Day: May 11, 2020

Good Morning Everyone!

 

Good morning boys and girls, Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone is safe and well and ready for today’s home learning tasks. Let’s jump right in….

Have you all been working out with Joe Wicks in the morning? Here is a link to join in if you wish to get your body moving first. Here is the link to yesterday’s workout, you can follow the link to tune in and go live at 9 am.

Reading

Yesterday I introduced you to the book ‘Leek Hotpot’ on oxford Owls ebooks. Log in again and have another read with an adult.

Jumbled up sentences

Here are some jumbled sentences from the story. Can you put them back into the correct order so that the sentences make sense? Remember the capital letter will go first and the full stop at the end. Read over your sentence when you have finished to check you have got it right. You can use the ebook to help you.

1. leeks. They a of lot had 
2. chicken pot. Dad in put the the 
3. Mum been had shop. the to
4. lid Dad hot the off pot. took the

Finally, I found a fun game online to help you with reading and spelling of tricky words. Check out ‘Spooky Spelling’, how many can you get correct? Don’t forget to keep practising all the sounds and words already in your word tubs/ on your word wall from the last home learning pack.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html

Phonics – /sh/ 

How many /sh/ words can you find in the picture below? Find the different picture and have a go at sounding out the word and writing them down. Is the /sh/ sound at the start of the word or the end?

Handwriting the /sh/ join

Let’s have a go at writing the sound by joining both the letters together. Do you remember all the success criteria’s relating to handwriting? Can you share them with an adult, what do we have to do to be successful?

• Use a sharp pencil
• Rest your letters on the line
• Make sure the letters are the right size
• Don’t lift your pencil off until you have finished
• Take your time and keep trying

You could even self assess your work when you have finished, green for growth and tickled pink. 

I have added the game ‘Ship Shape‘ into the Home learning section of our educationcity class area. Good luck, I look forward to seeing all your super scores!

Numeracy and Maths

Daily Ten

Here are your daily ten questions for today. Remember we are focusing on adding on ten to say ten more. Do you remember the trick? It’s really easy, especially if you have a 100 square to help you.

1. 53        2. 71       3. 60      4. 55     5. 10      6. 90     7. 33     8. 28     9. 14        10. 66

Good luck.

Money

As we are reaching the end of our introduction to money topic, I have found this fun video online to recap some of the coins to 10p. I am looking forward to hearing how everyone has got on with all the little money challenges I have set for you over the last few weeks. You can email any pictures or work to our school email address.

wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk

https://youtu.be/XfL4qF1_AkY

Health and Wellbeing

We are going to be exploring our relationships. starting off with our own families. Everyone’s family is different and there are lots of different types of family. Today I would like you to think about your own family. Here are some key questions to consider.

Who is in my family?

What do each of these people mean to me?

Think of one special thing about each of the member/s of your family?  -(what do they do for you that makes them special, makes you appreciate them?)

Use the template (or make your own) to draw all the people in your family. Remember, families come in all different shapes and sizes, people who are in your family might not live in the same house as you and that’s ok!

My Family

Can you complete the sentence.

My family is special because……

 

Good luck with all of today’s tasks, I hope you enjoy them. I will be back on Thursday with lots of different learning ideas, Mrs Stewart and Mrs Wallace will be posting some ‘Wellbeing Wednesday‘ tasks for you.

Mrs Stevenson

 

Good Morning!! I hope you are all safe and well and enjoying spending time with your family. Today, we are going to learn about what qualities make  a good friend? During group time, we talk a lot about being kind to one another, how ‘sharing is caring’ and how our actions might affect other people. I have attached an activity which shows children displaying friendly and unfriendly actions. Talk through the pictures with your grown up and then you could draw pictures of the different ways we can be kind to one another.

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I have added a clip of one of our favourite songs, ‘Who wants a friend like Snorty Bull’ Sing- a long at home!!

 

Good Morning everyone! I hope you are all safe and well! Here are some learning activities today to go along with your packs. Remember your new packs can be collected from school tomorrow! I have added some new games to Education City to include some of the new things we have been learning. Go and check them out!

