Primary 4/3 – 14 May 2020

🌈🌈 Good morning🌈🌈

How are you all this morning boys and girls? I can’t believe that it is Thursday again!!

We will begin our day with a little prayer. 🙏. Let’s try the sign of the cross in Spanish.

Here’s a little reminder of the words.

We are now more than two weeks into May and we would be remembering how important Mary was in Jesus’ life and how we would pray to Our Lady through the Rosary this month. Take a little time to go to your May Altar, if you were able to make one. Perhaps you could say a decade of the Rosary for all of our NHS workers and all of the people that need a little prayer. As we do in assembly when we say our decade of the Rosary we could say every second one in Spanish. The words are above to help you.

Health and Well-being 💃 🕺

I hope that you all enjoyed our Hula en espanol last Thursday. Let’s give it another go today. Did your family enjoy doing it with you?

Literacy 📝

Primary 3 Tasks

Can you unscramble your common words?

itrew ____________________

swaner ____________________

nebag ____________________

etha ____________________

geap ____________________

Now write your common words out in alphabetical order.

__________________________________________________________________________________

Wordsearch P3

Primary 4 Tasks

Can you unscramble your common words?

eiqtu ____________________

lmmbude ____________________

liuqcyk ____________________

tanpritom ____________________

eituq ____________________

Now write your common words out in alphabetical order.

__________________________________________________________________________________

Wordsearch P4

Once your have completed your written tasks today, please find a quiet time to read your novel. Look to see if you can see any of your common words.

Numeracy 🔢

Follow the instructions on the sheet to complete the first two Magic Squares. 🎩

First Level Numbers and Number Processes Magic Square

Boys and girls for the next part of your maths work, I need you to go into your Glow email and send me a message. This is so that I can email you the details of how to get on to your textbook. We have been able to get our Teejay textbooks online.

So a little bit of ICT to go along with your maths today!! 💻

Mrs McKinney sent details on how to get into Glow. You will need these to follow the instructions to get you in. Once you are in the home page on the left-hand side of the screen you see a person (My Launch Pad); a house (St Barbara’s Primary School); and a building (North Lanarkshire Council). I need you to click on the house. This takes you to a screen and you need to look for Mail Microsoft Office 365. When you click on this tile, it might ask you to set the time zone. Look for Edinburgh and choose this time. Then you should be in your emails. I can’t wait to read your messages. You should only need to enter Mrs Boyce to send me a message. If this doesn’t work look at the email address below.

Well boys and girls thank you for working on all your tasks today. Remember try your best and do what you can. If you need something else, you have the grid to choose a task.

Remember to clap as loud as you can tonight at 8.00 pm. 👏 👏 👏

Mrs Boyce x 🌈🌈

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020

Primary 4/3 – Thursday 7 May 2020

🌈🌈Good morning to our Primary 4/3 Superstars!!🌈🌈

I have enjoyed looking at all your work and I can see how hard you are working!! I hope you had a lovely day in the sunshine yesterday. The blue skies were amazing!! I didn’t see a cloud in the sky.

Let’s begin with our morning prayer. Can you remember how to say the Sign of the Cross in Spanish?🙏

Morning Prayer

God our Father, as we prepare to begin our day’s work,

we ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us

so that we may fully benefit from our day together in school.

Amen

Now let’s say a Hail Mary in Spanish. Close your eyes and take a moment to remember all of the people in the world who are in need of a little prayer. We especially remember all of our NHS workers who are working so hard to help everyone who is sick in hospital. I have attached a little card to help you with the words.

Once we have finished we will ask St Barbara to intercede for them.

St Barbara, Pray for them; St Barbara, Pray for them; St Barbara, Pray for them

**Primary 4 First Communicants**

Boys and girls I know most of your Communion Workbooks are in the classroom but I am attaching a link that will take you to an online copy so that you can work through your books with your parents when you can. There is no need to print off the booklet. If you record your work at the back of your home learning jotter we can transfer it into your Workbook once we are back in class.

https://www.rcdom.org.uk/other-resources

Please read the copyright information below:-

“Each Sacramental Workbook is copyright. Consent is granted to copy, distribute and share these Sacramental Workbooks up to the time that our Government have allowed pupils return to normal school activities. They will be removed from this website thereafter. In downloading the content you agree to these terms.”

