Category: Buckstone Primary School

Here are this week’s words. There is a double consonant after the short vowel sound in all of the words. We also have two common words to revise / learn this week, as usual.

Please work on the list you chose in class. Dictations will be on Friday.

pass

grass

dress

cliff

staff

will

shell

whizz

spilling

buzzing

live

like

Challenge Word List

passed

grassy

dressed

willed

shelled

whizzed

spilled

buzzed

bitter

grilled

live

like

Please can you check with your child that they still have all of the equipment they need for their learning in school. This should include: writing pencils (at least two would be very helpful), coloured pencils, rubber, sharpener. Thank you!

Spelling

P2s- revision of the ew/oo sound for example: chew, few, grew/ pool, zoo, foot

Revision of tricky words.

P3s- double consonant endings- for example, ss, zz, ll and ff.

Your child will have chosen either the core or challenge list in class.

Core list: pass, grass, dress, cliff, staff, will, shell, whizz, spilling, buzzing

Challenge list: passed, grassy, dressed, willed, shelled, whizzed, spilled, buzzed, bitter, grilled

Tricky words: live, like

Reading

New reading books will come home today (Tuesday). Please remember to bring in your book every day so that you can work on tasks in class. We will collect books in on a Thursday. Most children are remembering their books every day- well done Golden Treasures!

We are continuing to work on reading with fluency. Practise reading as much as you can at home. Keep practising reading the tricky words.

Hope you have all had a lovely long weekend, my apologies for our reflections being delayed this week. I had some ICT issues on Friday.

Literacy

Our spelling pattern was

• Suffixing ing / ed to root words ending in consonant + y.
• When suffixing with ing the root word does not change.
• When suffixing with ed change y to i then add ed

crying                             cried

trying                             tried

pitying                           pitied

studying                         studied

burying                          buried

applying                         applied

We concentrated on our descriptive skills this week for writing. We created a paragraph about a picture and thought about how we could use up levelled vocabulary to improve them.

We also began to learn about the skills of taking notes, we used a piece of reading about our sight and took notes of what information we thought was important.

Ideas for home learning

Writing really basic sentences and then using our editing skills to up level and improve the sentence.

Maths

We continued to work on understanding the value of digits in numbers up to 100,000, we looked at what ‘more than’ and ‘less than’ mean and used the appropriate symbols to help us.

We have been learning more about 3D objects. We were looking at the properties of different shapes by using real life objects and also P.E to help us.

Ideas for home learning

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=bingoaddition

Other areas

We started looking at the work of the famous artist, Henri Rousseau. We discussed how his work really fits in with our environment topic. We practised our sketching skills using plants and trees as a key feature.

We were learning how to use Microsoft Teams.

Mr Bothamley

Welcome to the Primary 1 Lion’s blog!

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: ‘p’ and ‘n’.

When we learn a new sound, we love watching Geraldine the Giraffe to help introduce the new learning. You could watch these again at home. (video below) We also learn the jolly phonics song for each sound. This week we even pretended to be noisy aeroplanes flying around the classroom. The full list of jolly phonics songs is linked below, find the sounds we know and have a practice at home!

We enjoyed painting pink pigs and noisy aeroplanes to help us learn the new sounds. We also enjoyed practising all the sounds we know so far outside. We drew the letters with chalk, made the letters out of leaves, sticks and rocks and also practised writing them in the sand pit. Some P1s also wrote words using the sounds we had learned so far. Here is what we did.

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We also did our first piece of writing this week. We talked about a time when they had to reach up high for something. We walked around the classroom pretending to reach up high for something, imagining what it was and why we wanted it. We also thought about if there was anyone else around to help us reach it and where exactly it was, for example, up high in the sky, on a big tree, on top of a tall shelf etc. We then told our story in a picture where we had to draw a very detailed and colourful picture. Well done P1 for completing your first piece of writing!

Here is our 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.

We also have continued to practise writing numbers with the help of our number animal friends. Each number has a story which helps the children to remember what the number looks like. This week we learned about Six, Seven and Eight. The children have loved learning how to write the numbers with the help of the animals!

