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Hello everyone! We hope you enjoyed the Kirky Connects week! This week Mrs Benzie and Mrs O’Hara having been chatting about how we keep ourselves motivated and that it can sometimes be challenging. There are lots of different ways we can keep motivated and different things work for different people.
Mrs O’Hara often finds it useful to break tasks down into small chunks and likes ticking small things off as this motivates her to complete tasks. Mrs Benzie finds it helpful to make a list in the morning of what she would like to achieve that day and loves being able to tick off the tasks when they are completed! We also find it useful to talk to each other and other staff in our team, especially if we are finding tasks difficult, this helps to motivate us to keep going and achieve our goals for each day or week.
It is important to give ourselves a pat on the back and celebrate our achievements each day and this will help to keep us motivated. How do you celebrate your successes? What do you do to keep yourself motivated? What do your family and friends do to help keep you motivated? Sometimes it’s good to sit down at the end of the day or whilst having dinner and talk about what you have achieved each day.
We would love you to share your thoughts or ideas on how you keep motivated with us and also share with us how you celebrate your achievements and successes each day. Please continue to get in touch with us at admin@kirkliston.edin.sch.uk and any emails will be forwarded on to us.
Below are some additional activities you can be doing to support your learning this week.
Literacy
We continue to recommend the Daily Read Write Inc phonics lessons shown on YouTube.These are clear and easy to follow 10 to 15 minute phonic lessons with trained Read Write Inc teachers which children can follow independently. The children in all our groups are very familiar with RWInc and the Speed Sounds.
A new schedule is starting from the 1st June and we would like you to continue to focus on the Set 2 and Set 3 sounds.
Read, Write Inc schedule starting 1st June
Click on the link below and have a go following a lesson. Please let us know how you get on.
Read Write Inc Daily phonics lessons
- The Speed Sounds Set 2 lessons will be a useful learning activity for all the children in our groups.
- The Speed Sounds Set 3 lessons would be a great learning activity for those children who are in Mrs Benzie’s groups.
Speedy Sounds week 10
Green Words Green Words Set 2 How are you getting on reading your green words? Are you getting quicker? Can you read them all confidently?
Oxford Owl has a great range of free eBooks suitable for many different levels. It is free and only takes a couple of minutes to register as a parent. This week we have chosen another four books we would like you to have look at.
This link will give you more information on our chosen books.Oxford Owl books week 10.
Typing Club is a great website for helping you improve your keyboard skills.
Now you have practised the first 8 keys this week we will focus on the lessons for using your left hand.
Phonicsplay Comics is a great site to use for short chunks of reading each day. Choose a level the children can read easily and you can explore from there.
This week have a look at these comics:
Phase 3 – I can spot
Phase 4 – Stunt quest
Phase 5a – Dragon bake off
IDL P5 to P7 continue to have access to IDL which they regularly use in school. The children have been given their passwords and we would like to encourage the children to complete 2 modules three times a week if they can. Please let us know if you need any support with this. The children are confident using this in school and will hopefully be able to work on this independently at home. Click on the link below and click on ‘My IDL Login’ to get started.
Health and Well Being / Nurture
The ELSA website offer some lovely free resources to support us with our feelings and emotions. You can download a calendar of wellbeing activities for June by clicking on this link. ELSA Support June Wellbeing calendar
We would love you to share any of the activities that you manage to do with us. Did you have a favourite activity?
Please send any of your wonderful achievements and creations for June to admin@kirkliston.edin.sch.uk to share with Mrs Benzie, Mrs Stewart, Mrs Miller and Mrs O’Hara.
Maths / Numeracy
This week we would love you to get up and moving with Supermovers! Click on the links and join in with the Supermovers to help you learn the 2, 5 and 10 times tables!
2 times table with Bridget the Lioness
Learn the 5 times table with the Posh Pooch
The 10 times table with Webster the Spider