Buckstone Primary School, P1 Koalas

Primary 1 Master Minds w.b. 20.2.23

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This week in P1 Master Minds:

Literacy:

We learnt the new sound ‘sh’ this week. We read words and wrote words using this sound. We also read and wrote the tricky words we have been learning so far.

We have been working on our reading skills and have started taking our reading books home. Some of us said we felt happy when we were reading our books to people at home.

In writing, we made up stories about what we saw inside a shed. This helped us to use our new ‘sh’ sound.

We practised forming the letters g, y, p and q as well as beginning to look at the capital letters A, B and C.

At home: share your reading book with someone at home and talk about what is happening in the story or how the characters are feeling at different points.

Keep practising reading and building words using the sounds that we have learned so far. A sheet with the ‘sh’ flashcard was sent home today.

Maths:

In maths this week, we continued our learning on data handling and created a block graph using the results of our survey about new play areas we would like in the classroom.

We have also been working on our numeracy skills and some of us have started doing a bit more thinking around sequences of numbers backwards within 30.

At home: Practise counting backwards within 30 from different starting points.

Other Areas of the Curriculum

We wanted to know what it looked like inside Edinburgh Castle. We watched a short film. We found the Crown Jewels interesting and the fact that there were several items and not just one large jewel. The armour and the different paintings on the walls were also interesting.

We drew a picture of the castle along with someone who might have been there in the past and someone who might be there in the present day.

In PE we have begun a block of gymnastics. We performed one, two, three, four and five point balances. We also thought about and made different shapes using our arms and legs.

Some of us said we found the one point balance quite tricky.

Loose Parts Play

We were outside for Loose Parts Play on Thursday:

‘I enjoyed doing a cafe.’

‘We did a competition about who can make the biggest sandcastle and biggest piles.’

Next week: As you may be aware, it is World Book Day on Thursday. We are not dressing up this year, but if you would like to do so, bring your favourite book to school on Thursday to show the rest of the class.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Buckstone Primary School

P1B Reflective Friday 24.2.23

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Good afternoon.

Literacy

This week, we learned the ‘sh’ sound. We had a shoe shop, and had great fun measuring our feet, trying on shose and paying for them with coins. We had another new reading book this week, and we are very excited to have our reading book at home to share our learning with our family. This week, our writing prompt was “At the shops I got…”. We bought many things such as unicorns, squish mallows, dinosaurs, sweeties and notebooks!

measuring our feet
this is a shoe shop here at Comiston Road
customer services at the shoe shop!

Maths and numeracy

This week, we started our money topic. We talked about where money comes from and what we use it for. We practised recognising the different coins, thinking about their colour, shape and size. We talked about the word ‘value’, and how 1p would buy you the least amount of sweeties, but £2 would buy you the most. We found out that there is 100p in £1! We practised ordering the coins from the smallest value to the biggest value. We will continue with our money topic this week, and practise adding coins to the value of 10p.

Other Areas

This week, we started our gymnastics block in PE. We used the mats to practise different ways of travelling such as jumping and landing, and rolling. We shared our ways of travelling with the class! On Thursday, we did Creative Dance with Mrs Conlin – we absolutely loved it! We also had really creative modelling with junk and lego including a hot air balloon, a dance floor and a lego castle. Our lego table was back by popular demand too. Some of the girls also wanted a photo of their tidy book corner.

To do at home

Numeracy: recognising the numbers 1-30, counting backwards from 20 or 30, writing the ‘teen’ numbers with the 1 first and remember it’s ‘teen’ not ‘ty’, counting on with our fingers

Maths: naming 3D objects, recognising symmetrical shapes/structures, using tally marks to count items/collect data, recognising coins, which coin is worth more?

Literacy: being able to write our tricky words, confidence in blending when reading books, being able to write (as well as recognise) all of our sounds we have covered (A-Z with q as qu, ck, ee, oo and sh.)

