Hello everyone,

Instead of our normal learning activities, this week your home learning is going to be a Health Week.

We have created some fun, healthy activities for you to try at home. Each day we will post some activities, you don’t need to do them all, but we’d like you to try a few each day.
We hope you will all enjoy the health and wellbeing focus this week.

Remember: your brain works better when your mind and body are healthy!

Mindful Monday 

Starter:

Take a Moment with our very own You Tuber, Mrs McMillan:

High 5 Breathing:

hhtps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjugSmJ_W3c&t=7s

😊Now choose at least one of the activities below:

🌸Using materials of your choice, create a positive/ motivational message. This may be a single word e.g. SMILE using stones. Take a photograph of this and share on Twitter, Email or blog.

🌸Are you feeling a little worried just now? This lovely book might help answer some of your questions. It’s called Everybody Worries by Jon Burgerman: https://en.calameo.com/read/000777721945cfe5bb9cc?authid=Xu9pcOzU3TQx

Can you create your own little book for other children to read similar to this?

🌸Make a list of 5 things that make you happy, 4 things that worry you, 3 things that make you laugh, 2 things that make you sad and 1 thing that makes you angry. Discuss these with someone in your house. It’s important to share our emotions.

🌸We are heading for summer so think about ways to stay safe in the sun and think about a way you can share this information. You could:

-Make a leaflet

-Film a television advert (this could be using real people or using teddies or drawings with stop motion or using just drawings alone, be an illustrator.

-Write an information leaflet

 

🌸Put away all technology and talk to a family member. What is the best part about being at home? What is the worst part? Talk about any worries you might have.

🌸If you can, source natural objects like leaves, twigs & stones, see if you can arrange them to spell the names of family members or recent common words or make a symmetrical design.

🌸Concentrate Colouring. Colouring is a good way to help you relax and give your brain a rest. Choose a picture, colouring book or use Youtube tutorials to create your own drawing. If you have the materials handy, you could try your best to colour within the lines, even add in shading of using your writing pencil. I will attach one I tried to do, using a pencil. Of course, you do not have to use tutorials, you can just use your imagination and practise your skills. Try listening to your favourite music while you draw/ colour.

🌸You can always create your own task which helps you to stay healthy in your mind and body.

Finisher:

Don’t forget you can tweet pictures of your chosen task or email them: dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

 

 

 

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.

Good morning! 🙂

Starter:

Bob has had his brand new hoverbike for a week now and he’s not happy. It is not what he expected from the advertisement he read. He’s followed the instruction leaflet carefully and it still doesn’t work properly.

Your task is to write a letter or email to The Iconic Transportation Company to complain about their hoverbike.

 

Let’s remind ourselves of how to write a complaints letter.  Watch this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGKszU6HAc4

Activities: I can write a formal letter or email of complaint

Think about:

• How you feel
• What is wrong with the bike
• What you want the company to do.

 

Now use the template in the above video to write a letter/email of complaint.  Make sure your letter is laid out as explained in the video.

Plenary:

Share your letter/email with someone at home or send it to me at dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk.  Ask for some feedback in the form of 2 stars and 1 wish.

 

MATHS

Starter:

Activity: I can list all of the possibilities.

Challenge and finisher:

 

On Sumdog both P6 and P6/7 are in a probability competition, which begins at 9am, and finishes at 7pm. Spend at least 15 minutes on this competition and see if you can make it on to the top 10 leader board! There will be 200 coins awarded for anyone in the top 10.

Good morning everyone 🙂

Hope you are all staying positive, smiling and being kind.

Firstly, I would like to take the time to say a HUGE well done to EM! She has completed a course for coding. Super effort, we are all very proud of you!

LITERACY:

Starter:

You work for The Iconic Transportation Company who have invented a new method of transport – the hoverbike!

It is your job to let people know about the new invention and increase sales of hoverbikes.

Let’s remind ourselves of the features of advertisements by watching this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8thrJwnKft0

 

Activities: I can use language to persuade my reader

Your task is to create a persuasive advertisement and persuade people to buy one.

