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#hug

Delighted that some of you took part in the task of hugging the people you are staying safe in your house with. These photos really made me smile so thank you. You can all have a point 🙂

(Sorry Mrs Crosbie and Mrs Bennett you’re not on the points chat but thanks SO much for your photos with your sons and husband!)

Your work today

I was very excited to get the first photos of Ivo’s work this week! He has been doing some beautiful mindful colouring of all things police and made a lovely rainbow with his mum to put in his window from Monday’s task. Great job, Ivo 🙂

 

Subhan doing some funny poses to make us all smile, what a great friend you are, Subhan 🙂 He also worked on some addition, phonics, his wellness diary and made this lovely picture for everyone in Class 2  to say he is missing us all <3

 

Kayden also sent his first picture of work to me today. He had been working on creating this very cool Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, well done!

 

Aiyub completed one of the tasks from the grid today and did some research about slavery then noted down his findings and drew some pictures. He also completed his phonics alternative spellings workbook, well done!

 

Hector relaxing doing some mindful colouring, something I love to do too! He also did some maths on Sumdog and some drawing today, well done.

 

Kit started his day with some energetic exercise for Health and Wellbeing, then created some eerie music suitable for the scary parts in a movie. He then helped out making cakes with Freddie for his Home Economics work and for clubs decided to complete the rainbow task set on Monday along with a very cool Egyptian temple. 

Points

I am so proud of you all for coping so well with what has been such an unusual week and so pleased we have a points chart for home school so I can reward you for all your fab work!

The Sumdog winners were…… Hector for most time on Sumdog and Bilal for most correct answers. Well done boys!

I have recorded a little video of me giving out these points and lots of others –

Here is a photo of the points chart at the end of Friday 🙂

 

Happy Friday! (A very big well done to all the parents for making it to the end of week 1 of home school!)

Here is your Friday video message from Miss Hewitt –

Messages from friends

My Friday treat is wearing the new pyjamas I ordered myself this week ALL day 🙂 But as a treat for you I have  messages from some people I’m sure you have been missing this week!

Mrs Crosbie sent you a video message and a selfie –

Mrs Bennett sent you a photo and a message –

Hi kids, hope you are all well Class 2. I’m good and as you can see, keeping safe xxx

Remember to keep checking the blog comments for messages from your friends and the adults in St Albert’s too. Hector and Kit both left messages on yesterday’s posts for you. Thank you boys!

#hug

The task I set for today (optional as always) is for you to take a photo of you hugging a person or the people in your house who you are isolating with.

Here is my picture hugging Murdo (he cannot have a pyjama day as he has lots of video meetings with his work today!)

I will share all your hug pictures at the end of the day 🙂

Points chart

Today is your last day this week to earn points on the new home school points chart!

Remember to log into Sumdog and answer a few questions and I’ll award a point later for most Sumdog time for this week.

You all got a point for speaking with me on FaceTime this week for cheering me up so much, and I have also given a point to everyone who has sent me photos or videos of their work.

Subhan, Kit and Hector got some other points for completing challenges set in the daily blog posts (Subhan for guessing the correct book, Kit for the best PATHS picture and Hector for being the first child in Class 2 to leave a comment for his friends on the blog).

This is how the points chart looks just now but it will look different by the end of the day with lots of points still to add 🙂

Friday clubs

As Friday is normally clubs day when you a do lots of different things, I wanted to post a selection of fun things that you may be able to do at home, either today or even over the weekend if you decide on a cosy PJ day today 🙂

Art – I chose some different art activities as I know you all love Art when we do it in school.

 I know lots of you have Lego at home and thought this looked like a fun idea. I’m a little jealous I don’t have any Lego in my house to try this!

We all made our own DIY paintbrushes in Class 2 with twigs, leaves and grass from outside earlier this year. Why not have a go at making a paintbrush for some things you find in your house?

 

Cooking – Mrs Creevy recorded a video showing you how to make some delicious treats, yum! You will need an adult to help you with this activity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXjCgo80jiw

 

Art/Science – Miss Milne recorded a video showing you how to make your own paint from things you can find in the house, how cool!

 

Loads of things to choose from today! I can’t wait to see what you get up to 🙂

Quite a lot of people are finding this week difficult, being on lock-down and having to stay inside to keep safe for the majority of time.

This is different to what we are used to and may make you feel annoyed sometimes and that’s ok, but remember this is not forever and it is only to keep us all safe.

Here is a useful social story about the current situation and it has the important reminder that it won’t be like this for ever and things will go back to normal soon –

Social-Distancing-Story-2-2

Here is a children’s video story about how we can’t have play dates with friends or visit grandparents just now but how the heroes are fighting to keep us all safe so this will be over soon –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA_SsZFYw0w&feature=youtu.be&d=n&app=desktop

 

Another busy day of working at home and calling those of you who I never spoke to yesterday. Again though, I was SO excited speaking to you all that I forgot pictures 🙁

Big well done to Kit and his mum for reminding me this morning, we took this fabulous screen shot selfie 🙂 My target for next week is to be better at remembering photos with you!

