Last week in teams we were looking at the poem Bluebottle by Judith Nicholls. We ended up by writing our own.
Who dives and thrives,
Who is always is wanting to chill,
When scared, there invisible because they stop and stay still,
They can go slow or full speed ahead,
Some people like to keep them as pets next to the bed,
People like to eat them, have them dead on a dish,
But they are just so beautiful, water dwelling fish,
Heather
Who races and chases,
Dashes through the water,
A shine in his teeth,
And detail on his gills,
Now swims in the ocean,
Now gone with a trace,
A large fish,
Who moves like the light,
Bound for the sea bed,
Who’s lightning, wind,
Always chomping fish,
Ocean chopper, fishes terror. Shark
Aaron
Who licks and lies,
Who leaps and fetch,
A deep growl,
Now barks in the bright,
Who eats grass,
But will never fight, A dog
Jonah
Who dives and dives,
splashes and crashes,
chomps and bites,
attaches and devours,
up and down,
round and round,
thrives and dives,
like a pouncing lion under water,
fish are a dish for the Megalodon.
Josh
Who goes round and round,
up and down,
jumps, pounces? Jaguars jumping about,
don’t go near of he might pounce
up and down,
round and round,
even if they do that they leave no trail.
Hazel
You can see more poems written in out Teams meetings: TeamsPoems
June 15, 2020
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It is getting near the end of the session! This week is going to be a little difference. We want you to spend some time this week celebrating some of your learning.
We will have meets at 2pm most days. I’ll be in school on Tuesday so not then.
To do that we want you to show your learning, I’ve put some suggestions in different curricular areas below but you could choose something else to do as well or instead of. You could be presenting some skill or knowledge you have learn in school or at home. I’ve also put a few ideas for Quick Creates to help you practise your creative skills without spending too long on it.
You can choose to do one or more projects over the week. It is up to you. What I do want to see is your best work, both in content and presentation.
You can choose how you present your work, some suggestions:
Write
Make a movie, iMovie, Clips or some other app
Make a presentation, Keynote, PowerPoint
Make a poster
Record audio
Make a Mindmap
Whatever you are doing it and how you do it you need to plan out carefully what you are going to do. Make sure the ideas are in the right order. Think about your audience. They want to read, hear or see whatever you are doing clearly in a way they can understand. I want to see your very best.
The Features of Recount may help you think about how to organise your work.
Think about Skills.
The finished result should go on your blog. I’ll also put a link in Teams to let you send me huge files if you need them shrunk down a bit.
Create a text. This could be a poem, story or writing in one of the many genres we have learnt about this year. Really make an effort to polish the writing and present it well.
You could write and illustrate your work or type it and enhance it with images. If it is a poem you might like to record it as a audio or video file.
Take really care with your presentation, handwriting, spelling and illustrations. Make your work shine.
You could share a maths skill you have, create an explanation of how you do a formal calculation, work out a mental math problem using your number talk skill or show your knowledge of shape or measure.
We have made all sorts of Art, painted, drew and constructed a whole lot of different things.
You have an amazing set of Art Skills, can you produce something fabulous? If you need reminded or inspired look at the Art Category on our blog or the Art Gallery . If this is too much you could just click for a random piece of art.
IDL,Science RME
The world is your oyster, show what you know about the world, now or in the past. About nature, science, people. You could think of one of the topics we have studied in school or share your own interests.
Health & Welbeing
Could you explain what you know about one of the SHANARI indicators.
ICT
Create a guide or set of instructions on how to do something technological.
You could create a scratch programme, using your skills or adding more.
Show what you have been doing in Minecraft. Make a video, screencast or combine screenshots and writing in a blog post. Let me know in Teams if you want the Minecraft server turned on at a particular time.
Quick Creates
If you only have 30 minutes to fill and want to flex your creative muscles
Well done to all of you who are continuing to work hard. I just posted a selection of screenshots on the Blog: Home Learning for week beginning 1 June but you should visit your classmates blogs to see it in full.
This week will be a little different as I’ll be in school from Tuesday starting to get the classroom tidied up for next session. As you can imagine this might be a bit of a struggle for me and my tidiness issues
I will have a meeting at 2pm on Monday and open the Minecraft server up at 1pm too, but I am not sure if I’ll be able to do them throughout the week. I will let you know in teams. I’ll still be in teams or answer email if you need help or a chat.
Pick a Fiction Book from Oxford Owl or one you have in the house.
There are three activities so spread them out over the week:
Character
Think about the characters in the story – Who are they? What did they do? How did they feel? What type of relationships did they have with other characters? Write about one of the characters.
Visualisation
Pick out words and phrases from the book which
describe the character or setting. Draw and label the picture with quotes from the book.
Vocabulary
Look at any unfamiliar words. What strategies could you use to help work out the meaning? Make a picture or explaination for some of these words.
Read & Green
Week 6 Tasks Own Novel be sure to look at this early in the week there are several parts to it. Plan out when you are going to do them.
