Category: Buckstone Primary School

It has been a difficult week for everyone, and we really appreciate how resilient our lovely learner have been – adapting to the changes in routine each day. We hope that everyone at home is safe and well..

Literacy

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Spelling

Our new sounds this week have been the blends sk, rd and ft found at the end of words and our new tricky words find and kind. We made birds and masks, and enjoyed lots of craft to remind us of our final consonant blends.

You can find the home learning sheet below. Please continue to work at home to consolidate the learning of the new sounds and using them to build and write words.

Writing

We wrote about the vegatables that came to join Potato’s party.

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Reading

Thank you for your continued support with reading at home. We have not sent reading books home this week because of the number of absentees. We have been working with books in class, reading to, and discussing with our peers

We continue to work in school on developing our reading skills. As well as reading the words and learning new vocabulary we predict, discuss and comprehend. We hope you enjoy sharing the books with your children at the weekend. If you feel perhaps that they have memorised the book ( which is part of the learning process) then you could ask them to read the book backwards, starting with the last word. Of course this makes no sense , but the children do find it funny and it helps the adults to see if the child can read the words with little context. We use this technique in class so the children are familiar with the idea.



Please note that we cannot send reading books home on Thursday unless your child has their purple folder with them, and we would respectfully request that the children do not carry their water bottles in the purple bags – we have already had one soggy reading book!

Numeracy/Maths



This week we have been focusing on using a range of strategies to help us subtract. We can use fingers, concrete materials and the counting back strategy.

e.g. – 16 – 9 = ?

Hold up the number of fingers we need to subtract ( 9)

Say the big number and keep it in our head.

Now count back, keeping track of the number of jumps with our finger

15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7,

The answer is 7



Other areas of the curriculum

One of our butterflies has hatched. Unfortunately he has a slightly damaged wing, but seems happy feeding from an old banana.

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We have been learning about different types of food and whether they come from a plant or an animal. We discussed that some foods have lots of different ingredients so might come from both a plant and an animal – for example, a pizza.

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We enjoyed watching the Imaginate Festival production of Potato Needs a Bath. We prepared for the party by making party hats for a fruit or a vegetable.

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.Our vegetables joined in the party too.

We sang some songs outside, developing our skills of keeping a steady beat and understanding of pitch. We are also learning to have confidence to explore our singing voices in a group and alone.

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Here are some photographs of us enjoying our independent learning opportunities this week. It has been so nice to be able to have the doors wide open and take our learning outside too.

Please ask us what we were doing.



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Things to try at home

Help an adult bake some bread.

Look in the kitchen and find some food. Identify whether it comes from an animal, a plant, or maybe a bit of both. You could make lists of what you found.

Do you have any edible food plants growing in your garden ? Discuss this with an adult. Remember, NEVER eat any plant or berry without an adult’s permission.

Practise knowing the order of the days of the week – focusing on the day BEFORE

Play this hit the button game Choose addition or subtraction up to 10. Try up to 20 for a challenge.

Count backwards from 30 to 10 ( or 100 – 30)

Write all your numbers from 1-9. Are they all the right way round? If not, can you practise them.

Practise spelling all the tricky words so far – how many can you write from memory ?

Be Geraldine……. ” Off she went around the house to find something ENDing with ft/rd/sk etc ” How many things can you find? You could make a list of all the things you find.

Practise your letter formation – are there any letters you find tricky to write ?

Learn to spell and write your surname.

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Happy Friday P1L!

I know this week has been a little bit different for us but it was lovely seeing those of you learning at home on the Teams meeting on Tuesday. I hope you are all well and that you are enjoying the sunshine!

Here is what we have been up to in school this week:

Literacy

In literacy this week we have learned the new sounds – ‘rn’ ‘rd’ ‘rm’ and ‘rt’. We enjoyed thinking of words which have the sounds in them, looking for words in our reading books and drawing pictures of words which have the sounds in them. We also enjoyed writing words with these sounds in sentences, reading texts and highlighting the new sounds and playing games! We also continued to learn and look at the Block 3 tricky words. This week we focussed on ‘where’ ‘why’ and ‘what’. Please continue to practice your tricky words at home and our new sounds each week. Please practice learning how to read, write and use the tricky words at home! (Block 1-Block 3)

For reading, we each got a new ORT book and we predicted what we thought was going to happen in the story before reading, we had word hunts and we read both individually and with a partner. We also practised our comprehension skills by completing a fill in the missing word activity sheet. We enjoyed the extra challenge of reading our book backwards this week! Reading books will be sent home on a Thursday and to be returned to school on a Monday! Please feel free to write any comments in your child’s reading diary! Some of us even read our first play scripts this week of a story we already knew. If you are learning at home please feel free to find a book on the Oxford Owl website at your child’s level. If you could make a note of this in their reading diary/a piece of paper to let me know what books your child has read on their return to school.

