As it is Sports Relief week, all activities this week will be physical activities.

Choose 2 or 3 activities to complete this week

• Go on a bike ride with your family.
• Use your favourite music to make up a dance .
• Create your own exercise routine.
• Practise the football skills you have been learning with someone at home.
• Play fitness with the leader. This is just follow the leader using exercises.
• Go out and play your favourite sport with an adult at home.
• Time yourself – how many jumps, hops, skips can you do in 30 seconds.
• Walk/run/jog a mile every day.
• Make up your own outdoor game.
• Try playing a sport you have never played before.

Keep a diary of all of the active activities you complete this week. Bring it in to share with the class.

Continue to read your reading book every night and remember to bring it in to school each day.

Literacy

• Read some of your book each night and remember to bring it in to class each day.
• With an adult, discuss the main events in the story.

• Maths
  • Handout given on the 13.03
  • Continue to work through the games assigned to your account on active learn.

Science – British Science Week

• This week is British Science week. Explore this website to find out more about it.
• Have a go at some of the science experiment on this website.

French

• Make a puppet and give it a French name. (You could use socks, paper bags, cereal boxes etc.)  Please ensure this is brought into class before the 20.03.  Thanks

Spring 

• Our class assembly is about Spring and it will take place on the 26^th of March.  Please help your child learn this song for our assembly.

Take a look at the fun we had………

On Tuesday, we had fun building snowmen.

We then decided to write instructions on how to build a snowman.

This week marks the start of Fairtrade Fortnight and this Thursday is also World Book Day.  All our homework activities for the next fortnight will be linked to these events.

Pick some of these activities to complete;

World Book Day

• Explore the website – Take a look at the World book Day website. Look out for ideas and activities you can complete with someone at home.
• Costumes – Design a costume for you or a friend to wear on World Book Day. Draw and label your ideas in your homework jotter. ( this does not have to be the costume you wear)
• Reading Challenge – Pupils chose a book for enjoyment from the class library. Read some of your book each night at home.  Think about the characters, setting and plot.  House points will be given to encourage reading.
• Junk Model – Using junk materials from around the house, make a character from a story of your choice.
•  Visit to the library/ book shop – At some point over the next fortnight visit your local library/ book shop to choose books that interest you.  Remember you can redeem your £1 voucher for a free book.
• Create a Quiz – Make up your own questions about a book of your choice.

Fairtrade

• Explore the website – Take a look at the Fairtrade Schools Website.  Look out for ideas and activities you can complete with someone at home.
• Fairtrade Hunt – When shopping keep an eye out for Fairtrade products. Draw or write what you spot in your homework jotter.
• Fairtrade recipe –  Research and make a Fairtrade recipe.  Here are some examples; Chocolate brownies   Banana Bread
• Re-design Fairtrade Logo – Design a new fairtrade logo think about the colours, symbols and words you put on it.
• Acrostic Poem – Write an acrostic poem using FAIRTRADE letters at the start of each line.
• Fairtrade Video – Watch this video about Fairtrade and take notes on what Fairtrade means to share with the class.

*********School Fairtrade Mascot Competition ***********

Design a Fairtrade Mascot on the sheet sent home.

Winner – 5,000 house points

Runners up 3,000, 2,000 or 1,000

Design a Fairtrade mascot with;

• A catchy name
• Bright Colours
• Tagline or Hashtag
• Super Power

On Friday, we worked on improving our writing skills.  We are trying to add more detail to our stories, use a variety of openers and connectives and remember to correctly punctuate our sentences.

Primary 2

Maths – addition, subtraction & time

• Who wants to be a billionaire? Ask children to compose their own addition and subtraction questions for a quiz, giving four possible answers for each question (including the correct answer). Encourage them to create questions that can be solved by counting on or back from the first number and to use a variety of language and symbols.
• Collecting dates – ask your child to collect some key dates from their family or friends, e.g. Dad’s birthday is 5^th March, we go on holiday on 10^th Can they find them on a calendar?
• Active Learn – Continue to work through the game  assigned to your account.

