Snow Day – St Ninian's Primary School

P6/7 Snow Day Tasks-Friday 2nd March

Good morning everyone! Another snow day beckons and we have to chat via technology today. Here are today’s tasks to keep you busy:

Dojo reflections/literacy: I would like you to log onto your dojo profiles and write your weekly reflection from home. I’d love to hear about what you have all been doing this week and about any of the snow day tasks you have tried.

Numeracy: As we have been working on multiplication and division I have set up a new Sumdog challenge (Snow Day Sums) for you all to work on. I will keep this open until next week for you.

Drama/Music/Art: As we were unable to rehearse this week then it will be a busy week next week with lots of opportunities to rehearse. Please make sure that you know your lines, songs and actions in preparation for next week. If you still have props to make or gather please bring these in on Monday.

Spelling: I have attached your words of the week, ask someone to assess you on them.c says s level 5 silent b

Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday, have fun!

Mrs Roy

P6/7 Snow Day Tasks – Thursday 1st March

Happy World Book day everyone – this year’s theme is ‘Share a story’, an ideal theme for a snow day when we are all at home. I’d love to hear who you shared a story with today.

I’ve also attached a Reflective Reading task for today linked to World Book Day. Task-Map-World-Book-Day-Article-and-Blog Task-Map-Text-For-World-Book-Day-Text-1-Blog Task-Map-Text-For-World-Book-Day-Text-2-Bookseller-Art

There is also a STEM challenge for the whole school to build a snow structure outdoors and then take a photo of you reading your book inside your structure. Mrs Purdie’s mum is winning the challenge so far! Check out Twitter and Facebook to see photos.

The creativity challenge is to paint an egg and make it look like your favourite book character. Post your efforts on your dojo profile or send them via email,Twitter or facebook.

In numeracy I have attached some themed challenges, try out the World Book Day and Fairtrade Challenges.KS2_Topical_Maths_Problems

Don’t forget to get out and about and do your daily mile in the snow, I’m just getting ready to go out and do mine, wish me luck as I’ll need to dig myself out first!!!

Mrs Roy

P2 Snow Day

P2-Learning-Adventure Term 3

If you click on the link above you will see an overview of the learning we have been covering so far this term.

Here are some optional activities you can try out because we cannot get into school,

Get active – use these two links to participate in physical activity indoors (it’s very cold to be outside all day!) whilst you learn; numbers to 100 or simple Spanish vocabulary

Numeracy – using concrete material (cubes/coins/counters/lego bricks etc) work on the following problem,

Mrs Purdie wants to give four teachers some extra things for their classrooms; three pencils, three rubbers, three rulers and three glue sticks. Using the list below can you work out if she has enough of each item and tell her how many more she needs to buy?

Pencils = 12 Rubbers = 11 Rulers = 9 Glue Sticks = 4

Numeracy – Don’t forget to log onto Sumdog to complete the challenge and extend your skill levels.

Literacy – World Book day – Choose your favourite book and create something great from it! Some examples, make a puppet of one of the characters; design a new front cover for it; write what might happen next if there was to be a follow up book; act out the story for your family.

Literacy – Can you make these snowy sentences amazing! (Use interesting openers, boost words, add a connective to extend the sentence, use adjectives to describe things more.)

The snow was falling from the sky.
The children made a snowman.
The car was stuck.

RE – Complete an act of kindness for someone. Some examples, help someone clear a path in the snow, put food and water out for the birds, say a prayer for those who are less fortunate than ourselves during this cold weather.

If you choose to complete any of these activities please use dojo, reply to this blog or just tell me about it in school.

Mrs Currie

Nursery News

Snow Week!!

Well what a wonderful surprise we got this week when the snow arrived! It feels like we have been waiting for a long time after all the discussions about snowy Christmas scenes and sledging – we definitely made the most of it this week! Mrs Beattie is thawing out this weekend in front of the fire!

Our week started with lots of chatter about winter as Mrs Mushet started to get ideas of what the children knew about winter and what they might like to learn about! Luke told her about storms – and this became all too real as the week progressed! Lots of the children spoke about snowmen – about building them at home, and wanting to build them in the nursery. We used a great smartboard game to build our own snowmen with lovely details added such as bow ties and reindeer antlers! Have a look in our floorbooks, around the smartboard and on the learning wall where these masterpieces have been displayed! ICT skills can be tricky to develop on our temperamental smartboard but what a great job the boys and girls are doing of learning to use our ‘pointer’ correctly – well done.

To warm us up we made soup on Thursday! Mrs Beattie and Mrs Hogg were hard at work with the boys and girls – chopping, slicing, mixing the vegetables and creating wonderful potato and leek soup! Roma and Lucy wrote a letter inviting Mrs Smith down to the nursery to taste their yummy soup – she was delighted and commented that it was delicious!

The creative area was awash with paintings in snowy colours – and the children even made snow dough! A super easy recipe of cornflour and water with added glitter made a crumbly, compactable dough for the boys and girls to play with! This was a very popular activity this week and one that would be easy to replicate at home – if a little bit messy!

We managed to bring some of the snow indoors into the water tray this week and use it to create homes and Play areas for our arctic animals! Next week if the snow reappears we are going to take our Mr and Mrs Potato head pieces out to build snow versions in the garden.

Thankfully we had one parent come along to the coffee morning on Wednesday where we discussed nursery snack and the results of our annual environmental health visit – a successful pass. We also had a few of the ‘big questions’ answered by parents who couldn’t attend. The team have collated the results of these questions – keep an eye out for it with your weekly update via email! Printed copies are also on display in the hallway.

Next week is a busy week for our nursery with the bedtime read relaunch for the children on Tuesday and a Burns Supper snack on Thursday – take home a copy of the Selkirk Grace to practice with your child in preparation for this celebration.

A reminder that our Ladies Night tickets are on sale this week – we have a minimum number to sell in order that the event can go ahead – round up your friends and family to come and have fun whilst raising funds for our children!

have a lovey weekend 🙂