Things to try at home;

• Practice reading your reading book which is sent home! Read the book forwards and backwards, ask your child questions about the story, the characters etc. You could extend the learning of the book and ask your child to write the next part of the story.
• Revise our new sounds and tricky words! Can you read them and write them?
• Write a story about your weekend! Can you add lots of detailed language?
• Recognise and use our non-negotiables in everything you write!
• Write a story about an animal, bug or plant you see on a walk you may have this weekend.

Numeracy

In numeracy this week we practised our counting skills and recognising numbers up to 100. We also looked at 100 squares and noticing patterns on them. We counted screened and unscreened collections together and also practised making equal groups. We also practiced thinking of other ways to make numbers on our fingers, sequencing numerals and identifying numbers up to 100.

We also started our new maths topic of fractions. We had lots of fun halving objects, making half a pizza , colouring in half of a shape etc. We also learned what a whole and a quarter looks like.

Things to try at home:

• Practice counting to 100.
• Can you notice numbers in your local environment? On buses, houses or outdoors? What number comes before or after the one you see? What is 10 more than that number?
• Practice counting items or groups of items in your house. Can you make tally marks to show how many you have?
• Practice halving things in your house – food, paper, splitting your toys into equal groups etc,

Other Curricular Areas

P.E: We enjoyed practising our athletic skills and learning how to use our arms and looking where we are going to help us run faster.

Outdoor Learning: We had lots of fun playing with the outdoor loose parts and exploring building and making things together! We also enjoyed playing outside the classroom in the courtyard for learning through play!

Potato Needs a Bath Performance: The children loved the performance of ‘Potato Needs a Bath’. They had lots of fun creating their own party hats for their vegetable and engaged amazingly with both the recorded and live part of the performance.

Photos of the Week:

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P1L’s Highlights of the Week:

Sofie – I liked playing outside with my friends.

Lucy – I liked doing my reading booklet.

Archie – I liked learning the new letters this week.

Logan – I liked playing with the big bricks.

Next Week:

• P.E will be on Monday and Thursday.
• Please bring appropriate outdoor clothing as we will have one outdoor lesson per day.
• Please return your reading folder (book and reading diary inside the folder please!) on Monday!

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss McGillivray

Afternoon P5M!

Here are your reading pages for Tuesday 8th June if you haven’t already got them.

Penguins: 112-142

Elephants: 110-134

Lions 2: 123-149

Lions 1: 42-76

Giraffes: 73-102

Leopards: 128-155

Have a lovely day :)!

Miss Mangan

Good afternoon,

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are enjoying the sunshine.

I have attached this weeks spelling words. We are focusing on the ‘oo’ sound that is written as ‘ue’ at the end of a word.

Have a great week :)!

Miss Mangan

This week’s spelling patterns are below if you’d like to work on these at home. We do a dictation activity using these words/patterns each Friday. Please feel free to add words of your own; it isn’t just about learning a “list” of words but understanding how words are built up and spelt.

Team Jewel: continue the ea sound

For example: eat, meat, seat, each, peach, cheat, mean

Team Gold and Team Treasure are both working on adding ed endings (where it sounds like ed). This may be new learning for Team Gold and revision for Team Treasure.

Team Gold examples: belted, headed, ended, melted, landed, shouted, wanted

Continue to work on all tricky words, with a focus on Block 7- reading, recognising and spelling.

Team Treasure core list: lifted, planted, rented, started, melted, painted, needed, shouted, pointed, skated

Team Treasure Challenge list: listened, decided, squinted, demanded, hesitated, squeezed, contacted, included, avoided, behaved

Tricky words: continue to spend time revising words that you are having difficulty with

Here are the tricky words in case you need them:block-1-8-tricky-words-single-sheet-1Download

Good evening tigers .

The forecast is looking great for tomorrow and we will be making the most of the nice weather with lots of outdoor learning.

