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My Safe Place – Health Week- Science Stem Activity

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Good Morning Everyone,

This week is Health week, you have been doing different nice activities and I thought we could link some of them with our activity for today. As you can read from the title and see in the photo you will build a safe place inside your house, a place where you can go when you feel sad, mad, scared or happy.

You can use this place to do things that will help to take those feelings that are sometimes not very nice and transform them into happiness. Some things you can do here can be: read your book for the Book Club, have a healthy snack, sing songs, listen to good music, tell a story, play with your toys, use the paper phones you made last week and all others you might be thinking just now.

I am going to be using 6 designs that IKEA posted as part of a quarantine campaign encouraging people to stay home. All of them have different materials that you will have at home from blankets to books, if you don’t you can always replace them for something else.  Instructions are simple, consisting only of images. Choose 1 and with your family build your perfect safe place.

Make sure you have an adult supervision and the structure is safe to be inside.

Let’s see!

 

Design 1: You’ll just need a table, 2 sheets, a few books, and laundry pins.

 

 

Design 2: You will need a clothes rack, sheets, LED lighting chain (battery), books, pins and a hanging drier.

 

 

Design 3: You will need your sofa, a sheet, LED lighting chain (battery), books,  and cushions.

 

 

Design 4: You will need a hanger,  sheets, LED lighting chain (battery), books, clips and cushions.

 

 

Design 5: You will need your sofa,  sheets, a blanket, pins and cushions.

 

 

Design 6: You will need a hanger,  4 chairs, sheets, a blanket/rug, LED lighting chain (battery), pins and cushions.

 

Don’t forget to post your comments and send a photo of your tents!

Ms. Maturana

Challenge levels, hot, P4 Mrs Rees, spicy

Missing Links #2 (including answers to Missing Links #1)

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Good morning, Methlick School!

Thank you and well done to everyone who sent in their answers for the first ‘Missing Links’ challenge.   I can now reveal that the answers were:

1. Hand
2. Table
3. Car
4. Single
5. Cheese
6. Pie
7. Water
8. Book
9. Fish
10. Card
11. Way
12. Cat

Congratulations to Thomas who was first to complete it correctly!
If you are up for a second challenge, click on the Sway to have a go.

Please come back and let me know how you got on!  🏆🏆🏆

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

Mild Literacy and HWB – Sky journal

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I hope you have enjoyed being outdoors and observing the sky.

Did you SEE, THINK and WONDER?

I was left wondering what some of the clouds shapes were called.

Some people choose to observe the sky as a job, they are called Meteorologists.

Mrs Still ,as well as being one of our wonderful PSAs, is a Meteorologist Observer.

She has kindly written this  guide to the clouds for us, isn’t that fantastic!

I have had a go at writing a sky journal.

I’m not finished, now that I have Mrs Still’s book I am going to have a go at writing about different cloud formations, I will share on Friday.

Take a blanket and lie down and look at the sky, I find it very calming! ENJOY!

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Eco Fortnight Update and BBC Bitesize Lessons

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A huge thanks to everyone for sending all their Eco work and ideas in. Each class received lots of lovely Eco posters and items of work.

Here is a great  example of a piece of work that was shared.

We also had a number of photos sent in for tracking animals during your daily walks.

I have added some here –

We have also been very lucky to have been sent some photos from our Schoolhouse neighbours, can you guess what bird has made a nest in our greenhouse?

Our reporter tells me there are 6 hungry mouths waiting to be fed.

BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons

If you have some time this week or next and want to learn more about the planet around us I have looked up the BBC Bitesize lessons to share some with you.

Schedule – BBC bitesize

This week the Geography lessons are –

P1/2/3 Oceania

P4/5 Mountains

P6/7 Rainforests

Next week –

P1/2/3 South America

P4/5 Weather/Climate

P6/7 Fossil Fuels

If you watch them leave a comment to let everyone know if they were interesting or not. So far the lessons have been really interesting and some have guest presenters.  You can find them on catch up once aired so don’t feel you have to stick to the timings.

 

 

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Feel-Good Friday – Build a Butterfly Bar!

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Good morning everyone.  Time for another bit of Friday fun.

As the weather is getting warmer, we are starting to see more and more butterflies visiting our gardens.  Plants like lavender and buddleia (also known as ‘the butterfly bush’) are very attractive to butterflies, but not everyone has them growing in their garden.  Today’s activity is designed to encourage more butterflies to visit yours.

All the step-by-step instructions are contained in the Sway.  You should have most of the ingredients at home and, if not, they are easy to find.

I hope you give it a try – the butterflies will be grateful!

Hopefully you will soon have lots of visitors to your garden.  Don’t forget to come back to the blog and let me know how many butterflies you have seen.

You can find out how to identify butterflies here:
Butterfly Identifier

 

Creativity Challenge, Health and Wellbeing, Outdoor Learning, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

HWB – Mild – BEE Kind Badge Design

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During Eco fortnight we have encouraged you to

  • wander in the wild and wonder
  • learn about dandelions and bees
  • think about the wellbeing of bees
  • take part in the Pollinator Promise

AND SO MANY OF YOU HAVE!

Our final health and wellbeing challenge is

to design a badge that we could use on the blog to encourage others to keep dandelions and grow pollinators

  1. THINK about the things you have learned that we need to do to be kind to bees.
  2. WRITE a BEE KIND Checklist
  3. PLAN your design to include the items on your BEE KIND Checklist
  4. CREATE!

We are really looking forward to seeing your designs.

Go for it BUSY BEES!

If you need some ideas to get you started have a look at the SWAY.