Deans Primary School Blog

Good morning everyone! Here are some fun learning activities to go along with your packs!

Spelling

You will find the spelling words for your group in your learning grids which are in your packs. Here is a reminder of your sounds this week and some games you can play for each sound.

Green – ‘a-e’

https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20cb1

https://go.educationcity.com/content/index/33484/3/1/1

https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-lv-a/jakes-tale/?mg=m

Purple – ‘a-e’

https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20cb5

https://go.educationcity.com/content/index/33484/3/1/1

https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-lv-a/jakes-tale/?mg=m

Pink – ‘a-e’

https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20cb6

https://go.educationcity.com/content/index/33484/3/1/1

https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-lv-a/jakes-tale/?mg=m

Yellow – ‘i-e’

https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20cb7

https://go.educationcity.com/content/index/33512/3/1/1

Blue – ‘cl’

https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20cb8

https://go.educationcity.com/content/index/23/3/1/1

Numeracy

Here are some more word problems for today. Remember to use objects around your home if you need them!

1. Julia bought 10 oranges from the shop but dropped 7. How many oranges does Julia still have in her hands?
2. Mike went to a charity shop and bought 5 tops and 12 hats. How many items did he buy altogether?
3. Harry has 7 books. Fiona has double the number of books that Harry has. How many books does Fiona have?
4. A group of 10 friends would like to go to the beach. Each car can hold 5 people. How many cars are needed to go to the beach?
5. There are 24 children in the class. Half of the children are girls. How many girls are there in the class?

Have a go at playing these games!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

https://www.mathplayground.com/superhero_subtraction.html

Science

Here is this week’s science experiment! Remember to carry out the experiment safely with the help of an adult. Follow the link to take you to instructions which teach you how to make slime!

https://www.thirtyhandmadedays.com/fluffy-slime-recipe/

BINGO

Use the grid below to play a game of Wildlife BINGO! Whilst out a walk with your family or from your garden, see how many of the boxes you can check off. Once you have checked them all, shout out BINGO!

Reading

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

username – deansprimary2      password – missborsbey

Can you find any rhyming words in your book?

Green group – The snowman

Purple group – The birthday cake

Pink group – The toy’s party

Yellow group – Tiger’s family

Blue group – The dragon balloon

Remember tomorrow is Wellbeing Wednesday! Have fun participating in the different activities!

Good Morning!! I hope you are all safe and well. Yesterday was World Ocean Day, so I thought we could look at the different ways we could look after the ocean and the many creatures who live there. Ask a grown up to show you the powerpoint about ways of looking after the ocean and then maybe you could draw a detailed picture of you and your family helping to save the Ocean!!

What Can You See World Oceans Day PowerPoint

I have attached a craft activity which you might like to try, Mrs Morrison is going to try this at home!! Enjoy and I will check in with you all on Thursday.

Plastic Bottle LED Tea Light Candle Holder Craft Instructions

 

Black lives matter picture news

break

Algebra_ function machine

alliteration-free-worksheets

lunch

t2-t-1532-lks2-bbc-teach-live-lesson-blue-planet-powerpoint_ver_3

Plastic Amnesty Poster Template

Recycled Plastic Sculpture Design Sheet

 

Good Morning Everyone! 

Good Morning Boys and Girls, I hope that you all had a fabulous weekend, are safe, happy and healthy, and of course ready for another week of home learning tasks. Hopefully your new packs will be ready soon, we are having a few technical issues!!

PE

Let’s start off the week by moving our bodies. I have been trying really hard to do more exercise, whether it’s walking my dogs, going on a bike ride with my little boy or even a run. It really is a great way to help lift your mood and help you feel great!

Let’s join in with Joe Wicks for half an hour of movement. Can you convince an adult to join in with you? Follow the link to his Youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Music/Singing

Let’s have a Monday Morning assembly with the Fischy Music crew, follow the link to the Youtube channel and join in. It is also known that singing out loud can help put you in a good mood, so let’s go. Maybe you will recognise some of the songs from the one’s which we practise in class.

