June 1, 2020 – Deans Primary School Blog

Primary One – Tuesday 2nd June 2020

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you all had a great day yesterday!

Happy Tuesday

You will soon be receiving a new Home Learning Pack so, try to finish off as much as you can from Week 6, 7 and 8 . Some new tasks for you to complete today.

Activity 1 – Phonics Images, Stock Photos & Vectors | Shutterstock wh sound

L.I. to understand that 2 letters can make 1 sound

S.C. I can say the sound to match the letter shape

S.C. I can blend this sound with other sounds to read words

S.C. I can write this sound

Yesterday I introduced you to the wh sound. Today I would like you to complete 2

activities from your Home Learning Pack – wh Words Cut and Paste and also Code Breaker wh and th. Below is a clip from Youtube hopefully you will find it helpful.

I would also like you to try playing the “I See Words” game from Educationcity. It will help you to practice recognising some of the tricky words we have learned so far. Remember your Educationcity password is in your jotter. Just login, go to subjects, literacy, then early** and lastly scroll down to “I See Words” Enjoy!

Activity 2 – Classroom Clipart, Multicultural Kids Reading Clipart, AMB-2305 | TpT Reading

L.I. to read words and sentences

L.I. to find information in a text

S.C. I can use the pictures in a text as a clue to help me recognise unfamiliar words

S.C. I can use words that I know in a sentences to help me predict what an unfamiliar word could be

I hope you enjoyed reading and sharing your non-fiction book from Oxford Owl.

Today I would like you to answer the questions below. Remember to use part of the question to form your answer.

Why do the animals in the book have big eyes?
What does a fox like to hunt?
Why do some bugs light up at night?
At dusk what can you often see?
What animal shape can some of the stars make?
Challenge Question – What do you think the message of this story was?

Activity 3 – Writing

L.I. to write an imaginative story

S.C. I can give my story a suitable title

S.C. I can describe what happens in my story

S.C. I can use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces

S.C. I can write at least 2 sentences

S.C. I can draw a picture to go with my story

S.C. I can self assess my writing by reading it to someone

For this writing activity I would like you to firstly go to your home learning pack, writing activities , task for week three. There is a picture of a little girl reaching up to open a magic door. Have a look at the picture and think about why she was there? what was she looking for? how was she feeling? You have a story starter There was a loud bang and to my surprise a door appeared on the garden wall……… You can copy the story starter into your jotter and then continue by describing what happened when she pushed the door opened! I would love to see how you continue the story so please send copies to me via the school email. Enjoy!

Activity 4 – Numeracy Stock Illustrations – 660 Numeracy Stock Illustrations ... Number Talks

L.I. to find a total without having to count each object

L.I. to make 10

S.C. I can show the steps I took to solve a problem

S.C. I can explain why I did it the way I did

S.C. I can check my answers and make sure they are correct

Remember Number Talks are all about how you solve a task mentally. For these activities don’t use anything to help you, just use your brain!

How many dots do you see and how do you see them?

Below – How many dots do you see? how many more to make 10?

Activity 5 – Free Subtract Cliparts, Download Free Clip Art, Free Clip Art on ... Subtraction

L.I. to subtract a 1 digit number within 10

S.C. I can solve a 1 step subtraction problem using concrete materials or pictorial representations

Today I would like you to complete 2 pieces of work from your Home Learning Pack. Turn to Subtracting from 3, 4 and 5 Home Activity 12 and Subtraction Word Problems Home Activity 13. Top Tip – Remember you can cross off the animals you are taking away to stop you counting them twice. You may need someone to help you read the word problems. Enjoy!

Activity 6 – Art and Design

L.I. to use a range of media creatively

S.C. I can use stones, paint and chalk to make painted rock houses

I have noticed when I have been out on my walks little painted houses that have been made by children. I think they look beautiful and make people smile!

Why not have a go and creating your own stone painted house. Some instructions below (might be a good idea to start with an interesting stone shape) Enjoy!

