🌙⭐️I hope you had a super duper Eid weekend and you had lots of at home celebrations with your family. Pollokshields was buzzing with people out on walks in the sunshine wearing all their beautiful Eid clothes, it was so lovely to see!
When I went to Pollok Park yesterday I saw something VERY exciting in the pond….I saw some tadpoles!
Today’s activity is all about the Life Cycle of a Frog! 🐸
Watch this video and then have a go at completing your Frog Life cycle work sheets in your learning packs!
Wow, it’s been a busy week for teachers this week as we are starting to plan and get the school ready for the new school year, write your reports and some teachers will be getting ready for Eid just like you!🌙⭐️
Tomorrow (Friday 22nd) and Monday 25th May are official school holiday days which is fantastic for some of you as you will be starting your Eid celebrations.💜
Mr Corrigan Read a lovely story yesterday called Ramadan Moon, you can watch it here:🌙
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As this week is all about moons, can you watch Miss Graham’s story ‘On the Moon’ and answer these reading comprehension questions:
READING AND COMPREHENSION:
How long does it take to get to the moon?
What do they go exploring on when they are on the moon?
What countries flag was planted on the moon?
What gets left behind on the moon?
What kind of book do you think this is? Fiction or Non-Fiction?
For Maths carry in working through your learning pack and sumdog.
I will be posting a holiday message from the Teachers on here tomorrow so watch out for it!
I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I went for lots of walks on Saturday in the sunshine – I even stopped to buy an ice cream – I went for Mint choc chip, one of my favourites. What’s your favourite ice cream flavour?🍦
On Sunday I stayed inside because it was raining and baked a birthday cake for Jack and cooked lots of delicious food and watched a movie! 🎂 Here is a picture of my pistachio, cardamom and saffron Birthday Cake, what do you think?!
Activity 1: Can you write about what you did at the weekend….
On Saturday we….
On Sunday we….
Activity 2: Exercise!
I don’t know about you but I find it hard getting up on a Monday morning after such a relaxing weekend! Doing a bit of exercise every morning really helps me to feel energised and wakes up my brain. This morning you could try this:
Activity 3: Moons!
As we know, the Moon is a very important part of Ramadan and Eid. So, following on from Thursday’s learning about Moon phases (if you missed this, please see Thursday’s blog post which has lots of informative videos attached!) today you could try putting what you’ve learned into practice with these fun activities:
Use Oreo cookies to make the phases of the moon!
Enjoy and remember to send me over your Eid recipes so I can get cooking!
I can’t believe it’s Friday again, can you? These weeks just seem to be flying by so quickly.
Challenge Miss Bull -🌶🍆🥥🍜🍚
Next week I would like to have a go at cooking some of the special dishes that you make for Ramadan and Eid! Please could you send me some ideas or special recipes (especially really old ones that have been passed down through your families!) and I’ll try my best!
Today’s Activities 🌱
I hope you are enjoying your Learning packs. How are your beans getting on? Remember to keep the tissue nice and moist! If it doesn’t seem to be working you can transfer it to an old glass jar or plastic cup and use cotton wool instead of tissue (like in the video below).
Make sure your Bean Diary is up to date
Have a go at completing the bean life cycle cut and stick worksheet and the human life cycle worksheet.
What is a ‘Life Cycle’?☀️
A life cycle describes the different stages that an individual organism (like a plant or an animal) passes through between the time it is created until the time it makes or produces ‘babies’ of it’s own.
Watch these amazing time lapse videos (a sped up video!) of the life cycle of a bean!
It has been really lovely getting to see you all this week as I’ve dropped off your learning packs. You (children and parents!) are all doing so well and it warmed my heart to see your happy smiling faces!
Ramadan is such a special time and I could feel the love radiating from your homes. I know so many of you are so looking forward to Eid so I wonder if today you could teach me a few things about your special celebration, I have recorded a video asking you some questions below:
If you do not celebrate Ramadan or Eid this would be a great time to learn all about the celebration, it is so important to learn about other people’s faiths and religions – remember, we are all different and being different is GREAT!:
What does ‘fasting’ mean? Why do Muslims fast during Ramadan?
What do these words mean; Suhoor/Sehri, Iftar, Zakat?
Ramadan is the ninth month in the islamic Lunar calendar, but what is a lunar calendar based on?
Ramadan starts when religious leaders tell everyone that they have seen a certain type of moon – Which moon is that?
What special things do you do with your family during the 3 day Eid celebrations?
Ask the adults in your family the questions to help you find out the answers and then ask them to help you type your answers into the comments box on the video.
Here is an interesting video all about a little boy called who shares his ideas of how to celebrate Ramdan with your family during the Corona Virus Lock Down.
Today is officially a School Holiday ☀️so the Teachers at St Alberts have made a special video for you to encourage and help you to enjoy the outdoors!
Give it a watch, try to get outside every day this weekend and if you want to, take some photos or draw some pictures of what you find.
Carry on writing your letters and drawing your pictures to friends over the weekend and I’ll collect them on Monday when I drop off your packs!
You could even have a go at making a nature scrap book just like Mr Corrigan’s
Today is all about writing letters – watch this story about writing to Pen Pals!
