Monthly Archives: May 2020

Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Mild literacy, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

Mild – Literacy – Welcome to Book Bear Club!

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Dot invites you to join Book Bear Club!

  • Book Bears are excited about reading.
  • They share information about their favourite books.
  • They give books paws ratings – 5 paws is the highest level a Book Bear can award.
  • Book Bears read everywhere!

Dot is sharing one of her favourite books today – click on the sway to find out more!

SPOILER ALERT – Dot tells you about the end of the story!

Best to watch this Book Bear Review after listening to the story!

Dot used Chatterpix on the iPad to make this for you.

It is a free app.

What could you use to share a message about your favourite book?

A drawing, voice message, typed message in SeeSaw.

Send your favourite book messages to Ms Rossvoll or Mr Mutch and we will share them with everyone in Book Bear Club!

Mild Numeracy, Numeracy, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

Mild – Numeracy – In a minute!

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What do you think you can do in a minute?

Have a go at these challenges!

Over the past few weeks we have been learning to add and subtract.

You have used blocks or numicon or buttons or fingers to work out the answer.

Let’s begin to see if we can learn to remember number facts, quickly!

Like a workout for the brain. The more you practise the better you will become at remembering number facts. Your brain will be able to tell you the fact quickly when you need it!

For example as soon as you see

1 + 1 = you know that the answer is 2.

It just pops up in your brain!

The challenge is to see how many answers you can remember in a minute!

In this sway there are sets of cards to help you practise against the clock! Take a moment to study the minute hand on a clock.

  • Doubles
  • Stories of 10
  • Adding on 2
  • Adding on 3
  • Adding on 4 etc.

These are examples of sheets that you could look at to challenge yourself, they don’t need to be printed and filled in

Every now and again have a go at one of the columns or groups of facts to give your brain a mental maths work out!

Number Bond Challenges

Number Bonds – these are numbers that add together to make another, learning number bonds, number stories, facts, helps to improve mental maths agility.

Add three numbers – number bonds to 20

Subtraction from 10 

or visit – Hit the Button!

or Daily 10 for timed challenges!

 

 

 

Health and Wellbeing

Health and Wellbeing Heroes Launch

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Hello Everyone!

Our NEW theme for the next fortnight is HEALTH and WELLBEING  and we would like you all to become:

Health and Wellbeing Heroes.

Miss Deans has been busy searching for some Health and Wellbeing Heroes and is excited to share with you all , some special guests that will be featuring on our blog!  The guests that you see throughout the next two weeks will tell you all about how Health and Wellbeing impacts their lives,

Our first SPECIAL guest will be launched tomorrow (Tuesday) at 9am, I can’t wait for you all to see this.

Methlick School Staff, Miss Maturana, Mrs Fraser HT, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch, P3 Mrs Flockton, P3 Mrs Taylor, P4 Mrs Rees, P6/5 Mr Reid, P7/6 Miss Deans, Whole School

Methlick’s BIG NIGHT IN – Trailer

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METHLICK YOU DELIVERED. 

We asked you to create the poster for this week’s Big Night In. 

Get your posters up and get excited. 

Methlick’s BIG NIGHT IN is coming to you Live in your Home from 7pm on Friday 22nd May. 

Here is the Trailer it is only 4 days away!

The Show will begin at 7pm on Youtube. Like a premiere you can have the link open waiting but the video wont begin till 7pm. 

Afterwards you can watch it at anytime over the weekend and the answers will be posted on the Monday. 

Since the show is on Youtube you can watch from your Game Console, Smart TV, Phone, Tablet, Laptop and Computer. 

We can’t wait to share with you the work the community of Methlick have put into this special night! 
Health and Wellbeing, Mr Reid's Music Journey, P6/5 Mr Reid

Mr Reid’s Music Journey – Term 4

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Hello all!

Music can have such a positive impact on our mental health. Today, I challenge you to think about your favourite song or piece of music and let us know in the comments. Tell us how the song makes you feel when you are listening to it. Perhaps we could even make a playlist of all our favourite songs – Methlick’s Music!