Tomorrow is “Wellness Wednesday” so Mrs Stewart and Mrs Wallace will be posting fun activities for you to try. I will be back on Thursday with more tasks for you. Have a great day!

Deans Den- Tuesday 2nd June

Hope you are all well and ready for another week of fun learning!! Ask your grown up to collect your learning packs from school later this week and you should find a Deans Dens booklet as well!!

We are now in June and officially it’s summer time!! I hope the sun continues to shine!! Thinking about nature, I wonder what we can expect to see in Scotland during this time of year. Ask a grown up to read the powerpoint I have attached and maybe the next time you go on a walk, have a look around and see the wonderful nature that surrounds you!

cfe-s-1432-scotlands-wild-june-powerpoint_ver_6

P5 Tuesday 2nd June

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 have learnt.Extension – If you finish check out the rest of the Newsround website or catch up with any other work you need to finish.Chat will go back on about 9:55 to discuss learning.

Numeracy-Money-Choose some of the following activities:

Design a board game involving money. Use your imagination. Try and include some problem solving questions.

Ask a parent if you are allowed to look at a shopping receipt and highlight any items on it that cost less than £1.

List the ways you can keep money safe. What is the safest? Why?

Research breakfast cereals on online shopping sites. Compare the costs of different packets. Which is the best value for money and why?

Research bikes.Find the cost of three different ones. Look at the range of costs, choosing an expensive, a medium –priced and a cheap bike. Which would you buy and why?

After Break

Firstly choose one of the two activities from below to complete for about 30 minutes.

Finish any unfinished work.

2.Storytime – Listen to David Walliams . The link is live at 11am.Why not lie back and rest your eyes when you listen? – choose which chapters you want to read. https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses-catch-up/

Then – Literacy-Spelling-LI to spell words with common endings (ough)

Look at this ough – different sounds then choose some of the following activities:

Using a dictionary go on a word hunt and find as many words that end with ough as you can e.g. although. Then write an interesting sentence with each word in it.

2. ough crossword

3.missing words and sorting activity

Extensions-if you have time you could :

Go to Sumdog spellings, continue to practise the words from last week’s spelling list or write ough words in chalk outside.

If you want to compare your ough words with some examples look at this when you have finished:answers – some examples

After Lunch

Missing drama? Join in with this video https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/latest/connect-and-create

Health – resilience alphabet –G is for gratitude

Personal Project (about 30 minutes)

Continue with your research and make notes in your own words, in your jotter. You can use reference books, for example, encyclopedias and atlases, the internet, newspapers and magazines or personal interviews.

Science Practical Activities If you have the equipment and/or maybe someone to help you choose one of the following activities.(Or save them for a rainy day.)

Inertial Eggs (ask before you borrow any eggs)

Floating Paper Clip (simple equipment needed )

Before you go if you enjoyed the TEDED science videos why not try this one-Why does everyone hate pigeons? https://ed.ted.com/best_of_web/QRnJqzQu?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&mc_cid=b5245a7945&mc_eid=5754ba87ba

Primary 2 – Tuesday 2nd June 2020

Good morning everyone! Here are some fun learning activities for the day! Remember, you can collect your new packs of work from school tomorrow.

Spelling

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=20c9e

Purple group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20ca1

Pink group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20ca3

Yellow group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20ca6

Blue group – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20ca9

Tricky words – https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20cab

Numeracy

Today, we are going to practise giving change. We need to give change when we pay too much for an item. For example, if an item costs 60p and we give the shop keeper £1, we should get 40p change. Think about your number bonds when working out the problems! Try each of the questions below and use the hundred square to help you if you need it.

Science

Here is this week’s science experiment! Remember to carry out the experiment safely and with the help of an adult. Send us some pictures of you completing the experiment to wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk.

Special Activity

Today’s special activity is to make a set of binoculars! Look through your binoculars and see what you can see!

You will need:

2 cardboard tubes (toilet roll tubes would be perfect)
Paint
A paintbrush
Masking tape
Materials for decoration

Method:

Paint both of your cardboard tubes any colour that you like.
Once dry, use masking tape to tape your tubes together.
Use any extra materials to decorate your binoculars.
Peer through your binoculars and see what you can see!