Health and Well-being

Okay boys and girls, let’s get started with a little bit of exercise to waken you up. As we have been using Spanish already this morning, I thought it would be good to show your family our “Hula en español” exercise we do in assembly!! Remember to get them to join in with you!!

You can use your daily walk to make up the rest of your exercise for today.

Literacy

To begin our literacy I have attached the following document for you to choose your starter for today. Remember I gave you the first page to complete last Thursday. You can choose one for today.

find a word

As you have been doing a good bit of writing in your jotters over the week, I have set you a task in First News – you will see that you have to complete the comprehension activity on the UK News article dated 4th May. I really enjoyed reading about all the interesting things happening around the UK over the last week. Remember you can revisit the article at any time to help you with your answers. I will be checking your work so remember to give a detailed answer when asked to type the answer to any questions.

To finish off your literacy work today, find a quiet space and read for 15-20 minutes. Remember if you are unsure of any words you come across, use a dictionary to look up the meaning. Also find out which part of speech the word is. You could record them in your jotters.

Numeracy

To get us started let’s recite our tables. Start at the 3 times table and go as far as you can. I think you could look at your grid for the stepping stones challenge, Try to beat your record with a few of your tables today. Remember what Mrs Graham was saying, know your tables really helps you with your division work.

Please choose one of the attached worksheets to practise your tables.

First Level Numbers and Number Processes Multiplication activities

First Level Numbers and Number Processes Six Times Table

Well boys and girls you have been working very hard over the week and remember to try as many activities as you can. Please do not worry if some days you don’t get everything completed. If you need any help remember to email me. I will be available all day and you can get me on SBoyce@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk or gw09boyceshirley2@glow.sch.uk – you can also send me your work or upload onto Twitter.

Yesterday you looked at a very important event that happened 75 years ago. We should have been on holiday on Monday 4 May but because of this important event the holiday was changed to tomorrow, Friday 8th May. The link below will give you a few ideas of things that you could do, with your family, to celebrate this event.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKNLC/bulletins/28a2652

I know our holidays have not been quite the same over the last few months, but you will be able to relax with your families as you are having a break from your school work until next Tuesday when Mrs Graham will be back.

Finally remember to make some noise for all our NHS workers tonight at 8.00pm. 👏👏👏👏

Take care and keep smiling. 😃😃

Mrs Boyce x 🌈🌈

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Friday 1st of May

🌈 Good Morning Primary 4/3 🌈

Today is Friday the 1st of May, a new month, a special month as we remember that this month is dedicated to Mary, Jesus’s Mother.

As we normally go to mass on the first Friday of every month, maybe today, with an adult supervising, you could watch the live stream of mass with Father Campbell at 10.00 am on Facebook.

Let’s begin with our morning prayer and afterwards we will remember all those who have died:🙏

Eternal rest grant unto them O’Lord

and let perpetual light shine upon them

May they rest in peace.

May their souls

and the souls of the faithfully departed,

Through the mercy of God

rest in peace. Amen.

The Diocese of Motherwell have asked the school to share with you that every weekday during May, they will tweet a new video for families to do at home and these will also be hosted on their website and on Facebook. Here is the first one for you.

DOM Daily Angelus Challenge Card DOM Daily Angelus Challenge Card

Attached above is a lovely card for you to record your prayer each day. 🙏

In class we would be creating our May Altar. If you have a little space in your room or in your home, you could create your very own May Altar. I have attached a powerpoint to show you what you would need. May Altar

Literacy

Literacy-Task – 1st May

Numeracy

Please log in to Sumdog to find your times table challenge for today.

Boys and girls well done for all of your hard work on Place Value. I have attached below a link to take you to a wee recap of Place Value up to 3 digits. This will help you consolidate your work from the last two weeks. If there is anything you are still unsure of, please let me know and I can send you some more work to practise.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmdpnrd

Health and Well-being

It’s been a while since I have completed Joe Wicks as we have been using our daily walk to keep active here. I think I’ll log on to carry out my exercise for today. Why don’t you join me!

If you have time and have not already done so, a little reminder about the road safety mascot competition. Today is the closing date, so you still have time. Remember to send a photograph of your entry to Miss McMullen at mcmullenk@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk. All the details are on Twitter.

