below for you to access this easier. Have you enjoyed the sunny weather this week? I have been enjoying doing my work in the garden!

Learning Grid Week 3 (1)

If you are having any difficulty with any of the home learning activities please remember to ask your question in the comments section below. We will try to answer your question as soon as we are able to.

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with the alien story? I finished my story yesterday but I think I made a few mistakes again. Can you spot them?

A little green alien wif a fluffy tail went on A rocket. (2 mistakes)

the rocket was fast and took the alien to the beach. (1 mistake)

At the beach thi alien went in the sea for a swim (2 mistakes)

“i love the beach”, said the alien, hee didn’t want to go back to the moon. (2 mistakes)

Literacy

On a device find the ‘phonics bloom website’. At the top of the page select the button ‘phonics games’. I would suggest picking phase 2. When you are playing games you may wish to select phase 1 if some sounds are too tricky or select phase 3 if you need more of a challenge. There are lots of different free phonics games for you to play – I think that the game ‘match cards’ is a great game too. It will develop your reading skills. The link below will take you straight to the ‘match cards’ game.

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/match-cards?phase=2

Numeracy

Watch the videos below to practise counting in 10’s:

Have a go at counting in 10’s at home. I have attached a counting in 10’s worksheet below for you to have a go at too. Be careful because some of the counting sequences go from smallest to largest and others largest to smallest.

Counting in 10’s

Good luck!

SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD WITH RHYME DAY 3: 22.4.20

I hope you have been having fun looking at and using the resources provided over the last few days to help support your child with rhyme. For our final day of how to support your child with rhyme I will share two more games and ideas. It would be great to hear how you get on with any of the games, if you get a chance to play them. Please post a comment if you feel they have been successful.

Two great games for the whole family are what we will be sharing today. The first one is:

What’s in my Bag?

Once your child can successfully recognize rhymes, this activity will help them learn to produce rhymes. Just fill a bag with several common household items. Examples of these are included on the attachment with steps on how to play the game. Just print off the list, fill your bag and you’re ready to play “What’s in My Bag?”

Whats-in-My-Bag

Your child will pull something out of the bag and then see if they can think of a word that rhymes with it. It doesn’t even have to be a real word!! Have fun.

Dinner Time

Another great game to use is Dinner Time and this can be played with the whole family and will provide great fun. Please let me know how you get on with this one. I have attached a copy of the game below with the resources you will need to play.

Dinner-Time-Rhyming-Game (1)

I hope you have found this week’s support beneficial and more importantly they have helped both you and your child to have fun with learning in these times.

Sending all my best wishes,

Mrs Docherty

Supporting you to support each other 21.4.20

As I spent my Easter holidays in very different times this year I came across lots of great advice and support for us all in such times of unknown and times of real change. A great piece of writing I came across was in the Glasgow Times which provided super ideas and advice on how to support yourself and others during Lockdown. I thought it would be good to share some of these ideas with you this week as part of our Health and Wellbeing weekly posts over the next two weeks.

The ideas shared range from special breathing exercises to ways of talking about feelings. I’ll share 4 of the strategies and supports the Glasgow Times discussed today.

INFORM

Provide clear, age appropriate information and reassure. Be led by what your child talks about. Talking will help reduce anxiety.

CONNECT

Encourage talking to friends and family through technology. Connection supports positive wellbeing.

SOOTHE

Spend time doing fun and positive activities together, laugh, sing, dance, try out relaxation and breathing exercises together.

CONTROL

Focus on what you and your child can do like handwashing, eating well, exercise, learning a new skill.

Some great advice and know that we are also hear to support you in these times and to stay connected to you and yours. Tomorrow we will look at further advice that was shared in the post which supports Acknowledgement and recognising feelings.

Have a great day in the lovely sunshine everyone and keep making memories.

Mrs Docherty

Supporting your child with Rhyme: 21.4.20

Following on from yesterday’s post about rhyme we will look at further strategies and resources to help you support your child with their understanding of Rhyme.

A great way to do this is to play games. One great game to play is Get out of the Wagon which I have attached for you to use. In the downloadable activity below. Three word cards—like rake, cake, and king—are placed in a wagon. The child determines which word doesn’t rhyme and tells it to “get out of the wagon.”

Get-Out-of-the-Wagon (2)

Another great strategy is to use is Sharing Nursery Rhymes with your child. Nursery Rhymes are great to say over and over again and again. After your child knows the nursery rhymes, let him fill in the rhyming words. I’ve attached a list below where you’ll find some wonderful nursery rhyme collections to enjoy together.

Nursery-Rhymes-For-Little-Ones-Library-List

Enjoy the games and ideas and tomorrow I will continue to provide more ideas to make learning rhyme fun.

Have a great day,

Mrs Docherty

WELCOME BACK EVERYONE!

Good morning everyone,

We hope you have all had a lovely Easter break with your families!