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 also started our castles topic. This is our first child-led topic in P1 and we have had such a fun week! Last week the children had been writing letters to Kings and Queens, building castles in the brick corner and playing pretend games in the house corner. This was the perfect stimulus for the topic and on Tuesday we planned what we would like to learn about. We talked about what we knew already about castles, what we would like to learn and how we would like to learn about castles. We then learned all about the different parts of a castle, went on a virtual tour of Edinburgh Castle and watched some videos about what castles were like a long time ago. We also learned about the different people who lived in castles and created our own Coat of Arms/Royal Crests. We also designed our own castles we would like to live in. To finish the week off, we created a giant castle together which has transformed our house corner into a great big lovely castle! Thank you to everyone who has provided materials for next week’s learning where each child will be building their own mini castle.

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This week we also tried something new. After lunch time and playing outside, we sometimes were a little bit too energetic. So everyday we have been coming inside from lunch and doing a very brief mindfulness meditation. This allows us to relax and calm down after having lots of fun outside and settle us before continuing learning. The children are becoming experts and meditating and finding ways to relax and calm themselves. Have a practise at home, if you have time!

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

• It would be lovely if all P1s could practice recognising and writing their own name. This is something which will help with the daily routines in P1 and a vital skill to assist their learning. You could practice making your name out of materials found in your garden, creating it out of playdough, writing it in sand or colouring it in.
• Ask your child to give you X amount of various things. For example sticks, leaves, stones. Whatever you can find. This will help with our counting skills.
• 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.
• Ask and adult to clap their hands so many times, can you count how many times they clapped? For an extra tricky challenge try clapping your hands at different speeds, for example 2 slow and 3 quick. Can your child count the number of claps?
• Practice making words out of the sounds we have learned so far – ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘p’ 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 castles by talking to someone in your family? This would be great for both our castles topic and talking and listening skills.

P1 Lion’s Favourite Things of the Week!

“I enjoyed playing in the castle with Islay.” – Georgie

“I enjoyed learning about castles.” – Maximos

“I enjoyed drawing at the craft table.” – Alistair

“I enjoyed making cakes with the numicon with Joe.” – Jack

“I enjoyed learning all about the castles.” – Barney

“I enjoyed making chocolate factories and hotels in the brick corner.” – Murray

Happy Weekend!

• Some parents have been asking about parents evening. We still do not know what format this will take place in yet but they will be the week of 5.10.20. If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
• Also, it would be greatly appreciated if you could drop off and collect your child from the top of the steps in the upper playground. The small courtyard outside the classroom sometimes becomes too busy, especially now with 3 classes dismissing in this area.
• P.E will be on Mondays and Thursdays – please come dressed and ready for P.E. (only on Thursday next week)
• This was emailed home regarding reading in P1. Here is another copy in case you didn’t see it.

Thank you for your continued support with your child’s learning and time in school, it is greatly appreciated. I hope you have a lovely long weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!

From Miss McGillivray

Another very busy week!

Literacy

This week we finished our class novel ‘A Kind of Spark’. We really enjoyed learning about the main character Addie, who is autistic. We agreed that we all admire her resilience and persistence when faced with a problem. We analysed her character traits and used evidence from the text to explain our reasoning.

We have now started a new novel called ‘Friend or Foe’ by Michael Morpurgo. It is set in World War 2 and follows the story of a boy called David when he is evacuated to the countryside. A home learning opportunity could be to find out more about the evacuations during Word War 2.

Our spelling this week focussed on the rule: tion says /shun/ in the final syllable.  This is the most regularly used spelling of the sound /shun/ as a final syllable. 

Super	Fantastic	Spectacular
election ignition education attention friction invitation operation condition question creation	nation relation solution fiction caution function addition ambition pollution reputation	assumption corruption ammunition aspiration illumination conversation presentation precipitation investigation concentration

Can you find more examples of these words?

Our group reading homework is due for Tuesday 22nd September, please see the reading record for pages to be read.

We learned how to make a time line in Microsoft word. We mapped out the key events in our class novel and added these to the template. We will be using this skill again soon with our group novels. You can practice this at home by following this link with instructions:

https://www.smartsheet.com/blog/how-make-timeline-microsoft-word#download-our-free-timeline-template-in-word

Numeracy

In Numeracy we applied our knowledge of rounding to real life contexts and word problems such as football stadium capacities and distances between countries. If you would like to investigate this further, you could research the populations of different countries and round these to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Try to think of some calculations you could use these numbers for. Such as calculating the difference between the most and least populated country on your list.

We were also introduced to the rule of the order of operations (BODMAS) and have been applying this to some simple calculations.

