Happy Tuesday, hope you are all safe and well !! As we continue to spend more time at home, I thought we would look at different ways we can show acts of kindness. Can you think how people feel when you do something nice for them? Talk through your ideas with a grown up and then have a look at the different pictures I have attached and decide which pictures are displaying acts of kindness. Have fun!!
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Hello everyone! I hope you all had a lovely long weekend. I am missing you all very much! You can now pick up your new pack of learning from school.
Literacy –
Can you read fiction, non- fiction and poems about animals? Note down any adjectives (describing words) in the books used to describe the animal – eg furry, fierce, huge.
We are going to look at SIMILES – A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things. The simile is usually in a phrase that begins with the words “as” or “like.” This is different from a metaphor, which is also a comparison but one says something is something else, for example:
As big as an elephant
As cunning as a fox
Soar like an eagle
Have eyes like a hawk
Can you find other examples of SIMILES connected to animals, either online (this link might be useful – https://examples.yourdictionary.com/simile-examples-for-kids.html), or by asking someone at home? Write these down. Then add any others that you can think of or have perhaps made up.
You then might want to try this quiz for a bit of fun!
https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks1/english/similes/
Lastly, write a set of questions about animals you would like to find out about, for example:
“What type of food does a Giraffe eat?”
Writing – Remember to do this week’s writing task set by Miss Taylor – this will be on the Blog at some point this week. It is based around a competition for SKY this week!!
Numeracy –
Play on Number Fact Families: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/addition-and-subtraction – find the addition and subtraction fact families for numbers up to 20, 50 or 100.
Keep practising your 2, 5 & 10 times tables – ask someone at home to test you regularly.
Write out each of these tables without looking at anything to help you!
Here are some Times Tables Songs you may wish to listen to just to remind you of each of the tables again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVdE5O7_qf8
French
We have been looking at numbers, days of the week and months of the year in French. Now I would like us to take a look at ‘My Family’ – ‘Ma Famille’
Try this activity where you match the family members in French to those in English:
IDL
| Look at maps of the UK and begin to identify the countries within it – all the countries we have been researching. Use the map below to correctly place Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales:
Colour in the map so it is really eye-catching – your one will be much brighter than the example below, but it was the only one I could find that didn’t include the names of the countries!!!
Can you write a brief summary of any experiences of the countries in the UK you have had. To give you an idea of what I’m looking for, in my summary I might say: ‘I have visited a number of places in England, my favourites so far being Newcastle, Cheshire and Liverpool. I got to see many exciting things in these places and I saw some famous landmarks such as The Angel of the North in Newcastle and the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool where The Beatles first played. I loved the shopping on my visits to Cheshire Oaks shopping outlets in Cheshire. I have visited Wales as a young girl and enjoyed visiting castles there. We took a family holiday to the Butlins resort in Wales too. I have an auntie who lived in the capital city of Wales, which is Cardiff. I have never been to Northern Ireland yet but I would love to visit, especially since one of my best friends – Mrs Stevenson, is from here! I would love to visit the Titanic Museum in Belfast! I have visited many parts of Scotland – our home country, over the years. I have had many shopping experiences in places like Glasgow, Stirling and Edinburgh. I have enjoyed trips to places such as The Glasgow Science Centre, Edinburgh Castle, Aberdeen Promenade and The Royal Mile. Some of my favourite places to visit in Scotland are South Queensferry, Pitlochry, Oban, Anstruther, and Loch Lomond. There are so many amazing places to visit in Scotland and I can’t wait to get back out there when Lockdown is over!!!’
Finally, Mrs Anderson has a little competition for you all:
Hope you enjoy Wellbeing Wednesday and Mrs Lockhart and Mrs Morrison will be with you on Thursday and Friday.
Mrs Hillan |
Good Morning Primary 2! I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend! You should now be moving on to your week 7 pack of work. Here are some activities to go along with your pack.
