Good Morning Primary 6,
How was your May holiday weekend? Did you take a long lie in bed? I hope you had fun and spent time with your family. At our house we made unicorn biscuits but they ended up more like The Wonky Donkey!!! They weren’t as good as the Mars Bars Cakes we made during Fairtrade Fortnight!
I have a new website for you to visit. It will give you access to thousands of books and I can select books for you to read, sometimes give you a quiz about the book and check when you’ve read them. There are fiction and non-fiction books for you to choose from. You will have free access until 30th June 2020.
Go to www.getepic.com/students.
Then enter the code: uzc7238 (This is our class code.)
Now click your name.
I have set up a book, “A Donkey Reads: Adapted from a Turkish Folktale”, for you to read and then there is a short quiz. Let me know if you enjoy your book. If you read some of the other books, let me know the ones you have liked. This is an American website so when looking at the date remember they put the month first then the day so 12th May 2020 would be 5/12/20.
LITERACY:
Starter:
Have a go at logging onto Epic using the instructions above. Any problems send me an email at FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk.
Activities: I can identify and name collective nouns.
Watch this video to remind yourself of collective nouns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M3i6PTabT4
Can you think of the correct collective noun then copy the phrase neatly into your jotter:
A ____________ of whales.
A ____________ of flowers.
A ____________ of steps.
A ____________ of fish.
A ____________ of pups.
A ____________ of geese.
A ____________ of crows.
A ____________ of arrows.
A ____________ of thieves.
A ____________ of experts.
*Challenge*
Can you come up with another 10 examples of collective nouns?
Plenary
Can you come up with a collective noun for a group of teachers? Perhaps you’d like to illustrate your idea?
NUMERACY:
This week, we are going to look at negative numbers.
Starter:
Recap what negative numbers are:
Watch the video, read the information and try the quiz!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znwj6sg/articles/zxthnbk
Activity: I can identify negative and positive numbers on a number line.
Use a number line to count on and back, here is a picture of a number line to help.
You can write the letters in alphabetical order or as they come in the picture.
e.g.
- Is 2 positions before 10. Count back 2 places from 10 and you end up at 8.
Therefore, a = 8
Another example is h.
H is 3 before -20, if you count on from negative 10 3 spaces you land on -17 (negative 17).
Complete letters a-q
Optional challenge:
Plenary:
Go on to active learn (remember first 4 letters of your first name and first 4 letters of your second name is your username) password is woodlands and school code is 6kwa.
Allocated to you is the game: “Clam collector”. This game is like snake, it is fun.