Your work

Today’s home school post had a fitness focus and you sent me lots of great evidence of you exercising along with all your other work so well done!

Extra thanks to those of you who sent me videos, I really loved them and have made a compilation video of all your great ways of keeping fit during lockdown 🙂

https://youtu.be/XkrSgU8NO4c

Here are photos of your other work from today-

Subhan was creating loads of fantastic yoga poses! He also did one of his reading comprehension tasks which was related to our topic. I’m so impressed with your answers Subhan, this was a very challenging text, you did a really fab job 🙂 He completed his subtraction sums sheet and his wellness tracker too.

Aiyub worked on some yoga to get some exercise and more phonics today. Good job Aiyub 🙂

Kit worked hard on his reading this morning with a text that had some challenging words, then practised his trickier times tables for maths. Well done challenging yourself Kit! He also did some very active exercise on his trampoline, so fast that he’s blurry!

Hector did some reading today from this very interesting looking book about Benedict Arnold, a famous soldier, and followed a drawing tutorial with his family 

Points

Well done to Hector who correctly answered all 5 yoga poses Miss Hewitt was doing in the photos. You have been awarded a point!

The poses were – down dog, bridge pose, tree pose, warrior and, my favourite, child’s pose 🙂

I will post an updated points chart tomorrow after 3.00 once I have given out all the other points or the week for fabulous work, there are 11 I have noted down already!!

Good morning!

Here is your morning message for day 4 of school at home.
I have focussed on fitness today as it’s so important to be keeping active in the house or if you’re able to get out for a walk or some exercise in the fresh air.

https://youtu.be/F2Xn9XE8OOo

Here are some photos of me doing a bit of yoga yesterday. Can you tell me the names of the poses I am doing in each photo? Point if you get all the names correct 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

Blog comments

You may or may not have noticed that Mr Stewart and Mrs Crosbie left comments on our blog for you! Thank you both for checking in to see all of Class 2’s fab work 🙂

If you have a look at the ‘Day 2 work’ post you will see comments at at the side (as shown in the picture below) If you click on this you will be able to see what they have said and reply yourself, either to Mr Stewart or Mrs Crosbie or leave a message for your friend. This is great practice of your typing skills!

 

Video calls

I spoke to some of you today on Facetime which was LOVELY 🙂 Those of you who I never got to speak to today I’m going to call tomorrow, I have arranged this with your parents.

I was so excited speaking to you that I kept forgetting to get screen shot photos with you all, when I phone you again please remind me to take a photo! Mariam and I did take this great screenshot selfie when we were chatting, wasn’t she looking beautiful 🙂

Work photos

Lots of fabulous photos of work again today. Thank you so much and please keep sending them to me.

 

Subhan – working on some times tables, different spellings for the phonic ee, making a great picture of turtle and adding his feelings, filling in his wellness tracker for Tuesday and sending me some funny selfie photos to cheer me up! Thanks again Subhan, you are so thoughtful 🙂

Aiyub – Loving working on his maths (I will tell Miss O’Donnell!), as it is Wednesday doing some phonics thinking about the different ee spellings and making a drawing for PATHS.

Hector – watching  loads of learning things like news round, live science from the Science Centre and a WW2 history video, watching  a show about designing houses and  then drawing his own (this looks amazing Hector, you could be an architect when you are older!), doing some maths worksheets, handwriting practice for the letter b/B and completing his PATHS drawing (thanks also to Halina who joined in this task and drew her feelings too)

 

Kit – worked very hard on his phonics and maths this morning and then this afternoon created his PATHS picture and found a Bible story on YouTube. Great job sticking to the timetable again Kit!

Bilal – as well as speaking to Bilal on Facetime today I also got my first photos from him of this fabulous drawing he made and the news he wrote in his home school diary. It is important to keep doing some writing so that your hand doesn’t forget what to do, great job Bilal! Please keep sending me photos 🙂

Points Chart

So as promised I will award a point for one PATHS picture. It was very very hard to choose but I have chosen……. Kit! Well done Kit 🙂

Kit said his feeling was excited which was very interesting. I’m not sure why but my guess is because he is speaking to Miss Hewitt tomorrow morning 🙂 Very nice drawing of Turtle too, Kit. 

Hector you also did a lovely drawing of Turtle and said you were feeling happy which made me feel happy as well 🙂 I’m also happy you asked Halina to join in the activity with you! Halina told us in her picture she was feeling happy, worried and scared. A mixture of comfortable and uncomfortable just like Miss Hewitt.

Subhan you worked on the drawing with mum which was lovely and said you were feeling happy, proud and hopeful. That was nice that they were all comfortable feelings 🙂

Aiyub you drew a very cool looking controller for your picture and had a mixture of feelings like happy, proud and sad. I know when I spoke to you were happy, sad because you were missing your friends and proud that you were doing so well with your work.