Literacy –  phonics, reading and common words

• Phonics – magic e

Have a look at some of these magic e videos

magic e 1       magic e 2

Write down some examples of magic e words in your jotter.

• Reading – Read your book every night and remember to bring it in to school the next day.
• Common Words – Continue to practise the words on your word wall. Can you find any of these words in your reading book this week?

Other – French revision

• Revise French numbers and colours. Here are a few videos to help you;

French numbers                                                     French colours

Primary 3

Maths

• Times tables – Continue to practise the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
• Who wants to be a billionaire? Ask children to compose their own addition and subtraction questions for a quiz, giving four possible answers for each question (including the correct answer). Encourage them to create questions that can be solved by counting on or back from the first number and to use a variety of language and symbols.
• Active Learn – Continue to work through the game  assigned to your account.

Literacy – Contractions, reading and spelling

• Contractions – This week we have begun to look at contractions.  Explain to someone at home what a contraction is.
• Reading – Read your book every night and remember to bring it in to school the next day.   Can you find any contractions in your reading book or a book at home?
• Spelling –  Practise spelling the days of the week.

Other – French revision

• Revise French numbers and colours. Here are a few videos to help you;

French numbers                                                     French colours

****  Reminders******

• Tomorrow the children will have football training in the afternoon.  Please ensure your child has appropriate clothing and footwear with them.   Thanks
• Next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are school holidays.  Homework is not due in till the following Monday (the 19th)

Primary 2

Maths – Time

• Months of the year and Days of the week – revise writing/saying/chanting these in order.
• Time poster – Write down all you know about time – where we see it, why we need it, when we use it etc
• Ready, set, go! – Set a timer, on your phone, oven, TV see how quickly they can tidy up given area or .jumps, skips they can do in 1, 3 and 5 minutes. Talk about the difference in length of time.

Literacy –

• Reading – Read your book every night and remember to bring it in to school the next day. Look for tricky words in your book and practise them at home with an adult.  Can you find these tricky words in any of your other books at home?

• Spelling words –    are    now     see       will

Write each word 3 times – fancy writing/bubble writing/rainbow writing    (LOOK, SAY, COVER, WRITE AND CHECK).

• Phonics game – have a go at this ea game
• Phonics – ea sound.  Practise writing/making words featuring the ea sound ( meat, seat, sea etc)

Other

• Internet Safety – This week is internet safety week. Talk to your child about staying safe online.
• Cumbernauld – Last week we focused on Scotland, this week we are focusing on our town Cumbernauld.  Write 2/3 sentences about what you like about Cumbernauld.

Primary 3

Maths – Time

• Time poster – Write down all you know about time – where we see it, why we need it, when we use it, minutes in an hour, analogue and digital etc
• Ready, set, go! – Set a timer, on your phone, oven, TV see how quickly they can tidy up given area , jumps, skips they can do in 1, 3 and 5 minutes. Talk about the difference in length of time.
• 2 times table and 5 times table – continue to practise writing/singing/chanting the 2 and 5 times table.

Literacy

• Reading – Read your book every night and remember  to bring it in to school the next day.  Look for tricky words in your book and practise them at home with an adult.     Can you find these tricky words in any of your other books at home?

• Spelling words –   very      little     put       about    like

Write each word 3 times – fancy writing/bubble writing/rainbow writing     (LOOK, SAY, COVER, WRITE AND CHECK).

• Phonics game – have a go at this tch game.
• Phonics – tch sound.  Practise writing/making words with the sound tch (watch, catch, patch etc)

Other

• Internet Safety – This week is internet safety week. Talk to your child about staying safe online.
• Cumbernauld – Last week we focused on Scotland, this week we are focusing on our town Cumbernauld.  Write 2/3 sentences about what you like about Cumbernauld.

WOW! I loved all of your research on Scottish cities! A great job boys and girls.

A big well done to all who took part in Woodlands Got Talent!