May 7, 2020 – Deans Primary School Blog

P3- Friday 8th May

Happy Friday P3, hope everyone is safe and well. The weather has been lovely and I hope you have all managed to play outdoors during your daily exercise.

Today marks 75 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. Miss Taylor has posted ideas on the blog on how to celebrate this event and also a writing task for you to complete.

Science

We are going to explore food chains today. Do you know what that is and why it is important to be aware of food chains?? Talk through your ideas with a grown up. If you are not sure then hopefully the following clip will help develop your understanding:

Now I would like you to make your own food chain. Perhaps you could research food chains in the ocean and then try to make a food chain mobile. I have attached the instructions.

Practical food chain mobile

Maths

We are continuing to learn about measure and how to use our knowledge of measure in everyday life. I have attached measure challenge cards for you to try. Make ask a grown up to help you.

measure challenge cards- mild

I have found a game linked to measure on education city. Log in, click on subjects, click on maths then first with two stars and then a range of games will appear. Click on desk assessment and it’s a game about working out the differences in measuring objects, have fun!!

P.E.

Why not finish your lessons with some Go Noodle, I know you enjoy this with Mrs Hillan during PE. I have attached a link to one of your favourites, I’m sure!!

Have a lovely weekend P3 and I will check in with you next Friday.

Primary One – Friday 8th May 2020

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I hope you are well and have been enjoying the beautiful warm sunny weather.

Activity 1 – Edinburgh Zoo – live webcam

I hope you enjoyed the WWF challenge (to make a habitat) and look forward to seeing pictures of your completed models. I thought today it might be good to drop into see how the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo are getting on without any visitors. As you know Zoos are closed at the moment but there is a live webcam set up so you can watch them from your home. I have been watching them and they are just amazing! Click on the link below

https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/penguin-cam/

Activity 2 – Arts and Crafts CRAFT CUP, CLIP ART | Art clipart, Crafts

L.I. to use a range of media creatively

S.C. I can use my tearing skills to create the owls feathers

If we were at school we would be looking at forests and woodland creatures and I know one creature that we all would like to find out more about would be owls. So lets begin by making one.

Firstly draw an owl shape (see in the picture)

Then tear different colours of paper and stick them onto your owl shape. Cut out yellow eyes, break and feet. Stick them on and cut round the owl shape. Easy! Enjoy

Activity 3- Topic

L.I. to search for information

S.C.I can record 3 interesting facts about owls

Try to find out 3 interesting facts about owls and record your findings on a fact file. If you have any books at home they may be useful or ask an adult to help you search online. One fact that I found out was that Owls ears are unlike our ears. They are located at the side of their heads but one ear is higher than the other. I have made one that you can copy into your jotter, or make your own.

Have a fantastic weekend, keep safe! More activities on Monday.

Primary 2 – Friday 8th May 2020

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Happy Friday! Here are some fun activities to finish off the week!

VE Day

Victory in Europe Day is a day to give thanks and remember those people that fought in wars so we could have the freedom we experience today. This day is celebrated as it is the day that Germany surrendered during World War II. Watch the video below for some more information.

During the video, the lady talks about medals that soldiers were presented with after the war. Your task today is to create your very own medal! I have attached photos of real medals for inspiration, as well as a template for you to copy or print to design your medal. Think about what your medal could be for and remember to make the ribbon nice and colourful! Maybe you could create a unique pattern on your ribbon!

Spelling

Follow the link for your group which will take you to your phonics video for your sound this week. Can you spot any of your spelling words?

Green, Purple & Pink

Yellow

Blue

Numeracy

This week we have been practising 10 more and 10 less. Today, we are going to practise 5 more and 5 less. Have a go at the questions below and see if you can find the most efficient strategy. I have provided a 100 square if you need it to help you.

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Find 5 more than:

Find 5 less than:

Reflections

As it’s Friday, let’s reflect on our short week of learning! I have attached the weekly reflection template for you to copy into your jotter.

Reading

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/?selLanguage=en&mode=hub.

username – deansprimary2 password – missborsbey

Can you find any of your spelling words or tricky words?

Green group – Number poems

Purple group – Chicken Licken

Pink group – Diggers

Yellow group – Family Poems

Blue group – Clothes for Rain

Have a great weekend everyone and I’ll speak to you all again on Monday!

P5/6 Friday 8th May

Fun Friday!