General: being able to take off jumpers and zip up coats.

General Information

We are looking for donations of any unwanted shoes and little purses to add to our shoe shop in the classroom. Please hand them to me at the door or into the office if you have any – thank you!

Your junk donations are always welcome, please keep them coming!

Thursday is World Book Day. Although we are not dressing up this year, please bring in your favourite book or story to share with the class.

Please see below for photos from the week beginning 6th Feb.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Croal

P2D- Mrs DeBonrostro

P2D Reflective Friday 24.02.23

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Dear Parents/Carers, 

We hope that you had a lovely week. 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION 

**World Book Day Thursday 2nd March**  

Please feel free to bring in a book from home to enjoy reading in class.  

Here is a summary of our learning. 

Literacy 

We have started a unit of work on compound words (e.g. cupcake, football, bedroom). This week we talked about words with two syllables and we practised clapping and counting syllables in words. In this block the children will also have the opportunity to revisit the vowel digraphs which were taught in Block 2. For example, in the word ‘rainbow’ the children will be revisiting ai and ow and applying their knowledge of syllables and letter sounds to spell the whole word.  

We watched this video clip in class which provided us with some examples of compound words. 

Alphablocks : Plusman – Series 4 – Episode 03 – YouTube 

The tricky words this week are eye, even and above. 

In writing we made a very basic flowchart about choosing when and what to have for snack. 

Ideas for home: 

What are compound words? – BBC Bitesize 

The ability to split a word into syllables is very important in this unit of work. Below is a link to an online lesson which has a video and 3 follow up activities. 

Counting syllables – English – Learning with BBC Bitesize – BBC Bitesize 

Practise reading and spelling the first 3 tricky words for Block 6. These are eye, even and above. 

Maths 

We have been learning to name 2D shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, pentagon and hexagon. We are learning to describe the properties of each shape using the vocabulary of sides and corners. We also used the vocabulary of long, short and equal sides. 

In our number work we have been learning to subtract. We are also using the terms take away, minus and equals. 

Ideas for home: 

What are 2D shapes? – BBC Bitesize 

Play a game of ‘Who am I?’ Give some clues about a shape and ask your child to work out which shape you are describing. 

Subtraction games online: 

Number Line Subtraction Game – Fruit Splat – Basic Operations Math – Sheppard Software 

Once you are confident you could try this game. Select Number Bonds then an appropriate level. 

Hit the Button – Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk) 

Remember you also have a sum dog account. We have set a 2D shape challenge and an addition and subtraction challenge for you to try.  

Other areas of the curriculum 

•     We have started to think about our P2 show. This will be performed on the afternoon of Thursday 16th March and a second performance on the morning of Friday 17th March. 

•     We have been learning songs for our show. 

•     We have continued to work on the Have a Goal unit as part of Health and Wellbeing. 

•     We are enjoying gymnastics as part of our PE lessons. 

Photos of our learning (We have some photos from last week too!)

We received an important letter….guess who replied to our lovely letters!

Have a great weekend. 

Mrs de Bonrostro

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

24.02.23 P2M Blog

Staff..226

Dear Parents/Carers,

We hope that you had a lovely week.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

**World Book Day Thursday 2nd March**

Please feel free to bring in a book from home to enjoy reading in class.

Here is a summary of our learning.

Literacy

We have started a unit of work on compound words (e.g. cupcake, football, bedroom). This week we talked about words with two syllables and we practised clapping and counting syllables in words. In this block the children will also have the opportunity to revisit the vowel digraphs which were taught in Block 2. For example, in the word ‘rainbow’ the children will be revisiting ai and ow and applying their knowledge of syllables and letter sounds to spell the whole word.

We watched this video clip in class which provided us with some examples of compound words.

Alphablocks : Plusman – Series 4 – Episode 03 – YouTube

The tricky words this week are eye, even and above.

In writing we made a very basic flowchart about choosing when and what to have for snack.

