Happy Friday, Primary 6!
Yet another quick week. How are you all? Yesterday Rory and I cycled around Broadwood Loch. What have you been up to?
Here are today’s tasks:
LITERACY
Starter:
Should hoverbikes be a form of public transport? Your task is to write a balanced argument about the general public using hoverbikes to get around town.
Watch this video to remind yourself of how to write a balanced argument:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zm3nvcw
Activities- I can write a balanced argument
Begin by making notes on:
- Reasons for having hoverbikes – what’s good about them? Who would benefit?
- Reasons against having hoverbikes – what might happen? Is it safe?
Go back to the video clip at 3.04 mins and list useful ‘for and against’ and these words to link the arguments together:
Use this template to help you write a balanced argument:
Here is the success criteria for your argument:
- The title is a question
| · The opening paragraph introduces the argument. |
| · It contains opposing views of for and against. |
| · There is evidence to support your arguments. |
| · There is a concluding paragraph that includes the writer’s own opinion. |
| · It is interestingly written. |
| · It is written in the third person (except final paragraph). |
| · The final paragraph is written in the first person. |
| · It is written using formal and technical language. |
| · It contains a mixture of causal conjunctions and adverbials that have been used correctly (see useful words and phrases sheet).
Plenary: Share the success criteria with someone at home then ask them for some feedback in the form of 2 stars and 1 wish. If you want, you can email the feedback you received FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.u |
MATHS:
Starter:
Activity: I can investigate the probability of getting heads or tails.
- We are going to investigate whether we have an equal number of heads and tails when we toss a coin 30 times.
- We will also investigate whether we get an equal number of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4, 5s and 6s when we roll a dice 30 times.
- Record your findings.
- Perhaps we will have 15 heads and 15 tails when we toss our coin 30 times??
- Perhaps we will have each number on the dice 5 times. (five scores of 1, five scores of 2 etc.)
- It’s up to you to find out!
Challenge and Finisher:
Write out 2 events which have:
- Likely chance to happen
- Certain chance of happening
- Impossible chance of happening
- Unlikely chance of happening
- Equal chance of happeningActivity: I can investigate the probability of getting heads or tails.
- We are going to investigate whether we have an equal number of heads and tails when we toss a coin 30 times.
- We will also investigate whether we get an equal number of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4, 5s and 6s when we roll a dice 30 times.
- Record your findings.
- Perhaps we will have 15 heads and 15 tails when we toss our coin 30 times??
- Perhaps we will have each number on the dice 5 times. (five scores of 1, five scores of 2 etc.)
- It’s up to you to find out!
Have a great weekend and look after yourself,
Mrs P
