P4D snow update

Good morning everyone!
We hope you have had enjoyed the snow and staying safe in this weather. Happy world book day!!

We put up quite a few activities yesterday to be completed but if you are looking for more or for something different here are some more ideas:

1) As it is world book day can you use what you have in the house to create a costume from one of your favourite books? Please post any pictures in the comments. If you have access to the internet here is the link to website for some more ideas:

World book day homepage

2) Practice your 6 and 8 times table using the links from yesterday and studyladder. You can also use the song for counting in 8s.

counting in 8s 

 

3) Practice your spelling words in the snow.

4) In maths we have been learning about Venn diagrams. Can you create your own Venn diagram using your own criteria and information to display in the diagram. You could draw your diagram in the snow.

5) In our topic we have been learning about Dundee and Glasgow. Can you find out about another major city in Scotland such as Stirling, Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Perth? You can research these cities and display what you have found on a poster, leaflet or Powerpoint. Remember you can access to Microsoft Powerpoint through your glow page.

6) Complete your Morag and the Water Horse pictures for our Sway project.

I hope you have a super day. Remember to stay safe and keep warm. Please feel free to ask any questions if you need help or post pictures of what you have been doing while you have been off.
Enjoy your day in the snow!

Miss Donaldson and Ms Matheson

Primary 6 Snow Day 2

Hi all, hope you had a great day out in the snow yesterday! Since today is World Book Day why not try making a snowman of a book character, pictures always welcome! If you get too cold outside you could always curl up with a book and some hot chocolate? Keep ploughing on with your literacy circles, maybe think about how some of the characters would cope in this weather? Especially thinking about Run Zan Run and homelessness, a big talking point when the temperatures plummet.
Since we’ve been looking at data handling why not try some data collecting outdoors? You could measure your longest sledge run, get a few people together and have a competition and collect the data on where people finished, where people finished on average? You could time yourselves and see how many snowballs you can make in a couple of minutes? Try to find the biggest icicle you can, try to find the smallest and compare sizes? Use the biggest icicle you can find and try to estimate what fraction of it smaller icicles are?
Remember to keep practising your spelling words, times tables and keep rehearsing your show words! There are further activities at the top of the blog as well.
Have fun, stay wrapped up and stay safe and we’ll see you soon!
Mrs Wylie and Mr Woodward

Day 2 of being snowed in!

Good morning to all the children at Carmondean! I hope you had great fun in the snow yesterday and it would be good to see pictures of what you got up to.  The children near my house had great fun sledging and building snowmen.

An activity to do today- measure the height of any snowdrifts in your garden. I have one which is nearly 50cm tall! The snow reaches half way up my French doors.

All my groups hopefully you have been able to try some of the activities I suggested yesterday but remember you do not need to complete them all as you also have ideas in your winter activity booklets.

Today is World Book day so a good opportunity to curl up with a book, comic or magazine. Perhaps you could let us know what you have been reading and why other people may like to read it too.

Have a safe day today and stay warm.

Mrs Gilmour

Primary 2 Snow Day Update

Hello everyone,

I hope you are having a great time in the snow. I really enjoyed sledging and building igloos with my boys yesterday. Today I think we might try to build a bigger igloo.  Mrs Steel from P1/2 built a big igloo yesterday and when we are back at school I will show you photos of it. It is amazing!  Don’t forget to post a message or photo on the blog to let everyone know if you managed to build an igloo or a snow arctic fox.

World Book Day

Did you know that today is World Book Day? When you are having a break from the snow, why don’t you read your favourite book? You could even dress up as your favourite character or act out the book for your family. If you would like more ideas for World Book Day you can check out their website here:

http://www.worldbookday.com/

Arctic Exploring

This weather is great for imagining what an arctic explorer does. Wouldn’t it be easier to travel around with a sled and husky dogs? Think about what a polar explorer would be eating on an expedition and what do you need to eat to give you energy for all the snow activities you are doing?

