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Buckstone Primary School

P2M Magic Monkeys 09.10.2020

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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: ‘My Feelings’
  • Writing Star Steps: use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops
  • Sounding out and spelling oa and ow words
  • Digraphs (oa and ow)
  • oa words – boat, coat, soap, float
  • ow words – row, bow, crow, window
  • Dictation
  • Tricky words (block 1 – 5)
  • Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
  • Reading Groups
  • Reading sent home

In Numeracy we have covered:

  • Addition to 10, 20 and beyond
  • Introduction to time
  • o’clock and half past
  • Quarter past and quarter to
  • Counting in 5s
  • Time Bingo
  • Number Bingo
  • 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
  • What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

  • Monday – weekend whiteboard
  • Tuesday – music
  • Wednesday – word building
  • Thursday – cursive letters
  • Friday – partner game

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

French

  • Greetings
  • Numbers/counting
  • Colours  

Something I have enjoyed learning this week:

I enjoyed writing about our feelings – Lily

I enjoyed handwriting – Mahdis

I enjoyed Tens and Units and reading groups – Louise

I enjoyed doing Maths – Scarlett

I’ve enjoyed doing the sound oa/ow – Eesha

I enjoyed doing digital clocks and analogue clocks – Eliza

I like P.E – Jack

I enjoyed reading – Megan

I like doing adding, reading and tens and units – Roman

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!

Have a lovely weekend – have fun and stay safe!

Miss McGhee

Buckstone Primary School

P5M – What we have been learning this week 09.10.20

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Good afternoon – Happy Friday!

This week has been busy! Have a look at what we have been up to…

Maths

In Numeracy this week we have been focusing on using the chimney sum for written subtraction. We started off working with 2-digit numbers and really pushed ourselves on to 3-digit numbers. We also used our outdoor learning time to play some maths games focusing on problem solving strategies.

Activities to do at home:

Teach someone at home how to do a chimney sum

Literacy

This week P5M have been focusing on developing our reading skills. We used our noting skills to bullet point the main events in our reading books and then using this to write a sort summary. We also spent some time working in pairs answering different questions about a text to develop our comprehension.

Please see the document posted on Monday for the spelling rule and for activities to do at home.

Activities to do at home:

Read to someone

Try to write a summary about something you are reading at home

Other

Health and wellbeing – We started our building resilience programme. We focused on the different strategies we can use to help us build our resilience

Free the Forest – We have been learning more about food chains and food webs this week. We worked in small groups to create our own, starting with a producer followed by a primary consumer, secondary consumer and a decomposer.

Assembly – We worked really hard to present an assembly to Mrs Ritchie for her Retirement. We did a great job at presenting and had such good posters/art work to show – well done everyone!

Have a great weekend!

Buckstone Primary School

P2W Wonderful Wolves 09.10.2020

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Hello Wonderful Wolves and Happy Friday! 😊

It’s been another busy week in P2. Thank you to everyone for joining me at parent’s evening this week.

  In literacy we have covered:

  • Writing super sentences, using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces
  • Independent writing: ‘Super Me’.
  • Writing Challenge Star Step: use a WOW word (adjective)
  • Reading sentences independently and drawing pictures to match
  • Single sounds of the alphabet
  • Sounding out/blending/spelling CVC words
  •  Digraphs (oo and ew)
  •  Example oo words – food, hook, book, cool
  •   Example ew words – new, dew, chew, few
  •  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
  •  Designing a new front cover
  • Identifying the setting of 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
  • Exploring hundreds, tens and units
  • Partitioning Numbers
  • Addition to 10, 20, 50 and beyond
  • Addition with missing numbers (eg 3 + ? = 8)
  • Identifying 2D shapes and their properties
  • Creating 2D shape posters
  • Doubles
  • Chilli Challenge addition

P.E:

Our P.E days are a Monday and Wednesday.

This week for P.E we focused on:

  • Fitness – circuits/ exercise video in class
  • Cosmic Yoga
  • What skills we are developing during P.E

Morning Starters:

  •  Monday – Weekend Whiteboard
  • Tuesday – 2D Shape/Fine Motor Control Activity
  • Wednesday – Literacy Activity
  • Thursday – Numeracy Activity
  • Friday – Handwriting Activity/Fine Motor Control

Learn Through Play Activities:

  • Role Play – Home Corner
  • Marble Run
  • Block Play
  • Construction
  • Arts and Crafts table
  •  iPads (literacy and numeracy)
  • 2D shape games/mindfulness colouring
  • Funky Fingers (fine motor control)

I hope you have a lovely, fun weekend!

Mrs Williamson x 😊

 

Buckstone Primary School

P7H – 9.10.20

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Reflective Friday – Katie, Korey,Aysu,Ariana, Fergus and Charlie    9/10/20 

Literacy 

This week in spelling we looked at the pattern ‘le’ at the end of words. Some examples of these words would be disentangled, tentacle, axle & wrinkle. We then each completed a spelling game to practice them.  

We looked characterisation on our class novel Kensukes Kingdon. We came up with 6 times in a chapter where we thought Michael or Kensuke were felling different emotions. We then wrote a sentence about why we thought they were felling that way. 

Numeracy/ Maths 

In maths this week we have been learning about using our times tables to help us with larger sums like 46 times 500. First we would do 46 times 5 and then we would move the number that we got up 2 place value, here is a prove it sheet made by Ariana and Aysu. 

For numeracy ninjas there was 2 new champions that got 30 on their score and the champions were Iggy and Belle (Darcey got 30 last week and this week.) 

