Category: Primary 4

Good morning my little primary 2’s,

It is the beginning of a new month which means one thing it’s APRIL FOOLS DAY! I hope you have a fun filled day today and don’t get up to too much mischief 🙂

Let’s keep our brains active today, starting off with revising our phoneme and common words. Why not time yourself and see how long it takes for you to read them all out loud (sh for shop, ch for chest). You could even have a go at making your own phoneme flash cards!

                  

Remember to keep working through your learning grid, this is the last week before the Easter break so try and complete as much of it as possible.

Well done to the boys and girls who have been on Sumdog and Studyladder already, I can see lots of great learning- Keep it up!

Seeing as it’s a beautiful day, why not go out and get some fresh air. What better way to do this than by going on a spring scavenger hunt! I would love for you to tweet me pictures of what you find @St_BarbarasPS as I am missing you all.

Have a great day boys and girls, keep safe and keep smiling!

Miss Shreenan 🙂

Good morning Primary 7,

Today marks the beginning of April, try and not play too many tricks on your family members today. Unfortunately this is another year we won’t be able to get Miss McEleney back, this just gives me another year to think of something really good to get my own back.

Today test your numeracy skills with this very fun and interactive maths challenge,

https://www.sporcle.com/games/Answer/speed-math-2

Lots of our teachers have been playing this game online and been getting extremely competitive. You can play this game as many times as you like, try to beat your current score each time. I have had lots of fun trying to top my best score. Good luck!

We have been learning all about The Titanic. We had planned to do some science experiments in class that focused on buoyancy however we never got to complete them. Let’s have a look at one today to give us a better understanding of what buoyancy is.

Something to think about before you start the experiment, why does a heavy boat float while a small rock sinks? Sometimes objects sink because they’re heavy, but other times it’s because they are buoyant!

Today you are going to see what happens when you put a diet can and ordinary can in a deep container of water. Will they float or sink?

I have listed the materials needed and the step by step approach you can take to complete this experiment at home however if you do not have the necessary materials you can watch the experiment via the link below.

https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/sinking-soda-surprise/

Resources

• Large Bucket or container
• Water
• Unopened diet can and unopened ordinary can (coke and diet coke for example)

Method

1. Begin by filling a large container with water. The water should be deep enough so you can easily tell which cans are floating and sinking.
2. Slowly place each can into the water one at a time. Make sure to tip the can on it’s side when you are placing it in the water so no air is trapped at the bottom of the can. If there is a bubble of air trapped at the bottom of the can, the results of the experiment will be impacted.
3. Observe the cans as you place them in the water. Do they float or sink?
4. Try to work out why the cans have reacted the way that they have.

Make predictions about what you think will happen and discuss the results with your parent or guardian. Who can remember what the scientific word is for making a prediction?

I look forward to hearing your predictions and will post the scientific explanation for this experiment tomorrow. Have fun!

Mrs Butler 🙂

Good morning Primary 5/4!

I hope you are having a good week. I want to say a big thank you to the boys and girls who have been emailing & tweeting us pictures. (A bigger thank you to the parents for helping them!) It is so lovely to see what you have been doing at home. It really does make all the teachers smile.

Mrs Grant and I log into Sumdog, First News and Study ladder everyday and can see who is working really hard so keep up the good work!

Today is April Fools’ Day so below is a link to some information about what different countries around the world do to celebrate.

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Today I am going to make a nice healthy lunch for my family.

Take care,

Mrs McGill

Good morning boys and girls.  I hope that you are all well.  Today we begin a new month – April. Can you say your days of the week and months of the year to someone in your family?

Try to begin your day with some exercise to wake you up and get your minds working.  Perhaps try some Cosmic Kids Yoga ( I know that you all enjoy that) or Joe Wicks or Go Noodle.

Literacy – Practise all of your sounds and phonemes “sh, th, ch and ng” – try to write down two words for each phoneme. We will look at some new phonemes after Easter. Remember that you can sing along to the Jolly Phonics songs on YouTube.