North Lanarkshire Learning hub are having literacy challenges, you could give them a go.
Writing
This week I’d like you to try one of the writing task you have not tried before I’ve collected them all on the Lockdown Writing ideas page.
Maths
Lets all try and make an effort on the Sumdog competition this week!
This NHS topic is from North Lanarkshire. You could work on this over the next few weeks. Try to organise the work you do. You could make a folder or put it on your e-Portfolio and make a NHS category. There are some Social Science tasks, Health & Wellbeing ones and some Expressive Arts.
Let me know in Teams or by posting to your e-portfolio about any progress you are making.
Art
There are still lots of Art Ideas that have not been tried by everyone, why not have a look and try some out.
Last week in our Teams meeting the Biggies looked at and thought about the poem Long Trip by Langston Hughes. The children used it as a template to write their own poems.
The Burn
The Burn Is A Woosh Of Water.
A Sound Of Relaxation.
It Runs And Ripples,
Glows And Glimmers,
Down The Rocks.
Raging, Roughly,
Roughly, Raging.
The Burn Is A Woosh Of Water.
A Sound Of Relaxation.
Arron
The Sea
The sea is a witches cauldron covered in shadows from the dark.
The sea is a water town for fish and great white sharks.
Where they can splish and splash,
Dip and dive,
Swim through the wild waters.
Dash, splash,
Splash, dash.
The sea is a water town for fish and great white sharks.
The sea is a witches cauldron covered in shadows from the dark.
Heather
The Rainbow
The colours are a line of brightness.
A feet in the sky,
It moves and moves,
Sunny and rainy,
Down the path,
Running, walking,
Running jogging,
We got the gold,
A feet in the sky.
Skye
The mountains is like a full grown apple,
An apple of mountains.
You climb and walk,
walk and climb.
Hear the wind on rushing low.
The mountains is a full grown apple.
Tanya
The Garden
The garden is a forest of green,
An area of fun.
It’s sits and stays,
Grows and glows,
In the sun.
Watching, waiting,
Waiting, watching.
The garden is a forest of green,
An area of fun. Hannah
The pony
The pony is a pearl,
It shines and shivers,
Golden and glittery,
And stands out!
In the field.
All chuffed,
Chuffed all.
The pony is proud,
A ball of greatness.
Jonah
The unstoppable sword
Thunder is the sword of god,
A sword is the teeth of a shark.
It slices and dices,
It raises up and down,
All the way.
Cutting and slices,
Slices and cutting,
All in slices going 1 and 2.
Josh
Volcanos are madness
Volcanos are a fiery mountain and that is a theatre that lit up the sky
Mountains are a magical mythical
That is too high to climb
Fire. Crackle crunch fire flame
That is way to hot to touch
Volcanos are a fiery mountain and that is a theatre that lit up the sky
Hazel
Tree
The Tree is big and strong,
A palace of leaves that curl and bend.
That is still in time.
Every day we pass them by,
But we never hear them cry a song of sorrow.
The Tree is big and strong,
A palace of leaves that curl and bend.
Ben
May 31, 2020
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Pick a Fiction Book from Oxford Owl or one you have in the house but have not read yet.
There are three activities so spread them out over the week
Prior Knowledge
Make predictions about what the book will be about based on the title, front cover and any prior knowledge of the subject.
Write these down in your eportfolio or on a piece of paper. Title it with the name of the book and then put the first heading Before Reading.
Read the book or the first couple of chapters if it is along one. Were you right, add to your post or on your paper, give a second heading After Reading.
If you are writing make sure your handwriting in neat. Writing or typing check your capital letters, fullstops, and spelling.
Setting
Discuss the setting of the story – can you use describing words
to write a description of the setting?
Read the rest of the story, or the next few chapters if it is a long one.
Beginning Middle and End
Retell the main events in the story or section you have read. What happened at the
beginning, middle and end of the story? Title this Name of story BME
Red & Green Group
Week 5 Tasks Own Novel be sure to look at this early in the week there are several parts to it. Plan out when you are going to do them.
Writing
Write instructions to make a paper aeroplane, don’t just copy text from the internet. Write your own. Or you could make a comic or movie with some instruction. If you are writing you will need lots of pictures. You could make a presentation with Keynote. Remember you will need a list of materials and equipment.
Research how different civilisations throughout history have recorded numbers. Create a booklet, poster or Powerpoint to show what you have learned. Explain this to an adult in your house. Can you answer any questions they have?
This NHS topic is from North Lanarkshire. You could work on this over the next few weeks. Try to organise the work you do. You could make a folder or put it on your e-Portfolio and make a NHS category. There are some Social Science tasks, Health & Wellbeing ones and some Expressive Arts.
Let me know in Teams or by posting to your e-portfolio about any progress you are making.
Art
There are still lots of Art Ideas that have not been tried by everyone, why not have a look and try some out.
Last Week we worked on the poem The Magic Box by Kit Wright in our Teams meetings, we came up with our own version, I think it is as good as the original.
