P2D Reflective Friday 27.01.23

Jan 27, 2023Jan 26, 2023 Staff..114

P2 Reflective Friday 27.01.23

Dear Parents / Carers

We hope you had a nice week.

Please if you haven’t returned your child’s learning story to school do it as soon as possible.

Here is a summary of our learning.

Maths

This week our focus has been (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/place-value/place-value-charts

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-27.01.23 Download

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 c. Soft c is when the letter c makes the ‘s’ sound. Magic e is making the i say its name. Also, when ce come together the sound is always s and the e is silent. Examples: space, bounce, chance and spice

Tricky words: write, great and move.

Our reading books are non- fiction books. We are learning to identify the features of non-fiction texts.

We have been working on comprehension skills: read a text, look for key words from it, answering questions about the text, etc. This is proving to be hard as the texts get more complex. When reading books at home please ask questions to your child about the text.

In writing we wrote descriptions of Granny Island. 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 n and m

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.
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 c: space, chance, bounce, grace, face, lace, blaze, ice, dice, rice, mice, dance, prince, since, ounce, etc.
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 Scottish Dance. We are really good at it and we are having fun.

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

RHSP We have discussed the Friendship topic: What is a good friend, how can we be friends, we can be friendly to others even though we might not be friends, etc.

News

Drop in Session for parents on Wednesday 1^st February ( See school email).
Loose parts on Friday 3^rd February.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs de Bonrostro

P1 Pandas

P1W reflective Friday 27.1.23

Jan 27, 2023Jan 27, 2023 Staff...685

We are grateful for your continued donations of small, clean items of recycling for our STEM area

Many thanks

Independent learning

The children have been developing a wide range of skills through independent learning opportunities in class and outdoors..

Literacy.

This week we have introduced the letter sounds q, x and z as well as revising some of our ‘tricky’ words

We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.

We had another Friday ‘dictation/spelling’ written activity. Each week the children will be asked to spell two or three words using the sounds we know, and also to accurately write two of our tricky words. Please keep practising this skill at home.

Our Writing prompt was ‘the fox in a box’

Numeracy and Maths

We have been working on individual numeracy targets this week, including adding using the ‘counting on’ strategy, making equal groups, recognising numerals and naming the number after a given number.

You may wish to let your child play this game at home. Choose a level. Try to use a ‘counting on’ strategy, as opposed to ‘counting all’

Core numeracy skills this week included

writing the numerals 1 – 10 ( and beyond) correctly
counting backwards from 10 (or 20 for some pupils).
naming the next number in an isolated short backwards number sequence. ie. I say, 10, 9, 8 (they say 7)
establishing a collection (give me 9 counters/raisins/etc)
counting a collection beyond 10 with accurate 1-1 correspondence
recognising numerals
sequencing a short selection of numerals ( e.g. 5,6,7,8)
making instant finger patterns (show me 6 fingers without counting them)
recognising dice patterns and clapping the amount of dots on the dice

Our challenge numeracy skills were.

adding two collections with the second one screened ( e.g. here are 8 counters, there are 5 more hiding under this pot, how many altogether?)
sequencing numerals within the range 0-100
naming the number after a given number (0-30)
counting backwards from 30, starting and stopping at different points
investigating which equal groups can be made from a given number ( e.g. can I make 2 equal groups/3 equal groups/4 equal groups/5 equal groups from 12 counters? What about if I have 16 counters, or 18 etc)

Looking ahead to next week

We have Loose parts learning on Wednesday afternoon.

Other areas of the curriculum

We learned how some families celebrate Chinese New year

We found out why we celebrate Burn’s night.

We learned about zebras – key vocabulary included mammal and herbivore

In PE we have learned some more Scottish Country dance steps and we can dance the whole of the ‘Circassian circle’

Many of our learners recognise the letters/sounds when they see them written down, but find it much harder to recall and write the letter shape for the sound they hear. e.g they can tell me that mop is m – o – p but cannot then write it down – instead saying ‘what does m look like again ?‘ Please help to consolidate your child’s ability to recall the grapheme needed for the sound they can hear.

A reminder to please name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2M Blog 27.01.23

Jan 27, 2023Jan 26, 2023 Staff..226

Dear Parents / Carers

We hope you had a nice week.

If you haven’t returned your child’s learning story to school, please do it as soon as possible.

Here is a summary of our learning this week.

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 first add 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/place-value/place-value-charts

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 these a day will be good practice for your child.

addition-27.01.23-1 Download

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

Tricky words: write, great and move.

