Deans Primary School Blog

Good morning and I hope you are all safe and well. I hope you are working through the learning activities prepared by Mrs Fleming, Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Morrison. Are you remembering to use pencil control and no scribbles??!! I have attached some directed drawing instructions of your favourite characters from Frozen. Take your time, listen to the instructions and try your best!

 

 

Our French work for today 🙂

French Houses

Here is the maths challenge, as explained on Teams – have fun!

Maths Challenge

Good morning class!  Let’s start our day with our usual exercise.

Your second task is to understand probability.  You have two choices or you can do both the PowerPoint quiz and the coin toss activity.

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For Miss Taylor’s writing, you also have two choices.  Please take your time in creating your own mini year book.

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Lastly, we are going on virtual school trip to NASA! Woohoo!

School Trip 2020

 

Good Morning Everyone!

Hi Boys and Girls, I hope you all had lots of fun on Sports day and of course taking part in all the wonderful Wellbeing Wednesday activities. You can keep working through your new packs of home learning but for today, let’s continue with our virtual class trip to Disney.

Disney Day Two

Health and Wellbeing

Safety Rules

Look at the video of Disney Land. Can you think of any rules or things that you would need to do to keep safe at the park? Think about what you should do on rides, who you would speak to and any extra rules that you can think of.

Extension/P2: Create a safety poster to display the rules. Remember to include a key message making your poster, bright, colourful and eye-catching.

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

Learning Intention: I am learning to identify ways to keep myself safe.

Success Criteria:

• P1: I can explain ways that I can keep myself safe

P2: I can explain how to keep myself and others safe. I can display my ideas in an effective way

Numeracy

Look at the map of Disney Land. Can you find your way through the map? Can you remember why we need maps, what are some of the key features of a map?

Here are your instructions….

1 Start at the Entrance and go to Donald’s house boat.

2 Start at the log flume and go to the rollercoaster.

3 Start at the pond and go to the Frozen ride.

P2 Challenge: Can you give detailed directions on how to get from each place to the next. For example, “Turn left then go straight until you get to the pond”.

Learning Intention: I am learning to read a map and give directions.

Success Criteria:

• P1: I can use a simple map.

P2: I can give detailed directions on how to get somewhere

Writing

Watch the Monsters Inc ride clip, it is a 360 degree experience so you can drag the screen to see all around you.

Design your own monster and record yourself describing them (or you can write them down). Are they kind, scary, fluffy, angry? Can you think of any other ways to describe them? Remember these describing words are called adjectives.

Challenge/P2 – Create a story where your monster is the main character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDNUXa5sIHU

Learning Intention: I am learning to describe a character.

Success Criteria:

P1: I can create a character. I can describe the qualities of a character. 

P2: I can write a story with a main character.

Don’t forget all those important things that a good writer does… letters on the line, full stops, capital letters…oh the list goes on… remind your adult what we do in class!

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Weather

Disney Land is in Orlando in America.

Find out what the weather is like in Orlando today. Is it sunny, cloudy or windy? What is the temperature?

You can use the BBC weather website to help you find this information.

Extension: What is the weather and temperature here? Is it hotter or colder?

P2 Extension: How many degrees hotter/colder is Orlando than Livingston today?

Learning Intention: I am learning to identify and compare the weather in various places.

Success Criteria:

P1: I can identify the weather. I understand the weather is different around the world. 

P2: I can find out the temperature in various parts of the world. I can compare temperatures.

Reading

Listen to ‘Under the Sea’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWA

P1: Why does Sebastian think it is better to live under the sea? Record yourself explaining 2 reasons from the song.

P2: You could identify 2 reasons as above and then also think about why it might not be better to live on land. You could create your own short song/verse to convince Sebastian if you wish!

Learning Intention: I am learning to listen for understanding.

Success Criteria:

P1: I can listen carefully. I can recall information that I have heard.  

P2: I can recall information that I have heard. I can question what I have heard – do I agree? Is that really best?

