Good Morning boys and girls 🙂

I hope you are all staying active, going a walk, jog, perhaps continuing Joe Wicks workouts! I haven’t been very good over Easter and as you all know my obsession with chocolate, well… its’s back! So, I have begun the Joe Wicks workouts starting today!

Starter:

So today, we are thinking about the “Teacher Comment” section. I would like you to take some thinking time, as much as you need. You could possibly discuss with someone else and think back to feedback I have given you, conversations we have had, all of the work you have done, things you are proud of and pretend to be me.

Activity:

I can take on the role of someone else.

I can highlight my successes and a next step.

You, for this paragraph today, are taking on the role (bit of Drama) as Miss Park. This is like a “hot seat” technique in Drama, I would like you to take on the role of me and write a short paragraph of what you think I might say about you. Think about lots of positives, where you’ve had success in class, if you’ve helped around the class and school and a possible next step I could give you to try and achieve next year.

Plenary:

Read back over your paragraph before sending; check any spelling, punctuation and grammar. Reading aloud to an empty room or to someone else can help.

Don’t forget to e-mail it to me! I can’t wait to read your responses 🙂

dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

Mental Starter:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

Select at least Level 5 (on top left hand corner of screen) then choose Ordering.

You will be asked 10 questions.  Write down your answers in your jotter then at the end of the test you can check your answers to see how many you got correct.

Activity:

Today we are going to learn how to calculate perimeter.  If you can add up then you’ll fine calculating perimeter easy.  Before you begin the page below, watch this clip below;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvmxsbk/articles/zsr4k7h

Now complete this text book page: I can calculate perimeters of rectangles

Challenge:

To calculate the area of a rectangle, we multiply the length by the breadth so in Q1 the area would be 30cm x 50cm = 1500cm ².  Write the area for each picture from Q2-Q9.  Don’t forget to write cm ²  after your answer.

Plenary:

You have an individual game to play on Active Learn. The game “Marching Madness” should be available for you to access. You can choose your preferred difficulty of Bronze, Silver or Gold.

Your username should be the first 4 letters of your first name, first 4 letters of your surname, if your name only has 3 letters then it’s those 3 and first 4 of your surname.  I’ve reset everyone’s password should be woodlands and the school code is 6kwa.

Good Morning P6/7! 😁 I hope you had a lovely Easter holiday and had some time to relax with your families. Make sure, if you can, you get outside for a wee walk in the sunshine this week☀️.

As you have had a nice, relaxing break, this week we are going to ease ourselves back to work, as we would in school.

Starter

As you know, the teachers are writing your reports. As we usually have our learner conversations to chat with you all individually to find out about your thoughts and opinions of your year, Mrs Pollock and I were thinking you could all write a wee paragraph underneath the headings each day and e-mail your responses to us.

Firstly, brainstorm 🧠  either in your head, out loud to someone📣 , on call to a friend 📱or written down📝, 6 favourite moments of your P6/ P7 year so far (this could be related to a piece of work, a game,  new friendship, something in class, in the playground, with Mrs Rutherford or Mrs McMillan, assembly etc).

Activity

I can reflect on things I am proud of from P6/ P7

Wider Achievements

Write a short paragraph, explaining things you are proud of from school or out with school, which you then shared with the class.

This could include things such as:

• achieving a goal you set yourself related to school, hobby
• taking part in school activity days such as ECO day, Sports Relief
• presenting in front of the class, another class doing surveys, assembly
• achieving class dojo, V.I.P or star pupil
• winning an award at a club
• being part of Eco Committee, PAG or JRSO
• Participating in activities at the High School; taking part in STEM topic with Machanhill Primary School etc.
• Being a buddy
• Reading Buddies
• Monitor

This can be anything at all you feel proud of yourself for 🙂

Plenary:

Read back over your paragraph to a relative or friend and check for any mistakes.

This can be typed, written and photographed and please send it to dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk 

I cannot wait to read your responses. I will get back to you once I have read them :). Looking forward to hearing from you all, missing you all very much.

Morning 🙂  Today, we are going to finish the week off by solving addition and subtraction calculations using the formal methods.

Starter:

Explain verbally to someone, the steps to success for completing an addition calculation. Eg.

54

  +  78

_____

Explain verbally to someone, the steps to success for completing a subtraction calculation. Eg.

62

-58

___

Activity: I can read the world problems carefully.

I can work out which type of calculation to use.

I can solve the calculation working from the units up.

