Buckstone Primary School

Learning Together at Home 07/06/21

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Monday 7th June 2021

Good Morning Lovely Lions,

I hope you had a lovely weekend and enjoyed playing in the sunshine!

This week we will be learning at home but I will meet with you on Teams once a day. Today we will have a whole class meeting at 11am.

Each day I will share one literacy, one numeracy/maths and one other curricular area task. Please do not feel pressured to complete everything as I know this situation may be difficult for you. I am here to support you! Learning will be uploaded onto the blog the evening before.

Please share your learning on the Learning Journals! I would love to see what you are getting up to this week! Feel free to ask any questions on the learning journals or via email, I am more than happy to help with anything.

Thank you all for your support,

Miss McGillivray

Here are today’s learning tasks:

Literacy:

Reading:

I have shared on your child’s Learning Journal which book they should access from the Oxford Owl website. Along with the log in details on how to access the book from the website.

Tasks:

  1. Predict what you think your new book is going to be about before reading. Read the book with an adult, ask them to ask you questions about the story: characters, setting, plot etc.
  2. Complete this Beginning, Middle and End worksheet (attached below). Draw a picture of a key moment at the start, in the middle and at the end of the story. Write a sentence/few words describing what is happening.
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Phonics:

This week we will be learning the last few sounds in Block 3 of the Literacy Rich Programme. Each of these sounds only has a few words to learn, so we will be looking at 2-3 at a time!

Today’s sounds are: ‘rk’ and ‘rf’

Tasks:

  1. Please watch the powerpoint attached below. In this powerpoint, there is a number of tasks to do whilst you watch. Reading words, writing words and as an extra challenge writing a sentence using words which have our new sounds in them.
  2. Use paint, flour, pasta, sand (etc) to write and create words which have the ‘rk’ or ‘rf’ sound in them. Be creative! Focus on the accuracy of spelling within the word.
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Tricky Words:

Attached below are the tricky word powerpoints we use in school. Ask your child to say the words quickly. They should be able to read these words from sight memory as we cannot sound them out. We have looked at all of the Block 3 words now, however, these still need some revision.

As an extra challenge ask your child to write some tricky words from memory. Please continue to practice these – especially Block 3! However it is good to go over block 1 and 2 daily!

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Numeracy/Maths:

This week we will be revising our fractions maths topic.

Starter:

Practice your mental addition skills with this speedy maths challenge.

  • Select the level which you would like to try.
  • Have a go at using your mental maths strategies (fingers/head counting/number bonds knowledge) to help you!
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Today’s Focus: Fractions

This week we are going to be revising our learning of fractions. Do you remember what ‘half’ and ‘whole’ means?

Watch this video to revise our learning of fractions from last week.

Main Tasks:

  1. Watch the video above.
  2. Complete the attached fractions worksheet below.
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P.E:

Watch this short video for our warm up for P.E today

Main Task:

Think of all the different ways you can move your body. Have a go at trying all the different ways you can think of then answer these questions verbally with an adult.

  • Which was the fastest?
  • Which was the slowest?
  • Which one could you do for the longest before getting tired?
  • Which one was the most fun?
  • Which one did you travel the furthest doing?
  • Which one did you travel the least doing?

Buckstone Primary School

P2 Wonderful Wolves Friday update

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This week in P2W…

Literacy – this week we travelled back in time with Mr Ed to help us learn our spelling rule for ‘ed’. We also continued our exploring of non-fiction texts and created posters with facts from our reading books. This week we have been learning about commas when writing a list and we took a trip to the class sweet shop to help us!

Numeracy and Maths – this week we continued our learning of place value and have been practicing adding tens and units. In mathematics we have started learning about measure. We were learning how to use a ruler and explored measuring items in cm and m.

Health and Wellbeing: this week we have been discussing how to be resilient and what our brains need to stay healthy.

Other curricular areas: This week we have been creating Monet inspired artwork using our oil pastels. We also got to explore magnifying lenses in our outdoor learning a slot.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Buckstone Primary School

P4H’s Learning 3.6.21

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This week we faced yet another situation which meant that the class had to be flexible and prepared for change any moment. They have all been fantastic. especially as none of us really knew what would happen next.