If you need me for anything today, please get in touch by email – my email address is SBoyce@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk

Thank you to everyone for all your great work this week. Thank you also to all of our parents/guardians for making this all possible. I hope everyone has a lovely weekend. Take care and stay safe. Hopefully the weather picks up

Mrs Boyce x 🌈🌈

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020

Primary 4/3 – Thursday 30 April 2020

🌈 Good Morning Boys and Girls 🌈

It has been great seeing all of your work and how creative you have all been over the last few days. The character profiles, news reports, not to mention the beautiful poems on your Super Heroes – from Grans to Mums – I’ve loved them all. Mrs Graham and I are so proud of all you have been doing at home. Please keep sending/posting your work as it really brightens our days.

Can you believe that it is the last day of April and tomorrow we begin a new month?

Let’s start the day with our morning prayer. 🙏

I hope that you have been remembering to say our Guardian Angel prayer, especially at this time, so that they will keep us safe and well. Here it is if you can’t remember it.

Angel of God, my Guardian dear,
To whom God’s love commits me here;
Ever this day, be at my side
To light and guard
To rule and guide. Amen

Health and Well-being

Let’s take time out of our day to keep active. You have been given lots of different types of exercises to do. Free choice today – what will you do? Oti Mabuse, Joe Wicks, Go Noodle or for all the football fans you might like to take part in this – all you need is a football! ⚽️🥅

Literacy

Here’s a little starter to get our brains working. find a word 30 April

There’s no need to print just answer in your jotter. At the bottom of the activity you will see that it is asking you to find some of the parts of speech we were revising last week. See if you can remember them. Can you remember what an adverb is? We will look at those tomorrow.

Spelling

If we were back in class we spend around 15 minutes going over our spelling words. If there are any of your words you are still unsure of remember to practise them. Take time to use the strategy that helps you. Remember people use different ways to learn new words.

Reading

Make sure you read today for at least 10 minutes. Find a quiet time and concentrate really hard on your book. Use a dictionary if you don’t know the meaning of a word. Reading expands your vocabulary and helps you in so many different ways in literacy.

Numeracy

For each word problem, underline the key information, write down the sums and work out the answers. The problems may involve adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing. Remember to show your workings in your jotter. There are two steps Take your time and read the questions carefully.

On Sunday I spent 98 minutes on my art project, and 35 minutes on my numeracy homework. On Thursday evening I spent a total of 100 minutes on my homework. What is the difference between the amount of homework I did on Sunday and Thursday evening?
Dad drives a truck. Last week he drove 250 kilometres on Monday and 145 on Tuesday. This week Dad drove 150 kilometres in total. What is the difference in kilometres between this week and last week?
One watch costs £1 and I bought two. If I paid with a £5 note, how much change did I receive?
*I need to buy enough whiteboards for 95 students and there are 10 in a pack. When the packs arrive 4 whiteboards are damaged. How many whiteboards are undamaged?
*At the fabric shop I bought 125 metres of orange fabric and 50 metres of yellow fabric. I have used 13 metres of the orange fabric and 12 metres of yellow fabric. How many metres of fabric do I have left in total?
I got £35.00 for my birthday. I spent £10.00 on Saturday and £15.50 on Sunday. How much spending money have I got left?

Primary 3 – Try to do at least 3 questions. Primary 4 – Try them all.

Challenge: Questions 4 and 5 have three steps.

Keep practising your tables and remember if you have got time you can carry out a task from your grid. Remember you have Sumdog , First News and Study Ladder too!

Make sure you remember to take plenty of breaks and drink plenty of water. Well done for all your hard work today. Remember tonight we say a big thank you to our NHS workers.

Mrs Boyce x 🌈🌈

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

FIRST COMMUNICANTS 2020

For Primary 4 Children due to receive the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

Bishop Toal has asked that this short video clip is shared with our First Communicants and their families.

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

Happy Friday Everyone!

Primary 4/3

Friday 24 April 2020

Good morning boys and girls!! Rise and shine, I think it’s to be a lovely day and it’s Friday!! That’s our first week after the Easter holidays over. Yesterday was a much better day than my weather app had told me. It was actually quite sunny and not as cloudy as they had said. Today it has to be even warmer (fingers crossed).

