Primary 1 – Page 9 – St Ninian's Primary School

As part of our IDL work we have been looking at differences and similarities between ourselves and our friends/family. Here is a table of Mrs Currie and Mrs Davenport’s similarities and differences.

Similarities

Differences

· We both work at St Ninian’s PS

· We both like chocolate cake

· We both drive cars

· We both love teaching Primary 1

· Mrs Davenport has two dogs, Mrs Currie has no dogs

· Mrs Currie likes to wear high heeled shoes, Mrs Davenport prefers flat shoes

· Mrs Davenport likes to go on rollercoasters, Mrs Currie DOES NOT!

Numeracy

You have been making equal groups. Have a look at the following discussion cards, which cards show equal groups? Why?

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.

Have a lovely day,

Mrs Currie

P1 Mrs Davenport 7.5.20

Learning Grid

In our Health and Wellbeing part of the grid we are looking at the journey some foods make to get onto our plate to eat.

You have been asked to draw the process that carrots take to get to our dinner plate.

Here is a video link to help you. It explains the journey the carrot makes.

Literacy

Similarities

Differences

· We both work at St Ninian’s PS

· We both like chocolate cake

· We both drive cars

· We both love teaching Primary 1

· Mrs Davenport has two dogs, Mrs Currie has no dogs

· Mrs Currie likes to wear high heeled shoes, Mrs Davenport prefers flat shoes

· Mrs Davenport likes to go on rollercoasters, Mrs Currie DOES NOT!

Numeracy

You have been making equal groups. Have a look at the following discussion cards, which cards show equal groups? Why?

Have a lovely day,

Mrs Davenport

Mrs Docherty: Early Years Writing Support Day 2 7.5.20

Following on from yesterday’s support we will continue with how to support your child with writing in the early years. There are many processes taking place when your child is writing from thinking of ideas, getting the vocabulary and grammar and the transferring it onto paper, never mind the handwriting aspect too. Through this whole process your child is able to share what they have learned and what they know.

For today we will look at a few more ideas to help you to support your child with how to develop their writing skills and foster a love of writing.

Help them to get started

Children can often find it difficult to get started and a blank page may be overwhelming for them. This is where you can help. You could give them the first few sentences or even words to help formulate ideas and thoughts for their writing. A good way to do this is to start with a question and then create a mind map or create a bank of words form their answer to the question. This could be: What did you see on your walk today? Who is the character in your story? Where is your story taking place? Allow your child to then free write using their thoughts.

Connect their interests

Think about your child’s interests. What is their favourite story, who is their favourite character, what is their favourite activity or toy? Whatever their interests are connect them to their writing.

Create Story Prompts

A fun way to do this is to cut out pictures from magazines with characters and settings on them. I have included a link for the story We’re going on a Bear Hunt with visuals for setting and characters that could support your child to write the story and sequence it.

Bear-Hunt-Stick-Puppets_ver_1

Bear-Hunt-Story-Sequencing

These are a few more ideas to help you when supporting your child with writing and we will conclude with our final ideas on Tuesday. As always please get in touch if you have any questions or would like more ideas/resources for writing

Take care everyone,

Mrs Docherty

Welcome back after the long weekend!

Welcome back after a few days off!

I hope you have all had a lovely Bank Holiday weekend at home with your families. I enjoyed going for walks and doing some planting in my garden. I even met some St Ninian’s families whilst I was out walking, it was so good to chat and hear how you were getting on.

Last week our teachers were contacting families via phonecall and they were all so pleased to get this opportunity for a quick chat and update on how you were all getting on. If they couldn’t get you they left a message or we sent a groupcall just to check in and to offer our support. Please contact myself or Mrs Smith if there is anything we can support you with via email or at St Ninian’s on a Monday when we are working in the HUB school.

This is a short week of learning for you and your teachers will post your learning grids online. Last week I sent out lots of virtual Golden Tickets and I am looking forward to seeing who the teachers will nominate this week.

As May is the month of Mary, Fr Kenneth has kindly recorded a video message for the schools of the Livingston & East Calder Parishes. It would be lovely if you could dedicate some time to this during your week for prayer and reflection, https://youtu.be/bK4Vnz46ldI

West Lothian are releasing challenges every Monday named ‘INspired’, these are challenges designed to challenge your skills, knowledge and understanding. It would be great if some of our children and families could give these a go. You can access the challenges via the blog https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/stayinspired/ or via Twitter @StayINspiredWL.

As a staff team we are always keen to gather your views so with this mind we have prepared a short survey about the continuation of learning during this school closure which we would appreciate you taking the time to complete. It can be accessed with this link and we have also sent it out via groupcall https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuBppqbcNrLJgsDJUrQoNQVhmpOqtObtFXaczyMQaxXrPDCg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Have a great week and stay safe!

Mrs Roy

P1 Mrs Davenport Weekly Grid

I hope you’ve had a relaxing weekend.

Please find below the grid for this short week.

P1 Learning Grid 6th May 2020

These are the numeracy attachments.

2 Equal Groups Ice Cream Cones

3 Equal Groups Ice Cream Cones

On the Active Learn Resource everyone has been allocated a new book this week and below are the guided reading activities/question, choose the one that matches your book title.

In the Garden

Look Outside

Look Up, Look Down

Strawberries at School

Mrs Conway has provided us with this week’s Rights Respecting school PDF to discuss at and some suggested activities. It is all about having the right to express your views and opinions.