I can exchange / carry.

1. George read three books in January, which had 173 pages, 206 pages and 139 pages. How many pages did George read altogether?
2. Shannon has been keeping a track of the number of calories she eats. On Monday she consumes 1760 calories. On Tuesday she consumes thirty more than Monday, and on Wednesday she consumes the same as Tuesday. How many calories had she consumed over the 3 days?
3. Sally bought 3 photo frames, each costing £7.58. She paid with £30.

How much change did she get?

1. In a lorry, there were 48512 pieces of fruit. 21235 were bananas and 13621 were oranges. How many apples were there in the lorry?

Challenge:

PE with Joe views from last week:

1. How many viewers had Joe had by Tuesday?
2. By Mid-week, how many views had Joe had?
3. How many viewers altogether did Joe get?
4. If Joe decided that Wednesday would be rest day, how many views would he have had by the end of the week?
5. Which day had the most?
6. Which day had the least?

Finisher:

Have a go at this game on Top Marks:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?a=activity11 

Have a fantastic Easter Break: stay safe, help your families around the house and stay active 🙂 You have worked hard, make sure you have time to relax. Speak to you all soon 🙂

Good Morning! Happy Friday 🙂

Missing being in school and being with you all!

Starter:

How many words can you find? Find as many as you can. Remember proper nouns like people’s names or names of towns and countries, abbreviations and hyphenated words are not allowed. Think about looking for phonemes ss, sh, ea, wh prefixes like dis ,de, re, im, in at the start of a word and suffixes for example ing, ion, ate, ed, ly, able at the end of a word.

Rules:

Scoring 3 letter word 2 points

4 letter word 3 points

5 letter word 4 points

6 letter word 5 points

7 letter word 6 points,

* 8 letter word or more 11 points

Time      3 minutes or more if you need it.

The letters must be touching the next letter of the word horizontally, vertically, diagonally, left, right, up or down. Letters must join in the proper sequence to spell a word.

Activity:

Write your own 25 letters together. 5 rows with 5 letters in each row as shown in the photo and see how many words you can get this time, try to write them down as quickly as you can. Don’t forget to calculate your score at the end of each game that you play.

Now put all of your words in alphabetical order, looking carefully at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th letters and so on.

Plenary:

Try to use all of these words, spelled correctly in sentences, a short story, song or poem.

Good Morning 🙂

Today we are going to focus on using the method of using doubles/ near doubles/ halves to solve addition and subtraction calculations mentally.

Starter:

Use Hit the Button and have a go at the options for doubles and then for halves and have a practise.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Activity: I can identify and match doubles and halves

You have an individual game to play on Active Learn. The game “Robot Revenge” should be available for you to access. You can choose your preferred difficulty of Bronze, Silver or Gold.

Your username should be the first 4 letters of your first name, first 4 letters of your surname, if your name only has 3 letters then it’s those 3 and first 4 of your surname. EY yours is your whole name. Everyone’s password should be woodlands.

Finisher:

Play a game of doubles bingo with a family member or friend over Facetime. Draw a grid of 6 and choose values which are the answer to a double. Ask each other “ do you have double…” Eg “do you have double 40?”

“I have 80” and cross it out.

Or play it where you write down a number and ask if someone has half Eg. “Do you have half of 80” , “I have 40”. etc

Good Morning boys and girls!

Did you prank anyone yesterday? Or did anyone play a joke on you? Comment below and we can make sure there is a smile on  everyone’s face this morning 🙂

Watch this video: it explains how we can use colons and semi-colons can join two sentences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnQU2v2kMFA 

Remember: there are other reasons why we use colons and semi-colons.

Activity:

Meet two new types of punctuation ; and :  They can be used to join two sentences but also used for other reasons too. Read these explanations to help you.

Colon:

• Used to introduce a list.
• Or a summary.
• Or an example.
• Or a quotation.
• Introduces a second clause that explains the first.

Semicolon:

• Used to separate two closely linked clauses.
• Shows there is some link between two things it separates.
• Can be used to separate complicated items in a list (where a comma won’t do the job so well).

Exercise A:

Read each of these examples and match them to the explanations above.

1. My teacher always says: “The colon is a funny little mark.”
2. We have learned the following: salt dissolves in water.
3. The water evaporated; I said it would.
4. Salt dissolves in water; sugar does too.
5. Our saucers contained salt; water and sugar; salt and water; sugar and water and water on its own.
6. The water evaporated; it turned into water vapour.
7. For this experiment you will need: a glass of water, a teaspoon of salt.
8. Some materials dissolve, for example: salt in water, sugar in coffee.

