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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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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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FAOL – Science

We did an experiment with candy canes.  We placed the candy canes in different liquids and observed to see what happened. We used symbols and made predictions about what would happen then observed to see what the results were.

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Focused Areas of Learning – Sciences – Santa’s Magic Milk

* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS *

The Planets class loved our recent science experiment. We created Santa’s magic milk. We used milk, peppermint essence, glitter and liquid soap.

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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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Pine Home Learning 3

Well Hello Pinettes – how are you all doing?

This week we thought we might put on some Christmas Activities for you all.

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Movies – have you watched any good Christmas Movies?

Wilson suggestion is ‘Polar Express’ it is magical, and she watches it every year!

Boyle has picked ‘The Christmas Chronicles’ which she watched on Sunday, Mr Boyle liked it too!

Logan watched ‘Nativity’ with her children at the weekend and they all really liked it.

Shields says ‘E.T’. it may not be a Christmas movie but she likes to watch it at Christmas – it is lovely!

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Music and Dance – as you know we love music in the Pine Room so a few suggestions.

Disney Junior Best Junior Holiday Music

The Reindeer Hokey Pokey

The Christmas Freeze

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Arts and Crafts

Crafts meet Kids 

This website has some great ideas for crafts and cards.

Frugal Fun with Boys

Cute reindeer ornaments.

BBC Bitesize Wreath

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Science

Some experiments for anyone that wants to do some Science at home – some are simple some are a bit more complicated.

Christmas Science for Kids

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Cookery  – a variety of different fun ideas!!

Christmas Cookery for Kids

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Makaton – practice your signing with some Christmas Songs!!

We wish you a Merry Christmas

Dominick the Donkey

White Christmas

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Numeracy – counting and singing!

Five Candy Canes

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Literacy – a few Christmas Stories.

If you ever want to bring a pirate to meet Santa – Don’t!!

Olaf’s night before Christmas.

Well Pinettes have a lovely week – see you all soon!!!

Love the Pine Ladies.

 

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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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Pine Class Learning at Home 2

Hello Pinettes – How are you all doing?

Have you read or watched the story ‘Yellow is my Colour Star’? Did you make lots of colour choices?

Yellow is my Color Star 

Amazon.com: Yellow Is My Color Star (9781442492998): Horacek, Judy, Horacek, Judy: Books

What is your favourite colour?⭐

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Lara the Yellow Ladybird

What did you think of Lara’s yellow wings?

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We have put some other links on this week’s blog if you are looking for some different ideas.

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The weather has been really cold this week – have any of you been out for a Winters Walk? What did you see? Was it really cold? Did you get all wrapped up?

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Below are links to some different Winters songs. 🎵

Winter Dance & Brain Breaks

Winter Hokey Pokey

Snowflakes, Snowflakes

Freeze Dance

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We all love Frozen in the Pine Room – some pretend they don’t!  Below is a link to some Olaf Fun – he is our favourite!! 🎥

Olaf Series

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Lots of different ideas for some Winter crafting fun in the link below. 🎨

Winter Craft & Art

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If you want to practice your signing – what about the weather signs.👍

Singing Hands Weather

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The BBC Bitesize has lots of cool science information. 🧪

BBC Bitesize Seasons

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Practice your counting with Bud the Bee in his Number Garden. 🔢

Bud’s Number Garden

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This is the perfect weather for making soup.  🍵 Can you help pick out the ingredients? What colours are the vegetables? Did you help peel or chop? Was your soup tasty?

4 Ingredients Soups

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The Pine Ladies have been searching for some yellow things in the room.

Well have a great week Pinettes.

Love The Pine Ladies

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A little bit blue!!

We are at the end of our IDL Topic and our Colour Rainbow  – so this week we are blue!

Although this art work is from our Purple Week.

This successful learner has been working on her numeracy skills. That will be 4 million pounds please!!

Ordering money – well done!!

The sunny weather prop creates a lot of laughs.

More ordering – sizes this time.

Concentration here from these successful learners  as we clap, count and sign…

…and giggle!!!

This week our Science was all about Colours.

A tray of milk with some food colouring – when you put some washing up liquid on the end of a cotton bud and dip it in colour moves away – it was really cool you could try this at home!!!

Now for the Skittle Rainbow – Shields loved this!

Skittles on a plate then slowly pour on some warm water and wait!!

Amazing!!!

Not about Colour but using a non-permanent marker we drew on some shapes on to the plate added some warm water and watched the shapes move.

Yellow and Blue make…

…Green!!

Outdoor Learning an Autumn  Hunt round the Kay Park.

Autumn Leaves.

Fungi

Boyle lets take some of this back to the Pine Room – quick no one is looking!!!

Looking for a 4 leaf clover.

Ready for our new story Blue Penguin and Sensory Play?

Shaving foam and Arctic Animals.

Watch out the Arctic winds are coming in.

I have an apron on!!!

The Eco-Captain making sure we reuse everyday things for our Remembrance Art.

Do you want to Dance?

More juice please Boyle!

Colour sorting and the Color Monster.

Which Monster goes where??

Hola!

Someone preferred the story in Spanish!?!?

Cause and Effect.

Finishing last weeks Recycling craft – a lot of PVA glue was used!!!

Making lots of choices.

Oh Wow!!

Someone is very pleased!

And now for some Children in Need Crafts – Bingo Dabbers!!

Note from the ECO-CAPTAIN  Please save you Crisp packets – Mrs Slinger has an important use for them – they are going to be made into blankets for the Homeless ‘Get your Eco On!!’

Happy Children in Need Day 2020!!!

 

 

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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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