Mrs McMillan is currently posting videos on youtube about breathing and relaxation to help during this tricky time – check out her channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ6ltt416vqtD0wB5IVpkUg
She has also released a bloopers video to show that things don’t always work first time and to keep trying when you make mistakes!
Language
This week’s spelling words don’t have a rule, but instead are all words that are tricky and easy to misspell.
Take some time to look at the words and identify how they are spelled. What patterns do you notice? What letters does it not have that you thought it might?
absence, ancient, certainly, definitely, disappear, existence, guidance, government, irrelevant, muscle, niece, receive, rhythm, temperature.
You all know lots of spelling exercises, choose your favourite on and practice them.
Modern languages
Let’s refresh our memory about how to say different types of clothes in French. See which of these you can remember and look up the meaning of the rest of them. Then draw someone and label their clothes in French.
La chemise
Le pantalon
La jupe
La chaussettes
La chaussures
La veste
Le chapeau
Le manteau
La casquette
La cravat
La robe
Le tee-shirt
Le parapluie
Main task
Read the next few pages on holes and answer the comprehension questions.
Maths
Sumdog assessment
Everyone has an adding and subtracting assessment on sumdog. Could you please do it.
Time
This week, we will work on our time skills, focusing on how we use time and timetables in our own lives.
As we get ready for High School. We are going to need to be able to read a timetable independently and know where you need to go and when.
Have a look at this timetable and answer the questions about the timetable. You don’t need to write them down, you can just answer them verbally.
Word problem of the day
I need 400g of flour to make a loaf of bread. I want to make 4 loaves of bread and I have 2 kg of flour.
Friday 15th May
Language
Spelling test – get someone at home to test you on this week’s spelling words or any –ous words. You could also test someone else in the class.
Writing
Report writing is a great skill and is used in many jobs – journalist, police officer, teacher etc.
Check out this lesson to learn how a sports reports writes a report and have a go writing one yourself.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znq4kmn
handwriting
Try some handwriting practice. Sometimes if you don’t use a pen or pencil for a while it can feel weird! You could write a letter to someone else in lockdown, a friend or family member, to help to make them feel good by telling them what you’ve been up to and asking them how they are getting on. You could then post it to them. Do it in your best handwriting and it will definitely cheer them up! You could also do this on a computer to practice your typing.
Maths
Word problem of the day
How did you get on yesterday?
Johnny gets up at 9am. He spends 20 minutes in the shower and 15 minutes eating breakfast. He then decides to go for a walk. When he returns from his walk, he looks at the clock and sees that it is 10:30am. On his walk, he walked 1.3 miles away from his house and then turned around and walked straight home. He watched TV for 70 minutes and then had a 15 minute nap.
1.What time did he finish eating breakfast at?
2.how long after he woke up did he get home from his walk at?
3. how far did he walk?
4.how long did his walk take?
5. What time did he wake up from his nap at?
6.How long after he finished his shower did he start to nap?
answers
2. 1 hour 30 minutes (90 minutes)
3. 2.6 miles
4. 55 minutes
5. 11:55am
6. 2 hours 20 minutes (140 minutes)
Today’s word problem of the day
I have £100 in the bank.
On Monday, I spend £20 on toys and £5 on food.
On Tuesday, I earn £10 from my Granny for cleaning her garden.
On Wednesday I give £10 to my sister because she was nice to me.
On Thursday I spend £50 on a new football top. I also get on the bus which costs £1.50
On Friday I find £3 down the back of the sofa.
1.How much money did I spend on Monday?
2. How much money do I have at the end of Tuesday?
3. True or False – at the end of Wednesday, I have £50
4. What is my total amount of money spent?
5. do I have enough money on Saturday to buy a new pair of trainers that cost £33?
Comprehension. When we do maths comprehension, we need to read the information carefully first and find the information that will help us answer the questions. In this type of comprehension, numbers and names are the things that will help the most.
You can take notes about the passage as well, this can help.
Then read the question and ask yourself what is the calculation you need to do to work out which answer is correct. You can also say – are any of these answers unrealistic? Which ones don’t seem correct?
Enjoy your weekend.
Language
Let’s do some punctuation work. Hypens and dashes are similar, but different. Check out this lesson to help you understand them better.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmnwjhv
Main task
Read the next pages of Holes.
Today we are going to continue to expand our vocabulary. This means learning what words mean, but also guessing what they mean first.
We use clues in the text to help us with this.
First, read before the word, read after the word.
Then guess what it means and replace the word with that guess.
