Homework – Week beginning Monday 12th of January 2015

Reading

Suns –  Non-fiction text        Moons – Non-fiction text             Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Danelaw, Jorvik, warriors, monastery, weapons, terrifying and violent.

Consonants – chocolate, bounced, covered, carefully, mixture, poured, excited and whispered.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

Complete worksheet. You can write answers on the sheet.

Remember to fold your sheet and put it inside your Homework Jotter.

Topic

Show and Tell – The Vikings

This term I would like the children to prepare a short talk about an aspect of The Vikings, which we have been learning about in class. They can choose from the following areas:

  • Viking invasions
  • Viking home life – family, jobs etc
  • Viking God’s

They will research and prepare a paragraph or two about their chosen area and then they will share their work as part of a talking and listening activity in class. I would also encourage them to draw a picture or bring in a photograph to share.

Complete show and tell task in Homework Jotter.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 5th of January 2015

Reading

Suns –  Non-fiction text        Moons – Non-fiction text             Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – Christmas, Easter, Season, birthday, centre, circle, square, triangle, rectangle, different, satisfied, juice, stopped, heard and their.

Consonants – have, before, said, could, because, school, every and know.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

3D Shape Hunt

Find 10 objects in your home or local environment that are 3D shapes. Write down their names and describe their properties.

For example:  1. Block of flats = cuboid

A cuboid has 4 rectangular faces and 2 square faces.

Remember to write your answers in your Homework Jotter.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 8th of December 2014

Reading

Suns –  Non-fiction text        Moons – Non-fiction text             Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – Joseph, Mary, Jesus, Christmas, reindeer, Advent, Saint Nicholas, Bethlehem, wreath and peaceful.

Consonants – Jesus, snow, Santa Claus, crib, Christmas, peace, Rudolph and holly.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

Complete Christmaths word problems.

Remember to show your working and write your answers in your Homework Jotter.

Paths

Discuss the feeing ‘Frustrated’ with your family and complete the activity.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 1st of December 2014

Reading

Suns – Whole book          Moons – Silent Reader         Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels –energy, gentle, strange, wedge, cartridge, jungle, Jupiter, jaws, juice and jalapeno .

Consonants – wedge, porridge, badge, budge, dodgeball and edge  .

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

SQUARES

Complete 2 multiplication and 2 division stories for each set of numbers.

1.  42 6 7             2.  10 5 2           3. 80 10 8

4.  64 8 8           5. 63 9 7             6. 56 8 7

Remember to write your answers in your Homework Jotter.

CIRCLES

Complete each calculation as a chimney sum.

1.  55 – 12 =               2.  88 – 53 =               3.  72 – 41 =

4.  99 – 15 =               5. 75 – 14 =                6.  96 – 62 =

Can you make up 3 more subtraction sums?

Remember to write your answers in your Homework Jotter.

Topic

Create a model of a Viking Longship. You may use the template provided or use your own imagination to create your model. This task may take longer than one week to complete therefore the completed model can be brought in anytime from the week beginning 1st of December but no later than Friday 5th of December.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 24th of November 2014

Reading

Suns – Chapters 7-9          Moons – Whole book         Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels –jealous, juggle, danger, stranger, judge, knowledge, porridge, bridge, urgent and jaundice.

Consonants – dodge, hedge, fudge, nudge, badger, judge, ledge and bridge.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

Complete Magic Squares activity. Write your answers on the sheet and fold inside your Homework Jotter.

Topic

Create a model of a Viking Longship. You may use the template provided or use your own imagination to create your model. This task may take longer than one week to complete therefore the completed model can be brought in anytime from the week beginning 1st of December but no later than Friday 5th of December.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 17th of November 2014

As I am out of school for 2 days this week on a course, the children will not have any written tasks to complete but instead be expected to share and discuss their homework tasks at the end of the week.

Reading

Suns – Chapters 5&6          Moons – Chapters 1,2&3         Stars – Whole book

Complete metalinguistics (looking for new/tricky words) for all chapters read this week.

Discuss with a member of your family and explain how you found out the meaning.

Be ready to share your answers in class.

Maths

Oral questioning of times tables from 2x – 12x

Play maths games such as bingo, buzz, times table champion etc.

Useful Maths websites and links to visit for games and activities.

www.primarygames.com

www.woodlandsjunior.co.uk

www.supermathsworld.com

www.schoolworkout.co.uk

Expressive Arts

Continue to practice show script if you have a speaking part to learn.

Please complete all homework by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 10th of November 2014

Reading

Suns – Chapters 3&4           Moons – Whole book         Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – almost, arrive, autumn, balloon, believe, brother, cousin, decided, enough, five.

Consonants – under, year, away, another, always, time, each, watch.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

SQUARES

Complete each calculation as a chimney sum.

1.  437 – 129 =            2.  284 – 139 =           3.  416 – 183 =

4.  639 – 254 =            5.  524 – 183 =            6.  341 – 158 =

7.  354 – 167 =            8.  436 – 187 =            9.  301 – 174 =

Remember to write your answers in your Homework Jotter.

CIRCLES

Complete each calculation as a chimney sum.

1.  24 + 19 =               2.  48 + 19 =               3.  72 + 21 =

4.  46 + 19 =               5. 64 + 48 =                6.  58 + 26 =

7.  54 + 37 =               8.  87 + 15 =              9.  68 + 13 =

Remember to write your answers in your Homework Jotter.

Topic

Can you find out 6 facts about the Vikings? You may want to use the internet or visit the library to gather your facts.

Write your answers in your Homework Jotter.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 3rd of November 2014

Reading

Suns – Chapters 1&2           Moons – Chapters 3&4             Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – accident, below, cloudy, eleven, football, group, holiday, I’m,  I’ve,  playtime, practising, whispered, emotion, knew and biscuit.

Consonants – too, school, some, never, know, yellow, father and mother.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

SQUARES

108    135    437    348    666    376    188    366   218   109

Create 4 addition word problems using any of the numbers above.

Make sure you use a variety of addition vocabulary eg total, altogether, add etc

Work out the answers and show your working.

Remember to write your answers in your Homework Jotter.

CIRCLES

Complete missing numbers task. Remember to write your answers in your Homework Jotter.

RE

Choose a Saint to research and write a short paragraph about why they are special.

You may want to use the internet or visit the library to gather facts on your chosen Saint.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 27th of October 2014

Reading

Suns – Whole Book           Moons – Chapters 1&2             Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – cartoon, calf, ketchup, kilogram, cackle, flock, school, scheme, echo and chord.

Consonants – black, truck, stick, flicker, locket, track, click and pocket.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

Complete addition activities. Complete on sheet and fold inside Homework Jotter.

Halloween

Complete Halloween Wordsearch.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Term 1 in Primary 5

Throughout our first term in Primary 5 we have experienced lots of different learning opportunities. It has been a very busy time and here is a selection of photos to show off what we have been learning.

Parachute games during Fun Fitness with Miss Jack.
Investigating 'Blind Spots' for our Safety topic.
Collecting data about how children in St Serf's travel to school for a Sustrans Survey.
Working co-operatively with our classmates to complete Maths activities.
Practicing Kodaly activties with Mrs McKenzie.
Demonstrating talking and listening skills for 'Show and Tell'.
Participating in an aerobic workout to support the Lepra appeal.
Using our ICT skills to research Zoltan Kodaly.
Presenting our first class assembly about Kodaly.
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