Having so much snow is very unusual. If you can, please draw a picture of you in the snow or take a photo and post it on the blog. How deep is the snow today? Is it up to your knees or even deeper?

Yesterday I posted some ideas of activities you could do when you are off school. Remember you don’t have to do all of them. The most important thing is that you are enjoying the snow with your families.

Have fun and stay safe!

 

Mrs Muir

P2/3 Snow Day

Good morning Primary 2/3. I hope you have another fun day in the snow! A big thank you to Rory and Safia for commenting on our blog, telling us what activities they have been doing.

Thursday 1st March is World Book Day!! Let’s celebrate books!!
Today’s suggested book activities
1. Read a variety of books with your family. You can then bring them into school and tell the class all about it!
2. Design a new front cover for one of your favourite books.
3. Draw a picture of your favourite character and surround them with wonderful adjectives that best describe this character.
4. Create a quiz about your favourite book that you could ask your friends to see how well they know the book.
5. Write a book review about your book. What is your favourite part? What is the book about? Would you recommend the book?
6. Become an author and begin to write and illustrate your very own book!
Suggested activities for Maths:
1. Primary 2 practise counting forwards and backwards up to 100. Try counting up and down in 2s. Continue practising doubling numbers. Mental addition and subtraction within 20.
2. Primary 3 practise odd and even numbers upto 100. Practise 2,5 and 10 times table. Mental additions and subtraction with 100. Create your own chimney sums.
Suggested activists for other curricular areas:
1. Write down/draw 5 interesting facts about the Romans using online resources or books.
2. Draw a picture of the coliseum in Rome.
3. Draw a picture of a Roman Gladiator.
4. On yesterday’s last post I asked you to pack for an arctic exploration- have you tried this?
5. Let’s bake a cake!! Use your reading skills and maths skills to follow a set of instructions and carefully use weighing scales. You will need an adult to help you with this activity!
6. Build a snowman, make snow angels, go sledging or go for a walk. All great ways to get some fresh air and burn off some energy.
Remember if you have any questions or want to share what you have been doing today, feel free to post in the comments section below. If you wish to post a picture, sent it to the school email and Mr Shanks can post it on the blog.
Enjoy today P2/3 and stay safe!
Miss Rafferty

P2/1 Snow Day 2!

Good morning everyone and Happy World Book Day! We are celebrating this tomorrow but the link below will take you to the Book Day website where there are lots of activities you could choose from today.  If you complete one, bring it to school to show everyone!

http://www.worldbookday.com/

http://www.worldbookday.com/resources/primary/

Other ideas for Reading activities today-

  1. Read some books with an adult-could be your homework books or one of your favourites.
  2. Design a new front cover for a book.
  3. Draw your favourite character from a book-write lots of facts about them around the outside.
  4. Write a new adventure for your favourite character.
  5. Use one of the book review templates on the World Book Day website to write a book review about your favourite book.
  6. Could you write a new story for Katie Morag? Bring it to school and we can display it on our writing wall.

Other activities you could have a go at today-

  1. P1s- we will be looking at numbers to 30 next week, have a go counting aloud forwards and backwards. starting at different numbers.  Can you write all teh numbers to 30?
  2. P2- Choose a number up to 100 to start at and count forwards or backwards from there.
  3. Have a go at playing some of the games on the Topmarks website- www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
  4. Here is a snowy themed Cosmic Yoga you could have a go at to warm you up after being in the real snow!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSZvMHlw9vs
  5. Why not have a go at building an igloo today?

If you build something fun in the snow today or do one of the activities I would love to hear from you-post in the comments section below.  If you have any questions please ask!

Have a fun morning and I will check in again soon!

Mrs Steel

 

 

 

Primary 7 – Snow Day 2

Hello Primary 7!

Thanks to all of you who left comments on our blog post yesterday. It was nice to hear from so many of you.

