Category: Buckstone Primary School

Please find attached our learning summary and spelling words for this week. Thank you to all the children who helped compile the summary.

Hello Wonderful Wolves and Happy Friday! 😊

Useful Information:

• Next week I will be sending home a pack with the children. This will include reading stage word lists, tricky word lists, reading rockets to support questioning during reading at home and also a copy of the sound diagraphs we have already covered and plan to cover this term. I hope you will find them useful in supporting your child’s learning. 

Reminders:

• Please could I remind you that reading books are handed out on a Monday and should come to school every day with your child. The books will be collected in on a Thursday allow us to “quarantine” the books over the weekend and swap them with other groups/classes for the following week. Thank you for your support with this.
• Could I please ask that you return your child’s blue Learning Story folder to school if you have not already done so. Thank you.
• Please label all items of school uniform as we don’t have access to a lost property box – thank you.

  In literacy we have covered:

• Reading sentences independently and drawing pictures to match
• Re-cap of sounding out and blending
• Digraphs (-y and igh)
• -y words – fly, shy, cry, fly, magnify, July
• igh words – light, night, fight, high, flight, bright
• Tricky Words (Block 1 – 5 PowerPoints are attached to this post, if you would like to practise at home)
• Reading individually and in small groups
• Reading comprehension strategies; visualisation and recalling main parts e.g. characters and settings, beginning, middle and end and problems and solutions
• Word searches and Boggle

Here is a link the PowerPoints of our Block 1 -5  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

Reading:

• 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

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Numbers bonds to 10, 20 and 100
• Exploring hundreds, tens and units
• Partitioning Numbers
• Addition to 10, 20, 30 and beyond
• Creating repeating patterns/shape
• Sequencing and ordering numbers to 10, 20 100 and beyond
• Chilli Challenge addition

Here are links to a selection of differentiated online games to support your child’s learning at home:

Number Bonds

Place Value Charts

Place Value Basketball

Pattern Blocks

Shape Patterns

P.E:

Our P.E days are a Monday and Wednesday.

This week for P.E we focused on:

• Fitness – circuits/jogging
• Cosmic Yoga
• What skills we are developing during P.E

Morning Starters:

• Tuesday – Weekend Whiteboard
• Wednesday – Fine Motor Control Activity
• Thursday – Literacy Activity
• Friday – Numeracy activity

I hope you have a lovely, relaxing weekend – the weather looks like it should be nice!

Mrs Williamson x 😊

 

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling CVC words
• Independent writing: ‘Super Me’
• Sounding out and spelling igh and -y words
• Digraphs (igh and -y)
• igh words – high, night, light, fight, knight
• -y words – sky, spy, fry, fly, cry
• Dictation
• Tricky words
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups – in class
• Reading sent home

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Number bonds to 10
• Number bonds to 20
• Addition to 10, 20 and beyond
• Addition with missing numbers (eg 5 + ? = 9)
• Exploring tens and units
• Partitioning Numbers
• Chilli Challenge addition
• Number Bingo
• Number formation

Reading

• Reading groups
• Reading out loud to the teacher
• Recalling information
• Sense and non-sense sentences
• Exploring sentence structure

P.E:

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

Morning Starters:

• Tuesday – weekend whiteboard
• Wednesday – word building
• Thursday – cursive handwriting
• Friday – Music activity

 

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games

 

Extra Information 

• E days are now Monday and Wednesday

Have a lovely weekend – have fun and stay safe!

Miss McGhee

The end of another busy week in the Golden Treasures class; we hoped you all enjoyed the Monday holiday.

Here’s what we’ve been learning this week.

Literacy

• P2s and P3s- continuing to revise our tricky words from Block 1 and 2- reading and spelling
• P2s- revising ew/oo sound, for example, chew, few, zoo, room
• P3s- spelling words where we need to double the consonant at the end for example, words with ss, ff, zz, ll endings, for example, hiss, huff, buzz, will
• Reading- continuing to work on our fluency skills and making predictions about our reading books.
• Reading- finishing our class novel George’s Marvellous Medicine and starting to read James and the Giant Peach.
• Handwriting- continuing to practise our cursive letter formation. We are working on curly caterpillar letters– we have practised c, a and o. We practise cursive writing throughout the school. At the moment we are continuing to work on our letter formation and are not joining our letters yet.
• Writing- continuing to work on what makes a super sentence? We wrote a piece of big writing using what we had learned.

