Writing support and ideas: Day 3 13.5.20

For our final day of writing support I would like to share further advice and strategies to support you when supporting your child.  Writing is an important form of communication and one which plays an important part in your child’s life.

Today’s final tips will be simple ways you can further encourage writing at home using everyday routines.

 

  1. Send a message

As parents you can leave messages for your child around the house, on their pillow, in their lunchbox or on a chalkboard. Encourage your child to write a response. The tooth fairy could even leave a message!!  That  happened in my house and caused great excitement leading to my child writing a response which I have kept for years!

 

  1. Keep a Year in Review book:

A lovely idea is to keep a diary of things you have done as a family throughout the year. Everyone can add to this and it will encourage your child to write in it too. Pictures and photographs could also be added to make it all come to life.

 

  1. Make a menu

Have your child create a menu/recipe for your family dinner. They could use the ingredients to help with spelling and vocabulary.

 

  1. Copy

Think of your child’s favourite rhyme or song and get them to copy some of the lyrics.

 

  1. Saying Thank You

Get your child to write thank you notes to friends and relatives.

On that note thank you for sharing in our blog posts and literacy supports and please do not hesitate to contact me for further ideas, supports or links when supporting your child with aspects of their literacy and language skills.

Have a great day everyone,

Mrs Docherty

Nursery 12.5.20 Right of the Week: Article 7

Good morning everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well and staying safe. We are missing you all dearly and hope you are all  safe, happy and adjusting to the new normal.

As we are a Rights Respecting School and Nursery we are continuing to share our children’s rights with  them during the lockdown.

To stay connected we will post a weekly Blog about Children’s Rights with some nice activities for you to share with your child.

 

Our Children’s Rights are to the forefront in our Nursery and could be observed daily in the Nursery environment. We focus on The Right to Play, The Right to Belong and The Right to an Identity to name but a few. These are evident in the language we use with our children, on the displays around our Nursery and in all of the learning experiences on offer.

 

As part of our Right’s Respecting journey we will be sharing a Right of the Week with you to continue to keep this to the forefront of our values, ethos and your child’s learning.

 

The Right of the Week for this week is Article 7: You have the right to a name and nationality.

 Please click on the link below to access your activities.

 

RRS ARticle of the Week Nursery 11.05.20

Please enjoy these activities and please also share them with us on your child’s Online Learning Journal or by sending a photograph to the school website:

wlstninians-ps@westlothian.org.uk

 

Have a great week everyone, take care and stay safe,

 

The Nursery Team

P3. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan. Daily Update 12/5/20.

Good Morning Primary 3.

Hope you are all well and managing to get onto your learning grid for this week. We have posted the link again for easy access.

Core Grid Week 6 P3

We have also posted the link to the Art challenge Mrs Kerr set last week in case you didn’t get a chance to complete it as it is on again for this week.

Storm Challenge (1)

Another challenge this week is Guess Who ? You have to try and work out which member of the St Ninian’s team you recognise from their picture when they were younger! Very exciting.

You can put your answers on the sheet posted below. Good Luck.

SCHOOL & NURSERY GUESS WHO

Literacy

How are you getting on with your comic strip of your favourite fairy tale? Remember your capital letters, full stops and exciting adjectives. Here is another activity you can try. Click on the link below to make a ladybird, then write a set of instructions on how you did it.

Numeracy

We are looking at addition of two digit numbers this week so there is a game on the link below to practise,  it starts with numbers to 20  then progresses onto numbers to 100. There is also a game you can play , the instructions are below too.

http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/4021

Basketball Facts Game

Remember if you have any questions or problems please ask in the comments section below or email the school.

Have a fantastic day.

Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan.

 

P2 MISS LYDON DAILY UPDATE 12.05.20

Have you managed to enjoy relaxing outdoors? I have been enjoying going on walks and there are baby coots in the pond at Murieston trail. I thought I’d share a picture I took of them with you all. I think there are five babies altogether but I only managed to get three in my photo.

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with playing Sports Charades? It can be tricky and very funny to act out doing sports.

Please see your learning files below:

Learning Grid Week 6

Further Spelling Activity Suggestions

Escape from Black Mountain WB 11.05

RRS Article of the Week P2 11.05.20

Literacy

Here is a talking task.  Look at the picture below and discuss the questions:

  1. Who is in the picture?
  2. Where are the people in the picture?
  3. Think of three adjectives to describe this picture e.g. colourful

Numeracy

Here is a game all about working out what objects are heavier and lighter:

http://www.lcfclubs.com/lcf-maths/flash04/z04-games/z04-heavier-and-lighter.asp

Miss Lydon

Mrs Davenport’s Daily Update: 12.5.20

Good morning,

I hope you are all getting on well with the weekly grid this week. If you are having any difficulty with any of the home learning activities please remember to ask your question in the comments section below.

