Category: Buckstone Primary School

Spelling this week below, we will do a dictation activity including our sounds on Friday each week.

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

Hello everyone

This is what we have been learning this week:

MATHS AND NUMERACY

We completed a maths assessment which covered the areas of numeracy we have been working on since the start of P3.

‘We have been counting in 3s and 4s’

‘The assessment was quite tricky’

‘It was a bit fun too’

We created 3D objects using 2D drawings, art straws and plasticine. We discussed vertices, edges and faces.

‘It was REALLY fun but quite tricky to make a cube’.

‘I found it easy and I was the first one finished’.

LITERACY

We used ‘Tunnel in a Hedge’ as a story start and wrote the rest of the story focussing on full stops and capital letters.

‘This was very fun’.

‘We all like to add a lot of detail’

We summarised the story of ‘The Three Little Ghosties’, trying to divide the story into beginning, middle and end without using too much detail.

‘We used the summary words to help us.’

‘It was a good story’

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We looked at the Building resilience PowerPoint and in a circle time shared occasions which we have found difficult and talked about the things we did to help us cope

.’We were talking about things we find difficult and discussed lots of lovely ways to cheer ourselves up.’

We enjoyed our fitness sessions in the playground and played lots of games to make sure we were running about.

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HOME LEARNING

Please remember to look at the blog post from Monday 12 October. This has all the information about the book talks which are due the week beginning 2nd November.

Have a lovely October break everyone.

It’s been a fun final week in P3. Hard to believe we are at the October break already! The highlight of this week has been creating the building from the Giraffe, Pelly and Me (Hampshire Estate) in the style of the artist Paul Klee. They are excellent! We completed reflections for this term this morning and shared favourite memories from this term:

• “I really liked drawing and writing stories.”
• “My favourite thing was Loose Parts because it was fun!”
• “I liked Loose Parts and The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me.”
• “My favourite memory was seeing my friends on the first day.”
• “I liked playing Wink Murder in Circle Time.”
• “My favourite was The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me.”
• “I liked the singing – I love the Bog Baby song.”

Have a fantastic holiday and I’ll look forward to seeing you all when we’re back at school! Have fun, stay safe and be kind 🙂

Mr Campbell

Maths

We continued our learning on symmetry this week, focussing on shapes and patterns with more than one line of symmetry. We have also enjoyed transferring our skills to some art activities.

We have also been revising how to complete written division calculations using the bus stop method with answers including decimals.

Literacy

We finished researching our chosen icons from Black History Month and used our notes to write biographies. 

We used blooms questions started to create a set of open ended, discussion provoking questions about our whole class novel, Friend or Foe.  Questioning is part of the discussion director role for literature circles; which will be starting with our new group novels after the October holiday.  

Our spelling pattern this week was ‘ar’ as a suffix.

Please see the attached sheet for this week and the previous weeks’ spelling rules.

Other Areas of the Curriculum

We enjoyed creating Notan artwork – a Japanese technique which balances light and dark linking to our symmetry focus in maths.

We developed our line drawing skills completing half a symmetrical animal face.

We used our note taking skills to research microorganisms and recorded our research in mind maps. 

We concluded our bread experiment, we found that the slices which had been touched by our hands and the sole of our shoes grew mould.  It has shown that even though we have been frequently washing our hands, they were still dirty!

We learned about the importance of plants and animals to our society.

Home Learning Ideas

All reading groups are now at the end of their group novels and new novels will be issued at the start of the week back.  When you have finished your novel, write a book review or recommendation for your novel.

Create a poster explaining the method for completing written division calculations with decimal answers.

Research the importance of bees to our society and create a power point with your findings.

Have a well deserved break with your families!

Mrs Nicholson

The Lion’s have had another great week in Primary 1! We have had lots of fun playing with our friends both inside the classroom and outside in the playground.

Literacy

This week we learned two more sounds: ‘m’ and ‘h’.

We had lots of fun watching Geraldine the Giraffe, playing lots of games about our new sounds and singing the Jolly Phonic’s songs!

We also continued with our reading this week and read a new book together. . We are learning how to make predictions about a text with the information we have in the text and in the illustrations, we are using the words that are on our books to make sentences. We are working very hard on developing all our reading skills.

Literacy Home Learning:

Numeracy

This week we continued the SEAL maths programme which teaches children the foundation skills in maths. We practised counting forwards and backwards to 10 and beyond together, counting claps, recognising dice patterns and random dot patterns and counting in sequences. The children are already showing that they are retaining the knowledge they are learning, which is showing greatly in our small group time.

The video below is also great for practising the skills we are currently learning in numeracy. Have a go at home and challenge someone in your family to have a go with you.

Other Areas

P1 has also been having lots of fun playing outside in the playground. In P.E we have been working on our fitness and spatial awareness when running around the playground. We also have been learning about different ways to move around the playground such as running, jumping, hopping, skipping etc. This week we had lots of fun practising the different ways we can move our bodies. Why not practice some of these at home for fun?

