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 🙂
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!🙂
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.
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.
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.
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 🙂
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.
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.
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.
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 🙂
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.
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.
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.
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 🙂
