Ms Elder and Jed have a break in the snow!

I hope you all manage to have some time to cosy up with your reading books and read to someone at home or maybe even your dog!

Thank you for all of the photos and videos dropping into my email. You are all making me want to get out and have fun in the snow. Keep them coming, stay safe and keep warm

Thank you for sharing your pictures with me so far! It’s so nice to see you out enjoying the snow with your family!

You can email me your snowy day photos at:

patricia.whyte@westlothian.org.uk

Can’t wait to see them!!! 

Hi everyone in Glee CLub.
You can keep yourself warm today by practicing our routine. We are missing a run through today so you need to keep going over our songs and dance moves. You have all been working so hard and we need to keep this up in order to be ready for the competition next Thursday!

Here are the links to our songs:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=take+on+the+world+karaoke&rlz=1C1GGRV_enGB749GB749&oq=Take+on+the+World+Ka&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.8919j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJXW27K79T4

Remember Sumdog! https://www.sumdog.com/
You can all have fun and challenge yourself to improve your maths, reading and writing skills using this fun site. You can play against friends from your class or from children around the world!! Can you create a Users Manual? Imagine that an Alien has arrived at Toronto PS and needs to learn how to use Sumdog. Sadly the Alien can only read – they can’t hear you!? Have a go.

Good morning P1,

Here are a list of some activities you can be busy with today. Hope you have a fantastic snow day!

Writing Activities

• Create a snowman then write instructions about how you made it. Remember to draw a picture of the snowman or take a picture and send it to me via the school Twitter account
• Create a checklist of thing you would like to do today and tick it off when it has been completed
• Alphabet/sound hunt
  Write down items you can find in your house or see outside that start with each letter in the alphabet or different sounds which you have covered

Maths Activities

• Count how many snowballs you can make
• Practise writing numbers in the snow. What is the biggest number to can write up to?
• Practise saying what the number before and after is e.g. _____ 20 _____, _____ 135 _____
• Practise adding, subtracting, counting and recognising numbers through playing the online games- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
• Shape hunt
  Find 2D shapes and 3D shapes in your house or outside and tell an adult their names

Phonics

• Use the sound cards in your homework jotters (or create new ones) to create words
• Practise recognising letters and sounding out words-
  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
• Make a list of words that rhyme e.g. cat and hat, ball and tall etc. You can write them in the snow if you want
• Rhyming words game http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/washing_line_rhyme_US.swf

Reading

• Read your reading book or other books you have at home
• Online reading books http://more2.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm
  http://more2.starfall.com/n/level-b/index/load.htm
• Cosy up on the sofa with a good book, take a photograph of yourself and send it to me via Twitter

Remember to stay safe! Feel free to take pictures of your snow day and either upload them to the blog or bring them in for me (and Brody Bear) to see when we are back in school.

Mrs Wong

Good morning primary 7!

Here are some ways that you can carry on learning at home today. Please save anything you work on and bring it in to show me.

1. Numeracy

Usually at this time we’d probably be finishing CLIC. Since we’re not, why don’t you test a family member.

• Can they round to the nearest thousand, ten thousand or hundred thousand?
• Can they round to 1 decimal place or 2  decimal places?
• Can they complete a multiplication card?
• Can you teach them the GRID method for multiplying?

2. Balanced Arguments

West Lothian Council made a tough decision in the early hours of this morning. They closed ALL the schools! What arguments would they have considered for and against doing this?

3. World Book Day

It’s World Book Day tomorrow.

1. Dig out those book swap books and read them for one last time!
2. Or you could read to a parent or sibling.
3. Why don’t you use kiddle to research what a Thundersnow is?

4. Weather Watch

Will the weather forecast be accurate? Is it all cold air?

Use this form (p7 weather watch) to compare what the Met Office and BBC Weather have predicted for today. Were they accurate?

5. Other links to learning websites: Winter learning links

See you soon!

Mr Graham