 

Think about:

 

• What the hoverbike is
• Who the hoverbike is for
• What the hoverbike can do

Remember to:

• ensure the advert is attractive, colourful and eye catching
• ensure the reader knows the name of the hoverbike and where they can buy one or find out more information
• exaggerate
• tell the reader the benefits
• use powerful adverbs
• repeat good points
• include a snappy slogan
• ask the reader a rhetorical question

Plenary:

Self-assess you advertisement then, if you can, send me a photo of you advert to dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

 

MATHS

Starter:

Activity: I can list all the possible outcomes.

Eg. 1a) There are 4 odd numbers out of 9 possible  outcomes: 11, 3, 7 and 21.

Challenge:

Finisher:

http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L115/index.html#

 

Good morning boys and girls! How are you all today?

Starter:

Activity: I can use probability vocabulary to state the chances of an event happening.

Challenge:

Finisher:

http://www.trox5.com/interactive/games/pond.html

Choose describing chances or if you would like more of a challenge, select finding or showing probability.

 

LITERACY:

Starter:

Today’s Literacy activities are based on a short animation about a hoverbike.

http://www.pocketmovies.net/download/hoverbike

Activities:

Bob’s hoverbike has arrived! But he’s not sure how to use it. Luckily inside the box, is the instruction leaflet.  What do you think could be written on it?

You are going to write the instruction leaflet that came with the hoverbike. Let’s remind ourselves of how to write an instructional text by watching this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmx4y6sjwXM

As you are not writing a recipe or how to make something you won’t need a long list of ingredients or equipment.

 

Think about:

• What Bob needs to know to make it work
• What could go wrong if the hoverbike isn’t used properly
• What Bob has to do to make sure the hoverbike doesn’t get damaged

Your Hoverbike Instruction Leaflet should be split into 3 sections or subheadings:

1. How to use the hoverbike.
2. Warnings and safety information.
3. How to care for the hoverbike.

Plenary:

Self-assess your instruction leaflet.   Did you:

1. Write in the present tense?
2. Use imperative or bossy verbs that tell the reader what to do?
3. Use time connective such as first, next, then?
4. Use adverbs such as slowly, carefully etc?

Good morning P6/7! I hope you are all feeling good today!

Probability or chance is how likely something is to happen. If something has a low probability, it is unlikely to happen. If something has a high probability, it is likely to happen.

Starter:

Probabilities are most commonly shown as fractions. The probability of getting ‘tails’ when you toss a coin is a 1 in 2 chance, or 1/2.

Probabilities can also be shown as decimals or percentages. A probability of 1/2 can also be shown as 0.5 or 50%.

Activity: I can use probability vocabulary to state the chances of an event happening.

Challenge:

Finisher:

Try this game: http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L118/index.html#

 

 

LITERACY

 

This week’s  Literacy activities are based on a hoverbike.  A hoverbike (or hovercycle) is a vehicle that can hover, but otherwise resembles a motorbike.

Starter:

Let’s find out more about hoverbikes.

Use google search find out key facts about a hoverbike or a hovercyle

Where could you buy one?

How much would it cost?

Who is using a hoverbike?

Remember to write in note form, not full sentences.

Activities:

Let’s look at other Terrific Transportation Invention.  In your Epic account I have assigned you this book.  I can see some of you haven’t managed to read any books yet.

To login:

Go to www.getepic.com/students.

Then enter the code: idt2922 (This is our class code.)

Now click your name.

Read the book Terrific Transportation Inventions and then take the quiz at the end.

 

Choose one method of transport from this book and create at least six questions for the information.  You must have at least 3 skinny questions and 3 fat questions.  Perhaps you could even remember some of our work on Blooms?  Send your questions to a friend or me at dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

 

*Challenge*

Look at the word “courageous” on P18

Write its meaning.

How many syllables?

Write a synonym (a word that means the same) for courageous

Write an antonym (a word that means the opposite) for courageous

Write a sentence with this word in it.

What other words can you create from the letters used for this word?

 

Plenary:

Would you like a hoverbike?  Why or why not?  Explain your answer in a couple of sentences.

Or

Design, draw and label your very own hoverbike.

Happy Friday P6/7!

LITERACY:

Friday 5^th June 2020

Starter:

Have a look at this picture.

Think about why it might be there? When did it get there? Who can fit through it? How do they fit through it? What’s at the other side? Who is at the other side? Would you go through? Why/ why not?