Thank you for all your support this week with an ever changing school day.

As always this week’s blog is compiled by P4H

Next week’s Spelling

–le ending rule

…..where the first syllable is long vowel sound, only 1 consonant is required before adding le eg trifle

table, cable, staple, ladle, title, trifle, Bible , noble, bugle, cycle

Tricky words also, always

Literacy

We continued exploring Ottoline and being reading detectives looking for clues. The story is getting really exciting . Mr Monroe has gone undercover to try and prove the Yellow Cat is a burglar.

Group Readers

We al started new books this week and set the chapters to read.

We also predicted what our books might be like by looking at the cover and the blurb.

Some of us have Ottoline books.

Paragraphs.

We continued to practise writing in paragraphs. Writing a story is like a hamburger . The top and bottom of the roll is the beginning and end . The bits in the middle are the different stages and paragraphs in the story. Then we created our own adventure story concentrating on punctuation, grammar, layout and paragraphs. We were pleased with our finished stories and are going to assess them next.

Home Learning

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/z9n73k7

Numeracy

We revised subtraction with borrowing. We chose the challenge which we were happy with , using 2 or 3 digit borrowing .

Fractions

We worked out what 1/4 and 1/3 are of a whole. We also tried written word problems where we had to divide things between 3 or 4 .Fractions use tables.

..Money

We practised putting in the decimal point . We also tried to work out change from £5 and £10. We have to subtract to find out how much change we get.

We also did calculations using borrowing and remembering where to put the decimal point again. We found it tricky especially when it was a 0.

Home Learning

Practise fractions here.

https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/fractions-intro/latest/fractions-intro_en.html

Try these sites to practise money skills…..

https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/students/students-5-8/the-change-game/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp8dmp3/articles/z2s6hv4

Titanic

We continued to research information using the laptops and also pictures and information books. We added lights to our own Titanic which makes it sparkle. It was probably lit up the night of the 14th April 1912 when it hit the iceberg.

PE

We developed our bat and ball skills using tennis rackets and balls. We played with a partner and also on our own. We did keepie uppie with our rackets and balls.

Assembly

It was good to see everyone who is working at home. We enjoyed the pirate quiz . We got 9 and a half out of 10

Have a great weekend

From P4H (and Ms Hastie and Mrs Murray)

Buckstone Primary School

P2M Magic Monkeys 04.06.2021

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Hello P2M, Parents and Carers,

This week has been a tricky week at school – well done to P2M for all their hard work and resilience with all the last minute changes, I’m very proud of you!

Literacy:

  • adding -ed to words to make them past tense
  • eg. looked, waited, twisted, crashed, pushed, played
  • ‘Jelly Baby Writing’. This week we used Jelly babies to help us with our writing. They were very clever and yummy! (gelatine free sweets were given too)
  • Dictation and Hold the Sentence (-ed words)
  • Reading – Poetry
  • This week for reading we have explored ‘My Shadow’
  • Optional activities were sent home
  • We also completed a Poem Review
  • Thank you to everyone that has shared their learning with me. Here is Connor learning in the sunshine……….

  • Handwriting – ascenders and descenders.
  • Handwriting – we are now focussing on writing correctly on the lines

Numeracy:

  • Measure – this week we have started to estimate the length of an item based on prior knowledge
  • we looked at different items and estimated the length before we measured
  • 3 times table
  • Times maths challenge

Other Curricular Areas:

  • Outdoor Learning – Numeracy (Bingo)
  • P.E – tig games and ball games
  • Learn Through Play
  • Health and Wellbeing – ‘Healthy Brain Recipe’

Highlights from this week:

“The timed chilli challenge” – Kaiden

“the timed challenge” – Rayyan

“Colouring in” – Max

“Writing” – Abdullah

“Learning with the building blocks” – Carl

“Mindfulness colouring in” – Lewis

“Counting in 3s” – Zoe

“Counting in 3s” – Scarlett

“I enjoyed the counting in 3s” – Mahdis

“I enjoyed doing -ed and dictation” – Beth

“I enjoyed doing the writing” – Ella

“I enjoyed doing the Jelly Baby Writing” – Megan

“I enjoyed doing mindfulness colouring in” – Eesha

“I enjoyed the building blocks” – Connor

“Timed challenge” – Fergus

” I enjoyed doing writing” – William

“I enjoyed doing handwriting” – Jack

“I enjoyed doing the Jelly Baby Writing” – Kayden

“I enjoyed writing about jelly babies” – Lily

“This week I enjoyed learning about having a healthy brain” – Miss McGhee

“I enjoyed some of P2M making me a tree to sit in” – Mr Monkey

Extra Info:

  • Please return any Learning Stories you still have at home (blue folder)
  • Please bring your poem to school every day
  • Next week we are continuing with Poetry
  • A poem will be sent home for you to read together. We will also explore this poem throughout the week at school and do activities linked to it
  • I will also send reading activities home – these are optional and do not need to be returned to school

Enjoy the weekend, see you on Monday!

Have fun and stay safe

Miss McGhee

Buckstone Primary School

P4W Reflective Friday 4.6.21

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Reflective Friday WB 31.5.21

What a busy week with lots of different learning opportunities, well done everyone! Please can we also take a moment to thank all the children and their supportive families for the challenges that we have faced at school this week. We are very grateful for your continued patience, support and understanding with learners in school and those Learning Together at Home.

Pictures to follow – hopefully technology allows!

Thanks for all Learning Stories so far – a final plea for any last ones to be returned as these will be coming home again soon! Thank you! 😊

Literacy

We have been learning to:

  • Spell unfamiliar words using our spelling rule – words with a short vowel and double consonant – e.g. puzzle.
  • Use accurate spelling of our new spelling rule words within passages and story contexts.
  • Create our own dictation challenges using our weekly spelling words.
  • Create our own word-search using accurate spelling.
  • Understand what a riddle is and how these can be used as effective Literacy techniques.
  • Analyse riddles as an aspect of poetry – consider different effective riddles to find how they are structured and successful – look carefully for parts such as rhyme, questions and clues.
  • Write our own riddles using the elements that make a riddle successful.
  • Prepare and present our writing to the class.
  • Listen, enjoy and engage with different stories and texts.
  • Find evidence in our reading texts to answer a variety of questions.
  • Use evidence from our reading to help us answer questions.
  • Consider how to use facts from different sources to display these in an engaging way.
  • Read for information and use this information to write an interesting fact-file.
  • Find out information from a range of sources and technologies to help us share facts with others.
  • Self- and peer-assess our learning.

Spelling for next week:

Main Teaching Points / Spelling Rules:

Over the years the pronunciation of words has changed and some letters appear in the spelling of words which are no longer sounded

Silent ‘b’  – ‘mb’ / ‘bt’

Silent ‘g’  – ‘gn’

L.I. – WALT Spell words with silent sounds.

Tricky words:  from /  form

Below you will see our Fantastic word list (see the challenge below for those of you who like a Spectacular challenge!)

WORD LIST

lamb

crumb

thumbs

doubt

plumber

debt

comb

gnome

gnash

gnaw

Daily Spelling Activity Task: choose a different spelling activity from the pack that you have at home and remember to Look, Cover, Write, Check.

Challenge – can you create your own Spectacular list using this rule and by researching words?

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

And a new link with some tricky riddles to solve from the past – have a go at these! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z238cmn

Write your own riddles like we did in class!

  • Look for a book at home that you can enjoy – see if you can set yourself some questions to answer about it (remember for a challenge we think about the Higher Order Thinking Skills like analysing or evaluating) see picture attached below.

Numeracy

We have been learning to:

  • Develop our knowledge of number facts, using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
  • Revise our understanding of addition with the traditional method – using 2- and 3- digit numbers
  • Build on our knowledge of fractions by understanding some equivalent fractions.
  • Understand how to find equal fractions to create a fraction wall.
  • Use our knowledge of fractions to solve challenges and play games.
  • Revise our learning in Maths through taking part in different challenge tasks and starter activities.
  • Use traditional methods for addition and subtraction of money values with decimals.
  • Use our problem-solving skills, including logical thinking and trial and error, to solve multi-step challenges.
  • Continue to build speed and accuracy in our number work.
  •  Develop our ability to solve more complex 2-step problems and word problems, using addition and subtraction, with our knowledge of money.
  • Develop our multiplication understanding, using opportunities to learn the times tables.
  • Self- and peer-assess our learning.

