I hope that you’re all feeling great this morning and ready to go.
Let’s begin with the 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. Amen.
Health and Wellbeing
Yesterday we had a little bit of Spanish health and wellbeing in the form of a Hula. Today, let’s travel to France for an early morning disco! On y va! (Let’s go!)
Literacy
Spelling
Your spelling words are called ‘proper nouns.’ Proper nouns always require capital letters – in this case many of them are place names.
Today’s challenge is to work out the anagrams; I have jumbled up the letters in your spelling words but I have NOT added any capital letters, just to make it trickier for you!
When you work the answers out, please add capital letters.
sumfired shourt ebeander nabo reslome loluolpa
sinevsner wagglos bredginuh arrestran bathrora ray
Now, check your spelling against yesterday’s list.
Proper Noun Challenge
For each of the following common nouns, create a Proper Noun (the first one is done for you):
girl Julia
boy
car manufacturer
film
snack
song
Scottish castle
loch
dog’s name
restaurant chain
country in Europe
city in Asia
river in Africa
airport in South America
cartoon character
Pokemon character
English premier league team
language spoken in Switzerland
soft drink
actor/actress
Yesterday you were working on a tourist guide related to one of the towns/cities from your spelling list. Please complete this if you have not already done so.
Maths
Yesterday you were exploring numbers to one million, 1 000 000. Today we are going to work a little more on place value.
Traditionally May is the month dedicated to Our Lady. In school, you would be creating a May Altar in your classroom. Today I am going to challenge you to make one at home.
I hope that you all remain safe and well. Please see a reminder for planning and tasks this week as a result of staff working in the HUB.
Chryston HUB; Public Holidays and INSET Day
Parents, this week is a little different for everyone as many of our staff will be working in Chryston HUB. On the days they are working in the HUB, staff will not be uploading work for children. However, new home-learning grids have been uploaded and children can select tasks from these.
The timetable below indicates the days when work will not be uploaded for specific classes:
Monday 4th May: Primary 1 (Miss McEleney) and Primary 3
I hope that you have all had a wonderful weekend, that you’ve had breakfast and are ready to begin a brand new week!
Let’s begin with the morning prayer:
God our Father, as we 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. Amen.
Health and Wellbeing
I saw that you were practising some Spanish on Friday. How about a Hula to get us going?
Learning Grids
The eagle-eyed among you might have spotted that new learning grids have been uploaded today. There are quite a few activities I think that you are going to enjoy.
Macavity the Mystery Cat Challenge!
On the last learning grid I set a task based on one of my favourite poems: Macavity the Mystery Cat. I challenged you to write an additional verse. Well, below you will find a super verse written by Rachael:
Macavity, Macavity, he likes to be well-known
He always knew he would be the cat that had the heart of stone.
You might lose your golden treasure or your fruits like grapes or pears;
But when you start to find them all, Macavity’s not there!
He may give your kids a fright, or even quite a scare
But when the parents come to see, Macavity is not there!
He has been away for weeks now, oh where could he have gone?
But when you become fast asleep – he will be there all along!
Fantastic work, Rachael! I really enjoyed reading your work and I think that TS Eliot, the poet would have loved it too!
I’m still waiting for more verses and visualizations. Please email them to me:
ht@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
Thank you!
Literacy
Spelling Words
This week we are going to focus on place names, specifically those of cities and towns in Scotland.
Use the map below to see where each of the towns and cities lies within Scotland.
Literacy Task
Creating a Tourist Guide
Note: this task might take a day or two to complete.
Many people use a Tourist Guide when they visit a new country, city or town. Your task is to select one of the cities or towns from your spelling list and to carry out some research. You are going to write a couple of paragraphs about the city/town giving key information for a tourist visiting Scotland.
Recreational facilities (e.g. football stadia with tours, leisure centres, visitor centres etc.)
