I hope you are all well and enjoying the work Mrs Grant and I have been giving you. I called Mrs Grant on Monday and it was lovely to speak to her and swap ideas about what we can do for you.
Athough it is hard not getting to see everyone I have been enjoying spending time at home with my little girl. She makes me smile everyday! What makes you smile?
Please see today’s activities below. As always, please get in touch if you need anything!
Good morning, boys and girls. I hope you are all well today. We have lots of work and some fun activities for you to complete this week.
As usual, we are going to start our day off by saying 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 that you have given us, so that we may fully benefit from our day together at school. St Barbara Pray for us.🙏
Remember boys and girls that during the month of May, we pray to and honour Our Lady. Did you know that Our Lady has many different names? These names are connected to different places where she has appeared or to help that she gives people in need. For example, Our Lady Help of the Sick, Our Lady Refuge for Sinners, Our lady of Good Counsel, Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Fatima.
Today, we are going to watch a power point which tells you the story of Our Lady Of Fatima. I hope you enjoy it.
Here is a picture of Our Lady of Fatima. You could copy this picture or draw a picture of The Miracle of the Sun.
HWB
Boys and girls, lets have some fun today. I have posted a link to some sports day activities that you can do at home.
You can do some of them on your own or you can ask someone at home to play with you. You can keep a score card and count up your points and see who wins or you can just do it for fun. These activities are fun and a good way to keep fit. Enjoy!
This is the link to the books: https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/portal.aspx Click on the TEACHER portal and enter Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk Password: Parents20!
I would like you to try and read one of these books today and talk to your mum or dad about ;
Who the characters are.
What happens in the story.
When the story takes place.
2. Are there any common words in your book? Write them down.
3. Can you copy the front cover of your book making all the words and pictures exactly like the book cover. Remember the author and illustrator.
Phonics
This weeks new phoneme sound is;
Ph
Here are some ph words for you to learn
graph
photograph
dolphin
Philip
phone
Can you write each word three times and draw a picture below the word.
Common Words
This weeks new common words are;
one
first
little
Okay, boys and girls, I want you to write these common words 3 times.
Now, make rainbow, common words.
Finally, can you write a sentence with each common word. Remember to have a capital letter at the beginning of your sentence, a full stop at the end and a finger space between each word.
Now, I would like you to copy down and put the missing words in to the following sentences.
Can I ———- a toy from the shop?
My mum and I ———— to the park to play football.
He is playing with ———– bike today.
Do you want to ——- to the soft-play on Saturday?
I want to go out to play ———- my mum said no!
Number
We are going to carry on practising our adding and taking away today, boys and girls. Remember, when you add 2 numbers together it makes a bigger number.
When you take one number away from another, you get a smaller number.
I hope you have a great day boys and girls and remember; just do what you can. You can post your pictures or your work online to let me see how you get on.
Remember to look at the early level grid and pick one activity to complete today.
This week we are going to work on some problems that involve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Calculate the answers to these questions in your jotter.
Remember, decimals make no difference to how you add, subtract, multiply or divide you only have to remember to keep the decimal points above one another, in a straight line.
Mixed Problems
a) Sandra has been buying a lot of newspapers and magazines since the start of quarantine. She spends £7.58 on newspapers, £6.15 on puzzle magazines and £8.93 on celebrity gossip magazines every week. How much is she spending in total every week?
b) Could Sandra pay with a £20 note?
c) How much more is she spending on gossip than on news?
d) Her most expensive puzzle magazine is £1.99. If she stops buying it, how much will she be spending on puzzles?
e) Sandra stacks up her newspapers and magazines when she is finished reading them. Her stack is 2.7 cm tall every week. How tall will Sandra’s stack of newspapers and magazines be after 8 weeks?
f) The arm of Sandra’s couch is 42 cm high. How many weeks will it take for the stack to be taller than the arm of her couch?
g) When the stack of magazines reaches over the arm of Sandra’s couch how much money will she have spent?
This is not how we would write out sums to find the answer so don’t write them this way in your jotter. Use place value, carrying and decomposition (borrowing) to find your answers.
I’ll post the answers to these tomorrow or you can send me your answers at:
gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk
This week for spelling we’re going to look at a spelling rule. The rule is, “Silent E for V and U”
To avoid words ending in a ‘v’ or a ‘u’ a silent ‘e’ is often added.
Examples
true, blue, give, love
Make a list in your jotter of 10 other words where a silent ‘e’ is used to stop the word ending in a ‘v’ or ‘u’
I’ve assigned you some reading in Scholastic Books.
Here are three new comprehension exercises for today. You can choose to do as many of them as you wish.
This week I want you to think about ways in which we can show good manners to the people that we are around every day. In your jotter write these headings and try to list some examples of good manners in each situation:
Good Manners in the House
Clean up after yourself
Say please and thank you
Good manners on the Computer
Clear your work from the home screen
Do not open other people’s files
Good manners at Mealtimes
Wash your hands before you come to eat
If you cannot reach something ask politely for it to be passed to you
As it’s Tuesday why don’t we follow the further adventures of, “Mi Vida Loca”
Remember you can still choose another task from your updated learning grid and there are other tasks on Sumdog, StudyLadder, FirstNews and Scholastic Books.
