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P7H – 30.10.20

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Reflective Friday – 30.10.20

Literacy – William, Belle, Ariana and Aysu

This week in literacy the spelling pattern was ‘ily’ for example gloomily, unnecessarily, momentarily and extraordinarily.

We also write a persuasive article about selling a spooky, mansion house. We had to give lots of details about the mansion, we had to use persuasive language to help us sell the spooky house.

Numeracy – Katie, Korey, Connie and Alfie

In Numeracy we looked at calculating the perimeter and area of shapes. We looked at finding the area of a right-angled triangle.

We learnt that to calculate area you have to times the measurement of the width by the length and to calculate perimeter you have to add the measurement of the sides. We also tried to solve word problems with area and perimeter.

IDL – Jessica, Iggy, Darcey and Tosia

In topic we researched about Hurricane Katrina and wrote a case study about it. The case study was on the social, economic and environmental impacts.

In PE we tested our speed by marking how far we could run in 10 seconds then we tried to beat ourselves.

Our highlight this week was taking a walk around the school to see everyone’s pumpkins.

Home Learning options – William, Belle, Darcey and Tosia

We could ask a parent to draw a 2D shape and then we need to work out the perimeter and area of the shape.

We could search up some words ending in ‘ily’ and ask someone to test us.

We could practice our times tables.

Thanks!

Buckstone Primary School

P2/3 Golden Treasures Reflective Friday week beginning 26th October

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We hope you all had a great October break and we enjoyed welcoming you all back to class this week. Another busy week of learning.

Literacy

  • Reading in our reading groups and in BEAR time
  • Continuing to enjoy the story of James and the Giant Peach as a class
  • Listening to and then sequencing a funny Halloween themed story: A Magical Muddle
  • Spelling sounds:
  • Team Jewel- single sounds i, s and m
  • Team Gold: the aw/au sound for example paw, jaw, yawn, haul, haunt, Paul; Tricky words: do, as
  • Team Treasure: igh/-y revision; Core list: right, sight, flight, sunlight, goodnight, spy, trying, why, frying, sty; Challenge list: bright, slightly, frighten, sunlight, goodnight, spying, trying, why, frying, shyly; Tricky words: what, when
  • Writing about a favourite holiday activity using super sentences
  • Continuing to work on handwriting, focussing on correct formation
  • Practising alphabetical order

Ideas for home learning

  • Help your child to learn the alphabet…lots of us know the first part but get in a muddle after L!

Numeracy

  • Ordering numbers from smallest to largest
  • Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s forwards (and backwards for a challenge) from different starting numbers
  • Finishing our learning about information handling
  • Practising our addition skills by solving some Halloween themed puzzles

Ideas for home learning

  • Practise your counting with these catchy songs

Other Areas

  • Cosmic Yoga- we enjoyed the Ruby Broom adventure
  • Pumpkin Trail- we had so much fun looking at all the different designs
  • Resilience- revising what we have already learnt about being resilient

Here are some Halloween themed activities in case you are looking for some inspiration!

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magic-wandDownload
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Have a great weekend!

Mrs Tweedie and Mrs Graham

Buckstone Primary School

Reflective Friday 30.10.20 P4W

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P4W Wonderful Woodland 30 October 2020

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog. We are all delighted to welcome Mrs Ling to our P4W Learning Team.

We have had another busy week, developing skills across the curriculum.

Literacy

We are becoming Reading Detectives as we continue to read our class novel ‘Ottoline and the Yellow Cat’.

Looking for clues in a text – deciding what is important and what might be misleading.

Giving our opinion on a text and discussing a variety of texts (including our home texts) with a partner and in a team.

Sharing and discussing a selection of non-fiction texts.

We are finding information about the characters and asking questions- taking notes in ‘Reading Detective’ notebook.

Spelling- words with ‘ir’  and ‘ur’

FANTASTIC– third thirty first

SPECTACULAR– firstly thirteen return occurred

Tricky words- work  know

Ideas for home learning: Use Autumn colours to write out your words. Write them inside a big, orange pumpkin.