Ideas for home:

What are compound words? – BBC Bitesize

The ability to split a word into syllables is very important in this unit of work. Below is a link to an online lesson which has a video and 3 follow up activities.

Counting syllables – English – Learning with BBC Bitesize – BBC Bitesize

Practise reading and spelling the first 3 tricky words for Block 6. These are eye, even and above.

Maths

We have been learning to name 2D shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, pentagon and hexagon. We are learning to describe the properties of each shape using the vocabulary of sides and corners. We also used the vocabulary of long, short and equal sides.

In our number work we have been learning to subtract. We are also using the terms take away, minus and equals.

Ideas for home:

What are 2D shapes? – BBC Bitesize

Play a game of ‘Who am I?’ Give some clues about a shape and ask your child to work out which shape you are describing.

Subtraction games online:

Number Line Subtraction Game – Fruit Splat – Basic Operations Math – Sheppard Software

Once you are confident you could try this game. Select Number Bonds then an appropriate level.

Hit the Button – Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Remember you also have a sum dog account. We have set a 2D shape challenge and an addition and subtraction challenge for you to try.

Other areas of the curriculum

•     We have started to think about our P2 show. There will be one performance on the afternoon of Thursday 16th March and a second performance on the morning of Friday 17th March.

•     We have been learning songs for our show.

•     We have continued to work on the Have a Goal unit as part of Health and Wellbeing.

•     We are enjoying gymnastics as part of our PE lessons.

Have a great weekend.

Buckstone Primary School

P1B Reflective Friday 10.2.23

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Good afternoon!

Literacy

This week, we learned the ‘oo’ sound. We make two Os with our hands then hold them up like binoculars to looook. We made lovely moon pictures using a foil stamp to create the craters. Some of us made our own book! We had another new reading book this week, and our writing prompt was “I look at the moon. It is…”. We had pink moons, moons surrounded by shooting stars and moons with people on them!

Maths and numeracy

This week, we looked at data handling. We learned about and analysed ways of presenting data, such as pictograms and bar charts. We used language such as ‘most’, ‘least’ and ‘equal’. We made our own class pictogram about our favourite places to learn in the classroom. The P1 Area was the most popular with 6 votes! We also looked at tally marks as a way of collecting data.

Other Areas

This week, we used hOOps in PE and came up with our own activity to share with the class. We had a wide range of creativity with the hoops, including hula hooping, the floor is lava, rolling, chasing and some dance routines! Everybody had the chance to show the class what they had come up with. We learned about Scottish inventions, including the fridge, toaster and flushing toilet!

To do at home

Numeracy: recognising the numbers 1-30, counting backwards from 20 or 30, writing the ‘teen’ numbers with the 1 first and remember it’s ‘teen’ not ‘ty’ for 13-19, counting on with our fingers.

Maths: naming 3D objects, recognising symmetrical shapes/structures, using tally marks to count items/collect data.

Literacy: being able to write our tricky words, confidence in blending when reading books, being able to write (as well as recognise) all of our sounds we have covered (A-Z with q as qu, ck, ee and oo).

General: being able to take off jumpers and zip up coats.

General Information

We are looking for donations of any unwanted shoes and little purses to create a shoe shop in the classroom. Please hand them to me at the door or into the office if you have any – thank you!

We are really sorry but due to technical issues there are no photos on the blogs this week. We hope this will be sorted by next time, and I will add the extra photos from this week.

Have a great midterm holiday,

Miss Croal

P2D- Mrs DeBonrostro

P2 Reflective Friday 10.02.23

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Dear Parents / Carers

We hope you had a nice week.

Due to a technical issue we cannot upload photos of the amazing learning that has taken place in our class this week.

Here is a summary of our learning.

Maths

This week our focus has been addition (to 10, 30 and 100 for some). We have been working on understanding the link between a digit, its place and its value (focus on tens and units).  When adding two-digit numbers we need to add first the units and then the tens. We are still using, when needed, the counting on strategy when adding a two-digit number with one digit number.

