Good morning. Wednesday already.

Lots to do today –

Morning routine – you have the routine symbols from yesterday and the calendar etc. are in your learning pack. What day is it today?

Literacy – Check out our Challenges for Group 10

PE – see what Gerry has for us to do in the PE section

Story – Our weekly story was posted yesterday and the activities are in our ‘Challenges for Group 10’.

ART – Steve has lots to do in the ART section

Science – Find out what we are exploring and learning about in the science section with Sarah

Health and Wellbeing – This weeks activities are in ‘Challenges for Group 10’. You can also find a quiet corner and chill  and listen to music.

Have a great day!

A new Month already!

Let’s learn how to sign ‘April’.

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

Make the letter hand shape for ‘a’ followed by letter hand shape for ‘p’

This month it is time to start the timetable of fun.  Below is a 30 day grid with a different activity to do each day (click on to make bigger).  Have a go

Morning Circle

Remember the morning circle can songs and routine can be found here

Morning Circle Time

Today we can continue to practice our French.  Lets learn the number and colours today.

Hello – “Bonjour”

Life Skills

For the rest of the week I am setting you a challenge to see how many of these activities you can complete throughout the week.  Let me know how you get on.

Literacy

Today we will be listening to the story of Dr Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham

There are lots of different ideas you can do with this story.

• Upper and lower case letter matching –  Can you make some green eggs from paper and on the back write the letters of the alphabet. The write one letter on a paper plate or a piece of paper and place in a bowl or on the ground spaced apart until you have all the letters you want.  Decide for this game what letters you are focusing on – all the letters of the alphabet or just the SATPIN letters and maybe add in the letters of your name.  Have the egg facing up (letters hidden). Use a fish slice or your hands to turn them over one at a time and match the to the same letter on the paper plates/bowls/tubs/paper by placing on top/in the tub/bowl.  example found here  https://thehomeschoolden.blogspot.com/2011/06/green-eggs-and-ham-preschool-activity.html
• Letter sound and picture matching –  an alternative to the above can be found here (printer required).  Matching the picture to the sound.  http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/DrSeussGreenEggsHamBeginningSound.htm
• Food Tasting –   We all know our kids can be quite fussy eaters.  Why not try the fun activity to get them to taste new foods and rate them i sent to you by email (would not let me upload to the blog).
• Green eggs and ham cookies –  You could try baking some green egg and ham inspired cookies.  They look super yummy an easy to  make.  Maybe you can link this to the above food tasting activity. Get the recipe here. https://www.myjoyfilledlife.com/green-eggs-and-ham-cookies/

Movement

I think after all that work you deserve a movement break.

P.E

Have a look at what Pedro and Gerry have posted in the P.E part of the blog or try Joe Wicks P.E sessions

Story

Choose a book to read together or have a look at the story below from vooks about an Easter unicorn. (remember it is free to sing up)

https://watch.vooks.com/top-storybooks/videos/the-easter-unicorn

Sign of the Day

Remember to go and see what Lorna has planed for sign of the day.  Can’t wait to see all of your signing.

Art

Wendy from the Pink class had this great idea and I thought I would share it with you.  Can you make a colour wheel? Send me your pictures on here so we can share our learning with everyone at Pinewood.

examples below

Science 

Your science for today is to try and make some slime.  Find some good recipes online and let me know how you get on.

STEM CHALLENGE 

Here is a reminder of your weekly STEM challenge (this also counts as science)

or if you are (also) doing the lego challenge see below

HWB

Have a feelings check in

The finish the day with some yoga

Happy Wednesday everyone.

I hope you enjoy the songs today. I’m hoping to get a lot of songs onto the blog so you can sing along. Let me know in the comments box your favourite songs to sing in school. Oh, and look out for Thursday’s singalong with lots of Easter and Spring time songs.

Sing along with some of our Health and well-being songs.

Let’s finish off with Friends in Pinewood!

Connie

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

Movement – Here 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 – challenge of the week: make your own bed. Help mum or dad to make your bed.

Literacy – “E” is for Egg Try to find other things that start with “E”.  You can now use your imagination to decorate the letter “E” “e” or an Egg. Choose the one you like most. Find below some inspirational ideas

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

Story – “E” is also for Elephant – Watch the story “Elmer, the Elephant”. Can you name the colours of Elmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGzgu0nUYRo

Sign of the day – Don’t forget to practise the sign of the day (sign of the day section)

Art – Create your Elmer, use your imagination! You can make a 3D creation or 2D

Science – Today for science we are going to learn a little bit more about elephants. Do you know why elephants have a trunk and tusks and what is it for? Watch the video below to find out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP5uJVpHrVw

HWB – Have you heard about “We are going on a Bear hunt” initiative? West Lothian citizens were encourage to show a Teddy Bear on theirs windows. This way, every time a child goes for a walk could see the Teddy cheers up for them. It’s now expanded to rainbows, jokes…

You can find more about it on the Health and Well Being section.

To be part of it join the Facebook page below:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2661544074061343/?ref=share

Good morning everyone,

how are you today?  Did you enjoy the dry weather yesterday?  What did you do?  Did you try to make mud cakes? Was it fun?  I hope you didn’t get too muddy.

So today, 

hello song https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=good+morning+singing+walrus

the days of the week song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMofxtDPUQ

the weather song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpTpQC0JDtI&t=18s

movement song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiU7oJgktuo&list=PLdbX1TZX0Wc3bRM9vYKJNRsDTpwB-5bPQ&index=5

life skills

Today, you could help your mum with sorting the washing and help tidy up.

Language

What can you see when you look outside?  Do you see cars on their drive?  What colour are they?  Check Lorna’s signs for colours.  Practise your signs with your family.

PE

Check Pedro and Gerry’s post to see what they suggest you do to keep fit.

Story 

Sarah has been reading some lovely stories.  Have a look in the “Stories” section.  I am sure you will love this one!

Sign of the day

Check in the “sign of the day” section to see what Lorna is teaching us today.  Did you try to sign “boat”, “car” and  truck”?  Can your mum or dad do it too?

art

David suggests you could try and make some Easter/spring pictures.  

Science

Try the daffodils experiment from Sarah.  Check her post under “Science”.

Day 1 – 25/03/2020

Day 2 – 26/03/2020

Day 3 – 27/03/2020

HWB

You have had a very busy day today, it is time to relax with some yoga.

Check this … in the Orange class, this is what David does with the boys and girls.  Do you think we could try?

Please find below a link to the full programme document with notes.                                       CAMHS Standing Yoga Programme Level 1   

Here are easy to follow pictures for you to try!

Mountain         

Stand still, feet slightly apart and arms by your sides.  Slowly stretch arms out to the side, then raise them above your head.  Hold the stretch for count of 5. Slowly lower arms back by your side.

Starfish

Stand still with feet spread apart, arms by your sides and point toes to the front for a few moments.  Take a deep breath and raise arms out by your side.  Palms facing forward.          Hold for the count of 5-10.