This afternoon in Literacy we had different activities:

• the green group was  looking at exclamation marks in their books
• the red group was drawing a sketch of Arthur, a dragon, using clues from the text then comparing the dragon with Nessie and
• the blue group was writing a summary of Dinah’s reactions, behaviours and thoughts on being hypnotised by the Demon Head Master.

Later, we continued our work on angles.

This morning we took part in a Taekwon Do demonstration.  It was great fun!

 

In the afternoon we heard from Micaela Church,  a Global Citizen  Ambassador for The Project Trust.  She got us thinking about our preconception and reality of living in Angola, a country she worked in as a volunteer.

Our final talk was from Will, a Crime Scene Officer (CSO).  He explained what he does day to day in his job.  It was facinating hearing how he gathers evidence to help catch criminals.

We had yet another informative day with visits from  Jozanne a lawyer, Stuart Coleman from Cumbernauld Colts, Gordon from Sanctuary Housing and Josie from Scottish Prison Service.  We listened attentively and asked some very thought provoking questions.

Today we had a visit from Pam, a microbiologist.  She told us about her job, how she became a microbiologist and then we got to make fake micro organisms from salt dough.

 

In the afternoon, Marion came to speak to us about her job as a mortgage advisor and then we heard from Austin Osiris and his job as a wrestler.  He told us he learned everything he knows from his mum, Mrs Downs!

 

Today Mr McCallum came to the school to talk about his job as a joiner and multi purpose engineer.  he showed us the many tools he works with, explained about his job in schools in Edinburgh and answered our questions

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This afternoon we had a visit from Roger Milliken who told us about his job as manager of the Village nursing home.  He told us to concentrate and listen at school because he didn’t and he ended up leaving school at 16 with no qualifications. Later when he was 27 years old went and got qualifications and became a nurse.

 

 

In Maths we will be looking at angles. For this homework your child will need a protractor or can borrow one from the school

Measuring Up – Ask your child to find a variety of objects in his/her room, which have clear angles. He/she should then estimate the size before measuring the angle carefully with a protractor. He/she should then bring one of the objects, and the measurements, into class to show the class teacher.

Angle Hunt – Ask your child to have a look around the house and create a list all of the places they find angles. For extra challenge, he/she could note next to each angle whether it is acute, right, obtuse, straight or reflex. He/she should then bring their list to class to share with his/her teacher and classmates.

Challenge a Friend – Ask your child to use his/her knowledge of angles to design, write and illustrate a complex word problem for a friend, which he/she should bring in to school to give to a friend. For extra challenge, the problem could link to the current class topic.

Here are some websites that you may find useful!

Website 1 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/maths/shape_space/angles/activity/ Revise the basics using this activity.

Website 2 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/geometry/anglesact.shtml Can you correctly identify the sizes of all of the angles? Try this activity for a real challenge!

Website 3 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/shape_space/angles/play/ An interactive activity in a fun context!

Website 4 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ks2_activities/maths/angles.shtml Do you know your angles? Test yourself with this fun game.

Website 5 – http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/protractor.html Brush up on how to use your protractor to measure angles with this activity.

Website 6 – http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year6/angles/game.asp How accurately can you estimate an angle?

Literacy

The weblink below has many links to different games and quizzes. They will help to develop your understanding of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and apostrophes- all of which we have looked at in the past few weeks.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm#apo

A Grammar photo story teaching children how to use apostrophes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGeHg5i7OJo

Play apostrophe (for contraction) Snap.

shouldn’t              should not   

wouldn’t                would not

couldn’t                 could not

hadn’t                    had not

wasn’t                   was not

should’ve              should have

could’ve                could have

would’ve               would have

doesn’t                  does not

can’t                      cannot

don’t                      do not

shan’t                    shall not

let’s                       let us

i’m                         i am

we’re                    we are

it’s                       it is

they’re                   they are

mustn’t             must not

haven’t                  have not

she’s                     she is

you’ve                   you have

he’d                      he had

they’ll                    they will

 

Careers Week

Look at this new website https://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/

This is Skills Development Scotland’s new web service offering you lots of valuable information and tools to help you win that job or develop your career. Discover your WoW factor and make that next move with My World of Work. You maybe only in P5/6 but have a look at this website and research some jobs you may wish to consider in the future.

There is also a section for parents: My World of Work for Parents

This afternoon we ran a games afternoon and we invited S1 from Glencryan School.  We thought it was a very successful afternoon with both schools agreeing we need to have more events together.

In literacy, some of us have learning about using the apostrophe for ownership and some of us are consolidating our use of the possessive apostrophe.  We found it easy to add in the apostrophe if the noun was singular but it was a little bit trickier when the noun was plural, especially an irregular plural like children.  We learned a good strategy if you’re not sure about to put the possessive apostrophe.

This morning we started to look at the features of a newspaper.  Then we had to pick an article from a newspaper and use post-it’s to label the different features.  Next we completed a sheet with a partner that asked us to identify: the headline, by-line, introduction, body, quotes, photographs and captions.

This afternoon we started to look at the story of Esther. We found out how she saved the Jewish people from death. Next we will make puppets for the main characters: Mordecai, Haman, Esther and the King.