Category: Buckstone Primary School

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling words (CVC, CVCC, CCVC)
• Writing ‘Holiday’
• Writing Star Steps: use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops
• Sounding out and spelling oo and ew words
• Digraphs (oo and ew)
• oo words – book, cook, roof, boot, shoot
• ew words – flew, grew, new, few
• Dictation
• Tricky words (block 1 – 5)
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Subtraction within 30
• Chilli Challenge subtraction – in our new maths jotters!
• Time – reading the time on digital and analogue clocks
• o’clock and half past
• Quarter past and quarter to
• Counting in 5s
• Number formation

Reading

• Reading groups
• Reading out loud to the teacher
• reading to our ‘Learning Partner’
• Recalling information

P.E:

• Fitness – exercise video in class
• Joe Wicks fitness
• Yoga
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Monday – weekend whiteboard
• Tuesday – word building
• Wednesday – cursive letters
• Thursday – partner game
• Friday – ‘Just Dance’

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Lego/construction
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games 
• Bingo – led by the children
• Listening and talking activities

I am looking forward to the October Break because…………..

“I’m looking forward to spending time with my family” – Beth

“I’m looking forward to going to my Granny’s for a sleepover” – Scarlett

“I am looking forward to going running with my Daddy” – Louise

“I am going to playing with my baby brother” – Ella

“I am looking forward to getting a new toy and going in my campervan” – Lewis

“I am looking forward to my Birthday” – Connor

“I am looking forward to playing Lego with my Dad” – Roman

“I am looking to going to golf with my Dad” – Jack

“I am looking forward to training my dog” – Megan

Extra Information 

• If anyone has any unused/unloved Lego at home we would love to have it in class to add to our Learning Through Play activities – please don’t buy any new Lego!

Enjoy the October Break!

Have fun and stay safe,

Miss McGhee xxx

Hello Wonderful Wolves! Happy Friday and Happy Holidays too! 😊

It’s been such a fun and busy term so far and I can’t believe it is the holidays already! I hope you all have a lovely relaxing break and just a reminder that Monday 26th of October is an In-service Day so I will see you back in class on Tuesday 27th of October.

This week we have been very busy!

  In literacy we have covered:

• Feelings Monsters – writing super sentences, using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces 
• Writing Challenge Star Step: use a connecting word to extend the sentence
• Sounding out/blending/spelling CVC words
• Recap of the oo and ew sounds
•  Example oo words – food, hook, book, cool
•   Example ew words – new, dew, chew, few
• Phonics Sound Sorting Boards
•  Tricky Words (Block 1 – 8 PowerPoints are attached to this post, if you would like to practise at home)
•  Letter Formation
• 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
• Identifying the beginning, middle and end of a story
• Identifying the problem and solution in a story
• 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:

•  Numbers bonds to 10, 20 and 100
• Addition to 10, 20, 50 and beyond
• Addition with missing numbers (eg 3 + ? = 8)
• Identifying 2D shapes and their properties Identifying
• 3D shapes and their properties
• Shape sorting activities 
• Repeating patterns
• 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
• Cosmic Yoga
• What skills we are developing during P.E

Morning Starters:

•  Monday – Weekend Whiteboard
• Tuesday – Monster Pattern/Fine Motor Control Activity
• Wednesday -Maths Activity 2D shape
• Thursday – Literacy Activity 
• Friday – Numeracy Activity – Addition

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Role Play – Home Corner
• 3D shape problem solving puzzles
• Block Play
• Construction
• Arts and Crafts table
•  iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• 2D shape games
• Feelings Monsters 

I hope you have a lovely holiday everyone and I will see you back in class on Tuesday 27th October for another busy term filled with lots of fun learning!

Mrs Williamson x 😊

 

Please find below our reflections for the week. Have a wonderful October break everyone!!

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog.

We have had another very 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’.

Developing our vocabulary and using these interesting words in our own writing.

Exploring the qualities of a good mystery.

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.

Developing our writing skills by editing our drafts and publishing our ‘Ottoline and the Case of the Missing Text’.

Developing our joined-up cursive handwriting.

Presenting a weather forecast to the class.

Spelling– words with ‘ar’  and ‘or’

FANTASTIC– yard  shark  artist  alarm  carve  sharp                                                                           cork  forty  orbit  horse  form

SPECTACULAR– alarmed  alarming  large  enlarged                                                                               corkscrew  fortieth  inform  informing  information  uniform

Tricky words– only  little

Ideas for home learning:  Create an ‘a, ‘or’ wordsearch for your family. 

Maths

Rounding 2 and 3-digit numbers to the nearest 10.

Rounding 3- digit numbers to the nearest 100.

Identifying numbers that would round up or down to a multiple of 10.

Developing our knowledge of data handling.

Developing our use of compass points.

Using coordinates to find objects.

Locating towns in Scotland using coordinates as grid references.

Ideas for learning at home- Draw an 8 by 8 box grid. Label it A-H along the bottom, 1-8 up the way. Draw characters, pictures or coloured shapes in some of them. Invent a game using your grid.

Mental Agility

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

Developing the skill to give change from £5 and £10.

Doubling 2- digit numbers.

Ideas for home learning- Set up a shop. Write out some price tickets less than £1. For example – 56p, 34p. Put the prices on your soft toys or books. Ask a member of your family to come and buy an item. What change would you give them if they paid with £1  £5  £10. Extra Challenge- they buy 2 items.

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

We are learning how to listen carefully- what this looks like and sounds like.

Working cooperatively- making a positive contribution to the team.

I.D.L.-

Developing our music skills.

Developing our observational drawing skills.

Developing our knowledge of Scotland.

Developing our knowledge of weather maps and symbols.

Developing our knowledge of weather, using the correct vocabulary.

