All posts by A. Rossvoll
Mild Numeracy Challenge – Wholes, halves and quarters
Mild HWB P1 Challenge – LOVE
Unfortunately we can’t meet as a community to commemorate V.E. Day. Each class had been asked to design words to be displayed in the church for the event. I have had a go at the P1 challenge word – LOVE. Some children in P1 have shared their design with me – thank you – and I have passed this on to Ms Deans who will share all the images created by children across the school on Friday on the blog. ❤️
New School Theme – Conflict! Mild Literacy Book Launch!
New Learning Grids for 21st April-1st May
Welcome Back Methlick School! – let’s get back to learning together online!
Enjoy challenging yourself to complete some activities from a choice of the 3 grids for this week.
Remember we all believe that having a growth mindset is very important so the activities are organised into levels.
Mild
Spicy
and Hot!
Where will you start this term?
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 so we can stay connected.
Thank you.
Mrs Fraser and the teachers!
Literacy Grid 1 – Spicy Challenge – Comic Superhero
This is one of the imaginative spicy writing challenges on Literacy Grid 1
Thumper Comic
Thumper the Calf is a super hero with ‘MOOvellous’ powers.
Draw Thumper in his superhero costume and label his super powers.
OR
Write a comic strip about his adventures Write in your journal or maybe you could use book creator on the iPad or computer or sway in Glow to create an e book.
Share with your teacher via Glow.
I have used the comic option in the paid version of Book Creator to give this a go.
Main characters – little plastic calf for Thumper; Jessie, the horse, Rex and Mr Potato Head from the original Toy Story.
Setting – Toy farm buildings, a wooden rainbow, a broken Lego millennium falcon and a wooden safari set.
I tinkered, debugged and persevered with what I had until I came up with a simple storyline. I tried not to be distracted with making superhero accessories.
I quickly drew super pants and stuck them on with double sided tape. I used a pipe cleaner for super horns – job done!
It was great fun!
Have a go!
Numeracy Grid 1 – Mild Challenge – More Double Numbers
Paint double numbers
Have fun exploring double numbers with paint dots.
I made a rainbow by starting with 7 dots and using the 7 different colours from the rainbow.
Would you like to dive into the learning pit?
Use the double facts you have remembered?
Have a go at investigating double numbers
This time start with an even amount
Think about which double number story you could make
I used 2 egg boxes to make ten frames
I found pompoms and baubles to make double number stories with.
I have also shown the number stories with numicon which I know very few of you would have at home but they help you to see the double number stories in your mind.
Start with even amounts to 10
Move onto even amounts to 20
Maybe some of you would challenge yourselves even further!
Outdoor Learning Grid 1: Mild Challenge: Rainbow Scavenger Hunt
Rainbow Scavenger Hunt
Which rainbow colours are outdoors at this time of year?
Print off the sheet in the mild links and add double sided sticky tape
or
use an egg box to collect items in
or
make your own collection sheet to hunt for items to match the colours of the rainbow.
If you collect leaves and petals you could have a go at pounding them with a hammer or rubbing them onto a piece of thick paper to collect rainbow colours.
Take care, ask an adult for a safe tool to use.
“Yesterday morning when the sun was shining and it was dry I went outside and searched for rainbow colours and…”
Look through the sway below to find out more about what I did.
Literacy Grid 1 – Mild Challenge – Letter Formation – Down and Bounce Letter Family
Good morning boys and girls,
I spent yesterday making some resources to help you with this mild challenge from Literacy Grid 1.
Letter Formation
Choose a family of letters to practise each day.
Watch the videos to help you form the letters
These resources help you learn to form the
Down and bounce family of letters
Think about a ball dropping down to the ground.
When it hits the ground it bounces back up and then often moves forward making an invisible rainbow line, curved line.
b h k m n p r
These letters always begin at the top, (a ball won’t bounce far if you don’t start with it up high);
with a straight line being drawn down.
The pencil travels back up the straight line;
and then the pencil is used to draw a curved line to the right, that line ends in different ways for the letters in this family.
Before you start to form your letters remember to warm up your hand by drawing curved lines – try drawing clouds and rainbows.
I have started a drawing that would help you practise these movements before you write letters from the down and bounce family. Click on the picture above to see a larger version for you to copy.
I wonder who might be holding the umbrella and have their feet in the boots?
A rainbow is drawn with curved lines
Clouds are a wonderful way to draw joined curved lines and this helps to improve fluidity.
Spirals could form puddles and lots of short diagonal lines can cover the page with rain. Zig zag lines could form grass.
Enjoy!
The videos in the Sway below show you how to write the the letters in this family.