Great job from everyone who did this task!

I’m giving everyone who I speak to on Facetime a point, so those of you that never got your point today for this will get it tomorrow.

Lots more points to be awarded before the end of the week too. One will be for the most Sumdog time logged this week. Here is how the graph looks so far….Hector, Bilal and Subhan are who you have to beat!

Have a nice night and I’ll see you tomorrow 🙂

Good morning!

I am in school again for your video message this morning. Click on the link below to see my message –

https://youtu.be/H5BI5dbt8O8

Below is a link to a short rhyming story about Coronavirus that you can read with an adult or by yourself before making your PATHS drawing. It is about a dog who is feeling worried.

As Wednesday is normally phonics day  too, you could look out and write down the rhyming words in your jotter or discuss this with an adult.

Some of the rhyming words have the same sound and spelling like home & alone (both have split oa sound) but some have the same sound and different spellings like too & flu.

dave-the-dog-coronavirus-1-1

I will pick one PATHS piece of work today to award a point to and will announce who that is later this afternoon. So, if you would like to, please send me your photo of your PATHS drawing like the one I made in the video and an explanation of what you’ve drawn and why.

 

One last link for today is something a Class 2 mum sent me. At 10 am today Giggle n Grow is showing a fun 10 minute dance/exercise video so you can join in at home if you’d like. The mum who sent me this link appears in video so I won’t tell you who it is so you can see if you can spot them!

https://www.facebook.com/gogigglengrow/

*This is a Facebook page so you would need to get your parents to log in for you.*

 

Well done to Subhan who was the first person to correctly answer the question I asked from the task in today’s video! The book I took the adjectives, nouns and verbs from was indeed Flat Stanley in Space 🙂

You can have a point, Subhan! I thought it would be nice for you all to still have the chance to earn points for your great work at home, so I made a home school points chart to keep track of these. You can choose your prizes from the box when you get back to school!

I have also givens point to Kit, Hector, Subhan and Aiyub for sending me photos of their work over the past 2 days. Well done and thank you for this.

Remember you can text, WhatsApp or email me any photos you have to share on the blog. My email is gw14hewittlaura@glow.ea.glasgow.sch.uk

 

Some of what Subhan has been working on today – practicing his times tables, working on spelling the different ai phonics, and doing some more mindful colouring.  I’m so pleased to see you’re keeping your wellness tracker updated  too and I loved the voice message you sent on your mum’s WhatsApp to ask how I was doing 🙂 

Fabulous effort from Hector today completing loads of learning tasks! He checked in on the blog, watched a science video, did some maths games on the hundred square just like we do during mental maths, built a den and measured it, went for a run and did some handwriting (beautiful a letters!)

Aiyub has been continuing with his phonics booklet and  doing some 2 digit multiplication, great!

Kit being a superstar doing some of the reading comprehension I sent home! Also, some appraising his brothers garage band composition, listening to a story, doing HTU addition, doing some sit ups and exercising outside for P.E and reading about Harriet Tubman for topic.

Delighted to get our first pictures from Huzaifa today! He’s been working on quick recall of his times tables without using his multiplication square. (I’ll add you a point to the chart too!)

Already looking forward to seeing what we will all be doing tomorrow. Have a lovely relaxing evening.

Miss Hewitt 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning! Here is another message for you on our 2nd day of school from home.  Looking forward to seeing the things you send me today 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocTUOt0C3_0

Here is a photo of the task I did this morning for the video. I looked in the first couple of chapters of a book that we read together in school and made a list of some of the nouns, verbs and adjectives I saw. Here is the list, can you guess which book it is from???

What a weird day this has been…

I was in school until about lunch time and then working from home this afternoon. Tomorrow I will be working from home before going back into school on Wednesday. It was very weird being in school with no pupils and hardly any staff! Missed you all.

I know some of you are finding it tricky doing your school work at home but you are also doing a great job finding learning tasks to keep you busy. I know because some of you have been sending me photos of your fabulous work 🙂

I will share these photos each day so you can see what your friends are up to. If you see this and want to send me photos of your own work then you can get your mum or dad to email, text or whats app photos.

Kit doing some fabulous yoga making sure he’s keeping fit, writing his news in his home school diary and doing some maths work (Miss McCue is impressed!)

Well done to Subhan who created a rainbow picture like Miss Hewitt to put in his window 🙂 He also completed some mindful colouring and maths work

Hector watching some science, doing a bit of report writing, finding places in the world and following a drawing lesson. I also spotted the lovely rainbow already in your window – fab!

Aiyub looking happy writing some news in his home school diary, doing some maths and some phonics work 🙂

Mr Stewart dropped off Bilal’s pack of work as he wasn’t in school on Friday. Did you find the special surprise in your pack Bilal?! 

I am so impressed with all the hard work you’ve been doing on your first day! Well done everyone. Please keep sending me photos, I love seeing what you are up to and it helps me miss you a tiny bit less 🙂