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Sleep Advice and support day 2

Yesterday I posted a blog about sleep and shared with you the parent’s presentation for School and Nursery children. As life is ever changing I know there will be routines you will want to continue so I am going to post some ideas to help support your child’s sleep routine during these times.

This will include sleep diaries, sleep routines and activities you could use to continue to support the health and wellbeing of everyone.

Please post any questions or comments in the box below.

02 Checklist for Sleepy Children

07 Helping Others to Sleep Well

Take care everyone,

Mrs Docherty

Daily update from Mrs Roy 25.3.20

Good morning everyone,

Hope you are well and had a good sleep last night.

We have some ideas for you to work on at home with your families in addition to your daily/weekly learning activities provided by your class teachers. I will add to this daily:

HWB:

Daily morning workout with Joe Wicks 9am

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

RE:

Daily Lent thoughts on Twitter @StNinianPS

Additional Numeracy and Maths activities on Twitter:

@WLmaths

@CountOnUsEd or https://www.countonus.org.uk/resources/

Literacy activities:

Enjoy an Audio story with David Walliams 11am

@BBCScotLearn 10.20am Draw along poetry event

Free audio books

STEM:

Free Minecraft Education

Parents can also create a free Twinkl account at https://www.twinkl.co.uk/search?term= where you can download resources to use at home.

Have a good day everyone!

Mrs Roy

Spelling Support Day 3

Good morning everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well. I will continue with our spelling advice and helpful hints today to help you support your child with spelling.

Yesterday I talked a little about mnemonics and so will continue with these today. This is a great way to support the spelling of tricky words, words which we can find difficult to spell. I have included examples of some of these below:

Some: Sit On My Elephant

Come: Climb On My Elephant

Said: Sam And I Dance

Because: Billy Eats Carrots And Usually Some Eggs

For the next set of words pretend you are at the dentist:

You: You Open Up

Our: Open Up Richard

Your: You Open Up Richard

More mnemonics to follow tomorrow.

Some other strategies for supporting spelling include:

Does it look right?: Write the word on a piece of paper and see if it looks right – try it another way

Rules: Is there a rule you know that could help?

Ex: Skip+ing = Skipping remember to double the last letter of there is a single short vowel before it when adding on your suffix

Lok – looked: remember it’s ed

Best guess: Have a go, underline your guess and then check it later

Tomorrow we will continue with mnemonics and move onto writing support also.

Mrs Docherty

PRIMARY 3 25TH MARCH Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

Good morning P3. Please find below some ideas/activities to support your weekly grid learning. Remember that you can record your learning in your jotter or on your OneNote profile.

Home Learning Grid

Core Grid Week 1 P3

How are you getting on with handwriting on your home learning grid? Use the comments section on the blog to let us know. This week we are working on – i, l, t, u, w and e. Use the Letter Join website to help you. Let us know if you need the login details. Keep thinking about starting points and letter size as you form your letters carefully. If you would like an extra challenge, visit the ‘easy words’ section on the Letter Join website and try joining your letters to write ill, it, lilt and tilt.

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

Literacy

Treasure Hunt Challenge – Have a look around the house and see if you can find an object starting with each letter of your name. Take a picture of your objects and upload to your OneNote profile or record in your jotter.

Numeracy

This week we are working on addition and you have an addition task to complete on your home learning grid. Try this pyramid challenge from Count on Us Education to improve your addition skills – it is great fun! Perhaps you could make your own pyramid challenge for a family member.

Remember to post a comment if you need any help. If you were not in school last week and therefore do not have your jotter you can collect this from school at a time that suits you.

Have a great day.

From Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

Daily check in

Good morning everyone,

We hope you are all well and managing to work from home. It has been busy here at St Ninian’s PS as we are opening for children whose parents are key workers and providing free school meals to those who need it.

It has been great to hear about how your learning is going at home via the blog, Teams and Twitter. We are all very proud of you, it is great to see how you are all showing resilience and supporting one another in your classes and families.

Remember to take time to have fun as a family and make special memories.