Activity
I know a lot of you are missing your friends at the moment so today I would like you all to write a letter to a friend. On Monday I will be delivering your Maths and topic packs so I will pick up your written letters and then post them all out!
In your letters you can talk about anything like, your favourite games you’ve been playing at home, any cooking you’ve been doing, funny stories and jokes, draw a lovely picture of something you know your friend likes!
To make sure that it’s fair and that everyone gets a letter please can write your first letter to the person below, after that you can write as many extra letters as you want and I will post them all!
Danni to Hassan
Hassan to Danni
Rohaan to Saif and Shayan
Saif to Rohaan
Shayan to Saif
Maaz to Shahin
Shahin to Maaz
Alaiyna to Zoha
Zoha to Alaiyna
Shanzay to Samaria
Samaira to Shanzay
Nana to Zainab
Zainab to Naba
Ibraheem if you’d like to write any letters from Pakistan and take pictures of them I can print them out and send them!
Remember you can write as many letters or draw as many pictures as you want to your friends after this letter, I’ll send them all out next week!
This morning we are going to be talking all about Bean Plants. In your learning packs you should have received your bean plant growing experiment. Hopefully you have started this already.
Listen to today’s story Jasper’s Beanstalk! In your next packs you will receive your bean plant diary – OR you could have a go at making a diary of your own (stay tuned at the end of the story for instructions)
Activity:
Today we are going to become scientists and we are going to be doing something called ‘predicting’. Predicting means using things that you already know to make a guess about what is going to happen next or in the future.
So…Thinking about what you already know about plants and how they grow;
What do you predict is going to happen to your bean plant?
Can you copy out and finish the following sentences (have a go at some writing but you can draw pictures next to each sentence too to show what you think is going to happen):
In week 1 I predict that my bean plant will……
In week 2 I predict that my bean plant will……
In week 3 I predict that my bean plant will……
Today’s Measure Activity!
Choose a toy and draw around it on a piece of paper
Cut out the drawing
Choose an object in your house that you have lots of – it must be the same size object like 1p coins or 2p coins or connecting cubes or blocks or buttons or grapes.
Predict how many of your object you will need to measure the toy’s body – Write down your prediction.
Measure each part of the toy and write down the results. Were your predictions right? How many away from the right answer were you?
Use this new information to predict how many of your object you will need to measure the toy’s legs, arms, head etc.
Questions for parents to ask:
Discuss how they could measure round their toy using a piece of string.
Order the height of toys around the house.
Discuss – What other things could they have measured with?
What difference would it have made?
I’m off to school to make up your maths and topic packs! Hopefully we will be able to get them to you this week!
Good Morning my super fantastic, wonderful, lovely children!
I am feeling very overwhelmed today by all of the love you and the incredible staff at St Alberts have shown me this weekend. I am so lucky to work at such an amazing school and to have you all as my class. It is a place of Love, Happiness and Hope that I miss so dearly. Here is a little message from me to you to say Thank you!
You are AMAZING! Today, I want you to have a day completely dedicated to you!
o Choose your favourite breakfast/lunch
o Listen to your favourite music
o Read your favourite story
o Choose your favourite place to go to on your daily walk
o Play your favourite game
o Phone your favourite person
o Watch your favourite movie
o Eat your favourite snacks
o Wear your favourite outfit
o Cuddle your favourite teddy!
Here is a video the St Albert’s staff put together to help us understand our feelings during ‘Lock Down’ (for parents and children!):
Maths – Measure
Use a measuring tape to record how tall you are. Think of a way of recording this – write it in a jotter, make a poster. Every week, measure yourself again and record your results. Find out how much you’ve grown by the end of lockdown.
Can you find something in your house that is:
-the exact same height as you?
-the same length as your shoe?
-longer than your arm?
-shorter than your legs?
Enjoy your day! You are amazing and I love you all very much!
As you know, I absolutely LOVE Cherry Blossom and I have been talking about it a lot in the stories I have posted recently. There is something so special about the fact that it only blossoms for such a short time (Beg April – Mid May), it makes it even more magical when we do see it (almost like catching a short glimpse of a woodland fairy or elf) and I really look forward to Spring every year just for this reason.
As well as getting on with the activities in your packs today, why don’t you take a look at Mr Corrigan’s Video all about Cherry Blossom and then have a go at creating your very own cherry blossom picture!
Did you know Mr Corrigan is an amazing Artist just like you!
Have a go at making your own Cherry Blossom Painting or like Mr C says, you can use pencils, pens or crayons instead:
People say that Japan has the best Cherry Blossom (you can find pictures and videos of it on google and youtube), if that’s the case I think Scotland must be 2nd Best, especially Pollokshields!
Maths – Measure
Why not have a go at some of these really fun measuring activities at home today?
Picture 1: You can draw around our hand and cut it out then use it to measure different objects in the house! E.g. How many hands high is your table? How many hands wide? How many hands long is your bed?
Picture 2: You can use different cups and buckets of different shapes and sizes to see which one holds the most water!
Fill the cup/jug/bucket with water then pour that water in to a measuring jug and write down the measurement. Which vessel holds the most water?
Picture 3: Make a weighing scale with a coathanger! Can you tell which object is heavier? Try lots of different objects!
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