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

Across the Curriculum

 We have been learning to:

  • Use ICT and other sources to find key information about a historic event (Titanic)
  • Use detailed drawing and observational skills to create a large drawing of the Titanic
  • Play team games in PE, developing our knowledge of different sports positions and activities.
  • Develop skills to work well together.
  • Work together as part of our school Assembly
  • Look for inspiration outdoors, using outdoor objects and ideas, to solve and write riddles.

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

Have a great weekend everyone!
From Primary 4, Mrs Williamson and Mrs Ling 😊

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      P1 Tigers Reflective Friday 4th June 2021

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      It has been a difficult week for everyone, and we really appreciate how resilient our lovely learner have been – adapting to the changes in routine each day. We hope that everyone at home is safe and well..

      Literacy

      Spelling

      Our new sounds this week have been the blends sk, rd and ft found at the end of words and our new tricky words find and kind. We made birds and masks, and enjoyed lots of craft to remind us of our final consonant blends.

      You can find the home learning sheet below. Please continue to work at home to consolidate the learning of the new sounds and using them to build and write words.

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      Writing

      We wrote about the vegatables that came to join Potato’s party.

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      Reading

      Thank you for your continued support with reading at home. We have not sent reading books home this week because of the number of absentees. We have been working with books in class, reading to, and discussing with our peers

      We continue to work in school on developing our reading skills. As well as reading the words and learning new vocabulary we predict, discuss and comprehend. We hope you enjoy sharing the books with your children at the weekend. If you feel perhaps that they have memorised the book ( which is part of the learning process) then you could ask them to read the book backwards, starting with the last word. Of course this makes no sense , but the children do find it funny and it helps the adults to see if the child can read the words with little context. We use this technique in class so the children are familiar with the idea.

      

      Please note that we cannot send reading books home on Thursday unless your child has their purple folder with them, and we would respectfully request that the children do not carry their water bottles in the purple bags – we have already had one soggy reading book!

      Numeracy/Maths

      

      This week we have been focusing on using a range of strategies to help us subtract. We can use fingers, concrete materials and the counting back strategy.

      e.g. – 16 – 9 = ?

      Hold up the number of fingers we need to subtract ( 9)

      Say the big number and keep it in our head.

      Now count back, keeping track of the number of jumps with our finger

      15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7,

      The answer is 7

      

      Other areas of the curriculum

      One of our butterflies has hatched. Unfortunately he has a slightly damaged wing, but seems happy feeding from an old banana.

      We have been learning about different types of food and whether they come from a plant or an animal. We discussed that some foods have lots of different ingredients so might come from both a plant and an animal – for example, a pizza.

      We enjoyed watching the Imaginate Festival production of Potato Needs a Bath. We prepared for the party by making party hats for a fruit or a vegetable.

      .Our vegetables joined in the party too.

      We sang some songs outside, developing our skills of keeping a steady beat and understanding of pitch. We are also learning to have confidence to explore our singing voices in a group and alone.

      Here are some photographs of us enjoying our independent learning opportunities this week. It has been so nice to be able to have the doors wide open and take our learning outside too.

      Please ask us what we were doing.

      

      Things to try at home

      Help an adult bake some bread.

      Look in the kitchen and find some food. Identify whether it comes from an animal, a plant, or maybe a bit of both. You could make lists of what you found.

      Do you have any edible food plants growing in your garden ? Discuss this with an adult. Remember, NEVER eat any plant or berry without an adult’s permission.

      Practise knowing the order of the days of the week – focusing on the day BEFORE

      Play this hit the button game Choose addition or subtraction up to 10. Try up to 20 for a challenge.

      Count backwards from 30 to 10 ( or 100 – 30)

      Write all your numbers from 1-9. Are they all the right way round? If not, can you practise them.

