Hello Don Class Hello everyone It was lovely

Hello Don Class! Hello everyone, It was lovely to see some of you last week and I look forward to seeing you all in class again soon. This week we are going to look at Fairtrade Fortnight which starts on 22 nd February but also start to look forward to Spring and the lovely new beginnings that we should start to see as Winter begins to fade (hopefully!) 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 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? Can you ask someone to help you? Can you find play on the board? What would you like to play?

Weather Report What is the weather like today? Can you keep a record of what the weather is like this week? Once you are finished can you compare it to last week? Is the weather better or worse? Can you keep a record of the top temperature each day? What day was the hottest/highest?

Literacy Activities Our Literacy work this week looks at a story by Eric Carle – The Tiny Seed. There is also another spelling grid that you can use and a fantastic resource to support and develop typing skills. Enjoy!

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 retell the story or remember some of the things that happened? Did you like the story? Why/ Why not?

Spelling Can you practice the words below? You can try writing or typing the words, reading them out loud or writing them outside in mud or chalk? ! Wordsearch: Create your own wordsearch using some of this weeks’ words and see if you can find them all: http: //wordsearchcreator. co. uk/

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 continuing with addition and subtraction activities. 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 8 can you colour every 8 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 – addition and subtraction games Can you create your own board with your own sums to try?

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?

Cooking – Blueberry Cookies

Cooking – Blueberry Cookies Ingredients (Makes: 20) 175 g butter, softened 200 g light soft brown sugar 100 g golden caster sugar 1 tbsp vanilla extract 1 large egg 250 g plain flour ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda 200 g blueberry 50 g flaked almonds (optional) WHAT YOU WILL ALSO NEED: Bowl Spoons Whisk Rolling pin Baking Tray Greaseproof Paper Cooling rack

Cooking – Blueberry Cookies METHOD STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 Heat oven to 190 C/170 C fan/gas 5. Line 2 baking trays with baking parchment. Tip the butter, sugars and vanilla into a bowl. Beat with a handheld electric whisk until pale and fluffy. Add the egg and beat again. Tip the flour, bicarb and a pinch of salt into the bowl, and use a spatula to mix together. Add the blueberries and almonds and mix again until everything is combined. Scoop golf-ball-sized mounds of cookie dough onto the baking trays, making sure you leave plenty of space between each one. (You should fit 4 -6 cookies on each tray, so you’ll have to bake in batches to make the total 20 cookies. ) Can be frozen at this point – simply defrost in the fridge before baking. Bake for 18 mins, swapping the trays around halfway through. Remove the trays from the oven and leave to cool for 10 mins before transferring to a wire rack, then bake the second batch. Continue until all the cookies are baked.

Art activities

Art Activity – The Tiny Seed Have a try at creating your own flower from The Tiny Seed story: Colour Two pieces of A 4 card or paper using paints/pens/crayons or coloured pencils - Colour one sheet using hot colours (Red, orange and yellow) - Colour the other sheet using blue and green Draw and cut out petal shapes on the ‘hot’ sheet (a tip is to draw the shapes on the plain side!) Draw and cut out a stem and leaves on the ‘cold’ sheet Glue your shapes into a flower like the one here. – It would be great to see yours!

Art 'Art Activity - 'Mud glorious mud'. Let's get outside and have fun creating amazing works of art using mud, lots of ideas and techniques to help you get started. Here a few lovely ideas: https: //mothernatured. com/nature-play/mud-play-for-kids/ – It would be great to see yours!

Wellbeing activity – Mindfulness For our wellbeing activity this week we are going to think about our mental health and strategies to help us to feel calm and relaxed. Why not try some of the Cosmic Kids activities below or try some mindfulness colouring activities? https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=K 7 FUb. Tac_ds&t=259 s https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=j. J 9 zp. RAPIu. I&t=150 s https: //www. twinkl. co. uk/resource/t-c-1551 -mindfulness-colouring-sheets-bumper-pack https: //www. teachingideas. co. uk/2 d-art/mindfulness-colouring-images-animals

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? - Set the table? - Open/close the curtains/blinds? - Washing up? - Dusting/Hoovering? - Taking out the bins/recycling? It is good to help around the house!

Enjoy your week!