This week’s drama is based around the animals at Edinburgh Zoo. Have a look at the videos of some of the animals on the zoo’s website here
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/animals-and-attractions/main-attractions/
The page looks like this and each section contains a video you can watch.
After watching each video, pretend to be that animal. When pretending to be the animals think about
- How they move. Do they move on 2 or 4 feet? Or fly? Or swim? Or climb?
- What their faces look like.
- What noises they make?
- Anything else interesting they do.
Other activities
- watch the live webcams to see what the animals are up to! https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/
- Study the map of the zoo. Can you find the toilets? Where would you go if you were hurt? What animals would you visit? Where would you park the car?
Zoo Map
- Can you make your own map of your local area? You could include places like your home, school, Granny/Grandad’s house or tesco.
As always I would love to see picture of your drama. Tag me on twitter cara_aikman (remember not to include your child’s name).
This week’s drama is based around the animals at Edinburgh Zoo. Have a look at the videos of some of the animals on the zoo’s website here
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/animals-and-attractions/main-attractions/
The page looks like this and each section contains a video you can watch.
After watching each video, pretend to be that animal. When pretending to be the animals think about
- How they move. Do they move on 2 or 4 feet? Or fly? Or swim? Or climb?
- What their faces look like.
- What noises they make?
- Anything else interesting they do.
Other activities
- watch the live webcams to see what the animals are up to! https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/
- Study the map of the zoo. Can you find the toilets? Where would you go if you were hurt? What animals would you visit? Where would you park the car?
Zoo Map
- Can you make your own map of your local area? You could include places like your home, school, Granny/Grandad’s house or tesco.
As always I would love to see picture of your drama. Tag me on twitter cara_aikman (remember not to include your child’s name).
Good Morning P6
Despite the bad weather preventing us getting to school, we can still continue our learning at home.
- You can continue to work on allocated Snow Day activities on Education City. Why not explore some of the other curricular areas too?
- You could also log on to Sumdog or play some games on Top Marks for further Maths and Numeracy practise.
- Continue to read your novels for our First Minister’s Reading Challenge and if you have your passport at home remember to add any books you finish.
- Find out more about your favourite author – e.g. when and where were they born?; have they always been an author?; who or what inspires them to write?; what other books have they written if any?; what other interests do they have?.
- Create a poster or factfile with the information you gather. Why not use ICT and upload your work to Teams or Yammer?
Be creative, use your imagination and have fun!
Don’t forget to upload your photos #SPSLovestoRead, #SPSSnowDay
Snow day activities for P1D
I hope you are enjoying your time at home with your family.
As school remains closed you may want to try some of the activities listed below:
Phonics
- Our new sound this week was “ch”, you could practise making “ch” with paint, coloured pencils, chalk or pens.
- Go on a “ch” word hunt around your home or you could even go outdoors and write “ch” and “ch” words in the snow.
- Create treasure – real “ch” words and trash – made up “ch” words and play your very own game of treasure or trash.
- Write words and sentences with the “ch” sound.
- Revise all sounds. Most recent sounds include – ee, oa, oo, w, ch, ng and sh
- We have been working hard on blending in class. You can use the website below to practice blending at home http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/literacy/firstblends/
Today is World Book Day
- In class the plan this week was to make a World Book Day head band, you could create this at home including drawing of your favourite character
- How many books can you read today, I wonder which one is your favourite?
- Look at some of the titles on The First Minister’s Reading Challenge, some of these books are available as ebooks,
- Can you make your own book? Staple or stick a few pages together and then decide on your character for your book. Draw lots of pictures on each page to tell a story, if you can, have a go at writing this story, I can’t wait to see your books next week.
- Can you create a story about a snowy day?
- Remember you can post photographs of snow activities or reading activities on #SPSlovestoread or #SPSsnowday
Reading
- Read your reading book and play fastest finger – can you find all your words.
- Read your favourite book, you’ll be surprised how many words you can read on your own now.
- Practise your key words and use them to play games or build real/ silly sentences – don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Maths
- Ceate a snow creature or sculpture, can you measure it, what will you use to measure it?.
- Play a board game.
- Try any of the activities listed on the P1 homework grid, issued earlier this term.
- Play Number Bond games – teach someone how to play fist of 5 challenge yourself and play fists to 10 http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html
Today we did our maths outdoors. In class we have been having lots of opportunities to measure. We have been comparing volume, weight and length. We have also been choosing appropriate items to measure objects. Today with our learning partner we built snowmen. Some of us found this really tricky so we changed it to snow towers. After looking at a variety of objects, we choose our cubes to measure our snowmen or snow towers. After counting how many cubes, we then returned to the class to record our results.
We continued our topic on transport today. After finding out how difficult it had been for some people to travel in their cars today, we looked at the road cameras on different roads around Scotland. We found the M8 motorway close to our school was very busy and the cars were travelling very slowly. We brought snow into the classroom and tried to move our cars on an area with snow and an area without snow.
Orlaith said, it got really stuck on the snow.
Zach- they can’t go as fast when there’s snow.
Learning Today…… Leading Tomorrow
