Spelling Advice and Support Day 5

Good morning everyone,

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!

fryfirst100set

frysecond100set

Fry’s words cover letter

Have a lovely weekend with your family and stay safe.

Mrs Docherty

 

HWB 27.3.20: POsitive thought for the weekend

Good morning everyone,

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.

Mrs Docherty

Daily update – 27th March

Good morning everyone,

We have made it to Friday! What a busy week it has been for everyone and it’s great to see that most of you are now in the swing of learning from home via the blog or TEAMs.

Today we would like everyone (adults too) to join in with Funky Friday, 31 minutes of indoor or outdoor fun, dancing and play at 10.30am. This is always a huge success at St Ninian’s as we all come together at the end of the week.

Here is the playlist our pupils made for this but we would love to hear your musical requests too and we can add it to next week.

Have a great weekend everyone and we will speak to you all on Monday! Remember many of our staff team will be in school on Monday so may not be able to be so responsive on the blog or teams.

Also remember not to add your child’s name when posting on twitter to stay safe online.

Stay safe

Mrs Roy and Mrs Smith

P2 Mrs Currie Daily Update 27.03.20

Good morning and happy Friday.

We have got to the end of our first week of remote learning together.  I hope you’ve all been able to stay active even if you are indoors or in your garden.  I’ve been trying my best too.  Every day I start with a ten minute set of exercises, I found a really good tutorial online for this.  Have you tried Joe Wicks on youtube at 9am?  If not give it a go next week.

Home Learning Grid

Today is about self-assessing; how have you got on with your learning this week?

This week we will focus on two stars and a wish.

For this I would like you to choose two things you think you did really well with this week with your learning (these are the two stars) and write them down or tell someone at home.  And then decide on one thing you would like to improve (this is your wish).

You can use your wish as a goal for next week to see if you can improve on it.

Literacy

How did you get on with your writing?

Use a pink pen and green pen and read over your story again.  Using the success criteria that was on your weekly grid,

Your success criteria for this writing was to;

*Use capital letters and full stops in every sentence.

*Write at least four sentences.

*Try to use and/but/because to stretched one of your sentences.

Tickle pink by under lining or drawing a circle around each of the success criteria that you see in your story.  Ask someone at home to check over your work too, if you have any spelling errors they should choose three and underline them with the green for growth green pen.  Find out the correct spelling of the word and write the words out three times each.

For the reading section of your work where you had to write about a character from a book you can always use the comments section here to tell me which character you were writing about.

Numeracy

Please see the link below for the answers to your partitioning work.

Answer Sheets Week 1 Maths partitioning

Well done everyone this week.!

Next Monday morning I will post a new weekly grid for you.  Then on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I will send out some daily activities to support or challenge your learning.  On a Friday we will have time to reflect and self assess.

Mrs Currie

P2 Miss Lydon Daily Update 27.03.20

Home Learning Grid

Good morning! Well done for completing the week and thank you for those that have kept in touch. Feel free to let me know how you are getting on!

Mr Cummings posted the toilet roll keepie uppie challenge on the school Twitter page. Why not have a go? You  can post your attempt in the comments. Please remember not to leave your name in your comment so that we can stay safe online!

Here is a link to a drawing tutorial you might like to try:

Today is about self-assessing; how have you got on with your learning this week?

This week we will focus on two stars and a wish.

For this I would like you to choose two things you think you did really well with this week with your learning (these are the two stars) and write them down or tell someone at home.  And then decide on one thing you would like to improve (this is your wish).

You can use your wish as a goal for next week to see if you can improve on it.

Literacy

How did you get on with your writing?

Use a pink pen and green pen and read over your story again.  Using the success criteria that was on your weekly grid,

Your success criteria for this writing is to;

Use capital letters and full stops in every sentence.

Write at least four sentences.

Try to use and/but/because to stretched one of your sentences.

Tickle pink by under lining or drawing a circle around each of the success criteria that you see in your story.  Ask someone at home to check over your work too, if you have any spelling errors they should choose three and underline them with the green for growth green pen.  Find out the correct spelling of the word and write the words out three times each.

For the reading section of your work where you had to write about a character from a book you can always use the comments section here to tell me which character you were writing about.

Numeracy

Please see below for the answers to your partitioning work.

Spelling Support Day 4

I thought today I would continue with my mnemonics strategies as a way of helping to develop our understanding and spelling of tricky words. I hope you have ad success in using this strategy and would love to hear if you have thought of any yourself. If so please share them through the comments section below.

Today’s words are:

Could:      Could       Old      Umbrellas       Leak      Drips

Should:      Should       Old      Umbrellas       Leak      Drips

Would:      Would       Old      Umbrellas       Leak      Drips

Who:          We         Hang       On

Any:           Add     No        Yellow

Many:          Mum      Adds     No        Yellow

Remember I have also posted other mnemonics and strategies every day that might e helpful plus packs of the first 200 High Frequency Words to support you spelling and reading.

I’ll finish with my spelling strategies tomorrow and move onto writing/reading over the coming weeks. We will revisit all of the strategies together over the weeks ahead.

Please comment below if you have any questions, would like any support or have used the mnemonics and or made up your own and you would like to share these.

Take care everyone,

Mrs Docherty

Daily update – 26/3/20

Good morning everyone,

Hope you are all well and supporting one another at home. We can’t keep up with all the amazing learning that has been going on this week so far, fantastic effort everyone!

We have now collated a list of additional activities that can be used at anytime during this school closure. Please make sure that you are balancing learning and family time. Remember one of our school priorities this year has been about the importance of play, both indoors and outdoors so we are keen for everyone to continue this priority at home.

Additional online learning resources

Remember that we are all here for you during this difficult time, stay safe everyone, miss you all!