Reading

Last week we looked at two different types of book, fiction  and  non-fiction. Today we are going to read another fiction book. Log into Oxford Owls ebooks – https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/                 username – deans12       password   mrsstevenson

We are going to have a go at reading ‘Painting the Loft’ 

Before reading, explore the front and back cover, make a prediction about what you think may happen in the story and look through the pictures of the book to discuss what is happening on each page.

With the help of an adult, read through the story remembering to using strategies to help you read any words which you find challenging. Can you remember the strategies we have used in class?

• Use the picture for a clue
• Read around the word
• Look at the individual sounds in the word
• Can you see a word in a word

As you read through the book, copy down any words which you are finding challenging. Why not make your own word wall to practise reading those tricky words?

There are 2 online games to go with this story – game one focuses on making a rhyming pair and game two focuses on labelling a picture. Good luck and have fun!

Finally,  have a go at the Educationcity game ‘Match me if you can’

Phonics

The new sound for this week is ‘wh’

wh is a red sound, we make this sound using our lips. Have a look in the mirror as you say the sound, look at your lips and what they do.

Here is Geraldine to help us.

Can you name all the wh words in the pictures below?

Have a go at spelling these words. Have an adult read them out to you. Listen carefully to the sounds you hear and draw some pictures to go with your words.

wh -ee -l         wh -i -s -k       wh-i-s-p-er     wh-i-ch    wh -e- n

whe-r-e

French

In  class we did a little bit of work on learning the colours of the rainbow in French. Have a listen to the following song, some of the colours are pronounced very similar to how we would say them in English.

Now have a go at colouring in the French rainbow colours sheet, I have attached it below also there is a copy in your last home learning packet.

french rainbow colours

Numeracy and Maths

Here are your daily ten for today. For this week, let’s have another focus on subtraction. Can you remember the strategies we can use to help us?

• Draw a picture
• Use concrete materials (cubes/rubbers/pencils)
• Use a number line
• Use our fingers

Make sure you place the symbols in the correct place if you are writing out the whole calculation. This week we are going to challenge ourselves by working with slightly larger numbers.

1.  10 – 4 =
2.  13 -1 =
3. 7 – 4 =
4. 14 -3 =
5. 20-10 =
6. 15-5 =
7. 10 -2=
8. 17 -0 =
9. 10 -5=
10. 14-14 =

Today I thought I would set you some challenge cards to use outside. I would love to see some pictures of your work.

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Good luck with all of your home learning tasks for today. I will be back on the blog tomorrow, enjoy the rest of your day.

Mrs Stevenson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning everyone! Hope you are well and had an enjoyable weekend.

Let’s start off with this today:

 

Remember to keep tuning in to Joe Wicks daily too!!!

 

Numeracy

For a Number Talk today, let’s think about what we already know for number bonds to 10 – we have number pairs that make 10 – eg 3+7, 4+6. With this in mind, see how many number pairs you can make for 20 – eg 13+7.

If you want to challenge yourself, see which pairs you can make for 30 or even 40!

Next we are going to look at Number pairs with one or two digit numbers to make the next multiple of 10 – eg 22+___ = 30. Try the task attached below:

add to next multiple of 10 – for Mon 8th June

Next try the game attached below:

Mulitple of Ten Game Instructions – For Mon 8th June

Mulitple of Ten Game Red and Blue Cards – For Mon 8th June

 

Literacy

Reading – 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.

Reading/writing:

Watch this video clip on caring for the environment, take some notes on the key points as you watch:

 

See if you can find any other interesting facts on caring for the environment that you can read.

Choose one thing you could do to help the environment in school and/or at home. Make a poster to encourage people to do it! Think about the classroom and the school as a whole as well as at home. Remember to include a catchy title/slogan, facts/information and pictures.

