Answer Sheet for Literacy and Numeracy Tasks
If you don’t understand an answer, please email me:
ht@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
Wednesday 27th May – Primary 5
Good Morning, first-rate Fives!
I hope that you enjoyed the Virtual Sports’ Day yesterday. Please send your pictures!
It’s Wednesday already so we had better get moving!
We’ll begin 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
I hope you enjoyed sport’s day yesterday and had plenty of fun! I would like you to keep having fun whilst exercising. Research shows that regular exercise has lots of benefits including:
- improving fitness
- increasing concentration
- building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
- encouraging healthy growth and development
- improving posture and balance
- lowering stress
- Encouraging a better night’s sleep
Today we are going to have a Wild Workout with Andy. Andy is off to the Arctic to see what he can find. Let’s join him and exercise on the way!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p06tmrxh/andys-wild-workouts-series-1-10-arctic
Now let’s do a fun dance video with GoNoodle:
Literacy
Alphabetical Arrangements! Please have a look at Ethan’s wonderful alphabetical work. Well done!
First News Shout-outs!
Primary 5, I have had a look at the activities tackled so far:
Well done to Junior, Rachael, Hollie, Aila, Charlie W, Natasha and Ethan Y. You’ve made a great start and collected a few gems along the way!
I have assigned some more tasks including comprehension, word definition and a crossword for you to enjoy.
If you have not already done so, please login to First News and make a start.
Scholastic Shout-outs!
Apologies for the confusion with the login details. All families should have a working link now. Meantime, well done to those who managed to login so far:
Lochlan, Keiran, Sofia, Aila, Rachael, Luke and Dubem. A few more of you logged in – but only for a couple of seconds!
I have assigned two more books to join those already there. Please login and enjoy some quiet reading time.
Literacy Tasks
First News: please login and complete at least one assigned task
Scholastic: please login and spend 20-30 minutes reading a book from the assigned selection
Spelling
This week we are going to look at words which end in vowels: a, e, i, o, u
anaconda armadillo buffalo corgi cuckoo dingo emu
gecko gnu kangaroo koala kiwi puma tarantula
You might have heard of some of the above animals, insects and birds.
Task 1
Last week you were looking at dictionary words and finding definitions. Today I would like you to do the opposite. I have given you the definitions. Please write them into your jotter and match them to the keywords (you can use a dictionary to help):
a) a wild ox from North America b) a large spider with a deadly bite
c) an Australian animal with a powerful kick d) an American wildcat
e) an African antelope f) a wild dog from Australia g) a bird named after its call
Answers will be posted at 3.00pm today.
Task 2
Select three of the animals, insects or birds from the above list, apart from the kangaroo. Do some research and create information pictures like the one below.
Kangaroo
Please send some examples to: gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk and I’ll upload them onto the blog.
Numeracy
Mental Maths: Speed Revision
Please use the Topmarks Daily 10 to keep partitioning in your mind!
Click on the link, select Speed Challenge, select Level 3 and/or Level Four. Then select Partitioning and see if you can beat the clock with correct answers.
Timing: aim for 3 seconds but feel free to change it if you need more thinking time.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Money
Last week we were looking at the four operations in relation to money. We are going to continue the focus on money this week.
When completing any addition or subtraction task in money, remember to line up the decimal points.
Click on the link below to find money challenges for today. There are two challenges and you can do one or both.
Answers will be posted at 3.00pm today.
R.E.
When Jesus needed to feel very close to his Father, what did he do? – He would pray. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he was betrayed by Judas. He prayed before he raised Lazarus from the dead and Jesus prayed during the Last Supper, before he broke the bread. Like us Jesus needed to share his worries and problems with his heavenly Father; he knew that he was never alone. Just as we are never alone. God is always with us.
When we pray we are having a conversation with God. When we talk to God, he listens. We don’t have to have special times for saying prayers. Often we say them at bedtime but we can talk to God at any time. Do you ever feel unsure about what to say to God? Don’t worry as God our Father likes to hear about everything we have to tell him and he is always ready to listen.
The apostles knew how important it was to pray to God but like us they often felt uncertain about how to pray. One day they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. What was the prayer that Jesus taught them? – The Our Father.
Watch this short video about how Jesus taught his disciples the Our Father:
Let’s say the Our Father now. I have copied the words to help you if you need it.
