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Virtual Active Schools Sessions! START January 1st 2021 at 4pm!
http://Active Schools Edinburgh YouTube Channel
Get 2021 of to a healthy start by joining in with activities on the Active Schools YouTube channel. You can join in with your family or on your own
From Monday 14th December any child who visits the library can claim 1 book – limited to one per child on a first come, first served basis. There are 4 titles to choose from: Auntie Robbo – Ann Scott- Moncrieff, Aboard The Bulger – Ann Scott- Moncreiff, The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps – Murray Lachlan Young or Black Snow Falling – L.J. MacWhirter !
children under 12 must be accompanied and you must observe Social Distancing Guidelines by booking a slot either by telephone or at https://bit.ly/EdLibBook. Information about opening times and contact details are here https://yourlibrary.edinburgh.gov.uk/web/arena/library-reopening
These are open: Craigmillar, Central, Dumbrae, Craigmillar, Fountainbridge, Gilmerton, Kirkliston, MacDonald Road, Newington, Stockbridge, Westerhailes
We continue to have some very busy weeks on the run up to the holidays!
This week we have been hard at work preparing for our Seasonal Show about Hanukkah so we can have our filming done this week. The children decided if they wanted to act or to help make the props and backgrounds for our work and I have been super impressed to see what they have come up with! Next week we finally get to show you the culmination of all our work so please be patient.
In maths, we continue to consolidate our number-skills in adding and ordering. We particularly enjoyed adding to find out what we needed to colour a part of a picture.
We also looked over ‘ordinal numbers’ such as 1st (first) and had to read some instructions around this. This is a fun flash game that you might like to try for practising our counting on, back and adding or taking away.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=ChristmasYr1
We had a look at our handwriting and tricky words this week in literacy. we really looked at the ‘c’ shaped words and are trying to write ‘a’,’d’,’g’, ‘o’ and ‘q’ without lifting our pencil or pen off the page in particular. We practised on our white boards and jotters this week. This is a good game to try out a range of the tricky and common words available under the Year 1 (Primary 2) options as a similar activity to Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check (LSCWC).
Stay tuned next week for our Seasonal Show work! In the meantime, have a lovely week and remember to have fun!
General homework for 7th December 2020
For Literacy we are revising our tricky words this week, there is a task to Test yourself! in your child’s jotter.
Maths – There are a few games about identifying numbers and thinking about their place value for you to look at on Education City. Please complete 2 games.
Reading – Reading books will continue to go home this week on THURSDAY, please ensure that these are returned on Monday. Spelling and Maths work should be returned/completed on Thursday.
We were learning about more symbols such as > ‘greater than‘ and < ‘less than‘ in our maths work. We continued to think about our adding and taking away too and we looked at using a hundred square to help us. We enjoyed this game though we had to listen carefully to what it was asking us to do!
We continued to look at our ‘l blends’ with ‘gl‘, ‘pl‘ and ‘sl‘ this week and our tricky words too! We started to make ourselves a board game using all the ‘l blends’ which we are almost finshed!
On St Andrew’s day we read about the story of St Andrew and how he is the patron saint of Scotland. We took our time to cut out and to neatly colour in a ‘stained glass’ picture of him.
Hanukkah is our seasonal story focus and we learned about the story behind this Jewish festival. We ordered some story cards about Hanukkah, working to put them in the correct order. We enjoyed colouring these!
We finally got to take home our Read, Write, Count book bags this week! We already read the stories in class but you finally get to take home these wonderful packs!
Finally, we were outside in the rain on Friday, thinking about the changing seasons and what we might need to think about when it is icy or wet.
It’s a good time to remember all we know about keeping safe and Maryam kindly sent in some fantastic photos of her ready to cycle safely with her helmet and high visibility clothing on! Well done Maryam!
Royal Mile Primary School 