I am going to copy each day’s “Daily Plan” ( I have changed the name from “Read Me First”) document from Team’s “Files” into the blog as some of you have been having difficulties accessing it. I hope this helps. However it seems as though I can not put in some materials into the blog that I can into Teams. I don’t think that your issues have been about accessing Teams, more about downloading stuff????

Spelling activity: choose a list of Fry’s words that is appropriate for yourself. Create a Word document with a table of 2 columns and 25 rows. Write your chosen 25 words in the first column. Using a dictionary, on-line or book, put a definition of the word in the second column next to it. I have created an example to support you if you are not sure how to do this. I have created a dedicated folder in “Files” for this work. Please include your name as part of the file name to differentiate it from the others. Thomas and Ethan thank you for the work you have done. Please try to do another set of more challenging words. I have also created the first in a series of “HotPotatoes” activities, generated from the spelling work Thomas had produced. Please try it and tell me what you think. I am going to try to put together another activity, using a different part of “HotPotatoes” and will use the list Ethan generated. If you would like to experiment with making your own “HotPotatoes” quizzes here is a link https://hotpot.uvic.ca/. I will be using it more in the future, and will give a “teach” on how to use it.

The use of Teams went really well this week, thank you. I have tidied up “Files” and, I think, made it easier to use and find things. Please let me know if you have any issues with it.

Keep your personal projects going- you still have the folder to post them into – please check out the work Thomas, Ethan and Zoey have already put in there.

Topic – Read Ethan’s “Broons” story and Thomas’s “Oor Wullie” and “Broons” stories. Challenge: can you do better? Think about interesting ways to present these stories. Please post any ideas you have so we can discuss them. What about making a film? I have created a dedicated folder for this work in “Files” as well.

Continue to focus on money in maths first and then move onto measure. This will help progress your work on decimals to 3 places.

	TJay 1b	TJay 2a	TJay 2b
Money	Chapter 7	Chapter 8	Chapter 7
Measure	Chapter 15	Chapter 13a	Chapter 13

Use the book that is most relevant to you – like “chili questions”. Do it like we do in class – don’t feel the need to do every question, just do enough to show yourself that you have understood. Check your answers in the back as you need. And Please contact me for support when you need to.

Education City: You all appear to still have quite a lot of unfinished activities so I will wait until I publish some more.

Logan S suggested growing your own vegetables as a health project. Ethan has also now started growing strawberries. Anyone else?

Keep your daily diary going, recording what you are doing, what exercise you do, what you eat and how you feel.

Continue to practise your French using the resources from the link below: https://powerlanguage.courses/forfamilies/french/

Don’t forget to do the day’s activities on BBC “Bitesize”.

And exercise with Joe (or his girlfriend!?) https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/bp-joe-wicks-workout

Take care all of you.

P5 Friday 8th May

Good Morning!

Let’s get energized. Choose the Joe Wicks workout : https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 or any other work-out you want to do.

Smart Start-Quiet Reading -You could read outside in the shade if it is warm enough! Chat back on about 9:55.

Science – The Natural World – Forests

Watch this video that explains how amazing forests are https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/love-nature/forests?dm_i=38LF,118RN,3D1I49,3XV9F,1#making

Learning Activity-Choose

1.Create a forest habitat-Into the forest egg box habitat

2.If you don’t have the materials to make the diorama you could draw a forest scene.

3.Try one of the following quizzes from this page: https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/quizzes

4.Complete this worksheet(some is based on the video you watched):Forests_Worksheet

5. Create some art work outside using natural materials. Take a photo!

Plenary – watch this film – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjpiSzGYC-I&feature=youtu.be to hear from
Christiane Dorion about her job as a children’s author and why she was inspired to write about the natural world.

After Break

11am one minute silence to remember those that suffered in WW2.

Topic-WW2-V.E.Day

Meet a veteran(Ian) – watch this video- http://learning.poppyscotland.org.uk/veday75/vv-ianforsyth/

Then answer the questions about him-Questions about Ian you might want to have a look at the questions before you watch the video . When you are ready mark your answers:Answers about Ian

If you are interested in listening to more veterans you can find out about Mary: http://learning.poppyscotland.org.uk/veday75/vv-marysim/ or Charles http://learning.poppyscotland.org.uk/veday75/vv-charleshorne/

Before you go:Something for the week-end. This is a link to KIDS LAB – science experiments in the home. https://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/kids-lab

Also if you enjoyed learning about forests here is a clip with more BRILLIANT information about forests and FANTASTIC images (it is 50 minutes long.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um2Q9aUecy0