I would like you to download the picture below if you can and colour it in. If you can’t download it why not draw a picture like this one.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
Finally, Please select one task from your Second Level Home-Learning grid….and then you’re finished for today!
Virtual Sports’ Day is HERE! Tuesday 26th May 2020
Good Morning everyone and welcome to our first ever Virtual Sports’ Day!
Today, activities have been set for the whole school to enjoy.
We hope that you enjoy the day and we ask you to upload pictures onto Twitter or to email pictures to your child’s class teacher. Thank you!
Just like every day, we will begin 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 our day together. Amen.
Happy Eid!
Health and Wellbeing…let the fun BEGIN!
Today is Sports’ Day!!! I know it’s different from any sports’ day that we’ve ever had but we can still have lots of fun! So for health and wellbeing today I want you to follow the grid with lots of suggested activities. Don’t worry if you can’t do some activities just adapt them to suit yourselves. The important rule today is to exercise and have FUN!
Healthy Snack Ideas
R.E.
After all of the fun of Sports’ Day, time to relax and focus on the R.E. tasks below.
During Sunday’s Gospel we heard about Jesus praying for his friends and for us. He wanted us to be one, to be united in love, as closely as Jesus and God the Father are united in love. So, let’s think about how we can be more like that.
After Sunday’s Gospel Father Campbell spoke about how it is now 9 weeks since we have been together in the Church. He spoke about what people were missing about coming together for Mass. These feelings we have about missing things were the same feelings that the disciples felt when Jesus ascended into Heaven. Jesus prayed for his disciples and the disciples prayed to help them be closer to Jesus.
Watch this short video to help us reflect on Sunday’s Gospel.
What could we do to help us be united in love just like Jesus wanted us to be? Perhaps you have a favourite book and could read it to your little brother or sister. Perhaps you enjoy making music; you could play it over the phone for a loved one. Maybe you could do a very helpful thing around the house for your parents without being asked. Today I would like you to pick an act of kindness to do for someone else and help put a big smile on that person’s face! Have a look at some more ideas below:
Now write down your act of kindness inside a heart and decorate it.
Please send your pictures to your teacher’s email address or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS. We love seeing your pictures.
We all hope that you enjoyed an active, fun day. See you tomorrow!
Primary 5: Scholastic Link
Dear Parents and children,
I’m really sorry but I don’t know what has gone wrong with the link in your letter.
Please open the powerpoint below and run in slideshow mode. The link will open for you and you can insert your username and password.
Kind Regards
Mrs McKinney
Weekly Update: Thursday 21st May
Good Morning Everyone!
The Feast of the Ascension
Welcome to this week’s update which is on Thursday due to the bank holidays tomorrow and Monday.
It has been just fabulous to see all of the work that has been going on across the school this week, even if you were completing it at home. I have loved looking at all of the photographs of your healthy snacks; you certainly have been really creative. They all looked delicious.
I’ve also really enjoyed looking at all of your hard work in jotters, your pictures and collages, outdoor learning and even stop motion videos. Well done, everyone!
Primary 4, your video was just beautiful and I hope that everyone else saw it too. If not, you can access it through the Parish website. Well done to all of you and to your families. A special, ‘Well Done’ to all of your friends in Primary 5/4 and Primary 4/3 who have supported you as well as to the staff who all made it possible. I would like to thank Fr. Campbell for leading it (which took several attempts to make sure that he held the candle in the correct hand!) so well.
Parents, thank you so much for your continuing help in supporting the children at home. I know that it is extremely difficult for you at times but I really appreciate your effort.
Teaching and Support Staff, thank you for all that you are doing for the children daily and behind the scenes; I greatly appreciate all that you do.
Finally, well done to all of our St. Barbara’s Superstars, our children! As always, you are a credit to your families and to all of our school community. Well, today we would have been at church as it is the Feast of the Ascension; Fr. Campbell has been on the phone already because he wanted to remind me to remind all of you (!) that you have to have a special, sneaky extra playtime today! Great news!
Next Tuesday the whole day is going to be a Virtual Sports’ Day – so look out for more information on the website!
So everyone – it’s Thursday, it’s the holiday weekend which means that once you have finished your work and had a long playtime, it’s Golden Time! I hope that you have a lovely, long weekend with your families.
