Language

Have you done the Sumdog 30 word spelling challenge yet this week? If not give it a go today.

Italian

We all know 1-10 in French, so let’s learn it in Italian.

We all know and love the French numbers song and the Italian one doesn’t disappoint!

Holes pages

Tricky words

Predicting, checking and understanding the meaning of unfamiliar words is an essential reading skill.

Read the above pages from “Holes” and predict the meaning of the following words, then look them up.

Remember, you should be able to replace the word with your prediction and the sentence should still make sense.

• unthinkable
• unearthed
• burlap
• condemned
• unclasped
• latch
• hearth

Maths

Sumdog – data handling challenge. Answer 50 questions today on sumdog – don’t forget to click on the challenge.

Main task

Below is a table of data about football teams and what times goals were scored.

Tally marks are a way of counting how many times something happened while you search for it. Every time you see the thing you are looking for, you put down a mark and every 5^th mark is horizontal. This means that you are recording in groups of 5 and makes it easier for you to count.

Frequency is how many times something happened. So for example, the frequency of days in the week beginning with T is two – Tuesday and Thursday. It happens twice.

Draw out and fill in the table to help you practice using tally marks and to understand the meaning of the word Frequency.

Language

Spelling

Well done to everyone who completed last week’s sumdog spelling challenge. This week is a focus specifically on this week’s spelling words, but if you want to keep practicing spelling, sumdog is  a great way of doing it. This week’s sumdog spelling challenge is to correctly answer 30 questions. All ending in –ate.

This week’s spelling words end in –ate.

accurate, appropriate, approximate, certificate, deliberate, duplicate, estimate, fortunate, immediate, illustrate, irritate, navigate, passionate, separate.

Can you think of 5 more words ending in –ate?

Holes

Keep reading the Holes pages everyday to help your fluency.

Comprehension

Comprehension is a key reading skill, especially using an unfamiliar text that you haven’t seen before.

Remember to read the whole text first and then scan for key words from the question in the text to help find the answer. Write full answers using words from the question and the text.

Maths

Daily 10 – keep practising your mental maths. This is a very important skill.

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

information handling

This week, we will focus on information handling. This is a skill you will need for life and work. Accessing and making sense of information helps you to understand things better, helps you to make informed decisions and helps you to form your own opinions about things.

This page is all about a database. The database is showing information about different insects. The key at the top tells you what information the database contains.

For example, what habitat the animal lives in or what their danger level is.

Extra challenge = make your own database about an animal and write a few questions for a friend.

Language

Spelling

Last day for the sumdog spelling challenge = 100 correct answers

Homophones

Part of your spelling challenge this week has been “homophones”. Homophones are words that are spelled differently, but sound the same.

For example your and you’re, two, too and to.

Have a look at this lesson.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zm9dqp3

Maths

Final measuring lesson this week is on time.

Have a go at this excellent time measuring game. It will help you to work on understanding units of time and how long has elapsed.

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=lessons/13/m3_13_00_x.swf

Here is a time measuring challenge for you – estimate how long it will take you to do the following things, then test it.

• Take off your shoes and socks and put them back on as well as tie your laces.
• Walk 1 km (you can use a tracking app like strava to follow this)
• Make a cup of tea for someone in your house
• Read 2 pages of a book
• Play a level on your favourite game
• Do your favourite dance from start to finish
• Clean your room

Enjoy your weekend.

Take a moment…

…to enjoy a Sunshine Meditation.

Hasn’t the weather been beautiful over the last few weeks? I hope you’ve been able to enjoy the lovely sunny days, even if it’s just been through your window!

In this week’s meditation we imagine the sunshine on our skin, filling us with light and warmth. It can be used to help you feel refreshed, energised and ready to face the day ahead so it’s great to do in the morning before you start your home learning!

(When I was a wee girl and couldn’t sleep, my mum used to do this kind of meditation with me to help me nod off and it worked for that too!)

I hope the sun comes back soon but remember to stay safe in the sunshine . Why not make a poster to remind your family of sun safety? I’d love to see your posters too!

Have a great week!

Mrs McMillan

Could you all take a minute to click on the link below and look around the website. There  are lots of videos about the staff and the building and what is going to happen next year as you transition to High School.

We are looking forward to welcoming our new S1 pupils to Greenfaulds High School. We recognise that the start of the school will look a bit different this year but we want to reassure you we are doing everything we can to make it a smooth transition from Primary to Secondary.

The link below will provide some useful information for parents and pupils on the transition process. If you have any questions there is a form at the bottom of the link you can fill in and we will try our best to answer any of your concerns.

Click here for more information from Greenfaulds High School.

Language

Spelling

Sumdog challenge = 100 correct spelling words this week (20 a day).

Verbs

A verb is a doing word –  something that you can do e.g. run, jump, smile.

A special type of verbs is called a “modal Verb”. This is a word that change the meaning of the rest of the sentence.

For example might, should, must, can.

Check out this lesson on modal verbs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znd26v4

Then read today’s Holes pages. Can you see any modal verbs?

Maths

Daily 10

Try a few games of Daily 10 to keep your mental maths skills up.