Reading
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/?selLanguage=en&mode=hub.
username – deansprimary2 password – missborsbey
Can you create a new front cover for the book?
Green group – Silver Foil Rocket
Purple group – Number Poems
Pink group – Spots!
Yellow group – Mix, Mix, Mix
Blue group – Kipper’s Diary
Numeracy
Let’s revise what we know about multiplication. Remember multiplication is another term for repeated addition. Watch the song to remind yourself of the 2 times table.
Try these questions out and then play the game below to practise multiplication.
https://go.educationcity.com/content/index/25525/4/2/1
Science
Here is another great science experiment for you to try this week. Please remember to carry out these experiments with an adult and make sure you are always being safe! Send us some photos of you doing the experiment to wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk.
Spelling
Please follow the link for your group to find spelling games for your words this week.
Green group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=1822b
Purple group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=1822f
Pink group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=18230
Yellow group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=18232
Blue group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=18237
Tricky words – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=18238
Remember tomorrow is Wellbeing Wednesday! I hope you have fun with the tasks that are posted – I will be taking part in them too! I will be back on Thursday with some more learning for you to complete.
Good Morning everybody. Let’s get energized.Choose the Joe Wicks workout: https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 or anything else you like.
Smart start –Newsround : https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround
Then write 3 sentences about what you learnt.Extension – If you finish check out the rest of the Newsround website it has some great stuff on there!
Chat will go back on about 9:55 to discuss learning.
Numeracy
LI To use historical number systems – SC I can complete calculations using Roman Numerals. Look at the Roman Numerals Powerpoint Then complete the Roman Numerals Activity Sheet (Spicy=1 star, spicier=2 stars, 3 stars= spiciest).Don’t forget to mark your work.
After Break
Storytime – Listen to David Walliams . The link is live at 11am.Why not lie back and rest your eyes when you listen?https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/
Literacy – Spelling
Continue to look at these exception words for P4 and P5 in the document. years-3-and-4-spelling-list. Continue where you left off last week. Read each one then practice the ‘Look, Cover, Write, and Check’ method. Keep going until you have another 8 words you found tricky. Just like last week choose some of the following methods in this document to practise spelling the words:useful spelling ideas. Remember you can return to this document whenever you want to practise your spelling.
French-(If you have time after spelling)
This was the site I introduced you to last week- https://www.french-games.net/frenchtopicsClick on lessons at the top and choose a different area of learning that interests you. (about 20 minutes).
After Lunch
Health –Think about two role models in your life. Why
do they inspire you? If possible share your thoughts with someone at home.
Science – STEM-Ferocious Predatory Dinosaurs
Go to this link https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-ferocious-predatory-dinosaurs-of-cretaceous-sahara-nizar-ibrahim and if you are a member work through the questions.
Brainbreak – Sit down in a silent room and focus on your
breathing for 5 minutes.
Art-Squiggle art-Watch the video first then have a go at your own squiggle art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU1UmcDfHM0
Once you have had a go at this why not try squiggle birds-watc this video first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK3yQBouzNs
Finally if there is someone at home that can draw with you this is a great game-watch the video then have a go if you have a partner-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqfpaiakdrE
If you have time try the game more than once-taking it in turns to lead the other person.
Before you go-This explains how the author Jaqueline Wilson is inspired by art https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/jacqueline-wilsons-magical-tour-tate-britain
Please do the challenges I set in Sumdog today 🙂
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Do you want to learn how to sketch a Viking? Try this tutorial.
Easy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08FVs4Cvq3o
Challenging
Fun Friday!
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.
I want us to spend some time reflecting on the learning we have done in all areas of the curriculum in P5/6. What have we done? Try to make a list in a word document with your name as part of the title (eg “Joe H Learning in P56”) and up-load it into the new folder “Learning in P56”. Try to not focus on Maths and Literacy, but all the other areas.
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.
