Hello!
Hope you all had a super Easter and enjoyed your chocolate eggs – my little boy, Arthur, had his first taste of chocolate and loved it! Will have to hide the chocolate from him now!
I will be setting your weekly tasks for the next little while and look forward to seeing your updates and photos on Twitter. My twitter handle is; @BishopmillMrsG
If you have any pictures of what you have been doing at home (even if it is not one of the tasks below) then ask your parent/guardian to @ me in their tweet and I will see it, comment and retweet. If you have any questions, then ask your parent to direct message me through twitter.
See the school website homepage for the full home learning pack.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Stay safe,
Mrs Gee
Maths
Your maths focus for this week is time. Start by making sure you remember how to tell o’clock times (remember which hand is which!) then try a mix of half past times and o’clock times. If you can manage these, go onto quarter to and quarter past. You will all be at different levels, which is completely fine, so just go at your own pace. If you are confident with telling the time using quarter to and quarter past, move onto telling the time using 5 minute intervals. You can find worksheets to go with these tasks on Twinkl or do it practically.
See if you can tell someone in your home what the time is throughout the day, or ask your parent/guardian to give you a certain time to do something. For example, they could say to you, ‘you cannot get a snack today until 10:30am’. Then you need to keep an eye on the time and say to your grown up when you think it is snack time and, hopefully, you are right and can get something yummy to eat. Or, you might be sharing a tablet or laptop as a family and have been told it is your turn after lunch at 1:30pm. See if you can tell your parent/guardian when it is your turn on the laptop or tablet.
I will put some time games onto your Heinmann Active Maths accounts tomorrow.
You can also continue to work on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division at your own level. You can never be too good at these!
Literacy
Last week, a 99 year old man called Tom Moore decided to raise money for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before is 100th birthday. His aim was to raise £1000, but, so far, he has raised over 26 million pounds! To practise your writing this week and spread some positivity and happiness, send Captain Tom Moore a letter or card, thanking him for the incredible fundraising he has done and wishing him a happy 100th birthday. See if you can include some adjectives in your letter and make sure your handwriting is as neat as possible, I am sure Mr Moore would really appreciate it.
CHALLENGE;
Try addressing the envelope and sticking the stamp on yourself.
The address to send your card or letter to is;
Captain Tom Moore
C/O Post Office Limited
67 Bedford Road
Marston Moretaine
MK43 0LA
Bedfordshire, England
If you don’t want to send a letter or card to Tom Moore, then write a card or letter to a family member who doesn’t live with you or a friend and post it to them – it will make their day! I have been writing to my friends and, when I receive their letters, it puts a big smile on my face.
You should continue reading books that you enjoy. There are also many audio books available to download online for free while schools are closed. Look at audible for a huge selection of free audio books.
https://.stories.audible.com
Choose and read or listen to a story then design your own front cover for the book.
CHALLENGE;
Cover the title and ask a family member to guess which book you have been listening to. Maybe even ask a friend or relative on video call to have a guess!
Health and Wellbeing
There are lots of celebrities doing online home workouts for children/families – you could try and dance along with Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse on Facebook or Youtube, or join in with Joe Wick’s morning workout at 9am, live on Youtube.
If you are needing an activity to take your mind off everything or something calming, mindfulness drawing is great – you could challenge yourself by attempting a grown up one! You can get some online (Twinkl has a good selection) and there are apps too, but, be careful, as some of these cost money to download. Other calm activities include yoga. My favourite videos are by ‘Cosmic Kids Yoga’ – you can find these on Youtube or Amazon Prime. They have really fun ones like Minecraft, Trolls, Pokemon and Star Wars.
Music
Mrs Allan and Mrs Taylor have kindly sent us some musical activities for you to enjoy.
Mrs Allan has shared this activity sheet and thought that the highlighted part might be good for Primary 5 recorders, but, this could be for any of you who have a musical instrument. (Musical Activities)
Mrs Taylor has shared the following instructions for ‘Body Beats’;
“Watch on YouTube, search for: “Stomp Live – Part 3 – just clap your hands” (If you would like to you could also watch “Stomp Live – Part 2 – Matchsticks)
Do, again on YouTube: “Body Beats – online body percussion session, Monday 23/3/20”. This is taken by Ollie Tunmer (I’ve spoken about him before) who is a music teacher, one of the original Stomp cast members and who I did a really enjoyable course with last year. This was recorded live, but you have the advantage of being able to pause it and practice if you’re finding it a bit tricky in parts. It takes about 20 minutes to do and you can do it as many times as you like……have fun!”
