I hope you have all had a wonderful week. I can see from the check-in (remember to do this if you haven’t already) and all of the emails that we have been super busy learning and having fun! Remember we have a birthday boy on Sunday, so a scroll down to leave him a lovely birthday message.
Some of your fab pictures (if any more are sent I’ll keep adding them in throughout the day):
EC has been working hard on his literacy and numeracy jobs, as well as doing some fantastic baking and lots more! Well done E⭐️
Another master baker this week is AS. She was making a huge lemon drizzle cake for her busy mum and all of her key worker colleagues at work. Well done A, very kind and it looks delicious🌈
CP’s arts and crafts idea looks like a fun one if anybody wants to have a go. She grated old broken crayons onto paper, placed baking paper on the top and ironed over it. It turned out fabulous didn’t it? I love her bird feeder too⭐️
AMc and AC really enjoyed the STEM ice escape challenge this week. It was the perfect week for it🌞 Well done helping them escape girls!
Well done getting to the end of another week of home learning everyone! I know some of you might be seeing some friends and families in gardens this weekend. How exciting? It’s been so long but you have all been superstars. I’m delighted and I hope you have a lovely time in the sunshine🌞
Hi everybody, I hope you are having a lovely week and making the most of this fantastic weather 🙂 Aren’t we lucky? Leave a message below to say hello to your me, your friends and Mrs McGarvey and let us know how you are this week.
This week I have been doing my school work in the garden, trying to be fit and healthy and do lots of running, painting the garden fence and trying to complete a huge jigsaw! What have you been doing?
Good Morning🙂
(This week’s Wednesday challenge is the same as last Wednesday)
This week I am looking for some architects (The people who plan and draw before anything is built) and some builders.
This week’s challenge is a good one to do indoors. IKEA has created these instructions for building furniture forts during lockdown and it got me thinking. I BET our class can come up with some amazing creations. You can use whatever you have around your house – indoors or outdoors – to build your very own tents, forts, caves, dens or castles. Please make sure your grown up knows what you are up to and what you’re planning on using (to make sure it’s safe and not too destructive!)
If you want to be an architect, rather than a builder, read below :
Remember planning and designing is extremely important! Houses, cars and any sort of inventions all need to be thought about carefully first before the hard hat and tools can even be brought out. Think about the materials you may need and how it’s going to look. It would be a good idea to draw/design your fort to plan how you are going to achieve it. If you want to get involved but don’t fancy building this week. You could be an architect! You can draw/create your own instructions (IKEA style) for a mega furniture fort design.
Here are the ideas that Ikea have created.
Please send me all of your pictures – I can’t wait to see what you get up to.
Scroll down to find this weeks main home learning post 🙂
Under the Sea
Thanks to Miss Ferry…
Our wee pal Sebastian might be on to something at the moment so this week I thought we could take a trip under the sea and find out what all the fuss is about🐙🐟🐠
As we humans can’t breathe under water you’ll need to become a fish for the day. Click the link to find out which fish you’re going to be.🐟🦈
Wherever it lives, a fish has to find something to eat and avoid being eaten. Each type of fish has evolved with unique adaptations to help it survive in its habitat. In this game its your job to design a fish with the right adaptations to survive. Try different combinations of adaptations and see which ones work best together.
Our planet is made up of five great oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern. They’re all linked together, creating a huge body of saltwater called the World Ocean. It surrounds continents and islands, covering more than 70% of Earth’s surface. Click on this interactive link to find out more about Oceans and Seas.
Now you know where the different oceans are click on the link below to find out all about ocean habitats. After you watch the clip scroll down to play the game and take a quiz. Ocean Habitat BBC Bitesize.
Layers of the Ocean
🎶Let’s name the zones, the zones, the zones. Let’s name the zones of the open sea🎶
Mr Ray would like to teach you all about the layers of the ocean. Click on the link to find out more The Layers of the Ocean. Below are two websites which will allow you to travel to the deepest parts of the ocean and explore the different layers on the way. Choose a link and then scroll down the website to discover what sea creatures live in the different layers. You can try both if you like 🙂
Journey to the bottom of the sea and learn all about sea vents. To get there, you’ll have to descend thousands of meters below sea level. Lucky for you, there’s Alvin, a submersible designed to descend 4,500 meters below sea level.