Other areas of the curriculum

– we were introduced to Carl Linnaen and his work on classifying animals

– learned about how vertibrates and invertibrates are grouped according to their features

– continued to develop our fitness in circuit training

– enjoying the outdoors and taking part in a rounding scavenger hunt

Enjoy the long weekend!

Mrs Nicholson

Hello. It has been a very packed week again in P4H as we settle into the way of working. We have been developing numerous skills over the week.

We reflected on our week and created our Blog together

Reading We have been looking at adjectives in our reading books as well as reading in class and at home. We predicted what would happen

Spelling This week we revised the rules for ing ( the root stays the same or doubling the letter or dropping e and adding ing )

We revised our tricky words so far …could, should, would, other, another, people and water

We found that thousand, hundred, nine, eight four and two can be tricky to spell

Grammar We continued looking at adjectives and how to use them to describe characters in stories. We found some in our reading books ,

In the Storm we were being reading detectives. We talked about Annie and her family. We had to decide whether statements were true by reading the text and finding evidence .

We looked at a non fiction text about dogs and answered questions. We had to read the words carefully so that we could answer the questions. It was quite tricky.

Listening We listened a list of instructions to follow and managed to design a house.Not all the houses looked the same at the end!

Home learning

Handwriting practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NQ6uS8blwY

Practice adjectives https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zy2r6yc

Spelling….. practice the last few weeks words plus maths vocab

Numeracy

We continued wit place value with 4 digit numbers adding 10,20,30 before and after a certain number eg 10 after 235 We challenged ourselves with some like…. 200 before 2300 or 300 after 3500

We have been learning about probability and chance .We had lots of fun with learning partners discussing whether something is certain, likely, even chance, unlikely or impossible

Home learning Get someone to say 4 digit numbers and write them in digits and words

Think about events and work out the probability level of them happening. Explain why/why not.

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

Scotland

We made a list of what we want to know about Scotland and found out where it is in the world using an atlas..We worked out what we would need to use to find the answers.

PE

Designed circuits in the playground which we tested on each other. We challenged ourselves in fitness training. We had to see how many star jumps, sit ups, runs and step ups we could do in 30 seconds. We recorded them and are going to do it again in a few weeks to see if we are fitter and can beat our scores

We talked about the skills we used in our “Loose parts” outdoor learning last week. The list was very long and included using our imagination , being creative, digging, pushing, rolling , lifting , working together , sharing , caring ,thinking , listening and concentrating

Here are a few photos of the fun we had !

In assembly we listened to P7F tell us about their learning. It is good to see everyone together every week.

We reflected on our week and looked forward to what skillls we were going to work on next week.

Have a good holiday weekend

from P4H ( and Ms Hastie)

Please find attached a summary of our learning which the pupils created as well as our spelling words for this week. We hope you all have a super holiday weekend.

Literacy

We have had a ,lot of fun being detectives and making predictions this week like Detective Ted. To make good predictions we:

• “use the pictures and words in the book”
• “use what we already know”
• “make sensible predictions”
• “say things that are likely to happen”

 We also made predictions about our group reading books.

We really enjoyed writing stories about our characters this week. We planned our stories by talking about our characters:

• “what do they want?”
• “What gets in the way”
• “Do they get what they want?”

There were lots of creative ideas and exciting stories!

For spelling we have been looking at words ending in “ng” and “nk” completing a range of activities to win treasure. WE also did our dictation sentences today.

Things to do at home:

• Keep making predictions about what you think is going to happen in different books (or TV programmes) at home. Remember to use what you have seen or read to help make predictions.
• You could try writing about your character in a different story!
• Choose a way to practise your spelling words

Maths & Numeracy

• This we week have been practising addition. We need to remember to start with the bigger number as it makes it easier to count on. We have also been learning about 2D and 3D shapes.
• We have been collecting information by carrying out surveys and practising tally charts. We have been finding out our favourite reptiles, sea creatures, colours, shapes and how we get to school. We have started to learn how to display the information collected in the tally charts by making pictograms.

Things to do at home:

• Keep on practising you skip counting for the numbers you have set as your target
• Find numbers and add them together
• Could you do a tally chart for something at home?

Other Learning

• PE – Fitness – focusing on good technique
• Music – Bog Baby Song (with guitar) / Singing in the Rain – we have learned the words and are now trying to sing together with louder singing voices
• Circle Time – Playing games, miming and talking about feelings

Here is a summary of our learning this week: 

This was written by Kara, Ali and Amber.

