Good morning boys and girls and thanks for logging on to our class blog to check out what we will be doing in Week 9 of Term 4. 

Learning Activity 1

             *****Last Chance to send a design for the new ECO mascot*****

(Mrs Manning has sent all the ECO mascots she has recieved to Miss Dobson. If you still want to enter you still have 1 more week to submit your entry.)

Design an ECO Mascot for our School

The ECO committee in the school is wanting to create a new mascot so they are asking all the boys and girls in the school to get creative and help to design a new mascot. Click on the red link below for more details. Miss Dobson has put her glow mail address however if you prefer send to me and I will forward on to Miss Dobson!

Create an ECO Mascot Competition

Below are your new spelling words for the week.  Copy or type these words out 3 times and pick ONE spelling activity from the grid, in link below, to complete each day. You should aim to do this every day and on Friday ask an adult to complete a spell check with your new words.

Primary 5 Diamonds SPELLING WORDS

Primary 5 Group Rubies SPELLING WORDS

Primary 5 Pearls SPELLING WORDS

Primary 4 Group Sapphires SPELLING WORDS

Primary 4 Group TopazSPELLING WORDS

Spelling Activity Grid (click on link below and choose an activity to complete)

T-L-4879-Spelling-Selection-Activities (1)

***********Try out the free spelling games on the links below************

http://https://pbskids.org/games/spelling/

If pbs link above does not work copy the url and paste manually

Learning Activity 3

Reading 

Primary 4 and 5

Novel Study – Gangsta Granny by David Walliams

Over the remaining couple of weeks of Term 4 you will be working on a novel study for your reading practice.  Mrs Manning has chosen the  book ‘Gangsta Granny’ by David Walliams an author she knows many of  you love! Click on the link below to read Chapter 1. If you have your own copy of the book and prefer to read this great!

https://odcom-d7781a059ed466f2e192172be262dcfc.read.overdrive.com/?

Read Chapter 1  ‘Cabbagy Water’ and answer the questions on this chapter in the link below.

Also complete David Walliams’s Biography Webquest on this link.

Gangsta Granny Activities

Writing

Fidget Spinner Writing

There are 4 parts to a simple creative writing story.

1. All stories need a character.  Someone who the story is going to be about.

2. Second, that character needs, well character. Are they scary? Are they scared? Do they never get scared even when they should be?

3. Next, we need to know where the story is taking place, the location, the setting. Are they somewhere realistic or somewhere completely bizarre and made up?

4. Last, there needs to be a problem or a situation. What happens in the story? What is the story all about?

I am sure you all remember the huge craze of fidget spinners that drove teachers to despair!

Well today I ask you dig them out and cut the corner off of a piece of paper and stick it to one of the ends of the the fidget spinner.

Number 1 – Pick a character

Number 2 – Pick the situation

Number 3 – Pick your location

Number 4 – What is your character like?

OK now you are ready to start writing your story. Remember to write in sentences and try and use interesting openers and connectives in your story!!!!

Learning Activity 5

Numeracy and Maths

Primary 5

********NEW WORK*******

PERIMETER

Learning Intention: to be able to find the perimeter of a shape.

The perimeter of a shape is simply:-

‘the total distance around its outside’

This simply means you add all the outside lengths together. Some of the examples you will be working on below you will need to add decimals. Before you start watch the video on the link below to refresh your memory on how to add decimals and complete the adding decimals worksheets.

Adding Decimals (Tenths)

Adding and subtracting decimals practice sheet

Now you are ready to tackle the examples on perimeter!!! Everyone should complete Perimeter 1 worksheet and as an extension task you can give some of the examples on Perimeter 2 a go as well if you have time!

Perimeter Work

Primary 4

Symmetry Powerpoint

Symmetry 2