We presented our amazing inventions to the class!

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ons to the rest of the class!

Yesterday, we had our cool class cup treat, which was afternoon tea and a movie with Mr Green and Mrs Thomson.  We chose to watch the movie ‘Sing’ and enjoyed our treat very much.

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Today, Mrs Keith, our school link maths specialist, came in to work with all the classes on fractions, decimals and percentages.  Our class talked and wrote about all the things we already know about this subject, then we discussed features of common fractions, decimals and percentages and experimented with equivalent fractions, using shapes to investigate.

This week, the only homework will be the continuing invention and research on a famous Victorian scientist or inventor.

This will be the last homework before the Easter holiday.

Here is a reminder of the given homework:

VICTORIAN INVENTORS / Science Week

This homework activity will run over the next 2 weeks, with the deadline for completion being Tuesday 27^th March 2018.

 

This week 12^th-18^th March is British Science week 2018.

 

Check out the website: https://www.britishscienceweek.org/

So, we are going to link Science week with our current topic on the Victorians!

The Victorian era was an incredible time for scientific discoveries and inventions, with some of the most influential inventions of our lifetime happening during Victorian times. For example railways, the telephone, plastic, the electric lightbulb, to name just a few.

 

There are 2 homework activities linked to this, to complete over the next 2 weeks:

• Choose a Victorian inventor / scientist who you are interested in finding out more about. Research their life and their work and their invention or discovery.  Present your findings in your own way – it could be a poster, a power point presentation. A leaflet – it’s up to you.

 

• You are going to be an inventor! Design and create a new amazing invention of your choice for this day in age!  What time saving device, or incredible technology do you think the world needs?  You must:

 

• Create a labelled drawing of your invention, describing it’s purpose and function and how it works – this can be in the form of a poster or powerpoint.
• Create a name for your invention.
• Make a model representation of your invention to present to the class and for display. You can use any materials you like to make your model.
• The poster / powerpoint and your model must be presented together.
• You can work with a partner on your invention if you wish, but must both present your invention.
• There will be a prize for the greatest invention, which will be judged in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style manner!

 

http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians/inventiotimeline.html

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians/inventions.htm

http://www.victorian-era.org/famous-victorian-inventors.html

http://www.victorians.co.uk/victorian-inventors

https://classroom.synonym.com/scientific-discoveries-victorian-times-11630.html

We rounded off Science Week with a flight experiment & competition with Primary 5.

Everyone made a model & we took part in a competition to see who’s model would fly the furthest.

Well done to our overall winner Aadam!

P6/7 Homework w/b 12.3.18

Spelling:

Aqua and aero prefix

Spelling Vocabulary building – Prefixes

aqua- meaning ‘water’

 aero- meaning ‘air’ or relating to ‘air’

aqua-	aero-
aquarium	aeroplane
aquamarine	aerodynamic
aquanaut	aerospace
aquaplane	aeroduct
aquatics	aerobomb
aquafit	aeroengineer
aqualung	aeromagnetic
aquaculture	aerometer
aquatint	aerobic
aquatic	aerophobia

Some flashcard quizzes to help you:

https://quizlet.com/27839099/aqua-aque-prefix-words-flash-cards/

https://quizlet.com/114750363/aer-aero-aesthet-root-words-flash-cards/

• Some children will be given alternative spelling words in addition, based on personal repeated mispelling of words.  children can just practise their own personal words, but if they would like to practise the aero and aqua words too, that is great.

Maths – Time

Complete given time activity sheet.

 

SUMDOG

P6/7 have entered a North Lanarkshire Sumdog contest, which ends this Friday 16^th March.  Play Sumdog and answer as many questions as you can to get our class as far up the leader board as possible!

 

VICTORIAN INVENTORS / Science Week

This homework activity will run over the next 2 weeks, with the deadline for completion being Tuesday 27^th March 2018.

 

This week 12^th-18^th March is British Science week 2018.

 

Check out the website: https://www.britishscienceweek.org/

So, we are going to link Science week with our current topic on the Victorians!

The Victorian era was an incredible time for scientific discoveries and inventions, with some of the most influential inventions of our lifetime happening during Victorian times. For example railways, the telephone, plastic, the electric lightbulb, to name just a few.

 

There are 2 homework activities linked to this, to complete over the next 2 weeks:

• Choose a Victorian inventor / scientist who you are interested in finding out more about. Research their life and their work and their invention or discovery.  Present your findings in your own way – it could be a poster, a power point presentation. A leaflet – it’s up to you.

 

• You are going to be an inventor! Design and create a new amazing invention of your choice for this day in age!  What time saving device, or incredible technology do you think the world needs?  You must:

 

• Create a labelled drawing of your invention, describing it’s purpose and function and how it works – this can be in the form of a poster or powerpoint.
• Create a name for your invention.
• Make a model representation of your invention to present to the class and for display. You can use any materials you like to make your model.
• The poster / powerpoint and your model must be presented together.
• You can work with a partner on your invention if you wish, but must both present your invention.
• There will be a prize for the greatest invention, which will be judged in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style manner!