Yesterday was the start of a new term of learning and adventures. Your teachers have been busy planning and preparing some learning activities for you to work on this week. Remember to do just what you can when you can. If you are unsure of anything just drop your teacher an email or send us a message via the class blog pages, we are all here to help you.

It looks like the sun is going to be shining brightly today so please take time to get outside if you can for some fun in the sun!

Today our staff team wanted to send you all a message at the beginning of this new term as we are all missing you:

Have a great week everyone and stay safe!

Mrs Smith & Mrs Roy

P1 Daily Update Mrs Currie 21.04.20

Good morning everyone!

I hope your first day back of home learning went well for you.

Home Learning Grid

I had a little go at sorting some toys into push and pull categories, here are some of my ideas:

Literacy

It is important when you write a lowercase letter j that it hangs below the line. Look at this image showing both the capital and lowercase j. In your jotter you can also try writing the capital letter J. Some of the months of the year start with a capital J eg January, June, July.

Numeracy

I have set a Sumdog challenge for you to try. It is called Number Word challenge and it focuses on the learning the words that go with each number up to twenty, for example,

9 is written and spelled as nine

Some of the number words can be sounded out but others are sight words that you need to learn. The challenge opens today at 9am and closes on Thursday at 3pm.

Good luck.

Mrs Currie

P1 Mrs Davenport Tuesday 21.4.20

Good morning everyone!

I hope your first day back of home learning went well for you.

Home Learning Grid

I had a little go at sorting some of the toys into push and pull, here are some of my ideas:

Literacy

Numeracy

I have set a Sumdog challenge for you to try. It is called Number Word challenge and it focuses on the learning the words that go with each number up to twenty, for example,

9 is written and spelled as nine

Some of the number words can be sounded out but others are sight words that you need to learn. The challenge opens today at 9am and closes on Thursday at 3pm.

Good luck.

It was lovely to hear from some of you yesterday, I was working in the St. Ninians hub yesterday so I am looking forward to getting back to you all today.

Supporting your child with Rhyme: 20.4.20

SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD WITH RHYME: 20.4.20

Rhyme is a great way to help support your child with reading. It helps your child to notice that rhyming words often have shared letter sequences, such as –all in tall, ball, and small. Most children enjoy hearing and participating in rhyming activities, and when they are exposed to rhyming, they usually pick it up naturally.

There are 3 stages to help support the development of Rhyme. These are:

STAGE 1: HEARING RHYME: Your child gets used to hearing and repeating rhyme.

STAGE 2: RECOGNISING RHYME: Your child can identify two words that rhyme.

STAGE 3: PRODUCING RHYME: Your child can think of a word that rhymes with another word

Over the next few days we will look at 5 different ways you can help your child to understand rhyme and I will share resources and ideas to help also. Step 1:

Read rhyming picture books together.

There are hundreds of great rhyming books, and this Rhyming Picture Books Library List is a good place to start. As you read, occasionally point out words that rhyme. (“Oh, goat and boat rhyme! They sound the same at the end. Goat, boat.”)

Use the list attached to help you share rhyming picture books together like we do in Nursery and P1/2 and let us know how you get on.

Rhyming-Picture-Books-Library-List

Tomorrow we will look at a Rhyming games and also Nursery Rhymes to further support teaching Rhyme and I will include the games and further reading lists.

Mrs Docherty

POSITIVE SONG FOR THE WEEK 20.4.20

Welcome back after the Easter break. I hope you have had a lovely time with your family and that you have made many memories to cherish at this time.

As we return to our New Term albeit a very different start to our final term I think the message we need to continue to focus on is that we are all in this together. We will get through this with the help of our friends and the support of each other. On this note the Song for the Week has been chosen by James in P3/4. It is a great song with a very strong message of Hope and Friendship which is what we are all relying on at the moment. It’s You’ve Got a Friend in Me from Toy Story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNi02gxTI1M

The lyrics always make me smile and help us realise that at St Ninian’s we stick together and share everything along the way as good friends do. One of my favourite lines is:

And as the years go by

Our Friendship will never die

You got to see it’s our destiny

You’ve got a friend in me

Please know we are missing you all greatly and missing the smiley faces but also know that when we are all back together we will continue to make great memories and build on our amazing Friendship as it is one that will last a lifetime even as the years go by. Have a good week everyone,

Mrs Docherty

P1 Mrs Davenport Weekly Learning Grid Monday 20.4.20

Learning Grid Week 3 (1)

Book Review Week 3

Missing Numbers Worksheet Week 3

Good morning everyone and welcome to Term 4. I hope you all had a lovely time over the last two weeks enjoying some of the sunshine we had.

Please find above your weekly grid with learning activities for you to complete. There is also another two attachments for you to use; one to write a book report as part of your reading activity, the other to support your numeracy learning.

Remember to check into the blog everyday to see the daily posts which will contain some additional activities to help support your learning from the grid.

Don’t forget you can get in touch with me by using the comments section on this blog post. You can ask questions, share learning with me or even just say hello! I love hearing from you and will respond as quickly as I can.

Have a lovely day and have fun!

Mrs Davenport