Monthly Archives: March 2020

Tuesday 31st March

Good Morning Everyone.  Hope you have woke up ready to learn and in a great mood.

Let’s see what the plans are for today after your morning circle

Movement 

Let’s start the day off with some dancing with our favourite movement and zumba songs

Life Skills

Can you help to do the dishes at home?  Can you count the dishes?  Can you sort the cutlery?  Can you name the colours?

ICT

Today I would like you to practice your typing skills.  Can you type your name and your families/friends names?

You can also access some maths/general learning sites and play some games:

The San Diego Zoo website has lots of amazing videos, activities and games for kids

https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/

You can access your favourite maths counting game here

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

 

Dance

Today have a look at the dance tab – Rachel is uploading a dance to learn over the week and is uploading a different part each day – go and have a go – record yourself and send them in to me if you wish.  Have fun

 

Story

Today we will do a story massage.  I have uploaded a video below on how to do the massage techniques. Please watch before doing this if you have never done a story massage before.

Here are the stories to chose from today

if you click on the pictures they will become bigger.

 

Sign of the Day

Remember to go to the sign of the day tag to watch Lorna signing – I wonder what we will learn today?

 

Fiddly Fingers

Complete a jigsaw today as independently as possible

 

Gardening

Enjoy the sunshine outside with your family.  If there are any leaves in the garden why not help to clean them up and put in the compost bin?  What colour are the leaves? Are there any flowers in your garden?  If so what kind and what colour?

 

STEM Challenge

A reminder of this week’s STEM Challenge

Or the next part of the lego challenge

HWB

Have a feelings check in

Task for Today: Can you use all 5 of your senses….?  Choose one or a few of these challenge cards and see how you can use your senses:   

 https://www.flipsnack.com/Lorneej/t-tp-7255-senses-mindfulness-challenge-cards.html

Finish off your day with some mindfulness.

After this you are finished for the day!  Enjoy the rest of your day with your family

Group 11 Tues 31 March

Good morning Group 11!

You could work on your transition passport today and could also try some of the following:

Movement: put your favourite song on and dance like no one is watching.  We are going to use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83aUaYQF4NM

Life Skills:  help sort out the washing

ICT: See my lesson on the blog. It is very funny today.

Dance:  See Rachel’s lesson and learn her dance.  We are laughing lots and enjoying it.

Story: Read your favourite book or listen to one of these poems https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/

Signing: check Lorna’s sign of the day video.

Fiddly Fingers: We are going to make domino runs

Gardening:  See Scott’s idea. We are going to tidy up our garden and do some weeding.  We used the leaf blower last week.  It was very funny.

HWB: We are going to video call our family.  You could make a call too.

 

Have a good day, Kirsty.

Language (Secondary)

Good morning everyone,

Hope you enjoyed the lockdown activity yesterday, if you didn’t get a chance to complete it, you could always try today:  Lockdown

Here are a variety of words to practise reading and spelling:

Early Level – Initial sight words

First Level – 100-High-Frequency-Words 200-High-Frequency-Words

Second Level – Common exception-words 2 Common-exception-words 1

Have fun and enjoy your day!

Laura Leathem (Language and Communication Teacher)

Tuesday 31st of March – Pink Class

Good morning everyone!

What day is it today? Can you show someone our sign for Tuesday?

Today’s tasks:

Calendar – 

How did you get on with ‘wall touch’ yesterday? Practise our months of the year then try ‘wall touch’ again. Is it harder with 12 months?

Movement –

Check out the movement section – let’s get moving Pink Class!

Life Skills – 

Help out at home by making your bed – it’s tricky!

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ICT/Technology –

Design and make your own boat that will float on water.

What materials can you use to make a boat that actually floats? Here’s a list to get you started:

  • Paper (will it need to be waterproofed?)
  • Foil
  • Plastic container
  • Cork
  • Egg cartons
  • Cardboard (will it need to be waterproofed?)
  • Orange peel
  • Straws
  • Craft sticks
  • Sticks from a tree or other pieces of wood

Dance – 

Check out Rachel’s dance section. I’m still trying to learn Dance -Part 1!

Story –

Enjoy this little story about planting seeds.

What happened to the little seed?

Sign of the Day –

See Sign of the Day section for today’s signs.

Fiddly Fingers –

Chop up some fruit for a healthy snack for your family.

Gardening/CDT –

Do you fancy being a fairy or elf king/queen. Today is the day we make crowns. All you need is a paper (or card) strip, some glue or cellotape and some beautiful fallen things. Collect some fallen petals, leaves or even feathers to help create your majestic headpiece.

18 Delightful Nature Crowns for kids -- So beautiful!    Nature Crown for Autumn | Kids crafts, Natuurlijk knutselen  nature crowns Archives - Jay Primrose

HWB – Make some yummy, scrummy healthy flapjacks

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Sensory –

Tracey has added a sensory section – check it out!

Challenge of the Day –

How many red objects can you find in your house?

Have fun!

 

Purple Class 31.3.20

 

Hello Purple Class!
Hope you all had a lovely weekend! Laura and Buster Bear were busy in the garden. Buster enjoyed looking at all the Spring flowers and planting wild flower seeds.
Tuesday’s Timetable
Hello song – Singing Walrus on YouTube.
Calendar – ‘Seven days a week’ the Singing Walrus. –  Some of the purple class may want to write out the date in words and numbers. Talk about the weather today and the different signs of Spring.
Movement – ‘Shake your Sillies out’ by Learning Station on YouTube. Choose a dance on Go Noodle.
Life skills- Continue practising  dressing skills such as buttons, laces and zips. Can you help your Mum around the house?