Mrs Smith and I will be posting daily and your teachers are all very busy responding to your emails and Teams files.

Have a good day everyone, and we will keep in contact!

Mrs Smith and Mrs Roy

HWB: Sound Sleep Advice

As a School and Nursery, Health and Wellbeing is at the core of everything we do and we have been learning all about healthy lifestyles and resilience. The importance of a good night’s sleep is part of this learning and so I have attached a copy of the Sleep Scotland presentation for Nursery and Primary parents with additional notes for you to have a read over. This advice and information helps to support good sleep routines which has a huge impact on our children’s daily lives.

Please contact me if you have questions on any of the Powerpoints or if you would like more information. I will upload different pieces of information and resources over the coming days and weeks to support bedtime routines, how to get a good night’s sleep and also checklists to support your child with this.

SS Parent Presentation with notes

SS Nursery Parent Presentation with notes

Mrs Docherty

P3 Home Learning Activities 24.3.20

Good Morning P3.

Hope you are all ok and managing to get onto your weekly tasks grid.

How are you getting on with your addition sums ? Remember you can use lots of different strategies to work out your answer. Skip counting, using doubles all the strategies that we use in number talks which you are all fantastic at.

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

Listen to this verb rab song and then try and make up your own.

Numeracy

https://gregtangmath.com/mathlimbo

Go onto the above link and play the numeracy game to practise your addition skills.

We are aware that there are some jotters still to be picked up from school so we have posted the documents below that are in the jotters until you can get the opportunity to come into school.

P3 Websites

Primary 3 Key Words

Pupil Profiles on Glow P3

Spelling-Challenge-Activity-

There is also some spelling support advice from Mrs Docherty. You will just need to scroll down to find these posts. Please remember any problems just leave a comment below.

Take care. Thinking of you all. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan.

Spelling Support Advice Day 2

Good morning,

Following on from yesterday’s spelling advice and link I am sharing further strategies to support your child with spelling.

Some ideas/strategies that are useful for children are below:

Syllables: Break the word into syllables. Most syllables will contain a vowel sound. Examples of this include: fish-ing, yes-ter-day, be-gin.

Say the word slowly and write the sounds you hear: c-a-t, sh-i-p, w-i-th

Listen/look for smaller words that you know are inside the word: yes– ter- day

Prefixes and Suffixes: Think if the word has a special beginning or ending that you know: hope-ful, hope-less, un-happy, dis-agree

Mnemonic: Is there a rhyme or phrase that could help you: The: Ten Happy Elephants. Put: Put Up Tents

I will add more mnemonics tomorrow for tricky words to support spelling.

Mrs Docherty

Spelling supports and tips for parents

As we embark on our home learning I have provided a useful link with tips on how to support your child with spelling. This gives you useful ideas and hints on how to develop spelling and encourage your child to have a go.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/blog/supporting-spelling-at-home/

If anyone would like a copy of the High Frequency words I have attached a copy of the first and second hundred with ideas on how to use them. These can be extended up to the ninth hundred words if required. Please just send a response and let me know if you require further sets.

fryfirst100set

frysecond100set

Mrs Docherty

Creative Activities to develop fine motor skills

Good morning everyone,

I will be posting some extra activities you could do with your younger children that are fun and will also develop their fine motor skills. If you do any of these activities then please send a response and let me know how you got on.

Using a colander or sieve thread pipe cleaners or spaghetti through the holes and see how quickly you can do this.
Thread spaghetti with beads or pasta shapes to make a pattern.
Using play doh follow this fiddly fingers workout:

Roll your play doh into a ball using your hands and not a surface.
Using one hand flatten your play doh into a pizza shape onto the table.
Create a funny face on your play doh using your fingers to make patterns and by pinching to create different textures. Send pictures of your creation.
Roll you play doh on the table turning it back into a ball then begin to roll it like a sausage and make it as long as you can.
Now fold your play doh over to make a snail shape.

You can also use this Play Doh disco link to have fun:

Have fun and let me know how you got on.

Mrs Docherty