Our reading books are non- fiction books. We are learning to identify the features of non-fiction texts.

In writing we wrote descriptions of Granny Island. 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 n and m

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.
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 c: space, chance, bounce, grace, face, lace, blaze, ice, dice, rice, mice, dance, prince, since, ounce, etc.
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 Scottish Dances. We are really good at them and we are having fun.

Social Studies: We have continued to learn about life on an island through Katie Morag. We have enjoyed setting up a Post Office role play to link with our learning about Katie Morag. We also have talked about Robert Burns.

RHSP We have discussed the Friendship topic: What is a good friend, how can we be friends and the fact that we can be friendly to others even though we might not be friends, etc.

News

Drop in Session for parents on Wednesday 1^st February (see school email).
Loose parts on Friday 3^rd February.

Photos

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs McFarlane

Buckstone Primary School, P1 Koalas

P1M Reflective Friday 27.1.23

Jan 27, 2023Jan 27, 2023 Staff..469

Hello everyone, this is what we have been learning this week:

NUMERACY

This week we have been:

Writing the numerals 1-10 correctly

Counting backwards from 20

Counting forwards to 30

Naming the number which comes before a given number

Counting a collection beyond 10, making sure we are counting carefully

Recognising numerals to 20

Using our fingers to keep track of a sequence of claps

LITERACY

This week we introduced the sounds qu x and z. We thought of words beginning or ending with those sounds and learned songs and actions to help us remember them. In small groups we used magnetic letters to try to blend sounds together to read and build words.

We are continuing our weekly dictation using the sounds and words we have been learning in class.

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

We have been enjoying reading the Biff, Chip and Kipper books in our literacy groups. We are beginning to develop comprehension skills, trying to decode words, and are encouraging the children to think about the story and predict what might happen next.

This week we wrote about Scotland after watching a short film and discussing it in our groups.

We read the story ‘Giraffes Cannae Dance’ and listened to the poem ‘Wee Rid Motor’.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

Please practise careful counting of any coins, counters, or other materials you may have at home. We are encouraging the children to count beyond 10 with accurate 1-1 correspondence.

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.

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

EXPRESSIVE ARTS

We participated in a dance/drama session all about Chinese New Year. Many of us took part in the Chinese New year art activities which were set up in the area.

As well as dancing the Gay Gordons, this week we started to learn the Dashing White Sergeant and The Flying Scotsman.

Some examples of independent play taking place this week:

OUTDOOR LEARNING/ LOOSE PARTS

Our next two sessions of Loose Parts will take place on Wednesday 1.2.23 and Friday 10.2.23.

Have a lovely weekend.

Buckstone Primary School

P1B Reflective Friday 20.1.23

Jan 20, 2023 fionacroal

Good afternoon.

Literacy

This week, we learned the ‘v’ and ‘y’ sounds. To make the ‘v’ sound, we put our top teeth over our bottom lip and it almost sounds like buzzing! We can hear the vvvvvibrations. We practised building and blending words that start with the ‘v’ sound, learned all about the violin from Mrs Cross and design our own ‘van’ for writing! We created ‘y’ with all things yellow and did some yoga with a Chinese New Year theme. This week, we also explored our reading books. We used language such as title, author and page number. We counted the words on each page and followed along with our finger, even when someone else was reading!

Maths and numeracy

This week, we continued with our SEAL work. We worked on counting backwards from 20 and played Splat to practise recalling the number before for 1-30. We also practised our number formation for 1-20.

Other Areas

This week, we continued with our Scottish Country Dancing, practising clapping to the beat and counting to 8. We practised the Gay Gordons again and parts of the Grand Old Duke of York. We also looked at some of the beautiful scenery we are lucky enough to have in Scotland such as the beaches, mountains and islands.

To do at home

Numeracy: recognising the numbers 1-20 (the trickiest ones are 12, 13 and 20), counting backwards from 20, writing the ‘teen’ numbers with the 1 first and remember it’s ‘teen’ not ‘ty’ for 13-19!

Literacy: being able to recognise and write our tricky words (please look out for the green sheet in the purple folder), blending 3-4 letter words by saying the sounds slowly in one big breath

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

General Information

We have loose parts on Tuesday next week, please make sure your child is dressed appropriately.

Please make sure your child has a spare change of clothes in school.

Please ensure your child is coming into school with a waterbottle.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Croal

Early Learning & Childcare

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P2D Reflective Friday 20.01.23

Jan 20, 2023Jan 19, 2023 Staff..114

Dear Parents/Carers,

Today your child brought home their Learning Story. We have added a termly newsletter and a sheet with targets for your child this term. We would be grateful if you could return the Learning Stories on Monday. Thank you.