You don’t need to write out the sentences again just set your work out like this:

Sentence 1- colon used for quotation

Sentence 2 –colon used for _______.

*Challenge*

Look at these sentences.  Should it have a colon or a semi colon?

Write them out neatly and add in the colon or semicolon:

1. Here is what you need _____ an egg, a candle and a piece of string.
2. I like playtime _____ Josh does too.
3. This story teaches us the lesson _____don’t count your chickens before they hatched.
4. Playtime was cancelled ______ we were not pleased!

Plenary:

Read a book, newspaper, magazine or article online.  Scan your text for colons and semicolons.  Can you explain why they have been used?

Morning all! We are going to try and solve addition and subtraction calculations using the counting on/ back method.

Starter:

Watch this short clip which explains and shows you visually how to jump on/back in your head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_31lA7wbgTw 

Sorry everyone, the activity won’t copy and paste on properly, so I have tried to take pictures of it, let me know if this does not help.

Activity: I can count on and back. 

Fill in the missing numbers into the box (verbally or written)

Challenge: I can create my own Q.

I can use the numbers given to form an addition or subtraction calculation.

I can solve the calculation and show the count on/ count back method.

Finisher: Explain verbally or written, how to use the count on/ back method and why this might be helpful. 

Good Morning everyone!

Be careful this morning for it is April Fools’ Day.

Starter:

On April Fools’ Day in 1957, the BBC showed a short film about people harvesting spaghetti from trees in Switzerland.  They managed to convince a lot of viewers that spaghetti grew on trees and many people phoned to find out how they could grow their own!

Watch this link to find out other ideas for April Fools’ Day:

https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/april-fools

Activity: I can write a newspaper report

Write a made-up news story.  Think of a story that is almost believable but is a bit silly too. It could be something other than spaghetti that grows on trees, an idea you watched on the video clip above or your own idea.

Success Criteria:

• A headline to capture the reader’s attention and tell what the newspaper report is about.
• An opening paragraph with a more detailed summary of the main happenings (when, where, who, what, why).
• Select important main events and organise these in a chronological order
• These events to be organised into paragraphs (with sub-headings to categorise information where appropriate)
• Use direct speech where appropriate to quote from people who were there,
• A paragraph with concluding statements, comment or summary
• Graphics/photos/illustrations to engage the reader and provide them with further information about the event

Challenge:

Can you count how many WOW words or figurative language you used? (Metaphor, Simile, Personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia)

Can you count how many semi-colons you managed to use?

Plenary:

Read your newspaper report to someone if you can and ask for a star and a wish.

Morning P6/7 🙂

Today we are going to focus practising the method of rounding and adjusting to solve addition and subtraction calculations.

Starter:

Watch the video and read the section below the video, which explains how to round a number:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zh8dmp3/articles/zpx2qty 

Then, watch this second video and read the explanation below it on how to round decimal numbers:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zh8dmp3/articles/zsvt97h 

Activity:

I can round and adjust the numbers to make it easier to solve mentally.

Remember, round the trickier number to the nearest 10, solve your calculation and don’t forget to either add on, or take away the extra part you did at the start to make the easier number.

Eg. a) 59 is the trickier number so I added 1 to round it to 60, which is an easier number to work with. I then solved the calculation and at the end adjusted it back, as I added an extra 1, I had to remember to take the 1 away.

Challenge:

I can apply rounding and adjusting method to solve a word calculation.

• Firstly, decide is it asking you to add or subtract.
• Secondly, choose the trickier number and round it.
• Thirdly, solve it and adjust.

1. Jessica grew 674 watermelons and 122 cantaloupes. Mary grew 537 watermelons. How many watermelons did they grow in total?
2. Nancy had £651 in her bank. She spent £398. How much money does she have now?
3. Chloe had 95 Pokémon cards, and 7 were torn. Phil bought 36 of Chloe’s Pokémon cards. How many Pokémon cards does Chloe have now?
4. Miss Smith ordered some pizzas for a party, she order 57 pepperoni and 36 Hawaiian. How many pizzas did she order

There is also an activity up on Sumdog to continue practising your multiplication and division.

Finisher:

Create a couple of Qs for someone at home or a friend over the phone.

Ask them to round a given number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.

Create a couple of addition and subtractions Qs if you can too.