Here is your Home Learning Grid for this week. This can also be found on our class Team and will be shared with parents too. Maths resources for this week can be found on TEAMs or the Blog also.
Mrs Lewis and Mrs Stewart
Athletics and Sports Day
Good morning,
Today is the start of our Athletics block in PE. Over the next 5 weeks, we will be practising different events for our Sports Day which will be held during the first week in June. Even if we aren’t back in school for that week, we will have a Virtual Sports Day! More information about Sports Day will be released closer to June.
This week’s Athletics is all based on the Long Jump. This worksheet has the key points for a successful long jump, a link to a long jump video and 6 activities to develop your strength and jumping. Make sure that you don’t just try everything once, spend time practising each day so that you are ready for Sports Day.
Remember to be active for at least 60 minutes a day.
Here are some ideas to keep you active.
- Cosmic Kids Yoga https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
- Joe Wick Daily Children’s Workout https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1/featured
- GoNoodle https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNoodleGames
- Oti Mabuse’s children’s dance class https://www.youtube.com/user/mosetsanagape
- Play Tig games with your family in the garden
- Scoot, bike or run
- Go for a walk
Remember at least 60 minutes of activity a day!
If you would like to complete the throwing and catching videos just click on the links below.
- Throw, touch your toes and catch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsMZzEnRwJY
- Throw, dab and catch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdV7heTydww
You are doing an awesome job in PE. Keep it going!
Mr. Millar
P5B & P5/4C Home Learning Grid
Good morning P5B and P5/4C.
We hope you all had a nice weekend!
Here is the week 4 home learning grid. There is some extra information added to support reading at home.
ECPS Home Challenge Grid – Week 4
Miss Beattie & Mrs Campbell
P1 Home Learning 27.4.20
Hello P1! We hope you had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the super weather. There are lots of signs of Spring now. Have you spotted any blossom or lambs? Ms Boyes took this picture on one of her daily walks. Do you know what these flowers are called?
Here is a new Grid for this week:
Parents, there are two sounds to learn included in our new grid. Booklets for the sounds are found below. If you don’t have a printer, don’t worry, you can just look at the pages with your child, or, you could help them copy some activities into their jotters.
Finally, we have a new special square on our grid called ‘Amazing Activities!’. Is there an activity you have particularly enjoyed or are really proud of? Did you do it by yourself or with your family? If you’d like to share it with us, please email a photo, marked for the attention of your teacher to: wleastcalder-ps@westlothian.org.uk We would love to see your Amazing Activity!
Ms Boyes, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Grieve and Mrs Murdoch
Primary 5 and Primary 5/4 Times Tables learning Grid
Use some of the attched activities to help you learn your multiplication tables.
NURSERY – Fun and Learning at Home
Good Morning, hope you are all well 🙂
Here are some suggested activities to give a try.
Baking – Why not try making some delicious flapjacks – Click Here for the Recipe. L.I I am able to follow a recipe and use scales to measure out ingredients.
Float and sink – Do you know what floats and sinks and why? Find items in the house with an adult e.g. cutlery, toys (non-electrical/without batteries), fruit/veg, or natural items when out a walk e.g. flowers, pinecones, sticks and stones. See what floats and what sinks. Discuss why you think this happens L.I I have experimented with everyday items as units of measure to investigate and compare sizes and amounts in my environment, sharing my findings with others.
Arts and Crafts – As it was Earth Day yesterday why not try making a picture of Earth using shaving foam. Click Here for instructions L.I I have the freedom to discover and choose ways to create images and objects using a variety of materials.
Scrap book – Since we are unable to spend time with family and friends just now, why not look at photographs, talk about them and make a scrap book. You could stick pictures into your book of friends, family and happy times on days out or holidays and write when it was, who’s in the picture, what you were doing and decorate each page how you would like. L.I I am developing my fine motor skills. I am able to share my thoughts and feelings with others.
Remember you can also have a look at West Lothian Early Years Blog for more ideas by clicking Here.
Have fun and stay safe.
EC Nursery Team
Earth Day Fun for P2W
Good morning everyone,
I hope you all had a lovely Easter holiday with your family doing lots of fun activities.
Today is a very special day in the calendar called ‘Earth Day’. This year is even more special as it is the 50th anniversary. Below are some links for fun and interactive resources to give you more information about Earth Day. Have fun doing some of these activities.
Missing you all,
Miss Walkingshaw
NURSERY – Fun Learning at Home
Welcome back, we hope you all had a relaxing break over Easter.
We have enjoyed reading your posts on the home learning section of your child’s learning journals, thank you so much for keeping in touch. Sharing your news and photo’s have helped to lift our spirits as we continue to miss all of our little friends. We really appreciate the time you have taken to do this. Please continue and if you haven’t managed to log on yet, instructions have been posted onto each child’s learning journal to make this easier for families. Say Hi, we would love to hear from you and we will reply back to all posts.
If you are looking for some new idea’s to try at home this week, please give these a try………..
Star Gazing – wrap up warm and enjoy a hot chocolate with marshmallows whilst sharing family time star gazing at night with Elon Musks satellite. Find out more information by clicking here.
This week you can also see the Lyrid meteor shower which happens this time every year. Its said to peak tonight and if your lucky you could see between 10-15 meteors an hour! L.1. I have experienced the wonder of looking at the vastness of the sky, and can recognise the sun, moon and stars and link them to daily patterns of life.
We would love to hear about any star gazing finds!
Stone Matching Game – Find a selection of different sized stones during a local walk and use them to trace around, ask your child to match the correct stone to the tracing. Support your child with movement language to help them learn and understand position and direction including in front, above, below, left, right, forwards and backwards, this helps to challenge your child further. L.1. I can collect objects and ask questions to gather information, organising and displaying my findings in different ways
Painting Stones – If you have paint or felt tip pens at home, why not continue the play with stones and allow your child to decorate them. When they are finished your child can have fun hiding them in the local community for another child to find. This great idea has been shared on Home Learning in our Learning Journals, so we know there are already some stones hidden waiting to be found in East Calder. Have fun painting, hunting or both. L.1. I can create a range of visual information through observing and recording from my experiences across the curriculum.
Enjoy and most of all have fun and please remember you can access more learning and play idea’s from blogs.scotland.org.uk/wl/snonursery
EC Nursery Team
Look After Yourself!
I hope you all had a safe and relaxing Easter with your families! Remember not to stress about any of the tasks, all we ask is that you try your best and also take time for yourself with your families
Take care,
Miss Baldacci (Principal Teacher).
Attention Stargazers!
A couple of exciting things for you to get out and see over the next few nights:
Tonight Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite ‘train’ will be passing over head from South West to East at 9:58pm (just in case you are still awake at this time).
You can find the exact times here –
https://findstarlink.com/#1523;3
I’ve not seen them before so I’m very much looking forward to this! You should be able to see them without the need for a telescope or binoculars.
This week you can also see the Lyrid meteor shower which happens around this time every year. It is set to peak tomorrow (Tuesday) night, and if you are lucky you could see between 10-15 meteors an hour!
It’s always a good idea to go outside at least 15 minutes beforehand to allow your eyes to adjust to the darkness and give yourself the best chance of spotting something. Make sure you wrap up warm (I like to take a nice hot chocolate out with me too)
I’m looking forward to hearing all of your stargazing finds!
Fingers crossed for a clear night!
Have fun!
Mrs Beattie 💫