Here is a summary of our learning.

Maths

This week we have continued to continue a pattern by looking at the order of the objects and the rule they follow. A pattern can involve shapes, symbols or numbers.

We have also been working on addition. In particular we have been writing sums using the plus and equals signs. We are trying hard to hold the big number in our heads and count on the rest. For example, 12 + 3: start on 12 then count 13, 14, 15.

Ideas to do at home:

Listen to the Banana Banana Meatball song. Banana Banana Meatball Song | Songs For Kids | Dance Along | GoNoodle – YouTube Can you come up with your own active pattern like some in the song? For example, chocolate, chocolate, penguin! Make sure there is a repeating pattern.

Shape Patterns (topmarks.co.uk)

Use pasta or beads to make 2 groups. Ask your child to add the 2 groups together to find the total then write it as a formal addition sum, e.g. 9 + 3 = 12

Addition Fruit Splat Game – 7 levels – Math Game (sheppardsoftware.com)

Literacy

We have been learning about soft c. Soft c is when the letter c makes the ‘s’ sound. Magic e is making the i say its name. Also, when ce come together the sound is always s and the e is silent.

Tricky words: story, does done.

Our reading books are non- fiction books. We are learning to identify the features of non-fiction texts.

In writing we wrote descriptions of ourselves. We are learning to use interesting describing words.

Ideas to do at home:

Practice the tricky words: school, because, before, story, does and done. A set of flashcards were sent home on Thursday to help you with this
Ask your child to spell nice, mice, ice. Can they explain the soft c rule?
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

In PE we started to work on our gymnastics skills.

We enjoyed Scottish dancing in the hall.

In Science we have been learning about Energy.

We enjoyed Loose parts.

As part of our Social Studies topic, we have been enjoying learning about Katie Morag and the Isle of Struay. We are learning about the differences between living on an island and living on mainland. We have made maps of our route to school.

We have been learning about Chinese New Year and a few children in the class are teaching us how to write numbers in Chinese and how to wish a happy New Year in Chinese!

We have revisited our commitment to be Ready, Respectful and Safe at all times.

Independent Learning

Other information

Please ensure your child has indoor shoes at school.
Please label all your child’s items (including gloves, hats and water bottles).

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs de Bonrostro

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2M Blog 20.01.23

Jan 20, 2023Jan 19, 2023 Staff..226

Dear Parents/Carers,

Here is a summary of our learning.

Maths

This week we have been continuing a pattern by looking at the order of the objects and the rule they follow. A pattern can involve shapes, symbols or numbers.

Ideas to do at home:

Shape Patterns (topmarks.co.uk)

Use pasta or beads to make 2 groups. Ask your child to add the 2 groups together to find the total then write it as a formal addition sum, e.g. 9 + 3 = 12

Addition Fruit Splat Game – 7 levels – Math Game (sheppardsoftware.com)

Literacy

We have been learning about soft c. Soft c is when the letter c makes the ‘s’ sound. Magic e is making the i say its name. Also, when ce come together the sound is always s and the e is silent.

Tricky words: story, does done.

Our reading books are non- fiction books. We are learning to identify the features of non-fiction texts.

In writing we wrote descriptions of ourselves. We are learning to use interesting describing words.

Ideas to do at home:

Practice the tricky words: school, because, before, story, does and done. A set of flashcards were sent home on Thursday to help you with this.
Ask your child to spell nice, mice, ice. Can they explain the soft c rule?
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

In PE we started to work on our gymnastics skills.

We enjoyed Scottish dancing in the hall.

The class have shown an interest in Chinese New Year so we have been enjoying activities related to this.

In Science we have been learning about Energy.

We enjoyed Loose parts.

As part of our Social Studies topic, we have been enjoying learning about Katie Morag and the Isle of Struay. We have also been singing Scottish songs and learning about Robert Burns.

We have revisited our commitment to be Ready, Respectful and Safe at all times.

Other information

Please ensure your child has indoor shoes at school.
Please label all your child’s items (including gloves, hats and water bottles).

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs McFarlane

P1 Pandas

P1W reflective Friday 20.1.23

Jan 20, 2023Jan 20, 2023 Staff...685

We are grateful for your continued donations of small, clean items of recycling for our STEM area

Many thanks

Independent learning

The children have been developing a wide range of skills through independent learning opportunities in class and outdoors..

Literacy.

