Good Afternoon Primary 7,

I thought I would post some extra links to some activities and websites that may be of interest if you are looking for something else to do 🙂

YOUNG SCOT – this website has some handy information and also has a different challenge each day for you to attempt: https://young.scot/campaigns/national/clear-your-head-challenge

ARTS & CRAFTS

Kids Art Hub – Online art tutorials https://www.youtube.com/artforkidshub

DCA Activities – this link has activities including: Create your own family coat of arms, Design a public sculpture, Create your own character: https://www.dca.org.uk/stories/article/activity-sheet-round-up

They also post a Monday Makes activity that you may wish to try: https://www.dca.org.uk/stories/article/spud-bud

MY DEAR NEW FRIEND

The National Literacy Trust is part of a project called My Dear New Friend. The project encourages children to write letters to people living in care homes. To take part, use the instructions in the link to help you write a letter to a person currently living in a care home. https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/mydearnewfriend/

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Science Sparks Youtube channel – experiments you can try at home (please check with an adult first!) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoy2L2ZIm8bgIFwaQlhkIAw

Science Museum – Take a virtual tour, play some games or learn about some scientists. https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/

Raspberry PI – Coding

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/digital-making-at-home-parents-guide/

STEM Learning – Lots of different activities here:

https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary

Monday 18th May Literacy Tasks

TASKS – Get Spelling, Word of the Day and First News

TASK 1 – Get Spelling

Here are the Speed Spell words for this week, please ask someone at home to read them out to you so that you can write them in your Practice Books (Green group please write words in your jotter).

Green Group – you have finished all units, we will now work on the Orange Words from the Get Spelling Programme.

Green Book Words –  criticise, correspond, desperate, disastrous, embarrass and exaggerate (write these in a jotter since you have finished the green book).

Blue Book Words Unit 10 – location, musician, politician, magician, technician and electrician.

Red Book Words Unit 6 – fairness, fitness, bitterness, kindness, coldness and darkness.

Once you have done this, please complete the following (Green group you can fill in any pages that you haven’t yet completed:

– Spelling Zone

– Dots and Dashes

– Word Changers

TASK 2 – Vocabulary Word of the Day Task. The template is in your home learning pack, PLEASE DO NOT FILL THIS IN (as there is only one of them) but use it as a guide and do the task in the literacy jotter that is in your pack.

WORD OF THE DAY – HAVOC

In your jotters, you can set it out like this:

WORD:  Havoc

Meaning:

Synonyms:

Antonyms:

Uplevelled Paragraph:

TASK 3 – FIRST NEWS

Log into First News, read some articles, take part in debates and answer some questions.

https://ihub.firstnews.co.uk/pupils

Today is the start of Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 and this year the theme is kindness.  Kindness is defined by doing something towards yourself and others, motivated by genuine desire to make a positive difference, this is extremely relatable to the current situation where we are seeing many acts of kindness happening daily.

Watch this video to learn more about why kindness matters:

https://youtu.be/Qcyc68d6OAk

Can you complete the 7 Day Kindness Challenge? If you wish, you can take pictures and then send them into me or post them to your blogs.

One of my favourite ever quotes from a book is very fitting this week:

Monday 18th May – Numeracy Tasks

Here is today’s Board Number, please complete in the maths jotter that is in your home learning pack.  Remember you do not have to do the extra, this is simply an extra challenge.

Once you have finished, please use a calculator to correct or ask someone at home to correct your work.  Remember, you can also use the inverse operation to correct your work too. For example 28472 x 6, once you have the answer, to use the inverse operation to correct, simply carry out a division calculation using your answer divided by 6 (the answer to this division calculation should be 28472).

TASKS – Board Number and Daily Rigour Numeracy Newspaper

SPICY

851020 – 629849

36842 + 69285 + 1985

62584 x 7

67088 ÷ 7

HOT

1584658.84 – 847659.404

6958442.084 + 851369.05 + 6248.11 + 281

548 x 51

48665.106 ÷ 7

EXTRA –

345  x 43                  675 x 33                         854 x 86                    1032 x 43

TASK 2 – Daily Rigour Numeracy Newspaper 

This focuses on news stories from the past week and the numbers behind them. Complete the activities in your jotter, here is the link to the newspaper: https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/ddspaton810_glow_sch_uk/EVUKzCJJVaZImCrPXloM7yIBo4fkMVX51zNNkEl_RG7jXA?e=RrDESJ

And here is the video with the answers – check this once you have completed all tasks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxs72fRZJyI&feature=youtu.be

Good Morning Primary 7 🙂

I hope you are all well and had a lovely weekend! This week the home learning will be posted daily – numeracy and literacy tasks will be there for you to work through.  Remember you have a few things in your Home Learning Pack that you can work through if you wish – a maths textbook, a historical timelines activity that involves you researching different historical periods, a guided reading activity sheet and the home learning grid (which has websites and ideas on it).  I will also be posting some other websites for you to use, if you wish.

Please remember just do what you can, there is absolutely no pressure to complete everything that is posted each day, some days you may do more and some days you may do less, it is what works best for you and your family.

If you haven’t already joined teams please can you do this, you just need your glow email and password to sign in.  If you can also check your emails, I sent out an email asking for a P1 picture and also a picture of you in you hoodie holding up a message for the other children.  Thanks to those who have sent me their pictures, my email address is ddspaton810@glow.sch.uk if it is easier for someone at home to send me the pictures.

Have a good day!   Mrs P  🙂

The Courier have been publishing what life is like in lockdown in different areas in and around Dundee. The latest article featured Kirkton and Corrina’s lovely artwork was featured! Corrina made an NHS stone that sits under a tree in her street. Well done Corrina, such a lovely thing to do to brighten up your street!

