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Health and Wellbeing, P2 Mr Mutch, P6/5 Mr Reid, Wellbeing Wednesday

Well-Being Wednesday: Mr.Mutch vs Mr.Reid… Not Here

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They’ll Be Back… Soon 

We Promise! 

Mr.Mutch and Mr.Reid both needed to pause production of their Web-Show to focus on the Big Night In.

Mr.Mutch and Mr.Reid are both working really hard to get everything together for the Special Event

They can’t wait to enjoy Friday Evening with you all!

They are really happy with the reception that the Web-Show is getting but at times the teachers struggle to think of a challenge. Do you have any ideas?

Mr.Mutch and Mr.Reid look for challenges that everyone can take part in. Challenges that people can submit a score, time or distance rather than a who did it better task.

Follow the link to the Microsoft Forms Survey to complete and give us some ideas.

Or Follow the QR Code:

While you wait you can watch back your favourite episode with our playlist on the Methlick Youtube Channel.

Mild literacy, Mild Numeracy, Numeracy, Outdoor Learning, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

Mild Numeracy – What’s the Time Mr Wolf?

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Tick Tock! Look at the Clock!

If you have made a timetable you might need to set an alarm to remind you to do something.

I have an alarm set for 11am to remind me to photograph the sky and an alarm set for the time I should be going to bed!

Throughout the day look at your clock on the hour and half past the hour, maybe you could set an alarm in your phone. What are you doing at those times?

Make your own clock

to do this you need to be able to

  • write the numbers 1 to 12 on stones, shells, pieces of slate.
  • order numbers to 12 in a clockwise direction
  • find a short stick and a long stick
  • colour the tip of the short stick, the hour hand

CHALLENGE – To add more information to your clock

  • Write number stones for counting in 5s up to 60
  • 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 etc
  • order the stones clockwise starting at 12

OR

Make a paper clock

Learn about o’clock

Learn about half past

Pretend to be a clock

  • Ask someone to shout out a time.
  • Use your arms to show what time it is.

White Rose Maths Time Booklet Year 1

White Rose Maths Time Booklet Year 2

fun TIME!

Dandelion Clocks!

When I was little I would love finding these seed heads intact and using them to ‘tell the time’. I would blow the dandelion and say 1 o’clock, blow the dandelion – 2 o’clock etc. I would ask what time it was and then try to blow the dandelion that number of times to confirm that a dandelion clock did work!

What’s the Time Mr Wolf?

Watch these children playing this game. Could you do this with your family?

Enjoy this story ‘What’s the Time Mr Wolf’ being read by the author Debi Gliori

Learn these dance moves to help you keep in TIME to the music

So many of you are still enjoying learning about bees .

Then visit the Magic Door Beehive Dance to take part

 

 

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

Mild – Literacy – Welcome to Book Bear Club!

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Dot invites you to join Book Bear Club!

  • Book Bears are excited about reading.
  • They share information about their favourite books.
  • They give books paws ratings – 5 paws is the highest level a Book Bear can award.
  • Book Bears read everywhere!

Dot is sharing one of her favourite books today – click on the sway to find out more!

SPOILER ALERT – Dot tells you about the end of the story!

Best to watch this Book Bear Review after listening to the story!

Dot used Chatterpix on the iPad to make this for you.

It is a free app.

What could you use to share a message about your favourite book?

A drawing, voice message, typed message in SeeSaw.

Send your favourite book messages to Ms Rossvoll or Mr Mutch and we will share them with everyone in Book Bear Club!

Mild Numeracy, Numeracy, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

Mild – Numeracy – In a minute!

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What do you think you can do in a minute?

Have a go at these challenges!

Over the past few weeks we have been learning to add and subtract.

You have used blocks or numicon or buttons or fingers to work out the answer.

Let’s begin to see if we can learn to remember number facts, quickly!

Like a workout for the brain. The more you practise the better you will become at remembering number facts. Your brain will be able to tell you the fact quickly when you need it!

For example as soon as you see

1 + 1 = you know that the answer is 2.

It just pops up in your brain!

The challenge is to see how many answers you can remember in a minute!

In this sway there are sets of cards to help you practise against the clock! Take a moment to study the minute hand on a clock.

  • Doubles
  • Stories of 10
  • Adding on 2
  • Adding on 3
  • Adding on 4 etc.

These are examples of sheets that you could look at to challenge yourself, they don’t need to be printed and filled in

Every now and again have a go at one of the columns or groups of facts to give your brain a mental maths work out!

Number Bond Challenges

Number Bonds – these are numbers that add together to make another, learning number bonds, number stories, facts, helps to improve mental maths agility.

