Tune in now to see Mr.Mutch and Mr.Reid go head to head in an Ant vs Dec style showdown!
Each week the teachers will be presented with a challenge to complete. Watch each week to see what challenge they take on. You can get involved too, after watching the episode copy the activity and comment how you got on.
You could be featured in the following weeks episode on the leader board. Get the whole family involved and see if you can beat Mr.Mutch and Mr.Reid!
Mr.Mutch vs Mr.Reid Episode 1
Running Long Jump
Your teachers have been tasked to use their designated time outside following social distancing rules to complete to jump as far as they can.
Mark off a 5 metre (roughly) running track and then measure how far you were able to jump.
Comment below how you got on and find out next week to see how Mr.Mutch and Mr.Reid got on!
This is the 50th Earth Day and this year the focus is on Climate Action. This also connects to The World’s Largest Lesson which is part of Eco Schools work. (Links to both websites below)
Lots of activities and events were planned but this year the theme will be digital based or an activity from home so the Eco Group have set some challenges for you to try.
Can you do any of the challenges?
It doesn’t have to be today but please comment and let us know if you have done anything so we can keep a record for the Eco Group and our Green Flag application.
Task 1 –
Have a conversation around climate change with an elderly relative/community member, this could be on the telephone or video messaging.
Draw a Then and Now picture based on their climate conversation, demonstrating the difference between
the past and current ways of living and how that impacts climate change
Demonstrate a positive action for the environment
I have included a list of questions you could ask and a recording sheet if needed – Appendix Sheet 1/2.
During your daily exercise can you tidy your local environment. Can you collect a small bag of litter?
On our family walks we have noticed the litter around us more than previously as we have had more time and walked paths that we rarely go on, so can you help tidy the place around you?
Please use gloves and consider what you pick up at this time. Send a picture to your teacher of your rubbish if possible. We can keep this for evidence for Keep Scotland Beautiful but please do not have people in the picture if possible.
P1/2 – (and anyone else who would like to join in)
You have been set a fun task below based around the book you are reading. Have a look at the Sway to see what your task is. This is a fun activity but remember to work with an adult.
Good morning everyone. Are you all looking forward to the Easter holidays? Hopefully the weather will stay good so that you can get into the garden for some outdoor learning.
I’ve changed the name of my Friday challenge, as I thought ‘Feel-Good Friday’ sounded better than ‘Crafty Friday’, so that’s what it will be called from now on.
Mrs Flockton’s ‘Design a Garden’ challenge made me think about an activity that I used to enjoy doing as a child, and I thought you might like to try it too.
Click on the Sway to find out more …
I hope you enjoy the activity. Remember to take a photo of your creation and either email it to me or stick it in your Learning Journal.
Have a lovely break and I’ll be back with more fun challenges for you to try after the holidays.
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!
During this time we are all at home, it gives us a chance to spend time inside doing things we regularly don’t often give enough time to. Feeling inspired by Mr.Reid’s Music Journey I wanted to give myself the challenge too to learn something new. Like Mr.Reid I want to learn something that I can use in the future. Thinking about my interests I’ve decided to combine a few ideas together into one big project.
I’m going to create a web series. Throughout I’m going to learn about filming, editing, special effects, script writing and I want you to join and help me along the way.
I have taken home a variety of supplies from school to enable me to bring our wild and wacky stories to life, yes I did say OUR! It wont just be me who will be doing the work. Together we will work together and learn about creative writing, characterisation, graphic design and many more.
So Lets find out about the show…
A synopsis:
Imagine the Magic Key from Biff, Chip and Kipper, mixed with Jumanji, add a dash of bedtime stories, all told through story cubes and you will have my idea of the Web Show.
A boy receives a strange package in the mail, it has an oddly written letter and a bag full of cubes. The cubes all have a variety of different symbols on them, they are Story Cubes. When he rolls the cubes, the symbols that are on top will become the story that he is sucked into (just like the magic key stories). The cubes will lead him on an eventful adventure until he returns home. Each adventure will be different as you never know how the cubes will roll.
6 cubes will be rolled each time, an episode will cover the first three cubes. It will be your task to look at the remaining cubes and write the second half of the story. It will be up to me to choose one or combine a few ideas and film the next episode. These stories can be as imaginative as possible as it will be up to me to figure out how to bring the story to life learning new digital skills along the way while staying at home.
The Web-Show will be called ‘CUBES’
Your first task for over the Easter Holidays is to design for me the logo of the show, something that I will use in the title sequence.
Your Success Criteria
It must include the name ‘Cubes’
It must relate to the synopsis you have been given
It must be colourful
It must be readable and viewed easily at a glance
If you can think of a tagline for the show, that would also be great to add to your design. Or you can try to create an animation for the title sequence on Scratch Jr.
Here is a picture of the cubes that will be found in the package.
Cubes from ‘CUBES’ Web-Show
Your logo designs can be created in any art medium you want. Please email me your designs on my glow to gw18mutchconnor. I look forward to viewing your designs after the holidays.
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.
Many of the you have used the Scratch Jr iPad app in school. It is free to download.
We are challenging those who have access to a device to create an Easter Card – hopefully we will be able to share some of the designs before the end of term.
If you get a wee bit stuck – leave a comment and hopefully we can all help each other.
Also if you DISCOVER something – comment and let us learn from you.
The document below shares how you can break down the task and push yourself to learn more.