Remember: this is a guide for tourists. You could include some illustrations or maps however it has to be brief and include all of the salient (key) information about your selected town or city (tourists are eager to see the sights – they will not have time to read for a long period of time). I’m looking forward to reading some of your work as I haven’t been to some of those places…perhaps you might persuade me to visit some in the future!
Numeracy
Today we are going to explore numbers to one million – 1 000 000!
Don’t worry if you have not worked on these before – as I said, we’re going ‘to explore!’
Please click on the link below and then switch to ‘slideshow’ as the answers follow the questions! Let’s go Number Detectives!
Yesterday was Good Shepherd Sunday. We remember that Jesus is the Good Shepherd and that we are just like his sheep. A good shepherd looks after all of his sheep and he always makes sure that he knows exactly where each one is. A good shepherd worries about each and every one of his sheep and he keeps them safe and well.
Yesterday Fr. Campbell told a true story during Mass about a shepherdess who lives on one of the Scottish Islands far north of the Scottish mainland.
She had a flock of sheep and one of these sheep had a little lamb. Nothing unusual about that; however the mother sheep wouldn’t look after the lamb and wouldn’t feed it or care for it. That is unusual.
The shepherdess, a good shepherdess looked after the lamb herself. She fed it and cared for it; she even gave it a name – Norman!
In due course she sold some lambs at auction, including Norman. A while later, she regretted her decision. She traced him all the way to a farm in Aberdeen – hundreds of miles from where she lived.
She travelled all the way to Aberdeen to the farm. There were seven hundred lambs in the field but she recognized Norman. Amazingly, Norman recognized her when she called his name and came running over to her! They both went back to the islands.
Jesus is the Good Shepherd. He always recognizes each one of us and he always takes care of us. Even when we do something wrong, he welcomes us back with open arms when we say that we’re sorry.
Perhaps you could make a 3D picture of the Good Shepherd. Look at the idea below.
Learning Grids
To finish today, please select an activity or two from the home-learning grids. You’ll find them in the home-learning grid section on the right-hand side of the website!
I hope that you all enjoy the rest of your day and I’ll see you tomorrow!
I have really enjoyed looking at all of the pictures on Twitter of you working so hard this week. I have to say that some of the activities looked like great fun – you have certainly been very imaginative and creative!
You should all have your GLOW information and passwords now which means that you can upload your work and pictures onto the site.
Please enter the Road Safety Mascot competition – what a terrific idea for the school. You can find more information about it from Miss McMullen on Twitter.
I know that it’s Friday, the sun is shining and that we are all looking forward to the weekend!
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 also need to think about those who are ill in hospital and at home at present as well as those who have died in recent weeks.
We now need to remember all of you – our fantastic children – who have been working so hard in rather strange circumstances! Well done!
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…
Now! It’s Friday…the sun is shining…and you should know that when I was talking to Fr. Campbell earlier on this morning he suggested a, ‘Sneaky little extra playtime’ for all of you! What a great idea!
So boys and girls, treat yourselves to a slightly longer break this morning and don’t forget about Golden Time this afternoon. I think that you should all have an extra ten minutes – and all of the staff as well!
Stay safe this weekend – remember the sun cream and the hats!
I hope that you had a lovely Easter break and that you enjoyed the sunshine, not to mention the chocolate eggs! From Monday 20th April all of the teachers will be uploading tasks for you onto the website and onto Twitter. In addition I have attached updated grids for you here.
The levels are as follows:
Early Level: Primary 1
First Level: Primaries 2 – 4
Second Level: Primaries 5 – 7
If you need a paper copy of the grids, please email me directly and I will organize copies for you:
ht@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
Children, I hope that you are all keeping safe and well. Remember what Pope Francis said at Easter:
‘We need to show everyone that we care for them and that we love them, no ifs, no buts!’
So boys and girls, remember that the adults at home need your help too – they have to do their work as well as helping you – so make sure that you do something special for them every day!
We – all of the staff – are really missing you and we are looking forward to seeing you back in school as soon as possible. Do your best – and stay safe!