Creating our own Autumn weather maps of Scotland. According to our P4W forecasters some lovely weather is expected over Scotland. Let’s hope we can experience some of that next week!

Enjoy a relaxing holiday, everyone!

After the holiday, we look forward to welcoming Mrs Ling to our P4 Wonderful Woodland Team!

Good morning! We hope you had a lovely week. We had a busy week full of learning and fun, this is what we have been up to:

Literacy

• We have continued to use reading books in school. 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.
• We continue to introduce and reinforce some single sounds and have been using them to create and read words. This week’s letters were o and g, and we made words including hot, not, mop, dog and got.
• We enjoy listening to and discussing a wide range of texts.
• We have continued to work on our pre -writing skills.
• This week our writing was: ‘I am outside. It is Autumn’ . We did our writing after our wonderful walk in the woods. Look at our detailed drawings!

Home learning ideas

Please support us by spending time at home practising the skills of blending sounds to create and read words. Not too long but a little time every day is the best way to do it.

Please check your child’s purple folder regularly as occasionally we will send home learning ideas.

• Download the document below.   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)
• Spend time reading books at home. Reading to your child is an excellent way of increasing your child’s vocabulary. You could use the reading caterpillar that we sent in the purple folder to make questions about the text you read to your child.

Numeracy

• We have been exploring numbers to 10 20, or 30.
• 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 explored doing doubles to 5.
• 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
• We have learning how to make a number (3-10) using different fingers: for 6 : 2 and 4, 5 and 1, 3 and 3. We have started doing the same using counters (0-10), we will work on number bonds to 10 after the holidays.

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Home learning ideas

• We listened to this song. Maybe you would like to listen to it at home:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHuuuh9GgP8
• 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.

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE:

We are practising throwing, catching and passing a ball (big ones and small ones). It is quite tricky, so please keep practising at home.

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: 

What a fantastic time we had yesterday at the woods! It was lovely to see all children exploring, helping each other and having a wonderful time.

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Independent Learning

Other information

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).

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 a great one! It has been lovely being back at school, we missed it very much. We had the pleasure of having your children on their first day ever at school (what a privilege!) and it is lovely to getting to know them a little bit better every day. They are all fantastic: they are a lovely, caring and welcoming class, a credit to you all!

We hope you have a wonderful break!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

P7H, well done for getting to the October holidays! You have all worked so hard, and have had one of the toughest first terms any P7 have had in many years. Everyone has done such a good job at adapting and following the new rules to keep each person in the school safe and you have all set an excellent example to younger classes to follow. We have lots of exciting things for next term so make sure you come back well rested and ready to learn! Enjoy your holidays – you have earned them! Mrs Haynes 🙂

Literacy

This week we wrote an imaginative story as if we were an animal on Kensuke’s Island. We had to include similes and metaphors in it and make sure that we recorded our animals thought and feelings about Michael being on the island.

Our spelling sound was le and ly. Remember to look up some words in the dictionary to challenge yourself with spelling this week.

We also did a comprehension on Tsunamis. We had to make sure we wrote our answers in sentences.

Maths

This week we were focusing on dividing decimals! We divided by 10, 100 and 1000 as well as multiples of these numbers e.g. 400.

We found a cheat for dividing with decimals – if you divide by 10 then you just move the decimal forward one space.

The hot group did some decimal problem solving using calculators.

IDL

We made our natural artwork using leaves. Have a look at what we made in the pictures below.

We also had to try and escape the international space station! We had to use lots of problem solving skills as well as literacy, maths and general knowledge. https://eo-cdt.org/escape-room/

In natural disasters we started to learn about hurricanes. We discovered how they are formed and how they are measured.

To help develop reading, listening and talking skills we are going to give talks to the class about your favourite book!

Your talk should cover the following:

• The title of the book.
• The name of the author.
• The name of the illustrator.
• A summary of the story (remember the summarising skills we have been learning).
• A description of the main character; what is he / she like?
• What your favourite part of the book is, and why.
• How you would rate the book out of five (e.g. how many stars would you give it?)

You may want to make and use notes to help you when you give your talk or make a poster to help you (if you wish).

We will begin listening to the presentation talks during the week beginning 2 November.

I’m really looking forward to hearing all about your favourite books! Think carefully about what book you will do you talk about!

Good afternoon,

Apologises for the delay in this week’s words..

Have a lovely day,

Miss Martin

We would like you to prepare a talk to give to the class about your favourite book.

Your talk should cover the following:

• The title of the book.
• The name of the author.
• The name of the illustrator.
• A summary of the story (remember the summarising skills we have been learning).
• A description of the main character; what is he / she like?
• What your favourite part of the book is, and why.
• How you would rate the book out of five (e.g. how many stars would you give it?)

You may use notes to help you when you give your talk, if you wish.

We will begin listening to talks during the week beginning 2 November.

We’re really looking forward to hearing all about your favourite books!

Dear Parents / Carers

Your child has been given an A4 sheet of paper with the blocks of ‘tricky’ words they learned to read in P1 and P2. As these are words that appear often, in the English language, pupils are likely to use them in their writing and we would like them to develop their confidence when spelling these words.

Further to an assessment, the words your child needs to work on have been highlighted on the sheet. The blocks assessed, at this stage, have also been highlighted. This means that although your child might not have any words highlighted in blocks 5 and 6, for example, these blocks may not have been assessed at this stage.

We have asked your child to learn to spell their highlighted words. These can be worked on over a period of time. It may be that they choose one or two to work on per week, in addition to the spelling lists we are learning.

We have one or two assessments to complete, but all sheets should have been sent home by Wednesday. If your child has lost their sheet, please just let us know by writing a note in your child’s reading record (and letting them know so they will show it to one of us).

Thank you for your support.

Mrs Bailey and Mrs Munro