P2W’s Fantastic Home Learning

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope everyone is well and keeping safe.

I am very impressed by the work that has been sent in. You have all been working extremely hard and I am very proud of all of you. I have attached some of the work below for you all to see.

Please all continue to send work in on a weekly basis. I love seeing all of the hard work that you have been doing at home and it is a lovely way of sharing your learning with both myself and your classmates.

Keep safe and be kind,

Miss Walkingshaw

Daily PE Challenge with GB Athlete Sarah Inglis!

NURSERY – Fun and Learning at Home

Hello Everyone,

We hope you enjoyed a long weekend and had fun at home.

Whilst the Nursery has been closed our cleaners have been busy steam cleaning and helping to prepare a safe environment for the children to return to when the time is right. We are very grateful for all their hard work behind the scenes.

The Nursery Team are continuing to enjoy reading and replying to Home Learning posts in your child’s learning journals, thank you for taking the time to do this.

Bookbug

Bookbug is celebrating 10 years this week. Between 18-24 May there are special activities you can share with your children.  Full details have been posted separately on our Blog and you can access Bookbugs here

L.1. I enjoy exploring events and characters in stories and other texts, sharing my thoughts in different ways.

Hot and Cold

Some of the nursery children have been exploring hot and cold at home and experimenting with hot and cold liquids, this is a great science activity to try. Step 1: Send your child on a hot and cold hunt around the house, looking for items that are hot or cold. Step 2: Use red and blue food colouring to colour water, blue to represent cold and red to represent hot. Make ice cubes from the blue water and place them in a bowl of hot red water.  What happens to the blue ice cubes? Do they float or sink? Does the water change colour? Encourage your child to discuss the changes they see and why they think this is happening. L.1. By investigating how water can change from one form to another, I can relate my findings to everyday experiences.

Junk Modelling

Another great activity enjoyed by nursery children at home. This fantastic robot model was inspired by the story ‘One Button Benny’.  Provide your child with different sized boxes and junk with sellotape/glue and pens/paint to create a character from a favourite book you enjoy reading together.  L.1. I enjoy investigating objects and shapes and can sort, describe and be creative with them.

Please share photos of any Home Learning in your child’s Learning Journal and with your permission we can hopefully share on our Blog.

Some other suggested activities to try

Cress Heads

Use egg shells to grow cress and turn them into cress heads. Step 1: use an egg box to hold empty egg shells Step 2:  Gently draw faces on the shells; be careful not to break them! Step 3: Place damp cotton wool into the shells and sprinkle a few cress seeds on top. Step 4: Watch the cress hair grow, remembering to add drops of water when required and place them in a sunny position. L.1.I have helped to grow plants and can name their basic parts. I can talk about how they grow and what I need to do to look after them.

 

Remember you can also have a look at http://blogs.glowscotland.org,uk/wl/snonursery for more ideas.

 

Be kind to yourself and take care.

EC Nursery Team

NURSERY – Bookbug

Bookbug Week is 10

We hope you’ve all had a chance to watch the very special message the First Minister recorded for us (earlier this year before Covid-19). We are celebrating 10 years of the programme on our website too so please have a look – highlights include an article from our own Head of Early Years, Catriona Wallace, reflecting on 10 years of Bookbug, a film of Debi Gliori talking about how she created Bookbug, as well as a catalogue of all the books that have been in the Bookbug Bags over the last decade – see how many of them you’ve read!

We’d just like to say a huge thank you to you all for everything you have done to make Bookbug the success it is, and for all the joy and support you have brought to families over the last 10 years.

Bookbug Week 18-24 May

We hope you will join us in celebrating Bookbug Week all next week online and on our social media. Here’s an overview of our main content again. Please do share this with your families and take part yourselves! We’d also love to hear about anything you are doing to celebrate in your own areas, so please tag or share with us on social media.

  • Monday 18 – Saturday 23 Join us for a very special drawalong with Bookbug’s creator Debi Gliori from Monday to Saturday and learn how to draw Bookbug and some very special friends. We will also have a very special film with Debi Gliori as she explains how she created Bookbug!
  • Monday 18 We’ll have a special celebratory Bookbug Session for families to try at home themselves featuring classic songs and rhymes that have become firm family favourites!
  • Wednesday 20 Sprog Rock’s exclusive new song for the Bookbug app to celebrate Bookbug’s Birthday launches! Please encourage families to download the app for free and get access to songs and rhymes to enjoy at home, and we’d love to know what you think of the new track!
  • Friday 22 – 10am Join our live Bookbug Session on Bookbug’s facebook page. We’d love to see you all there to join in with singing for Bookbug’s birthday.
  • All week long our home activities hub will be packed with even more themed ideas to try at home, from making a party hat to colouring in Bookbug.

·         All week long we’ll also have a special competition on our website, and will be asking on social media for your memories of your Bookbug Bags and Bookbug Sessions with your wee ones. We’d also love to see any cards your little ones make for Bookbug – take a photo and share it with us!

PE Daily Challenge with Livingston FC and Keaghan Jacobs!

P2 Home Learning Grid

Good morning everyone! We hope you had a lovely long weekend and had lots of fun at home. Here is our home learning grid for this week. Please see the attached activities including new Spelling words for each group. You have magic e or CVC words.

You will find that the name of each group in P2M and P2W are included; for example, Crocodiles in P2W and Lions in P2M have the same words. When we teach magic e we explain to the children that the “e” at the end of the word makes the vowel in the word say its name.

There are also a few pencil activities attached for your child to work on if they wish. If you have any questions or queries, feel free to email via the school office. Apologies for the slight delay this morning. The blog decided it was going to be very slow when uploading all the documents.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Marra and Miss Walkingshaw

Grid 8

Spelling Words

Lions Rainbow Writing

Giraffes Rainbow Writing

Zebras Rainbow Writing

Elephants Rainbow Writing

Quarter past and Quarter to Analogue

Quarter Past Digital

Quarter to Digital

 

The Great School Science Share – Week 3

What did you investigate last week? Did anyone get a chance to go out and see the green-tinged Comet Swan with its 11 million mile long tail? It could get brighter by the end of the month and your best chance of seeing it is just before dawn – so get up early!

This week I want you to go on a Nature Scavenger Hunt!

Can you go on a mini-beast hunt? What types of mini-beasts can you find? Where do they like to live? Count how many different species you can find.

Go for a leaf walk – how many different types of trees are there around you? Can you create a nature picture using the leaves you found?

What animals do you have that come into your garden? Can you make a hedgehog house?

Can you go on a spider safari in your house or in the garden? Can you identify the different types of spider?

Make sure you are careful and gentle with any living creatures you find. If you disturb their home make sure to replace it carefully once you have had a look.

 

Remember to upload any of your findings to Teams and tag me in them, or send in an email to school.

Happy hunting!

Mrs Beattie

These are the hedgehogs from my garden!

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