There is a little extra challenge included for this week – Guess Who?

 

Use this template to write down your predictions:

SCHOOL & NURSERY GUESS WHO

Home Learning Grid

P1-Learning-Grid-11th-May

I had a go at writing the sentences with the ‘qu’ sound yesterday. Can you have a look to see how I got on? Did I make any mistakes?

  1. The quen has a hat
  2. The dukc went qack.
  3. the train is Quick.

Literacy

Use the link below to access a pre-recorded ‘BBC Authors Live’ with Emily MacKenzie. Emily MacKenzie is an author and an illustrator. Can you remember what an author does and what an illustrator does? In the video Emily reads a book she wrote and illustrated called ‘There’s Broccoli in My Ice Cream’. Have something to draw on reading as you can draw along at home too!

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors-live-on-demand/emily-mackenzie

 

Numeracy

I have set a sumdog challenge for you called ‘Time Challenge’. This challenge will be about the hands of the clock, o’clock and halves and quarters of shapes. The challenge begins at 9am today and finishes at 3pm on Friday.

Good luck!

 

 

P1: Mrs Currie’s P1 Daily Update: 12.5.20

Good morning,

It is Mrs Docherty posting your learning today. Mrs Currie will be back tomorrow. I hope you are all getting on well with the weekly grid this week. If you are having any difficulty with any of the home learning activities please remember to ask your question in the comments section below.

There is a little extra challenge included for this week – Guess Who?

 

Use this template to write down your predictions:

SCHOOL & NURSERY GUESS WHO

Home Learning Grid

P1-Learning-Grid-11th-May

I had a go at writing the sentences with the ‘qu’ sound yesterday. Can you have a look to see how I got on? Did I make any mistakes?

  1. The quen has a hat
  2. The dukc went qack.
  3. the train is Quick.

Literacy

Use the link below to access a pre-recorded ‘BBC Authors Live’ with Emily MacKenzie. Emily MacKenzie is an author and an illustrator. Can you remember what an author does and what an illustrator does? In the video Emily reads a book she wrote and illustrated called ‘There’s Broccoli in My Ice Cream’. Have something to draw on reading as you can draw along at home too!

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors-live-on-demand/emily-mackenzie

 

Numeracy

I have set a sumdog challenge for you called ‘Time Challenge’. This challenge will be about the hands of the clock, o’clock and halves and quarters of shapes. The challenge begins at 9am today and finishes at 3pm on Friday.

Good luck!

 

Have a great day,

Mrs Docherty

 

P2: Mrs Currie’s P2 Daily Update 12.5.20

Good morning everyone,

It is Mrs Docherty here today posting your blog.  Mrs Currie will be back tomorrow.  Please find in this blog the links to this week’s weekly grid and spelling activities sheet.

P2 Learning-Grid-Week-6 (1)

More Spelling Activity Suggestions

Please remember if you have any questions or want to share any learning please use the comment section below.

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with playing Sports Charades? It can be tricky and very funny to act out doing sports.

Literacy

Here is a talking task.  Look at the picture below and discuss the questions:

  1. Who is in the picture?
  2. Where are the people in the picture?
  3. Think of three adjectives to describe this picture e.g. colourful

Numeracy

Here is a game all about working out what objects are heavier and lighter:

http://www.lcfclubs.com/lcf-maths/flash04/z04-games/z04-heavier-and-lighter.asp

Have a lovely day,

Mrs Docherty

Primary 3. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan. Week 6. Weekly Grid 11.5.20.

Good Morning Primary 3.

Hope you are all well and enjoying some of the sunshine we have had over the past few days.

Here are all your learning activities for this week.

Activity Instructions – Virtual Sports Day (1)

P3 Maths Week 6 Activity 1

P3 Maths Week 6 Activity 2

P3 Week 6 Core Grid

RRS Article of the Week P1-3 11.05.20

 

Remember if you are having any problems or have any questions please ask in the comment box below or email the school.

In your grid this week Mr Cumming has set a virtual Sports Day challenge . Let us know how you get on with this. We are loving seeing all your great work on your one note profiles. Keep posting!

Mrs Kerr has also extended the Art activity for another week so you can still complete this and send it to kathryn.kerr@westlothian .org.uk .

Have a great day.

 

Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan.

P2 Mrs Currie Weekly Grid 11.05.20

Good morning P2

Please find below the attachment for this week.

Learning-Grid-Week-6 (1)

Further Spelling Activity Suggestions

For your reading this week we are trying out the bug club on the Pearson Active Learn Primary website. Please follow these instructions below along with your login details that you received last week.

Active Learn Primary Login Information

If you have been allocated the text “Escape From Black Mountain” please see the worksheet below.

Escape from Black Mountain Reading Activities WB 11.05

RRS Article of the Week P2 11.05.20

Activity Instructions – Virtual Sports Day

Have a lovely day,

Mrs Currie

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