An ecosystem is a community of living things. Living things in an ecosystem survive by interacting with each other and with their environment. In fact, there are more types of ecosystems in the ocean than on land!
Find out how organisms are connected in ecosystem by playing this Deep Sea Interactive Game. Once you have found them all, you can explore more connections by clicking on the link that appears at the end of the game.
Glow in the Dark Sea Creatures
At least 1,500 species of fish are known to glow in the dark and scientists regularly discover new ones. Glowing in the dark has a fancy name – bioluminescence. Watch the clip below to find out more.
Deep Sea Torch
Here’s a fun craft activity you might like to try 🙂
The Great Barrier Reef
Nemo would like to take you on a tour of his home. He lives in the Great Barrier Reef which is the world’s largest coral reef system.
Find out how organisms are connected in this ecosystem by playing this Coral Reef Interactive Game. Once you have found them all, you can explore more connections by clicking on the link that appears at the end of the game.
Make Your Own Coral Reef
Now that you’ve learned all about coral reefs you might want to build your own by following the instructions linked below. You could use the template to make your own Nemo for your coral reef.
Squishy would like to teach you all about jellyfish. Watch the video below to find out how a jellyfish stings.
Whales
Dory’s friend Bailey is a beluga whale and would like to teach you about whales. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know Bailey uses echolocation to work out what is around him. Watch the video below to find out how this works.
Humpback Whales
Play this Whale Migration Game to find out all about humpback whales and how you can help protect them.
Blue Whale
Meet Baileys friend Blue! Blue is a model whale who lives in the American Museum of Natural History. The largest dinosaur at the museum interviewed Blue to find out all about being a blue whale. Click on the link to go to the interview Blue Whale Interview.
Sea Turtles
Crush and Squirt would like to teach you all about sea turtles. Listen to Squirt’s favourite song to learn all about him and his friends.
Swim with squirt and his friends below in this 360 video. Press play then drag the mouse to look around.
Crush has a Sea Turtle Tracker for you. Click on a turtle to view where they have been swimming. Zoom out to get a clearer idea of what ocean they are in and click on the black dots to see what dates they were in different spots.
Saturday was a very special day for Crush and Squirt because it was World Turtle Day. World Turtle Day Colouring
I’m sure you’ll agree that there are lots of interesting creatures living in the sea. We all have a job to make sure the ocean is a safe place for them to live. Here you can read about Plastic Pollution in the Deepest Ocean and what we can do to help.
There is a special day every year to remind us of how important it is to look after the ocean. It’s called World Oceans Day and takes place on Monday 8th June. This World Ocean Daypage has lots of activities planned to celebrate this event. Have a look on their page and make a note of anything you’d like to tune into on the 8th June.
You can watch a special World Ocean Day Octonauts below.
Home Learning with Mr Ray
Mr Ray has decided to help out with your home learning this week and has put together some under the sea themed lessons. If you like you can do these instead of the home learning on the blog or as a wee extra 🙂
Good morning everyone 🌞
I hope you all had a great long weekend with your families and I would love to hear what you all got up to.
This week, there won’t be a new Wednesday Challenge as I am going to repost the last one. There wasn’t a lot of time for this last week so hopefully that gives you some more time to have a go.
Below is this weeks suggested learning tasks. Remember just to do whatever suits your household best. On that note, well done grown ups! I know how busy you all are at home and how difficult these times can be. I just wanted to say thank you for finding the time to send in lovely messages and photographs of the tasks your children are doing at home. I love seeing them all!
gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk
(Remember to put Room 4 Miss Laidlaw in the subject box)
Usually around this time, we start to prepare our auditions for the event of the year 🙂 As we obviously will not get to share our talents on stage this year, we thought we would bring the stage to you! This is just a message to get you thinking – do you have a talent you would like to share? We are going to ask for video clips (20 Seconds) to collate and put together nearer the end of the term. The video will be shared on the Burnside Primary Twitter (as it is private) and will have a song playing over them. Try to pick some unique talents (audio won’t work for singing/jokes etc)
If you want to take part, you do not have to send in any video clips in just yet – I’ll let you know when 🙂 But get thinking!
Spelling Click the spelling tab at the top to find activities you can do to learn your words.
