Month: April 2020

Good Morning Everyone.

Happy April Fools Day – did anyone get caught out this morning?

Here is a little clip giving you some information about why April Fool’s is celebrated throughout the world.

Reading

I hope everyone managed to have a read of Kipper’s Diary yesterday and were able to complete the follow up activities. Here is the link again as we are going to be using the book for a follow up task today.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/oxford-owl-ebook-collection

In your home learning pack you should have a copy of  Roll, Read and Find. Here is another link in case you have misplaced it.

roll read and find sheet

With the help of an adult, read through Kipper’s diary and select any words which you have found  a bit tricky, such as went, day, was, sunny, windy and hot. Write these in pencil into the boxes numbered 1-6 ( so you can rub out and use the sheet again)  then roll a dice ( or number bits of paper 1-6 if you don’t have a dice) and whatever number you get, read the word, then search through the book to find the word, you could even get an adult to challenge you to write them down without looking.

Phonics

We are not going to be introducing a new sound this week but focusing on consolidation of the oa and ai sounds from previous weeks.

Get an adult to challenge you to writing some words containing these sounds. Don’t forget to use the join we learned last week when writing the sound.

Have a go at sounding out and writing

l-oa -f       s-oa -p        t -oa -d       c -oa -t      b -oat -t     r-oa -d

w-ai-t         r-ai -l          m-ai-l       m-ai -d      p-ai -d       n – ai – l

Can you draw some detailed pictures to go with your words. Don’t forget to green for growth, tickle pink and write the date on your work.

Numeracy

Here are your daily Five for today. Remember to share with an adult how you have solved the calculation and what tool you have used.  Let’s have a focus on doubles today…

5 + 5 =                2 + 2 =             4 + 4 =            3 + 3 =        1 + 1 =

I found this fun youtube clip called Dancing Doubles to support you..

If you are finding the daily Five too easy and want a challenge, this is a super website which I have used with classes before.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

There are options for addition, subtraction and ordering numbers. Start at level one and see how you get on.

Maths

This week we have been focusing on 2D shape.

Here is a great online game which incorporates not only shape but repeating patterns too (something which we focused on way back in term 1).

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

I would suggest starting at level one and working your way up to level 2 depending on how confident you feel.

Don’t forget you can visit Education City and play the game Bar -B shapes from yesterday’s tasks.

Health and Wellbeing

Yesterday I set you the challenge of designing a poster to display why and how we can keep ourselves safe from household products and medicine. Well done to those of you who completed the poster, I look forward to seeing them. Don’t forget you can email your efforts to our school email address.

wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Today I would like to ask the question, which are safe/unsafe for you to use. Can you come up with a list of household objects which are safe/unsafe. For example…

  Safe                                                                      Unsafe

tablet                                                                        bleach

teddy bear                                                              kettle

You can draw/write these into your purple jotters.

 

RME

With Easter fast approaching I thought it might be a good idea to focus a little bit of our learning around this Christian celebration.  What is Easter? What do we do differently during this holiday? Why do we celebrate Easter? Share your ideas with an adult.

Here is a link to the Easter story for you to watch.

Good luck with all of your home learning for today.

A little shout out to the kind friend in our class who sent in some writing for me yesterday, it made me smile so so much! A big thank you for brightening my day.

Oh and I found out yesterday that Amazon has made all their stories online free to stream. Audible Kids is fantastic, we started listening to Winnie the Pooh yesterday. Here is the link, there are so many books to choose from. Enjoy!

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

One last thing! Mrs Anderson wanted me to remind you to keep going with her 30 day yoga and mindfulness challenge.  Here it is again in case you have forgotten.

Happy Learning,

Mrs Stevenson

 

 

 

Good morning, hope you are all fit and well and ready for the day ahead!! This week in Deans Den we would have been exploring the Easter Story and developing the children’s understanding of the significance of Easter. I have attached a link to the Easter story and if possible you could watch this together and discuss the content with your child.

This is your writing task from Miss Taylor – it looks like lots of fun!!!! My Easter Bunny name would be Wiggles DeThumper!

1. How to Find your Easter Bunny Name

2. What does your Easter bunny look like

3. Description layout

4. Easter Bunny sheet

5. Miss Taylor’s Easter bunny example

 

Have fun completing this! Can’t wait to read all about your own Easter Bunnies!!!!!

Before Break

Medium Problem-solving questions

Spicy-Problem-solving questions

Break – Lunch

1. How to Find your Easter Bunny Name

2. What does your Easter bunny look like

3. Description layout

5. Miss Taylor’s Easter bunny example

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Narrative SECOND LEVEL pupil-friendly targets GT March 2020 (1)

Narrative SECOND LEVEL pupil-friendly targets GT March 2020

After Lunch

Nelson Mandela Challenge1

Good morning everybody! Hope you are having a lovely week so far. Below are some other tasks for today:

-Research April Fools Day – read up on why people play April Fools Tricks.

Write a made-up story of something you have apparently done– something that is almost believable, but silly too.

 

• Create some tricky adding and takeaway sums for someone at home to do. Ask them to create some for you too – see who gets the most correct!

 

• Take a walk around your house – note down at least 10 items – try your best to spell them correctly. Use a dictionary or Google to check the spelling of each word and then write a definition next to each one to say what it means.

 

• Watch the Easter Story – write down the 3 most important points you took from this:

• Create an Easter card for your family. Use whatever materials you have to make this as bright and fun as possible. If you Google DIY Easter cards, they have some super ideas.
• Easter wordsearch – you can use the link below to access one or you can Google Easter word search and there are loads you can download.

https://www.dltk-holidays.com/t.asp?t=https://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/images/c-wordsearch.gif

I will also post a writing task from Miss Taylor and RME task from Mrs Lockhart very shortly.

This will be the last day I add extra activities this week, you might get some on Thursday or Friday from Mrs Wallace or Mrs Stewart. Have a lovely Easter, have fun, relax and stay safe!!!!

Mrs Hillan