Category Archives: Health and Wellbeing
See you in School in August.
So our home learning is at an end for this session. Thank you for all your hard work- you’ve been amazing.💜
Have a safe and fun summer and we will see you in school hopefully in August.
Take care
Mrs Fraser and all the Methlick staff.🌈
Your Final Well-Being Wednesday: Mr.Mutch vs Mr.Reid – The Grand Final!
For the final time this year…
Mr.Mutch and Mr.Reid are ready to go sign off in style, in their biggest challenge yet…
or is it challenges. They even got T-shirts made!
We’ve got the whole show team involved (in front and behind the camera) as we do our own ‘Minute to Win it’ Gameshow.
There is no leader board for this week but you can watch the games and adapt them to suit the materials in your home. Come together and enjoy lots of endless laughter, just like we did.
We can’t thank you enough for the great response each episode.
We set out to have a bit of fun and share a community feeling together. Focusing on the mental well being, to have a routine of seeing us each week as we present the next challenge and also viewing the entries of all the other families who took part, the same as you. Plus the physical well being of us all, with the activities we would set. We hope that during some down time throughout Home Learning this has given a smile and made you laugh.
Enjoy the Final Episode of ‘Mr.Mutch vs Mr.Reid’ below,
Have a G.R.E.A.T Summer and we will see you after the break!
SEASON TWO: TBC
T-Shirt Tote Bag – Reusing Science Activity
Boys and Girls,
Summer is here and summer holidays just around the corner, isn’t it great? You might be doing more things than before since we are allowed to go out more and meet more people which is fantastic. You might be going for a picnic around your local area or travel a bit further, for a walk on the beach, to visit some relatives, shopping and others.
Our activity for today will be making a tote bag (like on the photo above) that will be very useful for all the activities mentioned before. To make this we will reuse a T-shirt that is not longer being used at home, it can be yours or from anybody at home as long as they don’t need it anymore.
Let’s talk a bit about what it means to reuse.
Reusing
What does it mean reuse? Reuse is the practice of using something again. Whether for its original purpose or to fulfill a different function.
When you choose to reuse, you are making a conscious choice to make your life greener and more earth-friendly.
Reusing items helps save money, energy, and resources since it helps keep waste out of landfills and slows down the need for manufacturing new materials. So whenever you have the opportunity to reuse something, don’t think it twice.
Let’s Reuse!
Look at the following Sway to see everything you need and the steps to do you amazing reused T-shirt tote bag.
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Remember to send a photo to your teacher to see your reused T-shirt tote bag.
Map Skills
Hopefully you have spotted the task on the grid about drawing a map. Map reading and map making are both very important skills to learn. Sometimes the biggest challenge is understanding a map as surprisingly every map is different. So our first challenge is to read and understand the map we plan to use. I found a number of different maps in my house and have added these below for you to look at.
What information do they all have?
What similarities do they have?
Can you spot any major differences?
Is there anything that is unique to each or one map?
See below for some map making and map reading tasks, feel free to do more than one task. I have added some already sent into Seesaw so thank you to those pupils who have shared these.
Task 1 – Describe a journey
Describe the journey you would normally take to a friend’s house/shop/school or favourite place from your home. If possible, pace it or walk it to help you describe it easily. You could draw it out as a map and add some noticeable buildings or points of interest to your map or you could make a fantastic leaflet or map like the examples below.
Use words such as –
- left/right turn
- First/Second junction
- Walk/drive/run 100m (or relevant)
Task 2 – Using a map
Choose 5- 8 cities or towns in Scotland and try and work out how far these are from your home. You could use Google maps, a real map or similar and record the data collected in a table. See below for an example already posted to Seesaw.
Answer these questions –
- Which city/town is closest?
- Which city or town is furthest away?
- Can you write any more questions for someone reading your table?
Task 3 – Online mapping activities
Try out the games and activities on this website to learn more about maps.
Virtual Trip Part 2 – Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen #PeterheadPrison #MacDuffAquarium #DayatPittodrie
Hey Everyone!
I hope you have enjoyed the first two days of our Virtual Trip around Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen please find below the original sway with NEW DAYs added.
As always let us know how you get on!
MILD: Literacy – Scottish Wildlife Quiz
I hope you have enjoyed taking the time to read our featured stories and completed some research into learning some facts about the featured wildlife…
Take part in the quiz below focusing on Highland Cows, Bottlenose Dolphins, Eider Ducks and Puffins.
Remember this quiz isn’t to test your knowledge, it is for fun and what you don’t know, is another new fact to learn!
Follow the link below and enjoy…
Virtual Tour Week 2- Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen #FORALL
Hi Everyone,
Welcome to Week 2 of our Virtual Trip Experience, I hope you had a great time at Edinburgh Zoo last week, this week we are going to visit a different tourist attraction around Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire every day!
The sway below shows Monday and Tuesdays visits, on Wednesday I will post a new set of visits for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to get your hands on.
Feel-Good Friday – National Galleries of Scotland
Today, rather than posting a Sway, I’m going to share some art activities from the National Galleries of Scotland.
Each week, throughout the lockdown, they have been posting ideas for creative projects for children, including mud painting, spiral finding, map drawing, and bangle making.
Click on the link to find out more. Don’t forget to take photos of your artwork and tell your teacher how you got on!
Have fun!
Make a flag
As part of the Scotland/Social subjects grid we have set the task of making a flag.
Think about what you already know about flags.
Why do we have them?
What do they have in common?
What do they represent?
Why are they so different? or why are some similar? Here are two sets that are very similar.
Flags often have special meaning. The colours and shapes are not random. They often have a specific theme or idea connected to them. Some flags have mythical creatures or stories connected to them. Each flag is different and individual to the cause or Country it stands for.
The Welsh flag is a good example.
Your task is to make a flag that represents you.
Think about the colours you want to use, will you add a connection to family or friends? Will you add in something connected to a hobby or sport you enjoy? Will you include anything special to you? or will your flag be something totally different? It’s up to you.
Here is one I made with my Home School pupil. Pink and purple are her favourite colours and her hobby is dancing. She also added four hearts to represent the members of our family. For our flag we used fabric and glued on the pieces but you can use pen and paper or anything you have access to at at home. Don’t forget to share it with your teacher.
