Hi P6/7, how are you all?

What have you guys been up to in the holidays so far? I’ve been going for nice walks and doing some baking. Tonight I baked Easter Blondies and they are delicious. 

A wee video to say hi and show you all my wild hair 😂💜  Click on the link below.

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I’m wearing purple today to show my love for all of you and our school. Here I am doing my workout wearing all things purple.

Purple and green are my favourite colours so it was easy for me to find something purple to wear.

Why not put something purple on and email me a picture of yourself and I will upload them to our blog? I love seeing you all in your purple uniform 😍😍 even your St Albert’s tie wrapped round your napper (head). 

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Hola and happy Friday troopaloopas 💜💜

I hope you’re all happy and doing things you enjoy. If you enjoyed the maths the other day, try these out for extra challenge.

To find 1% of an amount you need to divide the amount by 100 so if it’s 1% of 380, you would do 380.00 divided by 100. Remember, when we divide by 100, the decimal point moves 2 places to the left so 380.00 divided by 100 becomes 3.8 so –

1% of 380 is 3.8.

If you were asked to find 8% of 380, you would find 1% (which is 3.8) and multiply it by 8 (because we are trying to find 8%).

So the next step is 3.8 x 8. The answer is 30.4.

Have a go if you like.

Sending lots of love, Miss McCue 💜💜

Don’t forget to do things that make you smile guys. It’s very important in these strange times that you do lots of things that make you happy. That might be singing, dancing, exercising, creating animations, drawing, reading, making up gymnastics routines or anything else you enjoy doing. It’s important to keep smiling through all of this. 

I’m really missing my mum and my brothers just now because I can’t go to their houses so I’ve been going a walk and making sure I stop by their houses to speak to them from the garden. Speaking to my mum always cheers me up because she always knows what to say to make me laugh and feel good. My mum is still working as she cares for elderly people so she still has great stories to tell me. Here she is hanging out her window in her jammies speaking to me 😂😂

Good morning P6/7, I hope you’re all well and are taking care of yourselves. 😊❤

Today, why not have some quiet time and read a new book? We are lucky enough that this Harry Potter book is online for us to read for free!! You can either type this into Google or twitter:

https://twitter.com/GlasgowLib/status/1245345229131132928?s=09

Or, search for Glasgow Library on twitter and you’ll find it on their page. You could also search ‘free online Harry Potter book’ into Google and links will come up. I just followed a couple and they worked.

JK Rowling really works her magic with these books and waves her wand to create magestic characters using her imacignation (imagination) to come up with fantastic magictives (adjectives) to describe the characters and the setting.

Sorry for the puns, I was just witching (itching) to use them 😂😂

Challenges you could do while reading the book:

Think about the features of characterisation we have learned about and see if you can spot JK Rowling using any in her writing.

Visualisation – Why not use your visualisation reading strategy to draw any characters, setting or props from the book, based on the descriptions of these things that you have read?

Predicting – When you finish a chapter, use your predicting strategy to predict what is going to happen next. Or, when you’ve read a couple of chapters, predict what the ending of the book is going to be.

Summarising – After you’ve read about Harry’s aunt and uncle in Chapter 1, summarise what they are like by creating a character profile for them.

Paraphrasing – Choose a paragraph or a page of the book that you have read, use your paraphrasing strategy to rewrite that part of the story.

It’s magic what you can do with a book when you know the spell. OK, enough puns 🥴😂 If you don’t know what a pun is, that is another task for you to find out.

There are lots of tasks here to do but don’t feel you need to do them all at once. Start reading the book and enjoy it, enjoy the peace and being owl (all) on your own, enjoy your imagination running wild, enjoy being absorbed into the book and becoming part of the wizarding world. You’ll have a hoot when you meet Harry’s owl and you’ll be owling when you meet Harry’s cousin Dudley. 🦉🦉

Keep laughing troops, love you all,

Miss McCue xx

I know some of you have been enjoying the maths activities on the blog so here are some more.

I have written down an explanation to try and help you understand the work so try and imagine my voice saying it as if I was standing in the classroom teaching you it

(I wish I was 😳❤️)

Remember, when dealing with percentages, it might be easier for you to think of the fraction that is equal to the percentage. So if you’re being asked to find 10% of £100, remember 10% is equal to 1/10 (one over ten or one tenth), so you need to divide the amount (£100) by 10. Then, you know 100 divided by 10 is 10 so the answer is £10.

That looks very confusing but read it a few times and you’ll get it. I’ve written it here too which might be easier to understand.

Try the questions if you want some maths work today. Leave me a comment here and let me know how you got on and if you need any help. Remember, you can do this work because you’re a genius so don’t be asking the adults in your house to help. 

Check out these links for some exercise, music, maths and science 🏃‍♂️🎼➗👩‍🔬

Good morning all you beautiful children, I hope you’re doing well and feeling positive. ❤️❤️

It’s a gorgeous day outside so try and make sure you get out for a nice walk or a cycle, you need to keep exercising and getting fresh air. Remember the Joe Wicks workouts are available every day on YouTube too. I did all of them from last week and they are TOUGH!! Or am I just unfit? 🥴🥴

I’ve been phoning and checking in with all your parents and have spoken to some of you. You all have my number now so keep in contact. I’ve loved hearing what you’re up to and I’m missing you loads.

Sorry this is sooo looongg, I am going to start making videos and putting them on the blog but when I’ve tried before, it doesn’t work so I will need to work out how to do it and then I will start vlogging. Eishah taught me how to create vlogtastic vlogs so you will all be amazed, right? 😂😂

If you’re looking for a task for this week, I think it would be a great idea for you to keep a diary or a journal of these events. Take notes of the dates, what you did, how you felt, what was being said on the news. What we are living through right now will be an important part of history in years to come. You can tell your grandchildren that you lived through this and show them your journal of events, how cool would that be? You’d be like Anne Frank, although a lot safer and not as cool because let’s be honest, is anybody as cool as Anne Frank?

So, you could write your journal on paper, in a jotter, make it on one of your apps on your ipad or tablet, make a comic book out of it with pictures, make an animation out of it, create a script and a play of your journey and thoughts. Your talents are endless, you know how to do all of these things I’ve just suggested because you’re amazing. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

Get creative with this task, add to it every day and I’m sure you’ll be impressed with your work at the end of all this.

Let me know what you think by leaving a wee comment. Hoping to get a vlogtastic vlog up soon. Love and miss you all,

Miss McCue xx

Feel free to keep your brains active this weekend with this percentags of an amount task.  Use your knowledge of division and percentages to help you solve these.