This week we also continued our outdoor learning autumn topic. We went on a scavenger hunt in the playground for signs of autumn and we were so excited to find a pumpkin there! We had lots of discussions about how it got there and where the children thought it had come from. We also got messy painting and painted autumn leaves using our hands to create them and then used a black pen to add detail.

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We also continued to practice our funky fingers. This helps with holding pens and pencils to get ready for writing, we started using playdough to help make our hands and fingers stronger. We have been having lots of fun following, the videos below. If you have any playdough at home why not practice at home!

We had a lovely end to the week and the term by getting muddy and having fun playing with the loose parts outdoors. The children played and explored the different types of equipment. It was so lovely to see the children experimenting with water, making slides, bridges and even digging for treasure!

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We have had lots of fun developing our social skills by playing with our peers in the classroom. We have lots of fun drawing pictures and making crafts, playing in the home corner and reading in the book corner. We also have lots of fun building castles and towers with the construction blocks. There is always lots of fun things to do in the classroom to support our learning and play.

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Things to Try at Home

• 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.
• Practice using your ‘bunny ears’. Ask your child to show you a number on their fingers using the bunny ears method. They should practice holding up the number of fingers straight away without needing to count each finger. They then look at their fingers to check if they are correct. This is great for numeracy development.
• 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
• Practice making words out of the sounds we have learned so far – ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘p’ ‘i’, ‘e’, ‘s’ ‘r’ ‘d’, ‘o’ ‘m’ ‘h’ and ‘n’ – for an extra challenge can you write and sound out the words you have made?
• Could you find out any interesting facts about autumn? Look outside for signs of autumn, can you take a photo of them or draw them?

Happy Holidays!

• A reminder that next week it is the October break. Children are back to school on Tuesday 27th October (Staff will be working on Monday 26th October).
• Ms Leach will be teaching the class on Tuesday 27th of October. We will have P.E on the Tuesday this week.
• P.E will be on Mondays and Thursdays – please come dressed and ready for P.E.
• The children are taking home today the bag with the spare clothes. This will give you an opportunity to check the items needed for next term.
• Please remember to label all items with your child’s name. We still have items that haven’t been claimed since August. Remember to label hats and gloves too!

This term has been very exciting and full of lots of lovely learning, new friendships and fun. It was so lovely to have your children for their first day of school and see their development over the last 10 weeks! I am really excited about working with the class for the rest of the year and can’t wait to hear all about your holiday adventures! Please take photos and bring them in when we are back at school as I would love to hear about all the fun things you get up to!

Have a lovely holiday, stay safe and I will see you on the 27th.

From Miss McGillivray

We said a fond goodbye to Josie this week and wish her well at her new school.

Here is a summary of our learning this week: 

This was written by Anna and Zoe 

Literacy- What we have done this week:  

We wrote a story inspired by a picture and used lots of sentence openers. We also did a reading comprehension about Usain Bolt related to our learning about Black History Month.  

We have finished our Literature Circle books so there is no reading over the holidays. 

 

Home Learning Ideas:

• Write an autobiography and practice any tricky spelling words. 

 

Numeracy:   

This week in Numeracy we have been doing long multiplication sums like 31 x 680 in a traditional sum, (here is a video https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/multiplication-long.html)  also we have been practising division and expressing remainders as decimals.  

In order learning we also did a very old game called Nine Men’s Morris. 

We also started Numeracy Ninjas to practise times tables and key maths skills. 

 

Home learning: 

• Topmarks  
• Practice memorising times tables  
• Teach someone the Nine Men’s Morris game. 

 

Other: 

We have been using an atlas to help us work out capital cities.  We have been getting really good at atlas work. 

In P.E. we did the beep test.  Some of us are now on level 11. 

Also in P.E. The last group did their fitness program it was very great. 

We have started using Plicker cards to check in with our learning. 

 

   Have a good October Holiday! 

 

Another busy week in P4H bringing this very different term to end, I have been really impressed with the way that the children have settled into our new normal and worked together as a class team. Thank you for your understanding at the beginning with the constant changes. After 10 weeks I think we are all ready for a holiday . I hope you all have a lovely Half Term

As usual today’s blog is compiled with P4H based on their reflections of the week

Spelling

We looked at ar/or words where you need to sound out each letter.

Super/Fantastic yard,shark,artist,alarm,carve,cork,forty,orbit,horse,sharp

Spectacular alarmed, enlarged,artistic, corkscrew,information,fortieth, uniform

Tricky words little , only

Home learning

I have attached the 100 high frequency words to practice

Storm .It is becoming very exciting and we have been looking at the way the author uses adjectives to create the atmosphere. We talked in partners and groups trying to predict what will happen next We have looked at the text and talked about whether the Highwayman is really a ghost.The book has really got us thinking, It is a real mystery with exciting twists. We are all enjoying it.

We continued working on adjectives .We substituted words for more powerful adjectives which makes sentences more interesting.

Home learning Think of powerful adjectives for big, small, nice, old, fast,hard ,angry,good

It is Autumn so we looked for signs outside and found out information by reading texts. We pretended to be detectives again looking for the answers to questions in the texts.

