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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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Stars Home Learning Challenge W/C 11.01.2021

Happy New Year! I hope all is well with you and your families. The ladies and I are fine but are missing you all very much. We can’t wait until we can all be together again.

Find below some home learning challenges for you to do should you wish to. I will post new ones every Monday. Adjust them to suit yourselves but the main thing is to have fun!

The Glasgow Gruffalo

Listen to our theme book, The Glasgow Gruffalo by Elaine C. Smith. Can you sign the characters, mouse, fox, owl, snake and gruffalo?

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

Owl on Toast

Decorate toast with chocolate spread or jam and a selection of fruit to make your very own version of owl on toast. I bet it tastes yummy.

Finding Colours

How many green things can you find in your kitchen in 30 seconds? Next time, how many red things can you find.

Counting How many underwater creatures can you find? Match your answer with the written number. Good luck!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting

Sensory Sparkles

Collect shiny things like a mirror, tin foil and metal pot scourer. Darken your room and shine a torch on the shiny items. Can you see sparkles and reflections?

Winter Ice Ornaments

Collect lots of natural things from your garden or the park. e.g. leaves, cones, berries, holly leaves. Count how many items you collected.

Place these in to a cupcake tray and fill each space up with water. Remember to dip a loop of string or ribbon in to each pot.

Either leave outside to freeze, if cold enough, or put in to your freezer. How many ornaments did you make?

When frozen, hang them in your garden to decorate. Watch them. Do they melt when the sun comes out? Do they sparkle in the sunshine? Choose your favourite ornament. Why is it your favourite?

Have some fun playing the attached games. You have to be pretty fast though!

https://pbskids.org/sesame/games/super-salad-diner/

https://pbskids.org/sesame/games/the-cookie-games/

Have fun! Stay safe! 🙂

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Successful Learners – HWB and Literacy

During out literacy time this week the Transition boys studied a Christmas story packed with emotions. The boys were Successful Learners identifying each time there was a change in emotions. Fortunately there was a happy ending and Christmas was saved!

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Christmas Party

We were confident individuals and effective contributors at our Christmas Party.  We played corners, pass the parcel, the Hokey Cokey, Statues and had lots of dancing. We had a lovely party snack time where we enjoyed the melting snowman biscuits we’d made. A great time was had by all, especially as we saw Santa too!

 

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Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Everyone is Comet class is getting super excited for Christmas! This last week we have completed lots of different  Christmas activities and made lots of decorations!  One of our favourites was our fizzy Christmas tree experiment. Everyone was successful learner.

It was also Christmas Jumper Day today. Everyone looked fantastic in their jumpers and enjoyed watching the Singing Hands Christmas Show.

    

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Christmas Craft

We have been effective contributors creating Christmas art and craft work to take home. We completed a Christmas tree wall decoration, created colourful ‘stained glass’ bauble pictures and made salt dough baubles. We also practiced Christmas party dancing and were successful learners when we successfully tried a magnetic Christmas bottle science experiment.

 

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December Activities

The Stars class have been successful learners and effective contributors this week as we began our Christmas activities. We created a Christmas card, reindeer hand print pictures and wrote a letter to Santa! We enjoyed a Christmas story role play and are having daily visits from a pesky elf!

 

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St. Andrew’s and Singing Hands

Although St. Andrew’s Day is not until Monday the Stars Class have been successful learners and effective contributors this week by learning about him. We made St. Andrew’s flags, enjoyed Scottish sensory handling and did some Scottish dancing. We used broccoli florets to print thistle pictures and enjoyed a Scottish taste and try. Singing Hands visited virtually today. We had great fun!

 

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Children in Need Day

We were effective contributors as we enjoyed participating in Children in Need activities. We created colourful masks, made Pudsey cakes, carefully completed dot to dot pictures, played ‘Pudsey Says’ and handled spotty water beads.

 

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Jungle Book-IDL

The Comets have been completing interdisciplinary learning this term through our Jungle Book theme. We all really enjoyed completing lots of different activities. Here are just a few of the things we got up to!

Literacy- We experienced the Jungle Book story by reading, listening, watching and acting it out. After we knew the story everyone was a successful learner by being able to recognise and match each character to the correct image.

Art- Making our Jungle Book wall display was the favourite activity for lots of pupils and everyone was an effective contributor  We made trees from tissue paper, cut out leaves from card, used feathers to make bids and paper plates to make elephants. The final display was amazing!

Science-We learnt all about the different types of plants you could find in different jungle and even tried to make our own from play-doh. Afterwards we compared these plants to ones we might find in Scotland. We learnt that they are very different and everyone was a responsible citizen by helping to look after the plants in the garden.

Health and Wellbeing-  ‘The Bare Necessities’ was our favourite song from the Jungle Book and everyone enjoyed dancing to it! We then looked at what the bare necessities meant by learning all about needs an wants. Everyone was great and separating their needs and wants- despite some arguing that sweets and computer games are definitely a need!

Science- Making Jungle slim was lots of fun but very messy. Everyone was able to a confident individual  by helping  measure out the correct amount of cornflour and water needed, then mix it all together. Pupils got to choose what colour they wished to make their slime.

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