Please can the children slather on the sun scream and pack a sun hat tomorrow. 🙂

Another busy week as P4H continue to learn and develop skills across the curriculum..

This week’s blog was compiled by P4H working together,

Literacy

Next week’s spelling …..

The rule is where the first syllable contains a short vowel sound, 2 consonants are required before adding “le” eg purple

Where one consonant sound is heard eg puzzle, double the consonant by adding le ..kettle , middle. apple

trample, simple, purple, buckle, sparkle, middle, bottle, circle, puzzle, handle

Tricky words three there

Reading

We set the next chapter to read. We invented and alternative ending to the story using our imagination and remembering the story line. We also picked out interesting words and looked up their definition in the dictionary,

Grammar

We learnt how to use paragraphs in story writing and that it helps when we write out information. It will help us write stories and separates topics by time and place. Organising information makes it easier to read. They help with layout and makes it easier to understand. .

Class Novel Study

We continued being reading detectives with Ottoline , We looked at Mr Munroe’s feelings and how they changed in different places at various times. We noticed there was a difference.

Numeracy

We used our tables and division skills to help us work with fractions. We started with a half and saw the links between 2x table. Shapes have to be divided into 2 equal parts to be a half. Numbers of objects have to be shared in 2 equal piles when they are halved.

Home learning

Try some of these sites.

Fraction Circles

lhttps://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=fractions

Money

We continued to count sums of money. We also learned about the decimal point and why it is important to write amounts correctly and when we do calculations.

We also added and subtracted. We found the carrying and borrowing ones tricky and had to remind ourselves what to do. We will be practising more of these next week

Home Learning

Try some of these games

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx982hv/resources/1

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/money

Titanic

We continued to research the Titanic by using laptops and reading articles which we downloaded. Each group has almost enough information to make our information posters.

We have almost finished our own Titanic ship.and put information labels on it.

We read more of the Titanic Detective Agency . Bertha is still very suspicious of some of the passengers and has begun to make a list of clues. Johan was sea sick but still wants to find out what is map means. It is getting very exciting.

Outdoor Leaning

We used our magnifiers to look at living things on the ground in the woods. It was mainly flies and d bugs we found but they looked huge when magnified! Some of them looked really weird!

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Art

We had fun after a heavy down pour of rain. We looked at the effects of water on chalks . The colours are much brighter . We discovered they disintegrate and becomes very mushy. This is because they partly dissolves in water. It became very messy!

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Have a sunny weekend!

by P4H

( and Ms Hastie and Mrs Murray)

We have had a busy week in P6NM. Here is a summary of our learning:

Literacy

Reading

We held our Literature Circle meetings on Tuesday. The next meeting is on Monday 31^st May.

Writing/Links to IDL

We read more of our class novel Wilderness Wars. In it, one of the main characters discovered bats roosting in a cave. We used this opportunity to read for information, using leaflets from The Bat Conservation Trust. We then worked in trios to construct a mind map sharing our new-found knowledge. Finally, we used these mind maps as plans for our writing. We wrote non-chronological reports on bats.

Opportunities for home learning

Here is a video explaining more. Once you have watched it you could try to write your own report around an area of your interest.

How to write a non-chronological report – BBC Teach

Maths

We have been learning about quadrilaterals.  This is a useful summary of the key points in our learning this week.

Classifying quadrilaterals – Year 5 – P6 – Maths – Home Learning with BBC Bitesize – BBC Bitesize

Opportunities for home learning

• Can you see any quadrilaterals around your home? Draw and label the types of quadrilaterals you find.
• Extra challenge- here is an interactive quiz to test your knowledge.

Math Game: Quadrilaterals (iknowit.com)

HWB

• We have been dribbling using hockey sticks and balls in preparation for the P6 competition Games@thehub 2021.
• We have been taking part in circle times around the themes of friendship and bullying. In particular, we talked about the role of witnesses.
• We found out more about puberty using the new RSHP resource.

This week in P2W…

Literacy – this week we have been learning the spelling rule ‘dge’ for our soft g sound. This week we were also working on our listening and talking skills, collecting facts from our reading books and presenting them to the class.

Numeracy and Maths – this week we continued our learning on place value and we were practicing making numbers from tens and units. We also got to play fast fractions to cement our fraction knowledge.

Health and wellbeing- we have been adding to our tree of kindness with the kind deeds we have been doing.