 

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

 

Think back to our work on SIMILIES –  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.” – for example:

As big as an elephant

As cunning as a fox

Soar like an eagle

Have eyes like a hawk

Complete the task below, which has some sentence starters for similies that you might use to compare yourself to something:

SIMILE Task – for 8th June

 

IDL

Mr Turner and I had planned to discuss the referendum on independence for Scotland and the resulting ‘No’ vote with you all, but we obviously now cannot. Someone at home might be able to help explain this, and how people in the country were asked to decide if Scotland should stay in the United Kingdom or not. Since all of this we have now had Brexit, which I’m sure you have heard something about! Have a search online or ask someone at home so you can maybe get a better understanding of this. Try to note down in your own words (or with the help of an adult), what you think BREXIT means.

Assessment: Ask someone at home to test you on all your knowledge of our Great Britain topic. If you can, write down the questions and answers.

 

Art

We have all had to spend a lot of time at home just now. Compare your house to a cottage for example. Can you make a model of your house and a cottage? Use whatever materials you have at home. There’s an example of a homemade house below:

Thank you for continuing to work hard, I miss you all very much!

Mrs Hillan

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

Health: Exercise with Joe.

HotPotatoes. If you have not tried it, please do. Look at previoues daily plans in Teams general folder for a spelling activity.

We have to do maths, literacy (language) and health every day. We can, of course, do other areas of the curriculum as well. How we do them is up to us. I think these unusual times have given us the opportunity to use some unusual teaching and learning techniques. I think Devon and Zoey have been using “TikTok” to create their photos of themselves for “Teams”. Could we do something with “TikTok”?

I would also really like to do something about masks. Please look at the “Covid Related Activities” and “Covid Related Links” in Teams general folder. I have up-dated it

Have fun, take care and hope you had a good weekend!

Good Morning Primary 2! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! You should now be moving on to your week 10 pack of work. Here are some activities to go alongside your packs!

Reading

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

username – deansprimary2      password – missborsbey

Can you find any words with the following sounds; ch, sh, th, ng, wh.

Green group – The snowman

Purple group – The birthday cake

Pink group – The toy’s party

Yellow group – Tiger’s family

Blue group – The dragon balloon

Numeracy

This week, we are going to practise word problems. Read each question carefully and then have a think about whether it is an addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problem. Use any concrete materials around your home which may help you (e.g. cutlery, stones, pencils, toys etc).

1. Jenny has 15p. Alfie has 6p more than Jenny. How much money does Alfie have?
2. Katie has 5 friends and would like to give them all 2 sweets each. How many sweets will she give out altogether?
3. There were 17 people on the bus but 8 of them got off. How many people are left on the bus?
4. 12 chickens all laid 2 eggs each. How many eggs were laid altogether?
5. The flower shop has 6 flowers that need to be split into 2 vases. How many flowers will be in each vase?

Log into Education City and play the multiplication and division games in the ‘maths games’ folder in the classwork section.

Tricky Words

This week, your tricky words are; what, may, soon, book. Can you unscramble the words below to make each tricky word?

• yma
• onos
• ahtw
• okob

Can you use materials in and around your home to make your words? Try things like sticks, chalk, leaves, rice etc.

Follow the link to find games for your trick words this week: https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=20cba

DYW

In class, we have been doing some work around Developing the Young Workforce and beginning to learn some of the skills and abilities we may need for different jobs as we grow up. Today, your challenge is to become a fashion designer!

Your mission is to organise a fashion show for the people in your household. You need to have at least 5 different outfits that everybody will need to vote on to decide on the winning outfit. Your outfits can be for sports, going to the shops, or anything appropriate, of your choice. You will then need to organise the actual show. Music, outfit changes etc. You will need to write down your plan or explain it in a video. Bonus Points for videoing your fashion show and then challenging/ nominating someone else in your house to do it too! Send us some photos and videos of your fashion show to wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk.

Special Activity

During the week, I would like you to see if you can begin to collect pebbles and make pebble letters! Maybe you can find some in your garden or when you are out a walk with your family. Follow the instructions below to make your letters. You could use these letters to make spelling words, tricky words, nonsense words or even to help you write a story!

Have a great day everyone!