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Tuesday 12th of May

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How are you today?  Did you have a good day yesterday?  It was chilly wasn’t it?

Are you ready for another good day?  But first, have a look at some photos,

You are now very familiar with our good morning routine, are you ready?

what is the weather like today?  choose a photo.

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and now some jobs for you to do!

technology – what about building a tower with blocks,

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dance – check what Rachel has in her posts

wash your hands then tidy up

This is a special little boy and special little girl’s story read by their granddad, I think you will like it too!

check the signs of the day with Lorna

fiddly fingers

gardening – outdoor learning: why not try to make a small garden in a bottle

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HWB – relaxation

Have a good day!

Sophie

Tuesday 21st of April – Pink Class

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

 

 

 

Group 10 – Tuesday 31st March

Good morning. Did you all sleep well?

Another busy day –

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

ICT – Check out what Kirsty has in the ICT section. There’s lots of activities for you to do.

Dance – Rachel’s keeping everyone moving, choose the dance you’d like to do.

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

Fiddly fingers – Try helping in the kitchen by chopping some fruits or vegetables.

Fresh Fruit Platter — Wolfits

Gardening – You can look at all the activities in our gardening section that Scott has posted or go out into your garden and hunt for beasts!

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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!

We are growing Runner Beans!

The Orange Class are growing Runner Beans!

Yay! Runner Beans

We filled the pots half way with soil

Just half way!

We put in the beans

In they go!

One, two, three …

We filled the pots up with soil to the top

Right to the top!

We watered the beans.

Water helps me grow!

We put the pots in a bright place!

A good job!

David (Mr Stewart) took them home this week so he can look after them and take photos.

 

Please look at the Life Cycle of beans below so that we can learn all about them!

Here is a handy video so we can see what will happen to our beans as they grow!                     Click on the video:  Bean Time Lapse

Tuesday 24th March

Hello again,

You will see there’s a selection of things on today’s timetable so just keep an eye out for lots of ideas coming your way! You can select each category down the side of the blog so if you don’t see it on Silver Class 3 try selecting something different e.g. “gardening” or “Dance”.

Life Skills/Jobs around the house

There is a selection of ideas in your home learning pack but here’s a reminder of things you can try at home:

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

ICT/Technology

I’d love to see what you are getting up to at home so take some pictures or video and email them to your teacher!

Or if you would rather do some building.. here is day 1 of the 30 Day Lego Challenge

Story

Silver class recently made their own caterpillars and beautiful butterflies as part of our “Living Things” topic!

Read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” if you have it, If not, here is a little animated film of the story:

 

Fiddly Fingers:

Here are some ideas – it’s amazing what you can do with stuff lying around in the house!

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Gardening

The Silver class planted some Sunflower seeds and had some lovely plants before school closed (as part of our “Living Things” topic. Let’s have a look and see how they are doing!

Wow!! Looks like some of the seeds are growing and we are starting to see some stem poking through the compost! Well done Silver class! Here is a sunflower diary you can download if you like, or you can make your own at home by just drawing what you see in the pictures and telling an adult.

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Now let’s have a look at our plants…

Oh my goodness!! When we got these there were no flowers at all. They are growing big and bright and beautiful! I will keep you updated on how they grow.

Health and Wellbeing (HWB)

If you haven’t tried it already – Joe Wicks the body coach is doing LIVE fitness workouts every morning. I’ve also attached some idea cards if you’d rather make up your own routine!

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

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Enjoy!

 

 

Pink Class – Tuesday 24th March

Good morning Pink Class!

Here are some activities to go along with today’s timetable. Have fun!

Calendar

We love this months of the year song in the Pink Class.

Talk about which month comes after July? before December? Order the months of the year.

Movement

I’m trying this every morning – don’t laugh Pink Class! Give it a go as a family! Do the parts that you can…..it’s tough!

Life Skills –

Can you help make lunch today. Remember to wash the dishes!

ICT/Technology –

ance –

Dance along to a ‘Just Dance’ video on YouTube.

Story –

This was my favourite story when I was a little girl. Do you like this story? What is your favourite part. Can you draw a picture and write a sentence… ‘My favouirite part is……’

Fiddly Fingers –

Cut and stick pancake from home learning pack.

Gardening/CDT

Watch Scott’s videos on planting mung beans. Do you have any plants in your house or garden. Have a close look at them.

HWB –

Teach someone in your family how to wash their hands properly.

TODAY’S CHALLENGE:

Find 8 things in your house that start with the letter ‘a’

Have fun Pink Class! Stay safe!

Group 11 24/03/2020

Good morning! chickens!

I’m missing you all.  We are going to have a fun day today.  My boys are up already and want to follow your timetable again.

At 9 am we are going to join Joe Wicks for some movement. You will find it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Then we will make our beds, dust and tidy up.

ICT will be a virtual visit to Edinburgh zoo.  https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/

Then time for some dance at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=just+dance

We’ll squeeze in a quick time for quiet reading and Lorna’s sign of the day.

Fiddly fingers will be playdough.

After all that we are going to tidy the garden and talk about 10 things we are grateful for.

I’d love to see pictures of your day!