The weekend is nearly here! You have worked hard this week and should be very proud of yourselves. Thank you to all the parents, you have been doing a great job supporting your children and helping them to get the best out of their learning during these difficult times.
Who enjoyed yesterdayâs riddles? Did you manage to work out the answers?
I have included the answers below:
What is full of holes but still holds water?  A sponge
What becomes wetter the more it dries?  A towel
What belongs to you but others use it more than you? Your name
What goes up but never comes down?  Your age
What kind of coat can only be put on when wet? A coat of paint
Here are some brain teasers to get our brains engaged today, I will post the answers to these brain teasers later today.
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We will start with our morning prayer.
God Our Father, as we begin our daysâ 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.Â
St Barbara, Pray for us.
Please say a Hail Mary for all those who are sick
I hope that you are all well and looking after yourselves. Mrs Haughey has been telling me how hard you have all been working and it has been a joy to see some of your lovely healthy faces.
Here are your Friday tasks. Please only do what you can manage and donât worry about not finishing all the tasks.
Numeracy
1. Warm up – describe the number 234202
In case you have forgotten here are some clues about the kind of things you can write:
– it is an even number
– it has 2 units
– the total of the digits =
– it is 5 more than
– it is 5 less than
– to write it in words would be …
Now let me see if you can come up with 10 ways to describe the number. You can use my clues.
2.Table challenge
Hopefully you all still have your table challenge sheets. If you donât, donât worry.
If you still have your sheet then continue with the table that you were working on.
If you have a brother or sister they could help to test you, if not you could FaceTime/phone your gran, grandpa, auntie or uncle and involve them. I know mums and dads are sometimes busy working.
If you canât find your sheet, pick a table you find tricky, learn it and test yourself.
3.Statistics
You will be reading, seeing and hearing a lot about statistics on the television and in the newspapers. (See if you can spot the advert with Professor Jason Leitch and the pictogram of how we stop the spread of Covid-19 by staying at home)
Statistics are when you collect data, organise the data, understand what the data means and then present the data.
For example
If you gather information about how many pets each person in your class has, organise that information into groups and then make a graph out of the information.
Please watch this lesson and complete the questions that follow. We will only be looking at bar graphs today and you donât need to complete the line graph questions.
Good morning Primary 1 and happy Friday!!đ What a beautiful day it is again.đLetâs begin by saying our morning prayer and an Our Father and thanking God for our beautiful world in Spring.
Literacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2HYM9VXz9k
Please practise writing out each initial sound/phoneme as you sing along to our Jolly Phonics songs. Â You could use a whiteboard or write them into your jotter, just one time for each sound.
Revise the wh phoneme in the same way that you did on Wednesday.
When, what, whip, whisk, whisper any other wh words that you would like to try.
Common words – Practise reading all of your common words from your word box. Â Can you read the three new words? Well done! Â Today I would like you to do some rainbow spelling đ Choose 3 colours and write each word with each colour, like this..
If you would prefer, you could use chalk and write them outside.
Dictated sentences – ask your child to try to write one of these sentences into their jotter, read a word at a time slowly for your child to write down. Boys and girls remember out little song đśCapital letter at the start, full stop at the end, finger spaces in between and show it to a friendđśChoose the sentence which best suits your child.
1. I went out to play.
2. What will I do now?
3.I got a new toy.
Reading – Choose your favourite story from home and ask someone in your family to read it to you. Â Try read the common words that you can from it. Â Make a list of any of your common words in the story.
Numeracy
Can you tell someone in your family the days of the week? How many days are in a week?
Can you rhyme the months of the year? How many months are in a year?
Can you write down 3 different ways to make 10?
Health & Wellbeing
During this time at home we might be feeling lots of different emotions. Sometimes we might feel happy to be with our families, sometimes we might feel sad when someone does something we donât like, sometimes we might feel afraid because everything is different. Â Itâs ok to feel all of these things. Â Can you draw the faces showing how these people feel and talk to someone in your family about how you are feeling today?
Remember that these are only ideas and we know that you may not be able to do them all, everyone has different circumstances. Â Do what you can do, thatâs all that we ask. Â I hope that you have found some of the tasks useful. Â If I can help in any way please contact me:
gw09wallacemarie2@glow.sch.uk
I hope that you have a lovely weekend in the sunshine and manage to spend some time in your gardens or go for a walk, cycle or scoot!
Can you believe it is Thursday already? What a quick week it has been. I know you have all been working extremely hard and I have been very impressed looking at all the examples of your work. Keep them coming!
Remember to start your day with a prayer and to thank God for keeping us safe and well at this time.
Click the links below to access some literacy and numeracy work for today.
The rule is:- If the number ends in less than 50 round down
Examples:- 324 rounds down to 300, 848 rounds down to 800,
1236 rounds down to 1200, 2847 rounds down to 2800
If the number ends in 50 or more round up
Examples :- 651 rounds up to 700, 765 rounds up to 800,
971 rounds up to 1000, 150 rounds up to 200
1.Round these numbers to the nearest hundred
a) 646Â b) 482Â c)219Â d) 784
e) 3146Â f) 681Â g) 279Â h) 2424
i) 865Â j) 995Â k) 283Â l) 2888
2.There were 137 pupils at the school dance. Round this to the nearest hundred.
3.It is 432 miles from my home to my secret submarine. Round this to the nearest hundred miles.