      Practise spelling all the tricky words so far – how many can you write from memory ?

      Be Geraldine……. ” Off she went around the house to find something ENDing with ft/rd/sk etc ” How many things can you find? You could make a list of all the things you find.

      Practise your letter formation – are there any letters you find tricky to write ?

      Learn to spell and write your surname.

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      Reflective Friday 04.06.21

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      Happy Friday P1L!

      I know this week has been a little bit different for us but it was lovely seeing those of you learning at home on the Teams meeting on Tuesday. I hope you are all well and that you are enjoying the sunshine!

      Here is what we have been up to in school this week:

      Literacy

      In literacy this week we have learned the new sounds – ‘rn’ ‘rd’ ‘rm’ and ‘rt’. We enjoyed thinking of words which have the sounds in them, looking for words in our reading books and drawing pictures of words which have the sounds in them. We also enjoyed writing words with these sounds in sentences, reading texts and highlighting the new sounds and playing games! We also continued to learn and look at the Block 3 tricky words. This week we focussed on ‘where’ ‘why’ and ‘what’. Please continue to practice your tricky words at home and our new sounds each week. Please practice learning how to read, write and use the tricky words at home! (Block 1-Block 3)

      For reading, we each got a new ORT book and we predicted what we thought was going to happen in the story before reading, we had word hunts and we read both individually and with a partner. We also practised our comprehension skills by completing a fill in the missing word activity sheet. We enjoyed the extra challenge of reading our book backwards this week! Reading books will be sent home on a Thursday and to be returned to school on a Monday! Please feel free to write any comments in your child’s reading diary! Some of us even read our first play scripts this week of a story we already knew. If you are learning at home please feel free to find a book on the Oxford Owl website at your child’s level. If you could make a note of this in their reading diary/a piece of paper to let me know what books your child has read on their return to school.

      Things to try at home;

      • Practice reading your reading book which is sent home! Read the book forwards and backwards, ask your child questions about the story, the characters etc. You could extend the learning of the book and ask your child to write the next part of the story.
      • Revise our new sounds and tricky words! Can you read them and write them?
      • Write a story about your weekend! Can you add lots of detailed language?
      • Recognise and use our non-negotiables in everything you write!
      • Write a story about an animal, bug or plant you see on a walk you may have this weekend.

      Numeracy

      In numeracy this week we practised our counting skills and recognising numbers up to 100. We also looked at 100 squares and noticing patterns on them. We counted screened and unscreened collections together and also practised making equal groups. We also practiced thinking of other ways to make numbers on our fingers, sequencing numerals and identifying numbers up to 100.

      We also started our new maths topic of fractions. We had lots of fun halving objects, making half a pizza , colouring in half of a shape etc. We also learned what a whole and a quarter looks like.

      Things to try at home:

      • Practice counting to 100.
      • Can you notice numbers in your local environment? On buses, houses or outdoors? What number comes before or after the one you see? What is 10 more than that number?
      • Practice counting items or groups of items in your house. Can you make tally marks to show how many you have?
      • Practice halving things in your house – food, paper, splitting your toys into equal groups etc,

      Other Curricular Areas

      P.E: We enjoyed practising our athletic skills and learning how to use our arms and looking where we are going to help us run faster.

      Outdoor Learning: We had lots of fun playing with the outdoor loose parts and exploring building and making things together! We also enjoyed playing outside the classroom in the courtyard for learning through play!

      Potato Needs a Bath Performance: The children loved the performance of ‘Potato Needs a Bath’. They had lots of fun creating their own party hats for their vegetable and engaged amazingly with both the recorded and live part of the performance.

      Photos of the Week:

      P1L’s Highlights of the Week:

      Sofie – I liked playing outside with my friends.

      Lucy – I liked doing my reading booklet.

      Archie – I liked learning the new letters this week.

      Logan – I liked playing with the big bricks.

      Next Week:

      • P.E will be on Monday and Thursday.
      • Please bring appropriate outdoor clothing as we will have one outdoor lesson per day.
      • Please return your reading folder (book and reading diary inside the folder please!) on Monday!

      I hope you have a lovely weekend!

      Miss McGillivray