That’s all for today boys and girls, I hope you have had fun on Day Two of our Disney Adventure. Mrs Lockhart will be posting tomorrow on the blog and I will be back here on Monday for some more Disney fun! Have a great weekend, miss you all!

Mrs Stevenson

Information for 18.06.20

Hello boys and girls, I hope everyone has had a good week. I heard there was a brilliant Deans Primary Virtual Sports Day. Well done everyone who took part.

Let’s start with some classical music. If you go to 1 hour 36 minutes there is music from the composer Mozart that I think you would like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ0NM_t5P0o#action

Art Work

I thought you might like to try this fab idea.

Bubble Painting

What you will need –

• paint
• drinking straws
• washing up liquid
• paper

First of all decide which paint colours you are going to use and put about a tablespoon of each colour in a different cup. Then add a squirt of washing up liquid to each cup and fill the cup 3/4 full with water and stir well.

Now use your straws to blow the air into your mixture to create the bubbles. Once they are ready to overflow from your cup, place a piece of paper on top and watch how it prints the bubble pattern onto it.

You can then blow back into your paint to create more bubbles and make as many pictures as you want. If they aren’t dark enough just add more paint as you go along.

If you have any bubbles at home you could even use the blowers to dip into your paint and blow some paint bubbles onto your paper.

Drama

Listen to the story of The Gruffalo

https://youtu.be/s8sUPpPc8Ws?t=1

Use your Imagination

Now I would like you to travel around your garden as different animals moving through the forest. As well as the main characters – the mouse, fox, owl and snake – there are others that appear in drawings including a frog, butterfly, beetle, woodpecker, kingfisher, dragonfly, squirrel and snail. Choose an animal and get into role.

You should decide what your animal is doing – looking for food or making a home, for example.

What would you do if you heard the Gruffalo coming. Would you lie down, stand still or hide in different parts of the woods? When the Gruffalo has gone you can check to see if the coast is clear and then carry on with your activities.

Ask someone to try and guess which animal you are.

Literacy

More about adjectives! If you want to remind yourself about adjectives have another look at the following powerpoint which shows how useful adjectives are in descriptions.

Now think about The Gruffulo. Draw the gruffalo and then write lots of appropriate adjectives all around your drawing.

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 Maths

Let’s have some Maths fun and play this cool maths game.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkphbk/articles/zf4sscw

Health & Well Being

Think back to The Gruffalo story and the owl character in particular. Complete the worksheet. You will need to put yourself in the owl’s shoes. Then think how you might have acted.

Owl thoughts

Have a lovely week-end when it comes.

Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a great time during Sports Day and Wellbeing Wednesday! Remember, you have until tomorrow to send your photos and videos to jayne.moyes@westlothian.org.uk to win some pegs for our class! I loved the ball and racket activity – what was your favourite? Here are some fun activities to go along with your packs for today!

DYW Activities

How are you all getting on with designing your theme park and organising your fashion show? I would love to see what progress you are making! Send an email with any work you have completed to wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk. I have attached the documents below again for reference.

Design a Theme Park                Organise a Fashion Show

 

 

 

 

End of the year questions

Here are 2 more questions to discuss with someone at home about your year in Primary 2.

1. Where is your favourite place in our classroom? Why is it your favourite?
2. If you could change one thing that happened this year, what would it be and why?

2 tips for the new P2s

As we are coming to the end of Primary 2, I thought it would be great if we could think of some handy tips for the new Primary 2’s! Have a think about what you might want to know when going into a new class. What advice would you give the new Primary 2 children so that they have a great year?

Writing

Miss Taylor has set you a writing task for the week. Send us a photo to wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk so we can see your fantastic work!

P1 and 2 letter layout

Numeracy 

Listen to the doubles song that we love in class! Can you sing it loud and teach everyone in your family?

Reading

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

username – deansprimary2      password – missborsbey

Can you identify the beginning, middle and end of the story?

Green group – The starfish

Purple group – The ice rink

Pink group – By the stream

Yellow group – Top dog

Blue group – Tiger’s family

Have a fantastic day everyone!