It was lovely to work with our staff team in the HUB yesterday supporting children of key workers. All the staff commented on how proud they were of all the efforts and work you have been completing at home. We are all missing your smiles and laughter, we hope you appreciated yesterday’s virtual hug on our Twitter page.
Today we are posting some ideas for Messy Play at home, a favourite for the children but often a headache for parents!! Creativity is a key skill we encourage in learners so our challenge to you all is to have a go at one of the messy play tasks together as a family.
I hope you have had a good first day with the new home learning grid. My family and I are making a rocket ship today, what activities will you do today? I’ve given you the attachment for the weekly grid again to make it easy for you to access.
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 learning the ‘y’ sound? Have you been practising writing this sound? Make sure you keep the tummy on the line and the tail underneath when writing this sound. It should be like a ‘u’ to begin with and include smooth curved lines, not pointy lines. This image shows you start and end points to help.
Literacy
Logon to the website Phonics Play using the login below:
Phonics Play – Username – march20
Password – home
The website will give you free access without needing to subscribe. Click on phase 2. Try the games ‘tricky words truck’ or ‘flashcard speed trial’.
Note for Parents – if your child says the correct word or sound click correct if not click incorrect. I recommend to select ‘pick individual graphemes (sounds)’ or ‘pick individual tricky words’ to select which sounds or words appear in the game.
Numeracy
To support your learning of skip counting in 2s and to get active try this link called The Dancing Twos. It’s a good way to learn how to count in 2s and to keep active at the same time!
I have included two attachments of sheets that you can complete (print them out if you can OR get someone to copy them into your jotter for you OR just tell someone at home what numbers are missing on the snake or caterpillar.
Good morning everyone. Last week we focused on how to support your children with spelling at home. The focus this week will move to Reading where I will share tips to engage your child in reading and how to extend their reading and comprehension skills.
There are any ways to support reading at home especially with our younger pupils. A great site to support this and share ideas is Reading Rockets with lots of helpful hints about what to do around the house and with everyday routines. Some suggestions include:
An essential step in learning to read is good books read aloud. Parents who read aloud to their children are teaching literacy concepts simply by sharing books. Encourage your children to listen, ponder, make comments, and ask questions.
Show your child a recipe and go over it together. Ask your child to read the recipe to you as you work, and tell the child that each step must be done in a special order. Let your child help mix the ingredients. Allow your child to write down other recipes from the cookbook that he or she would like to help make.
Encourage your child to make a dictionary by putting together several sheets of paper for a booklet. Ask your child to write at the top of each page a new word he or she has recently learned. If the word can be shown in a picture, have him or her look through magazines and newspapers to find pictures that illustrate the words and paste them on the correct pages.
When you read with your child a good way to help them share their understanding of what they have read is by using your Helping High 5 Retell Hand. Every finger on your hand has a different theme:
Characters: Talk about the characters using their names and maybe describe their personality, behaviours and role in the story.
Setting: Where is the story taking place, describe the setting and how this helps to set the scene for rest of the story.
Beginning: What was the main event at the start of the story, who were the characters involved in the beginning. What do you think will happen next.
Middle: What happened in the middle, was there a problem that needed resolved, did any new characters get introduced, did the setting change. How to you think the problem will be resolved.
End: How did the problem get resolved. Could you change the ending
You can ask your child questions using these themes about what they have read. I have included 2 templates to help you support your child with retelling and to use as a cue to help them remember the key events.
Tomorrow we will look at specific questioning such as Understanding, Analysing and Evaluating using Blooms with a different theme each day.
As always please don’t hesitate to leave a comment if you have any questions or would like more resources or ideas to help you support your child.
I hope you are all keeping well, looking after each other and staying safe. As equally important I hope you are able to make nice memories along the way too.
Over the weekend I spent my time thinking about how life has changed but also how much we need people and things to help us along the way on this new journey we are on at the minute. It is so important to stay positive and to be there for each other.
I have always found that Music is something that really helps and songs can send such a powerful message of hope and positivity. So with that in mind I started to listen to songs I hadn’t listened to in a long time and realised that it made me feel better. I have decided that on Mondays I will share a song that has a powerful message and one which will reinforce to you how much we are missing you all and thinking about you and your families daily.
It also made me think about how much we are all in this together and that our friendships and teamwork which are key themes for our school will get us through this. As a team and together.
So the song I have chosen for this week is Dionne Warwick and Friends: That’s what Friends are For. Probably giving away my age with this one!!
The chorus has a very powerful message for us all and rest assured that you can count on us at St Ninian’s. So please keep smiling and shining as these are equally important messages to hear! Please listen to song number 1 on the songlist below through Spotify.
I’d love to hear if you have any songs that we could add to our Monday list.
Hope you all had a nice, relaxing weekend with your family and managed to get out in the sunshine for a little while.
Today your teachers will be posting new activities for you to work on at home, please remember to take your time with these and don’t worry if you don’t manage to complete everything. If you need any help or support with tasks please get in touch with your teacher via the blog or TEAMs.
Many of the St Ninian’s staff team will be working at the St Ninian’s HUB today so we may not be as quick to respond but we will do our best.
At 11am today we are asking all of our families to log onto www.youtube.com/fischymusic for an online assembly which will lift your spirits. We use these songs at assembly and in our classrooms so the pupils will help you out at home! We will also be logging in at the HUB today.
We have also sent you all a virtual hug via Twitter @StNinianPS to say we are missing you all!
Good morning everyone. I hope you are ready for another brilliant week of fun learning from home. I have put a link below for your weekly grid of activities, as well as a link to a reading exercise (check out the reading section on the grid).
Good morning everyone. I hope you are ready for another brilliant week of fun learning from home. I have put a link below for your weekly grid of activities, as well as a link to a reading exercise (check out the reading section on the grid).
Please find attached below a link to the Educational Psychology Services resources around COVID-19 with useful resources and supports for schools and families.
I will finish off this week with the final day of spelling support before we move onto reading next week. I will revisit the spelling over the coming weeks and check in to see if there are further supports or advice you would like so please keep in touch and message using the comments section.
Our last set of mnemonics for this week are:
Only: Only Nice Little Yachts
Does: Do Open Eggs Safely
Beautiful: Bring Eddy And Uncle Teddy I‘ll Fix Us Lunch
People: Please Eat Only Perfect Little Eggs
Through: Ten Hens Ran Off Up Green Hills
Please look back at the spelling posts for a comprehensive guide to supporting your child with spelling and know I am here to support also. Today I have also attached a letter which will explain how to use the Fry’s words posted previously along with the words again for extra support. Remember you could also make up your own mnemonics for tricky words in the Fry’s pack!
Throughout the week I have been posting HWB support such as Sleep Scotland advice, fine motor activities and also mindfulness strategies. I will continue to update these supports and strategies over the coming weeks. Next week there will be a new fine motor skills activity on Monday followed by further Sleep Scotland resources to support routine and also other relaxation ideas as the week progresses.
Every Friday I will post a special message following the Thursday Clap for our NHS Heroes which is so inspirational and moving. I hope this will help to lift everyone’s spirits.
A good idea for the coming weeks is to keep A Little Book of Positives and in it record 3 things that made you happy each day. For me at the moment these are the little things like a hug from my children to the big things like the whole neighbourhood taking part in the Clap for our NHS heroes.
Stay safe everyone and take care of each other. Thinking of you all.
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