Good Morning, Fine Fives!
I hope that you enjoyed a relaxing, fun-filled weekend and are ready for a new week and a new month…and a new SEASON! Summer’s here!!!
Let’s begin as usual with the 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
Over the weekend hopefully we were all able to go visit a member of our family! This has been something we have taken for granted all of our lives (as we probably did this every weekend or more). From Friday onward this has been a very special time for many. Hopefully your family don’t live too far away and you have been able to spend some time with them. It must have been a great feeling to spend time, in our gardens, with loved ones. How it has lifted all our spirits and given us such a positive boast! If you were able to visit someone you have not seen during Lockdown you will know this feeling. Hopefully it won’t be too much longer until we can see all of our family.
Today is also a new month/season JUNE begins our three months of SUMMER, can you believe it? This too should make us feel more positive as hopefully we have lovely weather.
Being positive makes our world a better place and after all the changes that have happened over the last few months, we will begin to see a brighter, happier, and more POSITIVE future ahead.
I would like you to take the word POSITIVE and write an acrostic poem. (Remember you take the word POSITIVE and in large letters you write it down the left-hand side of your page and then write a word/sentence that begins with each letter of POSITIVE).
Here is an example for the word Welcome to let you see how your poem should look.
You can email your poem to gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.
Now to keep that positive vibe going let’s try a little Zumba.
Remember to have plenty of drinks throughout the day. It’s going to be another hot day and we need to stay hydrated!! Watch out for tomorrow’s post to give you another idea for keeping hydrated!!
Let’s begin with some fabulous work. Well done to Ethan Y. for his fantastic Gecko word map!
Literacy
First News: please select from assigned Comprehension, Crossword and Word Definition tasks.
Scholastic: please continue with your selected book. If you have finished, please complete the quiz and choose another book. You should aim to read for twenty-thirty minutes each day.
Spelling
This week we are going to look at words with ‘-ow.’ These can be a little tricky because ‘-ow’ can be pronounced in two different ways: arrow or crown.
We’re going to look at words ending in -ow.
arrow narrow sparrow yellow elbow pillow window
follow hollow borrow sorrow burrow shadow shallow
Task 1
Copy the sentences and select the appropriate word from the list above.
- You can rest your head on me.
- I am a small, brown bird.
- I am home to a family of rabbits.
- When the sun shines I never leave your side.
- Mix me with blue paint and I turn green.
Answers will be uploaded at 3pm today.
Task 2
You will need some string, wool or thread. Select five of the spelling words above and create stringy pictures. You can choose to stick them down or simply make them – inside or outside!
Numeracy
Mental Challenge: Doubles and Halves
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Select: Level 2 or Level 3 and practise doubles and halves. You might even try both. Good luck!
Weight
Kilogram and Gram
A gram is a small unit which is used to weigh objects. It indicates how heavy the object is.
A kilogram is made up of 1000 grams.
Weighing objects is a skill for learning, life and work! You never know when you might need to:
- Bake a cake – you need to weigh the ingredients so that it tastes delicious
- You might need to weigh a parcel at the post office so that you know how much it will cost to post
- You might need to weigh fruit in a supermarket so that you know how much you will have to pay for them
- You might even want to weigh yourself!
We use scales to weigh objects. Scales come in all shapes and sizes depending on what has to be weighed. You probably have scales in your kitchen and different scales in your bathroom.
Kitchen Scales Bathroom Scales
What do everyday objects weigh?
- A packet of crisps weighs about 30 grams
- A tin of tomato soup weighs about 400 grams
- A bag of sugar weighs about 454 grams
- A large bottle of ketchup weighs about 880 grams
- A litre of water weighs 1000 grams or 1 kilogram
Information Section
1000 grams = 1 kilogram or we can write this as: 1000g = 1kg g = gram; kg = kilogram
1kg = 1000g 3kg = 3000g 5kg = 5000g 2kg 30g = 2030g 3kg 625g = 3625g
4000g = 4kg 12 000g = 12kg 4750g = 4kg 750g 9785g – 9kg 785 g 8004g = 8kg 4g
Task 1
Write the following weights in grams – g:
a) 4kg b) 7kg c) 17kg d) 24kg e) 58kg f) 32kg g) 61kg h) 10kg
Task 2
Now write these in grams – g:
a) 1kg 600g b) 6kg 350g c) 8kg 910g d) 4kg 725g e) 5kg 37g f) 11kg 66g
g) 12kg 3g h) 76kg 90g i) 4kg 4g
Task 3
Change the following from g to kg
a) 2000g b) 8000g c) 3000g d) 10 000g e) 71 000g f) 36 000g g) 13 000g
Answers will be uploaded at 3pm today.
R.E.
More wonderful work for you to see. This time it’s a beautiful picture from Preet. Click on the link below to see it for yourself! Well done, Preet!
The Feast of Pentecost – 31st May 2020
“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak”
“When Pentecost day came round, the disciples had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech.”
The Feast of Pentecost brings to an end the Season of Easter and falls 50 days after Easter Sunday. Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit. As we heard in the first reading of how the disciples were all together and how they were afraid now that Jesus had left them. On this day they were given the gift of speaking many different languages so that they could travel far and wide to spread the good news.
We learn that God is always here for us, we just need to ask him for help if we are afraid, worried or feeling lonely. He will answer our prayer and help us. Especially in these times when we are feeling sad about not seeing our friends and families like we use to. God will be by our sides to guide us through to better times.
Above you will see an image of Pentecost. There are important symbols that are associated with Pentecost – we can read about them in the extract above from the Acts of the Apostles. We also saw Father Campbell in his red vestments when watching Mass yesterday.
For today’s task I would like you to design your own Pentecost poster incorporating some of the important symbols of Pentecost. This poster will remind us that the Holy Spirit is with us in everything we do. Please email your poster to gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.
Art Attack
This is an activity I think that you will enjoy. It’s really good for all of you who are bookworms!
You can make it today or save it for another day during the week. Remember to send me your pictures!
Now you can select an activity from the grid and after that…it’s time to relax!
Well done everyone! I’ll see you tomorrow.