VCOP Punctuation – Click the link below to find different flashcards with incorrect sentences on them. Your job is to write out the sentence correctly, fixing the capital letters and full stop errors. Correct the Capital Letters and Full Stops
Reading and Writing Personal Reading (20 mins each day) Remember you can access lots of online stories by clicking the reading tab at the top of the page.
Click the link below to find your group’s story with follow up reading and writing activities to pick from.
Strawberries
(You don’t have to do all of this, it’s a lot. Please pick and choose the activities you would like to do)
Activity 1 – Calculation All groups – Revise Addition. (Using addition facts you already know to help add bigger numbers)
Circles – Stick to numbers below 30 unless you are feeling really confident. Addition
Squares and Triangles – Multiplication (I suggest having a go at the Addition first:) ) Multiplication
(Although I know some of our boys and girls are already learning their times tables and enjoy doing this. This is not required at their stage so please don’t worry. In P2, the children are just learning about the concept of multiplication and the idea that it is an easier way to do repeated addition. If they do really want to practise times tables – I would stick to 2, 5 and 10)
Extra challenge for squares (or anyone who feels very confident/secure in the above tasks) Using a Calendar Game
Activity 3 – Money
Toy Shop Money Squares and Triangles – Try clicking ‘Mixed Coins’ and then exact money ‘up to 20p or up to £1 for challenge’. You can also try giving change up to 20p.
Circles – Try clicking ‘Mixed Coins’ and then Exact Money ‘Up to 20p’.
If the above game is a bit tricky, try this game below for a reminder about what the coins look like and how to sort them. We should know all coins to £1.
This will be our mini topic focus for May (This is the last week). Click the link below to find activity ideas. For some of these activities there are activity sheets to match – I’ll put them in the tab at the top of the page – or you can make your own.
Below are some fun STEM activities to do at home. There’s quite a lot so I have put a few below and the rest on the science tab at the top. You could pick one or two and come back to the others later.
Hello boys and girls,
we made it to the end of our learning week!
I hope you have all had a lovely week. We lucked out and the sun came out for a little while. If you haven’t already done so, please remember to ‘check in’ and say hello!
Below are some super pictures I have been sent this week.
LB has been working hard on our Dinosaurs mini topic. She did some comprehension activities and even made her own dinosaur fossils. Well done L✨
CT has been very busy over the past couple of weeks making his WW1 tank. Isn’t it amazing? I can see a lot of work has went into it, what a great job C!🙂 His dad even helped him take some impressive photographs of it.
LM has been helping out and doing some baking! Here she is kneading the dough to make bread. I wonder how it tasted? Great job L⭐️
AMc made a birdfeeder for her garden. She hung it up so she could see the birds from the window when she is doing her tasks. Well done A! Hope you see lots of birds🐦
This week was Mental Health Awareness Week and this years theme was kindness. Miss Ferry was very kind and made me a lovely cup of tea during a super busy day in the hub. We talked about how much we missed all of our boys and girls! Did you do any acts of kindness this week?
Remember our home learning post will be up on Tuesday Morning next week. I hope you all enjoy your extra long weekend. I can’t wait to hear what you all get up to 🙂
How are you all? I hope you have had a fun week learning and are looking forward to the long weekend. Leave me a message to say hello or tell me what you have been up to🙂
This week I am looking for some architects (The people who plan and draw before anything is built) and some builders.
Unfortunately the weather isn’t looking the best this week. So this week’s challenge is a good one to do indoors. IKEA has created these instructions for building furniture forts during lockdown and it got me thinking. I BET our class can come up with some amazing creations. You can use whatever you have around your house – indoors or outdoors – to build your very own tents, forts, caves, dens or castles. Please make sure your grown up knows what you are up to and what you’re planning on using (to make sure it’s safe and not too destructive!)
Here are the ideas that Ikea have created.
Remember planning and designing is extremely important! Houses, cars and any sort of inventions all need to be thought about carefully first before the hard hat and tools can even be brought out. Think about the materials you may need and how it’s going to look.It would be a good idea to draw/design your fort first to plan how you are going to achieve it. If you want to get involved but don’t fancy building this week. You could be an architect! You can draw/create your own instructions (IKEA style) for a mega furniture fort design.
Please send me all of your pictures – I can’t wait to see what you get up to.
Good luck!
EDIT: The weather was definitely not looking good when I wrote this post… lucky us, it has changed and today looks to be fantastic now!🙂