Numeracy – Practise counting to 30 orally, count forwards and backwards.  Here is a fun game that you can revise your addition and subtraction to 10.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Your Caterpillars are making great progress, they climbed to the top of the cup and became chrysalides – this is the hard shell that forms around the caterpillar. My boys enjoyed helping to move the chrysalides into their new home – the butterfly garden.  Now we must wait for 7-14 days to see the amazing transformation that is taking place inside.

Have a great day! Keep working on your grids and Sumdog games. I’d love to see some more pictures of you.

Mrs MacLeod 😁

 

 

Good morning to our FABULOUS PRIMARY 5S,

I cannot believe that April has arrived. It is of course April Fool’s Day, be kind to your family!

Try hard to join the live Facebook Fractions and Decimals Workshop by Count On Us at 10.30 am. Further details are on my previous blog post.

Let’s continue exploring negative numbers. Watch the following clip and complete questions.

 

Make sure that you pause the clip whilst you work on the activity. If you want even more practice have a go at the following page in your jotter: Answers are provided below, so no peaking!

Negative Number lines

Please spend some time on your personal reading today. Select 5 tricky words or phrases and investigate their meanings by reading forwards and backwards and checking your online dictionary.

Please take some time to complete reading, spelling and numeracy set tasks on Sumdog today. A new competition is live and waiting. I will announce the winner tomorrow!

I know that you are all experts using Power Point now. Why not begin a personal research project on an areas of personal interest and start to create your own Power Point. It could be about your pet, your hobby, a country, a famous person, a planet, a sport that you love, an era in history. You choose! Remember to gather information from a variety of sources before organising your Power Point. Feel free to share your work.

Remember that you can select and adapt tasks suggested to suit your circumstances. However, it is important to continue to push yourself and keep your amazing brains active throughout the day.

I am looking forward to hearing about your home learning. Mrs H x

A little memory of P5:

 

 

 

Good afternoon P5,

I hope that you have all managed to complete some tasks today and have been busy and active.

Please think about tuning in to the following workshop tomorrow morning. Count ON Us  is an excellent visual and interactive workshop that will help to reinforce your understanding of fractions and percentages:

Count On Us       Facebook Live

Wednesday 1st April 10.30 am

Fractions and Percentages Workshop for P5 – S1

Like the page on Facebook to access live feed

You will need a pencil and paper.

Please keep checking St Barbara’s web page for more updates. Mrs H

Good Afternoon Primary 1!

I hope that you are all working hard today. I have attached a lovely powerpoint about the Easter Story.

Ask an adult to open it for you. Have a look at it and talk about it to someone at home.

Maybe you could choose one of the pictures to draw.

Mrs Connolly

The Easter Story

Good morning everyone!

I hope you are all well and had a good day yesterday.

I have checked First News and can see some of you are working on your tasks, if you haven’t logged on yet, please give some of them a go today.  Continue to work from your grids too.  After the Easter holidays, I will be setting you daily tasks on here.

Why not try some art and crafts today? You could make a nice spring picture or a butterfly using materials found at home. We did this and the girls loved it!

Remember our topic was about plastic pollution, so anything you can find that you can recycle would be good too. Upload your creations on twitter so I can see them, remember you can send me a little message below too.  I miss you all very much.

Have a lovely day.

Mrs Graham x

Good morning Primary 7,

I hope everyone had a good night’s sleep and are ready to start a new day. Continue working through your learning grids to keep your brains active, there are lots of fun tasks to be completed.

Tune in to the Science Centre’s live broadcast at 10.00am this morning and write a short summary about what you have learned.

http://www.youtube.com/user/scienceshowbob

After the Easter holidays I am going to be setting you some tasks that encourage you to research WW2 as I know this was a topic you were all looking forward to learning about in school. Over the next few days you could record any facts that you already know about WW2 and any areas that you would like to explore. When you have created a list of questions you can email them to me and I will use them to plan out this topic.

I have created a Sum Dog competition that focuses on fractions, decimals and percentages. It would be great if as many of you as possible could participate in this competition and I will post the name of the winner on Friday afternoon. Come on Primary 7, bring out your competitive side!

I have set a reading comprehension task on First News that explores current news around the world. This task encourages you to read the articles carefully and explore a range of different questioning styles.

Remember to continue with personal reading every day, it is such a nice way to switch off and relax for a little bit of time.

Mrs Butler 🙂