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Home Learning – Week 1

Hello Sunflowers!

We are really missing you and hope you are staying safe at home! Some of you may have lockdown packs. However, here are some fun activities to do at your own leisure.

Literacy – In class we love to spot and sound letters.  I hope you enjoy our alphabet song.  Afterwards, can you complete the snake actions for our ‘s’ sound?   I am sure there are lots of items that begin with the letter ‘s’ around your house! Can you name some or point to them in the picture below?

Letter S-Things that begins with alphabet S-words starts with S-Objects that starts with letter S - YouTube

Numeracy – Listen to our rainbow song and look at all of the wonderful colours around you.  Point to the colours and name them if you can.  Now, let’s go on a colour hunt!  Try to gather as many items around your home and place them in the correct colours.

Color Hunt - Super Simple

Art – Now it’s time to get creative!  Use the items you have collected to make a rainbow.  Listen along to our rainbow song to help you! You could use anything you have! It may be fruit or toys or cars.

Found Object Rainbow - Albany Institute of History and Art

Health and Wellbeing- It’s really important to get some fresh air and exercise during this time.  You may be going for walks or playing in the garden.  Why not try to make an obstacle course using household items?  Find a space outdoors (or even indoors) and challenge yourself! You can do it!

Easy Ideas for reusing tyres in outdoor play areas and backyards.

I hope you have lots of fun! Take care, Miss Stalker x

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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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Resouce Bank

Please see below a resource bank of learning activities and guidance for parents of children and young people with complex needs, from Education Scotland.

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/learners-with-complex-additional-support-needs-resources-and-guidance-for-parents-to-support-their-child-s-learning-at-home/

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Home Learning – Week 1

Hi Moonbeams, I hope you are all well.

Here are some activities if you wish to take part in during the week.

Numeracy – Role Play shops 

What you need: toys, money (real or toy), till or box to store coins in, paper and pen to write prices up to 10p

Choose an activity for your child

  1. Role play choosing 1 toy and exchanging it for coins.
  2. Role play choosing a toy with a price tag and counting out pennies.

Literacy – Story with Props

What you need: Goldilocks and the three bears book or click here , 3 different sized bowls and a spoon, different sized lego pieces to make chairs and beds, toy bears and doll (or any other figures you have)

Choose an activity for your child

  1. Listen to the story.
  2. Encourage to act out parts of the story using props.

Health and Wellbeing

What you need: Computer, ipad or phone 

Dancing    click here

If you want to listen and dance to more songs then click here

 

IDL

What you need: basin, water or sand or cheap (cereal, rice or pasta)

Pour water, sand or cereal into a basin. Hide some toy animals in there. Use your hands or utensils to find animals. Ask your child to find a specific animal.

(If you don’t have toy animals then use any toys you have and make a request for them to find that toy.)

 

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11th Jan Art Ideas :)

Good Morning!

I hope you all enjoyed a lovely Christmas break.

Please find attached a few art activities that we will be doing in school this week. You are welcome to try these out at home.

Design a Hedgehog!

  • Use different shapes, colours or textures to create some hedgehog spikes.
  • Could you use natural materials? Twigs or leaves from the garden or your local park?

Pulled String Art

  • You will need paper, string and paint or ink.
  • Does positioning the string on different areas of the card create layers?

https://youtu.be/f32FFsJelvw.

Scottish Tartan 

  • Try using the website to search for a Clan tartan.

https://clan.com/help/tartan-help/how-find-family-clan-tartan

  • Do you have any items in your house which are designed in tartan?  Look closely at the pattern. Do you see straight lines or curved lines? How many different colours are there?
  • Have a look at some tartan being hand woven. It is a super skilled job!

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W17xUG2lc8Q

Have fun and stay safe!

Mrs. Macdonald

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Remote Learning Activities – Week 1

Good morning, Beech! 

This week in the Beech class, Mrs Wilson and Mrs McCreath will be doing a topic called ‘Feed the Birds’.  To tie in with some of the activities the class will  be doing in school, I have thought of some activities you can do at home!

Literacy

In class we will be reading a story called ‘The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark’.  Here is a link to the story on YouTube if you want to listen, too.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FcxGheSihk

A good idea for practising letter formation and fine motor skills is to make a sensory tray.  Fill a wide and shallow tray or dish with fine sprinkle materials – we suggest bird seed this week if you have any!  But any kind will do.  See if you can trace out the different letters in some bird names such as ‘O’, ‘W’ and ‘L’.  Alternatively, you can practise filling, scooping and pouring using different cups and spoons, this helps hand-eye coordination and motor skill development.

 Numeracy

Draw a simple set of owl templates in different sizes onto bits of card or paper.  A family of three would be perfect!

While out in the garden or on your daily walk, gather a variety of leaves and twigs.  Now, see if you can make the owl’s feathers with the leaves and twigs!

  • Can you make a baby owl with 3 leaf feathers?
  • Can you make a Mummy owl with 6 leaf feathers?
  • Can you make a Daddy owl with 8 leaf feathers?
  • How many twigs does it take to cover an owl?

 

Health and Wellbeing/Life-Skills

Owl Toast Recipe!  You don’t have to stick to the exact ingredients – get creative!

