Ms Hutchison's Homework Page

BBC Bitesize is providing educational viewing daily.  Above is the timetable for week beginning 11th January 2021 that can be used to supplement the learning timetable provided by your child’s teacher.👍

Dear Parents and Guardians,

I hope you are all well. We are once again entering a ‘new normal’ of online learning, as a class and school community we are all in this together. My aim is to keep things as simple and easy to follow as possible.

Please be assured I know many parents/guardians are working and I am aware many may feel overwhelmed by the concept of online learning, I will do all that I can to make things as simple as I can. I am also aware of the challenges you may all face trying juggle work and online learning.

My expectation of you and your child is “Do what you can, when you can.” I do not want to add more pressure and unrealistic expectations to an already stressful situation.

Please know you can email me to clarify any of the tasks or to find out more information about how to complete activities.

The online learning will be progressive- meaning it will continue with a normal pattern of teaching and learning, which will progress each day/week depending on what and how the pupils are learning and grasping concepts.

I will be posting 2/3 curricular area tasks per day which will be differentiated to suit your child’s current working group.  All activities will be posted at 9am, every day.

The main areas will be Literacy, Numeracy, Health and Wellbeing, and Other- which will be a mix of Topic, RE or other curricular tasks.

I will use a variety of formats to shares tasks and support learning with online games, videos and written tasks.

All tasks will be on MS Teams; I will upload group specific differentiated tasks in the Assignment area of Teams.  There will be tasks for each group Lollipops, Candy and Cookies for literacy and Square, Triangle and Circle for numeracy. Your child knows their group. RE, HWB, topic and other tasks will be for all pupils.

Please upload the task to the assignment area. You should take a photo of your child’s completed task and attach. If you have difficulty, you doing this you can email me your responses directly.

I will provide feedback on tasks uploaded or emailed to me within school hours.

I will be online throughout the school day to answer any questions and hope to have weekly Teams check-ins with the children.  Video is restricted for pupils so this will just be a simple chat to see how everyone is getting on.

Some of my top tips to support ‘online learning’ at home:

• Establish a routine that works for your family: this can be as flexible as you like to suit your working day or childcare. If you are going to try to create a day similar to the school day, add in break and lunch times to break up the learning.
• Choose a good place to learn, a dedicated place for ‘online learning’- limit distractions
• Stay in touch- I am always happy when you reach out and I will be more than happy to support you in whatever way I can. As always you can email directly @ gw09hutchisonmarion@glow.sch.uk
• Encourage independence: no one expects parents to be full time teachers so encourage your child to lead their own learning. You may have to read the task instructions for your child but allow them to complete it as independently as they can.
• Begin every day by checking in with me: Each morning I will post a question or quote to encourage participation from your child in the General Channel. Your child can leave a voice note or a typed message. I will check on the General feed throughout the day.

Kind Regards

Ms Hutchison

This term online learning will be delivered via MS Teams. The majority of children have already engaged with this method of learning and communicating. I have attached a short video to remind and refresh memories on how to access Teams

This is the last week of homework for this term.

Literacy – Write a summary

Task – Choose a Christmas movie to watch.

Lollipops and Candy Groups

Next write down the main points of the story. Remember a summary doesn’t retell the whole story just the main points. Think about the different summaries we have been writing in class this term. We wrote one together on Monday about the movie Nativity.

Moonbeams

Do the same task but instead of writing – tell an adult the main points of the film.

Social Dance

During December we usually spend time learning some Scottish country dances. Due to lockdown we haven’t been able to do so. This week at our PE times Primary 5 will be learning the slosh! Their homework task is to teach an adult. For the children who are absent this week here is a little video clip to watch so you can teach your mum, dad or gran!

RE

Take some time to read this short poem with mum and dad. Talk about what/who are the crib community.  What does it mean by the last line ”It wouldn’t be Christmas without them!”?

Do you have a crib set in your house? Here is a bonus or challenge question. Who introduced the idea of a crib or nativity set?

On Friday I checked access to Teams for all children who hadn’t posted in our Primary 5 area. I gave those children a yellow paper with their login details and an updated Glow password. Please check their school bags.

I did not give new login details to the pupils who have already been using it this year.

From January we will be posting homework in the assignment area of Teams. The children/adult will take a photo of the completed work and upload it to the assignment area. By doing so your homework will be private.

Please remember to email me your completion certificate for the internet safety task. I will print it off for you. Well done to the children who have completed this important task.

Spelling – for Lollipop and Candy Groups.

Focus – silent letters

Choose the way you learn best. You may like to write the words over and over until you remember. You may choose to use rainbow writing to help you learn how to spell or you may prefer to say the words aloud.

comb

sign

column

answer

wrinkle

honest

hour

condemn

kneel

knot

Maths – Can you help Santa?

3 Stockings are hanging on the fireplace. R, G and B

When Santa visits he hangs then back up but in a different order.

In how many different orders can he hang up the stockings?

Post your answer on Glow!

Health and Well-Being – Internet Safety

As part of our response to Covid we are encouraging children to access many online activities and games.  It is very important children understand how to use the internet safely and what to do if they find something upsetting appear on their screens.

The following activity enables pupils to learn about the internet in a fun way. It has different levels and is a game the children can return to until they have worked through all levels.

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland

Numeracy – Division

Here is a handy powerpoint for parents. It shows the method used in school to teach short division.

How to do division for parents

Squares/Triangles1 – We have been learning to divide 3 digit numbers by 2, 3, 4, 5, & 10

Division worksheet Group 1

Triangles Group 2 – Focusing on division of 2 digit numbers by 2 and 5

Division Triangles 2

RE – Holy Souls

Talk to your family about who you would like to pray for. Take some time and say this prayer with an adult in your house.

RE – First Holy Communion.

We have completed the seven sessions in preparation for First Ho;ly Communion. I will collect all the booklets next week. Please use this week to complete any of the home tasks. I will reissue the books once the children have a date for their First Holy Communion.

Here is the homework grid for parents/children who have mislaid the first copy.

Primary-5-Homework-Grid-2nd-Nov (4)

Reading for Information

Reading for Information Task: St Margaret of Scotland

Please read the information sheet then complete the fact file.

Saint Margaret of Scotland

Saint-Margaret-Fact-File

Reading Task

Please log on to Oxford Owl e-books. Go to age range 9-11 fiction books.

Choose a fiction book to read or listen to. I recommend

Storm Chasers

RE – Session 7

This is our final session. Session 8 will be completed once the children have received the Sacrament. I will collect in the workbooks at the end of the week. Please let me know if you require some extra time to complete the home tasks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayk3bhFT0oA

I have copied the link to short video clip about the parts of the Mass. Now you have focused on each part of the Mass with your child is an opportunity to revise again.

I am so happy to see all the children back in school. We have all missed them. Normal Service is  resumed!

I will post the homework today.

Ms Hutchison

We are all missing you. I t is great to see all the work you have been doing. Thank you for remembering to post your work in Teams or sending it to me on email. I am really pleased to see your progress with reading and numeracy. Keep it up! Ask mum or dad to take a photo of your work and send it on.