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Pine Lockdown Week 3 – The Smeds and The Smoos 👾

Well HELLO Pinettes!

How have you all been getting on?

  • Did you Feed the Birds?
  • Did you enjoy the Bird Themed Stories?

These are our lovely recycled bird art from last week.

Please pop on some comments on the Blog or send us in some photos of what you have been up to.

Well this blog is all about ‘The Smeds and The Smoos, they live on a different planet.  This is a great story we have got a copy in class now and I am sure it will become a Pine Class favourite. It is all about how we can all be very different, but this does not mean we cannot become great friends.

Literacy 📚

The Smeds and The Smoos

Think you will enjoy David Schwimmer reading this story.

Bedtime Stories | David Schwimmer | The Smeds and The Smoos | CBeebies - YouTube

  • What colour is Janet?
  • What colour is Bill?
  • Who sleeps in beds?
  • Who jumps about like kangaroos?
  • Who forgot to lock the rocket?
  • On which Planet do they wear kilts?
  • What colour was the Smeds’ milk?
  • What colour was the lovely baby?

Numeracy, Shapes and Colour Sorting 🔢🔴🟦

In the Pine Room we are great at Colour Sorting, below is a link to different activities BUT remember to count the different coloured objects as you go.

Different Colour Sorting Activities

Below is a link to some printable sheets to make you own rockets out of different shapes.

Science 🧪🧪

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Let’s mix up soon different colours – you can do this with 3 cups of water and a little food colouring in each – Red, Yellow and Blue – then mix equal parts together – the results are a little MAGIC!!!

  • Red + Yellow =
  • Red + Blue =
  • Yellow + Blue =

Mixing Primary Colours 

Mixing Colours with Mayta 🐻

Arts and Crafts 🎨

What about making a tinfoil printed moon, the link before will show you how. And she has lots of other great ideas on her site.

A Dab of Glue will do!

I have a space-obsessed kid in my house, so we love to do space crafts around here, and my son was very excited to do this moon craft! We made it extra fun and experimented with a different way to paint by making it foil-printed. This craft is great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or even older kids. It would also be a great art extension during a space theme in the classroom.

Or some UFO craft from the crafting chicks.

UFO Paper Plate

Singing and Dancing 💃 🎶

Sun, Moon and Stars

Astronauts Song

Space Song Rocket Ride

Image result for space song rocket ride

Now for some Singing Hands 👍 practice some signs and see if you can spot anyone you know??

You’ve got a Friend 

Cookery 🥛

Because we have talked so much about colour what about some colourful smoothies? These can be a whole load of lovely colours – made to a thinner or thicker consistency. Can you help:

  • Choose the fruit?
  • Wash the fruit?
  • Weight the ingredients?
  • Press the button on the blender?

Some ideas for you below.

Super Colourful Smoothies

Well Pinettes have a lovely week.

Love from

The Pine Ladies

xxx

 

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IDL: Successful Learners During Space Week

This week was ‘National Space Week’ and the Beech class had fun learning about the different planets and how rockets travel!  Here are some of our favourite photos from this week!

After reading the story ‘The Smeds & The Smoos’, we explored mixing colours. We mixed red and blue to make purple which is what happened when the red and blue characters from the story had a baby – it was a little purple Smoo-Smed!

We thought of different blue, red and purple foods and came up with a recipe to test our colour mixing predictions! We made a purple Alien Smoothie by mixing blueberries, strawberries, banana, and blackcurrant diluting juice. The foods blended together and made a very yummy purple smoothie!

We also created our own mini rockets using our handprints, coloured shapes, tissue paper & a giant straw to help it move!

We were very successful learners and enjoyed learning all about space through story telling.

 

 

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Stars Home Learning Challenge W/C 18.01.2021

We hope all is well with you and your families. Find below some new learning challenges for you to do should you wish to. Adjust them as needed but above all, have fun!

Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes       

Sing the song, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes but using Scottish words. See how fast you can sing it!

Heid, shooders, knaps and taes

Knaps and taes

Heid, shooders, knaps and taes

Knaps and taes

And een and lugs and mooth and neb

Heid, shooders, knaps and taes, knaps and taes.

Scottish Counting. How many?

       

   

            

           

   

                

Hide small plastic toys in a tray of lentils or oatmeal. Count how many toys you can find. Match your number word with the written number.

Scottish Food

       

Help someone at home prepare some Scottish foods to eat. It might be porridge, shortbread, pancakes, haggis, a scotch pie, oatcakes and cheese or heating up a tin of lentil soup! Enjoy a taste and try. The smells are good too.! Before you eat your Scottish fare you could maybe recite the Selkirk Grace. This is the prayer normally said before you eat your meal at a Burn’s Supper which is a celebration of the poet Robert Burn’s life and work.

Some hae meat and canna eat,

And some wad eat that want it;

But we hae meat, and we can eat,

And sae let the Lord be thankit.

Tartan Car Track Painting

 

Design a new tartan for Burns night. Use toy cars dipped in paint to roll on the coloured lines.

On You Tube, choose and listen to some Scottish music. What is your favourite? Find a few ideas linked below.

The Proclaimers 500 miles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKyWLAaStwM&list=RDVKyWLAaStwM&start_radio=1

Dougie McLean Caledonia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-skrVk5TYWU

Coulter’s Candy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D65vVGwT9O0

Have fun! Stay safe!

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Home Learning – Week 2

Hi Moonbeams, here are some activities if you wish to do them this week. Hope you all keeping safe and well.

Literacy – Makaton Signs.  click here to practice.

Numeracy – Play and explore with numbers in the bath or with a basin of water. Can you find identify/match/choose on request?

Health and Wellbeing – click here to dance and have fun!

Science – Make some conflour slime and play. Squish, mix, pinch, spread with hands.

You need: 2 cups of cornflour and 1.5 cups of warm water. Pour the cornflour into a bowl and then slowly pour in water. Mix with hands. 

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Transition Home Learning Week 2

Hello Transition Class,

I hope that you are all well and have been helping to look after your family. Here are this week’s Home Learning Challenges. Below that link is a link to the first verse of the poem Nessie. I hope you enjoy your tasks. Remember, only do as much as you can.

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Nessie verse one

Keep well and be kind to each other

Mr Nicoll

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Home Learning Week 2

Good morning everyone!

Please find this weeks home learning activities below.

 

Literacy:

In school, we enjoy strengthening our finger and hand muscles through ‘disco doh’ sessions.

Warm up your playdoh then watch the video below, copying the actions. If you don’t have any playdoh, you could make your own following a simple recipe found here: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/playdough-recipe

Numeracy:

Gather a selection of play or real life coins. Look carefully at each coin and sort them by colour, size or shape. Can you identify the value of each coin or order them?

Health and Wellbeing:

Practice your food preparation skills by gathering different kinds of fruit, chopping or peeling these with help from an adult, then mix them together to create a delicious fruit salad.

 

 

 

Theme:

For our theme this term, we have been learning all about Scotland and the city of Edinburgh.

Look at pictures or videos of different tartans, then use strips of paper to create your own tartan by weaving or layering.

 

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Home learning – week beg. 18th Jan

Literacy

Look in your lockdown packs at all the “s” sheets. This was one of the first sounds we learnt.  These can be completed during literacy time this week. For the blog activity I would like you to go on a sound hunt. Find things that begin with “s” in your house. It could be a sock for example. You could even make some literacy stew – get a big pot and place some items inside the pot, have some fun mix the items using a wooden spoon. If you have some magnetic or play letters you can add them too. Pull each item out does it begin with the letter “s” (or you can chose a letter) if it does put it in one pile of it doesn’t put it into another pile. How many items came out of the stew that began with the chosen letter? Did you have fun?

 

I found a spoon, sock, story, stamps and a soldier in my house. What did you find?

 

Numeracy -Number work

This week is all about numbers. Get a grown up to write numbers to 10 on paper – you can help too. Then place the correct number of items on each of the pages – you could even use pegs and peg the correct number of pegs to the page just like we do in class with out giant numbers.

Health and Wellbeing – make a sandwich

This week your challenge is to help make a sandwich. You can choose a filling that you will like. Lay out all the ingredients you will need and remember to wash your hands before you start. Focus on spreading – making sure to be safe when using a knife.

What type of sandwich did you make? Did you eat it all?

 

Science – floating and sinking

This week have fun experimenting with floating and sinking. Fill the sink of a basin with water and place different objects in the water to see if the object floats at the top on the water or sinks to the bottom. You can even make a predictions sheet and have members of your family guess. Will it sink or float? The conduct the experiment and see who was correct.

 

Have fun and don’t forget to send pictures to kayleigh.hill@eastayrshire.org.uk. I can then post pictures to share with your friends.

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Home Learning Activities – Week 2

Hi everyone!

This week in the Beech class, our mini-topic is based on the Julia Donaldson book ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’. Here is a link to the story if you would like to listen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKjjFh7dQsg I have thought of some space and alien themed activities for you to take part in at home that link nicely to our story – remember to only do what you can  😊

Literacy

We sometimes remember the names and order of the planets in our solar system with a helpful mnemonic such as: ‘My Very Evil Monster Just Scared Us Nuts’ The first letter of each word reminds us of each planet name.  Your challenge is to order the planets using objects you can find around the house that begin with the same letter sound.  (You can include dwarf planet, Pluto, if you wish!)

Find something that begins with M, V, E, M, J, U, N and P.  Can you put them in that order?

 

Numeracy

Twinkl have a wide variety of free games.  I have linked 3 Space-themed  interactive number games

Type the following into your web browser: Twinkl.co.uk/share

Use the code LW4518 to access the games in the ‘lesson 18.1.21’ section.

 

Health and Wellbeing

Practise cutting skills and healthy eating with this interesting activity.  Use different sized fruits to identify and compare the sizes of each planet!  If you can get to a supermarket, try using fruits you may not always have at home and experiment with different flavours.  With any left over pieces, why not create a fruit rocket?

 

Science, Engineering and Technology

Have fun with any boxes, recycled cartons or bottles, toilet roll holders, Tupperware and tables or  chairs – anything you can find – to see if you can build your very own rocket ship!

Here is an example:

Explore the moon with this animated story by Eric Carle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqAw7UM6qo

Why does the moon have craters on it?  Craters on the Moon are caused by asteroids and meteorites colliding with the moon’s surface over millions of years.  Explore this concept using a mixture of cornflour and baby oil to represent the moon surface and pebbles/stones to represent the meteors.  Here are the instructions for you to follow: Science Experiment

Addition activities and resources available

  • Glasgow Science Centre have created a YouTube playlist called ‘Our Place in Space.’  It has lots of fun videos that guide us through the solar system. Click HERE to watch.
  • Click HERE to listen to Astronaut Tim Peake reading a story to us all the way from the International Space Station!
  • This is ‘Space Week’ on CBeebies.  There will be one space themed episode per day by maddie Moate, filmed at the National Space Centre.  Click HERE to watch the episodes after they have aired.                                                              🚀 Rockets – Monday 18 Jan – 16.50
    🌌 Solar System – Tuesday 19 Jan – 16.50
    🛰 International Space Station – Wednesday 20 Jan – 16.50
    🤖 Space Robots – Thursday 21 Jan – 16.50
    👩‍🚀 Astronaut Training! – Friday 22 Jan – 16.50

Vscene

Our interactive Vscene sessions will be on Monday, Tuesday and Friday this week at 2pm – look out for some resources that will be delivered to you on Monday that you can use to actively participate in our activities at home if you wish!

Remember – only do what you can. You are doing great 😊

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Home Learning Activities – Week 2

Good Morning Sunflowers!

Below are four activities which you can try at home this week.

Literacy – Dinosaur Roar!

I know how much you love dinosaur’s in class. Listen to the Makaton story below.  Can you copy the sign for dinosaur and can you make the same sounds as the dinosaur in the story? When you are all done, I want you to try and think of other words that begin with the sound ‘d’. Can you spot them around the house?

Numeracy – Shapes 

This week on Vscene, we have been practicing making shapes in the air with our fingers.  Listen to the shape song below by the Singing Walrus and join in by guessing the shapes and tracing them with your finger. Name the shapes if you can.

Identifying 2D Shapes in 3D Figures: Lesson for Kids - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

 

Health and Wellbeing –  Star Jump Challenge 

At school, we love to dance to actions song and we also do a lot of exercise in the playground.  Join in with the star jump dance and see how many star jumps you can do.

Boy jumping while smiling stock vector. Illustration of joyful - 35743523

Science – Rainbow Experiment 

Using Skittles and warm water, can you make a rainbow?  Place the skittles around the plate to make a multicoloured circle.  Add the water to the centre and watch as the colours form a rainbow.  Can you name and point to the colours that you see?

Skittles Experiment – Science Experiments for KidsSkittles Rainbow Experiment

Easy Rainbow Skittles Science Experiment - Fun with Mama

I hope you have a great week!

Stay safe, Miss Stalker x

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Sungazers Home Learning Week 2

Hello! We hope you all enjoyed the activities provided for week 1 of home learning and managed to try some of them out.

This week, we have some new activities for you to try based on our new class theme ‘The Glasgow Gruffalo’.  We are very familiar with both ‘The Gruffalo’ story and also ‘The Grufflo’s Child’ in the Sungazers class, so thought it would be good to explore the Scottish version for our Scottish theme.  Hope you enjoy it!

Literacy – Here is Elaine C Smith reading ‘The Glasgow Gruffalo’ story for you to enjoy.  Can you hear that some of the animal names and words sound different in this story? A mouse is a moose and a house is a hoose.  Have a listen and enjoy.

Numeracy – One More or One Less.  Use your number line in your maths activity pack or pause this video, find the number and add on more more or take one away (one less).  Can you find the correct answer?

one more one less counting maths game for kids – YouTube

Science – Experimenting with Ice

We have previously enjoyed experimenting with ice in the Sungazers Class.  We know we can make ice by freezing water. One of our favourite activities was filling up plastic gloves or balloons with water and small plastic toys.  We then put them in the freezer.   You could try this again at home! How long did it take to melt and free the toys?

New activity – Can you build an ice cube tower? Using ice cubes try and see if you can stack them on top of one another.  Does it work or is it too slippery? Now try adding some salt between each ice cube – the salt works as a kind of glue.  How many can you stack now?

Health and Wellbeing – Hope you enjoy this song about washing our hands

How to wash your hands NHS song | NHS – YouTube

 

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