Mrs Roy and Mrs Smith xx

 

HWB Advice and Support using MIndfulness

Good morning I received an email this morning from the West Lothian Health and Wellbeing Hub and thought it was  a good one to share with you all. There is some lovely advice for parents to support your children during these times using a mindfulness approach on the Stop Breathe and Think Kids App.  You’ll need to download the app to access the links below.  Thank you to the West Lothian Health and Wellbeing Hub for sharing.

EMAIL BELOW :

With schools temporarily closed and many of us hunkering down at home with our kids, we thought it’d be helpful to feature a series of recommended mindfulness activities for the entire family.

Here are several ways you can practice mindfulness to bring more kindness and compassion into your home during these swirling times!

Just like the grown-ups in their lives, your children will likely experience some big emotions during this time. The activities recommended below are ideal for children ages 4 – 10, and can help address a specific emotion to work through these feelings — together.

These activities are available in the “For Kids” section of the All Ages app, with premium tracks now free for the next 60 days!

Feeling Anxious

  • For a lot of our team members, we’re feeling the anxiety rising, especially as parents.  We’ve had kids describe anxiety as a sense of butterflies in the stomach, or having a hard time falling asleep because the mind can’t stop thinking. Rather than get caught up in worried thoughts or feelings, kids can focus their attention on something they can do to address their emotions, like these activities here:

Feeling Restless

  • Being stuck at home, kids may have a lot of energy they just don’t know what to do with! Here are two ways for everyone to use their bodies and all of their senses to work off some energy:

Feeling Angry or Annoyed

  • If your child is feeling frustrated by someone or something, they might want to scream or yell or lose their cool. When big emotions come up, these activities can help kids cool down:

Feeling Gratitude & Kindness

  • Whenever we are having a hard time, there’s always something we can do, like remembering a few good things that make us feel happy and grateful or practicing kindness. Here are a few recommendations to focus on the good stuff:

Having a Hard Time Sleeping

  • With so much going on, it can be challenging to put kids down to bed or create an environment for them to get a truly restful slumber. These activities are especially great at the end of the day:

Remember, when practicing mindfulness with kids, it will almost never go as planned. That’s okay! Here are some tips that might help things go more smoothly:

Check in every day with yourself and your family.
Encourage your family at meal time or before bed to share how they are feeling mentally, physically, and emotionally. You can even use our app to check-in with how you’re feeling together.

Allow your kids to experience mindfulness their own way.
We recommend that you encourage your children to try meditation or mindful games, rather than insisting or forcing it.  Doing these activities with them is a great way to inspire participation. Whether your child is being uncooperative or distracted, or if they’re fully engaged and happy to be playing a mindful game, either way, allow them to experience their own journey.

Approach the activities with openness and curiosity.
While it might seem like there’s a “right” way to practice mindfulness, the good news is that there’s actually no way to get it wrong! The experience is different for everyone. Notice how you feel in the moment without necessarily trying to change anything or judge what you observe. You may feel more settled after an activity; you also may not. Both are normal and okay.

Learn to be with whatever’s happening.
With mindfulness, it can be tempting to “fix” a problem, yet we’re here to remind you to “let go” of any agendas or goals. It’s actually more supportive to learn how to be kind and compassionate with yourself – especially with whatever thoughts or feelings that come up – and the more you can accept whatever is happening wholeheartedly in moments of mindfulness, the more you can bring that approach to all experiences in your life.

As parents ourselves, we’re here alongside you in learning how to navigate all the ups and downs of being human.

We can do this,

The Stop, Breathe & Think team

P.S. We’re offering ongoing opportunities to connect LIVE via our Facebook channel—using this time at home as an opportunity to dive deeper into mindfulness practices to keep us healthy and at peace.

  • Every Tuesday at 12pm PDT/3pm EDT, we’ll host a live guided meditation led by your favorite narrators from our app.
  • Every Thursday at 10am PDT/1 pm EDT, we’ll host a live family mindfulness activity parents and children can do together.

P2 Mrs Currie Daily Update 26.03.20

Well done everyone who has logged onto Sumdog over the course of this week, it was not one of your weekly grid activities but I can see how hard some of you are working.  You’re all stars!

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with the Spanish 5 a Day Fitness programme? Try ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ in Spanish using this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovc3IG3pBBQ

The video repeats the song faster and faster throughout. Can you keep up?

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

Let’s use our creativity skills to create and verbally narrate an imaginative story. Your story must have a beginning, middle and an end. You can plan your story using drawings or notes. Use puppets, teddies, drawings or toys to narrate your story and you can even showcase your story to someone at home.

Numeracy

For further extension of partitioning try this game and you can decide which level you would like to do:

http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html

If you think you are doing really well with partitioning a number then start to explore how you can use partitioning to help you answer addition calculations like these; you can also make up some of your own.

  1. 26 + 43 =
  2. 44 + 52 =
  3. 65 + 32 =

 

P2 Miss Lydon Daily Update 26.03.20

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with the Spanish 5 a Day Fitness programme? Try ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ in Spanish using this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovc3IG3pBBQ

The video repeats the song faster and faster throughout. Can you keep up?

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

Let’s use our creativity skills to create and verbally narrate an imaginative story. Your story must have a beginning, middle and an end. You can plan your story using drawings or notes. Use puppets, teddies, drawings or toys to narrate your story and you can even showcase your story to someone at home.

Numeracy

For further extension of partitioning try this game and you can decide which level you would like to do:

http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html

If you think you are doing really well with partitioning a number then start to explore how you can use partitioning to help you answer addition calculations like these; you can also make up some of your own.

  1. 26 + 43 =
  2. 44 + 52 =
  3. 65 + 32 =

 

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