I hope you are all well and have been trying your very best this week. I can’t believe we are halfway through the week already, time really flies when you are having fun!
Let’s keep busy today, making sure our brains and bodies are active by completing today’s learning tasks- Wednesday 29th April
If you wish to complete any more tasks, remember we have our new First level grid for April. You could select one task from here to complete.
Most importantly, remember to take plenty of breaks, try your best and have a great day learning.
If you have any questions I’m only an email away- shreenann@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
Good morning boys and girls, please begin today 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 🙏
I hope that you have been working hard this week and helping your parents out at home. We will begin today, as we do each day, revising our initial sounds and phonemes that we already know. This is very important as these sounds help us to read and write.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2HYM9VXz9k
Literacy – Today I would like you to go on an alphabet scavenger hunt in your house and/or garden. Can you find something around your house for every letter of the alphabet? Take your time and have fun!
You can complete this in your jotter and write down the item or can take a picture of all the things you have found.
Practise your 12 common words from yesterday in any way you wish, rainbow spelling, shaving foam, play doh, pasta, in sand or just in your jotter. Practise writing these words 3 times each.
Reading – Yesterday I assigned you a book from scholastic, if you have not contacted me for your login details yet please do – gw09wallacemarie2@glow.sch.uk
Numeracy
Last week we were looking at number bonds to 10. Let’s see how much you can remember by beginning with our ‘Daily 10’ mental maths questions.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Select level 1 addition and bonds to make 10. How quickly can you answer these questions?
If you would like more of a challenge you can try and complete in a shorter time or try bonds to make 20.
Now let’s practise counting to 100. See how far you can go.
Number Bonds Challenge
General – I would like you to do challenge one today, we will do challenge two tomorrow.
*Chilli Challenge – if you find challenge one too easy I would like you to do challenge three today and keep four for tomorrow.
Health and Wellbeing – I’d like you to choose you own exercise, you can tune into Joe Wicks or Jump Start Johnny or go for a walk, cycle or scoot or even just jump on your trampoline for 10 minutes if you have one.
In class we looked at the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We also talked about the lifecycle of a butterfly. Watch this story again and try to complete the activity that follows.
Click on the link above to access this activity. You have to colour, cut and stick in the correct order and make into your very own butterfly lifecycle. I hope you enjoy this activity. I’d love to see some pictures of your butterflies 🦋
I have registered your child’s class for Scholastic books online. I will as assign books for your child to read twice a week, on a Monday and Wednesday. Please send me an email and I will give you your child’s login details. Please continue to use Collins connect for additional reading if you wish. My email is gw09wallacemarie2@glow.sch.uk
Good morning everyone. Thank you to everyone who emailed their work yesterday. I loved reading about your characters and seeing your fabulous spelling. Keep up the good work, I’m very proud of you all for continuing your school work as best you can under the circumstances. Thank you parents and guardians too.
Let’s begin with our morning prayer, afterwards we will remember all those who have died:
Eternal rest grant unto them O’Lord
And let perpetual light shine upon them
May they rest in peace, Amen.
Health & Wellbeing
Have you managed to see the new Trolls film yet? Well, we saw it at the weekend and I must say I liked how they included many types/genres of music. My girls particularly liked Barb and the rock music. So, I have found a great wee Go Noodle workout for you based on rock music. You will love it, it’s a great way to wake up and start your day! You should do it a few times to make sure you get the right moves! Enjoy!
(20-30 mins) Continue to practise your common words today, use as many different spelling strategies as you can. If you have chalk and it’s dry, you can go outside and write them in your garden or the pavement outside.
Ask an adult to dictate sentences to include your words.
Next, I would like to focus on presenting a news report. If you can, I would like you to film this.
I would like you to think about the current situation, Lockdown, Coronavirus, Home schooling etc and talk briefly on how the community is coping with this. You can interview family members about this. Think of 3 or 4 good questions, eg. How are you feeling about this situation? What are you missing the most right now? What are your biggest challenges home schooling your kids? (For an adult) What are your biggest challenges participating in home schooling? ( For you) Gather your answers and use them in your report.
Remember, to get the most information from people, you must ask open questions and not closed questions where they can only answer yes or no.
You may want to make notes beforehand so when the camera begins to roll, you know exactly what you are going to say and the questions you are going to ask. If you do not want to be in front of the camera then you can direct someone to take your place but the information and questions etc must be your own.
