Hi boys and girls,

I think summer has finally arrived. The weather has been so warm these last few days. This is the time of year when we think about visiting the beach. When I was a child I loved to go to the beach and collect shells and explore the marine life in rock pools. In those days, beaches were a lot cleaner than they are today and you wouldn’t see so much litter on them. You also wouldn’t hear about sea creatures being caught up in discarded fishing nets or swallowing plastic items left behind on beaches. I had planned to take the Eco Committee and Primary 4 to Prestwick beach this term to do a beach litter pick so that we can make a difference and perhaps save some creatures by clearing the beach of the litter that can kill. We will need to wait to do this now with the school being shut.

Today’s work then is about plastic pollution and the Biodiversity in the seas.

First some reading:

Watch the PowerPoint first. Then try the worksheets. You can also go online and research some more about this subject. Perhaps you could make a poster and display it in your window to remind people to bring their rubbish home from the beach this summer.

Plastic Pollution PowerPoint

Plastic Pollution Differentiated Activity Sheet

Beach Habitat Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity

Plastic Pollution Booklet

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Enjoy the sunny weather.

Miss Brooks

Good morning Primary 4.

Here are some learning tasks for today.

First some Science with a Circuits online experiment. To try this here are the steps you need to follow:

•  Open the bpES website: bp.com/bpes
•  Click on ‘Enter a student code’ (top right on all pages if you are not logged in)
• Enter the code below.

Student code: 81973

Here are two worksheets to complete about what you found out:

BrightLights_Worksheet1 (1)

BrightLights_Worksheet2

Now for some Maths word problems. Check if you have got them right using a calculator or ask an adult to check them for you.,

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Next some Literacy. There are three versions of this text.  You could start with the easiest one and then try the next one or two if you wish.

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Here are some other activities to try on the subject of birds. For the first one, it would be a good idea to get some bird seed from the local supermarket and sprinkle it on the ground in a safe place. Then watch from a window or place where the birds won’t see you and use this sheet to record what birds you see. Colour one box for each bird you see of each type.

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These next sheets are for your own research. Look online to find out facts on these different types of birds and complete the fact files. Here is a useful Powerpoint presentation to help you get started:

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Here is a wordsearch you can try all about birds:

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Don’t forget Birdwatching is a fascinating hobby you can do all year round, wherever you are. If you are interested in attracting birds to your garden or back court here is a link to a page that will show you how to make your own bird feeders.

https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scotland/posts/do-it-yourself-bird-feeders

I hope you enjoy these activities. Let me know how you get on in the comments section or email me some pictures at my usual Glow address.

Miss Brooks

Hi boys and girls,

Another gorgeous sunny day after all that rain. Make sure you get out and enjoy it.

Here are today’s learning tasks:

Write an acrostics poem about summer.

To do this you need to make a list of describing words about summer. Then on a piece of paper write the word summer in capital letters going down the page with one letter at the start of each line like this:

S

U

M

M

E

R

Then use the describing words you have written to write each line. The first word should begin with the letters of the word summer.

Here is a tricky set of multiplication problems to try:

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Miss Brooks

Hello boys and girls,

It is a gorgeous warm day today. Make sure you go out and soak up some sun. Don’t forget to go out for a walk and if you have access to a phone you could use the Spot-a-bee app that I have mentioned on the Eco page of our school blog, to take pictures of bees on plants that you spot and send the pictures in to the scientists in the Spot-a-bee project to help them with their research into the kinds of plants that bees favour.

I have been doing a lot of painting in my spare time. I painted my own shed at home and I have been in school this morning painting the school shed. It badly needed it. I used a special paint for sheds. Can you guess what colour it is? Maybe you can tell me in the comments box. It will need several coats because the wood is so dry it is just soaking up the paint. I hope we can decorate it with some stencils maybe of flowers, ivy  and bees. Anyway it is looking a bit better already.

Following on from last week, here are some more learning tasks on the topic of Ancient Rome.

The Romans LApdf

The Romans L A QAs

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Build A Banquet Activity PowerPoint

Roman Menu Writing Template

Miss Brooks

Hi boys and girls,

I hope you enjoyed the learning tasks I posted yesterday all about Ramadan. I have some more for you to do today.

Here are some Maths and Art activities  all about the beautiful use of shapes and patterns in Islamic Art.

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Geometric Patterns – Drawing 5 Overlapping Circles

Geometric Patterns – 7 Overlapping Circles Grids

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T2-H-4329-Early-Islamic-Civilisation-Geometric-Patterns-Lesson-Teaching-Pack

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As Eid-al-Fitr is coming up this weekend, here are some tasks that you might find interesting.

