Category Archives: Literacy

Hot Literacy, Literacy, P6/5 Mr Reid, P7/6 Miss Deans

Literacy – Reading Activity – Hot

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Our focus for the next two weeks will be on articles related to Climate Change. The following activity focuses on the article titled ‘Climate change: Carbon vacuums and kinetic pavements – five ways tech is fighting climate change’

Here is a link that will take you directly to the article – https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51388287

Everything that you will need to complete this activity can be found in the Sway below.

Remember to share your work with your class teacher via Seesaw or their Glow email.

 

Hot Literacy, Miss Maturana, Modern Languages, Spicy Literacy

Let’s Travel!- Spanish Speaking Countries

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Hola Methlick!

Today our activities will take us around the world. We can’t leave our houses just now but that doesn’t stop us from exploring. You are going to learn which countries speak Spanish, where you can find them in the map and their flags. You can choose from spicy or hot and  there will be extra challenges too!

We will be using Google Earth, if for some reason it doesn’t work, you can always use Google Maps.

Let’s see.

Banderas – Flags

Spanish Speaking Countries
There are 20 countries and 1 territory that belongs to the US, that Speak Spanish has their mother tongue: España – Ecuador – Venezuela – Argentina – Perú – Cuba – República Dominicana – Ur…
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Health and Wellbeing, Mild literacy, Outdoor Learning, P1 Ms Rossvoll, P2 Mr Mutch

Mild Health and Wellbeing – Wander in the wild!

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When I wander I always spot a change of some sort or other. I love picking natural things up and collecting.

I wonder what you might collect on your wander?

Primary 1 made fantastic dragons and fairies after collecting in the school grounds!

Primary 1’s great ideas inspired me to go out and collect to make a reading book for you. Can you spot what I have collected to make the pictures with?

 

Now when I think about what I have learned about dandelions I would like to have a lion; and a sun in the grass would be a portal to somewhere special in my next story!

What ideas do you have?

This mild challenge encourages you and your family to investigate the different types of plants, creatures and their habitats – where they live – in your local area. These plants, creatures and us depend on each other to be healthy and survive.

A love of being outdoors and being curious about where we live and what links all living things is a never ending source of learning.

We hope you have enjoyed learning about dandelions – more information to follow!

 

Curriculum Areas, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Numeracy

New Learning Grids for Monday 4th May – Friday 15th May

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Drum roll…

It’s ECO FORTNIGHT at Methlick School. For the next two weeks we will have a focus on all things ECO related.

We hope you are all managing to find some routine and familiarity with the blog and grid activities and we love seeing all your hard work. Thank you for sharing it all and keep working hard.

4th May Literacy

4th May Numeracy

4th May HWB

Remember we all believe that having a growth mindset is very important so the activities are organised into levels.

Mild 

Spicy

and Hot!

Where will you start?

Let’s try many attempts, leap into the learning pit and learn from our mistakes to achieve GREAT things!

The teachers will be sharing their attempts!

Keep checking the blog and please leave COMMENTS  and send your work to your teacher via email/Seesaw or add to your Sway so we can stay connected.

Thank you.

Mrs Fraser and the teachers!

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

Mild Literacy Challenge – Send a hug

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What a lot of effort you have made learning to write letters.

At this time when we are apart from so many people we care about I think that it is such a lovely thing to send a letter.

Here are some new ideas to have fun with.

A BIG CHALLENGE

If you have been collecting natural materials you might like to decorate a letter with them. Have a go at hitting the petals, leaves with a hammer to add their colour to the pages etc – have a look! You might need some help from an adult with needles and hammers!

Hot Literacy, Literacy, P4 Mrs Rees, Spicy Literacy

Anagrams – Spicy/Hot – Ms Rees

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As my class knows, I love all kinds of puzzles such as crosswords and sudoku.  Working out anagrams is another of my favourites so, as an extra challenge this week, I thought you might like to  find the answers to the anagrams I’ve created.

If you haven’t heard of anagrams before, don’t worry –  the sway explains everything.

You might like to do this with the rest of your family to see who is first to find all the answers.  Set a timer and have a whole-family challenge!

 

 

Hot Literacy, Literacy, Spicy Literacy

‘The Book of Hopes’ – free online resource

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Good morning, everyone.

Yesterday I came across this free online resource which I thought might be of interest, particularly to the older classes.  It is a collection of over 100 short stories, poems, essays and pictures from well-known authors,  poets and illustrators, all with the underlying theme of ‘Hope’.

The book, which is completely free, is dedicated to the doctors, nurses, carers, porters, cleaners and everyone currently working in hospitals.

Some of the stories are very thought-provoking, while others are amusing and guaranteed to cheer you up if you’re feeling down.

I hope you enjoy reading them.

The Book of Hopes

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

Mild Literacy – Let’s learn to write a letter.

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On Tuesday Mr Mutch asked you to think about

  • why each crayon was quitting
  • how they were feeling
  • what problems they had

Let’s try and get the crayons to stay by writing a letter back to them.

Which crayon would you write to?

I am writing to Pink crayon.

Read the letter and think about the problem Pink crayon has.

Click on the letter to make it bigger. 

Please read the letter I have written.

This book also helps you learn how to write a letter.

You could use this idea to help you write to one of the crayons.

The best crayon in the box

Do you think I will get Pink crayon to stay in the box?

On Friday I will share different types of letters and envelopes you can make but let’s focus on the writing first.

hot, Hot Literacy, Literacy, P6/5 Mr Reid, P7/6 Miss Deans

Literacy- Hot- Writing Activities Grid Interactive Lesson.

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Hello Everyone,

My blog post/ sway today is a little bit different I’ve gone all out and have prepared a step by step lesson that I would carry out in the classroom related to the writing tasks.

P7/6 and P6/5 I would encourage you to settle down play through the sway which includes video clips, activities and step by step voice instructions by myself Miss Deans.

Would love to hear if you give any of these activities ago.