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MRS DOCHERTY SUPPORTING YOU TO LOOK AFTER YOU AND YOURS: 22.4.20

Following on from yesterday’s advice on how to look after each other during Lockdown I’ll keep providing further supports from the Glasgow Times article which I found so informative. Today’s focus is

Acknowledgement:

Children can find it difficult to recognise or share what their feelings are. It is important to talk about these with your child and help them to identify what they may be feeling and why. When doing this it is important to get your child to name their feelings. You can help with this by identifying the feeling for them if required. This can be done by saying: I can see you are feeling….

When you have helped them to identify their feeling you can work together to develop ways to make them feel better if their feeling is one of fear, or worry or anxiousness.

Maybe as a family you are finding calmness at this time and that is important to recognise and spread too.

Some questions suggested that you could ask your child included:

What makes you feel calm?

How can you continue to keep in touch with friends and family at the moment?

Can you think of anything fun we can do at home today?

What is something you could you do for someone else today?

What have you enjoyed about today?

What made you feel proud today?

I will further support this on our positive thought for the week on Friday and also on Thursday’s mindfulness self-regulation focus.

Have a great day,

Mrs Docherty

P2 Mrs Currie Daily Post 22.04.20

Good morning, P2!

What did you do yesterday evening? In the early evening I was outside in the garden planting some seeds. Have you ever planted seeds before. I’m growing a selection of wild flowers. I’ll keep you informed of their progress over the coming weeks.

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on using your feet as a unit of measurement? Can you estimate/ guess one room in your house that is bigger and one that is smaller than your room? See if you were right by using your feet to measure those rooms. Here are the links needed for this week’s learning for quick access:

Learning Grid Week 3

Fortune Teller

Spelling Activity Suggestions

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

Literacy

Here is a link to a story that is all about rhyming words. Can you remember what rhyming words are? Click the link below to watch the short video explanation on rhyming words and then read the story:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9vbkqt/articles/z62wgwx

Numeracy

Try this fun game focused on division. You have to divide all of the bones equally between all of the puppies.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/doggyDivision/index.html

If you want to play more games to help you with division, take a look at the website suggestions list and find some more games!

Mrs Currie

P2 MISS LYDON DAILY UPDATE 22.04.20

Home Learning Grid

Good morning, P2! How are you getting on using your feet as a unit of measurement? Can you estimate/ guess one room in your house that is bigger and one that is smaller than your room? See if you were right by using your feet to measure those rooms. Here are the links needed for this week’s learning for quick access:

Learning Grid Week 3

Fortune Teller

Spelling Activity Suggestions

Literacy

Here is a link to a story that is all about rhyming words. Can you remember what rhyming words are? Click the link below to watch the short video explanation on rhyming words and then read the story:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9vbkqt/articles/z62wgwx

Numeracy

Try this fun game focused on division. You have to divide all of the bones equally between all of the puppies.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/doggyDivision/index.html

If you want to play more games to help you with division, take a look at the website suggestions list and find some more games!

Miss Lydon

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

P2 MISS LYDON DAILY UPDATE 21.04.20

Good morning! I hope your first week back after the holidays is going well.

Learning Grid Week 3

Fortune Teller

Spelling Activity Suggestions

Here are some additional and support activities to extend your grid learning.

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with Number Talks? Can you name any of the strategies you have used to work them out? Here are some ideas:

Counting in ones
Five wise (seeing a pattern of five) and counting on
Counting in twos

Here is a link you can use to create your own Number Talks dice pattern challenge:

https://mathsbot.com/manipulatives/dice

Literacy

This is our first week back after Easter. I loved the treasure hunt challenge from one of our previous blog posts.

Try and find something in your house that begins with each of the letters in Easter, such as eggs, armchair etc.

You could take a picture of your objects and send to the school email account or draw pictures and label them in your jotter.

Numeracy

I have set up a Sumdog Challenge for all of you. It focuses on number words up to 20, such as two, fourteen etc. It is open for you to complete from today and closes at 3pm on Thursday.

Your log in details are in your home learning bags and your jotters that you received before the school closed. You have until Friday to complete it. Good luck!

Miss Lydon

P2 Mrs Currie Daily Update 21.04.20

Good morning everyone! I hope yesterday went well for your learning. I have included the learning grid again for you here.

Learning Grid Week 3

Fortune Teller

Spelling Activity Suggestions

Here are some additional and support activities to extend your grid learning.

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with Number Talks? Can you name any of the strategies you have used to work them out? Here are some ideas:

Counting in ones
Five wise (seeing a pattern of five) and counting on
Counting in twos

Here is a link you can use to create your own Number Talks dice pattern challenge:

https://mathsbot.com/manipulatives/dice

Literacy

This is our first week back after Easter. I loved the treasure hunt challenge from one of our previous blog posts.

Try and find something in your house that begins with each of the letters in Easter, such as eggs, armchair etc.

You could take a picture of your objects and send to the school email account or draw pictures and label them in your jotter.

Numeracy

I have set up a Sumdog Challenge for all of you. It focuses on number words up to 20, such as two, fourteen etc. It is open for you to complete from today and closes at 3pm on Thursday.

Your log in details are in your home learning bags and your jotters that you received before the school closed. You have until Friday to complete it. Good luck!

Mrs Currie

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