Happy Monday my lovely people. This week is super exciting for us! We have our first school trip in over 2 years and our Burns afternoon!

Important Note: I would be very grateful if you had any spare shoe boxes lying around. We will be starting a homework project soon and it would be great if we all managed to have a shoe box. If you do, could you send these into school. Thank you 😊

Spelling

Parrots- Copy your words another 2 times. Complete 6 sentences using a different spelling word each time. Try using your connectives and or but.

Blue- Copy your words another 2 times. Complete 6 sentences using a different spelling word each time. Try using your connectives and, but, therefore and because.

Green- Copy your words another 2 times. Complete a phoneme story underlining all your phoneme words. With a coloured pen or pencil circle any pronouns that you use.

Yellow- Copy your words another 2 times. Complete a phoneme story underlining all your phoneme words. With a coloured pen or pencil circle any pronouns that you use.

Reading

Chimps: An Awfully Beastly Business: Saving a Sea Monster (Chapter 2)

Sloths: Double Trouble (Chapter 6,7 & 8)

Toucans: Tick Tock Unfix the Clock (Chapter 1 and 2) & Mae in the Middle: Music Master (Chapter 1 and 2)

Parrots: Bug Boy:  Spider Camp

Remember to practise reading aloud every night. This will help you develop your pace, tone and fluency.

Numeracy

Calculators 1: Complete the sheet inside of your homework pack. Pick one activity from the times table menu to complete.

Calculators 2: Complete the 6 sums in your numeracy homework jotter. Remember to lay these out correctly and use a ruler. Pick one activity from the times table menu to complete.

Rulers: Complete the 8 sums in your numeracy homework jotter. Remember to lay these out correctly and use a ruler. Pick one activity from the times table menu to complete.

IDL

Primary 4- Continue to practise your poem ‘My Hoggie’ by Robert Burns in preparation for our Scottish Afternoon on Thursday.

Primary 5- Continue to practise your poem ‘Willie Wastle’ by Robert Burns in preparation for our Scottish Afternoon on Thursday.

P4/5 Homework Week Beginning 7th February

Please find your weekly homework tasks below. If you have any problems or questions, let me know. Homework is due on Thursday.

Spelling

Parrots- Copy your words another 2 times. Complete 6 sentences using a different spelling word each time. Try using your connectives and or but.

Blue- Copy your words another 2 times. Choose 3 activities from the spelling menu to complete. This would ideally be an activity every night. Remember to write the name of the activity that you are completing.

Green- Copy your words another 2 times. Choose 3 activities from the spelling menu to complete. This would ideally be an activity every night. Remember to write the name of the activity that you are completing.

Yellow- Copy your words another 2 times. Choose 3 activities from the spelling menu to complete. This would ideally be an activity every night. Remember to write the name of the activity that you are completing.

Reading

Chimps: An Awfully Beastly Business: Saving a Sea Monster (Chapter 1)

Sloths: Double Trouble (Chapter 3 and 4)

Toucans: Tick Tock Unfix the Clock (Chapter 5) & Mae in the Middle: Music Master (Chapter 5)

Parrots: Zip and Zap at the Zoo

Remember to practise reading aloud every night. This will help you develop your pace, tone and fluency.

Numeracy

Calculators: Complete the 6 sums in your numeracy homework jotter. Remember to lay these out correctly and use a ruler. Pick one activity from the times table menu to complete.

Rulers: Complete the 8 sums in your numeracy homework jotter. Remember to lay these out correctly and use a ruler. Pick one activity from the times table menu to complete.

IDL

Primary 4- Continue to practise your poem ‘My Hoggie’ by Robert Burns. There will be a whole school competition which will be held after the February weekend. I would encourage you to practise your poem aloud every night. Remember I am available at play time to listen to you practising.

Primary 5- Continue to practise your poem ‘Willie Wastle’ by Robert Burns. There will be a whole school competition which will be held after the February weekend. I would encourage you to practise your poem aloud every night. Remember I am available at play time to listen to you practising.

Hello Primary 4/5. Happy Monday! I don’t know about you but I am feeling very cold recently. I am definitely  getting use out of my hat and scarf!

