Disneyland

Thanks to Miss Ferry, this week we are off to the most magical place on earth because who doesn’t need a little bit of magic just now!

Today’s lessons are brought to you by all your favourite Disney characters. There are a few virtual rides along the way that might be more realistic if you can cast them to your television.

First things first, let’s find out What Disney Character Are You?

Now you know who you are, hop aboard Aladdin’s magic carpet ride and make your way to Disneyland. (Watch until 2 mins 18 seconds)

Welcome to Disneyland

Click here to have a look around the Magic Kingdom on Google Maps.

Technologies – Coding

Learn the basics of computer science with your favourite characters.

Moana Coding

Frozen Coding

Big Hero 6 Coding

Incredibles Roller Coaster

P.E.

The characters from your favourite Disney films are taking over from Joe Wicks this week! Click on the link below and scroll down to the very bottom to find your favourite characters and lots of activities to get you moving.

Disney 10 Minute Shake Up

Each activity has a video with a clip from the movie and a demonstration of the activity. You can also find a new sport to try by taking the quiz below.

Which Sport Should I Try?

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

Drama

Simba has a series of theatre lessons for you called the The Lion King Experience. Although this program is traditionally facilitated in a classroom setting, these instructions give you everything you need to explore theatre on your own at home. If The Lion King isn’t your thing you can find other theatre resources for Frozen, Aladdin and Mary Poppins at Disney on Stage.

Expedition Everest

Design a Theme Park

Mickey Mouse has created Imagineering in a Box to show you how artists, designers and engineers work together to create theme parks. With the help of a grown-up, big brother or sister you can complete project-based exercises to design a theme park of your very own.

Thunder Mountain

Playtime

The Toy Story gang have put together some online games they think you’ll like 🙂

Frozen Game

Lightning McQueen Game

Cars Game

Inside Out Game

Disney Princess Game

Tangled Game

Beauty and the Beast Game

Star Wars Games

Slinky Dog Dash

Cooking with Remy

Remy has put together his favourite Disney recipes for you to choose from.

Mickey Breakfast Pizza

Belle’s Enchanted Breakfast Porridge

Hakuna Frittata

Jessie’s Cowgirl Hat Cookies

Alien Avocado Toast

Fireworks

No trip to Disneyland would be complete without some fireworks! I hope you had fun 🙂

Good Morning boys and girls (and grown ups) 🙂

Welcome to another week of home learning. I hope you had a nice weekend whether you were relaxing or keeping busy! I will be helping out in Calderwood this week so I may be slower than usual to reply to messages – but please do still send them. I love seeing what you have all been up to. Here’s the email if you haven’t had a chance yet;

gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk
(Remember to put Room 4 Miss Laidlaw in the subject box)

Friday and Monday is another Holiday weekend (Already? I can’t believe it either!) so there won’t be anything up on those days and you can have break from learning.  Any photos sent in will still make it on the blog on ‘Terrific Work Thursday;)’ this week.

Birthdays
We usually always love to celebrate Birthdays in Room 4. If you are having an ‘at home’ birthday this year, please feel free to let me know. I am sure your friends would love to leave a message to wish you all a Happy Birthday!

Support
You may have noticed I have been adding pages to the blog as we go along. If you have a minute to browse there are some handy resources. Particularly, in the ‘support’ tab (Thanks Miss Ferry!) . I know that this is a tricky time for both the children and the grown ups – I hope that this is helpful.

Reading and Writing

(These activities can be split over a couple of days)

Personal Reading (15-20 mins daily if possible) Check the reading tab at the top of blog if you are limited with reading book options at home. There are some great ebook options.

Strawberries
Click the links below to find a story called Wild Pets and follow up reading and writing activities.

Wild Pets Story

Follow Up Activities

Pineapples and Grapes
Click the links below to find a story called ‘The Mouse, The Frog and The Little Red Hen’ and follow up reading and writing activities.