Owl-on-toast-recipe

Art and Design 

Here are the instructions you can choose to follow to make a very simple bird feeder!  Don’t worry if you don’t have the exact products, you can improvise!  Use the RSPB website to check that the products you use are bird-friendly though! https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/how-you-can-help-birds/feeding-birds/safe-food-for-birds/

toilet-roll-bird-feeder-craft-instructions   

Please remember that these activities are optional.  Be kind to yourself and only do what you can.  please feel free to send us any photos of your young people enjoying their time at home.  Note that blog activities will be posted here every Monday morning, as well as any instructions for our Vscene activities for the week.  Take care and be safe.

– Miss Woodburn

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Sungazers Home Learning Activities

Hello! Hope you are all keeping well. We are all missing you very much and hope that we can all be together again soon.

We will be posting some online activities for you to complete each week, if you wish.  It will include numeracy, literacy and health and well-being tasks.

You may already have your lockdown activity pack which you can work through at home with supervision too.  Everyone is very familiar with these packs as we have been working with them in class.  If you do not have a pack and would like one, please contact the school and arrange a suitable collection time.

This week’s literacy task – Listen to and enjoy one of our favourite class stories ‘Jack and the Flum Flum Tree’ by Julia Donaldson. You will find this story on Youtube.

Numeracy Task – Addition Song
https://youtube/k5wC5krH8xo
Health and Wellbeing Task – Blazerfresh Brain Gym – Copy the actions, jump around and have fun!
Banana Banana Meatball - Blazer Fresh | GoNoodle - YouTube
https://youtube/BQ9q4U2P3ig
Music Craft
Can you make a musical shaker using a plastic bottle and fill it with different ingredients to create various sounds?  We can use these bottles during music sessions.
Homemade Sensory Music Shakers | Homemade musical instruments, Homemade instruments, Instrument craft

 

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Home Learning Challenges – Week 1

Hi Planets Class!

Hope you are all well and know that the ladies are missing you lots 💗

I thought this week, we would focus our 4 home learning activities on our theme of the Loch Ness monster. We had only touched on this briefly before Christmas.

  • Literacy *
    Can you click on the link below to listen to our theme story of “There’s No Such Thing as Nessie”.

Can you watch it back and pause on an image of the main characters.
Look for Nessie, Finlay, Gran, Mum and big sister Sarah.

  • Numeracy *
    In the theme story, Finlay and Gran enjoy sharing a picnic. Can you have a picnic in your house this week? The focus is on sharing items so maybe share out some Christmas chocolates or sweets or pieces of fruit. Make sure you go around the circle, giving everyone a piece of food so that it is fair.

Afterwards, can you play a game. It could be Snap with the focus on sharing some playing cards (one to me, one to you type thing) or it could be a lego challenge and you could focus on sharing out the blocks.

  • Health and Wellbeing *
    Can you have a Scottish themed food tasting session at home? We do this regularly in class and encourage tasting of items, or smelling, giving it a kiss or even just exploring with our hands.

Can you try:
Lorne Sausage
Potato scone
Porridge oats
Shortbread
Tablet
Tunnocks Teacake

And if you are allowed a little treat of some fizzy juice, you could wash it down with some Irn Bru.

  • Music *
    Can you watch and listen to the 3 Scottish songs below? Did you enjoy them all? Did they make you feel happy or sad? Choose your favourite.

Three Craws

Ally Bally, Ally Bally Bee

Ye Cannae Shove yer Granny

If you feel like having a little bit of a move and groove, here are The Wiggles showing you how to do the Highland Fling. Can you copy some of their moves?

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Home Learning Week 1

Good Morning!

Below are a selection of optional home learning activities. You can participate in these throughout the week at your leisure.

Literacy

Find some old newspapers or magazines. Cut out some letters and use these to build your name or other familiar words.

                                                                                                  

Numeracy

Use building blocks to make a tower. Count how many bricks you could add before the tower falls. For an extra challenge, make two towers and use your addition skills to find the total number of blocks used.

     

 

Health and Wellbeing

Participate in a game of musical statues with your family. Dance to your favourite music and freeze when the music stops. Who could hold their pose for the longest?

 

Science

Mix different food colourings or paints into individuals cups of water. Take turns mixing these together to see what new colours you can make.

 

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Home learning – week beg. 11th Jan

Morning everyone,

I hope you are all well. Over the coming weeks you will be working from home this means doing some of the fun activities we do in school with your family at home. Each week I will post 4 activities to be completed throughout the week.  I hope you have fun.  You can send photos of the completed tasks to my email

kayleigh.hill@eastayrshire.org.uk

Literacy- Writing and mark making

Have lots of fun this week mark marking, writing letters with help or on your own copying. You could fill a tray with rice or flour and make marks with your fingers or utensils from the kitchen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/get-squiggling-letters-mobile

You could also have fun with this activity using a handheld device. Use your finger to copy the letters of the alphabet it is lots of fun.

Numeracy- Colour

Go on a colour hunt around your house. How many colours can you find? Do you have Lego or bricks or other toys that are different colours? Can you sort them? Make a pile of red, a pile of blue etc.

Health and Wellbeing- Edible faces

Have a think of what foods you can make a face on. You could use icing and fruit or sweets to make a face on a biscuit. You could use cheese and vegetables to make a face on a wrap pizza.

Art- Potato printing

Get an adult to cut a potato in half. You can then dip this in paint to create a picture. You can also cut out different shapes in the potato and make different patterns.

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