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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

P3. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan. Daily Update 21.4.20

Good Morning P3. Hope you are all ok and have managed to access the weekly grid. I have posted it below for easy access.

Core Grid Week 3 P3

Here are some additional tasks for you to do today.

Maths

We are looking at shape this week. Click on the links below to play shape games. Have fun.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-shape-and-weight.html#MatchingPairs3Dshape

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/shapes_shoot.htm

In the above game you can play basic and 3 D shapes but there are some challenge games too.

Literacy

When out for your daily walk use your 5 senses to write down on a piece of paper one or two things that you could put into a Sense Poem. You can then write this poem either in your jotter or one note. You can then illustrate your poem. The layout could be as below.

I see

I hear

I touch

I taste

I smell

R.E.

We are learning about the events of Easter Sunday.

Watch the above clip and focus on the story of the empty tomb. Learn that when we die we have eternal life in Heaven with God.

Can you create your own art picture showing the empty tomb?

For a challenge, can you find a way to make the stone roll from your picture?

Here is one example for an idea.

Have a lovely day. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan.

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

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

Welcome Back P3. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan. Week 3 Learning Grid. 20/4/20.

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

P3 3D Shape Week 3

P3 2D Shape Properties Week 3

Core Grid Week 3 P3

Please find above your weekly grid with learning activities for you to complete. There are also two attachments for your Maths Activity. The log in details for Oxford Owl website for your Literacy task are on the grid.

Remember to check into the blog every day for extra daily activities.

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

We love to see your work on your one note profiles and we know you are working so hard. Keep up the good work.

Have a good day and hope you get a chance to enjoy more of the lovely sunshine.

Take care.

Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan.

P3 Easter Holidays

Hello Primary 3,

We hope that you have enjoyed this week’s learning. It has been lovely to see all of your work on your profiles.

The next two weeks are the Easter holidays and we have attached some extra activities for you to do over the break if you wish. The Mini Vinnies Committee are also running a lockdown appeal to make people smile.

Easter Holiday Activities

Mini Vinnies Lockdown Appeal

A final thank you for all your hard work, adults and children, not only at school over this term but at home for the last couple of weeks. We really appreciate your support and are missing you all. We hope you have a fun, safe and relaxing Easter holiday at home.

From Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

Positive thought for the week 3.4.20

Good morning everyone. Well done on another successful week of learning and making memories in our new normal routines and with our distance learning. Life has certainly changed over the past few weeks and as we adjust to this new normal we hope that it will be for a short period safe in the knowledge that we will weather this together.

On that note my positive thought going into the weekend is:

As we all adjust to this new way of life it is important that we try to find alternative ways to make memories and make the most of all the wonderful things we have. It’s important to make memories that will last a lifetime, laugh at the smallest of things, dance to the music and care for each other holding close in our hearts our loved ones.

One of the most uplifting things I heard this week was a Scottish grandma’s advice to her grandchildren. It brought both a tear and a great big smile to me all at once. Her inspirational message reminds her family that it’s finding a new way to dance in the rain that will get us all through this to the warmth of the sun and each other. She even made National News and GMB.

You are all doing amazing things from home and we appreciate all you are doing and the contact you are keeping with us. It means a lot.

I’ll end my post with a beautiful poem Mrs Scott shared with me and the staff team called At Home. Please read it as it is truly magical and heart warming and sums up a beautiful positive message of how well you are all doing. Thank you Mrs Scott.

https://www.freechildrenstories.com/at-home

Have a lovely weekend and a wonderful Easter holiday as you switch off and spend time together with your loved ones whether that is in your home or via the phone. You truly deserve a magical time. Keep smiling and dancing!

Happy Easter everyone,

Mrs Docherty