27-4-20 Home Learning
Welcome back to a new week of exciting home learning. As always, I am contactable through Twitter, the school admin and now GLOW. An email has been sent to all P7O pupils from my GLOW email. Please feel free to contact me regarding Home Learning support, sharing what you are up to or if you would like to catch up and speak to me about anything at all.
Twitter – @bishopmill_p7
Email – admin.bishopmill@moray-edunet.gov.uk
GLOW – https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/account/signin/glow
GLOW Help – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItEbqOMTgyM
This week we are introducing our class ‘Teams’. Microsoft Teams is a secure platform we are using to further improve communication between teachers, pupils, parents and carers. The package ‘Teams’ is available through pupils GLOW account that we previously encouraged you to register. You should have received a text about this. Please email the school if you do not have this.
If you have not registered yourself/your child onto Glow that you will need to do this before you can access Teams. Please follow the video below to register your pupils Glow account. If you have previously completed this, please read the next paragraph. To access Glow – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItEbqOMTgyM
To access Teams – This page allows the class to use a chat room to speak directly with each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I4Lq6rl5Z4
Finally here is a link to our parent and carer survey about accessing home learning during school closure. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9GCC7Q3
Now please see below for this week’s home learning.
STEM – Rainbow Jars – Density of Liquids
Liquids have various densities, meaning they weigh different amounts. 10 ml’s of water is lighter than 10ml’s of honey. This weeks experiment is to pour different liquids into a clear jar, glass or tub and stack them. The different densities should sit on top of each other and form colour blocks.
You will need : 1 jar (pasta sauce, jam etc from your recycling) 1 measuring jug or bottle so you can use the same amount of each liquid, honey, syrup, milk, washing up liquid, water, vegetable oil / olive oil. If you don’t have all of these don’t worry, just use what you have. Avoid using sauces like ketchup, brown sauce etc as they are made of lots of ingredients and may break up.
Here is a YouTube video to give you an idea of how to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKHUNvMsF6U
You can add materials to your Rainbow Jar to see how they are supported by each layer.
Literacy – Writing a Scientific Explanation.
After you have experimented with your Rainbow Jar can you write a step by step of how to conduct the experiment. Here is an example poster with materials needed, a step by step guide and some questions to stretch the experiment. Be as detailed as you can with measurements and vary your verbs, adverbs and adjectives and use connectives (Next, then, after that etc). Try not to repeat or use the same words over and over such as pour.
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Once you have written your step by step ask a family member to do the experiment and see how well they can follow your instructions. Do you need to add any materials or steps or change the order?
As this experiment will use scientific vocabulary, make sure you can spell them all. Any spelling mistakes or unfamiliar words use the spelling activity grid in the home learning pack to practice these words.
Literacy – Reading -Determining Importance
Continue to read a chosen novel or nonfiction text of your choosing. Whether it’s the Guinness Book of Records, Ratburger or the Newsround website, can you determine the importance of what you have read. There should be a minimum of 3 key bits of information.
What were the main action points, character decisions, revelations, story progressions or details that are important to know? If it is current affairs on Newsround what are the key points of the story?
Share these verbally with an adult or write them down in your jotter.
Numeracy – Making and Creating.
Can you find a recipe for a traybake, cake, pizza milkshake, smoothie, cocktail, or any item you want to make? Using your measuring skills can you follow the recipe and measure out the correct volume of liquids (ml and l) weight (g and kg), cook for the correct amount of time (seconds, minutes, hours) and on the right temperature (degrees). Please share your creations through GLOW or Twitter. I will be trying to make brownies and will share this on Twitter 😊
Sumdog this week will have measurement. Measurement will focus on weight and liquid, converting units from g to kg and kg to g, ml to l and l to ml & some perimeter, area, and volume as these are part of measure.
HWB – Alcohol
Continuing with our exploration of substances misuse we will focus on alcohol this week. Similar to smoking it is an age dependant substance. A starting point would be to discuss why there is an age dependant rule.
We ask them to list the positives and negatives of consuming alcohol. We tend to explore this issue from an inward to outward fashion, so here is a suggested structure to explore.
What effect does alcohol have on your body (physical and mental)?
How can it alter your behaviour and choices?
Possible consequences if alcohol is misused – personal, relationships, society.
Similar to smoking you could investigate cost and health problems for different parts of your body.
Pupils could draw an outline of a body on paper, trace a body outline onto the ground or download a body outline and label from head to toe possible side effects. There are good videos on YouTube to support this, but I will let you choose the ones you think are suitable for your child.
Please rest assured there is no expectation to complete all these challenges. As we are at home for longer please be guided by your child’s interests and of course your home circumstances in this unprecedented time. If there is something they wish to know more about or prefer to engage with then we can support that aspect.
Have a great week,
Mr O’ Neill
