Good Morning Boys and Girls

Literacy: Phonics	Over the past few weeks we have learned the ee,oo,ck and ai sound.   Today we are going to practice using them. Can you correctly make these words using your sound cards or by writing them down? 1. The part of your body you wear shoes on. 2. What do you read? 3. You do this to the door when you leave the house. 4. If this is falling outside, you’ll get wet. 5. The woods is full of these 6. It comes out at night 7. A boat has one of these 8. The thing that holds your head up.
Literacy: Reading	Have another go at your reading book. Was it any easier this time?   When you’re finished can you close the book and retell the story to your adult at home? Remember to include all the important details.
Numeracy	I hope everyone has a dice at home. If you don’t you can just make up the numbers.   Today we are going to have a go at making our own sums. I want you to roll the dice and write that number down and then roll it again and write down that number. Then I want you to add them together. For example of you roll a 6 and a 2 you would write down 6+2= and solve the problem, you can use materials, your fingers or of you’re feeling particularly confident you could just use your head.
Art	Using paper rolled up or a toilet / kitchen roll tube have a go at making:

Good Morning Boys and Girls,

Mrs Forth loves a morning walk! She had me and Tess up and out of bed early even though it was a bit rainy. I am glad we went though because it was nice to hear the birds singing and get fresh air.

Todays whole school challenge is to see how long you can stand like a tree. If you look on our main blog and scroll down a bit there is a good demonstration from Mrs Candido-Barton. You need good balance for this challenge. Even if you can’t stand on one foot maybe try different ways to stand like a tree.

On our walk I stood beside lots of trees, there are so many different kinds. Do you know why trees are so important to us? They give us oxygen to breathe and give lots of wildlife places to live. One of the trees I stood beside had berries on for the birds to eat. Can you name some fruit that we get from Trees?

As a last task I would like you to take some paper and pens and find a tree to draw, it would be great if you could do this outside but if its too wet maybe look out your window to find a tree to draw. It doesn’t have to be perfect just do your best and see how you do. Its good for us to practice our pencil grip and making marks on paper.

Please send photos of you standing like a tree and your drawings to Mrs Forth so she can share later today.

Have a great day and don’t forget to register.

Good Morning Boys and Girls.

Literacy: Phonics	Go to https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/pick-a-picture and log in using: Username: march20 Password: home   In the game ‘Pick a Picture’ choose Phases 3 Sets 6-7. Match the picture to the word displayed. If it is too tricky have a go at the Phase 2 Sets 1-5 option.
Literacy: Reading	Parents: In the children’s homework folder you should find their word tin (small plastic box with red lid). There should be 15 words in each tub. These words will be the common words your child was still struggling to immediately recognise at the time of last assessment. I have attached a list of all the common words that your child should be able to recognise up until this point in Primary 1. Many of these words have not been introduced due to either the fact that they have not been in school or they have not been able to recognise the previous ones and I did not want to overwhelm them. The list should be read across the rows.   Practice reading / recognising your common words with your adult at home. If you can confidently identify the words your adult can give you some new words to practice. You could make your own version of word cards for these new words. (I have added some new words to the list.)
Numeracy	Have a go at https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/spot-bots-switched-on   Can you remember the pattern?
Science	Yesterday we were learning about plastic pollution in the ocean. One way we can help prevent this plastic pollution is to make sure we recycle our waste properly.   Have a go at this game: https://www.abcya.com/games/recycling_game   Do you have a recycling bin in your house? Have a chat with your adult about what you can and cannot put into it!

Harris, Amy and Zachary all did a great effort with the step challenge today. 1 minute is quiet long when you have go keep stepping! Well done, I’m very proud you all gave it a go.

Everyone got very inventive measuring their steps and other items. Sami used sweeties, Amy used games and jigsaw boxes, Zachary used wooden blocks and Harris used trains then some of my old friends to measure.

Amy loved seeing Haggis with a bumble bee and she was able to tell me it was looking for pollen. Amy knew this because she saw one in her Granny’s garden. She then drew a beautiful picture of a bee getting pollen from a flower. It’s a super picture Amy.

Hope you all had a great day and we will check back in on Wednesday.

Good Morning Boys and Girls,

I hope you all had a good weekend even though it was a bit wet and cold.

Look I am back at Mrs Forth house, we went out for a walk this morning to get a start on our 5k challenge. We walked through the woods it was lovely. When I got a bit tired I got a ride on Tess back but she kept stopping to sniff and pee so Mrs Forth put me on her shoulder for a little rest.

Then she put me with these lovely purple flowers for a photo but I was met by a buzzing bee, what do you think it was doing? Don’t worry it didn’t sting me, it had a sniff then carried on.

Todays challenge for health and wellbeing is to find a step and step up and down for 1 minute, you have to count how many times you step up for 1 minute. We all have smaller legs than the adults so its tougher for us but still a good challenge. Mrs Forth used a much higher step than me but we both did it together. Please let me know how you got on and who joined you for the challenge.

