Monthly Archives: March 2020

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

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

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

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

 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

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!

WEDNESDAY 25TH March

Hello Yellow Class!

Hope you are all well and everyone is keep safe.

Here is a guide to Wednesday! Please take it at your own child’s pace. If they don’t complete all the tasks, that is completely fine, it will take some time for everyone to adapt to learning at home.

Circle Time – We start our circle time singing “hello – super simple songs” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVlcKp3bWH8

This is also the time we started to learn some Spanish. Leave you here some Spanish translations.

Good morning – “Buenos Dias”

Hello – “Hola”

How are you? – “como estas?”

We then talk about how we are feeling today (happy, sad, tired, and excited). We find how does the weather look like and what day it is – You can do your calendar book.

And we finish our circle time sharing the last day news – Feel free to share your news, by email, posting here on blog some videos, photos or comments. J

 

MovementHere some of our favourite movement songs. You can use this ones or any other of your preference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vVcJWTmT7c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3-cEsqc4vY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22kqia2ibVU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amJ87z5jVAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMb-Fhvdiso

Life skills – I set up a challenge for you this week. What about help mum and dad with the dishes. You were all doing great in the classroom, with more or less support.

Image result for help with dishes kids

Literacy – Try to find in your house between 2 – 10 things that start with letter “M”. Ask mum or dad to hide 3 of those objects and go find them. Parents can give you some clues. Use the code “hot” if they are getting close to the object, “cold” if they are moving away from the object. You can make teams/pairs to have extra help.

P.E. – go on the PE section of the blog and choose one of the activities your PE teacher posted for you.

Story – Watch Justin Fletcher reading ‘The Monkey With a Bright Blue Bottom’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gncP_QbUGRA

Sign of the day – Don’t forget to be practicing the sign of the day – if you want to send me a video then feel free

Art – Make a Garden Art Box

The garden is full of inspiration for budding artists.

Find an empty shoebox. Cut out plant pictures from old seed and plant catalogues I(if you don’t have any you can draw some or even paint directly on the box. Feel free to use your imagination) and then glue them to the box for decoration.  Cover the box with clear contact paper.  Although it won’t be waterproof, this will make it more durable.

garden art box

Science – Do you know which solids dissolve in water? Here you have a fun and easy experiment that you can make at home.

You will need:

  • Water (hot and cold)
  • Transparent containers
  • Substances to try and dissolve (sugar, salt, sand, pepper, coffee…)

Method:

  1. Add a tea spoon of whichever you are testing to a glass of cold water and a glass of hot water, stir and observe the difference.
  2. Look to see if the solids dissolves in the cold water and hot water and if one is better than the other.
  3. Can you take pictures to record your observation?

Image result for dissolving experiments ks1

The Science bit: Things like salt, sugar,= and coffee dissolve in water. They are soluble. They usually dissolve better and faster in hot water. Pepper and sand are insoluble. They do not dissolve even in the hot water.

HWB  – can you name and find some parts of your body. You can do it pointing to your body or you can have fun and sing and dance with “head, shoulders, knees and toes” so familiar for you and I know you love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO9QAUbtwxo

If you would like to explore a little bit further why not try it in Spanish. Have fun J

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlYpkpAB8k8

I hope you have a lovely day. Keep safe, stay happy!!! Always remember, I am right here, just on the other side of the screen! 😀