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

Measure

Here is another game to practice reading scales

https://www.transum.org/Maths/Activity/Reading_Scales/Default.asp?Level=1

Today we are going to focus on measuring length.

We use different units to measure things – imperial and metric.

Imperial measurements for length are inches, feet and miles. They are more confusing and awkward because the numbers aren’t in 10s. For example, there are 12 inches in a foot.

Metric measurements are easier, because they are in 10s, 100s and 1,000s.

1cm = 10mm

1m = 100cm

1 km = 1,000m

Can you find a measuring tape or ruler in your house? Look at it. It probably has both imperial and metric measurements on it. Check carefully.

Today’s task is to hunt for things of different lengths. Can you find somethings that is:

• 1cm long
• 1 inch long
• 1mm long or wide
• 1m long
• 25 mm long
• 1 foot long (12 inches)
• 6 inches long

Congrats to team 4 for working to victory on this week’s Sumdog Competition.

Cameron knocked it out of the park!

Well done to all who took part – only 2 more competitions left this year!

Language

Spelling

Sumdog spelling challenge = 100 correct spelling words by Friday (20 per day)

Holes pages

Keep reading these pages every day. It is very important that you continue to practice reading regularly to practice your fluency. If you have missed some of the story, you can go back through the blog to find the pages, or click here for the pdf and read from the start.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=YWJwbnByLm9yZ3xlbmdsaXNofGd4OjZhMjExYmUwOTlkOTk4MzU

Today we have another fluency challenge for you. In school, we had been working on reading for an extended period of time – the target was 20 minutes. Find yourself a book, website or anything that you enjoy reading and try and read without stopping or getting distracted for 20 minutes. This is like going to the gym for your reading skills.

Maths

***sumdog championships at 11am today***

Check out this lesson about changing fractions into percentages. This is an essential maths skill in fractions, decimals and percentages and will be very useful in real life.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvcny9q

STEM

The STEM website puts out a primary and secondary school STEM resource of the day every day to help give you ideas of how to explore Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths at home. Check it out

https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/32076/habitats-and-food-chains-fox-and-hedgehog

https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/25662/quizzes-suitable-home-teaching

Language

Spelling

Sumdog spelling challenge = 100 correct spelling words by Friday (20 per day)

Synonyms and antonyms

Have a look at this lesson on synonyms and antonyms. These are an important part of language that we need to be able to recognise and use.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z63ny9q

When you have finished the lesson, read the next few pages of Holes and see if the author has used any synonyms or antonyms well to make the language interesting.

Maths

Today we are going to look at capacity and volume. These are measure words used to describe liquid.

Capacity is the MAXIMUM amount of liquid something can hold. This is when the container is completely full and no more liquid can be added.

Volume is the amount of liquid inside something. This could be when a bottle is half full or ¼ full or completely full, it doesn’t matter.

Try this game to help you read scales for volume and capacity.

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/capacity/index.html

Let’s apply this learning to real life. Create your own drink using liquids you find around the house, write down the recipe and give it a name.

If you want to try mine, it is called the “Summer blast” and has the following ingredients:

• 200ml orange juice.
• 20ml lime juice
• one apple
• 5 raspberries
• 5 ice cubes
• Tsp honey

Blend it all up until it is smooth and drink in the sun.

Again, let me know what you make and send me some photos.

ICT

If you want some ICT learning, check out this lesson on computer game design

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6n7xyc

Language

Instead of spelling words this week, I have set you a spelling challenge on sumdog. You need to answer 100 questions correctly this week. That’s just 20 words a day! Don’t forget to choose spelling when you log in.

French

I’m sure that, like me, the thing you are missing the most about school is the class French videos that I find, so here are a few for you to enjoy. I personally love the first time one the best.

Holes

Today’s holes reading pages.

Answer these comprehension questions

1. What does the author mean by “the bodies in the room were little more than bags of flesh and bones, dumped across broken chairs and couches.”?
2. Why was X-Ray so full of energy, when the other kids are so tired?
3. What was Zigzag doing in the wreck room?
4. What do you think they are digging for? What is the warden looking for?
5. What does “understuffed” mean? It’s an adjective describing the chair.
6. Why were the shovels locked up at night?
7. Who is your favourite character in the story so far? Why?

Maths

This week, we are going to work on the maths skill of measuring.

Try this game and choose the level with kg, mm, cm or ml. This will help you understand some more about different units of measurement.

1kg = 1,000g

1m = 100cm

1m = 1,000mm

1cm = 10mm

1L = 1,000ml

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

Reading scales can be tricky, because they look quite different to each other sometimes. The best thing to do is to count the SPACES between numbers, not the lines. Then work out using division, how much each space is worth. Try this game to explore reading scales.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/mostlyPostie/index.html

Now we should apply what we have learned! Baking bread is easy and is a great activity to do with others at home. I have been making sourdough bread this week and it turned out great (see below). It is very important, however, that you measure accurately. If you have your own bread recipe give it a go. Or try this one – https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-white-bread

Don’t forget to send me pictures of what you make!

***This week’s sumdog competition is going to be done in teams. If you would like to be in a team with someone else, send me an email to let me know who. If not, I will make up the teams.***