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Hello Don Class! Good Morning everyone and welcome to another week online. You may have noticed that your work looks a bit different this week! We are continuing to look at Scotland in our learning and Monday 25 th January is a celebration day in Scotland as it is the birthday of Robert Burns. You might try to find out more about him and his work this week and there also lots of other Scotland related activities for you to try over. Have fun with this week’s learning and please share your work by emailing it to me: Daniel. reid@braidburn. edin. sch. uk Enjoy Your week! Mr Reid

Circle Time Activities 1) Date – What is today’s date? Can you write it? Sing the days of the week song and do all the signs if you can: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=o. Kq. Ablcw. FOA What month is it? Sing the months of the year and sign the months if you can: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=5 en. DRr. Wy. Xaw 2) Timetable – Plan your day – what do you need to do? What do you want to do? Have you made time for fun and relaxing activities?

Circle Time Activities 3) Newsround – https: //www. bbc. co. uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround Continue watch Newsround to keep in touch with what is happening – can you remember what happened in the news stories? What was the most interesting story for you? Why? 4) Hi 5 - We do a daily 5 minute exercise activity and these are some of our favourites! https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=0 Tg. Lt. F 3 PMOc Count to 100 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=y. Te. Uq. WGCKj. A Count to 100 – version 2 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Imhi 98 d. Ha 5 w Dinosaur Stomp https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=qson. HTjcnj 4 Beat from your seat

Communication Can you tell someone how you are feeling today? Can you ask someone how they are feeling?

Weather Report We have had lots of different kinds of weather over the last week! What’s the weather like today? Do you know the signalong sign for the weather for today?

Literacy Activities Our Literacy work this week focuses on the Famous Scot Robert Burns and one of his favourite poems. There is also a spelling grid that you can use and some reading ideas. Enjoy!

Robert Burns was born on 25 th January 1759 in Ayrshire, Scotland. He was a poet and song writer and is famous around the world. Burns Night is a celebration often held in Scotland on 25 th January. It celebrates the life and work of one of Scotland’s most famous sons One of his most famous songs is Auld Lang Syne, which is often sung at New Year and Burns Night. Can you find out some more information about Robert Burns?

Burns Night On Burns Night, many people have a traditional dinner called Burns Supper. This usually includes eating haggis, which is a traditional Scottish food. It is often served with neeps (swede) and tatties (potatoes). Poems written by Burns are often read aloud too.

Address to a Haggis This poem is read at Burns suppers before the haggis is eaten. You can read it or listen to it here: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=2 Xifu. HP 2 Rn. E&feature=emb_title

Spelling Can you practice the words below? You can try writing or typing the words, reading them out loud or maybe making them out of playdough? There is a fun balloon game here that you might also want to try? https: //www. littlefamilyf un. com/2012/05/spellingballoon-game. html

Reading The website below is free to access and has some lovely books to read: https: //www. thinglink. com/card/1406252735522668546 If you have a library card you can access lots of audio and digital books by using Libby – ask a grown up to look at this page and log in with your library card! https: //yourlibrary. edinburgh. gov. uk/web/arena/overdrive-apps

Assembly 20 – 30 minutes of songs, actions and fun for children and families! On You. Tube every Monday at 11 AM: www. youtube. com/fischymusic Catch up anytime in the week or watch again!

Numeracy Activities I have added a couple of maths pattern activities here this week for you to try. Remember you can use Topmarks and Sumdog for maths games and the maths frame website below has lots of interactive games to try: https: //mathsframe. co. uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular Twinkl has lots of resources that can be accessed and can be found here: https: //www. twinkl. co. uk/resource s/curriculum-for-excellence/schoolclosure-resources-scotland-cfe

Numeracy Number Patterns Starting with the number 3 can you colour every 3 rd number? What number comes next? Do notice a pattern? Use the following link to play PAINT THE SQUARES. Select PATTERN to complete the above activity online: https: //www. topmarks. co. uk/learning-tocount/paint-the-squares

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Cooking – Scottish Oatcakes are a traditional Scottish biscuit that are especially tasty when eaten with some lovely cheese! Why don’t you try making some at home this week as part of our Scotland lessons?

Cooking – Scottish Oatcakes INGREDIENTS 75 g butter 100 g plain / all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon salt 225 g porridge/rolled oats Water WHAT YOU WILL ALSO NEED: Measuring scales/spoons/jug Large bowl Rolling pin Baking Trays Circle cutters/knife Cooling Tray

Cooking – Scottish Oatcakes METHOD Preheat your oven to 190 C/180 C Fan / 350 F and grease or line a few baking trays. In a large bowl rub the butter and the flour together Add in the oats, salt and water and mix together using your hands until the mixture forms a ball Roll out your dough until it is about 3 mm thick and cut circles out Place the circles onto a baking tray and place in the oven for 15 -20 minutes until golden brown and are not soft Leave to cool and then store in a sealed container or eat!

Art activity

Art This week's art activity is: 'Create Your Own Miniature Art Gallery with a Scottish theme to celebrate Robert Burn's birthday’. Find a shoebox, cardboard box, or empty container. Imagine this is a room in your own Art Gallery or Museum and create artwork that fills your gallery using items found around the house or outside. Here a couple of examples – It would be lovely to see yours!

Wellbeing activity Choose a Cosmic Kids yoga session and see if you can follow all the moves! https: //www. youtube. com/c/Cosmic. Kids. Yoga

Living Skills Remember it is important to help with some of the work when you are at home! Can you try some of these tasks this week? - Setting and wiping the table? - Making the bed and opening the curtains? - Putting clean clothes away? - Tidying toys away when you are finished with them? - Tidying your school things away? It is good to help around the house!

Enjoy your week!