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https://www.themathsfactor.com/

Everyday at 1pm Active Schools will be posting an active challenge for you to complete! The aim is to beat the Active Schools Instructor. Good luck Primary 4

Log in to Sumdog to play literacy and numeracy challenges!

Cubes and cylinders – do the part, part, whole calculation posted below. Remember to show your working and do 4 fact family sentences.

Pyramids – There are 37 Lego bricks in the box. I give 12 to my friend to finish her house. How many are left? Mum then gives me a new box that has 28 pieces in it. How many Lego bricks do I have now?

Discuss your calculations with a person at home.

We have used these to show the links between addition and subtraction- that they are in ‘fact families’. They can be adapted for your child’s needs. The children perform calculations and then write 4 fact family sentences
Eg 12+13=25
13+12=25
25-13=12
25-12=13

Primary 4 home learning activities
Please see the blog for my previous posts on helping with multiplication tables and having number talks.
Sumdog have now launched free spelling and reading activities. This is brand new but once I get to grips with it, I should be able to set challenges in numeracy AND literacy. The children should be able to use it independently too.
Twinkl, the resource site has offered free one month Ultimate Membership for parents and carers – go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS . Lots of ideas and inspiration, worksheets and games to print and PowerPoints to watch.
www.topmarks.co.uk is a great source of activities and games for all curricular areas. We use it regularly for maths and literacy games and challenges.
www.timestables.co.uk – another fun site for games and practice.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize video clips, games and activities for all curricular areas.
www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers learning and being active all in one for many curricular areas.
www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/ these are being launched soon so I don’t know what they look like yet.
http://wonderopolis.org/wonders
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html this is a US site but has excellent resources – day to day projects for reading and thinking
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/ literacy support
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk

Each child has their log in to Glow in their folder. They will be able to access the learning tiles. They can use the QR code or the school website to access the blog. I will update the blog every day possible with activities and suggestions. In order to comment on the blog posts, the children need to enter their Glow email, this is their Glow log in followed by @glow.sch.uk – for example ddtsmith192@glow.sch.uk

I would encourage your child to read as often as they can and to follow structured day as far as their learning goes. I would expect them to complete literacy, numeracy and health tasks every day, either from their pack, the online resources and/or materials/activities you can provide. The pack includes revision of work we have already done, with some extension tasks. Once a sheet is completed you could use it to devise further similar tasks.
physical activity, emotional wellbeing – Go Noodle, Yoga For The Classroom – Yoga With Adriene, Saskia’s dansschool (kids and teens section), The Body Coach TV – all on YouTube.
literacy
Some packs include irregular spelling words. Select any of these (ten a week max) to use for the spelling activities included or for simply learning and using in a sentence.
My Get Spelling Book 3 group have their workbook home. Because the books were on order and we were using other resources, children should complete any part of the first 4 units that aren’t complete, in the first week of absence. Your child should them complete one unit a week. They can use the spelling from the workbook in spelling activities or mix them up with the irregular spelling sheet. Anything is great!
The Grey Level RWI have workbook 2a of Get Spelling. I have decided to move them on but as the assessments have not taken place this may change on our return. They should still revise RWI sounds They should do one unit a week of their Spelling Workbook. Please don’t worry about whether you are doing it ‘right’ or not. Any work Is appreciated.
I would encourage all children to remember our inputs on vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation. Give them a dull sentence and get them to improve it, verbally or written. Encourage them to use adverbs and similes. Get them to write a story as amazing as the one they recently wrote in class, remembering the importance of good beginnings, middles and endings.

I can be contacted at the email address below.

Best Wishes to you and your family
Mrs O
Email ddcoglesby991@glow.sch.uk

Well done to Andrasta and Cziara for completing six reading challenges!

On Friday we try to reflect on our week’s learning and think about what challenged us, what we learned, what we enjoyed and where we want our learning to take us next. This week we also reflected on our learning targets for the term. It’s important we keep these goals in mind so we can constantly improve and move forward.

This week we have been discussing what makes a really great story. We watched the BBC 500 words Live Lesson to get tips on how to develop our characters and also how to get a good ending. Should our story end with a twist, with a happy ever after or with a question over what happens next? We already know the importance of vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation to our writing so next we filled in a Think Board full of words, similes and phrases to really draw the reader in. Why describe Egypt as hot when you could use ‘scorching’ or ‘sun-baked’? Why use dark when you could use ‘gloomy’ or ‘shadowy’? Next we need to use a ‘story mountain’ to plan our adventure and take our readers along on the journey!

Today we practised writing in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. We are on our way to becoming Egyptologists!