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Anagrams – Fruits and Vegetables

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Good morning, everyone.

As it’s the last week of our Health Fortnight, I thought I would choose something healthy for my Literacy challenge.  All the answers to today’s anagrams are names of fruits and vegetables.

If you haven’t tried working out an anagram before – it’s easy!  Just unscramble the letters in each question to form the name of a fruit or vegetable.  I find the easiest way to do this is to write down all the letters in random order on a piece of paper.  You can also cut them up and rearrange them that way, moving them around until you work it out.

Click on the Sway to take part.  Good luck!

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Breathe In, Breathe Out – Science Activity

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Boys and Girls,

It has been health week in our blog for the last 2 weeks and what amazing activities we’ve had to explore different ways to keep healthy. Have you thought what our body does while you are doing all the challenges from the grid? Well, there is an important organ that keeps your body receiving oxygen so you can keep moving around.

 Can you guess which organ I am talking about? Well done, the lungs.

Every time you do a physical activity your muscles and organs need oxygen so they can keep moving. When you breathe in, air flows through the blood going all around your body and then when you breathe out, you release it as carbon dioxide (something our body does not need). Do you know what organ pumps the blood all around our body? The heart. So every time you are running fast you will breathe fast and you will feel your heart pumping fast too, that is because they both need to keep up at the same level so you can do any activity you want.

Click the green link if you want to know more about this process, there are some activities you can do too: BBC Bitesize: How do humans breathe?

 

Do you want to see how lungs work inside us when we breathe? Let’s make our lungs then!

 

Materials

  1. 2 straws
  2. Scissors
  3. 2 plastic bags
  4. Sellotape
  5. Drawings of the lungs, mouth and nose.

 

Step 1

Tape the straws at the top and at the bottom as shown in the photo.

Step 2

Glue or double stick tape your nose and lips to the straws.

Step 3

Tape your bag to each lung, tightly so no air escapes.

Step 4

Tape your lung printable to the back of the straws. Like on the photo, now your lungs are ready!

Activities

Explore how your just made lungs work, you have to be very gentle. After you have tried them, can you explain:

  1. What happens when you breathe in (put your hand on your chest) and now try with the lungs you made.
  2. What happens when you breathe out (put your hand on your chest) and now try with the lungs you made.
  3. How do you know your body needs more air?
  4. Describe what happens to your breathing and your  lungs when doing different exercises from the grid.
  5. Comment your thoughts, write them on your learning journal or add them to your sway.

Ms Maturana

mild, Mild literacy, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

MILD: Literacy: Book Bear Club – Story Mapping

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How is everyone’s Book Bears

I know they are all excellent listeners.

Thanks for sharing your book nooks they all look so lovely to sit in and read.

Something that P2 enjoy creating and are also quite skilful in reading is story maps.

Story maps are a great tool to help us remember tales and identify the most important parts of the story.

Here is a few examples from P2. You can use pictures and key words to help you remember the story.

You can chose to do your own book that you have been reading to your bear or chose one of the featured tales, The Angry Ladybird or What’s the Time.

Remember to share your story maps with your teacher on seesaw or email.

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

MILD: Literacy & HWB: Sky High… Ready for Lift Off!

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Time for the final addition to our Photography or Drawing activity.

So far we have looked at our ambitions and our own personal qualities and skills. Much like our Health Heroes, they didn’t reach their ambition on their own they needed support.

That is our focus today…

Follow the Sway below to learn about our final addition to the project.

When you are ready you can follow the writing task, there are sentence starters provided if you would like.

Remember to share with your teachers on Seesaw, Email or comment on the blog.

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Sports Day Wednesday: Mr.Mutch vs Mr.Reid #6

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THEY ARE BACK!

Ready to take on Sports Day!

Both teachers returned to their competitive views on each other after Friday’s Big Night In.

Because it was Health Fortnight, they decided to use the Sport Day Grid you will be using at home, and adapt the tasks so that it could relate to a timed event.

Enjoy this week’s episode of Mr.Mutch vs Mr.Reid.

This week’s challenge:

Sports Day Stations

Both teachers must complete 4 stations in the shortest amount of time. We set up our stations all within a 5 metre shuttle run with the equipment waiting at the side.

We have….

The Shuttle Run, Star Jumps, Tattie and Spoon and the Shoe Throw.

We hope you have fun and remember to comment, email or seesaw your results to get on the leader board.

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

MILD: LITERACY & HWB : Sky High #2

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Yesterday we talked about our ambitions and dreams something we could reach for in the sky.

Today we are going to look at the skills and qualities we have ourselves to help us reach that target. Have these discussions while you are taking the time to look at the sky.

To reach the ambition in the sky, we are going to need wings, your wings are made of words that the meaning relates to you.

Follow the steps below in the sway to complete part 2.

Remember this can be a drawing activity too and also send in your work to your teacher through seesaw or email.

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MILD: Numeracy: Counting in

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We are looking at Counting In on the grids this week. This could be counting in 1’s 2’s 5’s 10’s 3’s and so on.

We can start from one and focus on counting on from there or you may like to challenge yourself and select a number in the 100 square and start from there.

Follow the sway below for an activity idea you can do at home. There is a variety of ways you can do this jigsaw style art. I have just given you the instructions to follow one method.

Remember that if you complete this activity to take a photo and send it to your teach via email or seesaw.

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Feel-Good Friday – Things To Look Forward To

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Good morning, everyone.  Time for another Feel-Good Friday activity.

During lockdown many people may be feeling upset, bored or frustrated because they are unable to do all the things they usually enjoy.  At times like this, it helps to remind ourselves of all the things we have to look forward to, once the lockdown is over.

Click on my Sway to find out how to make your own jar of ‘Things to Look Forward To’.

Unfortunately I left all my craft items in school so my jar doesn’t look as pretty or as nicely decorated as I’d have liked.  I’m sure yours will look much better!

I’d love to see all your decorated jars, so please share with me via my Glow email.    I will then collate them and make a Sway so that everyone can see your designs.

Have fun, and have a good weekend.  🙂