Maths

Writing additional calculations in the traditional way, so that we are adding the tens then adding the units.

Laying these calculations out carefully and accurately, just as Mathematician would do.

Mental Agility

Quick and accurate recall of number facts.

Jigsaw numbers to 100 and using the skill to give change from £1.

Doubling 2- digit numbers.

Ideas for home learning-Make your own ‘ five-minute frenzy’ by drawing a 10 X 10 grid using a ruler. Put the numbers 1 to 9 across the top and the same down the side. Put the answers to the calculations in each box. For an extra challenge- time yourself doing it!

Health and Wellbeing

We are exploring strategies to help us become more resilient.

Developing our fitness, listening and quick thinking skills.

Developing our coordination, rhythm and sequencing skills.

Learning in our outdoor environment.

Social Skill

Please find attached our Reflective Friday blog sharing our learning from the end of the week. Thank you for a great week P4W and well done for lots of super learning!
In the blog you will find the spelling lists from Monday.

Mrs Williamson, Mrs Ling and P4W

Buckstone Primary School

P3MB Friday 30 October

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Hello everyone, we hope you all had an enjoyable break last week. It was lovely to welcome the children back to school and to hear about all the things they were doing.

This week we have been learning:

MATHS AND NUMERACY

In mental ,maths we were counting backwards in ones, twos and tens, starting from different numbers.

We began looking at different subtraction strategies and started by counting back by one, two and three. Some of us challenged ourselves by using larger numbers.

We talked about fact families looking at the link between addition and subtraction-

eg 6 + 3 = 9

3 + 6 = 9

9 – 3 = 6

9 – 6 = 3

We talked about fact families having the same three numbers and making sure we always start with the largest number when we are using subtraction.

We also linked our health and well being discussion to maths and completed a graph based on different emotions. Afterwards we discussed how different our graphs were because we all experience similar situations differently.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

Use two dice to to get three numbers in a fact family-

If you threw a 6 and a 5, your fact family would be 6, 5 and 11.

Write the two addition facts and two subtraction facts you could make from these three numbers.

Challenge

Throw the two dice twice to make two 2 digit numbers.

Eg 2 and 6 become 26, 3 and 4 become 34.

The fact family would be 26, 34 and 60

Write the two addition facts and two subtraction facts you could make from your three numbers.

LITERACY

We are all really enjoying our Secret Seven class novel.

We made predictions about what might happen next in the story and wrote our ideas down.

We used our imaginations to write a mixed up fairy tale (just like the play in the Secret Seven book) and had some great ideas for our stories.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

We are really looking forward to listening to the children review their favourite book. We will be starting this next Monday 2nd November. (Please see previous blog post for further information.)

PE

We are continuing to improve our fitness levels and have been working on running skills this week,

ART AND CRAFT

The children enjoyed making some Halloween crafts and worked together well to share resources and help one another.

We loved looking at all the different pumpkins on our Buckstone pumpkin trail.

Here are some ideas to do at home for Halloween:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-he-648-halloween-family-fun-activity-pack

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Buckstone Primary School

P2W Wonderful Wolves 30.10.2020

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Hello Wonderful Wolves and Happy Friday! 😊

It has been lovely to have everyone back in the classroom again this week! The children have been working very hard and we have done lots of super learning!

