Primary PE Daily Challenge – Day 12
Good morning everyone, today's challenge is set by @PEwithMrMillar.
How long call you hold a wall sit for? Remember to keep your back straight against the wall and your legs at a right angle!#WLHWBathome #endurance #resilience pic.twitter.com/PsnCYCJUAX
— West Lothian Primary PE Network (@WLPENetwork) May 13, 2020
Super work P3R!
Thank you very much P3R for sending me some more of your super work.
I am so impressed at all the amazing things you have been doing at home. Designing a safety poster, planning a picnic, making games, reading, writing, cycling a new bike … and learning to sew buttons on!
We even had a special great granny getting a lovely, safe visit for her 90th birthday! How wonderful!
You are all keeping busy, being kind, staying safe and learning some new skills.
I am so proud of all of you!
You can contact me by emailing your work or photos to the school web site address.
Remember there is a Sumdog competition on at the moment, and keep trying the Collins Big Cat reading books.
I love to see what you have all been doing.
Take care and stay safe.
Mrs Robertson
NURSERY – Fun and Learning at Home
Counting and Measuring with Lego
For a simple activity use 20 or more lego duplo blocks in various colours and write the numbers 0-20+ on the sides of them, using a permanent marker. On the opposite side of each draw the corresponding number of dots so that they can be counted to match the correct amount. Lay them out on the floor with the numbers showing and set the challenge to build them into a tall tower in the right order. L.1. I have explored numbers, understanding that they represent quantities, and I can use them to count, create sequences and describe order.
Rhyming Pairs Game
Make a simple rhyming activity to help practise rhyming pairs and learn about literacy in a playful, hands-on way! L.1. I explore sounds, letters and words, discovering how they work together, and I can use what I learn to help me as I read and write.
Practise hearing and identifying rhyming words for example, making a collection of rhyming words that all belong in the “-at” family, such as “cat”, “mat”, “bat”, “sat”, “fat” etc.
This makes learning more concrete and playful. Children learn best while touching, moving and doing, rather than looking at a worksheet or set of 2D images.
Playmobile figures or small world toys are ideal for this game. Some suggestions for rhyming words;
goat and boat
man and fan
chair and bear
snake and cake
cat and hat
duck and truck
fox and box
mouse and house
car and star
dog and frog
Football Buzz
Football Buzz is running online sessions for children during lockdown. If you are interested in your child participating in the free online sessions you should contact: footballbuzz@hotmail.co.uk L.1. I am enjoying daily opportunities to participate in different kinds of energetic play, both outdoors and indoors
And remember you can access more play and learning ideas at http://blogs.glowscotland.org,uk/wl/snonursery
‘If you see someone without a smile,
give them one of yours’
EC Nursery Team
NURSERY – Fun and Learning at Home
Good morning everyone
We hope you all had a good weekend. Some new idea’s to try at home………
Playdough
Why not get your child involved in helping to make playdough, it’s a firm favourite at nursery. L.1. Through creative play, I explore different materials and can share my reasoning for selecting materials for different purposes. For an easy non-cook recipe please click here.
The Benefits of Playdough
Fine motor development:
The properties of play dough make it fun for investigation and exploration as well as secretly building up strength in all the tiny hand muscles and tendons, making them ready for pencil and scissor control later on.
As part of simple, tactile play it can be squashed, squeezed, rolled, flattened, chopped, cut, scored, raked, punctured, poked and shredded! Each one of these different actions aids fine motor development in a different way, not to mention hand-eye co-ordination and general concentration.
Having a wide range of additional extras to use while playing extends the investigation and play possibilities endlessly. Poking in sticks provides a challenge and a new physical skill.
Squeezing through a garlic press leads to wonder and amazement at seeing it change shape, as well as using a gross motor movement to accomplish it.
Sticking in spaghetti requires a delicate hand and can lead to threading and stacking pasta shapes or beads over the top.
Providing boxes and containers with various shaped compartments can lead to cooking play, sorting, matching, ordering and counting, all naturally and without pressure to learn.
By providing objects from nature with a wide range of textures, colours and shapes, children can have multi-sensory experiences and engage with the world around them in a whole new way.
List of additional extras needed to create a play dough free play kit!
This is by no means a comprehensive list, but all of these elements can be used to create plenty of exciting, open-ended play times:
toy creatures
straws
rolling pins, plastic knives, scissors, pizza cutters
cupcake cases in different sizes
coloured and natural feathers
pine cones, sticks, bark, leaves
muffin tins, egg cartons, chocolate boxes,
small cups and shot glasses
alphabet, number and shape cookie cutters
pasta shapes
shells
buttons
glass pebbles
toy vehicles
wooden letters and numbers
fabric, netting and ribbons
match sticks and lolly sticks
Have fun!
P1 Assembly
Enjoy today’s assembly from Fischy Music! (It says 4th May on the title here but that seems to be a little mistake).
P4/3M Home Learning
Good Morning P4/3M,
Below is this weeks home learning grid.
You are all doing such a good job. Keep it up!
Fantastic Home Learning in P2M
Good morning everyone:)
Thank you so much for all the amazing learning you have been sending me. You have all been working so hard and I am very impressed with all your efforts. Well done everyone! Here are a few more examples of the fantastic learning that has been going on during lockdown. Stay tuned for more learning on the blog at the end of the week.
Stay safe and have a great week:)
You worked so hard making this board for Captain Tom Moore’s 100th birthday. You should be very proud of all your hard work. Well done!
You worked really hard to make cakes for your family. They look delicious and you look so proud of yourself. Well done!
You worked so hard to practise multiplication Phoebe. Well done!
You did a great job creating your own picture of a badger for Topic. I can see you have put so much effort into this Paul. Well done!
P1 Home Learning 11.05.20
Hello P1! We hope you had a lovely weekend.
Ms Boyes posted a picture of daffodils on the blog a couple of weeks ago. Did you get their name right?
Ms Boyes took a picture of these flowers in her garden- can you find out what they’re called?
Here is our new Grid for this week:
P1 Home Learning Grid 6 11.5.20
Here are the attachments to go with the blog:
It’s been great to receive your emails and photos. Remember you can let us know all about your Amazing Activities by emailing the school:
wleastcalder-ps@westlothian.org.uk
Ms Boyes, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Grieve, Mrs Murdoch
P4S Weekly Work Grid 11.5.20
Morning everyone. Hope you have had a good weekend. This week the grid is slightly different, making it more inline with other classes. Please take your time with the tasks and don’t rush through them all on a Monday. You will also receive an extra challenge literacy and Numeracy/Maths each week that you can find on Teams or here on the Blog on Tuesday.
This week there is a Sumdog Competition so the more you play the better our school will score.
This week I will be holding our video chat on Tuesday at 10 o’clock. I look forward to hearing you then. Try to come up with something you can chat about – it can be anything. Maybe some information about something you have researched or read us one of your writing tasks. As always I will enjoy hearing about what you have been up to as well.
Have a good week.
Primary 7/6L and Primary 7S
Good morning everyone. Here is your learning Grid for this week along with the required resources. We will be on Teams each day to help when needed or just to check-in. You can also send us more of your wonderful work to provide you with feedback.
Mrs Lewis and Mrs Stewart.
