Category: Primary 4

Good morning my terrific twos!🌟

I am back earlier than expected…I am no longer needed in the hub this week so I will be posting our daily blogs as normal.

The summer months are upon us and the past few days have given us a good taste of it! I hope you managed to have some safe fun in the sun and we all remembered our suncream yesterday.☀️

I spent the afternoon meeting my best friends new puppy, Nola. She really wanted to meet you all and I knew you would all love to meet her too, so here is a little picture of Nola.🐶

We will begin our day as always, with our morning prayer.🙏🏻

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

St. Barbara, pray for us. 

Here is today’s suggested learning activities- Tuesday 2nd June

Don’t forget to take plenty of breaks and get some fresh air.

Have a terrific Tuesday Primary 2 and remember…

Miss Shreenan 🌈💛

Good morning Primary 7,

I hope you all had a lovely day yesterday and enjoyed the glorious sunshine . Thank you to those who sent me over their best memory of their time at St Barbara’s. If you haven’t yet sent me yours over can you please do so today? Remember to either attach it to an email as a word document or just send it as an email.

Let us begin our day 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 our day together.

Amen.

I found this Joyful June calendar and thought I would share it with you all as it has some great ideas to promote positivity.

I am delighted to share some fabulous work that I received from Niamh yesterday. Well done for creating an amazing acrostic poem. It was very informative and positive.

Niamh Fagan- Acrostic Poem

Remember to send any work that you would like posted on our blog to gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk.

Here is the link for today’s learning activities-

Tuesday 2nd June

Here are today’s Health and Wellbeing and This Is Our Faith activities-

Tuesday 2nd June- This Is Our Faith

The Feast of Pentecost is a very important celebration in the Church’s year and watching the short clip below will give you a snapshot of the importance of this great celebration.

The Feast of Pentecost is seen as the Birthday of the Church.

The Holy Spirit came to the disciples not only as a reminder that Jesus would always be with them but so that they received the strength and courage to continue to build God’s kingdom, not only in Jerusalem but to ensure it reached the ends of the earth.  In John’s Gospel on Sunday we heard not only about Jesus’ word but about Jesus’ action, “he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit”.  Jesus’ breath gives new life, eternal life into the disciples, giving them the courage to go out and spread the word by being given special gifts. Jesus gave them the gift of speaking different languages to be able to carry out his work all over the world.

The Holy Spirit came to us in the Sacrament of Baptism and will or has come again to us in the  Sacrament of Confirmation.  Talk to an adult about your Baptism/Confirmation (if you have made it yet).  Think about all the wonderful gifts God has given us and give thanks to the Lord for all that we have to be glad of.  Just like the disciples we give thanks to the Lord of all the gifts he has given us.  We are so grateful to God for always being with us.

Tuesday 2^nd June- Health and Wellbeing 

With the hot weather that hopefully we have all been enjoying we are going to look at ways to help us stay hydrated.  We know that we need to drink plenty of water and ensure we do that more frequently during hot days.

Another great way to enjoy the hot weather is with a lovely cool Slushie!!

Yum Yum.  Below there is a great recipe, with a little bit of science thrown in, that lets you make a slush with your hands!! Yip that is right you don’t need a fancy NutriBullet or a blender, just your hands.  So here goes :

Instructions to make a cool mouth-watering smoothie!!

• Place one cup of your chosen juice into a small Ziploc bag and zip tight.
• Place 4 cups of ice and half a cup of salt into a large Ziploc bag along with the juice bag and zip that tight too.
• Shake the large bag over the sink or outside for 2-5 minutes or until the juice bag turns to slush.
• Pour into a cup and enjoy!!

If you have your own recipe/method for making a Slushie please email this along with a picture of your Slushie to gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.

Have a terrific Tuesday Primary 7 and I will be back tomorrow morning with more activities for you to complete.

Mrs Butler

 

Good morning primary 3,

I hope you all had a lovely weekend in the sunshine.

Please scroll down to find your work for today.

Literacy

Spelling:

Today we will be working on a new phoneme sound. Please click the link to find the new sound for your group.

New Spelling Words

Here are some videos to support you.

Group 1 – ‘ea’ phoneme

Group 2 – ‘gn’ phoneme

Group 3 – ‘se’ phoneme

When you have looked over your new sound please draw a phoneme flower in your jotter. How many words did you manage to include?

Can you write out your phoneme words 3 times each and underline the phoneme?

Reading:

Please log on to Scholastic to find your new book for this week.

Read your book and complete the quiz.

Numeracy

Warm up – Please choose a times table and try to say it out loud.

Can you remember the times tables dances we learned in class?

Cut and paste the link below to access the super mover videos.

I would like you to look at the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times table songs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p

Click on the link below to access a revision task.

Try to give yourself a challenge!

Red Task

Amber Task

Green Task

Have a look at your strategy posters if you need some support throughout your task.

Multiplication Strategy Posters

When you have completed your tasks you can have a go at our class Sumdog challenge.

HWB

With the hot weather that hopefully we have all been enjoying we are going to look at ways to help us stay hydrated.  We know that we need to drink plenty of water and ensure we do that more frequently during hot days.

Another great way to enjoy the hot weather is with a lovely cool Slushie!!

Yum Yum.  Below there is a great recipe, with a little bit of science thrown in, that lets you make a slush with your hands!! Yip that is right you don’t need a fancy NutriBullet or a blender, just your hands.  So here goes :

Instructions to make a cool mouth-watering smoothie!!

• Place one cup of your chosen juice into a small Ziploc bag and zip tight.
• Place 4 cups of ice and half a cup of salt into a large Ziploc bag along with the juice bag and zip that tight too.
• Shake the large bag over the sink or outside for 2-5 minutes or until the juice bag turns to slush.
• Pour into a cup and enjoy!!

