I hope you are all well this Friday morning and ready for another day of learning! I thought we could try another way to start our day with this dance workout. Enjoy!
2D shape
Now to continue our shape work. Look at the powerpoint.
Either carry on what you were writing about last time or start a new piece. This AMAZING video which is less than two minutes long might give you an idea about what to write for your own LOCKDOWN story! https://vimeo.com/412262124
Chat will then go on about 10:05.
Science – If your hands could smell, you’d be an octopus!
Go to this link: https://ed.ted.com/on/hNfD82Pt
Watch the video and work through the different sections. You can choose whether or not you want to write your answers in your jotter.
Extension – google an octopus and draw one in your jotter!
(You may need to finish this learning activity after break!)
After Break
Numeracy – Online Division Games
You might want to watch this video before you try these two games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slez17loMvU
Before you go– why not leave three happy notes for someone else to find in your house?
Something for the week-end:
Stargazing
With less planes and less light pollution resulting in clearer skies, the lockdown provides a great opportunity to stargaze. It’s easy, too. All you have to do is look up at night! What can you see? The moon, planets, constellations, a shooting star? The National Trust has some great tips for stargazing.
Bird watching
Watch the birds from your garden or out of a window. Watch them fly and sing to each other. How many can you spot? Can you name the type of bird? Think about keeping a bird watching diary to keep track of the birds you’ve seen, where and when. Try not to not scare them off! Can you spot the birds on this Wildlife Watch activity sheet?
Good morning Everyone! It’s Thursday and nearly the start of a holiday weekend, don’t forget that Monday and Tuesday are holidays for you all. Here are some additional home learning ideas for you all today, remember you can use the Home learning packs too!
Reading
Access this weeks’ book (mix, mix, mix)and re-read with an adult.
Choose an activity from your guided reading grid (found in home learning pack 2) to use with the the Oxford Owls ebook ‘Mix, Mix, Mix’, which we have been focusing on this week.
Are there any words which you are finding tricky? Why not play the ‘roll, read and find’ game with an adult. There is a copy of the game in pack 1 but I will attach a copy below just in case.
So this week we have been exploring the letter w, with word hunts, handwriting practise and spelling activities. Today I would like us to do something a little more creative. Firstly, think about the letter w and all the things which start with that letter. How many can you think of? Can you make a list of them all?
Choose one to word to create a picture of or even a model of (if you are feeling ambitious!) Here are some ideas below for inspiration.
I would love to see any pictures you make so please, if you can email them into the school office, they really make my day!
wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk
I have added another game to our Home learning section of educationcity, it’s called ‘Wishing Well’.. you have to identify all the words beginning with w, easy peasy! Good luck.
Numeracy and Maths
I thought I would pop this youtube clip up for you to practise counting forwards and backwards to 100. Remember it’s Mrs Swanson’s favourite!!
Daily 10.
For today’s daily 10 I thought we could say ten more. For example if the question was 30, ten more is 40. Have a go, we have done lots of counting in tens in class so with a bit of practise writing the tens number we should get the hang of it.
Today I thought I might share a fun game to play at home to help you learn a little more about money. Hopefully some of you have set up your own little shop to play in and of course there are a number of worksheets in the home learning pack too.
For this game you will need:
A pile of loose coins of different values
A hoop/box or something to throw the coins into
This game is called Coin Toss and there are lots of learning opportunities to teach you all about money and coins in particular.
Sit back and throw coins into the hoop, as you throw them in shout out the name of the coin ‘ in goes 5p’ etc..
You can sort all the coins that made it into the hoop – by value/colour shape etc
You can talk about the size and colour of the coins and what makes them different
You could work with an adult to add up all the coins that made it into the hoop
Once you have calculated the total you could chat about what you could afford to buy with that amount
You could even go one step further and talk about things we need like food, water clothes versus things we want like sweeties and toys and how we need money to buy all of these things.
Yoga Time
During this time at home it’s important we take time to relax and do the things we enjoy doing. I know that any time we have used ‘cosmic yoga’ in the classroom we have all thoroughly enjoyed it. I have left a link below…namaste!
I hope you all have a lovely holiday weekend and I will be back here on Wednesday to share more learning ideas. Mrs Lockhart will be posting here for you tomorrow. Enjoy the well earned break.
lMorning everyone hope you are well. Usual start then read over today’s Morning Statement.
Bonjour. Today you are going to be using what you have learned this week in relation to Time, Distance and Speed. You will have to read the question carefully so you choose the correct formula to use. There are 3 choices this morning. Look at them all before you choose the task that will challenge you the most.