Numeracy

We continued to learn how to round numbers up and down to the nearest 10. We remembered that numbers up to 4 round down and from 5 -9 round up. As a challenge we tried rounding to nearest 100

We used our addition and subtraction skills in rounding too. We had to estimate .

We practised the 3 times table and tried to do sums out of sequence

We did Autumn number puzzles. We had to do addition and subtraction.

Home learning

Rounding -use the digits from a phone number or any long number.. Write as many 3-digit numbers as you can. They round each of these numbers to the nearest 10 and record them like this: 486 → 490

IDL We looked at the landmarks in Scotland . Some of us had visited them. We labeled a map and found out the names of the islands and seas around Scotland .

Art Our class novel is a funny story about Nessie. We looked at photos and clips of possible sightings of the Loch Ness monster and drew our own pictures using pastels

PE We set up fitness stations and worked at each for 30 secs. It was quite hard but fun when it started to rain.

Outdoor Learning. We looked for signs of Autumn. We worked in groups to play colour bingo searching for natural objects to match the colours on our sheet. We did a scavenger hunt for things on our list.

Lunchtime Chats At lunch we have to stay in our own seats to keep in the guidelines. Mrs Tulloch has been telling us an interesting fact every day like things about earthquakes and explosions in WW1.. We all enjoy learning these facts while we are eating.

Home learning Can you tell someone the interesting facts?

Have a great holiday

from P4H and Ms Hastie

Good afternoon everyone.

Literacy

Our spelling pattern

• We were adding er / est to an adjective ending in y to compare 2 things, We have to change y to i and add er / est (windy = windier)

Here are the words

cheekier                sunniest

stormier                 sleepiest

luckier                   sturdiest

unhappiest            messier

craziest                  angrier

Our tricky words were

people                      because

We continued to work on our descriptive skills this week for writing. We created a paragraph about our favourite place. We learned about how using effective openers can improve our writing.

We also continued working on the skills of taking notes, we have been researching and learning about Black history month, this week we looked at the importance of Rosa Parks. We took notes from a piece of reading and a video. From our notes we created an information poster to show our understanding.

Ideas for home learning

Research further about Black history month and find out about important people who helped contribute to or change society.

Maths

We started working on the column method for subtraction and began exchanging or borrowing when the larger number was on the bottom of the sum. Here is a video to remind us.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy2mn39/articles/zc78srd

We have been learning more about shape and worked on calculating the area of a flat shape. We used the formula Length x Breadth = Area. We spoke about how useful this measurement is for life outside school.

Ideas for home learning

Work on finding the area of a right angle triangle by halving the formula above. We started this so you could work on it.

Have a fantastic holiday week

Mr Bothamley

Please find attached a summary of our learning this week. Thank you to the pupils who created this document. I wish you all a happy & safe holiday.

Hello!

Happy Friday!

We have had a great week this week…

Literacy

In Spelling, we focused on our rule ‘ly’. We know that this is a suffix and usually appears in adverbs, for example, slowly, quickly and silently. We are trying to remember that an adverb describes the verb. Please see our spelling words and activities to do at home from our post on Wednesday.

In Reading, we were learning how to take notes. We know we should try to find the key information and then write this in our words but not in sentences. We showed our notes through bullet points and mindmaps. Some of us then tried to create a factfile using our notes. We also were thinking about the context of a passage and using this to find missing words. We had to ensure we understood the text before choosing a word.

In Writing, this week we have been further developing our descriptive writing skills. We practised using a variety of descriptive words to help us and we worked on ‘characterisation’. We focused on thinking about good descriptive words and phrases to help create a clear picture of our chosen character from a book.

Activities to do at home:

• Try to take notes on whilst watching something at home(for example, Newsround or even a documentary)
• See our spelling document
• See the progress record for this week’s reading pages. Try summarising the main events of what you read to someone at home, focusing on key events
• Think about how the characters are described in your reading books (school or personal). Can you picture them in your head? What good wow words and phrases did the author use to describe them?

Maths and Numeracy

This week we have been consolidating our learning on 3D objects. We did well at remembering the names and properties of different 3D objects. We know we should describe them using language such as vertices (corners), faces and edges. Ask us what they mean if you don’t know!

In Numeracy we have been focusing on using a chimney for subtraction up to 3-digits. This week we introduced exchanging. We have been practising this all throughout the week and will continue to work on this next week.

Activities to do at home:

• Create a poster showing your learning about 3D objects

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

Practise subtracting one number from another both in your head and using the chimney sum strategy

Other areas of the curriculum

French – We were learning how to count (up to 30) in French. We enjoyed playing a game to practise our counting.

In our Free the Forest topic this week we have been discussing the resources that humans use from the rainforest. For example, wood for benches, tables, doors, medicine and palm oil for chocolate, shampoo and bodywash. We discussed the impact that this is having on orangutans

We hope you have a super holiday and look forward to seeing the children back on Tuesday 27th October.

Miss Martin and Miss Mangan