 

http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians/inventiotimeline.html

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians/inventions.htm

http://www.victorian-era.org/famous-victorian-inventors.html

http://www.victorians.co.uk/victorian-inventors

https://classroom.synonym.com/scientific-discoveries-victorian-times-11630.html

At last, we got to celebrate World Book Day, on the same day as our pancake breakfast, where we performed songs for our visitors while they enjoyed their pancakes and tea.

We have had fun today solving riddles, discussing our favourite books and characters, making art work of a book we have enjoyed and writing a recommendation of the book as to why other people should read it.

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Today we were the villagers of Thistle Village! We took on the role of a villager and decided upon our job within the village.  As a community, we have decided to enter a competition to be named ‘The Best Village in Scotland’ and if we win we will get an amazing new sports complex! We used lots of different drama conventions such as freeze framing, thought tracking, mime, and conscious alley.  However, our favorite part of the day was our warm up game… Wink Murderer! We found that some of our classmates had amazing acting skills as they fell to the ground… We had so much fun playing this game and hopefully we will get to play again soon!

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This week we have been learning how to say different classroom instructions in French.  We have started to use them throughout our normal daily lessons and we are becoming great at understanding their meanings.  To help consolidate our understanding and  confidence in recognising the different instructions in French, we have been playing ‘Simon Says….’, or as the French say… ‘Jaques á dit…!’  There has been a great amount of excitement around playing ‘Jaques á dit’ and it has really helped us to learn our French instructions! We have loved it so much we are even bringing it home to play with you! Bonne chance!

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Spelling – Due to absence last week from school, due to adverse weather conditions, we will be continuing in class with last weeks spelling rule. Practise at home.

Spelling Strategy / Rule:–

‘y’ to ‘ies’ or ‘s’ rule to make it plural (more than one)

• If the word ends in a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) + y then just add ‘s’. boy – boys, donkey – donkeys.
• If the word ends in a consonant (all the other letters in the alphabet) + y then ‘y’ changes to ‘ies’. country – countries, baby – babies.

 

add ‘s’ rule	change ‘y’ to ‘ies’ rule
boy – boys	country – countries
donkey – donkeys	baby – babies
key – keys	memory – memories
tray – trays	body – bodies
valley – valleys	variety – varieties
journey – journeys	family – families
survey – surveys	beauty – beauties
kidney – kidneys	responsibility – responsibilities
enjoy – enjoys	opportunity – opportunities
employ – employs	party – parties

 

Literacy:  Non-Fiction

We have been learning about non-fiction texts in class.

Non-fiction texts can be divided into six main types:

• information texts – non-fiction books, information leaflets, catalogues, magazine articles,
• recount texts – personal story, biographies, autobiographies, diary, experiment, retelling events, newspaper articles.
• instruction texts – step by step guides, recipes, How to…, activity instructions, science investigations.
• explanation texts – e.g. What causes a tsunami? What causes the seasons? How does the moon affect the tides?
• persuasion texts – adverts, answers to questions, leaflets, brochures, posters, letters to persuade someone to listen to your view i.e. writing to a local shop to persuade them to stock more Fair Trade products.
• argument texts – debates i.e. should we..? Should children wear a school uniform? Should dogs be kept on the lead in public places?

 

Features of Non – Fiction Texts (Not all features will be in all types of non-fiction text)

• heading / Title
• sub-heading / sub-title
• labelled diagrams
• photos, pictures
• labels for photos, pictures
• captions for photos, pictures
• bullet points
• key information
• text boxes
• question boxes
• technical and topic related vocabulary
• glossary
• contents page

 

Task: Select a non-fiction text at home, from the class library, or from your local library.  Read it, write the title and author in your jotter and complete at least 2 of the following tasks:

• Write down 5-10 interesting facts that you have found out in your reading.
• Choose your favourite section from your text and summarise the main points.
• Draw a diagram of something mentioned in your text and label it with relevant information.
• Find 5-10 technical words that you don’t know and write your own glossary to explain what they mean. Use a dictionary to help you.
• Write a list of features of your non-fiction text. Does it have a contents? How many features can you find?
• Make a poster, leaflet or pamphlet which illustrates and summarises the main points of your chosen text.

 

Maths – Time

Complete given time activity sheet.

 

French

We have been learning to follow classroom instructions in French and have been playing ‘Simon Says’ in French – ‘Jaques a dit’ en Francais.

 

Task – Play the game you have been given with someone at home.  Cut up the cards to play.

 

Here is a link to a website with interactive games to practise some French vocabulary!  (Needs Flash Player.)

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2french.html