L.I. – to solve Time, Distance and speed problems
S.C. – I can use the correct formula accurately
I can show my working
Read over my instructions
Read over the instructions / example in the folder/blog.
I am going to copy each day’s “Read Me First” document from Team’s “Files” into this blog as some of you have been having difficulties accessing it. I hope this helps.
I am still trying to get to grips with this so please bear with me. I also want to develop some of the outcomes from Monday’s planning meeting and adjust how we are using teams.
From that meeting those of you that have had their personal projects agreed please make a plan for what you want to include and what your learning intention will be – Ethan, Gemma and Thomas I know you have already made a start on this.
Topic – great idea to do some stuff that is positive about the present situation. Someone suggested doing “Oor Wullie” in lockdown, and someone else up-levelled that by making it about a family – “The Broons”. What do you know about them? I have never read any of their stories. Thomas did some excellent research and has posted his results in “Personal Projects”: please check it out. Today continue to research “The Broons”, and start to think about the characters and how they might interact under lockdown. Create a list of the characters and write down what they are like. Describe them physically and what their personalities are like, just like you did for “Oor Wullie”. You will need to use adjectives, and if you want to challenge yourself you could also use similes and metaphors. STOP PRESS!!!! I prepare these documents during the day and up-load them in the evening. So This was made before I had read Ethan’s “Broons” story. Challenge: can you do better?
In the meeting on Monday it was agreed to focus on money in maths first and then move onto measure. This will help progress 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
Chapter 13
Use the book that is most relevant to you – like “chili questions”. Do it like we do in class – don’t feel the need to do every question, just do enough to show yourself that you have understood. Check your answers in the back as you need. And Please contact me for support when you need to.
Education City: I have published a new series of activities: “Fractions 2”. Please try it.
I have not forgotten about the other spelling activity, but it proved to be more difficult to put together than I had thought. Meanwhile continue to practise your Fry’s words.
Remember Logan S suggested growing your own vegetables as a health project. What do you think?
Keep your daily diary going, recording what you are doing, what exercise you do, what you eat and how you feel.
Submitting homework – Thank you to those that have. I think the best way from now on might be that if you have produced a piece of work that you are especially proud of you should e-mail that to the school so we can share it via the blog. If there is a piece of work that you are not sure about, maybe you found a bit tricky, up-load that to “Teams” so that I can look over it and we can then discuss it together. All other work please keep at home for now.
Finally thank you for all your hard work! I think we have all learned a lot about how to work in “Teams” in a very short time. I am really pleased with the sensible and mature approach that you have all been taking. To keep it tidy the less we post comments (Reply) the better: use the emojis as much as possible. Having said that when you do need to post a comment it should be posted into “Reply” (you should never click inside the “Start a new conversation” box, I think) for the appropriate day and conversation.
Good morning Primary 2! I hope you are all having a great week so far! Here are some activities for today.
Special Activity
Today, Blair Drummond Safari Park are hosting a live Facebook video to give you a chance to meet their Sea Lions! You will have the chance to find out fun facts about the Sea Lions and they might even perform a few tricks! The live video starts on their Facebook page at 12pm. Have fun meeting the Sea Lions!
Numeracy
Think back to the strategies you were using yesterday. Did you find the most efficient strategy to work out the answers? The most efficient strategy you could have used yesterday would be to double the numbers. Keeping that in mind, use your knowledge of doubles to answer these questions:
9 + 8
6 + 5
2 + 1
8 + 7
12 + 11
Discuss the strategies you have used with someone at home and see if they used the same strategy as you!
Art
This week, we have learned a bit about people who may help us in different emergency situations. We have also been learning about what situations may be an emergency and what we should do if we find this is the case. Your job is to create a poster which shows all the information you have learned about emergency situations. Remember to make your poster eye-catching and make sure you can read all the information you have written.
Writing
Mrs Anderson has set a writing task for you. Have a go and see how you get on!
Retell a story that you have read at home with your family.
Learning Intention – We are learning to retell a story that we know.
Success Criteria – I can write or draw the events in the correct order.
When you open the site, click the pink button at the top which says “My class login”. The class login details are as follows: username – deansprimary2 password – missborsbey Once logged in, click the button that says “My Bookshelf”. This will take you to lots of ebooks. Please have a look below to find out which book to read. Once you have read the book, discuss what you have read. What is your favourite part of the story? Why?
Green group – Leek Hotpot
Purple group – By the stream
Pink group – Dad, can you do this?
Yellow group – Clothes for Rain
Blue group – Can you see me?
I’ll be back tomorrow with some more fun learning to finish off the week!
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