4.My bed is 196cm long. Round this to the nearest hundred cm.
5. After a lottery win was shared out each winner received ÂŁ476. Round this to the nearest hundred pounds.
Write your answers in your jotter and Iâll post them tomorrow. You can also send them to me at
gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk
There are more questions like this in your Sumdog challenge this week and in your Studyladder learning pod.
Here is Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 12 of, âHow to Train your Dragon.â
Hiccup has gone to speak to The Green Death on his own.
Imagine that you are The Green Death retell the events of the conversation between yourself and Hiccup. Try to write it in the style that we used when writing about being inside The Trojan Horse.
Think about how giant and ancient The Green Death is. Hiccup is no threat to you but something happens in the conversation that makes you take him seriously. Try to describe what is going on inside The Green Death’s mind as you talk together.
In case you missed it we have some new reading materials for you to work on. Your parents should have received a username and password for Scholastic Books. Follow this link,
to find a new reading book and quiz for you to complete in your jotter.
Remember Monday’s pack of cards workout? Why not try it again today but this time choose your own exercises for each suit.
Hearts
Clubs
Diamonds
Spades
It’s 10 minutes on the timer and you must do the exercise the number of times on the card. Aces are 1, other face cards are 13.
Today is St. George’s Day. There are many stories associated with St. George but the most famous one concerns a dragon. Find out what happened and retell the story in your own words. St George is the patron saint of England, can you discover why?
Letâs begin our day with your morning prayer. Say a Hail Mary and Our Father, remembering all the people that are sick in hospital.
I have set you some Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Well-being tasks to try throughout the day. Remember you can do them in any order and try your best to do as much as you can.
Literacy
Letâs begin with a little challenge. Remember our blue jotters from class. You can use your home learning jotter for this. Write the word:-
BREAKFAST
See how many words you can make from it. Remember our rules:  each word must have 2 or more letters, no proper nouns and you can only use the letters from the word. Off you go!! How many words did you make? What was your longest word?
Continue to practise your 3,4,5 and 6 times table. Have you played stepping stones?  Letâs start with the 3 times table.  Lay out numbers from 0-12 on the floor or in the garden (if itâs not too windy), then as you step on the number you multiply it by 3 in your head and call out the answer, move to the next number and repeat, all the way to the last number. Now do the four times table. Time yourself and make a grid in your jotter to keep a record of your progress. How quickly can you do it?
Challenge yourself – jumble up the numbers on the ground so that they are not in order, itâs more tricky.
I have also set a challenge on Sumdog. It will start today and finish tomorrow. Good luck!
Health and Well-being
Follow this link for a new little challenge to keep you active today.  HWB
Boys and girls I hope you have a lovely day and that this nice dry weather keeps up. Remember to drink plenty of water and to have your breaks throughout the day. Be good and remember to help around the house. If you need extra work remember you have your grid!!  Please send me in some pictures of your work to my email address gwboyceshirley2@glow.sch.uk or SBoyce@st–barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk or you can get an adult to post them on Twitter.
I hope you had a lovely day yesterday. Thank you to all the parents who emailed me and sent pictures. It is great to see your smiling faces.
Yesterday I had lots of fun playing in the garden with my little girl. Hopefully by this afternoon the sun will be out and you can get out to play for a while.
I have attached a powerpoint with the activities for today. Please complete what you can.
I hope you enjoyed completing some tasks from yesterday. How many ‘wh’ words did you manage to guess correctly? I am sure it was lots. Let me know your score by posting a little comment on our blog below.â
What day is it today? Perhaps you could begin your day by singing our days of the week song to remind you.
Below I will include any additional information that will help to support your child with the tasks that I have assigned for today.
Literacy
Writingâ
Remember to include your core writing targets when you are writing about your Easter break. I would love to read your stories so please take a picture and send it to me by email if you can.
Readingđ
I have signed up to Epic! A fabulous digital library for kids to access thousands of amazing books online. It is a wonderful resource with books, learning quizzes and lots more. If you would like access all you have to do is:
Visit https://www.getepic.com/
Click log in.
Click students and educators
 Then enter our class code: zhj1841
If you would prefer you can also download the Epic app. The app only allows you to log in during school hours 9-3 so if you try to do this after these hours, it will not work.
it is free and will allow your child to access as many amazing books as they want!
Mathsđ˘
Subitising with Jack Hartmannđ§
Mental Maths Challenge- Daily 10 âą
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Number word task đ
Challenge Task đś
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St. George’s Day
Listen to the story of Saint George and the Dragon
Watch this video clip from CBeebies to find out how people in England celebrate this special day.
Remember to take plenty of breaks and just try your best!
I have really enjoyed seeing all the great work you have been doing so please keep sending it in via email or twitter. It is so lovely to get to see all your lovely smiles, it really brightens up my day đ
Remember not to worry if you don’t manage to complete all suggested tasks each day, just try your best and take regular breaks throughout the day.
How are you all? I hope you are all working hard and helping your parents out at home.
As always, letâs begin the day with our morning prayer. đđť
To get our brains switched on this morning I thought we could begin with a few fun riddles:
What is full of holes but still holds water?
What becomes wetter the more it dries?
What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
What goes up but never comes down?
What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
These should get your brains working today and I will post the answers tomorrow morning. I had good fun trying to work them out, you all know how much I love riddles. Good luck!
Here is the link to todayâs learning activities:
