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Stars Home Learning Challenge W/C 01.02.21

Hi everyone. 😀  Find below some activities you might like to try. Maybe you would like to send us photographs of some of the things you’ve been doing at home.

Sound ‘s’

Listen to the Crazy Stir Fry ‘s’ Song

You collected some things from around the house last week beginning with the sound ‘s’. Have you found any more? Play ‘I Spy With My Little Eye Find Something Beginning With ‘s”

Roll out some playdoh in to a long snake and form into the shape s.

Enjoy playing the game Ten Little Snowmen

Patterns

Play the game Planet Pals

Try printing coloured patterns with household items e.g. cotton reels, back of fork, pen tops, duplo/lego bricks, cookie cutters.

Relaxation

To relax, make this Home Made Stress Ball 

Cookie Cutter Bird Seed Ornaments

Cookie Cutter Bird Seed Ornaments 

You will need – 2.5 cups birdseed, 2 packs unflavoured gelatine, 2 tbl golden syrup, 1 cup water, 12 cookie cutters, 12 x 5cm lengths drinking straws, string.

  1. Prepare gelatine as per packet instructions.
  2. Add 2 tbl syrup and stir.
  3. Add bird seed, mix, and put in fridge to firm up. (approx 10 minutes)
  4. Put cookie cutters on to parchment baking sheet.
  5. Spoon mixture in to each cookie cutter to the top and press down firmly with the back of a spoon.
  6. Press length of straw into bird seed before it is set so you have a nice neat hole for the string to go through afterwards. Make sure it is at least 1 cm from the edge.
  7. Refrigerate overnight.
  8. Remove straws and remove from cutters. Thread string through holes and tie the ends in a knot.
  9. Hang in the garden from trees and shrubs and wait for the birds to come.

I hope you have fun with these activities should you wish to try them.

Have fun! Stay safe! 😀

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Home Learning Week 4

Hello Transition class, it’s Monday again! It’s a bit of an exciting week for home learning this week. We have a new resource to use called Giglets. I will email you your login details. This week’s task with Giglets is to read the first book and get used to how it works. I will set different books and tasks in future weeks.

Have any of you read or looked at the book called ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse’ By Charlie Mackesy ?The author and artist has drawn some new pictures that need to be coloured in. They give us a time to be calm and to think. I hope you enjoy them. Don’t forget that I’d love to see your work so take some photos and email them to me.

Here is your Home Learning for this week Home learning 4

Here are the pictures drawn by Charlie Mackesy

 

Keep well and be kind to each other.

Mr N

 

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Home learning tasks-week 4

Good morning Comets

I hope you are all well and staying safe.

This week we are going to be looking at the story of ‘’The Three Billy-Goats Gruff.” The book can be found on your Giglets account. Again, if you need a copy of log in details just let me know.

The suggested activities for the week can be found HERE.

I am looking forward to catching up with you on our phone calls this week. As always if there is anything that you need just let me know. You can contact me on kirsty.robertson@eastayrshire.org.uk

Have a lovely week Comets and remember you are all amazing!

Miss Robertson x

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February Home Learning

Welcome to February, let’s see what this month has in store for us.

As always I have attached the work set for the week in the attached document.  Please do what you can, some days you will be able to do more than others.  This is ok, go at your own pace.Click this link 1st Feb to access the work.

Valentine’s day is approaching, use this link below to work on your literacy skills.

I see February

Keeping with our Valentine theme for numeracy, you will need to use your coins to buy a packet of love heart sweets.  Use these sweet to count and make a graph.

Click this link for Love Hearts Counting and Graphing

Our topic work is Scottish music, click on the link below to make your poster of your favourite Scottish singer.

Scottish Singer

Keep smiling my Oak team, you are all doing fantastic!

We have a special birthday this week, one young man is turning 13!

A massive happy birthday!

Keep smiling and do something this week to make someone in your family smile.

 

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Stars Home Learning Challenge W/C 25.01.21

Hi everyone. Hope all is well with you. Find below some home learning challenges which you might like to do. As always, have fun! 🤩

Sound ‘S’

https://www.starfall.com/h/abcs/letter-s/?

Collect some things from around the house beginning  with the sound ‘s’ e.g. socks, slippers, sunglasses, sellotape. How many can you find? What is your favourite?

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/skyWriter/index.html

Spread some shaving foam on a tray then try and trace the letter ‘s’ that an adult has drawn for you. Good luck!

Colours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80EC7QcPFzg

Sorting Box

Name the colours and sign them.

https://pbskids.org/sid/games/sorting-box

Below is a link to a counting game. How many flowers are there? Click on the flowers to count them.

https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/flowers/

Lego/Duplo Challenge

           

Try to build the world’s biggest tower. How tall is it? Is it as high as your couch? Is it as high as your door? Knock it down if it hasn’t already fallen over. Have fun!

If you don’t have any lego or duplo you could use building blocks or cardboard boxes.

Today is Robert Burn’s birthday. He is a famous Scottish poet. Maybe you would like to listen to ‘The Sair Finger’ by Walter Wingate, in Makaton, then some Scottish bagpipe music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0bgqUMZaXw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8e6tqdCqPM

Have fun! Stay Safe!  😀

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sungazers Home Learning Week 3

Hello! Hope you are all well and have been enjoying some fun in the snow over the weekend!

Our new literacy booklets will be ready for collection by the end of the week, if you are looking for some new activities to try at home.  Please phone the school before collecting, so we can have them ready for your arrival.

This week is Scottish week and we have some Scottish activities for you to try and enjoy.

Literacy – Have a listen to this Scottish song performed by Singing Hands.  Can you copy and learn some of these signs?

 Youtube – I’m On My Way CarPark Karaoke by Singing Hands)

Numeracy – Simple maths addition. Have a go at counting and join in at home.

Art – Try some of these fun art activities using everyday items you may have at home.

Health and Wellbeing – Here are some Scottish cookery recipes and videos – try to make some delicious treats. Which one was your favourite?

Just For Fun – if you still have any snow (or it might snow again this week), gather some up and make a mini snowman.  Use paints to make him look colourful.

Painting Little Snowmen - Snow Painting - Easy Peasy and Fun

 

Have a good week! 🙂

Sungazers

 

 

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Home Learning Week 3

Hello again Transition class. Another week already! Today is Burns’ Day and I’ve put a wee challenge into this week’s tasks to discover some Burns’ poetry. I know that some of you have read Burns’ poetry before. You can find them again if you like and try and read them aloud.

Here is this week’s Home Learning. Below that is all the verses of the poem Nessie. Have fun imagining trying to spot Nessie. How would you do it? Would you use a disguise? Would you try and hide somewhere? Would you be brave enough to swim in the loch?

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Nessie all verses

If you want you could keep a wee diary of what you have been getting up to during lockdown. I’m excited to see what you’ve all been doing.

Stay healthy and be kind to each other.

Mr N

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Home Learning – week beg. 25th January

Literacy

Learn about Scotland and living on an island by watching Katie Morag on iPlayer – what episode did you watch? Did you enjoy it?

Have a look at this clip where Katie Morag is playing pooh sticks. Have you played pooh sticks before? Did you like it? When you are on a walk you could have a go and play pooh sticks too. Video – Katie Morag – pooh sticks

Now have some fun doing the Shooglie Wooglie. This a clip from Scottish Book Trust doing the Scottish version of the Hokey Cokey. Have fun and hopefully you learn some Scottish words for different body parts.

Shooglie Wooglie video

Numeracy

Our theme this term is Scottish castles can you use kitchen roll tubes to create castles. Places a different number on each castle you make. Then you can play a game, placing the correct number of straws or pencils inside the numbered castle – you could even add flags to the top of each straw/pencil. Have fun. 😊 You could also get help from someone in your family to draw a castle with a number on it and place the correct number of toys on top on the castle drawing. You could also create a number line. Draw a castle with battlements then use a toy character to count to 10 and back again moving him along the battlements.

Health and Wellbeing

Put on your own mini Highland games in your house.

Toss the caber – use a cardboard tube for this.

Hammer throw – use a cushion and see who can throw it the furthest.

Catch the Haggis – use a bean bag or a sponge or even an orange. How many times can you catch it before it drops?

Art

Have a look online at different tartan designs. Then have a go of making your own tartan. This can be made drawing lines with pencils, pens or crayons. You could even get messy and use paint. Or you could cut or tear paper into strips creating you own design by sticking them to a piece of paper.

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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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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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