Reading

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

username – deansprimary2 password – missborsbey

Can you find any verbs in your book?

Green group – The ice rink

Purple group – Silver foil rocket

Pink group – The ox and the yak

Yellow group – The dragon balloon

Blue group – The big carrot

Have a great day everyone and enjoy the sunshine! Remember, tomorrow is Wellbeing Wednesday and you can collect your new packs of learning from school. I’ll be back on Thursday!

P5/6 Tuesday 2nd June

When using Teams please try not to click on “Start a new conversation” each time. Please click on “Reply”, as it makes things in there much easier to find. Thanks

Maths: 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. If you have finished these you could do TJay 2a revision work on decimals: Chapters 5 and 7

	TJay 1b	TJay 2a	TJay 2b
Money	Chapter 7	Chapter 8	Chapter 7
Measure	Chapter 15	Chapter 13a,b,c and d	Chapter 13

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. 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. Some of you have successfully published your own – well done! If you haven’t tried these yet, please do, as they can be a fun way to learn.

Spanish / Art activity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlpET4GWzus&feature=youtu.be

I also don’t think anyone has finished “Education City”.

Have you done all of Mrs Lockharts work?

I have reduced the amount of work that I am posting: I am trying to make it more focused. Please let me know any thoughts.

Take care!

P6/7 1st June 2020

Let’s exercise!

P6 reading_ COUNTING

P7_ reading_ DIARY FROM THE BEAGLE

Break

Money_addItion_subtraction_budgeting_calculating salary and wages

Mindfulness Countdown

Lunch

#Lesson Presentation How We See

Activity Sheet Light Learning Lab

Primary 3 – Monday 1st June

Good morning Primary 3! Hope you are all well and had a fun weekend. I can’t believe that is us now in June already!! Remember to look at what you have in your packs to complete. Below are some other tasks you could try too.

Numeracy

We are going to continue to look at Doubling Numbers today. Have a look at these videos, see if you can work along with the lady in the first video and try some of your own examples too using the techniques she uses:

Pick your own numbers to partition like the examples in the second clip:

Literacy

Continue to read as often as you can! Remember you can access books like the Oxford Reading Tree ones from: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

If you click the Pink icon at the top right that says ‘My Class Login’ and enter Primary 3 Deans as the username and Mrs Hillan as the password then you can access these if you haven’t set up your own account.

Spelling – You have a list of spelling words included in your pack – remember to practise these regularly and use the spelling task cards to help! You can find the cards here if you have misplaced yours – http://www.blessedbeyondadoubt.com/spell-cards-printable/ – any problems accessing these email the school and I will help!

You could also try these games to help you learn and spell new tricky words:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/words-and-spelling

Write a ‘thank you’ letter to the people who collect your rubbish and recycling.

-What could you include in your letter? Can you think of any questions you could ask about recycling or where the rubbish goes? Perhaps you could leave this letter for them the next time they collect your bins – remember to tell them what a good job they are doing and thank them for all their hard work during this difficult time.

Health

Let’s continue our healthy eating work.

Complete the Healthy Eating I Spy sheet by circling all the healthy foods.
Then complete your ideal healthy lunch box using the worksheet provided.
Finally you could set up a healthy eating challenge – lay out a selection of small portions of healthy foods for people in your family to taste (make sure they cover their eyes) and see which ones they guess correctly.

I spy – week beg 1st June

Healthy Eating Lunch Activity – week beg 1st June

IDL

Look at some images of Scotland such as the Grampian Mountains, Loch Ness, thistles etc. Symbols such as thistles are used to represent countries. Find out about different animal species found in Scotland – draw some of these giving some information on each below or around them.

Research the mysterious Loch Ness Monster and write a newspaper report after a ‘sighting’.

Have a lovely day and enjoy the sunshine! Remember to wear sun cream!!!!

Mrs Hillan