RRS Article of the Week P1-3 06.05.20

If you complete any of the activities Mrs Conway has provided an email address for you to send your work to her.

Have a lovely day

Mrs Davenport

P1 Mrs Currie Daily Update 6.05.20

I hope you’ve had a relaxing weekend.

Please find below the grid for this short week.

P1 Learning Grid 6th May 2020

These are the numeracy attachments.

2 Equal Groups Ice Cream Cones

3 Equal Groups Ice Cream Cones

On the Active Learn Resource everyone has been allocated a new book this week and below are the guided reading activities/question, choose the one that matches your book title.

In the Garden

Look Outside

Look Up, Look Down

Strawberries at School

Mrs Conway has provided us with this week’s Rights Respecting school PDF to discuss at and some suggested activities. It is all about having the right to express your views and opinions.

RRS Article of the Week P1-3 06.05.20

If you complete any of the activities MrsConway has provided an email address for you to send your work to her.

Have a lovely day

Mrs Currie

Mrs Docherty: Early Years Writing Support Day 1 6.5.20

This week we will focus on another key area of Literacy which will be writing. Throughout the week we will look at fun ways for you to support your child with writing which will build upon all of the previous advice on our other literacy skills: reading and spelling.

Writing is a great way for your child to communicate. We will focus on ways you can make writing exciting from fun activities to daily reading and writing sessions. This will help you to continue to build your child’s skills through our distant learning. Here are some writing tips for home.

Reading

One of the first ways to support writing is through reading. Reading helps to increase your child’s vocabulary and this in turn supports your child in using these words in their writing. Try reading together every day with your younger children.

Materials

Try different materials, fun pens and pretty paper can be motivational.

Space

Just like your reading space create a quiet space for writing and provide some stimulus: this could be a story you have read, a favourite toy, or an experience you have had ex your walk in the woods.

Purpose

You could encourage your child to write for a variety of purposes such as a shopping list, a menu for your evening meal, or even send a letter to someone.

Technology

Technology can be used to support writing. Get your child to send an email or produce a story using word.

I have added a few resources to help stimulate writing through games below. You could create a pirate or fairy adventure or even create your own monster and describe it!! Have fun.

Fairytale-Story-Telling-Prompt_ver_2 (1)

monster-surprise-roll-and-draw-a-monster-activity Pirate-Story-

Writing-Activity_ver_4 (1)

These are a few ideas to help you get started when supporting your child with writing and we will continue with more ideas tomorrow. Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like more ideas/resources for writing.

Have a lovely day,

Mrs Docherty

P1 Mrs Currie Daily Update Friday 01.04.20

Happy Friday everyone!

Please remember that there will be no blog on Monday and Tuesday next week as these would be days that we would not have been in school. So check back in on Wednesday and I will have a short version of our learning grid for you to work on over the three days.

Self-assessment strategy today is traffic light system.

Literacy

Well done to everyone who logged onto our new reading resource and had a go at reading the book allocated to them and completing the activities. Well done. Next week you will have a new book allocated to you, so check it out on Wednesday.

For word boost you had these four words, did you work out what they mean?

announce – to make a statement about something and give information

expect – waiting for something you know will happen

eager – very enthusiastic about something

a task – a job you have been given to complete

Numeracy

How did you get on with your time worksheet?

IDL

Did you get a chance to complete the water activity this week?

If you put water into the freezer it turns to ice.

If you boil water in a kettle some of it turns to steam.

Water is a liquid. Ice is a solid. Steam is a gas.

Have a lovely weekend.

It was lovely to speak to some of you on the phone this week, for those who had a voicemail service I left a message if I wasn’t able to get through to you.

Rest and relax over the long weekend

Mrs Currie

P1 Mrs Davenport Friday 1.5.20

Happy Friday everyone!

Self-assessment strategy today is traffic light system.

Literacy

For word boost you had these four words, did you work out what they mean?

announce – to make a statement about something and give information

expect – waiting for something you know will happen

eager – very enthusiastic about something

a task – a job you have been given to complete

Numeracy

How did you get on with your time worksheet?

IDL

Did you get a chance to complete the water activity this week?

If you put water into the freezer it turns to ice.

If you boil water in a kettle some of it turns to steam.

Water is a liquid. Ice is a solid. Steam is a gas.

Have a lovely weekend.

It was lovely to speak to some of you on the phone this week, for those who had a voicemail service I left a message if I wasn’t able to get through to you.

Mrs Davenport

NHS Speech and Language Advice 30.4.20

Today’s focus from the NHS Speech and Language Facebook page is focussing on Listening and Talking. Listening and attention skills are one of the key parts of our overall Literacy and Language areas of CfE. They are important for your child to help with their social skills, understanding of language, following instructions, learning to communicate, developing speech sounds and all areas of their learning.

The website below shares some great ideas to help support your child with listening and talking and is definitely worth a look.

www.lets-talk.scot.nhs.uk

Please see below ideas suggestions for you to use with your child to help support them with their speech sounds:

Play musical bumps or statues. These are also examples of games we play in Nursery and School.
Get your child to spot the mistake. You could use their favourite song or nursery Rhyme and make a deliberate mistake. See can your child recognise the mistake you have made or the word you have left out.
Play games where your child must wait for you to say go before they take part. An example is building a tower of bricks where your child cannot knock it down until you say Go!
Use a noisy toy and get your child to follow the noise by hiding the toy or object.

As always have a go and try them out. If you have any other ideas that you use at home please share these also.

Have a great day everyone,

Mrs Docherty