Good Morning everyone! I hope you all found Wellbeing Wednesday fantastic – I know I did! You should now have your week 6 pack of learning at home. Here are some activities to go along with your new pack.

Numeracy

As we are focusing on fractions this week, here is a fraction challenge all about numbers. Please use concrete materials around your home to help you should you need them – you could use stones, pencils, sweets or any other objects you may have! Your challenge is to find half of the numbers below:

• 2
• 4
• 6
• 8
• 10

What strategy did you use to find half of the numbers? How many groups did you have to split the numbers into to find a half? Discuss these questions with someone at home.

Art

This week, we are going to think about our heroes. A hero doesn’t always need to be someone famous or a superhero from a film, it could be someone a lot closer to you. Maybe even someone in your family! Here are some super fun art activities all about heroes!

1. Make a mask! Use any card that you can get your hands on. Cereal boxes, egg box lids, delivery packages… anything with a bit of weight works really well! Make a hole. Tie it together with string, laces, wool… and have fun decorating!
2. Arm cuffs! Leftover loo rolls make excellent superhero arm cuffs!
3. A Cape (of course!) What could you use for a cape? A towel, a pillow-case, an apron, a coat worn by the hood?
4. Superhero training! Every hero needs to practice their skills to stay on their game. Set up a DIY obstacle course in your garden or living room.
5. Talk about your heroes. You can use this opportunity to talk about the real heroes who make a difference in your world everyday … remember, not all superheroes wear capes!

Writing

Staying with the theme of heroes, this week we are going to create a character profile all about our very own superhero! Your superhero can be anyone you want them to be! Use the template below to draw your superhero first and then write 3+ sentences all about your superhero! Have a think about the following things and use them to help draw and write about your hero.

• What is their name?
• What is their power?
• What do they look like?
• Do they have any accessories (e.g. a shield or a wand)?
• What does their voice sound like?
• What is their job as a hero (e.g. to fight crime or to save animals)?

                Special Activity

Today Blair Drummond Safari Park are going live on Facebook to give everyone a talk all about tigers! Follow the link for the live talk at 12pm and see if you can make notes about any interesting facts you find out! Remember you can use bullet points when making notes!
https://facebook.com/events/s/tigers-live-at-blair-drummond-/982673665463630/?ti=icl

Reading

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

username – deansprimary2      password – missborsbey

What new things have you learned from your book?

Green group – Patterns

Purple group – Leek Hotpot

Pink group – Quiz

Yellow group – Kipper’s Diary

Blue group – Family Poems

Have fun with these activities and I will speak to you all tomorrow again!

Hello boys and girls, I hope everyone has had a good week and you are ready for Thursday’s home learning tasks. I hope you enjoyed Wellbeing Wednesday and got involved in the wellbeing slogan competition. Good luck!

I thought we might start today with a dance workout.

R.E.

For the next wee while in our religious studies we are going to look at celebrations and festivals. We are going to focus today on an important Christian celebration. We have talked about it before, it is a Christening. Watch the powerpoint to remind us.

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Now complete the Baptism/Christening worksheet. Notice in this worksheet they use the word vicar for a minister.

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Literacy

This week we are going to have another wee look at nouns. I know you have been adding adjectives into your writing work so this should be straightforward. If you want to remind yourself about them have a look at this youtube clip (it is a bit American but it’s a good reminder about nouns).

Then complete the noun worksheet below.

underline the nouns

Maths

We are continuing our work on fractions and are focusing on halves and quarters.

Complete the half worksheet by sorting the half fraction shapes from the others. Use the second sheet to check your answers.

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Now complete the second worksheet which asks you to sort halves and quarters. Use the second sheet to check your answers.

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Health & Well Being

Today we are going to look at friends and what that means.

Look at the powerpoint.

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Now complete the friendship worksheet. Choose the things you like best in a friend and glue them in the spaces. Try to make the outline look like your friend.

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Let’s finish with a story. This is another one of my favourites – Somebody loves you, Mr Hatch

Good Morning Everyone!

Good Morning boys and girls, I hope you are all ready for Thursday’s home learning tasks. Did you enjoy the tasks for Wellbeing Wednesday? Mrs Stewart would like to remind you to either send your entries for the motivational slogan to either the school email address or else you can simple tweet it @deansPrimary  with the #DreamBigAtDeans – I can’t wait to see all your fantastic efforts!!

Reading

Let’s start with a reading activity for this week’s book – ‘Leek Hotpot’ – you can access this book through oxford owls ebooks, username deans12  password mrsstevenson

Re- read the book with the help of an adult. You can choose to either, select an activity from your guided reading grid or choose the activity below…

Complete the sentences so they make sense, you can use the story book to help you. Remember to read the sentence after to check it makes sense.

1. __________ and ___________ had a cookbook.
2. We ________ cook a ___________ hotpot.
3. They ________ lots of ___________.
4. _______need a ________ pot.
5.  Then ______ put the ________ on ______ hob.