This week we have introduced the letter sounds v and y as well as revising our ‘tricky’ words he and was

NB a reading vocabulary card will be part of the home learning provided in the purple folders today.

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

I can recall and write the grapheme for a sound I hear.

Our Writing prompt was ‘the van’

Numeracy and Maths

Our focus this week was on ‘number before’ – quickly identifying the number before a given number.

Please practise this at home. The given number can be any number in a range within which your child is comfortable.

Core numeracy skills this week included

writing the numerals 1 – 10 ( and beyond) correctly
counting backwards from 10 (or 20 for some pupils).
naming the next number in an isolated short backwards number sequence. ie. I say, 10, 9, 8 (they say 7)
establishing a collection (give me 9 counters/raisins/etc)
counting a collection beyond 10 with accurate 1-1 correspondence
recognising numerals
sequencing a short selection of numerals ( e.g. 5,6,7,8)
making instant finger patterns (show me 6 fingers without counting them)
recognising dice patterns and clapping the amount of dots on the dice

Our challenge numeracy skills were.

adding two collections with the second one screened ( e.g. here are 8 counters, there are 5 more hiding under this pot, how many altogether?)
sequencing numerals within the range 0-100
naming the number after a given number (0-30)
counting backwards from 30, starting and stopping at different points
investigating which equal groups can be made from a given number ( e.g. can I make 2 equal groups/3 equal groups/4 equal groups/5 equal groups from 12 counters? What about if I have 16 counters, or 18 etc)

Looking ahead to next week

We have Loose parts learning on Tuesday afternoon.

We will be learning about Chinese New Year.

Please return Learning Story folders as soon as possible after reading our termly overview and targets.

Other areas of the curriculum

We learned about volcanoes. Key vocabulary was erupt, extinct, lava, magma. rock, molten. Arthur’s seat.

We learned about some important items invented by Scottish people. These included, amongst many, the telephone, television, penicillin, colour photographs, fridges, toasters, pneumatic tyres, contact lenses and the realisation of usefulness of fingerprints.

We discussed how sound is made by vibrations, and we learned how Alexander Graham Bell used his interest in how sounds are made to help him invent the first telephone. We looked at the vibrations of a violin string.

We identified where Scotland is on a map of the world and also looked on a map of Scotland to find the cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness.

We have been learning about some famous Scottish Artists including Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Steven Brown and John Byrne. We have enjoyed creating our own artworks inspired by these artists.

In PE we have learned some more Scottish Country dance steps and we are almost able to dance the ‘Flying Scotsman’ in sets .

Mrs Ross came to talk to us about ways people can be the same or different.

This week’s homework and other information

Something to focus on……

Many of our learners recognise the letters/sounds when they see them written down, but find it much harder to recall and write the letter shape for the sound they hear. e.g they can tell me that mop is m – o – p but cannot then write it down – instead saying ‘what does m look like again ?‘ Please help to consolidate your child’s ability to recall the grapheme needed for the sound they can hear.

A reminder to please name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.

Buckstone Primary School, P1 Koalas

P1M Reflective Friday 20.1.23

Jan 20, 2023Jan 20, 2023 Staff..469

Hello everyone, this is what we have been learning this week:

NUMERACY

This week we have been:

Writing the numerals 1-10 correctly

Counting backwards from 20

Counting forwards to 30

Naming the number which comes before a given number

Counting a collection beyond 10, making sure we are counting carefully

Recognising numerals to 20

Using our fingers to keep track of a sequence of claps

LITERACY

This week we introduced the sounds v and y. We thought of words beginning with those sounds and learned songs and actions to help us remember them. Mrs Bailey brought in her violin for V and played to the class (Mrs Munro has no musical talents and brought a yoghurt for y!). In small groups we used magnetic letters to try to blend sounds together to read and build words.

We are continuing our weekly dictation using the sounds and words we have been learning in class.

We have been enjoying reading the Biff, Chip and Kipper books in our literacy groups. We are beginning to develop comprehension skills, trying to decode words and are encouraging the children to think about the story and predict what might happen next.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

Please practise counting backwards from 20 and recognition of the numbers 1-20.

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.

Your child has brought home a word wall of vocabulary from the reading books used in school. Please practise these words with your child, reading a few words at a time.

EXPRESSIVE ARTS

As part of our focus on Scotland we were learning about the artist Joan Eardley. We learned about the way she used materials from her subject’s lives to stick in the background of her paintings and the different implements she used to paint with. We looked at some of her paintings on the smartboard and discussed the ones we liked the best. The children will have the opportunity to try out some of Eardley’s techniques.

Here is our artwork inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh: