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Home Learning Activities – Week 2

Hi everyone!

This week in the Beech class, our mini-topic is based on the Julia Donaldson book ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’. Here is a link to the story if you would like to listen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKjjFh7dQsg I have thought of some space and alien themed activities for you to take part in at home that link nicely to our story – remember to only do what you can  😊

Literacy

We sometimes remember the names and order of the planets in our solar system with a helpful mnemonic such as: ‘My Very Evil Monster Just Scared Us Nuts’ The first letter of each word reminds us of each planet name.  Your challenge is to order the planets using objects you can find around the house that begin with the same letter sound.  (You can include dwarf planet, Pluto, if you wish!)

Find something that begins with M, V, E, M, J, U, N and P.  Can you put them in that order?

 

Numeracy

Twinkl have a wide variety of free games.  I have linked 3 Space-themed  interactive number games

Type the following into your web browser: Twinkl.co.uk/share

Use the code LW4518 to access the games in the ‘lesson 18.1.21’ section.

 

Health and Wellbeing

Practise cutting skills and healthy eating with this interesting activity.  Use different sized fruits to identify and compare the sizes of each planet!  If you can get to a supermarket, try using fruits you may not always have at home and experiment with different flavours.  With any left over pieces, why not create a fruit rocket?

 

Science, Engineering and Technology

Have fun with any boxes, recycled cartons or bottles, toilet roll holders, Tupperware and tables or  chairs – anything you can find – to see if you can build your very own rocket ship!

Here is an example:

Explore the moon with this animated story by Eric Carle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqAw7UM6qo

Why does the moon have craters on it?  Craters on the Moon are caused by asteroids and meteorites colliding with the moon’s surface over millions of years.  Explore this concept using a mixture of cornflour and baby oil to represent the moon surface and pebbles/stones to represent the meteors.  Here are the instructions for you to follow: Science Experiment

Addition activities and resources available

  • Glasgow Science Centre have created a YouTube playlist called ‘Our Place in Space.’  It has lots of fun videos that guide us through the solar system. Click HERE to watch.
  • Click HERE to listen to Astronaut Tim Peake reading a story to us all the way from the International Space Station!
  • This is ‘Space Week’ on CBeebies.  There will be one space themed episode per day by maddie Moate, filmed at the National Space Centre.  Click HERE to watch the episodes after they have aired.                                                              🚀 Rockets – Monday 18 Jan – 16.50
    🌌 Solar System – Tuesday 19 Jan – 16.50
    🛰 International Space Station – Wednesday 20 Jan – 16.50
    🤖 Space Robots – Thursday 21 Jan – 16.50
    👩‍🚀 Astronaut Training! – Friday 22 Jan – 16.50

Vscene

Our interactive Vscene sessions will be on Monday, Tuesday and Friday this week at 2pm – look out for some resources that will be delivered to you on Monday that you can use to actively participate in our activities at home if you wish!

Remember – only do what you can. You are doing great 😊

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Home Learning Activities – Week 2

Good Morning Sunflowers!

Below are four activities which you can try at home this week.

Literacy – Dinosaur Roar!

I know how much you love dinosaur’s in class. Listen to the Makaton story below.  Can you copy the sign for dinosaur and can you make the same sounds as the dinosaur in the story? When you are all done, I want you to try and think of other words that begin with the sound ‘d’. Can you spot them around the house?

Numeracy – Shapes 

This week on Vscene, we have been practicing making shapes in the air with our fingers.  Listen to the shape song below by the Singing Walrus and join in by guessing the shapes and tracing them with your finger. Name the shapes if you can.

Identifying 2D Shapes in 3D Figures: Lesson for Kids - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

 

Health and Wellbeing –  Star Jump Challenge 

At school, we love to dance to actions song and we also do a lot of exercise in the playground.  Join in with the star jump dance and see how many star jumps you can do.

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Science – Rainbow Experiment 

Using Skittles and warm water, can you make a rainbow?  Place the skittles around the plate to make a multicoloured circle.  Add the water to the centre and watch as the colours form a rainbow.  Can you name and point to the colours that you see?

Skittles Experiment – Science Experiments for KidsSkittles Rainbow Experiment

Easy Rainbow Skittles Science Experiment - Fun with Mama

I hope you have a great week!

Stay safe, Miss Stalker x

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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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Snowdrops’ Home Learning Activities

Good morning Snowdrops!

Mrs Smith and Mrs Brown hope you are safe and well.

Parents/carers: as before, there are 4 areas of learning activities for you to do. Please do what you can and if you’d like to take a photo of what you have been doing, feel free but definitely not a requirement. You can send your photos to kathleen.smith2@eastayrshire.org.uk

Literacy

Fine motor and writing activities:

• Some of the Snowdrops are learning to write their own names. Here’s a fun writing activity to do on a tablet. Which letters do you need for your name? Can you write them on your tablet?

Squiggling letters game (handheld device only)-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/get-squiggling-letters-mobile

•Play dough activity: You might have shop bought dough at home, but if not you and your parent/carer could make some together. Kneading the dough will be great for hand and finger strength. Please see the recipe below if you decide to make your own.
Roll out dough and cut different shapes with cookie cutters or play dough shapes you might already have. You could also make long worm shapes and then cut them up into smaller pieces. You can also squeeze and roll the dough and make marks with your fingertips. Hand over hand from a parent/carer can help too.

Recipe suggestion: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/playdough-recipe

Numeracy

The Snowdrops love Numberblocks.  Here’s a wee activity to help recognise and count numbers to 5. If you want to try the activities to 10, feel free. Parents/carers can help if need be with hand over hand.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/numberblocks-make-and-play

Can you say or point to the numbers as they appear on screen?

