Month: May 2020

Hi everyone , we are keeping busy and safe . I am still continuing on with my school work , maths , English , reading , spelling etc . Here are some of the thing’s we have been doing along with my usual work and the big Thursday day’s. 

I love drawing Manga , I have a lot of book’s which helps with creating the correct way to Draw the faces. I prefer to not colour my manga portraits as I feel that it be more animation manga rather than sketching manga. I enjoyed re creating a Van gogh painting , I love the way the colours blend in , it makes it look like the painting is alive . We hace veen doing alot of baking , something I enjoy doing with my Mum , we made Empire biscuits , banana loaf, shortbread angels and cinnamon rolls . Thing’s always taste better home made . On our walks we see alot of nature , we have a stunning loch 2 mins from us . The loch has alot of swan , geese and ducks on and other types of birds , sometimes we like to just take 5 mins from our walk to enjoy our surroundings.  We find alot of other thing’s on our walks , wee broken bits of newly hatched chick eggs  , caterpillars , all sorts of birds , weasels , fox etc etc The best thing about living in the countryside is the nature , the bad thing about it is my cat’s catching the bird’s,  the poor wee swallow  in the photo was rescued .  We have been spending cosy night’s around the fire while star gazing and looking for satellites. I have also been going on BBC bite size and doing some work from there . I decided to have a go making a model plant cell , this was very interesting , I learnt a little bit about how plant cells and animal cells have certain features in common such as thr mitochondria , membrane,  nucleus and cytoplasm . Plants cells also have a permanent vacuole . In the photo’s you will see a plastic tub (This acts as the cell wall) with water,  one grape(acting as the nucleus which contains the cells  genetic material) , handful of peas (acting as the chloroplast. These are where photosynthesis takes place) , water filled plastic bag ( with the water acting as the vacuole ) and a small amount green food colouring. The photo of the pea on its own is photosynthesis taking place . We have been doing alot of gardening so decided to give our poor garden gnomes a wee makeover , we painted 6 in total , how cool do they look 🙂 . Stay safe everyone from Merrisa.

At the weekend it was Grannys Birthday so I made her a  cake, it made her happy.  I. Made it by myself but mum took it out of the oven.She said it was the best cake in the world. Looking into dangerous animals and the Amazon for my Percy Fawcett writing is exciting I have learnt quite a bit. This week I have had a free garden stall to give away books and DVDs because it’s nice to do and it might stop people getting bored. If you drive past stop and help yourself.  I am working very hard to complete 1000 on sumdog. Last night I spoke to Olivia for a little bit I was happy when she called.

By Tumaini

At the weekend we gave granny presents over the garden wall for her birthday. I have read Tumaini  story. I have made a lady bird book. I am trying to make white flowers colourful. I have described animals.  I am on a sumdog mission. I saw karate cats on her so I went on and its awesome.

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Now I’m making a giant snake with Tumaini.

Hi everybody. Today I did my maths tasks. I did the word problems. I got some help from my mummy because I wasn’t sure if they were division or multiplication. I also did my number patterns. Then I did word cookie and got 13 words from the letters. Then I did my handwriting.

Hey everyone – Cleo checking in with some of my work.

This is my Van Gogh inspired painting from the end of last week using the airbrush programme

I’ve nearly finished House with the Chicken Legs. Mummy has set me the challenge of finishing before the end of the week so I can do a review. I have been doing work from my spelling list and also did the dictionary words – here are my sentences for those.

Indiana Jones is an intrepid adventurer that travels all over the world looking for historical artifacts.
Captain Marvel is courageous because she fights for people to protect them.
Climbing Mount Everest is arduous journey because the conditions are harsh.
School work can be a gruelling task.
Going for a walk in the Amazon Rainforest can be an adventurous escapade.
I love clothes and jewellery that are unique.
The house was in the jeopardy because it was so old and at risk of falling down.

For maths I’ve been sticking with my 5-a-day and doing a mix of medium and spicy. I’ve also been doing Sumdog and I’m going to try hard to help us do well in the challenge this week.

This week we’ve also taken a look at plants. We went into the garden and looked at flowering and non-flowering plants. We then discussed the differences. Then we looked at parts of a plant and I came in and drew a diagram through paint. Here it is.

I’ve also been very interested in myths and legends recently, especially legendary or mythical creatures. I’ve been watching some documentaries on them. Today’s has been about the Lochness monster.
Anyway time to go for just now.
Hope everyone is safe.
Cleo.

Today I started with maths, I did better than yesterday, getting used to (X) and today I was picking it up a little bit better.
The fun part today was making my ladybird book! 

From Reece

 I made my dad and mum two origami animals and I made one into a card for them!

By Hannah.

Hola Team Holywood, 

Head over to the French and Spanish page to find new Spanish learning activities! 

Adios. 

Hi there everyone. Rory here.
Just giving an update.
I’ve been working hard on my maths as usual. I’ve been doing Sumdog, but also practising things I have learned in the last few weeks like my big number addition. I also started the first part of halving numbers yesterday. Some of these were bigger numbers than I had halved before so I learned how to divide by 2.

I did some reading on Epic yesterday before starting a new book. I think I am going to be reading a Horrible Histories book about Vikings. I have done the first word cookie and made sentences with the words I found. Mummy found it funny that I could spot the word eight myself but needed some help spotting the word it. Here are my sentences :
I hit the ball over Cleo’s head.
Toilet paper is white.
There was eight people in the shop buying food.
My Daddy needed to get milk from the shop.
I have never worn a tie.
It was really dark at night.
It is hard when playing tig and you are the tagger.
Twigs are really skinny bits of stick from a tree.
I said hi to one of my friends.
The sun was bright up in the sky.
I played a game with my friends.

I also did a 15 minute quick writing this morning about a genie giving me 3 wishes.
I met a genie and he gave me 3 wishes. I wished for a car that I could drive because I don’t want to wait until I’m eighteen. Another one of my wishes would be to get every single video game I have ever wanted. This is because I love video games and they are one of my favourite things ever. My last wish would be for the coronavirus to be gone and quarantine to be over because I miss all my friends.

Going to do a bit more Epic reading right now and then it will be time for more maths. This afternoon we are going to label parts of plants and find out about flowering and non-flowering plants.

Hope everyone has a good day. Bye for now
Rory.

Morning everyone.

I’ve been looking at the leaderboard for the Sumdog regional contest and the senior maths class isn’t even in the top 73 yet… because we’ve only had 9 pupils play, and we need 10 or more for our class to count.

Can we get anyone else playing Sumdog this week and trying to get us up this leaderboard? (Or on it to start off with!) Remember – our class’ score is the average of your correct scores, you can’t just click and guess your way through.

Can we make it on the leaderboard by Friday?

Miss S