If your child has access to their Sumdog account, they can take part in our whole school competition.
The competition starts at 9am today and will finish on Friday at 3.15pm.
The teaching staff will keep an eye on the leaderboard and can offer coins to their class for encouragement!
Congratulations to last week’s winner – Alfie H P6
Good luck!
Hopefully you have spotted the task on the grid about drawing a map. Map reading and map making are both very important skills to learn. Sometimes the biggest challenge is understanding a map as surprisingly every map is different. So our first challenge is to read and understand the map we plan to use. I found a number of different maps in my house and have added these below for you to look at.
What information do they all have?
What similarities do they have?
Can you spot any major differences?
Is there anything that is unique to each or one map?
See below for some map making and map reading tasks, feel free to do more than one task. I have added some already sent into Seesaw so thank you to those pupils who have shared these.
Task 1 – Describe a journey
Describe the journey you would normally take to a friend’s house/shop/school or favourite place from your home. If possible, pace it or walk it to help you describe it easily. You could draw it out as a map and add some noticeable buildings or points of interest to your map or you could make a fantastic leaflet or map like the examples below.
Use words such as –
Task 2 – Using a map
Choose 5- 8 cities or towns in Scotland and try and work out how far these are from your home. You could use Google maps, a real map or similar and record the data collected in a table. See below for an example already posted to Seesaw.
Answer these questions –
Task 3 – Online mapping activities
Try out the games and activities on this website to learn more about maps.
Keep practising how many 1ps, 2ps, 5ps and 10ps you need to add together to have the same amount as a
If you are confident with this practise counting how many 2ps, 5ps, 10ps, 20ps and 50ps you need to add together to have the same amount as a £1 or a £2 coin.
Templates to download, should you wish
The Royal Mint – Different Types of Coins
Keep practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to help you count amounts of money quickly.
You might like to try some of the questions on these sheets
Check the change given from £1
Learn about the banknotes designed by the people of Scotland for RBS.
If your child has access to their Sumdog account, they can take part in our whole school competition.
The competition starts at 9am today and will finish on Friday at 3.15pm.
The teaching staff will keep an eye on the leaderboard and can offer coins to their class for encouragement!
Congratulations to last week’s winner – Alexander P6
Good luck!
Twinkl – Make each amount using coins
Watch this film to learn about how the Royal Mint make coins.
This film was made before the new £1 coin was introduced.
Can you count how many sides the £1 coin has?
What do the pictures on the back of the coin represent?
Why did the £1 coin have to be redesigned?
‘It’s a No-Money Day’ by Kate Milner
In the second film the author of ‘It’s a No Money Day’, Kate Milner, reads her book and spends time discussing her choice and style of illustrations. She makes some very interesting points about the illustrations to help the reader empathise with the main characters.
If you would like your child to practise reading aloud I think it might be helpful to turn down the volume and scroll through the video from page to page.
It is really interesting how a collection of simple shapes can look like an animal.
By grouping shapes together in a certain way you get an outline of a line that goes all the way around. When you have these grouped shapes all together in one colour it has a special name…Do you know what it is?
Today we are going to create some simple silhouettes and cast their shadow out in the grass to imagine they are in our jungle. You can also set up a torch indoors and play with your shadow puppets.
Remember to send in pictures of your work to your teacher through email or seesaw.
The pictures you sent in were great some went exploring on their walks and some hunted around their bedrooms.
You may have to make your own paint, which I found really fun, as I had to be curious and try and make my own colours.
Some of you have already sent in your drawing following the video on the grid, Well Done!
Today we are going to look at identifying the shapes we need ourselves to create a simple shape drawing.
The sway below gives you ideas on how to identify the shapes you need to create an animal.
Most of the examples only use, Squares, Triangles, Rectangles and Circles. By used differently every time we can create and fish and a snake with just a few changes.
Discuss with family why you are using a certain shape as a neck, or arm or elbow rather than another shape. What qualities does that shape have that makes it the best shape to use?
Have great fun and on Wednesday we will extend this further and create some shadow puppets in the grass.
Today we will using our 2D and 3D shape knowledge.
But first lets enjoy some of our favourite shape songs, some you know, some you don’t. I know you will have a favourite. I’ve had one stuck in my head all week!
Enjoy some friendly competition with the family and review your shape fact knowledge.