Ideas for home learning

• Write down some words containing your spelling pattern using really fancy writing.
• Make a prediction about a book/story/tv show you haven’t watched before based on its title and and front cover/pictures. Share your predictions as a family.
• Can you write a super sentence at home that starts with a capital and ends with a full stop? What about writing a sentence that will end in a question mark?

block-1-and-2-tricky-wordsDownloadspelling-activitiesDownloadletter-formation-handwriting-sheet-with-rhymes-continuous-cursiveDownload

Numeracy and Maths

• Saying numbers sequences forwards and backwards from a variety of starting points
• Saying the next three numbers in a sequence for example 20….21, 22, 23
• Sequencing and ordering numbers from smallest to largest and from largest to smallest
• Counting in tens both forwards and backwards from different starting points.
• Consolidating our understanding of place value, linking this to money.
• Reading and displaying information in charts: using tallies to record totals and displaying information in a pictogram. Starting to find out about Venn diagrams.
• Practising answering our ‘learn-it’ sums as quickly as possible.

Ideas for home learning

• Practise counting in tens- challenge: how far can you go? Can you count backwards too?
• Can you use tally marks to collect some information at home? Ideas could be counting the number of knives, forks and spoons in your cutlery drawer. Challenge: you could try to put this information into a pictogram of your own.

Other Areas

• Outdoor PE- fitness circuits and running- please remember to wear PE kit for school on a Tuesday and Thursday
• Continuing our learning about sound in science. We used our listening skills to figure out as many of the sounds as we could in a quiz. We’ve attached the link below in case you want another go at home.
• French- revising French greetings including bonjour, bon nuit, au revoir, and ca va?
• Drawing our own upside down houses in the style of Quentin Blake, using The Twits as our inspiration.

Ideas for home learning

• Have a short conversation at home using the French words you can remember. Listen to the French greetings song we enjoyed in class:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkJ88ygPY0
• Have another go at the sounds quiz below:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1m4h79JZso

Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs Graham and Mrs Tweedie

Hello, I hope you have all had a lovely week.

Literacy

In literacy we have been putting a lot of work into our descriptive writing, focusing mainly on ‘setting the scene’ (describing the setting). This week we used these skills and moved on to ‘Characterization’, where we describe a character’s appearance, personality and any other traits they have. We were delighted to use Hagrid as our character to describe. We were focusing on using ‘WOW’ words and phrases for this. For example; ‘he had a grizzly, matted beard’, ‘Hagrid is like a gentle giant’ and ‘his voice was booming like thunder’. We created a character profile for Hagrid that will help us next week with our descriptive writing.  

In reading we focused on picking out key information. This helped us create concise summaries of our reading books so far. We also practised highlighting key information in a passage and taking notes in our own words. We used mind maps and bullet points to do this. We then used our notes to create a fact file. Picking out the important information and note taking are skills we will continue to work on.

Things to do at home –

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?

Please see spelling document posted on Monday

Maths and Numeracy

This week in maths we have been focusing on mental addition strategies. We have been working through a variety of addition sums and discussing how we got the answer. For example, 46 + 51, we borrowed the 1 and added it to the 46, which then became 47 + 50. This made the calculation much simpler for us to do in our heads. We then made posters explaining out mental addition strategies.

For spelling this week we focused on the names of shapes.

Things to do at home –

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

Practise adding two values together in your head (these can be numbers that you see or make up). Think about the strategy that you used to get the answer. Challenge yourself with the numbers that you use

Other curricular areas

• For our Free the Forest topic and science, we became experts on different plants that can be found in the rainforest. We worked in small groups and researched the plant, focusing on why is grows in that climate, and created posters to present to the class to teach them about each plant
• In French we researched France itself. We looked for the capital city, monuments, holiday destinations and population
• For art we continued looking at Henri Rousseau’s art. We use his ‘Tiger in a Tropical Storm’ painting as inspiration. We used collage to create our own versions of this famous painting, focusing on creating depth and layers

Have a great weekend!

