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Home Learning 25th January

Well, it is Burns night, so our literacy work this week is based on our famous poet Robert Burns.

I have attached the writing frame I would like you to complete this week.

Robert Burns Writing Task

Also, here is the link for you to complete a picture Dictionary.

Scots Dictionary

Click on the link to find all the work set for this week,  again as always complete what you can and do not feel under pressure to complete it all.  Do what you can. 25th Jan

I am hoping we are able to get to see all your lovely faces this week on Vscene.  This week we will try to do our music lesson from last week, listen to Mrs Murray reading you the story about, ‘The Hairy Haggis’.  Mrs Murray will set you an art Haggis challenge.  Then do not forget trying out our moves to our new movement routine.

We are missing everyone in the Oak class very much, I am pleased to hear you are all doing well at home and working hard. Keep it up, I am proud of you all.

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Snowdrops Home Learning Activities Week 3

Good morning Snowdrops!

We both hope you are well and staying safe. We are missing you lots and can’t wait till you are back in the classroom with us. In the meantime, here are some fun learning activities to do at home with your parents or carers. We hope you enjoy them and if you would like to share your work with us, please feel free to take a photo and send it to kathleen.smith2@eastayrshire.org.uk.

Happy Robert Burns Day!

At this time of year, we experience lots of Scottish learning activities in class.  A fun rhyme that the Snowdrops always enjoy is ‘Roon Aboot Moose’!    It’s a fun Scottish rhyme which encourages face to face interaction, finger play and tickling!  Give it a try –

Roon a boot, roon a boot, goes the wee moose,   (Use your finger to make circling movements on your child’s feet or hands)

Up a bit, up a bit, in his wee hoose!   (Move your fingers, tapping up the body to tickle under your child’s arms)

Keep repeating rhyme for each foot and hand. Through repetition, your child will begin to anticipate your tickles!

You can also try swapping the play and let your child tickle you as the rhyme is being said. The rhyme can be watched on the Scottish book bug video link here:

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rhymes/roon-aboot-moose

You could also have a go at doing the Shooglie Wooglie too: https://youtu.be/OOooKQHv9Mk

Literacy

This week have a go at sharing stories via CALL Scotland and Bookbug.

Visit this link:  www.callscotland.org.uk/files/top-10-storytime-boards/bookbug-storytime-player.pdf  

There you will find a board like the picture. Each image on the board takes you to a YouTube clip of the author reading the book. You can then choose which story you’d like to listen to.

 

You can Download the free app SoundingBoard for your iOS device if you have an iphone/ipad. This allows you to download a set of symbolised words and recorded speech to go with each story (press the Bookbug Symbolised Resources button on board). This can help children join in and comment on the story.

You could also join in with a live Bookbug session on Friday morning at 10am. You will find it on Facebook – just ‘like’ the Bookbug page.

 

If you can’t wait till then, watch an old one in the Live tab or go to YouTube to see Kirstie Burns, who is a familiar face in the Snowdrops classroom.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJdWFFx0gaQswqQQZHw2new 

Numeracy

For numeracy this week, we will focus on colours. Think of a colour and then go a colour hunt in your house to see which items you can find of that colour? How many objects did you find?

 

 

 

Health & Wellbeing

Play and relaxation is good for us. Why don’t you make a blanket fort with someone in your house and create a chill out zone? Once it is made, lay cushions on the floor and lie back and relax in your own fort. You could try and read a story or play relaxing music. Once it’s dark, shine some torches/lights on the blanket ceiling and make a relaxing light show.

 

We hope you have a good week!

Mrs Smith and Mrs Brown 🙂

 

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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.

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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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Week 2 – Home Learning Challenges

Hi Planets Class! I hope you are all doing OK, I’m missing you all lots.

Here are this week’s home learning challenges. You can do as many or as little as you wish, they are just some ideas.

  • Literacy *
    Watch the animated story below of “While We Can’t Hug”

This week, can you try out all of the greetings on people around you?
Here is a list of what you are trying to do:
Wave
Make a funny face
Write a letter
Do a little dance
Blow a kiss
Sing a song
Draw/paint/colour a picture

  • Numeracy *
    Below is a list of things you can be doing at home to keep developing numeracy skills during lockdown.
  1. Go for a nature walk and collect leaves, sticks, pebbles and other natural items. Your child can sort them into groups based on size, colour, shape or what they do.
  2. Sing songs and read books that have numbers in them that repeat, rhyme and have rhythm. This will help your child understand patterns.
  3. Play simple board games, card games and puzzles with shapes and numbers, like ‘snap’, or matching pairs or dominoes.
  4. Play outside games like ‘I spy’, hopscotch, skittles and ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’.
  5. Play or sing music at different speeds. Your child can dance, jump or shake musical instruments to slow or fast songs. Sing nursery rhymes slowly and then speed up.
  6. Race toy cars and talk about which came first, second or third.
  7. Help your child to arrange her favourite toys in order from shortest to tallest.
  8. Involve your child in cooking. Your child can help stir, pour, fill and mix. This helps your child become familiar with concepts like counting, measuring, adding and estimating.
  • Health and Wellbeing *
    I’m sure you will agree that the weather hasn’t been ideal for getting out and about for local walks. So I thought I would show some move and groove alternatives for rainy days at home.

We have tried most of these in class already and they all last between 5 and 10minutes.

Winter Wonderland Cosmic Yoga

Joe Wicks – The Froggy Coach

Zumba Kids Dance

Kids Home Workout

  • Science *
    Does it sink or float? Play a fun game

What you’ll need: A bowl of water, toys and items that you don’t mind getting wet, a towel

What to do:
1. Fill a bowl with water.
2. Ask your little one to guess whether they think an object will sink or float.
3. Encourage them to drop the object into the water and see what happens.
4. Sort the items into 2 groups: Floating items and sinking items.

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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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