Ideas to do at home 

  • We have been using this game in class to work on place value.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=diennesandcoinsv3

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/place-value-charts

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/placeValuePieces/index.html

When working at home ensure your child works on writing the sum using the correct symbols for add/plus and equal. Write simple sums and ask your child to write the answers and explained how she/he has worked the answer. A couple of this a day will be a good practice for your child.

  • Addition to 10

https://www.arcademics.com/games/alien

  • Adding two-digit numbers

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/depthCharger/index.html

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/addition/fruit-splat-game/

(level 6)

Literacy

We have been working about soft g. Soft g is when the letter g makes the ‘g’ sound. Magic e is making the i say its name.  Also, when ge come together the sound is always s and the e is silent.  Examples: page, smudge, hedge.

Tricky words: eight, money, learn

This week are not sending reading books home. This week our focus has been assessment of the sounds we have been working on this term.

We have continued to work on reading skills such as : looking for new vocabulary (talking about its meaning), inference (make and justify inferences using evidence from the text), prediction (Predict what might happen from the details given and implied), explain, retrieval of information  (Retrieve and record information and identify key details from fiction and non-fiction) and summarising (summarise the main ideas from more the book) . When reading books at home please ask questions to your child about the text.

In writing we wrote descriptions of Katie Morag. We are learning to use interesting describing words.  During the week while reading books we have made a bank of describing words (adjectives). We have done an amazing job!

In handwriting we have worked on writing cursive letters h and b.

Ideas to do at home:

  • Please practice the tricky words from Block 5 that we have worked on at school: write, great, move, story, does, done, school, before, because, people, again, four, eight, money and learn.
  • Please ensure your child is confident at reading and writing all the tricky words from previous blocks.
  • Please keep working on tricky words from previous weeks. Look, cover and write strategy is a good one to use at home.
  • Words to read at home to practice soft g.
  • Practice cursive letter formation. Please reinforce how to hold the pencil correctly and the right letter formation

https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-beginners-choice-1.html

Other areas

PE we have been practicing gymnastic skills and learning new games to work on following instructions.

Social Studies: We have continued to learn about life in an island through Katie Morag and Robert Burns.

RHSP We have discussed the Friendship topic: When friends fall out.

Following our Building Resilience program, we have worked on ‘Have a goal’.

News

  • Please check your child’s bag as they will have their login details to access Sumdog (website for Maths) and all the information about how to access it.
  • Next week it is the February break. We are back on Monday 20th February.
  • Loose parts on Monday 20th February.

Have a wonderful break!

Mrs de Bonrostro

Buckstone Primary School, P1 Koalas

P1M Reflective Friday 10.2.23

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Dear parents,

unfortunately, due to technical issues with WordPress, we are unable to share any photos this week.

This week we have been learning:

DATA HANDLING

 We talked about surveys and asked each other questions about our favourite play areas in the classroom. We used tally marks to record this information. We discussed what we had found out and how we could show this data. We then used our results to create individual pictograms. We plan to find out what else pupils would like to play with and create a class pictogram.

LITERACY

This week we introduced the sound oo. We thought of words containing this sound and matched words to pictures, writing some words ourselves.

This week’s dictation included the tricky words we have been revising this week: was, put, his. We also included some words which had the oo sound in them.

We use Pink for Think and Green for Great to reflect on our learning.

Independent writing this week was about the moon

 and what we think about when we look at it.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

Please cut out the flashcards your child has brought home today and use them to help your child to recognise the sounds and build words.

We are revising the Block 1 tricky words in class. These words can be quite challenging for the children to remember. Please continue to help your child to revise recognition and spelling of these words using the -look, say, cover, write check strategy. This week we focused on put, was, his.

Please continue to practise the words on the reading vocabulary card,  a few words at a time.

