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Career Week

Our focus this week will be for everyone to be confident individuals and a successful learner in at least one occupation.

We would love for everyone to actively engage in as many occupations as you can this week.

We have created a ‘Guess Who’ game for you to enjoy and have a go at guessing the occupation.Click here for the link to our YouTube channel.

Everyday there will be a different job for you to take part in, there is no obligation to take part but if you do please email your photos to Mr Campbell. We would love to share your photos on our blog, as we know everyone is missing seeing one another.

Monday – Cleaner

Dish washing, hoovering, dusting, tidy up your toys

Tuesday – Photographer

Use a camera, phone, iPad and photos of all your favourite things in your house.

Wednesday – Window Cleaner / Car Washer

Get an adult to help you clean the windows or the car / van.

Thursday – Fitness Instructor

Get your family moving, use the sheets from our previous posts alphabet exercise and number exercise to make up your family work out.

Friday – Waiter

Can you set the table for dinner? Serve your family their dinner and then clear the table afterwards.

Have a game of ‘I Spy a Career’ with your family, click on the link to play career work.

Have a lovely week and we will be in touch this week, stay safe and take care.

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Sungazers – Monday11th May

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Hello! How are you all getting on? Hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend!

This weeks task is a Minibeast Bingo game.  It can be found on the Makaton website and downloaded for free if this link does not work.

https://www.makaton.org/Assets/Store/FreeResources/MiniBeastBingo.pdf

We also have a new minibeast song for you to try – Insects All Around. (It’s to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle)

We will send this video via email again.

 

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Buzzing bees up in the sky.

Teeny, tiny little ants,

Crawling up and down the plants.

Many insects can be found,

In the sky and on the ground.

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Hope everyone got a visit from the Postman! We would love to see your pictures if you made one.  Please comment on this post to tell us how you are getting on or send us a picture via our school glow email.

Take care and stay safe!

Team Sungazers 🙂

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Stars Activities 3

Hello Stars Class. Hope you are all doing well. 

Here are some more activities to do should you wish. Adapt them to suit whatever you have available.

Five Senses Treasure Hunt                                                                    

Find something –

smooth

rough

noisy

round

yellow

that is a plant

that smells

you can eat

red

Pea Head Person                                                                                     1. Cover yogurt pots, paper cups or plant pots with paper and draw a funny face on them.

  1. Fill with compost and sow any seeds you have. Normally you sow peas however cress, grass, flower or vegetable seeds will grow to make a fine head of ‘hair’.

  2. Remember to keep the seeds well watered as they grow and make sure they get plenty of sunlight. They would look good on the kitchen windowsill.

Balloon Tennis                                                                                          Blow up a balloon and use a bat to play tennis with a partner. Don’t worry if you don’t have a bat, just use your hand. Enjoy! This was great fun when we played it in class.

Story                                                                                                                                       We enjoyed ‘The Gruffalo in Scots’ in class but this is Elaine C. Smith reading ‘The Glasgow Gruffalo’.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+glasgow+gruffalo+elaine+c+smith

If the link doesn’t work then go into YouTube and type in The Glasgow Gruffalo Elaine C. Smith. I hope this makes you laugh as much as ‘The Gruffalo in Scots’ did!

Remember, these activities are optional but we would love any comments or photographs of things you’ve done.                                                                                            I will be giving you a quick phone call this week for a catch up.

Have Fun. Stay Safe.     

 

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Sungazers Minibeast Hunt

Monday 4th May

Good morning! Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend and is doing well!

This week we have a super minibeast hunt for you to try.  You can download and print the sheet here if you have a printer at home. If not, have a look and see what minibeasts you can find in your garden or when you are out for your daily exercise.

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We have also recorded a minibeast song for you to listen to and enjoy.  This will be sent to your email address.

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Lots of Minibeasts Song (It’s to the tune Head Shoulders Knees and Toes) Give it a try and let us know how you get on in the comments section of this post.  We would love to hear from you!

Stay safe and take care everyone!

Sungazers Team 🙂

 

 

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Let’s Get Busy Oak Team

Well Oak team, here is another week of activities for you all to try out at home.  You are under no obligation to complete, however if you do please leave a comment as we would love to know how you are and if you are enjoying your activities.

I haven’t had any song requests yet, for a new dance.  You must have a favourite song you would like to dance to!

Let’s get started with your activities for the week.

Art:     

Shadow Drawing

What do I need? – Chalk, sun and a partner

There has to be more sunshine this week, so get out into the garden.  If you have chalk, choose someone in your family to stand and create their shadow.  With help draw around their shadow and reveal their outline!  If you do not have chalk get some paper, pencil and a toy and draw round the shadow of your chosen toy. Who does this shadow look like?

Lockdown Rainbow

What do I need? – Paint, sticks, paper, paint brushes, (frame is optional)

Again on your daily walk or in your garden can you find more sticks. You could make a stick rainbow picture and put it in a frame as ‘Lockdown’ 2020 keepsake.  I will post a finished picture of ours once it is complete but here it is so far;

     

Literacy:  

Disappearing Words

What do I need? – Chalk, garden hose / squirty bottle and water

Get an adult to write some sight or tricky words on the ground.  The adult will shout out a word and you have to identify the correct word and then use your hose or water bottle to make the words disappear. The words can be names of people in your family, people in school, everyday words that you use or hear (bed, toilet, drink, food, etc)

Numeracy:  

Family Bingo 

What do I need? – paper, pens, YouTube and your family

If you do not have bingo cards at home, get an adult to put 12 numbers on a piece of paper, (numbers range from 1-90). Get everyone in your family to play, everyone needs a card, then use YouTube bingo caller for the numbers.

Choose a prize before you start the game and see who wins!

Cooking:  

Breakfast Meal– What do you like to eat for breakfast? Cereal? Toast? Eggs?

Every morning this week try and get your own breakfast, on Monday you need help from an adult but maybe by Friday you can do most of it by yourself.

Think about what you need, bowl, plate, spoon, knife, bread or milk.

Here are some faces you will recognise, this is what they like for breakfast;

   

Life Skills: 

Each week you will have a different focus, this week we would like you to  concentrate on making your bed. 

IDL – Can you look around your house or garden and find things that could make a den / tent.  If you have a tent, put it up in the garden this week and have fun in it.

Music – I hope you are all still singing and signing, each week we will have a different singing hands song to focus on.  Find their videos on Youtube and get the family all taking part. From the singing bag a new song will be revealed each week. This week we are going to be singing, Million Dreams! Have fun!

Class pet update – Butterflies

All five not so little caterpillars are  doing well, they have almost ate all their food now! They are getting so big, I think it may be time for the next stage of their life cycle! They look as though they are about to get comfy, stop eating and hang on the lid to spin themselves into chrysalis. Once they are in this comfy cocoon this is where they transform into beautiful butterflies.  I wonder what colour they will be? Have you made you butterfly pictures and guessed their colour yet? I wonder if anyone will get it right!

 

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Sungazers – Minibeasts Signs

Hello! Hope you are all doing well this week.  Did you manage to listen to our theme story ‘Twist and Hop Minibeast Bop’? – Here is the link again if you would like to listen.

Twist and Hop Minibeast Bop

To continue our theme this week, we are going to learn the signs of some of the minibeasts names.  Everyone can join in if they wish – do you have a favourite sign? – Comment on this post and tell us your favourite one.

Minibeast Makaton Signs

(If the link doesn’t work please go onto Youtube and type in Singing Hands minibeasts signs).

We have also prepared another video which will be sent to your email for you to enjoy this week.

Please remember all of these activities are optional.

Take care, stay safe,

From the Sungazers Team

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Stars Activities 2

Hope you are all enjoying the good weather. Mrs Gardner and the ladies are all missing Willowbank and the Stars class.