The Magic Box
I Will Put In The Box,
The First Great White Shark,
A Great Green Tree,
The Last Light Seen On Earth.
I Will Put In The Box,
The first life of a man
The joy of god
The light of god
I will put in the box:
A dog with a head for a tail,
a cat who had a hat,
and stegosaurus with no toe,
I will put in the box:
The first laugh of a baby,
The last ray of sunshine,
The wind blowing in the trees.
I will put in the box:
The sight of the Queen
A duck flying free
To see the first petals on the trees
I will put on the box…
A new clear crystal,
My dogs first loud howl,
My baby brother’s first word.
I will put in my box
A flame from a dying sun,
A fallen star dropped by the night sky,
Life from another planet.
I will put in my box…
The colour of the sky,
The stars in the night,
The work that warmth of the sun.
I will put in the box:
My puppies first bark,
A memory of a sunny day in the park,
The smell of a flower,
And a sweet that is sour.
Our box is made of unicorn fluff, wood and Redstone,
It has tractors and dens on the top.
The body is made of barriers,
Invisible if it is not in your hand,
I shall ride my unicorn box into tomorrow,
The end of lockdown and McDonalds.
Aaron, Josh, Ben , Hannah, Alice, Skye, Heather, Jessica, Caelan and the whole class worked on the last two verses
May 24, 2020
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The Teams meeting are getting quite busy, if you have not come along please do, you can sit quietly and listen for a while if you like to see what goes on.
Some of you have been busy in Minecraft. Thee is room for more. You can find out when the server is open by checking Teams. I am making some progress, Hazel and Heather taught be how to get my school uniform on and how to ride a cart. That took a lot of patience on their part.
Check the Banton Blogs for this weeks Family Challenge on Tuesday morning.
This is a project that should take you a few days. It would be great if everyone tried it.
Think of one thing that you have been doing over the last few weeks and make a ‘movie’ about it. You could use iMovie or Clips. aim for about 1 minute long. Try to think about how what you are talking about has affected or helped you.
There are many ways to do this, this is what I did or am going to do (I’ve not finished yet):
Gather some images to tell my story,.
Though about the order I want to tell them.
Pulled the images into iMovie
Add titles
Add a voice over
Add transitions
Add audio I had recorded and music
After you finish export it at the smallest size (medium if you use iMovie) and upload it to your blog. If it is too big for you blog them upload it to Teams and I’ll make a smaller version for you.
This NHS topic is from North Lanarkshire. You could work on this over the next few weeks. Try to organise the work you do. You could make a folder or put it on your e-Portfolio and make a NHS category. There are some Social Science tasks, Health & Wellbeing ones and some Expressive Arts.
Let me know in Teams or by posting to your e-portfolio about any progress you are making.
I’d still love to see this, not many folk did it or shared it if thewy did last week.
Choose a book you have read during lockdown and tell us about it. Think of an interesting way to do this. You could make a comic, record your voice, create a presentation, make a movie or even write about it.
Don’t just try and do this quickly, take your time and make a really good job of it. Start one day, look at what you have done the next and see if you can make it better.
Yellow & Blue Group
Boss Dog on Oxford Owl (remember your class login)
Wee delay in this series (apologies!) this activity helps you create a bank of words that you can use to make your writing exciting and intriguing for the reader when using speech marks.
Worksheets, please copy these onto a piece of paper and complete. Take a photo (make it neat and send to me by e-mail or teams).
Maths and Its Impact on the World
Octagons & Hexagons
Research how different civilisations throughout history have recorded numbers. Create a booklet, poster or Powerpoint to show what you have learned. Explain this to an adult in your house. Can you answer any questions they have?
Some suggestions for you to research –
Romans
Babylonians
Tally Marks
Ancient Egyptians
Pentagons, Squares & Triangles
Research a famous mathematician. There are some suggestions below. Find out what area of maths they studied and the impact that this had on the world. You can choose how to present your information. You can make a fact file, an information booklet, a PowerPoint etc.
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Hypatia
John Horton Conway
There are still lots of Art Ideas that have not been completed, why not have a look and try some out.
The Biggies Art gallery has not had new art for quite a while now. Lets try and make up for that. Click here to add some Art, remember to add your Images as a Featured Image and use the the Project Type: Art.
ICT
Minecraft
Make a video or write a set of instruction to teach me thow to do something in Minecraft. Remember you can record your screen on your iPad and bring it into iMovie or clips to edit.
Another week of learning at home. It is great to see signs of learning, in the e-Portfolios, Teams and Minecraft.
I particularly liked some of responses to the photo challenge.
We wrote a great poem in Teams which I’ll post here soon (just waiting for a picture to be sent to me).
My favourite bit of the week might have been when Heather & Hazel tried to get me to wear a School Uniform in Minecraft (not my comfort zone). After I failed to follow their very straightforward instructions the made a video to show me how and dropped that into Teams. If teaching online is a bit out of my comfort zone, being taught in Minecraft is way out!
Me in my uniform, Hazel explaining how to get into a cart (This took a while and a coffee break!
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