Check out the sway on this week’s featured story.
Mr.Mutch has his book bear Pabu from the P2 Classroom. He has written about his favourite book nook. Can you tell us about your book nook?
MILD: BOOK BEAR CLUB
Category Archives: Mild literacy
Mild Literacy – Book Bear Club #2
Thank you to everyone who has joined the Book Bear Club.
Dot would like to share another of her favourite books with you.
‘The Cloudspotter’ by Tom McLaughlin
We read the story together at our thoughtful spot just when the sun was lower in the sky, it was very peaceful.
Have you spotted anything in the clouds?
This is what Dot and I have spotted.
By the way ,on Tuesday Dot shared the story ‘The Bad Tempered Ladybird’
I have always wondered if a ladybird could be bad tempered as I am rather fond of them.
This link takes you to the Countryside Classroom where they investigate this question. (a lot of text )
On page 3 they answer some questions
On page 5 they tell you how to make ladybirds happy.
Mild Literacy and HWB – Sky journal
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!
Mild Numeracy – What’s the Time Mr Wolf?
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
Mild – Literacy – Welcome to Book Bear Club!
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 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?
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.
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.
Literacy: MILD: Labelling a Bee
It is time to Label!
Lets add to your fact file with a correctly labelled diagram.
Follow the sway below to learn what is important when it comes to labelling a picture or diagram.
We look forward to seeing and hearing about how you got on.
Literacy: MILD: Pete’s Emotions
Time to look closer into our Featured Story ‘Tidy’
Take the time to read our featured story again, but this time pause each time when something new happens to Pete.
If we think back to our last featured story ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’, each crayon wrote a letter expressing their personality and emotions. But in ‘Tidy’ we don’t really get a chance to hear from Pete and how we is feeling.
That means we need to look at the pictures and words more closely.
Pete goes through quite a variety of emotions and there are many examples in ‘Day the Crayons Quit’
An activity you can do is ‘Hot Seating’
The person who goes into the chair, becomes one of the characters in this instance it could be Pete or one of the animals watching Pete in the forest.
Whoever is not sitting in the hot seat can ask you questions relating to what has happened in the story.
Think of a variety of questions that start with the W5 (Who, What, When, Where, Why)
Another activity is ‘Thought Bubbles’
You can take the emotions you were discussing with family in hot seating and use them in creating a thought bubble.
With a bit of paper draw out a thought a bubble and write inside what Pete or one of the animals might be feeling. Remember to explain why, when we discuss the answer to why it is a good idea to use the word ‘because’.
I have given this activity an attempt taking a photo of me holding the thought bubble and showing the emotion to match.
Can you guess which part of the story my photos match to?
I look forward to seeing how you get on, send in your photos of your thought bubbles or add them to your sway.
