Dechmont Infant School Blog

Morning Everyone!

Today we are going to be creating some nature mandalas inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy. You’ll need to get outside and collect lots of natural materials such as stones, leaves, pine cones. Anything you can find! But remember not to destroy plants or pick wild flowers only use flowers from your garden.

Remember to check out your family and individual Random Acts of Wildness for 30 days Wild on twitter. Share your pictures on twitter too.

Enjoy

Love Mrs Short 😀

Daily Overview

daily overview 20_06_10

Literacy – sight words 

Apples Bananas 20_05_10 sight words

Limes sight word overview and dictation

Numeracy 

Keep going with your numeracy challenges.

Numicons – number bonds to 10

NUMICONS number bonds 20_06_04

Numbers/Digits – Times tables

NUMBERS DIGITS multiplication challenge June 2020

Art – Andy Goldsworthy 

ART Andy Goldsworthy 20_06_10

Music 

Primary 1 music lessons

Primary 2 music lessons

Primary 3 music lessons

Morning Everyone.

Friday again. Today we are going to do a 30 Days Wild activity. For this activity your need to design and create your own bird. You can get some ideas from looking up different birds online. Birds are so interesting and come in all different shapes and sizes. What is especially beautiful about birds is that their feathers can be all sorts of patterns and colours! Now you don’t have to make it look like a real bird just use your imagination and create the most amazing bird you can come up with.

Can you take the British bird challenge? Ask a grown up to cover the names and see how many you know the name of. Then see how many you can spot over the next week. Some of them are tricky to see as they only come out at night. Even living in the city we have lots of birds and we often see sparrows, starlings, chaffinches, blue tits, wood pigeons, robins, wrens, magpies and of course lots and lots of seagulls! Oooo they are so noisy those seagulls!

Can’t wait to see all of you creations on twitter.

Have a great weekend!

Love Mrs Short 😀

Daily Overview

daily overview 20_06_05

Literacy – Writing: How to brush your teeth

This is the last lesson in instructions writing. Next week will be your assessment where you will be given a theme and will have a go at writing them yourself.

Apples writing plan 20_06_05

Bananas writing plan 20_06_05

Limes writing plan 20_06_05

Bird Design Activity 

Design a bird

spring-birds-scavenger-hunt

Good Morning everyone,

Well did everyone spot what I forgot to put on the blog yesterday?…there was no numeracy! Silly Mrs Short. Don’t worry it’ll be there today.

As we only have a few weeks left of term I thought it would be a great opportunity to build some skills that are really important for numeracy.

Numicons – you are going to be developing your skills in number bonds for numbers 1- 10. It is important that you know these facts very well as we use them a lot in numeracy and these basic ones can also be used to wok out more complicated calculations later.

CHALLENGE: If you get to the point where you know them all very well and can say them, make them, draw them. Then why not try looking at the 2x table (see Numbers/Digits resources)

Numbers and Digits – you are going to be building skills on times tables

Numbers – you are going to focus on 2x, 5x and 10x

CHALLENGE: If you get to the point where you know them all very well and can say them, make them, draw them, skip count and write the equations. Then why not try looking at the 3x, 4x and 6x table

Digits – you are going to focus on 3x, 4x and 6x

CHALLENGE : If you get to the point where you know them all very well and can say them, make them, draw them. skip count and write the equations. Then why not try looking at the 8x, 9x and 11x table.

I’ve created an overview sheet with lots of activities, online videos and online games. Also check out active learn and sumdog (logins in your home learning packs) for some extra activities and games. Just choose a couple of activities a day.

Enjoy!

Love Mrs Short 😀

DAILY OVERVIEW

daily overview 20_06_04

LITERACY – weekly reading activities

Carle

CARLE Reading 20_06_04

CARLE see like me ACTIVITY 20_06_04

CARLE see like me GUIDED READING 20_06_04 (1)

Jeffers

JEFFERS Reading 20_06_04

JEFFERS SpotTheShape ACTIVITY 20_06_04

JEFFERS SpotTheShape GUIDED READING 20_06_04

Kerr

KERR Reading 20_06_04

KERR rat and cat ACTIVITY 20_06_04

KERR rat and cat GUIDED READING 20_06_04 (1)

Seuss

SEUSS Reading 20_06_04

SEUSS Yun and the Ice spirit ACTIVITY 20_06_04

SEUSS Yun and the ice spirit GUIDED READING 20_06_04

SEUSS comprehension A Postcard from Mo Farah Activity Card

NUMERACY- Numeracy challenge sheets

NUMBERS DIGITS multiplication challenge June 2020

NUMICONS number bonds 20_06_04

SCIENCE

P1 – The last of our senses. TASTE

P1 SCIENCE senses 20_06_04

P2/3 – All about teeth

P2 P3 SCIENCE my body teeth 20_06_04

P2 P3 SCIENCE teeth&mouth poster 20_06_04 P2 P3 Science Teeth-Labelling

Morning Everyone,

Well here we are in June already! I can’t believe how long it is since I saw you all. I bet you have all grown loads!

This week we have started 30 Days Wild run by the Wildlife Trusts. You can still sign up online here and it will give you access to loads of great activities and webcams. This is a great campaign to raise awareness of outdoors and nature. Each day there will be a random act of wildness for you to complete. I will post these on twitter. There are random acts of wildness which are easy for you to do on your own and there are ones that are for the family to do together.

I will add the resources down below that you can use at home. If you don’t have a printer don’t worry just make your own versions.

Have lots of fun!

Love Mrs Short 😀

Daily overview

daily overview 20_06_03

Literacy – sight words 

I’ve added in dictation for the Limes on their sheet

Apples Bananas 20_06_03 sight words

Limes sight word overview and dictation

Music 

Primary 1 music lessons

Primary 2 music lessons

Primary 3 music lessons

Art 

Art is a talking activity toady

ART Takashi Murakami 20_06_03

30 Days Wild 

30 days wild pack schools

random acts of wildness cards

Wow! What a super sunny day! 

What a great day to look at sun safety. So today we are taking a break from procedural writing and combining writing and HWB to learn about how to stay safe in the sunshine!

Once you have done your task remember to post up your final posters on twitter so we can see all your great designs!

Afterwards make sure to follow the advice so you can stay safe in the sun too.

Enjoy!

Love

Mrs Short 😀

sun safety writing HWB

Sun, Sea and Beach Safety Comprehension Activity Sheets

Sun, Sea and Beach Safety Comprehension Answer Sheets

sun-safety-word-search

Morning Everyone,

I hope you have had a great week.

Today’s fun fact is that on this day in 1933 Walt Disney released their short film about the Three Little Pigs. You can watch it HERE. Maybe watch it after you have done your music lesson and then see if you can guess the instruments being played during the film.

Hope you are all keeping well. I’m hoping to be able to give you all a ring sometime this week and see how you are all doing.

Take care

Mrs Short. 😀

Today’s Activities

Daily Overview

daily overview 20_05_27

Sight Words 

Apples Bananas 20_05_27 sight words

Some people have asked for the whole list of sight words for the Limes so here are the rest of the words for this term. It’s the same process as every week. Feel free to use any of the activities already used or go wild and create you own.

SAY IT
WRITE IT
MAKE IT

Limes sight word overview

Music

MUSIC the orchestra 20_05_27