Mouse Frog Little Hen Story
Follow up Activities

Lemons
Click the link below to find a rhyming story called ‘Dogs eat Frogs’ and follow up reading and writing activities.

Dogs Eat Frogs

Spelling

Talking and Listening

Some different ideas for talking and listening activities at home. The boys and girls love the following directions style listening activities we have done in class so I have tried to find similar to those (unfortunately ours are still in the building 🙁 ) My favourite one is the 5 minute quiz (there’s a funny trick at the end to check they are truly following the instructions) but some of the groups may need help from a grown up to read through it.

5 minute quiz

Listen and do

listen and draw

These reading prompts could also be helpful to discuss a book that your child has been reading.

reading prompts

Activity 1 – Money
I hope everyone enjoyed recapping Money with RBS a couple of weeks ago. Here are some more revision activities.  Squares and Triangles- If you are confident, challenge yourself by drawing out bigger coins or using coins around the house to do the same activities 🙂

Money 1

Money 2

Activity 2 – Calculation

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/addition-and-subtraction 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Activity 3 – Time
Some fun practical time activities to help ch understand the concept of Time/duration.

Time in Seconds

Activity 4 – Measure (Capacity)
Below are some activities you can do at home to learn about capacity and volume!

Capacity and volume

Capacity Practical

capacity spoon challenge

more than less than capacity

An extra weights and measure scavenger hunt – weights and measure scavenger hunt

P.E and Movement Activities

• Joe Wicks PE (every morning at 9am)
• Active Schools Challenges (Twitter – every Monday, Wednesday and Friday)
• Jump Start Jonny (New videos every Monday or lots available on website)
• GoNoodle (Dance, exercise and mindfulness videos available)
• Superhero physical training
• activity ideas for walks

Mindful Minutes

Mindful Minute Brain Breaks

This will be our topic focus for May. 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.

Dinosaurs mini topic

Most of the boys and girls in the class have read a book called ‘How to Make a Bird Feeder’ as their school reading book. We were planning on having a go at putting this in action in class and then hanging them up in the playground. In the book they used pinecones and rolled them in peanut butter which you could easily do at home 🙂 but obviously this isn’t something we would have been able to use in school so there are lots of other  easy ideas.

We were going to use popcorn 🙂

Homemade Bird Feeders

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/bird-feeder

https://nurturestore.co.uk/how-to-make-a-bird-feeder

Extra Activities 

• Take part in our virtual school trip
• Browse previous tasks/activities you may have missed
• Participate in our Wednesday Challenge (or any previous weekly challenges)

Have a wonderful week everyone 🙂

Miss Laidlaw💕

Good Morning everyone🌞

Happy Friday! Thank you for all your check ins and your photographs. I can see you have all been super busy over the past 2 weeks. Well done everybody! If you haven’t checked in yet, please remember to pop by the check in station and say hello.

Seargent. JS has been loving learning about WW1. Him and his sister have been making battlefields and trenches in the garden and look at that wonderful tank! Well done J⭐️

You’ve been working hard OD. A fantastic Spider-Man art activity – I love it! –  and a good idea for your friends too. A lovely letter for your granny and grandad too. Great work⭐️

I love your amazing flower drawing CP! Wow⭐️ She has also been hard at work learning all about space and creating what looks like a very interesting poster!

FH has been super busy learning about measure and writing a lovely letter to his gran. Well done F⭐️

LM and LRA  both drew wonderful pictures. A lovely Happy Birthday message for Mrs A by LM and an amazing drawing of Freddy from Mega Robot Bros  and Lushkin the cat by LRA. He loves when his favourite comic arrives!

Wednesday Challenge pictures have been uploaded to the weekly challenge page.

As you can see from our pictures and our weekly check in there have been lots of busy bees in our class. Well done boys and girls, I am so proud of everything you are doing.

Have a fantastic weekend🎉

Miss Laidlaw💕

Hello everyone,

Just popping in to say Hello and I hope you can all do the same 🙂 I love hearing from you and what you have been doing but a little ‘hello’ is also perfect.