You can see the pictures here, Corrina’s stone is the second bottom picture:

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/1319439/lockdown-life-how-the-pandemic-has-changed-the-streets-of-kirkton/

Friday 15th May Literacy Tasks

TASKS – Word of the Day, Spelling/Team Teach, Finish tasks

TASK 1 – Vocabulary Word of the Day Task. The template is in your home learning pack, PLEASE DO NOT FILL THIS IN (as there is only one of them) but use it as a guide and do the task in the literacy jotter that is in your pack.

WORD OF THE DAY – INDIGNANT

In your jotters, you can set it out like this:

WORD:  Indignant

Meaning:

Synonyms:

Antonyms:

Uplevelled Paragraph:

TASK 2 – SPELLING

1. Ask someone at home to test you with the spelling words from Monday:Green Book Words– committee, cemetery, conscious, communication, controversy and convenience.

   Blue Book Words Unit 9– education, creation, subtraction, collection, action and celebration.

   Red Book Words Unit 5 – valley, chimney, journey, hockey, volley and trolley.

2. TEAM TEACH -(Only for Red and Blue Books)

Ask  someone at home to read out the words or call a classmate and take it in turns to read out the words.  Here are the Team Teach words for each book:

BLUE BOOK:  https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/ddspaton810_glow_sch_uk/EVgsewG_zxhDsi6nUNUgfpEBXBSCjN6VPgrrDIj-5FJYlQ?e=V4hvT7

RED BOOK: https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/ddspaton810_glow_sch_uk/EV2pgYliHShHicp_eeUL-3QB4e0EJjrSR9xsFdO8ivVyQA?e=2CZbXE

TASK 3 – Complete any tasks from this week that are unfinished – this might be the comic you were creating or the superhero story from yesterday.  You can also look back at previous posts and complete a task you haven’t done.

Friday 15th May – Numeracy Tasks

Good Morning Primary 7! Happy Friday, we have completed another week, well done to everyone 🙂

TASKS – Generate Board Number, Sumdog and Maths Puzzles (Extra)

For today’s Board Number I would like you to create/generate your own questions – you can create them yourself, ask someone at home to create some or use the Mathsbot Question Generator.  You may wish to focus on one area, for example division or you may wish to do all four operations – it is up to you.

This website allows you to select an area to revise or you can choose the Four Operations option –

https://mathsbot.com/questionGenerator

You can choose how many groups of questions you get. You can start with 1 group of 5-10 questions then build up to more. It will look like this:

Question Generator

Then select a topic from the drop-down box – for example Arithmetic: Four Operations then choose the level of difficulty (0 being the easiest and 10 being the hardest) I would start at 3 and work up.

Then select the time limit – start with 10-15 minutes and then click on Create Questions. It will look like this:

You can then click Show Answers and correct your work.  If you wish, once you have tried the four operations you can have a go and try some different topics! Good Luck 🙂

TASK 2 – SUMDOG 

Log into Sumdog and continue to take part in the competition. This is running until the 22nd May.   https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in

EXTRA – Test your brain and complete some of these puzzles.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/puzzles/index.html

Thursday 14th May Literacy Tasks

TASKS – Word of the Day, Get Spelling, Superhero Story 

TASK 1 – Vocabulary Word of the Day Task. The template is in your home learning pack, PLEASE DO NOT FILL THIS IN (as there is only one of them) but use it as a guide and do the task in the literacy jotter that is in your pack.

WORD OF THE DAY – PROFOUND

In your jotters, you can set it out like this:

WORD:  Profound

Meaning:

Synonyms:

Antonyms:

Uplevelled Paragraph:

TASK 2 – GET SPELLING  BOOKS (Red and Blue Books)

Please complete Choose the Right Word then any pages/ Special Focus you haven’t completed.  (Special Focus pages up to the unit that you are currently working on).

Please revise this week’s spelling words from Monday ready for spelling test tomorrow.

TASK 3 – WRITE A STORY WITH KID NORMAL AUTHORS

Greg James and Chris Smith are authors of the Kid Normal book series, a four-part adventure about a superhero kid… with no powers! Watch their video guide to making up your own superhero story.

Create your own superhero story and if you wish, you can complete the additional activities on the page.

https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/9-12/printable-activities-9-12/write-superhero-story-greg-james-and-chris-smith/

Thursday 14th May- Numeracy Tasks

Good Morning Primary 7 🙂

Here is today’s Board Number, remember you do not have to do the extra, this is simply an extra challenge.

Once you have finished, please use a calculator to correct or ask someone at home to correct your work.  Remember, you can also use the inverse operation to correct your work too. For example 28472 x 6, once you have the answer, to use the inverse operation to correct, simply carry out a division calculation using your answer divided by 6 (the answer to this division calculation should be 28472).

TASKS – Board Number and Corbett Maths 

SPICY

701203 – 467599

533574 + 365289 + 806

66512 x 9

11583 ÷ 9

HOT

325694.68 – 101584.217

548611.251 + 25148.94 + 3284.08 + 945

710 x 84

238869.18 ÷ 9

EXTRA –

Using each digit only once, write two 4 digit numbers that total 10,000.  For example – 2215 + 7785                                                                How many different ways can you find?

Digits – 1, 2, 2, 5, 5, 7, 7, 8

TASK 2 – Corbett Maths Worksheets

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 May and begin to work through them, you do not need to complete all of it in one day!  There are 4 levels of difficulty ranging from Bronze to Platinum (most difficult). Please do not worry if there is a question you are unsure of.

Here is the link to the May questions:

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

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-may-answers/