Spelling

Please follow the link for your group which will take you to spelling games for your words this week.

Green group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=18217

Purple group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=18218

Pink group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=1821a

Yellow group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=1821d

Blue group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=18223

Tricky words – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=18225

Numeracy

This week, we are learning all about fractions. Your new pack for week 6 has lots of learning activities all around fractions for you to complete. A fraction is an equal part of a whole. When we speak about fractions, we sometimes speak about halves and quarters.

Watch the song to learn more about fractions:

Can you copy the following shapes into your jotter and then draw a line to cut them in half?

Science

Here is another super fun science experiment for the week! Remember to complete the experiment with an adult and send us some pictures to wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk!

Reading

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

username – deansprimary2      password – missborsbey

Can you use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you are not sure of?

Green group – Patterns

Purple group – Leek Hotpot

Pink group – Quiz

Yellow group – Kipper’s Diary

Blue group – Family Poems

Below is a link to a survey all about school meals. We would appreciate if you could take a few minutes to complete the survey. Thank you in advance! https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/890ff1b

I hope you all enjoy Wellbeing Wednesday tomorrow! Please remember you can collect your new packs of learning from school tomorrow. I will speak to you on Thursday again!

Hello all!

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? I don’t think I am going to show this part of the message after this week.

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 also 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, Ethan and Gemma had produced. Please try it and tell me what you think. Some of you have already tried to experiment with making your own “HotPotatoes” quizzes. Here is a link https://hotpot.uvic.ca/ to where you can download the program and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3pMWXqeqdo is a tutorial on how to use one of the applications in it. I think we could also use it for maths.

I fear I have been neglecting Mrs Lockharts work! As Thomas has already spotted I have created a set of folders dedicated to her work. Go back through these, making sure you have done each one.

The use of Teams went really well last 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? Do you have Windows Media Player on your computer? If not please try to download and install it. Is there any other way we could film it? I have created a dedicated folder for this work in “Files” as well.

Has anyone finished their work on measure yet? If not, finish money first and then move onto measure. I think all 4 parts of TJay 2a Chapter 13 (a,b,c and d) are useful. This will help support 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,b,c and d	Chapter 13

P6s, please think of a class novel for P7 and let me know.

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 is growing 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/

For those of you that have finished the above French resource here is another one for you

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.

 

Joe Wicks exercise

Linking decimals, percentage and fractions LI and instruction

Break

 

reading 1 reading 1

respecting_differing_opinions

 

Lunch

LI and instruction Viking Gods

 

Good Morning everyone!

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend and you’re ready for another week of learning! Remember to check your packs for which activities you can do this week.

 

Literacy – Listen to the traditional story ‘ Jack and the Beanstalk’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/english-ks1-jack-and-the-beanstalk-episode-1/zjfwkmn

Find a set of instructions for planting a seed or a bean – try Google or this link – https://www.science-sparks.com/bean-in-a-jar/.

Read the instructions out aloud and then write them out (perhaps in your own words!).

Can you then follow the instructions and plant a seed? Remember to keep watering it! If you don’t have a seed you could maybe try a clipping from another plant you have in your garden – ask permission first of course!

 

Numeracy

Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. This game could support this – http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/BalloonPopSkip.htm

(Remember to allow adobe flash player if it doesn’t work first time, any issues you can always try to find another game online to help)

• Look in different rooms in your house and go on a number hunt. How many items can you find that have numbers on them? What is the largest number you can find (maybe something like a barcode?)? What is the smallest number you can find? Note these down.

 

IDL

Find out what the flag of Saint Patrick looks like and look at how the union flag altered when the flag of Saint Patrick was added.  Write this information down in your own words as best you can.

You could then use what you have at home to recreate the Saint Patrick Flag in whichever way you like. If you can, take a photo of what you create!

 

Enjoy your Monday everyone!

Mrs Hillan

Good Morning Everyone!

I hope everyone had a great weekend and you are bright and ready for another week of home learning. There will be new packs issued this week so don’t worry if you are running out of activity sheets.

