Hello Don Class Hello everyone It is now

Hello Don Class! Hello everyone, It is now March and we have reached Spring! This week we are going to continue to look at Fairtrade Fortnight and continue to think about Spring. Thursday is World Book Day so we will also have some book themed activities. 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? What day was it yesterday? What day is it tomorrow? 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? Can you order the months of the year? Sing the months of the year and sign the months if you can: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=5 en. DRr. Wy. Xaw It is Spring! Can you remember the seasons and their order? Can you say them and sign them? 2) Timetable – Plan your week – what are you going to do this week? Are you back in school? Look at the tasks here and try and decide when you will do each task.

Circle Time Activities 3) Newsround – https: //www. bbc. co. uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround Keep watching Newsround – can you tell someone in your house about one of the stories? Was it a good or a bad news story? 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 use the actions chat board here to help you communicate this week? We are thinking about World Book Day Can you find read on the board? What would you like to read? Are you going to make anything this week?

Weather Report What is the weather like today? What is the temperature like? Can you think about what you should wear? Do we need a rain coat if we are outside or just a jumper?

Literacy Activities Our Literacy work this week focuses on World Book Day which is on Thursday 4 th March. In school there is the opportunity to wear a costume to school on Monday 8 th March so perhaps you might want to make one this week? We will be continuing to look at a story by Eric Carle – The Tiny Seed and there are some more activities relating to this. There is also another spelling grid that you can use and the typing skills activities. Enjoy!

World Book Day Stories Click here to listen to a story: Share a Story Corner (worldbookday. com) And there are more stories here: World Book Day Audiobooks

World Book Day Live Events Join these here: Events (worldbookday. com) Which event will you choose?

World Book Day Costume Ideas We will be celebrating World Book Day in class on Monday 8 March. If you would like to dress up as your favourite character here are some ideas for you.

Make your own costume! Here are some ideas and instructions about how to make your own World Book Day Costume! 102 easy World Book Day homemade costume ideas 2021 with pictures Made. For. Mums

A Tiny Seed by Eric Carle Listen to the story ‘A Tiny Seed’ by Eric Carle: https: //www. youtube. com/ watch? v=ls 6 w. Te. T 2 c. KA Can you complete the worksheet to show what can help the tiny seed and what can hurt it? Can you try planting a tiny seed or bulb and see if you can help it grow?

Spelling Can you practice the words below? You can try writing or typing the words or reading them out loud Natural Materials: Why not pick some words and try to spell them out using sticks, twigs or stones?

Typing Skills The website below is free to access and has lots of activities to support and develop typing skills: https: //www. typingclub. com/

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 This week we are looking at number processes 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 9 can you colour every 9 th 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

Numeracy – number processes Can you choose your own numbers and extend these activities?

Numeracy

Fairtrade Fortnight begins on 22 nd February – What do you know about this? Can you tell a grown up all about it? You can find out more here: https: //www. fairtrade. org. uk/choose-the-world-you-want/ Why not try out some of these Fairtrade Fortnight activities or create a research project to share with somebody?

Art activities

Art 'Art Activity - This week's art activity is about snowdrops now spring is on the horizon. 'Decorate a pot and/or make a card to celebrate the arrival of the snow drop flower and spring’ Here a few lovely ideas: https: //www. woohome. com/diy-2/17 -cool-ways-to-decorate-your-flower-pots http: //krokotak. com/2017/02/diy-snowdrops/ – It would be great to see yours!

Wellbeing activity – Mindfulness For our wellbeing activity this week we are thinking about getting out and about and enjoying the sights and sounds of Spring. Why not try some of the walking ideas in this website where you can even create your own walk based on some of our city’s beautiful sites: https: //www. gpsmycity. com/gpstour-guides/edinburgh-520. html Can you find some of the Spring flowers on this hunt checklist? Can you see any different ones? Perhaps you can take some pictures and try to identify what they are?

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? - Help prepare a meal? - Hang up the washing? - Put shopping away? - Making the beds? - Water plants/ tidy outside? It is good to help around the house!