Chimps: The Mystery of the Poisoned Pudding (Chapters 3 and 4)

Sloths: Moya, the Luck Child (Chapters 3 and 1)

Toucans: The Very Smelly Dragon (Chapters 3)

Parrots: Animal Crackers

(Remember to practise your reading every night. Reading aloud is very important in order for us to develop our tone, fluency and expression)

Spelling:

Blue- Copy your words 1 more time. Write 6 sentences using either (! ? or .) at the end of each sentence.

Yellow- Use a dictionary to find out the meaning of your spelling words. Complete this for all 8 of your words. If you do not have a dictionary at home, I recommend this website : https://kids.britannica.com/kids/browse/dictionary

Green-

Use a dictionary to find out the meaning of your spelling words. Complete this for all 8 of your words. If you do not have a dictionary at home, I recommend this website : https://kids.britannica.com/kids/browse/dictionary

Numeracy:

Calculators LI: To multiply numbers by 10 and 100.  Complete the sheet given to you inside your numeracy packs. Remember the rule!

Rulers LI: To multiply single digit numbers by double digit numbers. Complete the worksheet given to you inside of your homework packs. Lay these sums out inside of your numeracy homework jotter. Remember to write the date and title and to lay your sums out correctly.

IDL:

Write 6 sentences of local or national news inside of your homework jotter. Remember you can watch Newsround at home and summarise the points in your jotter.

Remember homework is due on Thursday. 

Hello lovely people! Happy Monday! I am so excited to see what this week has in store for us. This week you have been given your new homework packs. This pack will go home with you on a Monday and should be returned on a Thursday with all activities completed inside.

Numeracy

Complete the multiplication sheet inside of your homework packs. For some extra practise, log onto Sumdog and complete the multiplication challenge. Good luck!

Reading

Chimps: The Mystery of the Poisoned Pudding (Chapters 1 and 2)

Sloths: Moya, the Luck Child (Chapters 1 and 2)

Toucans: The Very Smelly Dragon (Chapters 1 and 2)

Parrots: King Pip and the Dark Wood

(Remember to practise your reading every night. Reading aloud is very important in order for us to develop our tone, fluency and expression)

Spelling

Blue: Using the Elkonin box inside of your homework pack, put all of your phoneme words into the boxes. Remember each sound goes in a different box. Copy your words into your homework jotter 2 times and create 6 sentences using a different word each time from your list. Remember to underline the word you have used.

Yellow: Copy your words another 2 times into your jotter. Once you have done this, diacritically mark the words in your list. Use the guide to diacritical marking inside your pack if you need some extra help. Once you have done this I would like you to create a phoneme story about somebody’s birthday surprise. Use all of the words in your list.

Green: Copy your words another 2 times into your jotter. Once you have done this, diacritically mark the words in your list. Use the guide to diacritical marking inside your pack if you need some extra help. Once you have done this I would like you to create a phoneme story which includes direct speech. Remember to use the correct punctuation and use all of the words on your list.

Extra Task: This week we will be starting our new topic which is ‘The Titanic’. As an extra challenge I would like you to research the following questions and write your answers in your homework jotter. Remember to write your answers in full sentences.

1. What was the Titanic?
2. When was the Titanic built?
3. Why is the Titanic an important part of history?
4. Write down 1 interesting fact about the Titanic.

Hello my lovely people! I am absolutely delighted to be back at school this week to see all of your wonderful faces. I have missed you all so much! We have lots of exciting learning planned this week.

For homework this week I would like you to interview somebody

at home to find out what Christmas used to be like for them.

Discuss these questions and write an answer to them below.

Discuss the similarities and differences. An adult can help you

when writing your answers however please make sure you

discuss the answers in detail. I can’t wait to see your responses!

1. What is your earliest memory of Christmas?
2. What was your best present from Santa?
3. Who did you normally spend Christmas with?
4. What did you eat for Christmas dinner?
5. What was your most favourite thing about Christmas day?

Reading 

Chimps- Dark Stone Eye (Chapter 11)

Sloths- The Quigleys Wild Life (Pages 28-40)

Toucans- Mirror Magic (Pg 10-16)  Set Sail for School (Chapter 3)

Spelling 

Blue Group- Copy your words 2 more times.  Complete 8 sentences using a question mark at the end of each sentence. This means you will have to create 8 questions using your spelling words in each one.