  In literacy we have covered:

  • ‘My Holiday’ – writing super sentences, using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces 
  • Writing Challenge Star Step: use a connecting word to extend the sentence
  • Writing super sentences about what makes us happy
  • Sounding out/blending/spelling CVC words
  • oa and ow Diagraph
  •  Example oa words – boat, goat, float, soap
  •   Example ow words – bow, arrow, snow, throw
  • Reading sentences and drawing pictures to match
  •  Tricky Words (Block 1 – 8 PowerPoints are attached to this post, if you would like to practise at home)
  •  Letter Formation – cursive
  • Word searches and Boggle (word building)
  •  Reading Groups – in class
  •   Reading sent home

Reading:

  •  Reading groups
  • Reading out loud to the teacher
  • Reading with expression
  • ‘Fastest Finger First’ for tricky words and punctuation
  • Predicating and recalling information

A reminder that reading groups have been set up and are based on in-class assessments – these groups are fluid. Please don’t be alarmed or worried if your child moves groups – changes are only made in order to support your child’s individual development and engagement

Here is a link the PowerPoints of our Block 1 -8  tricky words:

Tricky Word Block 1 PP

Tricky Word Block 2 PP

Tricky Word Block 3 PP

Tricky Word Block 4 PP

Tricky Word Block 5 PP

Tricky Word Block 6 PP

Tricky Word Block 7 PP

Tricky Word Block 8 PP

In Numeracy we have covered:

  • Addition with missing numbers (eg 3 + ? = 8)
  • Subtraction
  • Part-Whole Number Bonds
  • Mad Maths Minute – Addition Sums
  • 3D shapes and their properties
  • Chilli Challenge addition

P.E:

Our P.E days are a Monday and Wednesday. 

This week for P.E we focused on:

  • Fitness – exercise video in class

Morning Starters:

  • Tuesday – Literacy Activity 
  • Wednesday – Letter Formation 
  • Thursday –Maths Activity 
  • Friday – Fine Motor Control Activity 

Learn Through Play Activities:

  • Role Play – Home Corner
  • 3D shape problem solving puzzles
  • Block Play
  • Construction
  • Arts and Crafts table
  •  iPads (literacy and numeracy)

We really enjoyed seeing all the wonderful and creative pumpkins in school today – thank you for sharing! I hope you have a lovely weekend and I will see you all on Monday.

Mrs Williamson x 😊

 

Buckstone Primary School

P1Tigers Reflective Friday 30th October

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It was a short week in school, but we have still been busy.There are only one or two children still to return their indoor shoes – please try to do this as soon as possible. It really does help to keep the carpet clean for us to sit and play on comfortably.

Literacy

I am lifting weights. I have a six pack. Actually, it is a four pack.

I pretended my stick was a pumpkin

I am holding two big sticks and catching a whale.

I am fighting a dragon. I won.

  • We drew detailed story pictures about using our imaginations – see more information under outdoor learning.
  • We continue to read books in school – we love discussing the funny illustrations and making predictions about what might happen next in the story. We are excited to be taking the first steps on our reading journey.
  • We continue to introduce and reinforce some single sounds and have been using them to create and read words. This week’s letter was g, and we made words including gap, get, pig, got and dig
  • We enjoy listening to and discussing a wide range of texts

Home learning ideas:

Please support us by spending some time at home practising the skills of blending the sounds to create and read words – a little often is the best way.

We will occasionally send an home learning activity idea in the purple folder, so please continue to empty the bag and check the contents regularly.

  • Download this Home Learning Template d o g On the sheet you will find the letters we have been learning this week along with a list of words to create. You can choose to print the sheet, or simply write out the letters of small pieces of paper. Use the letter cards to create simple words and ask your child to firstly, identify each sound, count how many sounds (phonemes) they hear, then blend or squish the sounds together into one word. Next, say a word which can be made using the letters. say it slowly and clearly – asking your child to identify the sounds they can hear before they ‘make’ the word with the cards.
  • Go on a letter hunt. Look around you for places where you can see any of the letters you know. Remember to say the pure sound of the letter not the name. ( so a= ah, not ay )
  • Ask an adult to write all the names of the people in your family. Who has an ‘i’ in their name….. who has an ‘ a’ (etc)
  • Play a game of “I spy” with our focus sounds.
  • Encourage your child to make their name in different ways: in the sand, with flour, play dough, etc.
  • If your child cannot yet write their own name, please practise this at home. Lower case letter please ( apart from the initial letter of course)

Numeracy & Maths

  • We have been learning our ,number bonds of 10. These are the pairs of numbers which fit together to make ten

 e.g.

