Good Morning Primary 6,

How are you all today?  Did you have a great weekend?

The teacher’s are all back in school today, it will seem so strange without you all.  We are getting ready and making plans for your return to school in August.  I’ll try to login into First Class during the day in case anyone is looking for me and I’ll definitely check my emails tomorrow night.

Here are today’s tasks:

Maths

Probability or chance is how likely something is to happen. If something has a low probability, it is unlikely to happen. If something has a high probability, it is likely to happen.

Starter:

 

Probabilities are most commonly shown as fractions. The probability of getting ‘tails’ when you toss a coin is a 1 in 2 chance, or 1/2.

Probabilities can also be shown as decimals or percentages. A probability of 1/2 can also be shown as 0.5 or 50%.

Activity: I can use probability vocabulary to state the chances of an event happening.

*Challenge*

Plenary:

Try this game: http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L118/index.html#

LITERACY

This week’s Literacy activities are based on a hoverbike. A hoverbike (or hovercycle) is a vehicle that can hover, but otherwise resembles a motorbike.

Starter:

Let’s find out more about hoverbikes.

Use google search find out key facts about a hoverbike or a hovercyle

• Where could you buy one?
• How much would it cost?
• Who is using a hoverbikeRemember to write in note form, not full sentences.

Activities:

Let’s look at other Terrific Transportation Invention. In your Epic account I have assigned you this book. I can see some of you haven’t manage to read any books yet. To login:

Go to www.getepic.com/students.

Then enter the code: uzc7238 (This is our class code.)

Now click your name.

Read the book Terrific Transportation Inventions and then take the quiz at the end.

Choose one method of transport from this book and create at least six questions for the information. You must have at least 3 skinny questions and 3 fat questions. Perhaps you could even remember some of our work on Blooms? Send your questions to a friend or me at FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

 

*Challenge*

Look at the word “courageous” on P18

1. Write its meaning.
2. How many syllables?
3. Write a synonym (a word that means the same) for courageous
4. Write an antonym (a word that means the opposite) for courageous
5. Write a sentence with this word in it.
6. What other words can you create from the letters used for this word?

 

Plenary:

Would you like a hoverbike? Why or why not? Explain your answer in a couple of sentences.

Or

Design, draw and label your very own hoverbike.

Hope you have a great week,

Mrs P