Friday 12th June 2020

Good morning boys & girls! Hope you are all well! 😊

We have top 7 pupils from the Sumdog challenge from P6/7 & P6. HUGE well done to OT, AM, ST, LH, AK, JF & FW! Fantastic effort guys 👏 🌟

LITERACY

Starter:

Should hoverbikes be a form of public transport? Your task is to write a balanced argument about the general public using hoverbikes to get around town.

Watch this video to remind yourself of how to write a balanced argument:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zm3nvcw

 

 

Activities- I can write a balanced argument

Begin by making notes on:

  • Reasons for having hoverbikes – what’s good about them? Who would benefit?
  • Reasons against having hoverbikes – what might happen? Is it safe?

Go back to the video clip at 3.04 mins and list useful ‘for and against’  and these words to link the arguments together:

Use this template to help you write a balanced argument:

Here is the success criteria for your argument:

  • The title is a question

 

·        The opening paragraph introduces the argument.
·        It contains opposing views of for and against.
·        There is evidence to support your arguments.
·        There is a concluding paragraph that includes the writer’s own opinion.
·        It is interestingly written.
·        It is written in the third person (except final paragraph).
·        The final paragraph is written in the first person.
·        It is written using formal and technical language.
·        It contains a mixture of causal conjunctions and adverbials that have been used correctly (see useful words and phrases sheet).

Plenary:

Share the success criteria with someone at home then ask them for some feedback in the form of 2 stars and 1 wish.  If you want, you can email the feedback you received dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

MATHS

Starter:

Activity: I can investigate the probability of getting heads or tails.

  • We are going to investigate whether we have an equal number of heads and tails when we toss a coin 30 times.
  • We will also investigate whether we get an equal number of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4, 5s and 6s when we roll a dice 30 times.
  • Record your findings.
  • Perhaps we will have 15 heads and 15 tails when we toss our coin 30 times?
  • Perhaps we will have each number on the dice 5 times. (five scores of 1, five scores of 2 etc.)
  • It’s up to you to find out!

 

Challenge and Finisher:

Write out 2 events which have:

  • Likely chance to happen
  • Certain chance of happening
  • Impossible chance of happening
  • Unlikely chance of happening
  • Equal chance of happening

 

 

Have the best weekend everyone! 🌞

Stay safe.

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