Hello Boys and Girls,
Remember boys and girls to treat these activities as a pick’n’mix. Dip in and out of them and try do a little bit of everything, if you can!
Literacy
Spelling
Copy or type your spelling words 4 times and pick ONE spelling activity to do from the list below. Aim to do this every day.
This Week_s Spelling Choices – May
- Pyramid writing
- Rainbow writing
- Dictionary
- Acrostic poem
- Silly sentences
- Short story
Spelling game
Spelling city have a great range of free spelling games.
On the left hand side there is a button that say free click on that.
http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/lcwc/index.html
Handwriting
Bug Club has been updated so you will need to enter your login details again unfortuately.
Novel Study – Gangsta Granny by David Walliams
Gangsta Granny Chapter 9 to 13
Chapters 9 and 10 (p.76-90)
LI: We are learning to write in the first person.
SC: I can write in the first person.
Finish Granny’s story about the theft of her first ring. (Make sure it’s written in first person) and then give a short prediction about what you think will happen next.
gansta_granny_final_version Work through pages 11 to 14
Literacy
- Write about one of the adventures that granny might have had when she was the most wanted jewel thief in the world.
- Imagine that you are Mr Parker. Create a set of Neighbourhood Watch rules to help others in the community stay safe from crime.
Maths
- The author challenges the reader to do nothing but count for sixty seconds. Estimate how long sixty seconds is… use a clock / stop-watch to check your estimate.
Art
- Make a scale model of the Tower of London, like Ben does at school.
- Can you plan and make an animated trailer for the book, using this one for ideas?
Writing
- Where are the girl and the dragon? What can they see from this place? What are they looking at?
- Why are they here?
- Are they friends? Does the girl own the dragon as a pet? Or does the dragon own the girl as its pet?
- What species of dragon do you think it is? Is it friendly?
- Does anyone else know that they’re up here? What might other people say about their friendship?
- Give this picture a new title. Explain your choices and persuade others that yours is the best title.
- Write about the adventures of the girl and the dragon.
or
- Write/say sentences about this picture using the following prepositions:
- behind
- underneath/under
- inside
- on
- above
- beside
- between
- Who is Howl?
- What is Howl interested in?
- What kind of personality does Howl have?
- Get to know Howl – use these ‘20 questions to get to know a character‘.
- What is the most unusual object in the room? Why?
- What can you see in Howl’s room that could be found in your own room too?
- What do you think is on the rolled up scrolls (centre front)? Is there a Pokemon in the Pokeball?
- What is Howl reading?
Numeracy
warm-up
https://www.transum.org/Software/Game/Connect4/
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/504/Super-Maths-Bowling-Multiplication
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Main
1. Go onto Sumdog
2. Measurement
Plenary
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/measuring-in-cm
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering
Remember if their is anything you would like to ask me you can do so on the teams section of outlook or send me an email.
Health and Well-being
Virtual Sports Day!
Virtual Sports Day Grid WPPS
Remember to check to see what Mrs McDougall has planned for you!
Also, Hollie has a weekly family learning challenge set on the ‘handy links from home’ tab.
Topic – The Rainforest
Remember to check out the grid of activities for you to do on the rainforest. So head over and check it out. 🙂
Miss Taylor is looking forward to reading your research tasks on the Rainforest. When we return to school we will spend time sharing our learning on the Rainforest
In Term 4 we will be working on a Science topic learning about sound. As an introduction to this new topic use the log on details below to get on to the Tig Tag website.
(USERNAME: gw09farromorag PASSWORD: Tigtag2018)
Click on the what is sound link below to open up activities.
What is Sound? <—- click
Once we understand more about sound a big part of our learning will be researching how animals use sound to communicate. I felt this fitted in really well with our Rainforest topic and I think it will be a really interesting topic for us to learn about.
Memorizing
I saw this and thought it was amazing see if you feel this works and let me know
North Ayrshire Competition
A competition between NA
primary pupils to test your
information gathering skills!
You will judged on originality.
Choose any five challenges.
email your project entries to:
helenstewart@north-ayrshire.gov.uk
Closing date June 15th
