Primary Department Activities – Week Beginning 4th May

Here are some fun activities for you to try at home this week.

Remember, we’re always delighted to see what you’ve been doing so please, feel free to share you photos and videos with us.   Please send any photos via your child’s teacher, the school Facebook Messenger page or email adunnett@aberdeencity.gov.uk.  We are having issues downloading videos from the messenger page so if they are too large to send via email, please use a free transfer site such as Dropbox or WeTransfer.

Story Of The Week: ‘We All Go Travelling By’ By Sheena Roberts

This week’s story is one of our favourites from Barefoot Books.  So get ready and hop aboard the yellow school bus as it makes its way through town.

Click below to watch and listen to the story:

The book study below has some great activities for you to try at home based on the story.

Links and additional documents to support the activities can be found below:

Activities1 and 2: Transport Pictures

Activity 5: Transport Colouring In

These can also be downloaded from Twinkl using the following link:
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-23663-transport-template-activity-sheets

Other Activity Ideas:

Transport Sorting:

This can also be downloaded from Twinkl using the following link:
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-4901-transport-sorting-activity

Transport Pencil Control:

This can also be downloaded from Twinkl using the following link:
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-8005-transport-pencil-control-path-worksheets

Science: Forces Experiments

In keeping with our transport theme, we have some fun experiments for you to try based on movement and friction.

Learning Grid: Life Skills

Here is a learning grid for Life Skills.  It contains 16 activity ideas for you to help develop and promote your child’s independence in a range of household and life skills tasks.

These activities are only suggestions and we would recommend that, where appropriate, you adapt these activities to meet your child’s ability level.

Learning Grid: Get Active!

Here is a learning grid for Getting Active!  It contains 16 activity ideas for you to help promote physical activity both in and out of the home on a daily basis.

These activity are only suggestions and we would recommend completing one activity each day.  However, we would love to see what other creative ways you and your family are using to Get Active daily!

Links to YouTube Channels and websites can be found below.

Oti Mabuse Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/mosetsanagape

Joe Wicks – Body Coach YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Cosmic Kids Yoga: https://www.cosmickids.com/

Cosmic Kids Yoga YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Learning Station YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLearningStation

Bumble Bee Physio: https://www.facebook.com/bumblebeephysio/