I am going to be helping out at Cathkin today, tomorrow and Monday with Mrs McGarvey, Mr Campbell and Miss McKinnon (so things might be a bit slower).  I am looking forward to seeing some of our friendly faces even if we have to stand apart 🙂

Have a lovely day

Miss Laidlaw

x

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To Infinity and Beyond!

Thanks again to Miss Ferry for this weeks virtual school trip. Primary two, this week you are astronauts and off to explore space! You’ll need to complete different missions along the way. Good luck!

**Some of the games require flash and may not work on a mobile or tablet.**

Mission One

Your first mission to build a rocket to travel to space. Build a rocket online by clicking on the link below or follow the video instructions to make your own straw rocket.

Rocket Builder

Mission Two

A trip to space is different from a normal trip. Complete the astronaut training below before you head off.

MissionX Training

What to Pack

Mission Three

You’ve arrived at the International Space Station. Click on this link to find out all about the International Space Station and take a tour below.

Mission Four

Time to explore the Solar System. Click on the links below to tour the Solar System and find out what your age and weight would be on each of the planets.

Solar System Tour 

Solar System Age and Weight

Mission Five

The first planet on your tour of the Solar System is Mercury. Click here to find out all about Mercury . Your mission is to Complete the Pattern.

Mission Six

Next stop on our tour of the Solar System is Venus. Click here to find out all about Venus. Your mission is to see if you can spot the difference between these two pictures. Click on the second picture to mark the differences. Spot the Difference

Mission Seven

The next planet on our space exploration is Earth. Click here to find out some facts you perhaps didn’t know about Earth . Your mission is to use your addition skills to reach the target number in the moon and make the rocket blast off to the next planet. Click on any two numbers on the grid that add to the target number. Addition Blast Off

Mission Eight

Click here to find out all about Mars.  Your mission is to help NASA’s Curiosity Rover explore the surface of Mars. Click here to Explore Mars  (to start the game drag and drop the start button then press go – it took me a while to figure this out!)

Well done on completing your Mars mission! Before you head off, hop onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover and explore the surface of Mars in a 360-degree view while learning about space exploration 360 Mars Rover Tour .

Mission Nine

On the way to your next planet your mission is to help Paxi clean up space by collecting debris and repairing satellites Space Clean Up  .

Well done on completing your mission you’ve arrived on your next planet. Click here to find out all about Jupiter.

Mission Ten

On your way to Saturn your mission is to learn about galaxies by playing Galactic Explorer . Scroll to the bottom to read about different types of galaxies before you play.

Well done on completing another mission! Click here to find out all about Saturn.

Mission Eleven

Click here to find out all about Uranus. Before you leave your mission is to complete these Space Repairs

Mission Twelve

You’ve arrived at the last planet on your tour of the Solar System. Click here to find out all about Neptune. Your mission now is to complete this Solar System Quiz and test your knowledge!

Mission Thirteen

Your final mission before you return to earth is to build your very own space mission!

Build Your Space Mission

Bedtime Story

Well after that exciting day exploring space I’m sure you’re all ready for a good night’s sleep! Choose a bedtime story below read all the way from space. Each story is read by an astronaut onboard the International Space Station.

The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home

If I were an Astronaut

A Moon of My Own

Astronaut Annie

Moustronaut

Moustronaut Goes to Mars

Rosie Revere, Engineer

Endeavour’s Long Journey

The Wizard Who Saved The World

Max Goes to Jupiter

Max Goes to Mars

Max Goes to the Moon

Max Goes to the International Space Station

Hey Ho to Mars We’ll Go

Extra Missions – Should You Choose to Accept Them

Planet Switch-a-roo

Space Volcanoes

Space and Back Activty Booklet

TESSie Activity Booklet

Space Launch System Activity Booklet

Space Explorers Activity Booklet

Moon Activity Booklet

The Astro-Not-Yets Explore Sound Storybook

International Space Station Activity Booklet

Space Videos

Good morning boys and girls🌈

Pop up a little message with the help of your grown ups to say hello.