Why not start the week off with a Fischy Music assembly. Below is the link for last week (week 7) if you follow the link it will take you to week 8.

I hope you enjoyed that, sometimes singing is a great way to lift your mood if you are feeling a little blue or sluggish.

Reading

Visit Oxford Owls ebooks to access the new book for this week.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page

The username and password  – deans12  mrsstevenson

With the help of an adult read the story ‘Leek Hotpot‘. Before you start, can you make a prediction as to what you think might happen in the story?  This story should help us revise the sound ‘ee‘, how many times can you spot it in the story?

You will need to use your ‘decoding‘ skills to tackle any tricky words you come across. To be successful at this remember to,

• Look at the first sound
• Chunk up the word -(is there a word within the word?)
• Use the pictures for clues
• Read around the word (miss it out, can you think of a word which might fit in and make sense?)

Once you have read the story you can have a go at both of the accompanying activities one and two, focusing on reading ee words and matching them with their rhyming partner and secondly listening for sounds within the words.

Good luck and remember you can choose an activity from the guided reading Home learning grid also.

Guided Reading homelearning grid

Have a go at this online game to help with reading and writing CVC words.

Visit Topmarks.co.uk – ‘slides’ – Here you have to choose the last letter to complete the CVC word.

I have added a new game on the Home Learning section of our Educationcity class area, it’s called ‘Snug as a Bug in a Tub’ – it focuses on using the middle ‘u’ sound to complete CVC words.. have a go, can’t wait to see your scores!

Phonics

New sound /sh/ this is a green sound formed by using the flat middle section of your tongue! Have a look at your mouth in the mirror whilst you make this sound.  Think about what your tongue is doing. Is it a loud or quiet sound? shhhhhhhhhh… it’s a quiet sound and stretchy sound (like our snake).

Can you think of any words which contain the /sh/ sound? Write down as many as you can think of, even look around your house for inspiration.  Here is our trusty friend Geraldine to help us out if we are stuck thinking of some /sh/ words.

Here is a list of /sh/ words.

Ask an adult to read them out to you and have a go at writing them down.

Sh -e -d           sh -ee- p        sh- o- p       sh – i -p

f -i- sh             c -a- sh          d -i -sh        m -a -sh

If you don’t get them first time, keep practising, use the spelling grid in your home learning pack to give you some different practise ideas. For example, rainbow writing,  pavement chalk writing…there are an endless amount of ideas.  I’ve added a copy of the grid below for convenience.

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Finally have a go at writing your own silly sentence containing as many /sh/ words as you can think of! The sillier the better! If you can’t think of one, here is mine. Have an adult read it to you and you can copy it down. Don’t forget to listen carefully and sound out all the words and of course don’t forget the capital letter, full stop and finger spaces.

The sheep had a dish from the fish shop. 

 

Numeracy and Maths

Daily 10

Let’s continue with working on adding on ten. To warm up, here is a clip from Miss Swanson’s favourite you-tuber, Jack Hartmann. You can join in once you are feeling confident.

Here are your questions for today. I have added the 100 square below to help you out if you need it.

1. 20        2. 67     3. 10    4. 25    5. 61       6. 90     7. 23     8. 50       9. 30      10. 74

Money

Today I thought we could have a making a ‘money animal’. Ask an adult to lend you any loose change they have and you can fix them into the shape of your desired animal. I really like the giraffe.

This is a great activity for getting you used to handling different coins, thinking about their size, shape, colour and of course how much they are worth! If you fancy a challenge can you add up how much your animal is? I wonder who can make the most expensive animal and I wonder who can make the least expensive animal?

Please email any pictures of you coin animals, I’d love to see them.

Music 

I thought I would remind you all of this song from last term when we were talking about ‘Build up’s’, have you built anyone up lately? Have a think about what it means to build someone up and to tear someone down.  Try and give at least one build up to someone in you household today!

Have a great day boys and girls, enjoy all your tasks and I will see you tomorrow back here for some more home learning.

Don’t forget to visit Sum Dog and Education City for lots of games added into our class areas.

Mrs Stevenson