Please find the answers sheets below.
Good Morning Flourishing Fives!
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.
Let’s move with Health and Wellbeing!
Yesterday we had a look at making healthy snacks and the skills you need to create something delicious in the kitchen.
Today as we get closer to Sports’ Day next Tuesday, let’s be a little more energetic with a dance and then some yoga!
Literacy
To begin we’ll have a look at some more fantastic work from Primary 5.
Natasha gave us a wonderful tourist guide to Paris yesterday. Today she’s on her travels to Madrid!
Natasha McGeever – Madrid Travel Guide
I have never been there – but Natasha has persuaded me to visit in the future.
Meanwhile, Charlie W. has been busy with some Collective Nouns. He has created an Army of Caterpillars. Have a look!
Army of Caterpillars by Charlie W.
Well done to both of them.
Spelling Task
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 focus for this week relates to dictionaries. Yesterday you were asked to find and then create some definitions.
Today we are going to look at alphabetical order:
In your jotter, please arrange the following in alphabetical order. Remember, if words begin with the same letter you might need to look at the second letter, or even the third or beyond.
Comprehension Task
Read the tasks several times before attempting the questions. You can go back to the text at any point.
The answers will be published at 3.00pm today.
Numeracy
Remember – the SUMDOG Challenge is live and we want to make it as far up the leader board as we can. Please log on.
Task 2
Money: Using the Four Operations
Before beginning please look at the Money Operations example sheet below.
Money Operation Task: Addition and Subtraction
Answers will be published at 3.00pm today.
Super Maths Work
Have a look at some of Aila’s Maths. She has set it out beautifully too. Fantastic! Well done, Aila!
To see your work on the blog, please send it to me: gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk
R.E.
Yesterday we were looking at the Ten Commandments and Jesus’ message to,
‘Love one another as I have loved you.’
I asked you to think about your families and how much you love them. I also reminded you that Pope Francis has told us all to care for others, ‘No ifs, no buts!’
Today I would like to think about the people living in the same house as you; there might be two of you, there might be six of you! It doesn’t matter. Now I would like you to think of FIVE little things that you could do this week for those in your home. It could be that you set the table, make your bed, clear up after a meal, make someone a cup of tea or even take the vacuum cleaner for a walk!
When you have selected five things, draw some heart shapes and inside each, draw or write your tasks. You can make some extra hearts for decoration. Colour or decorate them carefully. Next make a circle wreath-shape like the picture below or if you have a paper plate, use that. Attach your heart shapes and display your Caring Wreath somewhere you can see it easily. Carry out your tasks this week and show that you care – no ifs, no buts!
Please email your Caring Wreath to (Teacher GLOW email) or, with an adult’s permission, upload them on to Twitter @St_BarbarasPS and to Pope Francis’ Twitter @Pontifex
Please select one or two tasks from the grid….then you’re finished for the day!
I hope that you enjoy the rest of your day. See you tomorrow.
Dear Parent,
We would like to evaluate our current home-learning programme. Please click on the link below to complete a brief survey. Your responses will help us to develop and to improve our programme. Please complete it on/before Thursday 21st May. Thank you.
Mrs McKinney
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
|
o Washing ingredients
o Peeling o Cutting o Juicing o Grating
|
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
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:
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!
Good Morning everyone,
I hope that you have had a very good week so far and I’m sure that you are all looking forward to the weekend!
It has been great to see more of your work so please, keep sending it in. In fact I have enjoyed looking at your work so much I think that you should treat yourselves to a little extra Golden Time today!
First Holy Communion
On Sunday we should have been celebrating First Holy Communion with the Primary 4 children, their families, Fr Campbell and all of our staff. Unfortunately this has had to be postponed leaving everyone very disappointed.
Why not log on to St. Barbara’s Parish website and follow us on Twitter to see a special message this weekend. Please remember all of the children and their families in your thoughts and prayers at this special time.
Virtual Sports…are you up for the challenge?
On Tuesday 26th May we are going to celebrate Sports’ Day with a whole school day of activities and fun for all of the family!
There will be an action-packed grid full of sporty tasks which you can do from home – inside and out.
Look out for further information next week and remember to take lots of pictures!
It has ARRIVED!! The NLC SUMDOG Challenge begins today!
Please log on and do your very best today and through all of next week. Good luck!
P. 7 Transition
Updated information from OLHS was uploaded onto Twitter earlier in the week. The transition process is continuing between staff in St. Barbara’s and the high school.
I emailed a letter to parents of children intending to go to Chryston High on Wednesday. Can you please check that you have received this and let me know of any issues?