Buster Bear is trying so hard to tie his laces.

ICT/Technology- To follow on from last week -go online  and Google Edinburgh Zoo. Revisit the live animal cameras. Discuss if the animals are doing anything different from your last visit. If you have Clicker 8, or a word document, type a sentence together about the zoo animals.

Which zoo animal is your favourite?

Dance- Dance along to ‘The Spring Chicken’ song on YouTube. Choose a favourite piece of music to dance along with.
Story-Make a den somewhere in your house. In your den, share a favourite book with an adult. Do you know any of the words? Some pupils may be able to read along.
Sign of the day – check the Blog – Lorna has made a video.
Fiddly fingers-Modelling with play dough. Can you make your name?
Gardening– if possible, go into your garden or go for a walk and look for signs of Spring! If you have any seeds, you could plant them together. Sweep up the leaves and tidy up the garden. Go on a Spring hunt.
Health and Wellbeing – How are you all feeling today? Take some calming breaths. Visit online Go Noodle ‘Rainbow breaths.’

Have a fun day Purple Class!

Red class – Tuesday 31-03

Good morning Red class

I am inserting the song signifier for end of activities, I had to try many times to get this one and I hope I will get better soon …

how are you today,

What is the weather like today?

is it sunny ? 

is it rainy ? 

is it windy ?

or is it snowy ? 

 

What day is it today?

 

The movement song for today is ...

 

Life skills ideas

When snack or lunch are finished, remember to put your plate in the sink.

Techonology

ask your mum or your dad to help you make coloured rice

all you need is rice, a plastic bag and food colouring.

then time to experiment and use utensils like when you are in class,

Dance

check Rachel’s posts and have fun.

Story 

You all know this story as we use the sensory bag in class.

Sign of the day

remember to check the sign in Lorna’s posts.  Which one is it?  Can you show me?

Fiddly fingers

you could do some finger painting.  If you don’t have any paint, don’t worry, you can make some by using cornflour, water and food colouring.  It is just as good.  Have a go at decorating this Easter egg.

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-5015-design-an-easter-egg-a4-worksheet

Gardening

How about something fun today?  It’s nearly Easter so why not make some lovely mud cakes?

like this maybe , but don’t worry if you can’t find flowers, you can use grass or pebbles

so you will need to follow this recipe!

For Health and wellbeing,

I suggest you try some yoga

 

Have a fab day!

 

 

 

 

Group 4 – 31st March

Good Morning everyone.

Today we are going to start with our morning routine.

Circle Time

What is the day today?

How’s is the weather?

How are you feeling today?

Life Skills

Why not help mum or dad to make breakfast or lunch today?

Or choose a job  to help around the house today.

 

ICT/Technology

Have a look in the ICT section to see what Steve has put up for you.

Dance

Check out in the dance section for what Rachel have in store for you today.

Story

This is a cute simple story about an unusual friendship.

Sign of the Day

Click on Lorna’s sign of the day video.

Fiddly fingers

Do you have LEGO at home? Use them to do this challenge.

Tuesday LEGO challenge

Gardening/CDT

Check out in the gardening section and watch Scott’s video to find more ideas about how to take care of your mung bean. Have they sprouted?

HWB

This week we are focus on NURTURE. You can talk with an adult about people who help and look after you. Who helps you at home? How do they help you? You can draw pictures of home life and the people who help you. Who helps you at school? Think about who helps people when…someone is sick or hurt, has sore tooth, they are lost…

Have a nice day.

Group 5 Circle Time Tuesday 31st March

Hello everyone,

Today I am feeling like Mr Bump! I think I did too many jobs in the garden over the weekend and now I am feeling a bit sore!

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Which Mr Man or Little Miss are you today?

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The weather forecast is for cloudy weather where I live but at the moment it is too dark to see!

It is too dark to see the weather yet!

What is the weather like outside your window?

Today’s suggested timetable is: PSD, ICT, Dance and snack, story, sign of the day and fiddly fingers. Then lunch followed by Gardening and health and well-being.

During PSD time I am going to join in with Gerry’s movement session to try to ease up my sore knees and back. Why not join in too?

Check out the ICT page for today’s suggested tasks and then relax with Rachel and some of her dance moves.

The story choices today are …

In this story a sleep bear gets woken up by his friends. Find out why they are so keen for him to wake up and what he gets up to whilst they sleep.

or …

In this story Slinky Malinki (a cat) goes out to meet his friends. Find out what they get up to and where they all settle down at the end of the night.

At the moment Bear Stays Up has the most votes so if you would like to see Slinky Malinki you better let me know by replying to this post! I will post the most requested story after break.

For Fiddly Fingers can you build a teddy tower. I managed a tower of 5 teddies. Could you do better? Let me know how you got on or e-mail me a picture.

Sarah’s teddy tower

After lunch check out what Scott is up to in the gardening section of the Blog and then check in with me for Health and Wellbeing and an update on the cake competition!

Have a lovely day, back soon!

Sarah