Yellow Group- Copy your words 2 more times.  Complete 8 sentences using a question mark at the end of each sentence. This means you will have to create 8 questions using your spelling words in each one.

Green- Copy your words 2 more times. Write a diary entry including at least 6 of your spelling words. Remember to start your entry with ‘dear diary’ and write in the first person using I and we.

Task for all groups: Write 4 sentences of either local, national or international news. Remember to use the platforms that we discussed during class. Mr. Clarence recommends the BBC News website. You can also access Newsround from home.

Reading 

Chimps- Dark Stone Eye (Chapters 9 and 10)

Sloths- The Quigleys Wild Life (Pages 21-30)

Toucans- Mirror Magic (Pg 2-9)  Set Sail for School (Chapters 1 and 2)

Spelling

Blue- Write a fairy tale story using at least 6 of your phoneme words. Remember your capital letters and full stops.

Yellow- Write a story about what you would like to do in the future using at least 6 of your words.

Green Group- Write a story which includes a hero at the end using all of your phoneme words. Remember to use the appropriate punctuation.

Reading 

Chimps- Dark Stone Eye (Chapters 5 and 6)

Sloths- The Quigleys Wild Life (Pages 21-30)

Toucans- Birds of Prey (Pages 2-14)  All at Sea (Chapter 1 and 2)

Spelling 

Blue- Write your words 2 more times.  Create a phoneme story using all of our words. You need to include at least 4 adjectives.

Yellow- Write your words 2 more times. Find out the definition of 6 words in your list.

Green- Write your words 2 more times. Create a horror story using a villain. You need to include all of your words. Draw a picture of the villain at the end (optional).

Hello Boys and Girls,

Can you believe that it’s November already? The weeks are flying in and I am having so much fun with you all. I absolutely loved taking part in Halloween activities with you all. You all looked spooctacular!

Please read below to find out what your homework is for this week:

Reading 

Chimps- Dark Stone Eye (Chapters 5 and 6)

Sloths- The Quigleys Wild Life (Pages 21-30)

Toucans- Birds of Prey (Pages 2-14)  All at Sea (Chapter 1 and 2)

Spelling 

Blue- Copy your words 2 more times. Create 6 sentences using a different word from your list each time. Remember your core targets!

Yellow– This week we are revising our common words.  Write your words 2 more times. Complete a phoneme story using 10 words of your choice from the list. This week I would like you to use at least 2 question marks in your paragraph.

Green– This week we are revising our common words.  Write your words 2 more times. Complete a phoneme story using 10 words of your choice from the list. This week I would like to see you using a rhetorical question at the beginning of your paragraph.

Hello Boys and Girls,

I can’t believe we are nearly at the end of October. Time certainly flies by when you’re having fun! We have another busy week this week and I am really looking forward to spending it with you all.

Please find this weeks homework tasks below. Remember your homework should be handed in on a Thursday.

Reading

Each group have been given their reading book home. Practise reading aloud each night. Remember to bring your book to school everyday.

Chimps- Dark Stone Eye (Chapters 3 and 4)

Sloths- The Quigleys Wild Life (Chapter 1 and 2)

Toucans- All at Sea (Chapters 3 and 4)  Birds of Prey (Pages 12-29)

Parrots- Top Dog

Spelling

Parrots- Copy spelling words 2 more times. Draw a picture for each word and write the word underneath.

Blue- Copy spelling words 2 more times. Complete 6 sentences using a different word in each sentence. Remember to underline the word you have used. Check over your work to ensure you have capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Can you use different types of punctuation?

Yellow- Copy spelling words 2 more times. Make a phoneme story which includes all of your spelling words. Remember to underline the words you use from your list. Are you able to challenge yourself by using different types of punctuation?

Green- Copy spelling words 2 more times. Make a phoneme story which includes all of your spelling words. Remember to underline the words you use from your list.  Are you able to challenge yourself to include adverbs? Underline them if you are able to.

On Friday we have our first session outdoors for Rugby. Please remember to come with suitable shoes for outdoors.