Does the sentences still make sense? If not, then your guess is probably not correct.
Then look up the meaning of the word.
Here are some words from Holes that you should try and identify the meaning of:
Picture 1
picture 2
picture 3
picture 4
picture 5
picture 6
If there are other words on these pages that you don’t know the meaning of, you can also guess them then look them up.
Maths
Daily 10 practice = keep doing daily 10 everyday to help your mental maths skills. Three games everyday will really help your maths skills, but you need to be consistent and do it regularly.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Word problem of the day
We are going to start a daily word problem in maths. It is important to read the problem a couple of times and think about what information you can gain from the problem. It can also help to think about what information is missing from the problem and how can you work it out.
Then look carefully at the questions and as yourself what maths technique/skill/process do you need to use and what would the calculation (sum) look like.
The questions will start easy and get harder. See how many you can answer accurately and if you get them all you’re doing an excellent job. Answers will be posted tomorrow.
Johnny gets up at 9am. He spends 20 minutes in the shower and 15 minutes eating breakfast. He then decides to go for a walk. When he returns from his walk, he looks at the clock and sees that it is 10:30am. On his walk, he walked 1.3 miles away from his house and then turned around and walked straight home. He watched TV for 70 minutes and then had a 15 minute nap.
1.What time did he finish eating breakfast at?
2.how long after he woke up did he get home from his walk at?
3. how far did he walk?
4.how long did his walk take?
5. What time did he wake up from his nap at?
6.How long after he finished his shower did he start to nap?
Main task
Adding and subtracting more than 2 numbers. When we do this, we need to think about which numbers go together the easiest and which ones you want to leave until the end.
For example, if two numbers add up to 10 or 100 then those are good to start with. Doubles are also good to start with. If there is one decimal number, it can also be good to leave that one until the end.
Extra challenge Brain Buster
Use a calculator to check your answers
Today’s Sumdog Championship was another great event.
Congratulations to Euan on his victory with a record 314 points.
Shout out to Ava for answering nearly 500 questions in total today and shout out to Roan for 90% accuracy during the competition.
Well done again to everyone who took part and is continuing to try their best during this tricky time. It’s nice to be able to spend some ~(vitrual) time together.
Same time next week.
***Sumdog Championship 11am today***
Langauge
spelling words
hideous, suspicious, delicious, ferocious, poisonous, mysterious, miscellaneous, tremendous, generous, courageous, advantageous.
Can you think of any other –ous spelling words to add to our list?
Why don’t you type them as many times as you can in 5 minutes to practice.
French/modern languages
Write these dates in your language of choice
Language
Reread yesterday’s reading pages (scroll back on the blog).
Another skill of visualisation is continuing to write the story without knowing what happens next. This helps your prediction skills and helps to check your understanding of the story so far.
Write the next few pages of the story. You can do this as a comic strip or stop motion if you want, or you can just write it in words.
Think about the following things.
What is Elya going to do with the pig?
How is Myra feeling about Elya now that he told her to marry Igor?
What is Madame Zeroni going to do about it?
How is Stanley going to feel after digging another hole?
How are the other boys going to treat Stanley now that they know him a little bit better.
Is Stanley going to get any better at digging the holes?
Send me your final writing.
Maths
Weekly Sumdog championship at 11am today.
If you want some written work, here are some adding and subtracting problems.
If you would like to learn a bit more about adding and subtracting fractions, here is a bbc bitesize link you can try.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7ty382
Finally, here is also an interesting science lesson you can try
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrcpscw
Epic Reading is an online library of books. They have made their books free during school hours for the rest of the lock down.
I have a made a log in for the class to use. You can log on and select books to read from 9-3. It is really important that you all keep reading regularly. It doesn’t have to be 2 hours a day, reading a little bit everyday will be enough.
You should be reading the class novel pages that I put up on the blog everyday, but if you have run out of reading at home and want some more, have a look at epic books.
https://www.getepic.com/
The login details are
username = jackmcmullan@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk
password = woodlands
There is also an app you can download for tablets and phones.
language
This week’s spelling words have –ous in them. They are usually adjectives which means they are describing something e.g. a person or a thing. –ous comes from Latin and means “full of”, so the thing you are describing is full of this.
For example = poisonous is full of poison.
hideous, suspicious, delicious, ferocious, poisonous, mysterious, miscellaneous, tremendous, generous, courageous, advantageous.
Click on this link to explore more words and try an –ous word quiz.
https://howtospell-letterpatterns.co.uk/ous/
French/modern languages
This week, we will explore dates and months. We have worked on numbers last week, so we can apply that learning to this topic.