Today is our second snow day and there is a LOT more snow around now! Maybe this afternoon, if the weather is a bit calmer, you can get back outside again and try to build a snowman or to try out some of the fitness activities that Mrs Ferguson posted in her blog post yesterday? I think they would be good for stamina!

If you would rather stay inside though here are some activities that you can continue on with today:
– My Life so Far (your first draft is due in next Friday)
– WW2 Booklet (research one/several aspects of life in WW2)
– Literacy Circles homework (you could begin reading your next set of pages).

Today is World Book Day! Now, if we’re in school tomorrow, we will be visiting other stage’s book corners and showing off our own and the new books we have purchased for it. Today – why don’t you pick up your favourite book, a new book or a book you loved reading when you were younger. What do you like about it? Why is it your favourite? What happens? We’d love if you could tell us about them in the comments if you have a chance 🙂

Remember – these suggestions are all just a guide. You certainly don’t need to do all of them. Most importantly, keep safe and keep warm and we’ll hopefully see you soon! Remember to comment on the blog and tell us what you’ve been up to 🙂

Mrs Macaulay & Miss Clark

Primary 1 Snow day

Hi Primary 1! We hope that you are having lots of fun out playing in the snow! Here are a few more ideas of activities you can get up to whilst you are off school. Please remember that these are only suggestions and we don’t expect you to do them all (unless you really want to!)
1. Read or watch some of these snowman stories:
Sneezy the snowman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJqX9bNCX1s
The snowman http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/the-snowman (you can also complete the related games and activities
Olaf the snowman https://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/17728918/untitled#
After watching these stories see if you can tell the story back to an adult in as few sentences as possible. Can you draw your favourite part of the story and tell someone what happened and why it is your favourite part? Can you find any other snow related books in your house? Why don’t you try writing your own snowman story using as many wow words as possible!
2. Make a sock snowman. All you need is a white sock, uncooked rice, a coloured sock for the hat and ribbons/ buttons/ pens to decorate! Here are some instructions to follow https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/video-zone/make-sock-snowman
3. Go on a winter walk and see how many numbers you can find (door numbers, car registration numbers, road signs etc). Why don’t you take a picture of all the numbers you see?
4. Practise writing your ‘th’ words from time your climb in the snow. Or if you’d prefer to stay inside why not try making them out of playdoh, writing them in paint or using pens to write them in rainbow writing. Can you think of any other th words not of the sheet?
5. Create a dinosaur factfile of a dinosaur we haven’t learnt about in class. Use the internet or dinosaur books you have at home to find some interesting information.
6. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds This website has a number of phonics related games you may wish to play.
7. Keep active by playing outside or following these online videos:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cosmic+kids+yoga

We hope that you have having lots of fun playing in the snow. Please leave a comment to let us know how you are getting on.
Miss Christy and Mrs Oliver

P2/3 Snow Day

Afternoon Primary 2/3, how are you all getting on in the snow? I hope you are all having fun and playing safely!
Has anyone managed to complete any of our activities? If so I would love to hear from you. You can post in the comments section below.
I managed to go for a big walk in the snow to burn off some energy!
How do you think the Romans survived in the snow with those Roman sandals we saw and touched on our class trip? I’m sure they would have had very cold toes! Do you think the Romans preferred being in Rome?

Our next science lesson is preparing and organising for an arctic exploration. What do you think you might have to pack to stay warm? Think about what you have been wearing today in the snow and how you have managed to keep your energy levels high?Draw me some pictures of what you would pack in your backpack/sledge. Can wait to hear all your ideas!

Keep warm and safe,
Miss Rafferty

P2/1 Snow Day

Afternoon everyone. Hope you are continuing to enjoy the snow and staying warm and safe.  I have managed to get into the garden to try out writing some of our spelling words in the snow.  If you have got any pictures or updates for me I would love to hear from you.  If you have any questions about the activities leave a message and I will respond. 🙂

Do you like my try at ‘th’ and ‘o_e’ words?

 

Mrs Steel

 

 

 

Primary 1 – More snow day activities!