1 +9 / 9 +1

2 +8 / 8 +2

3 +7 / 7 +3

4 +6 / 6 +4

5 + 5

10 + 0 / 0 +10

Play this game to help you practice

Roll a dice, and count out the right number of small items  ( 1p coins/buttons/raisins etc) Now put out some more until you have 10 altogether. How many more did you need to put out. Can you write the pair of numbers you made.

Challenge – write them as a sum 3 + 7 = 10

We have also been practising instant recall of doubles facts to 10, and some people have been trying doubles to 20 as well.

Play the HIT THE BUTTON game, then choose either number bonds (make 10) or doubles,( to 10)

  • We ave been exploring numbers to 10 20, or 30  with matching activities.
  • We have been practising instantly making and recognising finger patterns. Doing it on our head ( the bunny ears game) makes it a bit tricky as we can’t see our fingers, we just have to feel the pattern.
  • We have been working on recognising numbers and identifying pairs patternsPairs patterns
  • We have explored numbers to 10 (and beyond for some)
  • We have worked on sequencing numbers.
  • We have worked on counting forwards and backwards from different starting points.
  • We have been naming the next number in a forwards or backwards sequence

Home learning ideas

  • Count items using 1-1 correspondence. Put down a quantity of small items, for example raisins, buttons, counters, small stones or lego bricks. Ask your child to count them carefully, pointing to, or moving each one in turn. can they count the total accurately? Increase the level of challenge by using a larger collection.
  • Number hunt: Ask your child to look for specific numbers in the street: buses, house numbers and ask your child to say the number that goes after and before that number.
  • Practice number formation of the numbers 0 to 10 (or more if your child is confident with this already)
  • You may choose to play this game. Please choose from sequencing or ordering (forwards) from 1- 10 or 1-20
  • Play Three for me, one for you . The adult says three numbers in a sequence, either forwards or backwards, the child says the next number in the sequence. e.g. 6,7,8………9  or 14,13, 12…….11. You can choose the level of challenge by staying within 10, or going up to 20.
  • Play this game to help you create and name regular 2D shapes. We have used an ipad version of this in class.

Other areas of the curriculum:

Learning to use the ipad to record evidence of our learning activities.

Spider facts – we have been learning to appreciate spiders. Did you know that a Wolf spider does not spin webs but lives under logs?

PE – we did some fitness stations in the playground to raise our heart rates and keep wam

On PE days the children should come dressed for outdoor PE, there is no need to bring a PE bag with a change of clothes. On these days, we would ask that the children wear trainers or similar for the playground and PE. It is really hard to hop when you are wearing wellies ! (Wellies are ideal on non-PE days though)

Outdoor learning: 
We tried to make Mandala patterns, but it was too windy and our leaves kept blowing away! We still had lots of fun collecting leaves and planning how to stop them blowing away.

We went to the woods and read the story ‘Not a stick’

You can watch the story  here

We collected sticks and used our imaginations to find different ways to play with them. We used our ideas to help us draw visual stories when we got back to class.

Independent learning:

  • These are some photos of the learning through play that we had the opportunity to experience this week: we particularly enjoyed exploring our fantastic new Kapla box. It has 1000 pieces !

Other things….

  • NUT FREE reminder – As we have a number of pupils in school with nut allergies, please help us to ensure their safety by keeping nutty snacks at home. This includes nut-based chocolate spreads in sandwiches.     Many thanks.

We are very proud of our Terrific Tigers!

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s learning.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

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Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

Buckstone Primary School

Welcome back

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It was lovely to see all the children today and hear their news from the holiday.

Can we please gently remind everyone to bring a pair of indoor shoes to wear inside to help keep our carpets clean, and to wear wellies or old trainers for enjoying the ever increasingly muddy playground .

 

many thanks