Have a go at these games
https://www.digitaldialects.com/French/Daysmonths.htm
https://www.helpfulgames.com/subjects/french/310-months-in-french.html
Why don’t you make your own calendar with the dates and days in French (or another language if you want). You could put it on the wall and use it to plan your home school work!
main task
Our class novel is Holes. Continue reading these pages below to learn a little more about how Stanley is getting on at Camp Green Lake and to learn a little more about his ancestors and family.
The link to the pdf of the book is here and todays pages on the pdf are 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=YWJwbnByLm9yZ3xlbmdsaXNofGd4OjZhMjExYmUwOTlkOTk4MzU
We are going to work on visualisation skills today. Visualisation is where you take the words and turn them into an image in your mind and also a picture. You need to focus on descriptive language.
First of all we are going to hunt in these pages for language features that will help us – adjectives, similes, metaphors and any other sentences which describe what you would see if you were there inside the pages of the book.
Adjectives are describing words e.g. dry, scary, sad.
Similes compare two things using “like” or “as” e.g. Stanley’s mouth was as dry as sandpaper.
Metaphors describe something without using like or as. E.g. Stanley’s tongue was sandpaper inside his mouth.
You should read the pages and try and find language describing the following:
Once you have read the pages and written down descriptive language, you should draw two scenes – one involving Stanley and one involving Elya/Madame Zeroni. Remember to pay attention to the language in the book and make your visualisation (picture) accurately represent what the author has said. You can label your picture with quotes from the text to show how accurate it is.
Maths
This week, we are going to revise some adding and subtracting. We are just going to blast out loads of adding and subtracting including decimals, large numbers and more than two numbers. To get your brain ready for this, do a few games of Daily 10 adding and subtracting.
If you can add smaller numbers quickly, then you will be able to apply this to larger numbers.
Daily 10 –https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Earlier in the year, we explored lots of different adding and subtracting strategies. When you see an adding and subtracting problem, ask yourself what the best strategy to solve that is.
Here are some strategies we created:
Partitioning = 36 + 22 = (30+20) + (6+2) = 50 + 8 = 58
Adjusting 28 + 9 = 28 + 10 – 1 = 38 – 1 = 37
Invicimal point = 3.2 + 2.4 = 32 + 24 = 56 then add the . back in = 5.6
Formal method = use a chimney sum
Counting on and back = 53 – 22 = 53 count back 2 = 51 count back 20 = 31.
Doubles and near doubles = 32 + 33 = 32 x 2 + 1 = 64 + 1 = 65
Try these adding and subtracting questions – there are three different pages. You can do one page, two pages or all three – you choose!
***Don’t forget – tomorrow is the weekly sumdog competition. This week we are going individual. 11am for 1 hour.***
Language
Now we are at the numbers 70-100, it gets tricky in French.
Instead of 80 they say “four twenties” which is quatre-vingt (quatre is 4, vingt is twenty)
Instead of 90, they say four twenties and ten, which is quatre-vingt-dix. Then for 91, it is “four twenties eleven”, which is “quatre-vingt-onze”.
It can be very confusing, but don’t worry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eWuw1jbabI
Watch this song and see if it helps make sense.
Have another go at some of the digital dialects numbers games.
https://www.digitaldialects.com/French.htm
main task
We are reading the book “Holes” Together. I will put up pictures of the pages each day, but here is a link for a pdf of the book which you can download. I will put up the pdf pages each day as well as pictures.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=YWJwbnByLm9yZ3xlbmdsaXNofGd4OjZhMjExYmUwOTlkOTk4MzU
Here are today’s pages (on the pdf it is pages 7,8,9,10)
Sort these statements into True and False.
Clyde Livingston was rich when he was young.
Maths
Daily 10
Keep doing the daily 10 EVERYDAY. This is very important to help your mental maths skills. You can mix up which maths skill you work on, or change the level or length of time per question to help challenge you. Keep a record of your scores. You could also challenge someone in your house or a partner to a game.
Fractions
Here are some statements about Fractions for you to answer.
Tomorrow is a holiday, so relax and enjoy yourself as much as you can!
This week’s sumdog competition was a one sided event!
It started close, with the boys taking an early slim lead, but then the girls got together and started to put together a solid run of points.
It ended up with a huge victory for the girls. 203 -76.
Well done to all who took part
Also shout out to MF who took the overall points total with 269 correct answers.
Same time next week.
