Dundee Science Centre is celebrating Earth Week this week. They have lots of activities for you to try. Why not have a look and do some as part of your literacy/science work for the week.

https://www.dundeesciencecentre.org.uk/earth-week

Cubes and cylinders – (pyramids feel free to join in.)

We are going to solve problems using a combination of operations

Finlay’s family are going to the funfair. It costs £5 per adult and £3 per child. How much would it cost altogether for:

a) 2 adults and 3 children

b) 4 adults and 2 children

c) 3 adults and 5 children

d) 5 adults and 10 children

Remember to show how you worked it out.

Pyramids – (cubes and cylinders feel free to join in)

Write the number that comes after

209       600      399    740     831    110     570    962

Write the number that comes before

110     901     470    800   281     599    319    700

Write all the numbers that come in between

408 and 418

326 and 336

555 and 565

797 and 807

600 and 610

200 and 210

Get spelling groups should continue with their unit, their spelling activities detailed yesterday and the sumdog spelling challenge

RWI should tune in to the Set 3 (pink group – Miss Thompson Set 2) lesson on YouTube as detailed yesterday or practise their speed sounds from their folder. You also have a sumdog challenge to complete

Sentence up -level for all

The dog sat in the garden

Write 4 adjectives to describe the dog

Write 2 verbs to describe what the dog was doing

Write 2 adjectives to describe the garden.

Now choose your favourites to up-level the sentence. Add an opener and/or a joining word. What about an adverb (for example, quietly, sadly)? Or a simile? (as….as a….)

Now add a drawing to include all the detail you have written about.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons

Every day there will be 3 new lessons posted on the link above. Choose your age group and explore. Too easy or too tricky? Just go up or down an age range! As well as these new lessons you can explore the Bitesize page for all curricular areas, play games, watch clips and apply your learning in different ways.

RWI lessons can be accessed online every day!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
These will be shown Monday – Friday.
Each lesson will last approximately 10-15 minutes and will be available to access on YouTube for 24 hours.
Set 1
Speed Sounds – 9.30am
Word Time – 9.45am
Spelling – 10am
Set 2
Speed Sounds and Word Time – 10am
Spelling – 10.15am
Set 3
Speed Sounds and Word Time – 10.30am
Spelling – 10.45am
STORYTIME
Storytime with Nick runs on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2pm.

This week continue with another unit of your workbook. Some of the words may appear in the Sumdog Spelling Challenge. Choose 4 words from your unit to use in 4 sentences and try to use VCOP to make them interesting. You could also use the Active Spelling method to practise some or all of the words you have selected to learn from your unit or the irregular words list.

Write a word in one colour. Trace over it in lots of different colours to make a rainbow word.
Make a word search with your words. List them underneath.
Play charades with your words. When someone has guessed the word, spell it.
Write your words in colourful bubble writing.
Write your spelling words forwards and then backwards and then spell them out loud forwards.
Make a square of 4 rows of dots with 4 dots in each row. Before taking a turn, the player must spell a spelling word. If the word is correct, he/ she connects two dots. When a player forms a square, he can write his/her initials in the box. Player with most squares at the end wins.
Draw and colour a picture then hide your words inside the picture. Let someone try to find your words and check if you wrote them with the right spelling.
Write each word in your list in a pyramid. The first letter in the word should be at the top, the next two below then three underneath that and so on.
Write your words in a list and the rewrite them in ABC order.
Write all your words out and then trace over the vowels in each word in colour.
Write out all your words in normal writing, and then write them all out in squiggly writing.
Write your words with a finger in the air for a parent to guess the word you have written.
Write your words one at a time with your finger on your mum or dad’s back. They should then try to guess the word you wrote.
Write the entire list end to end as one long word with each word in a different colour.
Draw a hopscotch board outside on the ground with chalk. Put in letters instead of the numbers and hop your words as you spell them out.
Cut the letters for each of your words from an old newspaper or magazine and stick them down on a sheet of paper with glue.
Draw a picture of a great big flower with lots of petals. Write each of your words in colour on the petals. Add more petals if you need to.
Type your words on the computer on a Word document then change each word to a different size and font.
Make your words with Plasticene or play dough.

Do a Daily 10 of your choice

Cubes and cylinders – Do this word problem. Talk about the important words that tell us what type of calculation it is. Show your working.

Katy is running the 800m race. She is getting tired but hears her mum shouting ‘Keep going Katy! You’ve only got 145m left!’

How far has Katy already run?

Pyramids- do this word problem. Talk about the important words that tell us what type of calculation it is. Show your working.

Isla is saving up for a new bike. She has £58 in her piggy bank. Her gran gives her£31  How much money does she have now?

Practise those times tables!

This term we are going to have a mini topic all about our city of Dundee. I know we can’t get out and explore but we can use our existing knowledge and experience of the city plus online resources to help us. This week I would like you to research castles in Dundee and choose one to write a short piece about. You can tell me when and why it was built, if it is used now or a ruin. I would also like you to produce a drawing of the castle in pencil. You can go over the pencil in dark pen if you like. The reason we are keeping the drawing without colour is so we can focus on our observation and recording skills, on the detail of what we can see and focusing on line, shape and form. You can email me your finished work or share it on the blog if you like.

Good morning Primary 4! Hope you are all well today! I have set a numeracy and a spelling challenge for everyone! The challenge is live now and will run till 3.15 on Friday. Last week 1 person took part in the spelling challenge and 4 people took part in the times table challenge so let’s see if we can improve on that this week! Good luck!

Hi there everybody. I hope everyone is doing ok, staying home and staying safe. Hopefully you’ve had some chance to get outside for a wee walk everyday in the lovely sunshine. This week I am working at the Tayview Community Hub. It seems very strange to drive past Dochart Terrace and go to a new school! Its all been very new and different but life is all about rising to a new challenge, so that is what I’m doing!

As I am in the hub all week I won’t be posting very much on the blog. I have put up a new Sumdog challenge for spelling for the Get Spelling groups and the RWI groups and a maths challenge for all. The children using the red spelling practice book should do the next unit in their workbook this week and so should the children with the blue practice book. The RWI children should practise their red words on their red word sheet. Remember to read, read, read! Books, Kindle apps, online resources – it’s up to you! Why not register on the oxford owl for home website where there are lots of books to read and audio books to listen to.

Keep up to speed with your times tables and choose some of the literacy and numeracy tasks in your folder to complete.

I miss you all very much.

Mrs O