Miss Mangan

Hello and welcome to our Reflective Friday . . . .

Please can you make sure your child has a pencil, sharpener and rubber when they come to school. This is much appreciated!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Reflective Friday –25.9.20 William, Rebecca M, Alfie, Roni, Emily and Iggy P7H 

Literacy 

In spelling we did our P7 words after that we tried to find words that had they same spelling pattern like ou and ow 

We read ch5 of our class novel Kensuke’s kingdom and tried to find the different emotions and interfering Michael felt 

We were planning for our discursive essay on daleks staying in Buckstone or not to stay. We looked at ‘signpost words’ and what makes a good essay.  

Numeracy/ Maths-Iggy Emily  In maths this week we have been doing chimney sums with decimal points including adding and taking away. On Tuesday and Friday, we did numeracy ninjas most of us got blue belt or red belt. On Friday we did a morning challenge called count down, to play you must follow these rules, you get six numbers, with the six numbers you have to  make one big number.` 

IDL/other Alfie and Roni 

• In topic this week we made volcanos out of newspaper and paper cuts/rolls. After we sculpted our volcanoes, we used a mixture of hot water and PVA glue to smooth it out. We also researched about Composite, shield and cinder cone volcanoes along with Pyroclastic flows.
• We tried to figure out what type of trees are by using a guide in the P7 area.
• In PE this week we played a new tactical game called Capture the flag. We got split into two teams and the goal was to bring the other team’s flag back to your side to win.

What we enjoyed 

• We enjoyed making the volcanoes 
•  We enjoyed planning for the discuses easy  
•   We enjoyed numeracy ninjas 

Next steps/home learning 

You could practice your times tables 

You could practice some words you find hard                 

You could practice your decimal column sums 

Other things….

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.

Hello everyone!

It has been another busy week of learning in P4W.

We have been developing skills across the curriculum.

 

Literacy

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

We are finding information about the main characters and identifying character traits using evidence in the text.

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

We are finding information about the characters and asking questions.

Finding information in a text.

Developing our writing skills, using adjectives to describe characters and a scene.

Developing our knowledge of sentence structure.

Developing our joined-up cursive handwriting.

Developing our knowledge of speech marks.

 

Spelling- Adding the suffix ‘ed’.

Root words containing short vowel plus 2 consonants add ‘ed’.

Root words containing long vowel sounds- add ‘ed’.

 

FANTASTIC- helped  thanked  jumped  haunted  enjoyed  planted  painted  wanted  reached  granted

SECTACULAR– murdered  explained  haunted  gasped  fainted  stranded clamped  tramped  happened  received

Tricky words – there, their

Ideas for home learning :Work backwards! Find words with an ‘ed’ suffix in the book you are reading. Write down the root word.

 

Maths

Reading and writing 4-digit numbers in words and digits.

Comparing and ordering 4- digit numbers.

Adding and subtracting multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 using 4- digit numbers.

Using > and < symbols to compare numbers and create mathematical sentences.

Counting on and back from a given number.

Identifying numbers on number lines.

Working out the intervals on scales and identifying the positions of numbers.

Using our knowledge of 4- digit numbers in real- life- comparing and ordering the height of mountains. Using < and > to make statements about the heights.

Ideas for home learning– play a TRUE or FALSE game. Draw two columns – one with false as the title, one with true. Each player writes down a statement using either the < or > symbols.

For example 4025 > 4250 . The other player decides if the statement is true or false and places it in the correct column.

Mental Agility

Recalling number facts quickly and accurately.

Explaining our strategies for making addition calculations.

Recalling doubles quickly and accurately.

Developing our knowledge of the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

Doubling 2 and 3-digit numbers.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-buttonl

Choose number bonds and doubles. Challenge yourself!

 

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.

 

Social Skills

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

Being a supportive learning partner and team member.

Making a positive contribution to cooperative tasks.

 

 

I.D.L.- Creating our own maps of Scotland

Developing our knowledge of Scotland.

Developing our ICT skills.

Developing our research skills.

Developing our knowledge of weather maps and symbols.

 

Have a lovely weekend, everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good afternoon,

Hope you enjoyed the long weekend. Here are this week’s spelling words – shape themed words this week!

Have a great week!

Miss Martin