Good Morning, Finest Fives!
It’s Monday and the beginning of a brand new week! The good news is that you have a holiday on Friday! The even better news is that you have a holiday next Monday…so let’s make the best of the time we have together!
As usual we will begin with our morning prayer:
God our Father
As we prepare to begin our work
We ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us
So that we may fully benefit from out day together. Amen.
Health and Wellbeing
Healthy Snack Day!
We’re heading towards our Virtual Sports’ Day next Tuesday and what better way to prepare than to think about healthy snacks for the day.
They don’t need to be fancy…just healthy and delicious.
Have a look at some of these:
Try to create a healthy snack of your own. What ingredients might you need?
Cooking Skills for Learning, Life and Work!
Depending upon your age, you could practise some of these skills as you prepare your snack. You might need to ask an adult for help.
You will be using skills that will be with you for the rest of your life. These skills are progressive. That means that if you haven’t peeled or sliced ingredients before (see the Primary 1 list) you will need to practise these before you move on to the next list!
Remember to wash your hands before you begin!
| At Early Level
Primary 1 |
First Level
Primary 2- Primary 4 |
Second Level
Primary 5 – Primary 7 |
| o Peeling
o Slicing o Mixing o Spreading
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o Washing ingredients
o Peeling o Cutting o Juicing o Grating
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o Weighing
o Measuring o Kneading o Chopping o Baking o Grilling |
Once you have made your snack, take a picture before you eat it and share it with all of us!
You can email your picture to gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission. Happy Healthy Snack Day!
Literacy
Let’s begin with some fantastic work for you to see today!
First of all we have a new verse from Charlie W.
Collective Nouns
Have a look at this fabulous picture by Ethan Y.
Collective Noun Picture by Ethan Y.
Travel Blog: Paris
Fancy a trip to Paris? Check out this super travel guide by Natasha.
Natasha McGeever – Paris Travel Guide
What a terrific effort by everyone! Well done to you all!
Look out for some more great work tomorrow.
Spelling
This week we are going to focus on ‘Using a Dictionary’ and your spelling words all link to that.
letter word vowel consonant order guide
alphabet dictionary definition origin meaning abbreviation
Task 1
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
The words in a dictionary are arranged in alphabetical order. Please arrange the spelling words into alphabetical order.
Remember: where more than one word begins with the same letter, look at the second or even third letter.
Task 2
Using the words in the second row of the above list, write each word and its definition from your dictionary.
Task 3
Using the words in the first row of the above list, write each word and create your own definition for it.
Sneaky TRICK ALERT: remember that some words may have more than one definition!
Numeracy
Task 1 
Please logon to SUMDOG – the NLC Challenge has begun and we are aiming to be at the top of that leader board!
Task 2
This week we are going to turn our attention to MONEY. Today we’ll begin with a little revision.
£1 = 100p There are 100 pennies in £1
A £5 note is worth the same as FIVE pound coins
A £10 note is worth the same as TWO £5 notes
A £20 note is worth the same as TWO £10 notes or Four £5 notes or ONE £10 note and TWO £5 notes.
Try these in your jotter:
- How many £1 coins will I get for:
a) three £5 notes b) six £5 notes c) four £10 notes d) seven £10 notes
e) two £5 and four £10 notes f) two £5, two £10 and one £20 note
2. How many £5 notes will I get for:
a) three £10 notes b) two £10 and one £20 note c) four £10 and one £20 note
d) five £10 and two £20 note e) four £50 notes f) six £10 and three £20 notes
3. There are 10 ways of paying for an item worth £10 using just £1 and £2 coins and notes.
For example: £5 + £2 + £2 + £1
In your jotter, list the other 9 ways.
4. How many ways are there of paying a bill of £20 using note and/or £1 and £2 coins?
Extension Section
Visitors to the UK from other countries will need to have UK money or UK currency which is called ‘sterling’ in order to buy items or services.
Can you find out the name of five other currencies used in countries across the world?
Write the name of the country and its currency. Good luck!
Answers will be uploaded at 3pm today.
R.E.
Yesterday was the sixth Sunday of Easter. In the Gospel, Jesus said that if you love him, you will keep his commandments.
Commandments are rules. However God’s rules are all about love – about loving God and each other. If we love someone, we try our very best to show that by being polite, kind, generous and happy when we talk to them or about them to others.
You have rules and home and we have rules in school. Just like the Ten Commandments, our rules are all about looking after each other and doing the best for each other so that we can all be happy together at home or in school.
Sometimes we break the rules – adults as well as children. If we break God’s rules, we call that sin. Don’t worry though, we can make it better.
Just like at home or in school, if we are sorry and say that to the person we have hurt – and try our best not to do it again – God will forgive us because he loves each one of us so much.
We can read about the Ten Commandments which were given to Moses in the Old Testament which is the first section of the Bible.
You can see them here. Read them or ask an adult for help then chat to someone in your family about them.
In the New Testament (the second section of the Bible), Jesus spoke about love all of the time. In fact, he made a ‘New Commandment.’
He asked us all to, ‘ Love one another as I have loved you.’
If you think about it – we all love ourselves and look after ourselves.
Jesus is saying simply that we should love everyone else as much as we love ourselves. If we all did that, the world would be a much happier place! In fact, if we all did that then we would be following the Ten Commandments without even realizing it!
At Easter, Pope Francis told us that we should love and care for each other, ‘No ifs, no buts!’
Today, let’s think about how we love each other: our family and our friends.
I would like you to choose one of the following activities. You can download and print a picture or you can make one of your own. When you have finished it, place it somewhere where all of the family can see it to remind yourselves of how just much you love and care for each other.
Please email your pictures to gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk or, with an adult’s permission, upload them on to Twitter.
Art and Design
This looks like great fun. It is a long clip but very worthwhile. The tasks get more difficult as you watch! Enjoy!
Time to relax now – see you tomorrow!
