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Tuesday 21st of April – Pink Class

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Good morning Pink Class! Let’s wake-up!

Calendar –

What month is it? How many days have we had in April? How many are left? Have a look at a calendar, use your counting skills.

Calendar April 2020 (UK) with Excel, Word and PDF templates

Movement –

Check out the movement section, let’s get active!

Life Skills –

Have a go at one of these today. See how helpful you can be.

ICT/Technology – 

How clever are birds? I’ve been watching two little magpies working together to build a nest. It’s taken them two weeks. Great workers.

Can you build a nest?

Nest Building

Dance –

What does Rachel have planned for dance today?

Story –

Enjoy learning about birds nests today

Look how many nests I spotted in this one tree yesterday. How many can you see?

Now enjoy this little story ‘Hooray For Birds’.

Signs of the Day –

Check out this section – I love it! What will Lorna be teaching us the signs for today?

Fiddly Fingers –

Build a tower with your teddies. How many teddies can you use before your tower falls over? Which member of your family can build the biggest teddy tower?

 

Gardening/CDT –

Let’s help out our birds by making an easy bird feeder.

For all of those toilet rolls that have been bought……re-use them to make bird feeders.

Use peanut butter or lard and roll them in bird seed, hang them up and watch which birds visit your garden.

HWB –

Today’s focus is about personal hygiene. Find the link below to help on what you should do to keep yourself clean.

Personal hygiene

Challenge of the Day –

Natural Act Of Kindness:

Caring for other living things makes us feel good! Have a think and a chat with a family member  on ways you can care for nature in your day to day life. Here are a few ideas to get you started

  • water the plants
  • feed the birds

Have a great day Pink Class and keep smiling!

Wendy

 

 

 

Music with Gordon 20 April: Primary

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What to do today

Please join in with the activities below. The more who can join in, the more fun, too. Do the activities as many times as you like.

Activities (links below)

    1. Hello song
    2. Bounce and catch. You’ll need a ball for this.
    3. Tap and clap along to Cho-co-la-te. Do you remember how to do this?
    4. Now try playing Cho-co-la-te using homemade instruments. Try this 2-3 times. If you don’t have any instruments, what can you find to make a good sound?
    5. Time to get up and dance to Blame it on the Boogie by the Jackson 5. You can also play your instruments if you like, or get a scarf to play with.
    6. And now, time to chill. This week we have a piano version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah.
    7. Goodbye Song. Time to say goodbye! Thank you for your music. Hope you had some fun, see you all next time!

Hello Song

Click and scroll down to see the video

Bounce and Catch

Tap and clap along to Cho-co-la-te

Now play Cho-co-la-te using a homemade instrument.

Time to move around or play your instrument

Chill and relax

Goodbye Song

Thursday 2nd of April – Pink Class

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Good morning everyone!

Let’s wake up! Get everyone to join in!

Calendar –

Can you name the four seasons. What happens outside during each season? Let’s see.

 

Movement – 

What will we do for movement today? Check out the movement section. How are you getting on with Joe Wicks?

Life Skills –

Mmmmmm! Can you help make lunch today? Let’s make some sandwiches.

Maths –

Today’s focus is MONEY.

Follow this link for sorting coins: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

Follow this link for using coins to pay for items: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Empty out your adult’s purse or wallet…what coins or notes can you spot?

Fiddly Fingers –

Let’s make some slime!!!

Story –

 

Have you seen any bears out on your walk? Have a good bear hunt next time, how many can you spot? Can you describe the bears you see? How many bears do you have in your windows for other children to spot.

Let’s go on a bear hunt!

Signs of the Day –

Yesterday I was learning the signs for some fruit. You will have to test me when we go back to school. Check out today’s signs of the day section. What signs will we learn today?

Music –

Check out the music section to make an instrument or to do some singing with Connie. Have fun!

Sensory –

Play with some shaving foam today. Can you practise your letters or numbers or impress someone in your family by writing their names in the foam.

You can also check out Tracey’s sensory section for some more fun ideas.

Dance –

How are you getting on with Rachel’s dance? I think I’ve got two left feet!

Challenge of the Day –

We have been looking at water in the Pink Class. Here is an outdoor water challenge. Challenge your family to see who makes the best waterproof shelter. Who will be brave enough to sit under it while you test if it is waterproof? Have fun!

Outdoor Shelter

Some of you have emailed some fantastic pictures of all of the hard work and fun you are having. Unfortunately, I can’t post these yet as our photo/picture capacity is full at present. However, keep sending me your great pictures, they put a huge smile on my face.

Wendy

 

 

 

Silver – Tuesday 31st March

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Good morning Silver class!

Let’s get Tuesday started..

Hello/Calendar/Movement

Have a look at my “circle time” post.

Choose a movement song from the “movement” section on the blog or just dance along to your favourite song with your family! 🙂

Life Skills

Lily’s mummy told me she has been busy helping mummy with the washing! Can you help sort the washing into different colours? Can you help your mummy or daddy put a washing in the machine?

Technology

Today’s challenge..

Maths (on yesterday’s timetable)

Let’s combine Maths with some exercise today!

Go out on a hunt for these pictures in people’s windows. Count how many you can see and write it in the boxes. You can colour it in before or after you go 🙂 Have fun!

If you can’t print these out then don’t worry – Just take a piece of paper and pen with you. You could also draw your own pictures before you go out.

Dance

There are some brilliant ideas on the “dance” section of the blog.

Or you can try some Go Noodle on YouTube today.

 

Story

Nicole has shared a video teaching us how to do Story massage. Have a go yourself at home. There’s 2 stories below to choose from (click to make bigger).

Sign of the Day

Don’t forget to follow along to Lorna’s sign of the day.. I wonder what it will be today?

Fiddly Fingers

See what you can try lifting with some washing pegs. If you don’t have pompoms you can use some cotton wool balls or some pebbles from outside.

Gardening

Have a look at the “gardening” section on the blog – Scott has posted some lovely ideas there.

HWB

It’s been a long, busy day! Let’s relax now..

Music with Gordon: Secondary

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Hi everyone!

We’re all getting used to working in new ways away from our usual classrooms, but we can still have fun making music.

What to do today

Please join in with the activities below. The more who can join in, the more fun, too. Do the activities as many times as you like.

Activities (links below)

    1. Hello song
    2. Bounce and catch. You’ll need a ball for this.
    3. Tap and clap along to Cho-co-la-te
    4. Watch this video that Connie shared and clap and tap along to the sounds.
    5. Play the video again, but this time play along with some instruments – if you don’t have any, see what you can find around you that can make a good sound. We will look at some simple home made instruments later in the week.
    6. Time to get up and dance! Electroswing -Lost in the Rhythm, Jamie Berry Feat. Octavia Rose. Can you move your feet, arms and hands to the music like the dancer? You can play your instruments too if you like, or get  scarf to play with.
    7. And now, time to chill. Here’s another piece of music by the French composer Erik Satie. It was originally for piano, but suits the guitar as well. You may want to play it more than once.
    8. Goodbye Song. Time to say goodbye! Thank you for your music. Hope you had some fun, see you all next time!

Hello Song

Click and scroll down to see the video

Bounce and Catch

Tap and clap along to Cho-co-la-te

Watch, tap and clap and then play along

Time to move around

Chill and relax

Goodbye Song