Hi everyone!
Here are the Extension Activities for Week 2. Have a look and see if there is anything you could try today! 🙂
Have a great day,
Mrs Brown
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Hi everyone!
Here are the Extension Activities for Week 2. Have a look and see if there is anything you could try today! 🙂
Have a great day,
Mrs Brown
Good morning everyone, I hope you had a good first day completing some of the activities from the home learning grid. I’ve included the attachment of the grid again here to give you easy access.
Home Learning Grid
How are you getting on with creating a dance routine to your favourite song? Feel free to post what song you chose in the comments. Yesterday I learned a dance routine to the song Cotton Eye Joe.
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
Both your reading and writing tasks this week are about The Gruffalo. Click on this link and it will take you to a video of The Gruffalo’s Child being read.
Have a chat with someone at home and compare the two stories by telling them what is similar about the two stories and what is different.
Numeracy
Primary 2 have learned to skip count in 2s. Below is a link to a 100 square and you can ‘splat’ numbers on it. Splat all the numbers in the 2 times table up to 20. For an extra challenge, can you go higher than 20? You can try this with the 10 or 5 times table too.
https://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html
Have a lovely day,
Mrs Currie
Good morning everyone,
I hope you have had a good first day with the new home learning grid. My family and I are making a rocket ship today, what activities will you do today? I’ve given you the attachment for the weekly grid again to make it easy for you to access.
P1 Week 2 Weekly Learning Grid
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.
Home Learning Grid
How are you getting on with learning the ‘y’ sound? Have you been practising writing this sound? Make sure you keep the tummy on the line and the tail underneath when writing this sound. It should be like a ‘u’ to begin with and include smooth curved lines, not pointy lines. This image shows you start and end points to help.
Literacy
Logon to the website Phonics Play using the login below:
Phonics Play – Username – march20
Password – home
The website will give you free access without needing to subscribe. Click on phase 2. Try the games ‘tricky words truck’ or ‘flashcard speed trial’.
Note for Parents – if your child says the correct word or sound click correct if not click incorrect. I recommend to select ‘pick individual graphemes (sounds)’ or ‘pick individual tricky words’ to select which sounds or words appear in the game.
Numeracy
To support your learning of skip counting in 2s and to get active try this link called The Dancing Twos. It’s a good way to learn how to count in 2s and to keep active at the same time!
I have included two attachments of sheets that you can complete (print them out if you can OR get someone to copy them into your jotter for you OR just tell someone at home what numbers are missing on the snake or caterpillar.
Enjoy and good luck!
Mrs Currie
Home Learning Grid
Good morning, P2! How are you getting on with your RE task? Have you learned something new about the Feast of Annunciation?
Here are the links to weekly activities posted yesterday:
Colour by Number multiplying by 2 and 5
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 look more at spelling. Ck or k. Watch this youtube video explanation about when to use ck or k.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmXI3cjCUA
In the video it talks about weak vowels that need protecting so these need ck, we usually describe the vowel as saying its short sound (like e in bed) and if there are two vowels together which do not need protecting they are making the long sound (like ee in sheep).
Are there any words that are not on the lists that you can think of that end with the k sound, can you work out if they need just k or ck.
Numeracy
I have set up a Sumdog Challenge for all of you. It focuses on the 2 and 10 times tables. It is open for you to complete from today. 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!
Here is a reminder of the times tables that you can use to help you to practise them:
Good Afternoon
For those children who are preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
I know unfortunately this has been cancelled and will hopefully be rescheduled for the new session but if you could all complete your Homework book which you have at home and have a little read over all the activities and points with an adult that would be great.
Any questions you may have about this please post in the comments box below and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Take care.
Mrs Caskie
Good Afternoon P3.
We hope you are having a good day. We know some of you have had some trouble seeing the grid today. We have posted the 4 sections below as separate documents. We hope that helps. Any problems please let us know in the comments section and we will try and help. It has also been sent to each child’s email.
Take care Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan.
Please find the P3 Home Learning Grid week 2 below.
Many thanks,
Mrs Docherty
Good morning everyone. Last week we focused on how to support your children with spelling at home. The focus this week will move to Reading where I will share tips to engage your child in reading and how to extend their reading and comprehension skills.
There are any ways to support reading at home especially with our younger pupils. A great site to support this and share ideas is Reading Rockets with lots of helpful hints about what to do around the house and with everyday routines. Some suggestions include:
When you read with your child a good way to help them share their understanding of what they have read is by using your Helping High 5 Retell Hand. Every finger on your hand has a different theme:
You can ask your child questions using these themes about what they have read. I have included 2 templates to help you support your child with retelling and to use as a cue to help them remember the key events.
Tomorrow we will look at specific questioning such as Understanding, Analysing and Evaluating using Blooms with a different theme each day.
As always please don’t hesitate to leave a comment if you have any questions or would like more resources or ideas to help you support your child.
Have a good Monday,
Mrs Docherty
Good morning everyone.
I hope you are all keeping well, looking after each other and staying safe. As equally important I hope you are able to make nice memories along the way too.
Over the weekend I spent my time thinking about how life has changed but also how much we need people and things to help us along the way on this new journey we are on at the minute. It is so important to stay positive and to be there for each other.
I have always found that Music is something that really helps and songs can send such a powerful message of hope and positivity. So with that in mind I started to listen to songs I hadn’t listened to in a long time and realised that it made me feel better. I have decided that on Mondays I will share a song that has a powerful message and one which will reinforce to you how much we are missing you all and thinking about you and your families daily.
It also made me think about how much we are all in this together and that our friendships and teamwork which are key themes for our school will get us through this. As a team and together.
So the song I have chosen for this week is Dionne Warwick and Friends: That’s what Friends are For. Probably giving away my age with this one!!
The chorus has a very powerful message for us all and rest assured that you can count on us at St Ninian’s. So please keep smiling and shining as these are equally important messages to hear! Please listen to song number 1 on the songlist below through Spotify.
I’d love to hear if you have any songs that we could add to our Monday list.
Mrs Docherty
Please know we are here for you and remember:
Good morning everyone,
Hope you all had a nice, relaxing weekend with your family and managed to get out in the sunshine for a little while.
Today your teachers will be posting new activities for you to work on at home, please remember to take your time with these and don’t worry if you don’t manage to complete everything. If you need any help or support with tasks please get in touch with your teacher via the blog or TEAMs.
Many of the St Ninian’s staff team will be working at the St Ninian’s HUB today so we may not be as quick to respond but we will do our best.
At 11am today we are asking all of our families to log onto www.youtube.com/fischymusic for an online assembly which will lift your spirits. We use these songs at assembly and in our classrooms so the pupils will help you out at home! We will also be logging in at the HUB today.
We have also sent you all a virtual hug via Twitter @StNinianPS to say we are missing you all! 
Mrs Roy and Mrs Smith