It’s nearly the weekend 🙂! Today marks the beginning of May, this is my favourite month of the year. We always get such lovely weather which makes me smile.
Let’s begin with our morning prayer. Find a quiet spot, close your eyes, join your hands and say thank you to God for looking after us and keeping us safe.
Well done for working hard this week again Primary 7, I know it’s not easy in these circumstances. I really enjoyed hearing from some of you this week, your emails really cheered me up because I am missing you all. Remember you can email me at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or sreid@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk.
A huge thank you to all of your parents who are supporting you during this time. Please do not worry if you were not able to complete some activities this week, there was plenty for you to choose from and remember they are only suggestions. The main thing is that you are all keeping active, are healthy and safe. Maybe you could treat your mum and dad today and do something special for them to say thank you for helping you over these past few weeks? Perhaps you could make them lunch or a cup of tea?
Have a fantastic Friday and I will be back on Monday with some more fun learning activities.
Can you believe that another week of home learning is over?
Please start today by saying 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 in school.
St. Barbara pray for us.
Literacy
Start off your literacy tasks today by doing some revision on adjectives.
Can you remember what an adjective is?
Take a look through the power point below to help remind you.
Choose any method you like to practise your words today. Please remember to ask an adult’s permission before doing anything messy.
You can rainbow write them in your jotter if you would prefer.
For reading today I would like you to have some ‘ERIC’ time. This means we are reading for enjoyment. Choose any book or story you enjoy and sit down to read quietly. Reading is so important and can be so much fun when you find a story you enjoy.
Numeracy
To begin please choose a times table to revise. Go over it in your head or write it down in your jotter. Ask someone at home to test you on your focus table.
Yesterday I discovered a fun maths game for you try. This is called rounding pairs.
I had a go at home and was trying so hard to beat my time.
Today we should have been attending First Friday Mass. You can follow Holy Mass which is being streamed through Facebook by Fr. Campbell at 10am. Please remember you must be supervised by an adult.
May is the month when we focus on Mary, the mother of Jesus. Traditionally at the beginning of May we would change the altar in our classroom to honour Mary. Why not see if you can set up your own altar somewhere in your home to have a special place to remember Mary during the month of May? Click the link below to find some ideas of what you can include in your May altar.
Good morning to all the boys & girls in Primary 5. Happy Friday!
I have attached a link to today’s plan of work and activities for you. Please remember only do what you can and are able to, and don’t worry if you don’t get it all completed.
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,
St Barbara, pray for us.
Hooray, it is Friday and a brand new month already…does anyone know what month it is now? Why not begin with your days of the week and months of the year song to find out! (I’ll give you a hint, last month was April)
Today we would have been going to First Friday mass. It would be nice if you could follow Mass today which is being streamed through Facebook (supervised by an adult) by Father Campbell at 10am.
Well done for another great week of home learning, you are all doing amazing! Let’s work extra hard this morning before your well deserved afternoon of golden time (parents too!) 🌟
Once again parents/carers, I would just like to say a huge thank you for all you are doing-it does not go unnoticed. Give yourself a pat on the back for another great week. 👏🏻
I hope you all have a lovely, relaxing weekend with your families.
Well done to all of the children who managed to take part in today’s Sumdog Maths competition. You have all worked very hard and tried your very best. The leader board was very close but we have a winner.
The winner of our maths competition is Ailbhe. 👏👏👏👏👏
Well done Ailbhe! You have been crowned our MATHS CHAMPION this week! 👑🥇
Yesterday I asked you to sort our spelling words out into a table showing the number of syllables that they have.
You should have ended up with something like this
One syllable
Two syllables
Three syllables
grow
own
Follow = fol-low
rainbow = rain-bow
window = win-dow
swallow = swal-low
barrow = bar-row
hollow = hol-low
sparrow = spar-row
elbow = el-bow
burrow = bur-row
shadow = sha-dow
shallow = shal-low
mower = mo-wer
Following = fol-low-ing
tomorrow = to-mor-row
borrowing = bor-row-ing
Today I want you too Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check your spelling words for this week, ready for your assessment tomorrow. You should copy them into your jotter first, if you haven’t already.
Here’s Cressida Cowell reading chapter 17 of, “How to Train your Dragon.”
Hiccup is in the dragon’s mouth and is getting a close up look at dragon anatomy. Draw a cutaway diagram of the inside of a sea dragon. Mark off all of the internal organs, bones and muscles.