Topic –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 everyone finished their work on money 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. Most of you seem to be working your ways well through this. It 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 |
Here is an additional maths resource for you all, which you might want to prepare for Monday:
https://thenationalschoolspartnership.com/4C7I-U1LL-E024F84E36/cr.aspx
Education City: You all appear to still have quite a lot of unfinished activities so I will wait until I publish some more.
I have created a set of folders dedicated to Mrs Lockharts work. Go back through these, making sure you have done each one.
Keep your personal projects going- you still have the folder to post them in to.
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 two more for you: https://www.french-games.net/frenchtopics and https://www.linguascope.com/secure/default.php You will need a password for the second one, which is on the document “Linguascope confirmation”.
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 and have a good weekend.
Good Morning P.1/2
I hope you are all well this Friday morning and ready for another day of learning.
Just a wee reminder from Mrs Stewart can you please send your completed Wellbeing Slogan using twitter or email.
I thought we could try another way to start our day and learn some new dance moves. Enjoy!
2D shape
Now to continue our shape work. Look at the the 2D powerpoint.
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Notice the number of sides and corners or vertices in particular.
Now complete the worksheet. You will need scissors and a glue stick for this activity.
2D Shape Properties Activity Sheet
R.E
We are going to revisit a Christian ceremony that we have talked about before. Do you remember a Christening when a baby is welcomed into the church? Look at the youtube link and see Jack the puppet visit a church again.
Now complete the Christening (or Baptism as it is sometimes called) worksheet. Put the words from the wordbank in the correct place. Use the first sound as a clue if the word is tricky to read.
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Story time
Here is a lovely story to finish up with. It is based on a very famous play by a man called William Shakespeare.
Have a lovely week end.
Good Morning Everyone! It’s Friday!
Just a wee reminder from Mrs Stewart can you please send your completed Wellbeing Slogan using twitter or email. She is very excited to see your fantastic ideas. Some tasks for you to try today.
Activity 1 – Sonshine Yoga from Mrs Anderson 
Mrs Anderson has asked me to forward this link . Enjoy!
Activity 2 – Phonics 
sh sound
L.I. to understand that 2 letters can make 1 sound
S.C. I can say the sound to match the letter
S.C. I can blend this sound with other sounds to read words
S.C. I can spell words with this sound
Complete “sh word search” from your learning pack.
Copy 2 sets of the sh words below onto pieces of paper. You can then play snap or a pairs game. Alternatively you could draw a picture and match it to one of the sh words . Enjoy!
ship shop shark shed shells sharp fish mash dish smash
Activity 3 – 
L.I. to identify patterns and number combinations
S.C. I can say how many I see and how I see them
The children have had some experience with rekenreks in the classroom. Rekenreks are an important tool to help students reason about numbers, subitise, build fluency and compute using number relationships. It’s also important to give learners an opportunity to show representations in an abstract form. An example below-
Have a go at the examples below- How many beads do you see and how do you see them? Draw the rekenrek pattern to show your thinking
Activity 4 – Math’s – Measure
L.I to measure using non-standard units
S.C. I can describe the length of an object using the language longer/shorter
I would like you to complete “tick things longer than your pencil” in your learning pack . There are a number of objects on the page and you must tick the ones that are longer than your pencil. Then carry on answer complete -draw a shorter straw and draw a longer crayon (emphasis on the language – longer/shorter)
I hope you all have a lovely weekend and remember Monday is a holiday so I will post more activities on Tuesday. Take care and stay safe!
Good Morning all and I hope you have had a good week. Did you enjoy Well- being Wednesday? I am sure you might be missing our time together in Deans Den, especially snack time. I have found a recipe on Big Cook, Little Cook where they make crispy bricks for The Three Little Pigs! They sound delicious as they are made using marshmallows. Why not ask a grown up to help you make them? Yum, Yum!! Have a super weekend and I will check in with you all next week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5XQ-cs_kU
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