Afterwards, watch it back and evaluate your performance. What was good about it and was there anything you think you could improve upon? How was your pace when talking, too slow/fast? Could you understand everything you were saying? Did you mumble? Did you use positive gestures when interviewing – good eye contact, nodding of head etc? These are all really useful reflections for when you come to do solo talks back at school.
I would love if you could email them to me at AGraham@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
Numeracy
A little Number Talks this morning, how many strategies can you think of to complete this sum?
37 + 47
123 + 187 (Challenge Q)
Continue to work on your times tables. You should be familiar with 2,3,4,5 &10. We began working on our 6 so continue to do that.
Continue to work on place value, I have attached a game for you to play which will help you. You can choose how much you want to challenge yourself by moving from tens and units to hundreds, tens and units. Some of you may even attempt Thousands! Go for it!
I have given you quite a bit of work to do with regards to your report so please don’t feel pressured to complete work from the grids also. If you want to and you have the time, then choose one of your choice.
I can see that some of you have been using the support materials on Sumdog, remember Sumdog has more than just maths games on it and I have set some spelling and grammar challenges for you too.
Here is Cressida Cowell reading chapter 15 of, “How to Train your Dragon.”
The Green Death and The Purple Death are face to face and the great battle has begun. Visualise the battle, the Green Death on one side and the Purple Death on the other. Describe their thick skin, their huge talons, their violent attacks and the effect that their enormous, thrashing bodies are having on the headland and on the boys.
For a math’s starter today
Lets try a speed challenge. Follow the link below. Choose level 5, rounding, up to 1,000,000 to nearest 10 and set yourself 10 seconds for each question.
Then copy and complete these statements in your jotter:
a) 6.7 lies between 6 and 7. It is closer to….
b) 4.3 lies between 4 and 5 . It is closer to…..
c) 7.5 lies between 7 and … . It is closer to ….
d) 1.58 lies between … and … . It is closer to ….
e) 5.34 lies between … and … . It is closer to ….
f) 0.83 lies between … and … . It is closer to ….
g) 10.8 lies between … and … . It is closer to ….
h) 23.25 lies between … and … . It is closer to ….
i) 58.81 lies between … and … . It is closer to ….
Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar began on the evening of Thursday the 23rd of April. Ramadan remembers the month that the Qur’an was revealed to the Prophet Mohammad.
For Health and Wellbeing today I would like you to identify all of the ways that you are being supported by other members of your family and how you are supporting them. Perhaps they have cleared a part of the room to be your work space or they have created a chart giving you time to work on each task. Maybe you have been doing chores around the house more regularly or helping a younger sibling with their work. You could list these things in your jotter.
Finally, here is the next episode of, Mi Vida Loca.
Are you ready to begin a new day of home learning? Have you remembered to make your bed and brush your teeth? 🛌 🦷
Great! Let’s get started on today’s work.
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.
Most people have sent me an email to ask for their login details for 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
We also have a road safety competition happening this week. If you have some spare time, why not take part! Have a look on St. Barbara’s Twitter to find out more details on how to enter.
Boys and girls, please remember to take plenty of breaks throughout the day and just do what you can.
I hope you are all keeping safe and well. I have been very impressed by all of the examples of your hard work. Please keep sending them to me by email at mcmullenke@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk
Please click the link below and have a go at the place value game.
This afternoon we are going to be doing some R.E work.
We are going to learn about the religious festival of Ramadan. Ramadan is celebrated by Muslims. This year, Ramadan began on 23rd April 2020 and will end on Saturday 23rd May 2020.
Please look through the power point and attempt the quiz at the end.
When you have completed the quiz, write a short paragraph in your jotter explaining what you know about Ramadan. You can include a picture at the end.
Lets finish off our day with some exercise. Below is my favourite go noodle video. I would like you to try it and them choose your own. Get those bodies moving!
Let’s begin our day the way that we always do, by saying our morning prayer. I would also like you to say a Hail Mary for all of those people who are sick in hospital during this difficult time. 🙏🏻
Remember the activities that I have outlined for you are only suggestions. I understand that you may not be able to get through all of the tasks that are in the daily grid. You may adapt the activities to suit your circumstances at home and do the best that you can.