Something like this:
(This is not a sea dragon)
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths questions:
1a) 7 b) 9 c)10 d) 2
e) 3 f) 7 g)15 h) 21
i) 25 j) 34 k) 42 l) 69
2a) 4 b) 6 c) 3 d) 9
e) 13 f) 15 g) 17 h) 19
i) 0 j) 1 k) 1 l) 101
Today I would like you round these numbers to the nearest whole number in the same way. Remember, only the number right after the decimal point is important when you are rounding. I’ve marked it red in the first few to remind you.
Example :- 3.48256 = 3
a) 2.41784 b)3.958744 c) 7.28719
d) 9.386743 e) 5.48794 f) 8.097412
g) 11.755874 h) 12.074874 i) 25.66875
j) 0.824111 k) 28.265741 l) 32.09999
Now why don’t we have look at you attitude towards ‘fairness.’ Look at these statements and decide whether you consider what is happening ‘fair’ or ‘unfair.’
a) You are punished without being allowed to tell your side of the story.
This is …….
b) You are not allowed to do something because it is against the rules but then someone else is allowed to do it.
This is …….
c) You share your chocolate bar with a friend and later they offer you some of their fruit bar.
This is …….
d) You annoy someone just a little bit and they get furious and yell loudly at you.
This is …….
e) You annoy someone just a little bit and they get a bit cross with you.
This is …….
f) You are punished for doing the wrong thing, but only after you explain your side of the story.
This is …….
g) You are working with someone else to pack up 25 chairs. You pack up 20 chairs and they pack up 5.
This is …….
h) You share your chocolate bar with a friend but they won’t share their crisps with you.
This is …….
i) You talk in class and the teacher calls you a pest and says that they don’t want you in their class.
This is …….
j) You are not allowed to do something because it is against the rules and no one else in allowed to do it either.
This is …….
k) You are working with someone else to pack up 25 chairs. You pack up 13 chairs and they pack up 12.
This is …….
l) You talk in class and the teacher asks you to stop talking in front of everyone.
This is …….
Today for RE I would like you to read and answer some questions about the founding of Mary’s Meals.
What a quick week it has been! You have all be working extremely hard. Please remember to take plenty of breaks throughout the day. Remember not to worry if you do not manage to complete all of the tasks.
Please click the link below to access your literacy work for today.
Please start your numeracy work today by having a go at our place value game. To access this click the link below. You can choose to work with 2 digit numbers or to challenge yourself and try some 3 digit questions. Good Luck!
Today we are continuing our revision work on estimation and rounding. So far we have looked at rounding 2 digit numbers to the nearest 10, rounding 3 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and rounding 3 digit numbers to the nearest 100.
Below you will see a link for 3 tasks. I would like you to choose carefully which task you would like to complete. Have a look at all 3 before you make your decision.
I have extended your Sumdog challenge until 3:00pm today. I hope this gives everyone enough time to give it a go. There is also some place value work available on Studyladder. If you do not have your log in for this please get in touch.
Health and Well-being:
Yesterday we had a look at different types of emotions. If you are feeling sad or down it is important you tell an adult you trust.
There are also some things we can do to help improve our mood. Regular exercise is very important at this time. You can try some cosmic yoga today to help you relax.
Another thing you can do to stay positive is to do a task that makes you feel happy.
Cooking is something that helps me to relax and feel happy. I also like to sit in my garden to read a book. Throughout this time I have also been playing board games with my family. All of these things help me to remain positive.
Click on the link below and complete the worksheet. This will help you think of lots of activities that help you relax and make you feel happy.
I can’t believe that today is the last day of April. Time flies!
Yesterday was my birthday and I thought you might like to see my cake as it was very colourful. You might have spotted lots of these in people’s windows. Can you guess what kind of cake it was? 🎂
A RAINBOW cake! It looked amazing and it tasted delicious. 🌈
I hope you are all well and ready for another great day!
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.
A Trip to the Zoo! Count to 100 in ones with Jack Hartmann🦓🦍🐆🦒🐊
Exercise and count by 5 with Jack Hartmann5️⃣
Sumdog Class Competition 🥇
The competition begins at 9am and ends at 2.30pm. Who will be crowned today’s Maths Champion? I will announce the winner before 3 o’clock on our class Glow page. Good luck! 🤞
