Good morning boys and girls! 😆
I hope you are all feeling good today and ready for another week of learning!
Remember to check out the main page of the blog where Mrs McMillans YouTube links will be up every Thursday!
“Take a moment” helps you to focus on your breathing and find calmness. It’s very important to take the time to practise these breathing techniques so you have them for if or when you need it. It can help when feeling difficult emotions, as we all do from time to time. It fits perfectly with this weeks theme of Mental Health Awareness Week.
Mrs McMillan is letting us have a sneek peek into her bloopers from making her YouTube videos (it’s very funny! 🤣). This is a perfect example of the importance of never giving up and building resilience.
Literacy
Starter:
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week.
Earlier this year, we had an assembly on the book Lucy’s Blue Day, do you remember?
Watch and listen to this short clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmrUV8v-KQg
What do you think is they main/ key idea from this story?
Activity:
This year, as you know, our class has focussed on kindness. What does being kind mean to you?
I can create a motivational/ positive/ kindness poster.
I would like you to create a poster.
It could include:
- Colour (if possible)
- A clear, bold message – (positive, motivational quote)
- A poem
- It might be ideas of how to help others, how to be kind, what to do when you feel down such as talk to family or friends over the phone, exercise, spend time outside, eat healthily
- Pictures
You can post in on here or email me it if you would like to share it: dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk
Here are some examples:
Challenge:
Can you do one act of kindness each day? You can comment on this post what you have done to give others ideas.
Plenary:
It might be a nice idea to display your poster somewhere if possible. Maybe you could put it on your window for those passing by to spread kindness and positivity at this hard time.
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MATHS
This week we are going to revise subtraction calculations. To ensure your work is accurate, think about:
- Estimating and checking an answer. It can be easy to make a careless mistake in a calculation so it is very helpful to estimate the answer before completing it using rounding or known facts.
- Laying out a calculation. Remember the importance of lining up the digits correctly, particularly if there are two numbers of different sizes, e.g. a 6-digit number and a 4-digit number.
- The importance of zero. It is particularly important in a written calculation to keep the digits in the columns where they belong.
- Mental or written strategy. Look at a calculation and consider whether a mental or written strategy is most appropriate. Just because it is written as a formal calculation doesn’t mean you have to solve it that way. For example, the calculation 6034 – 5897 would be very difficult as a written calculation (as it involves exchange several times), but it is relatively easy to work out the difference by counting on.
Starter:
In the next few weeks, we’re going to revise multiplication calculations. To ensure you’ve got your times tables facts at your fingertips, each day this week for our mental starter, we’re going to play a game which helps you to revise your times tables. Here’s today’s game:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
Select from the column on the right: Mixed Tables. This game focuses on the different vocabulary associated with multiplication.
Activities: I can subtract a 3 digit number from a 3 digit number.
Challenge:
Plenary:
Spend at least 10 minutes on Sumdog. Everyone at Woodlands has been entered into the North Lanarkshire Maths Contest. The contest started on Friday 15th at 8am and finishes on Thursday 21st at 8pm.
We need as many people from our class as possible to have a go at the contest so that we can appear on the leader board. Come on P6/7, let’s do this!! Last week, I gave out coins to those children who spent time on Sumdog. Let’s see if you can earn some coins for yourself this week!