HOLIDAY CHALLENGE!

Can you learn to tie your shoes over the holiday? The Kidsplainer will show you how!

 BIRDWATCH

We entered last week’s birdwatch data online together and discussed what we can do to encourage more birds to the playground. We talked about the other types of birds on our survey sheets and thought of words to describe them.

PE

We played running games and team games to improve our fitness and to have fun. We performed the Highland dance steps we had been practising.

SCOTLAND TOPIC

We watched a PowerPoint which showed the many inventions created by Scottish people. We talked about the inventions we thought were the most important, but it was very difficult to decide! In our groups we discussed what we had found out about Scotland and drew pictures to show our learning.

FRENCH

We have been learning to say good morning, how are you? in French and we have started to learn the words for six colours:

Rouge – red

Blanc- white

Noir – black

Bleu- blue

Vert- green

Jaune- yellow

We hope that you all have a very enjoyable February holiday.

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2M 10.02.23 Blog

Staff..226

Dear Parents / Carers

We hope you had a nice week.

Here is a summary of our learning.

Maths

This week our focus has been on addition (to 10, 30 and 100 for some). We have been working on understanding the link between a digit, its place and its value (focus on tens and units). When adding two-digit numbers we need to add first the units and then the tens. We are still using, when needed, the counting on strategy when adding a two-digit number with one digit number.

We have worked on place value.

Ideas to do at home

– We have been using this game in class to work on place value.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=diennesandcoinsv3

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/place-value-charts https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/placeValuePieces/index.html

When working at home ensure your child works on writing the sum using the correct symbols for add/plus and equals. Write simple sums and ask your child to write the answers and explained how she/he has worked the answer. A couple of these a day would be good.

– Addition to 10 https://www.arcademics.com/games/alien

– Adding two-digit numbers https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/depthCharger/index.html https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/addition/fruit-splat-game/

(level 6)

Literacy

We have been learning about soft g. Soft g is when the letter g makes the ‘g’ sound. Magic e is making the i say its name. Also, when ge come together the sound is always s and the e is silent. Examples: page, smudge, hedge.

Tricky words: eight, money, learn

This week we are not sending reading books home. This week we have been doing assessment of the sounds we have been working on this term.

We have continued to work on reading skills such as : looking for new vocabulary (talking about its meaning), inference (make and justify inferences using evidence from the text), prediction (Predict what might happen from the details given and implied), explain, retrieval of information (Retrieve and record information and identify key details from fiction and non-fiction) and summarising (summarise the main ideas from more the book) . When reading books at home please ask questions to your child about the text.

In writing we wrote descriptions of Katie Morag. We are learning to use interesting describing words. During the week while reading books we have made a bank of describing words (adjectives).

In handwriting we have worked on writing cursive letters h and b.

Ideas to do at home:

– Please practice the tricky words from Block 5 that we have worked on at school: write, great, move, story, does, done, school, before, because, people, again, four, eight, money and learn.

– Please ensure your child is confident at reading and writing all the tricky words from previous blocks.

– Please keep working on tricky words from previous weeks. Look, cover and write strategy is a good one to use at home.

– Words to read at home to practice soft g.

– Practice cursive letter formation. Please reinforce how to hold the pencil correctly and the right letter formation https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-beginners-choice-1.html

Other areas

PE we have been practicing gymnastic skills and learning new games to work on following instructions.

Social Studies: We have continued to learn about life in an island through Katie Morag and Robert Burns.

RHSP We have discussed the Friendship topic: When friends fall out.

Following our Building Resilience program, we have worked on ‘Have a goal’.

News

– Please check your child’s bag as they will have their login details to access Sumdog (website for Maths) and all the information about how to access it.

– Next week it is the February break. We are back on Monday 20th February.

– Loose parts on Monday 20th February.

Here are a selection of photos taken over the last few weeks. Have a wonderful break!

Mrs McFarlane