Today there is a new Sumdog skills challenge beginning and it runs until Friday at 4pm.

There is also a spelling challenge running until Friday at 4pm for all literacy groups.

Get Spelling children should continue with wherever they left off in their spelling workbook. Try to do a unit a week if you can.

RWI children should tune into YouTube for their daily lesson. Scroll down for the link.

As we are doing a mini topic about Dundee, why not have a look this week at the V&A’s design challenge. The first challenge is on the website but every Wednesday a new challenge is announced through calling a freephone number. The details are on the link.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/info/design-busters

In numeracy,try Hit the Button to test your times table knowledge. Its a game of speed. We really enjoyed playing this in class!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Cubes and cylinders – Try this 2 step problem.  Remember the importance of showing your working as you go,

P4 are raising money for charity. Their sponsored spell raises £346 and the cake and candy raises £138. How much more money do they still have to make to reach their target of £650?

Pyramids- Think boards. Draw a picture, create a bar model (part, part, whole) and write a number sentence for these problems. The picture helps us represent and solve the problem! I’ve put an example in a photo.

There are 18 cups and 11 saucers. How many cups won’t have a saucer?

There are 15 children in the gym. Miss Burke gives each child a ball and has 5 balls left over. How many balls are there?

Well here we are again at another Friday!

Today you can choose between any of the activities of the week that you haven’t got to yet – scroll through our blog to remind yourself.

Why not use today to ask someone at home to give you a spelling check or a times tables check? Check in with Sumdog if you like, choose a game on Topmarks Maths or timestables.co.uk.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

Mrs Brankin found this fun activity to say thank you to our hard working posties. Have a look if you like.

https://www.royalmail.com/thumbsup?iid=HP_M4_THUMBSUP

why not go on http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/index.html

and do some research on a subject of your choice? We used this site lots for our work on rainforests and Ancient Egypt.

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/ is my daughter’s favourite site. Have a look and learn something new.

Pyramids – cubes and cylinders have a go too if you want!

Grab some dice.( If you don’t have dice, write numbers 1-10 on a piece of paper.) Roll the dice to get 2 numbers. Or throw a wee rolled up piece of paper on your number grid to select 2 numbers. You then have the 2 multiples you need.  I want you to make an array out of your multiples. We have done this lots and lots of times in class. It doesn’t matter what you use,  pasta, small toys, buttons, counters or you could cut up bits of paper into shapes. Build your array and write 4 fact family sentences to explain your groups.

eg, 4×3=12      3×4=12         12 divided by 4=3      12 divided by 3 = 4

Here’s a video reminder about arrays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvJRIK60idA

Cubes and cylinders – Corbett Maths – Primary 5 a day

Please complete some of the worksheets on Corbett Maths 5 a day – you do not need to print the worksheet, simply write the question in your jotters and work it out.

Start on the 1st April and begin to work through them, you do not need to complete all of April in one day!  There are 4 levels of difficulty ranging from Bronze to Platinum (most difficult). Give the bronze level a try. Please do not worry if there is a question you are unsure of.

Here is the link to the April questions:

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2019/12/03/printer-friendly-5-a-day-april/

Here is where you can find the answers, please have a go at working out the answer before checking the answers. You may wish to complete one day, correct it and then move onto the next day.

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/05/30/5-a-day-april-answers/

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!