Good Morning Everyone!

How are we today? You are all doing so well and I know it can be hard to get your school work done at home sometimes. So a big well done to those of you who made it onto Epic.  I can see you must have enjoyed it for 26 books were read yesterday by our class.  Well done! Here is the work for today:

LITERACY

Starter:

Log onto Epic www.getepic.com/students.

Then enter the code: uzc7238 (This is the classcode.)

Select a book of your own choice. Will it be Fiction or Non-Fiction?

Activities: I can write clear concise directions.

Look carefully at this map. Your friend is lost in Fantasy Land. You must write short, clear directions to help your friend find the way home. Remember to include when they should keep quiet and when they should run as fast as possible.

To begin you must look carefully at the map and imagine what instructions and advice your friend would need.

Use this framework for writing your directions:

1. First you must…..
2. Then you……..
3. Now you can…..
4. Next you……..
5. Finally you………

*Challenge*

Write a paragraph explaining how your friend ended up lost in Fantasy Land.

Plenary:

Now share your directions with someone. Do they think you’ve managed to save your friend? Ask them for 2 stars and 1 wish.

MATHS

Starter:

On Sumdog, you have been allocated 5 quick questions.

Activity: I can order positive and negative numbers

Optional Challenge:

What is the highest temperature over the next week?

What is the lowest temperature over the next week?

 

Compare Cumbernauld to Greenland.

What is Greenland’s highest temperature over the next week?

What is Greenland’s lowest temperature over the next week?

Have a look at the map of where the UK is located compared to Greenland?

Why do you think the temperature is a lot colder in Greenland?

 

Here are some pictures of Greenland’s national park. 

Plenary:

Go on to this website:

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/?sort=1

You can sort the information by country or city.

Choose 4 countries/ or cities and order them warmest to coldest.

 

Remember just do your best and that’s us half way through this week already!

Keep Smiling,

Mrs P x

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 12^th 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.

10. 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.

 

Happy Thursday, Primary 6.

Today is like Happy Friday because tomorrow there will be no school work as it is a bank holiday to commemorate 75th Anniversary of VE Day.

Tomorrow at 3 pm people are being encouraged to go outside, remain socially distant, and clap for the heroes who brought victory at the end of World War II.  Have you enjoyed learning about VE day this week?

Thanks to ST for her Haiku  and MS for her Limerick from yesterday’s Literacy activities.  Well done to OT, ST, AK, MS, RK, FW, JW and TW who have all been on Sumdog this week.  For now, OT is top of the leader board for the Co-ordinates Challenge- well done! Can OT stay top of the leader board or will someone knock her off?

Have you checked out Take a Moment with Mrs McMillan, the famous YouTuber? She’s posted a really cool video about Belly Breathing

https://youtu.be/mr_eCIKe3cc

and A Special Place Meditation.

https://youtu.be/e00rafnDDKE

I’m sure you’ll agree, not only is Mrs McMillan really good at art, she’s a brilliant You Tuber too!

LITERACY:

Starter:

Morse code, invented by Samuel Morse, takes the letters of the alphabet and replaces them with a combination of dashes and dots.

You can create these dashes and dots using long and short sounds, long and short light flashes, or just by writing them on paper.

You can translate these back into normal letters using a guide like the one above. (Or, if you’re really good at memorising stuff, you can learn the whole code!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti40tW-W2IY&feature=related

 

Activity: I can use the code to work out the message

You are receiving a code using Morse code, which you must solve:

Challenge:

Plenary:

Look/ think back at you 3, 2, 1 bridge activity from Monday.

Now re-do this task, see if your answers differ after learning more about VE day.

Write:

3 words,

2 questions

and 1 simile/ metaphor

 Extra info

The Queen will commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day with a televised address to the nation.

The message will form part of a series of events on 8 May marking the end of World War Two on the continent.

The monarch’s pre-recorded address will be broadcast on the BBC at 21:00 – the exact moment her father, King George VI, gave a radio address 75 years ago.

Other plans include a public sing along of Dame Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again, a song synonymous with World War Two.

It will be the Queen’s second televised message during the coronavirus outbreak.

Last month, she echoed the words of the singer known as the Forces’ sweetheart when she told those in lockdown “we will meet again” during a rare speech to the nation.

Have a listen to the song:

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

MATHS

Mental Starter: 

For Q1- 10 round each number to 10 and 100

Activities:

Watch this video to explain how to plot coordinates using 4 quadrants

Now have a go at these 3 games that all use 4 quadrants for coordinates. Which game did you like best and why?

https://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/bug2/bug2.html

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/469/Coordinates-Alien-Attack

https://www.teacherled.com/iresources/coordinates/showthecoordinate/

*Challenge*

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/153/coordinates–reasoning-about-position-and-shapes

Plenary

Take the Coordinates Quiz on Sumdog. There are 10 multiple choice questions and it’s only available until 6pm tonight. Good Luck!

Well done boys and girls, you’ve worked hard this week and deserve a wee rest so no school work will be posted on Friday or on Monday because it is suppose to be an In-service Day and you’d be off school.

Over the weekend, I’ll not be posting any work until Tuesday but I’ll keep checking my email so if you want to contact me, you can at:

FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk or you can post a comment on our blog.

I hope you are all ok, keeping safe and remembering to help around the house.  I am missing you and I’ll be thinking of you all when I sing “We’ll Meet Again,” on Friday.

