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!
Category Archives: Health and Wellbeing
Mrs Still’s Methlick Playground Quiz Part 1 #PSATakeover
Hello Boys and Girls,
Mrs Still has been very busy making a Methlick Primary School Playground Quiz, how cool is that?
Please have a look at it and try this out Family Fun for a Friday 🙂
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
School Uniform Day 15th May 2020. Will you wear you uniform today ?
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.
Magnetic Maze – Science Stem Activity
Good Morning Everyone
You might be thinking: How is Miss Maturana in Pitmedden Gardens related to our activity today? Well, as you can see in the title you will make a maze to play today and Pitmedden Garden has a beautiful maze that I loved running into! Luckily I didn’t get lost! The maze you will do today is a special maze because it will have magnetic force in it. Go through the materials and steps to see what will happen. Let’s see!
Questions
- What do you think it is going to happen?
- What materials do you think will move with the magnet?
- Can you time how long it takes you to get to the end?
- 1p coin, a lego piece, a wooden stick and a paper clip.
Materials
- Paper plate or thin cardboard piece (cereal box).
- Glue
- Magnet, you can use a fridge magnet or a toy that you might have at home that has magnet.
- Colour pencils/Markers
Steps
- Take your cardboard piece and draw a maze or a path to follow inside the plate. Make sure you have a starting and finish point. It is your design so you choose, see ideas below.
2. Allocate the magnet under the plate and the other material on top of the carboard, same position. Now, move your magnet and see what happens.
Let’s Play! You can challenge each other or yourself with timing.
Fill in this chart on your learning journal so you can see which materials will be moved by the magnet and which won’t.
Science Behind
Magnets can stick to some metals, but not others. That is why only some of them moved. Magnetic materials include iron, nickel and metals that contain them. This includes some steels. Plastics and wood are not magnetic.
In 1992 the material of 1p coins changed from bronze non-magnetic to copper-plated steel which is magnetic. This was because it was too expensive to keep on making them. So the coins that don’t move means they are from before 1992!
Don’t forget to post a comment on how you did 🙂
Ms Maturana
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.
Well-Being Wednesday: Mr.Mutch vs Mr.Reid #4
MR.REID IS ON A MISSION!
The teachers are back and this time they are back outside.
Last week’s challenge was really hard but we can tell most people certainly had a growth mindset and took on the power of ‘YET’. Families were messaging saying that they were spending the whole week trying and trying again. Even though some of you didn’t manage it is important to know that you never gave up. Maybe, one day you will be able to build the tower.
This week we learn about how Mr.Reid is getting on in lock down. I wonder how he is feeling?
Mr.Mutch vs Mr.Reid @ Methlick #4
This Week’s Challenge
Skipping
You will have 60 seconds to skip as many times as possible on the sport.
Enjoy this week’s episode and don’t forget to send in your scores and find out where you place on the leader board next week.
Numeracy: MILD: Subtraction #2
Today we are going to focus on how we write out a subtraction sum.
Thinking about the discussions you had last time when you were doing subtraction around the home and outside, follow the sway below.
There is a variety of activities at the end of the sway that you could enjoy to practice your subtraction skills.
Meat Free Meal
Following on from Mrs Taylor’s lovely recipe I hope some of you have managed to think about the idea of a meat free meal.
I’m sure many families have meat free meals at various points without realising it – for example Macaroni Cheese or even a salad. Those of you that are vegetarian or vegan will be doing this daily.
The idea of ‘Meat free Monday’ is a interesting debate as it opens up some good questions about whether or not it is good for the environment. (It doesn’t have to be on a Monday you do this)
Have a look at the website and read some of the ideas, some of you might need some adult support –
http://ypte.org.uk/factsheets/meat-free-mondays/introduction#section
Task 1 – Write a short report sharing your view on Meat Free Monday. You may have to research the website and note down some ideas before you start a report.
Remember to include your feelings and thoughts. Is your report for or against Meat Free Monday?
These questions may help –
- Do you think Meat Free Monday will make a difference to climate change?
- Do you think it will affect farming? Would this affect farming in our area?
- Do you think it will improve health?
- Do you agree with the information on the website?
Task 2 – Design a menu or recipe sharing your Meat Free meal. Did you make it?
Feel free to try one task or maybe some of you will manage both.
Remember to comment on here or share with your teacher we would love to see your ideas.
