Primary 5/4 2020

Following on from last weeks lesson about how author, Cressida Cowell, created Toothless and Hiccup…

(Here are Cole and Harris’s super drawings of Toothless & Hiccup..)

…You now might like to design your own dragon, using whatever materials you choose. You might even want to make a 3D model of your dragon! Include details of your dragon’s special power, its scariness or cute factor, its speed and how you managed to train it! If you wish to use it, a template can be found here – https://www.booktrust.oruk/globalassets/resources/childrens-laureate/2019-21/how-to-train-your-dragon-design-your-own-dragon.pdf

You them may wish to explore a bit more about sound effects and how a book can be brought to life on screen…

The following clip from the makers of ‘How to Train your Dragon’ explain how they did this and the importance of each dragon having its own sound – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN5TOGRs2qg

You may wish to present your dragon to me in a short video presentations – telling me how you made your dragon.

Now we have spent a couple of weeks using this film you may wish to watch it, if you have access to it, and enjoy a family movie night!

Miss Girvan.

This week we will learn how water can be wasted and what happens to used water…

Here are something I would like you to do first…

Watch this video on the “The Human Water Cycle” – discuss the steps in this cycle and the link between water, food and energy.

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It is important that water is not wasted. Use the following PowerPoint/PDF to learn how we can use water responsibly and understand why it is important that we do this.

Wasting Water (PPT)

Wasting Water (PDF)

Now I would like you to list the ways in which water can be wasted at home in your kitchen, bathroom, garden and during other household job.

Is there a way these can be adapted so that we use the water more responsibly? To conserve the precious resource of water, it is important we do all we can to use it responsibly. This means taking little steps to make sure we are not wasting it.

Once you have made your list have a look at the ideas sheet below… Did you have any of these on your list? Which ones do you think you could use at home?

Water – Responsible Use Information Sheet

Here is another useful PowerPoint/PDF which explains some facts and solutions to water usage.

Water Usage and Solutions (PPT)

Water Usage and Solutions (PDF)

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Today billions of people have no choice but to drink dirty water. Thankfully, we’re not one of them. But what if you were?

If you had to wash the dishes with it, bathe in it, drink it – would you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Mv8pauMKc

Now we will look at how dirty water can be made useable through filtering…

In this challenge, you will create your own water filter that can turn muddy water into clean useable water!

All information can be found in the following at the following website…

https://science.lovetoknow.com/science-fair-projects/homemade-water-filter-science-project

After making and using your filter I would like you to consider the following questions…

1. What made the best filter and why?
2. How could the filter be improved?
3. What material filtered best and why do you think that is?
4. Could/would you drink your filtered water and why/why not?

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Make sure to send me photos of your completed filters!

Miss Girvan.

North Lanarkshire’s Sumdog contest started on Friday 15th and will run until Thursday 21st. All you need to do is login and play to contribute towards our school’s place on the leaderboard! We need 1 more player to qualify for the competition so please try to get online!

As a reward for taking part in the competition, students who answer 100 questions will also receive an item for their Sumdog House!

Alongside this I have set a class challenge on Sumdog which runs from 9am today until 3pm on Friday – for completing this challenge you will receive 250 coins!

I will also be rewarding those at the end of the week who have spent the most time online…

Good luck in these challenges!

We are all living through history. This is something we have never experienced in our lifetime. It would be nice to create a keepsake of this moment for you to look back on.

You could save newspapers and art work done, take photos of your days and keep a diary.

Or you could create a paper-based time capsule…

If this is something you would like to create you can use the resource below…

Make-a-Time-Capsule

Miss Girvan.

Over the course of May I am going to post sets of common words that you have learnt over the course of the year.

Each week, spend time each day, practising the sets of words and at the end of each week I would like you to ask someone at home to test you. You can let me know your score each week. If you get any wrong continue to practise those.

Remember during your practise you can use any of the spelling activities we use in class – e.g. pyramid spell, fancy spell, dotty spell etc.

Here are your next set of spelling words for this week…

Yellow Group Spelling – Sets 13 & 14

Purple Group Spelling – Sets 5 & 6

Blue Group Spelling – Weeks 9-12

Hello Primary 5/4 – here are your reading tasks for this week…

Yellow Group – tasks for Chapters 7 & 8…

5. Titanic – Chp. 7 Tasks

6. Titanic – Chp. 8 Tasks

Purple Group – tasks for pgs. 58-70…

5. The Queen’s Nose – pgs. 58-70

Blue Group – Metalinguistic task…

6. Blue – Metalinguistics

Miss Girvan.

Good morning Primary 5/4!

Here’s to a new week! I hope you had a lovely weekend and you are all continuing to stay safe and well!

I have posted new learning resources for this week & hope you find them interesting & useful!

Today marks the beginning of ‘Mental Health Awareness Week’ – I have posted learning and follow up tasks all related to the theme of kindness…

Thursday is ‘Outdoor Classroom Day’ so look out for some special outdoor learning tasks posted then too!

Friday 22nd and Monday 25th are both holidays so take time away from learning on those days and do the things you enjoy instead!

Remember to send me any pictures of things you complete or anything else that you are doing that you would like to share with me and your classmates on Mail or our Class Team!

Have a great week!

Miss Girvan.

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Today, Tuesday 12th May, is International Nurses Day!

Click below for a lesson and some fun activities to learn about Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, and celebrate International Nurses Day 2020!

International Nurses Day 2020