Stay Cool,

Mrs P x

 

 

 

 

 

Good Morning Primary 6 🙂

Hope you’re having a great week. Here are today’s activities:

MATHS

Mental Starter:

Activities: I can use coordinates to solve problems

This picture helps me remember the order of the coordinates.

*Challenge* Make up a coordinates problem for your friend or me (FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk) to solve.

Plenary:

Make sure you’ve completed the competition and challenge set for you on Sumdog this week.

LITERACY

Starter:

We are going to look at poetry today.

Revise what a limerick is:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4mmn39/articles/zw3yw6f

Revise what a Haiku poem is:

https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/how-to-write-a-haiku/

 Activity: I can create a limerick and/ or Haiku poem

Choose one type of poem; try to create a poem about celebrating the end of WW2 for Europe (VE Day).

SC for a limerick poem	SC for a Haiku poem
I can include: first, second and fifth lines have the same rhythm and rhyme. The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other too.	I can include: First line has 5 syllables Second line has 7 syllables Third line has 5 syllables.

Challenge:

Is my poem a limerick or haiku? Prove it.

Streets full of people,

Bonfires, dancing and cheers,

The war is over.

Plenary:

I’d love to read your poem, if you can, please send me your poem

FionaPollock@woodlands.woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

Good Morning Boys and Girls,

I hope you are all doing o’k and managing to do some school work.  Did you get out in the fresh air?

Here are today’s activities:

MATHS

Mental Starter: Please complete Q1-Q15

 

Activities: I can use co-ordinates to make a journey on a grid.

Plenary Have a go at the coordinates competition. It’s available from 10 am this morning until10pm on Thursday night. Good Luck!

LITERACY

This morning we are going to continue our learning about VE Day.

Starter:

Unjumble these letters to create 3 words.

OLDRW RWA OTW

Activity: I can skim and scan to find specific information.

Today you are reading some non-fiction, as this information is about events that actually occurred.

Answer these questions verbally or written:

 

Challenge:

 

Finisher:

I see, I think, I wonder:

What do you see in this picture taken on VE day 1945?

What do you think is happening?

What questions do you have? What does it make you wonder?

Until tomorrow P6, keep safe and be kind!

Mrs P

Good Morning Primary 6, are you ready for another week of activities?

If we were at school, we would only be in for 4 days this week, because on Friday it’s a Bank Holiday and it’s also the 75th Anniversary of VE Day.

In maths, this week, we are going to revise co-ordinates.   As you don’t have squared paper I’ve included activities were you’ll be reading coordinates and playing games to plot them rather than drawing them.

But first, let’s start with some mental maths.

Mental Starter:

Please completer Q1-Q16 in your jotter.

Remember: product mean multiply and quotient means divide,

Activities: I can give the coordinates of points on a map.

Watch this clip from BBC Bitesize to remind us about co-ordinates.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgthvcw/articles/z96k9qt

*Challenge*

From which places on the map is the first coordinate more than the second coordinate?

Plenary:

I’ve loaded onto Sumdog some skills practice focusing on coordinates. You have until Wednesday night to complete them.

LITERACY

Starter:

Verbally, written or in your head, brainstorm anything you already know about VE day, or what you think it could be about.

Activity: I can summarise my thinking.

Watch this clip:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-ve-day/z7xtmfr

3, 2, 1 Bridge (Thinking Routine).

I would like you to think of

3 words related to this topic.

2 questions about this topic.

1 simile/ metaphor about this topic.

Challenge:

Finisher:

Summarise, verbally or written, what VE day is.

Hope you’ve managed today’s work until tomorrow,

Mrs P

 

Good Morning and Happy Friday.

We’ve made it through another week and we’ve also reached May.

Well done to OT, MS, RK, AK, ST, LH, MM, FW and TM (this is also the order of who has spent the most time on Sumdog this week!)

Here are today’s activities:

LITERACY

Starter:

How many words can you find? Find as many as you can. Remember proper nouns like people’s names or names of towns and countries, abbreviations and hyphenated words are not allowed. Think about looking for phonemes ss, sh, ea, wh prefixes like dis ,de, re, im, in at the start of a word and suffixes for example ing, ion, ate, ed, ly, able at the end of a word.

Rules:

Scoring 3 letter word 2 points

4 letter word 3 points

5 letter word 4 points

6 letter word 5 points

7 letter word 6 points,

* 8 letter word or more 11 points

Time     3 minutes or more if you need it.

The letters must be touching the next letter of the word horizontally, vertically, diagonally, left, right, up or down. Letters must join in the proper sequence to spell a word.

Activity:

Write your own 16 letters together. 4 rows with 4 letters in each row as shown in the photo and see how many words you can get this time, try to write them down as quickly as you can. Don’t forget to calculate your score at the end of each game that you play.

Now put all of your words in alphabetical order, looking carefully at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th letters and so on.

Plenary:

Try to use all of these words, spelled correctly in sentences, a short story, song or poem.

LITERACY

Starter:

1. Double 32 =
2. Double 75=
3. Double 44=
4. Double 50=

Activity

Today, leaves the last triangle, an Isosceles triangle.

Remember, they have 2 equal angles at the base as its sides have 2 equal lengths.

So

1. 32 degrees + 32 degrees (double) = 64 degrees.

180 – 64 = missing degrees = 116 degrees.

Double check by looking at the size of angle, the top missing angle in a is an obtuse angle. Would 116 degrees fit to be an obtuse angle?Try b, c, d and e.

 

Finisher:

Try a short finisher quiz on Sumdog, there are only 5 questions, it will not take you long at all.

Happy weekend, take care and keep safe until Monday,

Mrs P