Finally, have a go at the game ‘Machine’ on ictgames.com – it will help you sounding out and identifying CVC words.

http://www.ictgames.com/machine.html

Writing     

Mrs Anderson has very kindly provided some writing tasks for you to complete, there are copies in your home learning pack, alternatively here is today’s task below.

Write 2 or 3 sentences about what you are most looking forward to when you come back to school.

Learning Intention – We are learning to write sentences that tell the reader information.

Success Criteria –

•  I can write facts about what I have been doing at home.
• I can use capital letters.
• I can use finger spaces in between words.
• I can use full stops at the end of my sentence.
• I can draw a picture to go with my sentences

Numeracy and Maths

Daily Ten

For your daily ten today, let’s finish off practising adding on ten more before moving onto ten less.

Here’s the 100 square as a support tool.

1. 25     2. 60      3. 57      4. 20      5. 11     6. 80       7. 90     8. 21      9. 53  10. 30

Ten Frame subitising 

We’ve not done this in a little while, so brush up on your subitising skills to shout out or write down how many dots are in the ten frame (without counting, if you can!). You have 3 seconds per ten frame.

Money

I have added a number of online games for you to try on Educationcity, you will find them in the Home learning section of our class area. They are….

• Recognising coins
• Splash out
• Shelling out

Looking forward to seeing all of the work (pictures) from your money challenges.  They really do make my day. Please ask an adult to email them into the school office.

wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Make sure to finish off all the money worksheets in your last home learning pack.

Ever heard the phrase ‘ Money doesn’t grow on trees’ ? …I certainly heard that a lot from my parents when I was little!!

Why not have a go at designing your own money tree. All you need is a selection of real coins, a piece of paper and some crayons or coloured pencils. Draw the blank tree outline (or have an adult help you..) and choose a selection of coins to make the leaves. Pop the coins under the paper in the place you would like the leaf to be and rub! Ta..da.. A money tree.. Here is a picture to give you some inspiration.

Don’t forget to look carefully at the coins as you are rubbing them, think about how much they are worth, their size and colour, their shape and finally you could even add up how much your money tree is worth when you are finished.. What could you buy? Is it enough for that new toy you have your eye on? Have a look online, what can you afford to buy if your money tree was real?

Enjoy!!

Story time

I have been enjoying reading some stories to Noah by the author Eric Carle, last week we all listened to the Hungry Caterpillar. This week I thought I would share with you another favourite, the story of ‘The Very Busy Spider’. So grab some milk or your water bottle and let’s pretend it’s story time in class!

I don’t know about you, but I used to be quite scared of spiders. I’ve come to realise that they are not scary at all, in fact they are extremely useful little creatures. You will see lots of webs around your garden just now. They are fascinating and must take a spider so long to build! Amazing!! Why don’t you go on a spider web hunt and see how many you can find. You could even have a go at drawing your own complicated spider’s web or finding out why spiders are so useful.

I’ve added a link below to guide you how to draw your own spider. Have fun!

Parents/Carers – Below is a link to the School Meals annual survey, it would be very much appreciated if you haven’t already filled it out to do so.  Many Thanks!

https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/890ff1b

That’s it for today boys and girls, I hope you have enjoyed all of your home learning tasks. Mrs Lockhart will be adding some tasks on here tomorrow for you to complete! Have a great weekend and hopefully the sun will shine. See you Tuesday on the blog (don’t forget Monday is a Holiday!)

Mrs Stevenson

Good morning all and I hope you are ready for another day of learning. I hope you managed to join in with Mrs Stewart’s Wednesday challenge, was it fun??!! Today, we are going to continue to learn about 2d shapes and their properties. Have a listen to the song and then try a design or draw a model using different 2d shapes. Have fun!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6eTDfkvPmo

Hello all!

I hope you all know how the systems work now: if not please look at some of the old “Daily Plans” or ask me on Teams. The use of Teams went really well last week, thank you. I have tidied up “Files” a bit more and, I think, made it easier to use and find things. Please let me know if you have any issues with it.

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. Ethan is now an expert at “HotPotatoes” quizzes and has already made several. I am hoping that he can lead the learning and teach some of you how he did it. Please try them and tell me what you think. 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, possibly to help teach some of the children in the lower school, and maybe set some more challenging activities for your classmates.

I have created a set of folders dedicated to Mrs Lockharts work. Go back through these, making sure you have done each one. I have added a new one.

Keep your personal projects going- you still have the folder to post them into.

Topic – The “Broons” stories. 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? Could we use telephones? What apps could we use? 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.

Here is an additional maths resource for you all:

MoneySense

https://rbs.mymoneysense.com/teachers/distance-learning/?utm_source=NSP&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=RBS6&utm_content=RBS6-109&dm_i=4C7I,TO7T,24F84E,3LEE2,1

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: https://www.french-games.net/frenchtopics

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

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

And finally “Covid Related Activities”: please read it.

Take care all of you.