Daily Archives: March 25, 2020

Fun Art Apps to try

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Hi everyone, I hope you’re all doing well. Here are some of the apps we’ve used in the Art club and some are great mindfulness colouring in apps we enjoy.

They should be free and although some have stopped access on the Art iPads, you should be able to use them from your own phone, iPad or tablet. If you get stuck, ask a grown up to help. Some Apps maybe free to download but then ask for payment for premium access of advanced features. They do however, allow for some kind of access from either the Apple app store or the Google play store.

Colouring in

Colorfy, Paint by numbers, Color your own (Marvel), Happy Colour, Dot to dot, Coloring book, Paint number, Color number, Tap & Color, 100 pics coloring, Captions, Fingerpaint, Brushes redux (Art app), Painter, Art set, Calm, Canva

Comic Strip and Animation

Superhero, Mirror, Animaker, Comic Strip, Spider Hero Creator, Comic Maker, Comics, Superhero HD, Cartoon Maker, Superhero, Puppet pals, Comic Maker for Minecraft, Cubic Comic Maker, Lego Life, Super Alien Ben 10, Emoji me, Flipaclip, Comic Art

Some more complex Art apps.

Pixaloop, Mimo, Knowin, Py, Vectornator, Assembly, Photofox, Superphoto, CamWow, Photolab, Effects Art, Pigment, Procreate, Adobe Sketch.

Photo Effects

Effects Art, Art Effect, Go Art, Typorama, Photo2infinity, Artify, Deep Art effects, Alportraits, Elf yourself, Insta toon, Pixel cam Art

Just for Fun

Lego TV, Playground.

 

Thanks, Have fun!

 

Silver – Wednesday 25th March

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Good morning Silver Class!

Some ideas for today’s timetable if you are following along at home.

Literacy

Let’s practise some writing today, The Silver class looove writing in different materials.

You can try shaving foam

Or try salt, sand, rice, paint – anything at all. Your imagination is your only limit 🙂

Can you try writing your name? How many pictures can you draw? Maybe you could try some numbers too? It’s messy and it’s fun!

PE

Try some of Gerry or Pedro’s ideas on the blog.

Remember there is also Joe Wicks on YouTube and also Oti Mabusa online too – take this time to have some fun and learn a new dance moves 🙂

Story

David Walliams will be sharing stories daily on his website – http://worldofdavidwalliams.com

Sign of the Day

Remember to keep practising your signs of the day! I’d love to see your efforts – send me a picture or a video of your super signing!

Art

Make a rainbow!

Rainbows are bringing people together during this difficult time. Let’s get involved Silver class! I want to see your best rainbows 🙂 You can colour, paint, use strips of materials/felt/tissue, use window chalk or paint, whatever you can find. 🙂

     

Science

The Glasgow Science Centre are posting science videos each day at 10am on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Each one will be available on their Youtube channel so don’t worry if you don’t catch it live.

Links are below:

https://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/gsc-at-home?fbclid=IwAR0GQTXZv-TBIDRv3NR-iPP8jXgYSsCe1IgNkD7f5YP7xuKd47AE2lvJOco

Health and Wellbeing (HWB)

Time to get out the house! Go out into your garden or out for a walk. Take a note (either write it down or just tell an adult) – what can you see? What can you smell? What can you hear?

Come up with as many things as possible. This is called being “mindful” and it is very good at keeping us calm and in the moment. It’s important to be as mindful as possible just now and enjoy the moment.

 

Have a lovely day everyone.

Amy

Story Time for the Orange Class – until Friday 3rd April

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Jack and the Beanstalk

Please find bellow a link to short – 3 minute, easy to follow videos about Jack and the Beanstalk for the Orange Class to watch.  There is a sequencing exercise you could try at the bottom.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk video clips

When you have finished all of the episodes you could try sequencing the story.

If your child finds it hard, you could fill in most of the answers and leave only one or two gaps.  Then you could rinse and repeat!

A pdf is available here.   jack_sequencing

If you have a printer you could print the pdf file, cut out the pictures with your child and glue the pictures on to card.   You could then carry out the sequencing many times making it easier or harder as appropriate.

Have fun! David

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 25th of March

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Good morning Pink Class!