Mrs McKinney
Primary 5: Wednesday 20th May Answer Sheets
Literacy and Numeracy Answer Sheets
Wednesday 20th May P.5 Answer Sheet
More Money Operation Answers Wed.
See you tomorrow!
Updated Grids
Dear Parent,
Please go to the Home-Learning section of the website to access updated learning grids. Thank you.
Wednesday 20th May- Primary 5
Good Morning, Fine Fives!
I hope that you are well-rested and ready to start your learning day.
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
Time to waken up and put your best foot forward!
We’re getting closer to Sports’ Day – so time for a little movement. There are two video clips to get you moving and some tasks below. Enjoy!
Now for those tasks:
Play some music lasting about ten/fifteen minutes and do these:
- Jumping Jacks/Star Jumps
- On the Spot running
- Plank
- Squats
- Add your own and have fun!
Remember to have your water bottle handy and to take a few breaks!
Time for some great examples of your work!
First of all have a look at the ‘Caravan of Camels’ by Ethan P.
Next, watch Euan make a healthy smoothie…delicious!
Keep sending your work in and see it on the blog: gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk
Literacy
FIRST NEWS
I have allocated you all tasks on First News! There are two comprehension exercises and two crossword activities. Please select at least one of each.
Remember that you can look back at the passage whenever you like. Take your time and read it more than once before you attempt any questions.
SCHOLASTIC – NEW!
I have signed you all up for the Scholastic Reading Centre. I have allocated six books in total at present. Please select whichever you like and you can choose as many as you like
You can also choose a book of your own.
I sent emails on Monday to all parents so please check with an adult for your login details.
Login Details: if you have any problems logging in to First News or to Scholastic, please email me. Thank you.
Spelling Task
At the top of a page in a dictionary there are GUIDE words. Guide words are the first and last words on the pages. Look at the pages above. Bear is the first word on the first page while beyond is the last word on the second page. All of the other words on the pages are listed alphabetically between the guide words.
Here are the guide words from three different pages in the dictionary:
cool – correspond P.42 correspondent – country P. 43 impulse – independent P.109
Write the number of the page on which the following words would appear:
- coroner 2. count 3. increase 4. inadequate 5. copper 6. correspond 7. incident
Now try these:
- indeed 2. core 3. cosmonaut 4. corrupt 5. income 6. coppice 7. inadvertent 8. council
Can you think of three words not mentioned above which would be found on each of the three pages?
Answers can be found on the blog at 3.00pm today.
Numeracy
NLC SUMDOG Challenge.
Keep going everyone! We need to climb higher…let’s get to the summit!
Yesterday we looked at addition and subtraction in money calculations. Today we are going to remind ourselves about multiplication and division money calculations.
Have a look at the sheet below to remind you.
Now try these:
Answers can be found on the blog at 3.00pm today.
R.E.
This week we have been looking at Jesus’ commandment to:
‘Love one another as I have loved you.’
Jesus showed his love for all of us on Good Friday when he died on the cross. Tomorrow we are going to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension. On this day, forty days after his resurrection on Easter Sunday, Jesus ascended into Heaven leaving the disciples behind to carry on with his work and to be witnesses for him. They were a little scared to be left without Jesus but they believed in him and they knew that he would not leave them alone. They were quite right of course; the Holy Spirit came to help them on the Feast of Pentecost and we’ll explore that later.
Below you will see two very different video clips about the Ascension. Please watch both of them.
Now what I would like you to do is to draw or make your own reminder of what happened on the Feast of the Ascension.
You could think about making the figures of Jesus, his disciples and the two people dressed in white – you could even create your own video clip.
Or you could draw them and write a sentence or a paragraph below; you might want to make a picture using other media – e.g. cotton wool for the clouds.
I have attached some ideas to help you below.
Whatever activity you choose to do, please email it to gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk or, with an adult’s permission, upload it on to Twitter @St_BarbarasPS
Well done Primary 5. You’ve worked hard today. Time for a rest and I’ll see you tomorrow!
Primary 5 Comprehension and Maths Answer Sheet: Tuesday 19th May
Tuesday 19th May – Primary 5
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.
- animal house mother bicycle river
- bingo below battery blend bulrushes
- department favourite distance flavour dutiful
- package paper palm padlock panel
- strike struggle stroke stream stranger
- transparent transport transmitter translation transfusion
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.