If you have your own recipe/method for making a Slushie please email this along with a picture of your Slushie to gw17mcmullenkenedi@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.

R.E

The Feast of Pentecost is a very important celebration in the Church’s year and watching the short clip below will give you a snapshot of the importance of this great celebration.

The Feast of Pentecost is seen as the Birthday of the Church.

The Holy Spirit came to the disciples not only as a reminder that Jesus would always be with them but so that they received the strength and courage to continue to build God’s kingdom, not only in Jerusalem but to ensure it reached the ends of the earth.  In John’s Gospel on Sunday we heard not only about Jesus’ word but about Jesus’ action, “he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit”.  Jesus’ breath gives new life, eternal life into the disciples, giving them the courage to go out and spread the word by being given special gifts. Jesus gave them the gift of speaking different languages to be able to carry out his work all over the world.

The Holy Spirit came to us in the Sacrament of Baptism and will or has come again to us in the  Sacrament of Confirmation.  Talk to an adult about your Baptism/Confirmation(if you have made it yet).  Think about all the wonderful gifts God has given us and give thanks to the Lord for all that we have to be glad of.  Just like the disciples we give thanks to the Lord of all the gifts he has given us.  We are so grateful to God for always being with us.

Have a lovely day boys and girls!

Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Miss McMullen x

 

Answers for Literacy and Numeracy

Primary 5 Monday 1st June Answers

Hello Primary 7 ,

One of today’s tasks is to write your favourite memory from your time at St Barbara’s Primary School. I think it would be a good idea for you to practise your typing and emailing skills by sending me your favourite memory via email. You can email me your memory at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk. I am really looking forward to reading all of your memories.

Mrs Butler

Good morning everyone and hello to  June!!! Today is the beginning of a brand new month.  Summer has arrived wouldn’t you say? Hasn’t the weather been amazing?  I hope you have all managed to enjoy it this weekend.  I have water babies at the moment, my girls have hardly left the pool!

Let’s begin with our morning prayer and an Our Father.

Literacy

Today, we are moving onto our common words.

P3 – through, sing, morning, colour, kind, walk, water, picture, once, until

P4 – counting, idea, thirteen, mile, music, speechless, running, interesting

Try rainbow spelling and pyramid writing for these words today.  Choose 4 of them and write a sentence for each.  Usually we write a little bit of weekend news on a Monday, so make sure you do this today. Tell me what you did this weekend.  You may have heard that we have moved on to a different phase of lockdown where we can meet up with one other household at a safe distance of course.  Did you do this?  Who did you see? How did you feel?  I had a lovely visit from my best friend and it was so lovely to see her.  We sat in the garden at a safe distance and had a great chat with an ice cream!  It really cheered me up and I felt so grateful for all the lovely people I have in my life.

Numeracy

Today we are going to revise Fractions.  We have touched on this a little in class way back at the beginning of the year, however see the video below to trigger your memory:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9sycdm/articles/zhmjy9q

The next clip tells us how we write a fraction.  Here’s an example I would use in class, “if you had 9 sweets and you gave Alfie 4 and Jenna 2, you would write it like this:

• Alfie got 4/9 (say in your head – Alfie got 4 out of the 9 sweets)
• Jenna got 2/9 (say in your head – Jenna got 2/9 sweets)
• So what did you get?  How many sweets were left after you gave Alfie and Jenna some?
• The answer is 3.  So you get 3/9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9sycdm/articles/zh3xxyc

Here are some worksheets for you to try, don’t worry if you think this is too confusing just now, we are doing it all week and it will become clearer to you as we progress. (Only pick one worksheet)

Stained glass Fractions

*Parents – you don’t need to print out, you can simply ask your child to draw the shape and shade in the correct fraction.

Health & Wellbeing

As I mentioned above, 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.

How positive did this little visit have on us.  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 gw09grahamannemarie@glow 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!!

RE

1^st June

The Feast of Pentecost – 31 May 2020

“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak”

“When Pentecost day came round, they 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 me or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.

Now, I know the weather has to be lovely today and it may be the last nice day for a while so please use this as a guidance.  We will work on common words all week but maybe whilst your in the pool or playing outside you can find some ways to learn them.

Enjoy the day and have lots of fun!  I would love to see some pictures of you enjoying the weather!

Sending you all a great big high five 😉

Mrs Graham

 

 

 

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.

1. You can rest your head on me.
2. I am a small, brown bird.
3. I am home to a family of rabbits.
4. When the sun shines I never leave your side.
5. 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!

Our Father 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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPnqLqvqqM

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.

Good morning boys and girls!😊

I hope you all had a lovely weekend enjoying the sunshine, what beautiful weather we had!☀️

Can you believe it, the 1st of June already! Another month has flown by and we are now in our final month of Primary 2. Let’s make the most of our last month together and get started on today’s learning.

We will begin our day as always, with our morning prayer.

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

 St. Barbara, pray for us. 🙏🏼

Here is today’s suggested learning activities- Monday 1st June

I am in the hub Tuesday and Wednesday this week so there will be no blog’s posted on these days. For these days, you can continue to follow the whole school’s R.E and HWB lessons along with a few tasks from your first level home-learning grids.

I would love to hear how you all get on over the next few days so please send in lots of pictures. It would be great to show off all your fabulous work on our weekly blogs.🌟

Have a marvellous Monday my superstars. Work hard but don’t forget to take plenty of breaks and go out and enjoy the sunshine too! I’ll be back on Thursday.

Miss Shreenan 🌈💛