Once you have done the step challenge I have one more activity for you. I would like you to find something around the house to measure the height of your step. It can be anything like Lego, wooden blocks, rubbers, biscuits, even your fingers. We used tealight candles to measure our steps. My step measured 15 tealight candles high. I then went inside and measured two more things. I noted them down and then with some help Mrs Forth explained the one with the most cadles was biggest and the one with the least candles was the smallest. Can you try measuring some more things and let me know what was the biggest and smallest. It would be great if you could send me a photo of your measuring. My email is emma.forth79@gmail.com

Please don’t forget to check in this morning and have a wonderful day.

Good Morning Boys and Girls.

As I mentioned during last weeks Google Meet we will be mixing the groups up a little bit. Primary 1 will be joining with some boys and girls from primary 2/3 from this week. This means the adult in charge of your google meet will either be me, Ms O’Shea, Mrs Nimmons or Miss O’Brien. Please keep an eye and ear out for phone calls or emails today confirming your new Google Meet time. If you have any questions, please just send me an email!

Literacy: Phonics	Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDzpV3jFefs and watch the video to learn about your new sound. If you are able, make a new phonics card with your sound on it to go in your phonics pack.   After you have watched the video try and come up with some words that have the ai sound in it. Can you solve my clues?   1. What does a train move along? 2. A really slow moving animal. 3. The postman brings thins. 4. The doggy in the window had a waggly _______ 5.An artist might use this.
Literacy: Reading	Parents: Please go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/user/sign_up.html and register for a free account. This will allow you and your child to access free reading books from home as obviously we are not able to issue new reading books at the minute.   If you read Big Feet last week, please search for Cats   If you read Dad can you do this? last week, please search for Digger.   Like every other week have a go at reading the book. Before you start can you predict what you think the book is going to be about by looking at the front cover and the title. You can use the ‘read to me’ function if you want or simply read it to your adult.
Numeracy	Using your dominoes again we are going to play dominoes with a twist.   I want you to take 6 dominoes each and leave the rest in a ‘pick-up’ space. The youngest player goes first and puts down a domino. The next player needs to play a domino so that the touching sides add up to 6. For example, if player one plays a 6-2 domino then player two needs to play a domino with a 4 or a blank side. If you cannot go you must pick up a domino. The winner is the first person to ‘get rid’ of all their dominoes (or if you cannot get rid of them all, the person with the least amount of dominoes at the end).
Science	Today is World Oceans Day.   Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFPoIU5iiYQ to see the problem we have in our oceans today.   Have a chat with your adult at home and think about what sorts of things you, your family and your friends could do to help prevent this problem getting any worse.

It was lovely to see some of our children working hard.

Today Leo was busy with his lovely crayons drawing his fruit and vegetables he used his sisters Ali and Anna fruit from their toy kitchen. Good thinking Leo great work ⭐️⭐️

Amy was also very busy she drew a lovely picture of her favourite fruit super work, and went out for a special bike ride with her sister Zoe and her mum. Great work your bike is lovely Amy with a little basket for shopping or snacks.🌟🌟

Hello boys and girls. Primary 1 have been very busy this week!

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Good Morning Boys and Girls.

Literacy: Phonics	Today let’s go on another treasure hunt. Can you solve these clues and find the correct items in your house? 1. I rhyme with hush and you use me on your hair, what am I? 2. I rhyme with pup and I can hold your drink, what am I? 3. I rhyme with blue and you wear me on your feet, what am I? 4. I rhyme with ready and you might take me with you to bead, what am I? 5. I rhyme with boat and you need to wear me when it’s cold and wet, what am I?   Can you make up a clue for me to solve? Email me your clues and I will reply (If I can solve it!)
Literacy: Writing	I am going to attach a picture below. Can you write 3 sentences about what is happening in the picture?   For Example: A Fairy is sitting on a toadstool.
Numeracy	With your dominoes play a game with your adult or other family members at home.   Place all the dominoes face down. Each person takes it in turns to turn over one domino. The person who turns over the domino with the largest number of dots on it gets to keep all the dominoes that have been turned over. The winner is the person with the most dominoes at the end.
Science	Go to https://www.facebook.com/Glasgowsciencecentre/videos/569396813686488/ and watch the video about how important Bee’s are in our ecosystem.   Can you make the craft?

Good morning girls and boys I hope some of you have managed to get out to do your 1km a day, you can walk, run, skip anything you like. It would be so lovely to see photos of you all joining in this whole school health challenge, it is important that we all get out and get some exercise every day it helps us all to stay healthy and well.

Today haggis would like you all to make a fruit salad for yourself, you can add any fruit you like orange, strawberries,banana,grapes, blueberries, apples any fruit you like to make a yummy healthy snack.

First of all you will need to wash your fruit, then with the help of a parent you will need to chop up your fruit , mix up in a bowl you can add some yoghurt to make it even yummier. This will give you lots of vitamin C from the fruit, calcium from the milk in the yoghurt, which will help us to have strong bones and teeth. It is important for us to eat healthy, eating this way helps us feel strong with lots of energy to run about. We all need to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables every day.