Feast of the Ascension: Thursday 21st May
Under normal circumstances all of the children would have been attending Mass next Thursday for the Feast of the Ascension. As this won’t be possible, Bishop Toal will be celebrating Mass on Thursday online at 11am for all of the school children in the Diocese. I will issue the link next week.
So just before the weekend begins, let’s take a few moments to remember all of our fabulous NHS staff, all of the keyworkers, all of our wonderful staff, all of your parents and the adults who have been supporting you at home this week. We’ll also think about Fr. Campbell who has been saying Mass every day and remembering all of us in his prayers.
We remember most especially the children in Primary 4 who would have received the Sacrament of First Holy Communion on Sunday – and all of their friends in class who were supporting them.
Let’s not forget about all of you – our fantastic children – who have been working so hard again this week! Well done all of you!
We ask God to bless each and every one of us today and to look after us all this weekend. Together, let’s say a Hail Mary in English or in Spanish, you choose…
I hope that you all have a relaxing weekend.
Mrs McKinney
Good Afternoon Primary 5!
The answer sheet for today’s challenges can be found below.
See you on Monday!
Good Morning, Footloose Fives!
I hope that you are all well and ready to go!
Let’s begin as we always do with our morning prayer:
God our Father, as we prepare to begin our work today,
We ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us
So that we may properly benefit from our day together. Amen.
Health and Wellbeing
Spell the days of the week to complete this challenge!
If you’re feeling very energetic you might extend this to include the months of the year.
NHS and Keyworker Thursday
Have a look at some of the fantastic work which you have emailed to me!
The first is a terrific acrostic poem by Natasha celebrating the NHS and Keyworkers
Next we have some wonderful stone art from Charlie and his brother Connor
Next up, we have Aila’s super NHS and Keyworker Acrostic poem
Finally, read Sofia’s fabulous NHS and Keyworker Acrostic poem
NHS and Keyworker Acrostic Poem by Sofia
Please keep sending your work to:
ht@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
Literacy
Yesterday I gave you a task on collective nouns. You had to find two answers for each collective noun.
Please see a selection of answers below. You might have had alternative nouns.
Don’t forget to send some of your collective noun pictures – I would love to see them!
Spelling Words
France – Paris, Portugal – Lisbon, Spain – Madrid, Germany – Berlin, Sweden – Stockholm
Poland – Warsaw, Austria – Vienna, Netherlands – Amsterdam, Belgium – Brussels, Norway – Oslo
Spelling Task
On Tuesday I asked you to select four pairs of words and to make 3D version outside.
Today I would like to take the remaining words and create a short travel blog. Research some of the countries and cities and provide some information for a would-be traveller. You might even add a picture or two.
I’m looking forward to reading them!
Collective Nouns
Please complete the following with nouns you have not used before.
Just for fun!
Try creating some collective nouns of your own. Select some plural nouns and see what you can suggest. See some examples of plural nouns below:
Examples
You can use these or choose some of your own. Have some fun – then email them to me!
Numeracy
Yesterday we looked at a word problem Chilli Challenge. Please find the answers below:
Times tables can be tricky. It isn’t always easy to ask an adult if you are unsure as so many of them are working form home themselves also.
I have a task which will help you to learn your tables and to become more independent should you need help. Select a table (or more than one) that you find tricky. For those of you who are confident in tables to 10x, select the 11x or 12x table.
Look at the picture below and create your own table-checker! Genius!
Thursday Word Problems
There are two challenges for you to try today…you might even like to try both!
Good Luck!
Answers will be posted at 3pm today.
R.E.
May Altar
Please say a decade of the Rosary at your May altar. Think especially about the children in Primary 4 who should have been celebrating their First Holy Communion on Sunday. If you have written a little prayer for them, say it too.
Grid Tasks
Please select one or two tasks from your grid.
Finally…
Just for fun…. Celebrate NHS and Keyworker Thursday… dance like no one is watching…and then clap tonight – 8pm!
That’s all for today, Primary 5. Mrs Goodwin will be with you tomorrow and I’ll be back with you on Monday.
Remember, you can email your work to me:
ht@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
Have a great weekend when it comes!
Happy Wednesday, Feisty Fives!
Let’s begin with our morning prayer…
God our Father, as we prepare to begin our work today, help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us so that we may fully benefit from our day together. Amen.
Health and Wellbeing
What about a bit of Dino Funk to get us wakened up? Click on the link and show us your best Dino moves…and don’t forget that ROAR!
Literacy
I hope that you managed to make some super 3D spelling pairs. Today, using the other four pairs, create a spelling flower like the one below. In the centre, write: Country/City
Collective Nouns
I hope that you enjoyed yesterday’s activities. The answers can be found below.