Hello Primary 1,

We hope you’ve had a safe but fun morning in the snow so far! Have you tried any of the activities we posted earlier? If so, it would be great to hear from you or even see some photos! If you are having some quiet time this afternoon and warming up a bit after playing in the snow, here are some games to practise what we have been learning in class:

http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurEggs_phonics/index.html  – Crack open the dinosaur eggs by reading words with th and sh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U354eD-hgQ Watch Geraldine Giraffe tell you all about ‘th’ words.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue Practise recognising larger numbers and for more of a challenge find the numbers ‘in between’!

http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/4705 Practise telling the time o’clock and half past on analogue clocks.

http://www.rabbittakeaway.co.uk/activity/ practise subtraction skills.

Ask an adult at home to type in 15 of your key words from your blue jotter and ‘Help a hedgehog’ by reading them correctly http://www.ictgames.com/helpAHedgehog/index.html

Please let us know your favourites!

Primary 1 Teachers

Mrs Muir’s groups

Hello to my primary 1 and primary 2 groups!
If you are outside enjoying the snow or staying cosy inside, here are a few activities you could complete.
* practise writing your numbers and letters in the snow using your finger or a stick as a pencil
* practise writing your numbers and letters on paper using different colours
* draw a picture to match each sound you know
* practise your sound cards
* practise all the words in your word box. Can you make a sentence with the different words?
* draw a picture to show an alternative ending to your reading book
* practise your numbers and sounds using websites and apps such as top marks and pocket phonics.

You’re very welcome to take a photo or bring in anything you have completed today to show me.
Thank you and have fun!

Mrs C Muir

P4 snow day update

Hello!
I hope everyone is having a great day and managing to enjoy the snow. We would love to see any pictures or hear from anyone who has tried any of the activities or who has been doing something fun!
Remember if you have any questions or need any advice please feel free to comment and we will reply to you.
Looking forward to hearing all about what you have been up to. Stay safe and enjoy the rest of your day.

The Primary 4 teachers

Primary 5- Snow Fun

I hope you are enjoying a day to play in the snow!

Since we have recently been learning to tell the time I have another activity for you to try whilst you are out sledging. You could record your slowest and fastest speed going down hill, then calculate the difference between them both. You could then change positions on your sledge to see if the way you sit effects the speed at which you travel? A little experiment too.  Think of the hypothesis before you set off and see if you are accurate. Could you do anything difference to vary the result? If you capture any pictures we would love to see them!

Stay safe!

Miss Farren

P2/1 Snow Day

I hope everyone is having a fun day in the snow and have tried out some of the activities I posted earlier.  Maybe you could post some pictures here of what you have been doing in the snow? Anyone managed to build a snowman or been sledging? Maybe you could try writing some of your spelling words in the snow? I would love to hear about /see what you have been up to so far today!

Mrs Steel

PE snow day ideas

I wonder if any of you fancy being the next Lizzie Yarnold?  Have a look at the video clip of Lizzie winning her second gold medal at the recent Winter Olympics and then get out sledging today! Remember to be safe though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We4rtSaRgSs

If you don’t have a sledge you can just get out in the snow and try all different activities in it.  I think you’ll find it’s much harder walking, running and jumping in the snow.  How many different activities can you do in the snow and  how does your body feel when you try them?

And if you cant get outside here are some indoor activities you can try.

Cha Cha Slide Plan Challenge:

https://www.facebook.com/Twistandpulseofficial/videos/10156046217387557/

 

Dungeon Runner Fitness Quest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh8R15u2G_0

 

Just Dance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvZA8NKgrBI

 

Snowed in HIIT Workouts:

https://pin.it/hgfqxdmhy3jvvh

https://pin.it/b7mc7ueyecadhs

 

Various Games and Activities:

https://twitter.com/PE4Life_Spencer/status/957010728711471104

https://twitter.com/justybubPE/status/947472891066699777

https://twitter.com/justybubPE/status/925725811201794050

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