Let’s see what we could do today.

First of all let’s get singing with our families! Wakey, wakey!

Calendar –

Let’s think about days of the week today. Can you teach someone in your family our days of the week song? Can you teach them our signs?

Movement –

Check out the movement section. There are some great activities posted here.

Lifeskills –

Use the Tablespoon Biscuit recipe from your home learning pack to make some yummy biscuits. After all of this movement you deserve a yummy treat!

Literacy –

Try one of the sound/literacy tasks from your pack.

Practise writing the letters of the alphabet (use different colours for each letter).

P.E.-

Check out the P.E. section for some ideas or play a game in your garden.

Story –

Today why don’t you develop your listening skills and tune in to David Walliams reading one of his stories. He reads a new story every day at 11am. Each story is around 15 to 20 minutes long.

Art – 

Children are being asked to paint or draw a rainbow and put it in a window at the front of the house. During this time of social distancing, families can go for a walk and children can look for rainbows!

Science –

We have been looking at water in the Pink Class.

Let’s do a floating and sinking experiment.

Find 10 things around your house. Do you think they will float or sink when you put them into water? Guess then experiment. Were you right? Why/why not?

s0f Floating and sinking investigation.

HWB –

Look for healthy food choices in your fridge or cupboard.

Can you eat 4 healthy foods today? I’m going to try this too!

Today’s challenge –

Indoor scavenger hunt, Get someone to time you. Challenge someone in your family to do it faster!

Have fun today Pink Class!

Educational Minecraft DLC

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Minecraft have temporarily made available their Minecraft Education Collection DLC free of charge from now until June 30th.

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The educational content we’ve curated lets players explore the International Space Station though a partnership with NASA, learn to code with a robot, visit famous Washington D.C. landmarks, find and build 3D fractals, learn what it’s like to be a marine biologist, and so much more. This is launching for free download today and will be available through June 30, 2020.

The content is available via Minecraft through the Marketplace.  Please follow link below.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/03/24/phil-spencer-message-to-community/

NB.  You will need to have Minecraft already to load the DLC.

Wednesday fun in Group 2

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 Days of the week – if don’t have days of the week cards – write them out on a piece of paper and cut them up – can they put them in order? muddle them up again – sing the days of the week song
Weather – it’s a bit cloudy in Bathgate at the moment but might not be by the time you start activities – check again in the afternoon – is it the same?

 

sign of the day – go onto the blog to watch the video for the day
Daily jobs – check your sheet in your pack and choose one of them
Maybe you could take a photo of you doing the job – did you enjoy it? maybe you can think of some more jobs and I can send you some more symbols out to you?
Movement try something from Go Noodle – do you have a favourite? mine is Maximo and the Chicken Dance!

Literacy  (and Science)

I have attached some differentiated files for reading – chicken life cycle – choose which one for your child plus a link to a chicken hatching powerpoint which has some reading too.  It has a video of a chick hatching but here is a link too.
PE please check the blog for ideas from Pedro and Gerry

Snack maybe try something new? or have something you have but in a different way – if you have an apple then maybe cut it up or have it without peel?
Story My own children loved listening to David Walliams for years – he has an amazing reading voice and is very funny
Art – when I went to my car yesterday I noticed my neighbour had a rainbow – maybe you could make one for your house ? use collage materials from packaging if no pens/paints
Science if you have some Skittles or Smarties maybe you could create a sweet rainbow! you might need to do it fast before all eaten!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5maIf7fJeI

Music please see Connie’s links on the blogs plus of course links to Fischy music – this week it was Included Ironwoman and I think it is Special Kind of Heroes (the picture is in my classroom …) plus also I will miss the children singing I’m a Spring Chicken – a firm favourite at Pinewood..

HWB please make time for yourselves – I have put a link to mindfulness under the Health and Wellbeing Category – there are also some great apps – Calm and Headspace I use – take care 

Dance Lesson

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Hello everyone,

Yesterday I posted a lesson that included a warm up, a just dance song and a chill song for sleepy lions. Here are today’s choices:

Warm up song: be prepared to have this song stuck in your head all day 🙂

Just dance song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-9Sm6_yE98

Sleepy lions song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsQ7i3-uX44

Have fun!