Literacy – This week in literacy we have been doing our spelling rule which is the soft c the c sounds like s when it has e, I or y after it e.g receive. 

We have also been looking at themes in books to help us with our Colonel Connect It Up sheets and we have been identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives. 

We have met in our literature circle groups and shared our learning with each other. 

We continued with our class novel ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ and discussed the emotions that the character may be feeling. We also discussed whether the actions of the characters were right or wrong. 

 

Spelling – The spelling rule for next week is: tion says /shun/ in the final syllable. 

Super: nation relation solution fiction caution function addition ambition pollution reputation. 

Fantastic: election ignition education attention friction invitation operation condition question creation. 

Tricky words: mare mayor 

 

Reading – This week, each Literature Circle set the number of pages they have agreed to read for their next meeting on Wednesday. Here is a reminder of the pages: 

• Framed – pages 91 to 149. 
• Who’s a Big Bully Then? – chapter 4 to 5. 
• Friday Forever – chapter 6 to chapter 8. 
• Our City – pages 62 to 82. 

• The Accidental Time Traveller – chapter 10 to 15. 
• How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant – chapter 11 to 16. 
• Beetle Boy – chapter 8 to 12. 

Home Learning: 

• Set reading books to be completed by Wednesday. Please bring your book back to school on Wednesday to meet in your Literature Circle. 

• Read the first couple of pages of a book at your house and write a summary about it. 
• Practice the spelling rule for next week (tion says /shun/ in the final syllable). 

 

Maths –   

This week in maths: 

• We have been learning the order of operations using BODMAS (brackets, order, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction) See this link for a reminder: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z69k7ty/articles/z24ctv4  

• We have also been revising our addition and subtraction of 4 digit numbers as some of us find it a bit tricky. 
• We have been learning how to complete inverse operations of addition and subtraction as well. 
• We also created posters on how to use BODMAS. 
• We used ‘Beat That’ to practise answering addition and multiplication calculations quickly and accurately.

Home learning: 

• Practice your timetables. 
• Make a sandwich and weigh everything you need on a scale, add it up in a sum and see how much all your ingredients weigh altogether , or find the difference in weight between each ingredient (and enjoy the sandwich). 
• Try hit the button on TopMarks!(https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button) 

  

Other: 

• In PE, we are creating fitness programs in groups. This week, we have created and practiced static stretches and a cool down routine. 
• In health and wellbeing, we looked at strategies to help us overcome our emotions – we made umbrellas to show these. 
• We continued our mini topic on bees this week and looked at different kinds of bees and identified their appearance, habitat and if they were native or an invader. 
• In outdoor learning we played some drama games. One of them was where we had an electric ball of energy. 
• When Mrs. Bailey was teaching us on Wednesday, we learned about Beethoven’s 5th symphony and made listening maps to show the Modif. 
• We were also learning some RME with Mrs. Bailey. We learned more about the story of Moses and his journey with the Jewish people. 
• We also finished and colored our perspective drawing from last week. 

Home Learning Ideas: 

• Look up more facts about bees and either write about it or make a word document about it! 
• Make your own fitness program and use it for exercising at home (you could also introduce it to friends and family!)  

Have a lovely long weekend! 

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 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

Revising three ways of adding the ‘ing’ suffix.

Don’t change me!

Double the final consonant.

Drop the e and add ing.

 

FANTASTIC- sound  walk  drop  leave  have think  swim  use  give  slip write steal  have think

SPECTACULAR- explain  drag  wrap  happen  expect  refuse  hope  fascinate change drag  know  manage forget  shock

Ideas for home learning: Use the root words to create a simple adding ‘ing’ game of your own or play this one to test your skills.

 Draw lines to create three columns. Write an adding’ ing’ rule at the top of each column.

Next, write the root words on small cards. Place them upside down. Each player takes it in turn to choose a card and place them in the correct rule column according to the rule for that word.

Extra Challenge- add more words to each column.

Maths

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

Comparing and ordering 4- digit numbers.

Showing and explaining the value of each digit.

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 between two given numbers.

Using the language of possibility.

 

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.

Ideas for home learning– https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

Challenge yourself – make a fact family using the numbers.

For example:  6+8-14  8+6=14  14-6=8   14-8=6

 

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.

I.D.L.

Developing our knowledge of Scotland

Developing our mapping skills.

Developing our I.C.T. skills.

 

Have a lovely long weekend!