IDL/other 

This week we worked more on our volcano PowerPoints we also shared them with our table and discussed the pros and cons of our research. Instead of doing more natural disasters we looked into a painting called “the great wave of Kanagawa” first we sketched the outline of the painting secondly, we painted the background with different colours and contrasts thirdly, we painted the wave, the boats then mount fuji. We also did leaf art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy earlier in the week. It is making a pattern round a tree make each line different colours like red then orange then yellow. We didn’t manage to finish them as it was too windy and all the leaves blew away. We are planning to do it next week (if it is not windy). 

What we enjoyed 

We enjoyed doing ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ artwork. 

 We liked doing the leaf artwork and it was very enjoyable and fun.  

We enjoyed RME and learning about the 5 main religions in the world. 

Next steps/home learning 

You could make some leaf artwork outside using the autumn colours. 

Try and work on your times tables if your struggling in maths, we are going to be using these lots over the next few months!!! 

You could practise your spelling, look up words in the dictionary to challenge yourself. 

Buckstone Primary School

P4W Wonderful Woodland 9 October 2020

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Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog.

It was good to have the opportunity to speak to you this week.

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.

Reading for pleasure- lots of us have been enjoying the Jill Tomlinson series of books.

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

Developing our writing skills, using adjectives to describe how the main characters are feeling.

Developing our knowledge of sentence structure.

Developing our joined-up cursive handwriting.

Developing our knowledge of speech marks.

Developing our comprehension skills- we are experts on the signs of Autumn!

Answering questions in sentences.

Spelling– A short vowel o sound immediately before l is made by using a- not o.

Silent l before k- the same rule applies.

FANTASTIC– talk  talked talking walk walked walking chalk salt halt halted

SECTACULAR-talkative  alteration  alternative  alter  scalded  false  stalking  Maltesers  walkie- talkie

Tricky words– were where

Ideas for home learning:  Draw a beautiful, tall tree with Autumn leaves. Write a spelling word on each leaf and again on the leaves that have fallen on the ground.  

Maths

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

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

Using our rounding skills to estimate the answers to calculations.

Ideas for learning at home- Digit rounding -use the digits from a phone number and to 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

Mental Agility

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

Using our addition facts for trickier calculations.

Ideas for home learning- Say the 2, 5 and 10 times tables out loud, whisper them, say them with a voice like The Yellow Cat.

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.-

Creating our team, large scale maps of Scotland.

Developing our knowledge of Scotland.

Developing our knowledge of weather maps and symbols.

Have a lovely weekend!

Buckstone Primary School

P1Tigers Reflective Friday 9th October

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We had our class photo taken to share at assembly today. We said Goodbye to Mrs Ritchie as she starts her retirement.

Literacy

  • We have started using reading 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 letters were e and h, and we made words including hen, men, and hat
  • We enjoy listening to and discussing a wide range of texts including stories called Marvellous Max, Ada Twist – Scientist, and  Rosie Revere -Engineer

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 e h  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 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 patterns Pairs 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
  • Counting and number recognition
  • We have been learning to copy, create and continue patterns

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:

PE – we have been 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: 

We looked for signs of Autumn and collected some beautiful leaves

We also learned how to make rubbings of different textures and patterns in the playground..

Independent learning:

These are some photos of the learning through play that we had the opportunity to experience this week:

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.

Purple book bags

Each P1 pupil will shortly be given a purple book bag. Although at the moment reading books are not being sent home, we would like the children to bring the purple bag to school each day. It will be used to send home any paper communications which are required, and for the return of any forms. If the children have drawings or worksheets which they have completed in school then they will bring them home in the purple bags too. The children’s snack can also be popped in the bag, negating the need to bring a bulky schoolbag. Lunch bags and water bottles can be carried separately. If your child has a Tupperware type lunch box rather than one with a handle, it can be brought in a lightweight carrier bag such as one from a supermarket. We appreciate that the children love the novelty of having a special schoolbag, but current covid related restrictions on cloakrooms and storage of bags make it tricky to store the large quantity of rucksacks appropriately.

Please check and empty your child’s book bag daily to avoid a large build up of contents which may hide important communications.

Thank you for your continued support.

  • The children’s spare clothes are kept in the classroom in the cubby holes close to their shoes.
  • It would be really helpful if all your child’s items could be labelled (packed lunches and water bottles too)
  • Please be mindful when choosing a snack for your child: make sure your child can open it independently. We are also a nut-free school.
  • We politely ask that you give your child only water in their bottles.
  • We still have no claimants for the lost property items which we posted two weeks ago, please have another look to see if you recognise anything.

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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Buckstone Primary School

P3C Outdoor Learning – Loose Parts

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On Friday morning P3C will have access to the Loose Parts equipment in the woodland area of our playground. This is a great opportunity to develop exploration through imaginative play. The class really enjoyed exploring and experimenting with the loose parts in September.

Loose parts are open ended resources for play, which can be put together, taken apart, moved and coordinated in various ways, and which allow the freedom of motivation to play, which is child led, imaginative and creative. Loose Parts play allows the opportunity to identify and assess risks within resources and various types of play. It allows experience of problem solving, teamwork, negotiation and co-operation, all while nurturing the development of self-confidence and physical skills like agility, balance and co-ordination.

It is likely that children will get muddy whilst using this equipment – especially if it rains overnight or on Friday morning (it’s not forecast but we all know the weather can change quickly!). It may be best if your child comes to school in older clothes on Friday (9th October) which you don’t mind getting muddy.

Thanks, Mr Campbell

Buckstone Primary School

P3 Spelling 5.10.20

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This week, our focus is on ‘ea’ making a long ‘e’ sound. We have two common words to learn too. At home, work on the list you chose in class.

tea

meat

east

steal

cheat

beast

beach

scream

speaking

reaching

little 

down

Challenge Words

dream

leaf

Easter

cheating

beastly

screaming

reached

cheater

steal

steel

little

down