Health & Wellbeing

This week, I encourage you to go for a local walk with someone from home. Before you go on your walk decide on an object/animal you are going to spot. For example: Can you spot a bird? Can you point to the bird? Can you hear it tweet or see it fly? Can you count all the birds you spot?

Or you might decide that you are going to try and spot objects that are blue. How many do you see? What kind of objects did you spot?

Have fun and remember to look and listen too!

       

Science/Music 

Let’s make some sound jars!


Throughout the week, you could collect containers and their lids from dinners e.g. jars, takeaway tubs, tins, plastic bottles, etc.

Fill each container with different items you have in the house: pasta, rice, lentils/pulses, buttons, beads, corks, money, etc. Encourage your child to help you decide which same items go in which containers and help you to fill the containers, so they use many of their senses in this activity.

For example, one jar could have buttons in it, another could have rice and another could have lego bricks.

Questions to ask:
Which items make the loudest sound?
Which one makes the softest/most quiet sound?
Did you think of any things that were too big for the containers?

Have a shake and make some music!

Have fun!

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Oak Home Learning w/c 18th January

 

Well Oak class here is the work for this week, 18th Jan.  There are many activities within this file so please do what you can.  Again we would welcome any photos of you completing your tasks, send them to nicola.murray@eastayrshire.org.uk

Please click on the links below as additional sheets that are listed in the work list for w/c 18th January.

Scots-language word-and-picture-matching

Scots-words-cut-and-paste-matching-activity

The new movement routine has been made and is ready for you all to watch, learn and dance along.  Have fun! Click on this link to access the routine.

This term our topic work is based on Scotland, the Oak class were exploring Scottish music.  We can still complete topic work at home, activities for this week are added onto the file 18th January listed above.

I was very happy to see many of my class on Vscene last week and look forward to having more join our session this week.  This week will be filled with more stories, movement and we will try a music lesson.

Let’s start the week with some positive thoughts.  We know this is tough and the Oak staff miss you all very much.  Always remember to stay home and stay safe and we will be back together soon.

 

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Pine Lockdown Week 2 – Feed the Birds 🦆🦢

Well Hello Pinettes – How are you all???

Have you all had a Spidery Week?

Well this Blog is all about the Birds – remember away back in April of last year we had a Blog all about ‘Feed the Birds‘.  So you can look back at this and see if there are any of the activities you want to do again.

Now the weather has been very cold, rainy, snowy, icy, and windy… everything but sunny!!! So again we will suggest the Movie ‘Mary Poppins’ or ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ – or watch both over the week!!! Lots and lots of brilliant music, songs and dances.

Cryo-Freezer 33: Disney's 'Mary Poppins Returns' leaked online on streaming video by a number of free piracy sites, according to piracy watchdog

  • Did you watch both – which did you prefer?
  • Which song was your favourite?

Numeracy  🔢

Using Shapes we can learn to draw a baby bird – have a wee go!! This set of  You Tube clips have loads of cool drawing ideas.

How to draw a baby bird.

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Counting – when you are out on a walk or a drive count the birds you see, keep a note and the next walk or drive count again – was there more or less???

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Literacy 📚

I am going to suggest two books but you may have another one at home or find something different on the internet.

The Grumpy Bird

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We are never grumpy in the Pine Room are we Pinettes???

But this little bird did not stay grumpy for too long!

😁😢

The Go-Away Bird

Another lovely story BUT again a bird that wasn’t too happy at the start!  She soon changes her mind though when her friends won’t leave her alone.

Science 🧪

Wildlife Trust Web Cams

On this site you can see if you can spot any birds and also find out some cool bird facts!

Singing and Dancing 🎶

The Birdie Song

We love the Birdie Song – go on have a Boogie!!!

Art and Craft 🎨

We think you should make a bird or a birdhouse out of different recycled materials again – and send us a photo!

Recycled bird ideas.

LITTLE SPRING CHICKENS | Raising Kinley

At school we covered some card with scraps of different coloured and textured paper and we are going to cut them into little birds – we will show you them next week.

We also made some cool Bird Masks.

Singing and Signing👌🎹

“Don’t worry about a thing” and sing along with the Singing Hands.

Three Little Birds 🐥🐥🐥

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Cookery 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

Bird inspired snacks and treats

Foodista: 12 Incredible Food Art Ideas For Kids | ediTORIal by Tori Spelling

What will you all make???

Now time to Feed the Birds – remember we can’t just give them anything – so there is a guide below to keep you right – send us some photos if any birds come to your garden for breakfast, lunch or dinner.  Anyone going to use meal worm – yuk!!!

What to feed the birds

The link below gives you lots and lots of great information about our birds.

RSPB

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One of our Pinettes incredible art work – WOW!!!

Well have a safe and happy week Pinettes,

Love the Pine Ladies

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xxxx

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?

Click here to read and sign along with Singing Hands.

 

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Home Learning Week Beginning 11th January

Hello Transition class and a Happy New Year.

I hope you and your families are well. I know that some of you have your learning packs and are joining in the video link. Here are some suggestions for Home Learning this week.

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As before do as little or as much as you can manage. If you want you could send pictures of you doing your work at home.

Stay well and be kind to each other.

Mr N

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Scottish Unicorn! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🦄

Scotland’s National animal is a unicorn.

Check out this lovely quilled paper unicorn!

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Happy Hedgehogs! 🦔🦔

Sparkly stars instead of spikes!

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