Mrs Gardner’s daughter, Isla, made cinnamon buns. Don’t they look good. They didn’t last long!

Mrs Chisholm went a lovely walk to the Dean Castle Country Park with Evie and Owen where they saw ducks, sheep and a donkey.

At school we were learning about ‘The Great Outdoors’ by watching the DVD ‘Over the Hedge’

Maybe you’d like to do some outdoor activities at home. Choose any you wish to do. There is no obligation. Adapt any activities to suit what you have available, where you can safely access or what interests you. Ask your family to help you.

SPRING TREASURE HUNT

Try and find as many of the things on the following checklist as you can. Maybe you’d like to make a pair of binoculars to help you look!

Checklist – Try and find:-

blossom     

seedlings    

flower buds     

flowers     

insects     

birds      

squirrel     

nest      

green leaf    

NATURES FACE COLLAGE

Collect a selection of stones, flowers, leaves and twigs. Use them to make a face collage. Maybe you could make faces for all your family. Count how many you’ve made.

 

SCIENCE – How to grow a rainbow

Mrs Westerman found a great way to make a rainbow.

  1. Draw coloured squares along the end of a strip of kitchen roll.

2. Hold paper over a saucer. Add a little water making sure the end of the paper gets wet.

3. Watch as the water creeps up the paper and makes a rainbow.

                          

I hope you have fun doing these activities if you choose to do so. Send a photo or post a comment if you can. It would be great to hear from you.

Have Fun. Stay Safe.  

 

 

 

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Class Pet

Mrs Murray is taking care of the Oak class pet, we are growing butterflies. It takes a long time for the caterpillars to turn into butterflies, so each week we will have an update on how they are growing and developing.  If all caterpillars are strong and cared for well we should have five beautiful butterflies to release into the world once they are strong enough.

They arrived last week and this is what they looked like at Day 1;

They came with a house, once they turn into butterflies they will be put in their house and given some sugar to feed on until they are ready to be released. Here is their house;

Already the caterpillars are growing, they are getting longer and are starting to move a lot more.  The tub that they are living in just now is filled with silk webs that the caterpillars produce.  Mrs Murray was keeping an eye on them and making sure they were all moving and doing ok.  Whilst watching them one of the caterpillars did the toilet! These are the black dots you may be able to see in the tub.

This is our caterpillars on Day 5

 

Activity 1

Have a think about what colour our butterflies may be.  Try and draw a butterfly and colour it in with your predications. Or get an adult to draw one for you and you can colour it in.

Activity 2

Research on google about the different types of butterflies you can find and ask an adult to read to you  the life cycle of a caterpillar growing into a butterfly.

Activity 3

You can create a timeline using words and pictures for the life cycle of our butterflies.  Each week check the blog for the update on our class pet and see if they are matching your timeline.

 

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Hello from the Sungazers Staff

Hello, we hope you are all keeping well and enjoying this wonderful weather!  We are missing you all very much and we are working hard on ways to keep in touch.  We will be posting weekly tasks, messages or activities for you, so please keep checking our blog for information.  All tasks and activities are optional.

Our first task is based on our new topic – ‘Minibeasts.’ We will start with a lovely story called “Twist and Hop Minibeast Bop”.  Here is a link to the story which you can listen to and enjoy!  If you can’t get the link to work, type the story name into YouTube and you will find it.

 

Take care and stay safe!

From Team Sungazers – Mrs Skinner, Mrs Coulter, Mr Dreghorn, Miss Shaw and Miss Cowman

 

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Literacy Listening

Everyone today enjoyed taking part in a learning to draw activity through listening to instructions. We started with a letter and following step by step instructions, which turned the letter into an animal.  Everyone was successful learners and actively engaged in the listening task and enjoyed shouting out the animal they had drawn.  Everyone focused their attention when working on letter recognition and reading skills.

Cameron’s drawings are shown below.

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