Good morning everyone, I hope you had a lovely bank holiday weekend and are still staying safe. Begin this morning with our morning prayer and an Our Father.
Literacy – Write out the words 3 times. Use spelling strategies to help you spell them correctly.
P3 Common words – begin, follow, often, letter, woman
P4 Common words – quiet, quite, mumbled, important, quickly
Instructional Writing – Carrying on from last week, today I would like you to write the instructions for making a cup of tea or coffee. You will need an adult to help or supervise with the hot water. Think of the verbs you need to use to explain what to do. I have attached a template for you but you don’t need to print this out, you can simply copy it into your jotter.
Remember to read a chapter of your personal novel today.
Numeracy
I have attached a mental maths challenge for you based on your times tables knowledge. At the end, which times tables questions did you get wrong? Go over this times table every day this week.
Remember last week I told you that multiplication and division are related. The attached worksheet is a mixture of word problems that need either multiplication or division to work out the answer. There are 3 pages of problems, choose 2 from each page. Now remember that 8 x 4 is the same as 4 x 8 so don’t panic if you don’t know the 8 times table – you know the 4!
As the weather is so lovely and hopefully many of you are getting outside for some exercise or playtime, I thought it would be nice to gain some understanding of plants and flowers. As we can’t go anywhere, many people are spending time in their gardens and the outdoors and perhaps planting seeds or flowers. Maybe you have been asked to help. Follow the link to gain an understanding on what plants need to live.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znm4kmn
Something extra and fun!
My girls and I made puppets from paper this weekend and we put on a little puppet show for Darcey! Here is the video we used to help us. You might want to have a go! It was good fun.
Primary 4 Communicants
Last week, Mrs Boyce publsihed the link for you to continue your Holy Communion preparation booklet at home. I have attached it again below, try to complete as much of this as you can during this month.
I hope you all had a lovely and relaxing long weekend.
I am glad the weather stayed nice for you, I hope we see some sunshine this week.
Please start today with our morning prayer. Do not forget to thank God for keeping us safe and well at this time. It would also be nice to say a prayer for anyone who is suffering.
Numeracy
Warm up:
Let’s do some oral counting to get our minds active this morning.
I wonder if anyone can remember the counting actions we use in class. You could even come up with some of your own.
Please practice counting up and down in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.
Now think back to last week. What colour of task did you choose for your maths work. Please choose the same colour today.
Red:
Please watch this short video.
Now click on the link below to access your tasks for today.
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
A flock of ____________.
A forest of ____________.
A team of ____________.
A pack of ____________.
A bunch of ____________.
A herd of ____________.
Task 2
What might you expect to find in each of these groups?
a crew
a gaggle
a pride
an orchestra
a litter
a shoal
a bed
a caravan
a den
a loft
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.
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.
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.
Did you enjoy your long weekend? I hope you managed to relax and have some fun!
On Friday, I got up early and went on a 13.5 mile bike ride. The sun was shining! It was amazing to get outside and admire the beautiful outdoors. I managed to spot some lambs, horses and cows as I was cycling past some fields.🚲
One thing I am finding difficult just now is keeping track of the days! What day is it today boys and girls? Perhaps you might like to sing the days of the week song to help you work it out.
Let’s begin our day 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 in school. St. Barbara, pray for us.
Below I will include any additional information that will help to support your child with the tasks that I have assigned for today.
Literacy🔡
ph phoneme
This week’s phoneme is ph. Emphasise to your child that this phoneme is made up of two letters p and h but when we put them together, it makes the same sound as the letter f. Ph makes a f sound. It is a tricky sound.
Geraldine the Giraffe- Sound hunt 🦒
Reading- Scholastic 📚
Most people have sent me an email and have been reading their assigned books on Scholastic. If you haven’t been able to access this resource yet and would like your child’s login details, please send me an email. lmceleney@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk or gw13mceleneylauren@glow.sch.uk
Maths🔢
Number Words
If you have access to a printer I have attached a file with number word mats that you might like to print off to help your child.
I hope you have lots of fun completing today’s activities. Remember you do not have to complete every activity, just try your best and I will be really impressed!
Before I go, someone wants to say HELLO!
It’s your friend DIPPY! He has been staying at home and keeping safe. 🐉
He misses you all soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!
I hope you all had a fantastic long weekend, are well rested and ready for another fun-filled week of learning. I had a lovely relaxing weekend chilling in my new hot tub. What did you all get up to? ☀️
Let’s start today off 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.
It is not expected that you complete all suggested tasks, just do what you can. Remember to take plenty of breaks and stay hydrated throughout the day.
I hope you all have a great first day back, if you need anything I’m only an email away – shreenann@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
I hope you had a wonderful long weekend and are all well. After an extra few days off I am positive you will all be feeling refreshed and ready to get back to home learning. This is another short week so try your best to complete a bit of school work each day.
Let’s start our day 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 in school.