Add three numbers – number bonds to 20

Subtraction from 10 

or visit – Hit the Button!

or Daily 10 for timed challenges!

 

 

 

Methlick School Staff, Miss Maturana, Mrs Fraser HT, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch, P3 Mrs Flockton, P3 Mrs Taylor, P4 Mrs Rees, P6/5 Mr Reid, P7/6 Miss Deans, Whole School

Methlick’s BIG NIGHT IN – Trailer

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METHLICK YOU DELIVERED. 

We asked you to create the poster for this week’s Big Night In. 

Get your posters up and get excited. 

Methlick’s BIG NIGHT IN is coming to you Live in your Home from 7pm on Friday 22nd May. 

Here is the Trailer it is only 4 days away!

The Show will begin at 7pm on Youtube. Like a premiere you can have the link open waiting but the video wont begin till 7pm. 

Afterwards you can watch it at anytime over the weekend and the answers will be posted on the Monday. 

Since the show is on Youtube you can watch from your Game Console, Smart TV, Phone, Tablet, Laptop and Computer. 

We can’t wait to share with you the work the community of Methlick have put into this special night! 
Health and Wellbeing, Mild literacy, Outdoor Learning, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

Mild Literacy and HWB – Under The Same Sky

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It is lovely to think that we are all under the same sky even though we may be far away from those we care about and miss.

Use a calendar and clock to check the date and time.

Inside and outside look up to the sky!

Talk about what you see:

  • colours, shapes, movements, position of the sun (never look directly at the sun)

Think and wonder why you:

  • feel, hear, smell and possibly even taste something!

Talk about what you see think and wonder in this book.

Write lists of describing words, adjectives to use when you write about the sky.

Can you collect some photographs of the sky between 10 o’clock and 12 noon and share with your teacher?

Health and Wellbeing, Mild Numeracy, Outdoor Learning, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

Numeracy and HWB – Plan your Learning for Health Week 1

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During the next fortnight we will be learning about time across the school. Take a look at the timetable for Week 1 of ‘Health Fortnight’.

Haven’t Miss Deans and the Health Group been busy planning an action packed ‘Health Fortnight’ for us?

Calendars and timetables can help you plan what you would like to do when.

Take a look at this timetable – it is for children who are interested in taking part in the mild challenges.

 

It uses pictures to show when the mild literacy and numeracy learning activities will be shared this week.

Did you notice that it has a blank column?

This is for filling with learning ideas? Having an interest, a hobby, a craft, a sport that you love doing, learning more about can help to make you very happy. That makes this column very important. I can’t wait to find out what ideas everyone has.

How are you going to plan what you will learn to do this week? 

I got a shock last week when I looked at how many steps I had taken each day. I was spending far too much time sitting and looking at a computer screen. I often work in the kitchen because the internet signal is best in there but I am far too close to the kettle and the biscuit tin! No walking and too many snacks!

Clearly I was not looking after my health and was not very good at planning my time so I have had a go at writing out a timetable for this week.

Can you see what I am planning to make more time to do?

I know that I need to make the effort to walk more and eat more healthy snacks. I am feeling quite calm and positive now that I have a plan. I will update you with my progress on Wednesday.

Here are some blank timetables for you to plan with. 

If it’s not possible to print the timetable have a go at designing your own, much more fun!

Hot Literacy, Literacy, Mild literacy, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch, P3 Mrs Flockton, P3 Mrs Taylor, P4 Mrs Rees, P6/5 Mr Reid, P7/6 Miss Deans, Spicy Literacy

The Methlick School Spelling Bee!

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Time to get your Spelling Bee Hat on

and challenge yourself to take part in…..

The Methlick School Spelling Bee!

These are the levels you can move up through –

10 words for each level!

A maximum score of 50

Anyone can have a go!

Score Sheet – click to open a PDF to download and mark your score on

The sheets we have been using to learn about the ‘ee’ sound are attached below, just incase you want to ‘brush up’ your skills before you start!

Dandelion Level

Long vowel ee sound

Bee Level

Long vowel ee sound ea

Honey Level

Long vowel ee sound at the end y or ey

Hive Level

We have been learning about the parts of the bee by listening to the Campbell Family, reading for information about bees and to label diagrams with Mr Mutch. By doing this you have been learning to sound out and read and write these words. This level will ask you to spell some of the bee’s body parts.

Queen Bee Gold Level

The parts of any living thing can be called it’s anatomy. Find out more information about the anatomy of a bee on this site. This level will ask you to spell some of these specialist words. Remember your spelling strategies.

  • Break the words into syllables.
  • Look for smaller words within the big words.