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MILD: Literacy – How much Scots do we know already?

Scots is a language that was commonly spoken all over, however, today we now commonly use English. The funny thing is, is that certain words creep back into what we say, those words are often from the Scots Language.

Watch the following videos to learn more, do you recognise some of the words?

One of our favourites stories is the Gruffalo, listen to it in Scots.

Complete the sheet below, you do not have to print it out, you can refer to it and have a discussion with family members or phone a relative to sound out the words and learn what they mean.

Scots Words Activity 

Share your responses with your teachers through seesaw or email.

 

New Learning Grids for 15th -26th June : Scotland

This fortnight we are celebrating all things Scotland and of course Methlick.

We want to appreciate what is on our doorstep, by looking forward to places we could go and activities we can do once we are able to explore outside more.

To get in the mood watch these videos below of Ariel Footage from around Scotland by Edinburgh based film maker, John Duncan. You can explore the 3 videos plus look at the 100 places in Scotland video, how many have you visited? If you are interested in film making look at his website to see how he filmed these amazing videos.

Click Here to visit his website.

Below are our three grids for this fortnight…

HWB – Scotland

Numeracy

Literacy 

Remember, we all believe that having a growth mindset is very important so the activities are organised into the following levels.

Mild 

Spicy

Hot

Where will you start?

Let’s leap into the learning pit and learn from our mistakes to achieve GREAT things! The teachers will be sharing their attempts and offering support too.

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

Thank you!

Mrs Fraser and all the teachers

Feel-Good Friday – Pebble Art

For this Friday’s creative challenge I was inspired by Mrs Fraser’s assembly on different types of art, also by a comment that Hayden made on the blog.

Today we are going to be creating pictures using small stones and pebbles.   The subject of your picture is entirely your choice – it could be your family, your cat or dog,  birds, flowers – anything!

Click on the Sway to find out more …

Don’t forget to take photos of your artwork and send them to your teacher or to me, so that I can make a gallery on Sway to show your creations to everyone.  Have fun, and have a great weekend.

Community Challenge: Mutch v Reid Dance Video

Methlick you are SUPERSTARS!

Today is the day! You have been sending in your dance videos all week and the staff have been working on something as well.

Mrs.Fraser will send out a link to you all through Seesaw to allow you to view the video privately.

Thank you to everyone who took part. We hope you enjoy laughing, smiling and dancing along to our Community Dance Video!

Methlick Quiz Continued PSA Takeover (Mrs Still)

Happy Friday Everyone 🙂

Mrs Still has continued on her photo Methlick Quiz, how many can you recognise?

Let us know how you get on!

Methlick Streetview Quiz  

Methlick Streetview Quiz Answers

Camouflage – Science

Good Morning Boys and Girls!

I have been looking at all your artwork from last week and this week and it looks fantastic! After seen so many activities related to nature, it made me think of something super fun that you could try at home. It is going to be a big challenge because you will need to be very careful and detailed. Also, it is going to be such a fun challenge, I am already smiling thinking of all the great ideas you might have.

Let’s Begin!

 

What do you think these 3 animals have in common?

Leaf Tailed Gecko

Mountain Hare

Cameleon

 

Well done! All of them use their skin to protect themselves from predators, this is called Camouflage. The Mountain Hare changes its fur to white for winter season and brown for the other seasons.

Now, quick challenge, click below and see how fast you can spot the camouflaged animals.

BBC – Earth: How quickly can you spot these camouflaged animals?

Camouflage

Many animals try to hide or blend in with the background to protect themselves from predators, even big animals do it. Even though, some animals can not change the colour of their skin they use other strategies  and high skills to hide. Click on the following video to learn more.

BBC Bitesize – Camouflage

Your Challenge

Click on the sway to see your challenge.

Go to this Sway

 

Have fun!

Miss Maturana

Mild – Literacy and Exp Arts – An ending to dance to!

What a fortnight of Tiger Tale writing!

  • You have prowled!
  • Found the main character in your story.
  • Been surprised!
  • And now have a problem in your tale!

Time to write the ‘Tail’ end of your story.

How will the problem be solved?

What type of ending will you choose?

  • funny
  • sad
  • surprising
  • happy

What type of ending have I chosen?

 

Did you expect that?

The mermaid and the tiger danced till dawn!

Let’s dance to celebrate your fabulous Tiger Tales!!

 

 

 

RSPB Wild Art Activity – Mild/Spicy and Hot

Hopefully you have spotted the RSPB activity on the grid by now. If not here is my effort to inspire you to enter. The great news for this activity is that anything goes!! There are two options in more detail below but both have the same idea to “Create a piece of art inspired by nature.” There are 3 age categories –  under 8s, 8-12, and 13 years and over.

See the link for the fine detail on entering here – https://bit.ly/2ziDH4a

If you want to create and not enter that is perfectly fine too, remember to share with your teacher any work and please ask a parent for help to enter the competition as teachers are not able to do this for you. Remember to  always check it is safe to use items around the house before you start.

Option 1 – ‘REAL LIFE’ – entries using the more traditional approach of paints, pastels, acrylics, pens or pencil.

Here is my effort inspired by some wild flowers we collected during our daily walks. For this activity I used some watercolours which take a little getting used to and some thicker paper than normal as the water can make the page soggy.

Our wild flowers collected on our walks and from our garden. We have a small flower press but this can be done using newspaper and some heavy books.

My effort of drawing some flowers, we used the time lapse function to speed it up.

The painting part, this will be revisited to blend colours and layer. It takes a little effort to get this right so maybe try on scrap paper first.

Option 2 – ‘GO WILD’  for those of you who want to ‘go wild’. To enter this category you can use non traditional items and experiment with textiles, sculpture, recycled materials or a combination of more than one to add to a collage.

Here is a wonderful collage from Finlay in P3, he shared this with me to inspire others to enter too.

Fantastic detail and different textures used.

Or for those of you that like to junk model here is another idea from another P3 (my youngest daughter) using recycled items and then painted.

I look forward to seeing some ‘Wild Art’ – good luck all.

MILD: Numeracy – Shadow Puppets with Shapes

The pictures of your drawings that some of you have sent in look amazing.

It is really interesting how a collection of simple shapes can look like an animal.

Today we are going to do the same with our shapes.

By grouping shapes together in a certain way you get an outline of a line that goes all the way around. When you have these grouped shapes all together in one colour it has a special name…Do you know what it is?

They are called Silhouettes.

Today we are going to create some simple silhouettes and cast their shadow out in the grass to imagine they are in our jungle. You can also set up a torch indoors and play with your shadow puppets.

Follow the Sway below to learn more…

Remember to send in pictures of your work to your teacher through email or seesaw.