What might you expect to find in each of these groups?
Task 1
As I said earlier, sometimes we use the same collective noun for different things – and you can see some examples above.
Your tasks is to find two different things for each of the following collective nouns. Don’t use any of the examples we have already used.
Task 2
Collective nouns can make us imagine some very silly pictures.
Did you know that a group of lizards is called a lounge of lizards? Or that if you look up into the trees that you might see a murder of crows?
Have a look at the images below to see how an artist imagined the examples above!
A lounge of Lizards A murder of crows
Over to you….please select a collective noun of your choice and create a picture to illustrate. Please ask an adult to email it to me…let’s see if we can create a gallery of collective nouns!
Numeracy
Yesterday we looked at a mental maths division wheel and some word problems.
You can find the answers below:
P.5 Division and Word Problem Answer Sheet
If you don’t understand an answer, please email me:
ht@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
Today we are beginning with a Multiplication Wheel.
More Word Problems!
Chilli Challenge: which will you attempt?
Remember to write down the calculation (sum) for each of the questions – that will help!
Click on the link below to see how hard Euan has been working!!
R.E.
On Sunday the Primary 4 children were supposed to celebrating their First Holy Communion. Sadly this will not take place. I thought that it might be an idea for you to write a short prayer to let them know that you are thinking of them at this time.
If you write and decorate your prayer and send it to me, I’ll ask the P.4 teachers to post all of the prayers on their blogs.
I think that you’ve all worked very hard today…so time for a rest and some relaxation!
See you tomorrow!
Welcome back Fun-loving Fives!
I hope that you had a lovely, long weekend and are ready to start back to work!
As usual, we will begin with the morning prayer:
God our Father, as we prepare to begin our work today we ask you to help to use properly the many gifts you have given us so that we may fully benefit from our day together. Amen.
Health and Wellbeing
Today is Zumba Day!
Please follow the link below and join in!
Literacy
Here is another verse for Macavity, this time written by Sofia. I’m sure that you will enjoy it!
Macavity Macavity naughty old Macavity.
He’s broke the lockdown rules , he doesn’t know the gravity.
He thinks he’s far too cool to play by the rules.
Not social distancing , he’s acting like a fool.
Macavity broke into the chapel, to try and steal the gold
But he never thought Father Campbell would be quite so bold
The priest grabbed him by the neck and called 999
What a noise he made, you could really hear him whine!
Father Campbell bravely held him by the hair
And when the police arrived
Macavity WAS there!
Terrific work, Sofia. Well done!
Literacy Task
Nouns
Last week we revised proper nouns. This week we are going to look a ‘Collective Nouns.’ While a noun is the name of a person, a place or a thing a collective noun is a special name for a group of people, places or things.
noun: ship collective noun: a fleet of ships
noun: bee collective noun: a swarm of bees
Task 1
Choose a word from the selection below to match each of the collective nouns:
flowers trees cows football players wolves sheep
Task 2
What might you expect to find in each of these groups?
Please note: there might be more that one answer to each of the above; however, you simply need to give me one.
Spelling Words
Last week we looked at towns and cities within Scotland. This week, we are going to extend that to several European countries and their capital cities.
France – Paris, Portugal – Lisbon, Spain – Madrid, Germany – Berlin, Sweden – Stockholm
Poland – Warsaw, Austria – Vienna, Netherlands – Amsterdam, Belgium – Brussels, Norway – Oslo
Today, select four pairs of countries and capitals. Try to make 3D versions of the pairs using clothes pegs or pebbles outside.
See if you can find the countries and cities on the map.
Numeracy
Please find the answers to the GOLD Challenges in the link below! Let me know hoe you got on.
Task 1
Today we are going to revise some division by your favourite times tables:
4x, 6x, 7x, 8x and 9x. Who doesn’t love a challenge?!
You will find a table wheel challenge attached. Please do NOT use a calculator – try to work them out mentally.
Task 2
The second challenge involves solving a few problems. These are written in sentences – so make sure that you read each very carefully and work out what you are being asked to do before attempting to answer.
Answers will be posted tomorrow.
R.E.
May Altar
Have a look at Rachel’s May altar which is beautiful. It looks like a peaceful place to pray and the candle, which Rachel’s mum lit for her makes it really special.
Daily Angelus
During the month of May you can follow the Daily Angelus on the Diocese of Motherwell Twitter page.
Please click on he link below:
To finish today, please select one or two activities from the grid…and then enjoy a rest and a play!
See you tomorrow 🙂