Other learning:

This week we were developing our fine motor skills in outdoor learning, making spelling words using outdoor tweezers. We also got to prepare an assembly for the whole school, telling them what we have been learning in P2.

Have a lovely weekend!

Ms Russell

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Reflective Friday WB 24.5.21

Well done Primary 4WL for an exciting week of learning opportunities and experiences! 😊 Please enjoy reading the summary about our main learning this week (and scroll to the bottom to see some pictures):

Please ensure any remaining Learning Stories are returned to school on Monday as we will be gathering some evidence of our learning this term in these.
Literacy

We have been learning to:

• Spell unfamiliar words using our spelling rule – words with a silent ‘k’ saying ‘kn’.
• Use accurate spelling of our new spelling rule words within passages and story contexts.
• Identify the correct spelling of tricky words within sentences and paragraphs.
• Up-level a letter, using a range of adjectives, and self-checking for the non-negotiables.
• Use information to write a fact-file.
• Listen, enjoy and engage with different stories and texts.
• Find evidence in our reading texts to answer a variety of questions.
• Use evidence from our reading to help us make (and justify) predictions.
• Read for information and use our knowledge of the context of a sentence to help us identify missing words.
• Find out information from a range of sources and technologies to help us share facts with others.
• Self- and peer-assess our learning.

Spelling for next week:

L.I We are learning to spell unfamiliar words using our spelling rule.

In words whose first syllable contains a short vowel sound, 2 consonants are required before adding ‘le’ (e.g. purple).

Where only one consonant sound is heard (e.g. puzzle) double that consonant before adding ‘le’

Daily Spelling Activity Task: choose a different spelling activity from the pack that you have at home and remember to Look, Cover, Write, Check.

Spicy – simple purple circle puzzle handle apple giggle bubble puddle cuddle

Hot – trample buckle sparkle middle bottle marble riddle waddle turtle bumble

Tricky words – three there

Daily Spelling Activity Task: choose a different spelling activity from the pack that you have at home and remember to Look, Cover, Write, Check.

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

• Practise the spelling words from last week and for next week. Use a game like this to practise – https://www.spellingcity.com/spelling-games-vocabulary-games.html (free accounts available)
• Write and redraft a letter of your own!
• Try some different questions to test you on your reading skills and understanding.

Numeracy

We have been learning to:

• Develop our knowledge of number facts, using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Build on our knowledge of fractions by finding 10ths.
• Use our knowledge of fractions to solve challenges and play games.
• Revise our learning in Maths through taking part in different challenge tasks and starter activities.
• Use our knowledge of coins and notes to find a range of combinations for a total.
• Add and subtract using money to find a total and to find change.
• Use our problem-solving skills, including logical thinking and trial and error, to solve multi-step challenges.
• Develop our ability to solve more complex 2-step problems and word problems, using addition and subtraction, with our knowledge of money.
• Develop our multiplication understanding, using opportunities to learn the times tables.
• Self- and peer-assess our learning.
• Continue to build speed and accuracy in our number work.

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

• Practise giving change using one of these links – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp8dmp3/articles/z2s6hv4, https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/students/students-5-8/the-change-game/ or https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/44/solve_2_step_money_problems_ – choose a level that challenges you.
• Continue to build on your Times Tables by choosing or creating a fun game or speed challenge for yourself or using Sumdog. https://www.timestables.co.uk/speed-test/
• Practise finding 10ths of amounts or shapes by creating a game of your own.

Across the Curriculum

 We have been learning to:

• Find out about the structure of the Titanic boat
• Identify and find out about passengers on the Titanic
• Find out about what a ticket is and design our own Titanic tickets.
• Discover the different classes of passengers and what the different parts were like
• Research information, using a range of sources like websites and books.
• Play team games in PE, developing our knowledge of different sports positions and activities.
• Develop skills to work well together.
• Find out about learning across other classes during our Assembly.

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

• Learn more about the Titanic using a range of sources – including https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/would-you-have-survived-the-titanic/
  https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog/facts-about-titanic-for-kids https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8mpfg8/articles/zng8jty
• Teach someone at home how to play the team game of Rounders!
• Can you find out any more information about the structure of the Titanic boat or about the passengers who travelled in it?

Have a great weekend everyone!
From Primary 4, Mrs Williamson, Mrs Ling and Mr Parry 😊
Thank you to Mr Parry, who finishes his placement today.

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