So before we start we will remember to say our prayers. Let’s begin with our Morning Prayer and we will say a Hail Mary and an Our Father. We will take time to remember all of the people who need a little prayer and ask God to keep them and ourselves safe.

Let’s take our learning outside today!! Remember to put on some sun screen and wear a hat.

How do you fancy some shadow drawing!!

Today we are going to base our learning around your marvellous creations. You can use your favourite toys to make a scene like the child in the picture. You are going to use the sunshine to trace round the shadows of your toys on paper (single sheets will do then you can join them).

Look at your drawings, now you are going to use them to write. What will you decide to do? An imaginative story, a newspaper report, what title will you give your piece of writing? It’s all up to you. I can’t wait to read them, please email or post your drawings along with your stories to SBoyce@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk or gw09boyceshirley2@glow.sch.uk or our Twitter.

If you have time remember to test yourself on this week’s words.

Thank you to the boys and girls who sent me in pictures of their work from yesterday. Well done, I was very impressed with what you remembered about your parts of speech. 🥇

Numeracy

Today I would like you to continue with your stepping stones from yesterday. If you haven’t given it a go, try today. If you have chalk you might want to use that (if you are allowed). Write the numbers 0 to 12 on the ground or on paper and test yourself on a table of your choice. Keep a record of your time and you will be able to see how fast you can get.

Sumdog Challenge Update – Well done to all the amazing mathematicians who have completed their Sumdog Challenge. If you can, try to finish before the deadline at 2.30 pm today. I can see that you have been working hard on your Place Value.🥇

RE 🙏🏻

Let’s take a short time out of our day to think about what we have achieved this week. We thank God for all the beautiful things that we can smell, hear and see whilst outside. We can also thank God for ourselves. Look at all the wonderful things we can do, how much we have learned in our time at school. We are all unique and very special to God and our families, so we need to remember that and give thanks to God.

Boys and girls you have worked very hard this week and I want you to give yourselves a great big pat on the back. You should be proud of all you have achieved and I hope you have a lovely weekend in the sunshine with your families. Take care and I will be back again next week.

Mrs Boyce x 🌈

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

Primary 5

Friday 24 April 2020

¡Hola! ¡Buenos días chicos y chicas! ¿Qué tal?

We will start with our morning prayer.

God Our Father, as we begin our days’ work, we ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts that you have given us, so that we may fully benefit from our day together.

St Barbara, Pray for us.

Please say a Hail Mary for all those who are sick

I hope that you are all well and looking after yourselves. Mrs Haughey has been telling me how hard you have all been working and it has been a joy to see some of your lovely healthy faces.

Here are your Friday tasks. Please only do what you can manage and don’t worry about not finishing all the tasks.

Numeracy

1. Warm up – describe the number 234202

In case you have forgotten here are some clues about the kind of things you can write:

– it is an even number
– it has 2 units
– the total of the digits =
– it is 5 more than
– it is 5 less than
– to write it in words would be …

Now let me see if you can come up with 10 ways to describe the number. You can use my clues.

2.Table challenge

Hopefully you all still have your table challenge sheets. If you don’t, don’t worry.
If you still have your sheet then continue with the table that you were working on.
If you have a brother or sister they could help to test you, if not you could FaceTime/phone your gran, grandpa, auntie or uncle and involve them. I know mums and dads are sometimes busy working.
If you can’t find your sheet, pick a table you find tricky, learn it and test yourself.

3.Statistics

You will be reading, seeing and hearing a lot about statistics on the television and in the newspapers. (See if you can spot the advert with Professor Jason Leitch and the pictogram of how we stop the spread of Covid-19 by staying at home)

Statistics are when you collect data, organise the data, understand what the data means and then present the data.

For example
If you gather information about how many pets each person in your class has, organise that information into groups and then make a graph out of the information.

Please watch this lesson and complete the questions that follow. We will only be looking at bar graphs today and you don’t need to complete the line graph questions.

https://youtu.be/UgUiJPidvQw

https://www.cdmasterworks.co.uk/app/download/28439179/MNU+220a+B+Hw+5.pdf

Spelling

Mrs Haughey has set this week’s words:

impossible

incorrect

untidy

misbehave

imperfect

disappoint

unhappy

inaccurate

disable

Write the words on flash cards or pieces of paper. Turn the words upside down.