Activity

I can create a narrative, imaginative story.

Success Criteria:

• I can include descriptions of characters
• I can describe the setting
• I can follow story line format: Beginning (5 ways to open: characters, setting, object, dialogue or question)
• I can use VCOP (in particular can you use speech?)
• I can include 1 Simile

Challenge:

How many wow words can you use to engage your reader’s interest? Can you use different figurative language? (Onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration or metaphor)

 

Finisher:

Read your story to someone, family, friend or you can email it to me 🙂

dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

 

MATHS:

Starter

Have a go at converting these lengths.

Activities:

Plenary:

Have a go at the measurement quiz on Sumdog.  It’s opened from 10am this morning until 4pm tonight.  There are 15 questions and it’ll take you less than 5 minutes to complete.  Good Luck!

 

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND BOYS AND GIRLS!

Stay safe 🙂

 

Good Morning P6/7! I am missing you all very much, hope you are all doing well.

Check out Mrs McMillans new post:

P7’s Mr Green has put a post up for you all on the main blog:

GHS Primary 7 Transition

There are lots of videos on this link for your transition to familiarise yourself with some of the staff and pupils 🙂 There is also a section for you to ask any questions you might have.

 

 

 

LITERACY:

Starter:

Today, we are looking at similes.

Watch the video below and see if you can guess the simile as he draws it:

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

Activity:

A simile describes something by saying it is like something else.

You compare two things and can use the words “like” or “as”.

This poem below uses similes to describe what a meal is like.

How to make a meal

You need:

A plate as round as the moon,

Potatoes like White Mountains.

Broccoli like forest trees,

A sausage roll like a lumpy log,

And gravy as thick as mud.

I can create a poem using similes.

 

Can you create a poem for a dessert? Which dessert will you choose to describe?

Finisher:

Share your poem with someone at home, a friend on the phone or myself through email: dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

 

MATHS

In our lesson today we are moving onto converting m into km.  Useful facts:

1 km = 1,000m

0.5km = ½ km = 500m

0.25km = ¼ km = 250m

If you need to, you can watch the video I posted on Monday with more information of how to convert from metres to kilometres and vice versa.

Starter:

Activity:

Finisher:

Good morning boys and girls!

How are you all today?

Starter:

Watch these videos to recap about using speech during writing.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-YFmLctwDY

Activity: I can use speech marks accurately.

Challenge:

Can you ban “said” when writing your story using speech?

Can you use different punctuation?

Finisher:

Can you read your short story using speech to someone and ask for one star and one wish?

You can email it to me too: dpark@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

 

MATHS

 

Starter:

Activities:

We can write the same measurement in 3 different ways.  Look at the wingspan of this butterfly and how we can write it in 3 different ways.

Now use a ruler or a tape measure if you’ve not got a ruler:

Plenary

Have a go at this game.  Select length-> up to 10m -> mm, cm and m

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering

 

 

Good Morning P6/7!

Hope you have been able to enjoy some of this wonderful weather!

LITERACY:

Starter:

Verbally or written, write a short summary of what you learned in Chapters 1 & 2.

Activity: I can interpret the authors clues and use evidence in my answers.

Read Chapters 3 and 4.

https://www.theickabog.com/king-fred-the-fearless/

1. Why did Fred the Fearless feel “guilty”?
2. Why do you think King Fred was shocked someone would suggest he visits the family? Do you think his reaction was right or wrong?

 

Challenge:

3. Do you think King Fred moved them because the house was too big? What makes you think that?

Use evidence and your thoughts on the matter, do you think it was the right thing to do?

Think about the following quote:

“Weeks passed, and King Fred forgot all about the Dovetails, and was happy again.”

Finisher:

Predict what might happen next in the story

MATHS

Building on from yesterday’s work have a go at this:

Starter:

Activities:

Plenary:

Use a ruler or tape measure to find out how wide your hand span is. Then use your hand span measurement as a guide to estimate the length of different objects.  Record the item, your estimate in hand spans and the estimate in cm. For example, radiator: about 6 hand spans; my hand span is 12 cm, so the radiator is about 70 cm.  Find at least 5 objects to measure.  Record your estimates and then actual measurements in your jotter.