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Mild Literacy and HWB – Under The Same Sky
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?
Numeracy and HWB – Plan your Learning for Health Week 1
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!
Mrs Webster’s ANSWERS for Methlick Primary School Wordsearch
A couple of weeks ago, Mrs Webster launched a wordsearch if you haven’t had a chance to give it a go click the link below
Methlick Primary School Wordsearch
Here are the answers, let us know how you got on
The Winner of the Tallest Dandelion Competition 2020
I am delighted to announce the winner of the tallest dandelion competition today.
Thank you so much to everyone who has taken part!
Take a LOOK in the BOOK!
The Methlick School Spelling Bee!
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
Bee Level
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.
Feel-Good Friday – Build a Butterfly Bar!
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
Bumblebee Reading Comprehension – Spicy
As our Eco-fortnight draws to a close, here is one last post on the subject of bumblebees.
The Bumblebee Conservation trust has a collection of activities and fact files for all ages. Click on the link below to find out more:
Read the article in the following link. If you can, print off the worksheet, complete the crossword and label the different parts of a bee.
Finally, click on the Sway to find a series of questions to test your knowledge of bees! Remember to answer in complete sentences.
Greta’s Grammar Task- Literacy-Hot
Hello Everyone !
Another nice and easy interactive activity today, all you need is the Greta document and some colouring in pencils or you can highlight electronically, click my sway below to find out more.
HWB – Mild – BEE Kind Badge Design
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
- THINK about the things you have learned that we need to do to be kind to bees.
- WRITE a BEE KIND Checklist
- PLAN your design to include the items on your BEE KIND Checklist
- 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.