A very short week this week! I won’t be posting a Fantastic Work Friday this week, however all the pictures that have been sent in will be joined up with next weeks pictures. To those who sent a lovely message or picture for Mrs Anderson’s birthday, I sent her them on Monday and she said  they made her day 🥳  I know there were some other birthdays at the start of this week too (Sophia and Rory, if I’m not mistaken) I hope you both had a lovely day!🎈

Have a lovely long weekend of fun!

Miss Laidlaw

Hello everyone

Time for this week’s challenge
THE RAINBOW CHALLENGE

This weeks is a little bit easier than last week and it’s a lovely one. I bet you have noticed a lot of rainbows when you are on your walks. You have maybe even made one for your window at home!

Rainbows are a sign of hope just now, something to make us all smile and to let everyone working hard know that we are really proud of them. Also, to let our friends and family know that we miss them. SO, this week I am challenging you to create a wonderfuly unique rainbow in a different way from drawing or colouring.

Here are some examples I have found:

Nature                                                                                    Lego

Cut and stick

Baking

Iron on beads    or pipe cleaner 3D rainbow

Some other ideas could be to use things you have lying around your house and garden to make a huge rainbow on the ground. You could also do a science experiment to make a rainbow  (google has loads). I’m planning to make a rainbow tye-dye t-shirt so you could also do something like that.

When the time to stay home is over and we see a rainbow in the sky, I hope that it’ll always remind us of how lucky we are to be able to do all of the things that we are missing right now.

Have fun boys and girls – I can’t wait to see your wonderful creations!

Miss Laidlaw❤️🌈

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This week we are going to the Science Centre.

Every weekday a science lesson is uploaded at 10am. The schedule for this week is below. Choose what lessons you would like to take part in and follow the video link below to access the video on that day. Videos embedded below will only be available after 10am on the day they are posted for. Lessons for Wed, Thur & Fri will be available from main site linked below. Wednesday’s Straw Oboes and Thursday’s Coat Hanger Clanger sounds great for Primary 2 🙂 For an extra challenge tune into the other lessons. Have Fun!

Glasgow Science Centre at Home

Monday 4th May – Make a Planisphere

What is a planisphere and why would we need one to look at the night sky? You’ll see how you can make a planisphere with our handy planisphere print out. We will show you how to use the planisphere for backyard astronomy. You’ll need the planisphere print out (download below), some scissors, blu tack, a split pin (or similar) and some adult permission and supervision. Most suitable for budding astronomers aged 7 and over. View on YouTube.

Download the planisphere print out.

Probability has never been so much fun! Explore the ‘The Monty Hall problem’ with us – will you decide to ‘stick or switch’ when the odds of winning a prize change? The chances of this maths problem being a hit are stacked in your family’s favour! For a further probability activity to try out afterwards you’ll need a pack of playing cards. Fun for everyone with science and maths over 7s will enjoy! View on YouTube.

Strike the right note for a tuneful family activity! Learn about how sound travels, how we get different pitches and make your own straw oboe. To join in at home, you’ll need some paper or plastic straws, some scissors, and adult permission and supervision. Ideal for ages 5 and over.

Thursday 7th May – Coat Hanger Clanger

Tune in for an entertaining exploration of how sound travels through different materials. You can try this out at home! You’ll need some string, a sturdy ‘wire’ metal object like a coat hanger, whisk or the top of a grill from a cooker (minus the steak!). Plus you’ll need adult permission and supervision. Ideal for ages 5 and over.

Friday 8th May – Make Your Own Codebreaker

Learn about cryptography and find out how to send and receive your very own secret messages. You will need some paper, a ruler, pens or pencils, scissors, and some adult permission and supervision. Most likely to appeal to over 7s.