On another piece of paper write the numbers 1-9.

Pick a word, turn it over and write the word beside number 1. (just like our class spelling test)

Do this for each word and at the end turn all the flash cards and mark your spelling.

Remember to practise any words that you get wrong.

Health and Wellbeing

Working in a team can sometimes feel quite challenging, especially if you feel shy or if you have outspoken people in your team.

This video will help you to identify your strengths and how you feel you would fit into a team.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbcthbk

Spanish

Continue to practise food and drink. If you watch this video (lesson 9) you will hear the boy saying some of the words that you have learned.

https://youtu.be/Lr7vcRwox2Y

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine. Stay safe and look after yourselves.

Adiós

Mrs Goodwin 🌈 😊

April 23, 2020April 24, 2020

Primary 4/3 – Thursday 23 April 2020

Good morning boys and girls! 🌈

Let’s begin our day with your morning prayer. Say a Hail Mary and Our Father, remembering all the people that are sick in hospital.

I have set you some Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Well-being tasks to try throughout the day. Remember you can do them in any order and try your best to do as much as you can.

Literacy

Let’s begin with a little challenge. Remember our blue jotters from class. You can use your home learning jotter for this. Write the word:-

BREAKFAST

See how many words you can make from it. Remember our rules: each word must have 2 or more letters, no proper nouns and you can only use the letters from the word. Off you go!! How many words did you make? What was your longest word?

Follow this link for your task. Literacy Task

Numeracy

Continue to practise your 3,4,5 and 6 times table. Have you played stepping stones? Let’s start with the 3 times table. Lay out numbers from 0-12 on the floor or in the garden (if it’s not too windy), then as you step on the number you multiply it by 3 in your head and call out the answer, move to the next number and repeat, all the way to the last number. Now do the four times table. Time yourself and make a grid in your jotter to keep a record of your progress. How quickly can you do it?

Challenge yourself – jumble up the numbers on the ground so that they are not in order, it’s more tricky.

I have also set a challenge on Sumdog. It will start today and finish tomorrow. Good luck!

Health and Well-being

Follow this link for a new little challenge to keep you active today. HWB

Boys and girls I hope you have a lovely day and that this nice dry weather keeps up. Remember to drink plenty of water and to have your breaks throughout the day. Be good and remember to help around the house. If you need extra work remember you have your grid!! Please send me in some pictures of your work to my email address gwboyceshirley2@glow.sch.uk or SBoyce@st–barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk or you can get an adult to post them on Twitter.

Take care.

Mrs Boyce x 🌈

April 3, 2020

Happy Easter Primary 4/3

Boys and girls take extra care this Easter. It will be a different kind of holiday but make the most of it. Remember to be on your best behaviour. Hope the Easter bunny is good to you all.

Look out for Mrs McKinney’s posts reminding us of the importance of Holy Week and Easter.

Wishing you all a very happy and holy Easter.

Love Mrs Boyce and Mrs Graham 🌈

April 3, 2020April 3, 2020

Happy Friday!!

Good Morning Everyone!

Primary 4/3 can you believe that is another week of home learning nearly over. I hope you are all well and looking after yourselves. I have been very impressed by the work completed online, lots of you have now had the chance to try out the spelling and reading on Sumdog. I would like to see more of you on Studyladder and First News. Come on, give them a try if you have not been on yet! If you are having problems logging in to any of the resources please drop me an email – SBoyce@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk and I will help you to get signed on.

This morning we would have been going along to First Friday mass with the school. I hope you can take some time out of your day to say a little prayer for all of the people that are ill and in need of a little prayer. 🙏

Once you have completed your literacy, numeracy and health and well-being tasks for today I thought you would like to see the Easter cards we would have made in class as we finish for our Easter holiday! I have attached the video for you to watch. I hope that some of you might be able to try them out. I am sure it would make a lovely surprise for someone in your family!

Remember to ask an adult to upload your finished cards to Twitter if you get the chance to make one.

Well boys and girls, Mrs Graham and I are missing you all so much and we hope that you have a lovely Easter holiday. Remember to get as much exercise as you can, stay safe and relax over the holiday!! You will be able to take a well earned break from your home learning until the 20th of April.

Wishing you and your families a Happy and Holy Easter. 🐰🐰

Mrs Boyce xx 🌈🌈