In the Sway below, you will find a video of me playing my guitar to one of my favourite songs – ‘Let it  Be’ by the Beatles. For me, this song is full of positivity and joy – it reminds me to be thankful for everything that I have.

Health and Wellbeing

NEW SPORTS DAY GRID ADDED Health and Wellbeing Fortnight- 18th May-1st June

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Drum roll…

Our Sports Day Challenge grid launches today see below:

Sports Day Grid

We can’t wait for you to try out a range of Sport activities, for every task you try out you will receive 1 house point, or a gold coin for 12.

There is lots of options  to choose from to suit all our sporting interests 🙂

Remember to send your teachers your house point scores so we can total them up

It’s HEALTH and WELLBEING FORTNIGHT at Methlick School. For the next two weeks we will have a focus on all things Health and Wellbeing related.

hwb

 

At this time of year we are normally in school preparing for our Health Week, so we thought we would continue to keep this a vital part of our learning experiences even remotely!

Our grids are the same layout as usual EXCEPT we have made our Health and Wellbeing grid a “ Grid for All” as we normally experience health week together as a school and community we have a range of activities for you  ALL to try out for our  Health Fortnight Theme,

Literacy Grid

Numeracy Grid

Health and Wellbeing Grid For All

On the week beginning 25th May we will launch our Sports Day grid which will include opportunities for you to earn some House Points!

Lastly we have a range of blog posts assigned for the next two weeks, which we are all very excited about with some special guests!

Remember to check to blog regularly.!

Mild 

Spicy

and Hot!

Where will you start?

Let’s try many attempts, leap into the learning pit and learn from our mistakes to achieve GREAT things!

The teachers will be sharing their attempts!

Keep checking the blog and please leave COMMENTS  and send your work to your teacher via email/Seesaw or add to your Sway so we can stay connected.

Thank you.

Mrs Fraser and the teachers!

Health and Wellbeing, Mild literacy, Outdoor Learning, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

Mild Literacy and HWB – Under The Same Sky

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It is lovely to think that we are all under the same sky even though we may be far away from those we care about and miss.

Use a calendar and clock to check the date and time.

Inside and outside look up to the sky!

Talk about what you see:

  • colours, shapes, movements, position of the sun (never look directly at the sun)

Think and wonder why you:

  • feel, hear, smell and possibly even taste something!

Talk about what you see think and wonder in this book.

Write lists of describing words, adjectives to use when you write about the sky.

Can you collect some photographs of the sky between 10 o’clock and 12 noon and share with your teacher?

Health and Wellbeing, Mild Numeracy, Outdoor Learning, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

Numeracy and HWB – Plan your Learning for Health Week 1

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During the next fortnight we will be learning about time across the school. Take a look at the timetable for Week 1 of ‘Health Fortnight’.

Haven’t Miss Deans and the Health Group been busy planning an action packed ‘Health Fortnight’ for us?

Calendars and timetables can help you plan what you would like to do when.

Take a look at this timetable – it is for children who are interested in taking part in the mild challenges.

 

It uses pictures to show when the mild literacy and numeracy learning activities will be shared this week.

Did you notice that it has a blank column?

This is for filling with learning ideas? Having an interest, a hobby, a craft, a sport that you love doing, learning more about can help to make you very happy. That makes this column very important. I can’t wait to find out what ideas everyone has.

How are you going to plan what you will learn to do this week? 

I got a shock last week when I looked at how many steps I had taken each day. I was spending far too much time sitting and looking at a computer screen. I often work in the kitchen because the internet signal is best in there but I am far too close to the kettle and the biscuit tin! No walking and too many snacks!

Clearly I was not looking after my health and was not very good at planning my time so I have had a go at writing out a timetable for this week.

Can you see what I am planning to make more time to do?

I know that I need to make the effort to walk more and eat more healthy snacks. I am feeling quite calm and positive now that I have a plan. I will update you with my progress on Wednesday.

Here are some blank timetables for you to plan with. 

If it’s not possible to print the timetable have a go at designing your own, much more fun!