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T-T-20989-Eid-Recipe-Book

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I hope you enjoy these activities. Please get in touch using the comments page or email me about how you are doing with your work at gw11brooksantonia01@glow.sch.uk

Miss Brooks

Hi boys and girls,

It was nice to see some rain yesterday as the plants and trees must be needing a drink after that spell of dry weather we have been having. The grass in my garden has turned a funny shade of yellow without the rain. I am hoping it will make a comeback now.  I hope you are getting out for walks in this most beautiful season. Fresh air and exercise are important to our health and well being.

As we are approaching the end of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr is at the weekend, here are  some learning tasks about this.

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Remember you don’t have to do all of these. Please let me know how you are getting on in the comments section.

Miss Brooks

Hi boys and girls,

Today you are going to do some work all about the Ancient Romans. Perhaps you have read about them in a history book. Did you know they invaded Britain over 2000 years ago? Today though,  there are hardly any people in Britain who can say they have Ancient Roman ancestors. They used numbers that look like our letters and we still sometimes see their numbers today, for example on clocks. Here is a picture of a clock I have with Roman numerals on it.

Luckily archaeologists have manged to work out what these Roman numerals are in our number system and so today your Maths work is all about Roman numbers.

First here is a presentation about Roman numerals.

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Here is a chart that shows how to write our modern numbers as Roman numerals.

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Use this chart to help you with some of these sheets:

-Roman-Numerals-and-Number-to-10-Matching-Worksheet

-Roman-Numerals-and-Number-to-100-Matching-Worksheet

Blank-Roman-Numerals-Clock-Cut-and-Stick-Activity

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Now for some reading about the Romans.

The Romans MA

The Romans MA QAs

The Romans loved to decorate their homes with mosaics. These were pictures made by sticking small coloured tiles into cement and were used on walls and floors in Roman homes.  Watch the presentation and try out these activities about Mosaics for yourself.

Roman Mosaics Presentation

Roman Mosaic Colouring Sheets

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Next week I will post some more activities about the Romans. In the meantime, why not start a research project of your own. Use the Internet and find out about these things:

Life in Ancient Rome

What the Romans ate

How people dressed in Ancient Rome

The Roman army and the invasion of Britain

Hadrian’s wall and the Antonine wall.

Miss Brooks

Good morning boys and girls,

How are you all today? Let me know how you are getting on with the work and what interesting things you are doing at home by leaving me some comments.

To start today, here is some addition revision.

Addition revision 2

Now for some reading about the mountains of Scotland.

scotlands-munros-differentiated-reading-comprehension pdf

Next, lets brush up on our verb tenses. Scroll down to the activity sheets in this link.

English-Tenses-Worksheets-5-7-year-olds

Then  try these decision making cards with a family member. What would you do in each case. Did you agree with your family member or would you do something different?

decision-making-challenge-cards

Have a nice day.

Miss Brooks

Hello Primary 4,

It is another gorgeous sunny day outside. Have you downloaded the Spot-a-bee app yet to help Scientists find out about the best palnts to help bees survive? Go to the Eco page on the blog to find out more about this.

Now for today’s learning tasks.

First some Maths revision:

Addition Revision

If you get through this sheet quickly, you could make up some similar sums of your own to test your parents with.

Now time to brush up on using adjectives in sentences with these sheets. Watch the Power point presentation first.

Using Adjectives Powerpoint

Using Adjectives Differentiated Activity Sheet – LA

Using Adjectives Differentiated Activity Sheet – M A

Using Adjectives Differentiated Activity Sheet H A

Now for some Art appreciation.

Watch this presentation about the great Glasgow artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh first and have a look at the pictures of his creations.

CfECharles-Rennie-Mackintosh-Lesson-Presentation

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Photo Pack

Now answer these questions about his work.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh – Inside the Art

Finally choose suitable colours and make a picture that you can frame for your house using this sheet.

CfE2-A-001-Charles-Rennie-Mackintosh-Colouring-Sheet

Have a lovely day boys and girls. I am missing you all.

Miss Brooks

Good morning Primary 4,

I hope you and your families are all well. I hope you are managing to do some of the learning tasks in these posts. Let me know how you are getting on in the comments section.

Here are some learning tasks for today. First some reading about a famous footballer.

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Now some Maths:

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Then some Internet safety tasks:

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Miss Brooks