All Homework activities have a health focus this week.

 Complete at least 3 of the activities this week for homework from Tasks A-F

A) Plan and budget for a healthy 2 course meal for a family of 5

Choose and plan healthy and nutritional meal for a family of 5 – 2 adults and 3 children.

List the ingredients and the price of each ingredient (use online supermarket, or visit the supermarket)

Maximum £20 spend

Add up the total cost of everything needed for the meal

2 courses can be starter and main or main and dessert.

B) How does advertising and the media affect my food choices?

Try out these activities about food adverts and discuss what you find:

Look out for adverts for the same type of product (e.g. breakfast cereals) and discuss which one would make you want to try the product and why.

Compare different products that have a healthy image and investigate how healthy they really are.

Find a food advert that you really like.
Why do you like it?

At home, watch TV during the adverts in the evening. Which food products are being advertised? Which are healthy and unhealthy? Describe the best advert you see.

C) Create an advert which promotes a healthy food product.

It can be a poster or a recording.

It must include the health and nutrition benefits of the food

It must including tempting words and phrases that will make people want to buy the product.

D) Cooking and eating together

If you get the chance, help to cook a healthy, nutritional meal at home.  Write about the meal and its nutritional value.  Remember the benefits of eating together and try to sit and eat with people you love this week as much as possible.

E) Make your own healthy fruit smoothie or make your own pizza

Take a photo!

F) Scottish Produce

Research to find out which foods are locally available in different areas in Scotland.

Record your findings.

Everyone has selected one MINDFUL activity from:

• Bedtime Gratitude
• Calming Jars Activity
• Describing Feelings

Today we have had our sports day.  We spent most of the day outside  and had great fun on all the different activities.  We will certainly sleep soundly tonight.

Literacy:  We are looking at clauses.

Task One

Using an appropriate conjunction, make these two single-clause sentences into a two-clause sentence. Set it out like the example below.

The monster looked scary. He looked angry.

The monster looked scary and angry.

1. The monster jumped up and down. He stamped his feet.
2. The monster looked terrifying. He was very friendly.
3. He walked towards Garry. Garry told him to stop.
4. The monster put down his club. He looked at Garry’s glasses.
5. Garry wasn’t as scared. He was still cautious.
6. The monster moved towards Garry. He bit his head off!

Task Two

Copy these sentences and underline the two clauses in each one.

1. The children were happy until their dad shouted at them.
2. Mark was upset because his cat had disappeared.
3. Joan picked up the first prize and the best-groomed horse award.
4. Neil was excited but his brother was a bit worried.
5. Nobody would know until the end who the winner would be.

Maths:  We are looking at fractions. Complete Tasks 1 or 2 then 1 other from Tasks 3-5.

Task 1 Find the answer to:

1/7 of 49=           1/7 of 56=           1/6 of 18=           1/6 of 12=

1/6 of 42=           1/7 of 42=           1/7 of 14=           1/6 of 60=

Task 2 Find the answer to:

3/7 of 49=           4/7 of 56=           5/6 of 18=           2/6 of 120=

3/6 of 42=           2/7 of 42=           5/7 of 140=         4/6 of 600=

Here are some websites that you may find useful!

Task 3: Coin collection (1/10) – Ask your child to find one 10p coin.  Ask them to draw around it ten times, colour some and them write what fraction of £1 the coloured set is, e.g. 40p is 4/10 or £1 or 90p is 9/10 of £1.

Task 4: Coin collection (1/5) – Ask your child to fine one 20p coin.  Ask them to draw around it five times, colour some and them write what fraction of £1 the coloured set is, e.g. 40p is 2/5 or £1 or 80p is 4/5 of £1.

Task 5: Sorting objects – ask your child to sort 20 small identical objects, such as 1p coins, grapes, sweets into two equal groups, then into four equal groups, then five equal groups and then 10 equal groups.  They record the number in the groups, e.g. ½ of 20=10, ¼ of 20 = 5 etc ask them to note when a group or groups have the same number.

Fractions – http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/fractions/index.htm

Dolphin racing – http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/ma17frac-game-dolphin-racing-fractions

Fractions of something – http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/ma17frac-game-fractions-of-something

Music

Learn the lyrics for the Summer Show.  Remember to bring your sheet back to school so we can use it in class.

REMEMBER SPORTS DAY THIS FRIDAY.  YOU WILL BE OUTSIDE FOR MOST OF THE DAY.  PLEASE DRESS APPROPRIATELY, BRING AN EXTRA DRINK AND SUN CREAM, IF NECESSARY.

This morning we were practising our balancing and movements skills across a variety of apparatus.  If you didn’t have your PE kit today, please bring it in for tomorrow’s PE lesson.

In Maths, we have been revising fractions.

I understand what a tenth means – I can describe and record tenths in a variety of different ways and can locate them on a number line

1. Give children squared paper, given to them by Mrs Pollock,  and get them to draw a 0–2 number line, marked in tenths (i.e. with 20 intervals). They play the following game with another person at home. Each places a coin on 0 to start. They take turns to toss a third coin. If it lands heads up, move their coin 1\10 along the line and say aloud the number landed, on, e.g. one tenth, one and two tenths. If the coin lands tails up, they can move on 2\10. The winner is the first player to reach or move beyond 2.
2. Active Learn Accounts have been loaded with new activities
3. Practice tables for test on Friday.

Literacy

Please read the section from your group novel.  Remember you must bring your novel back to class everyday.

Red Group Read Play Real Dragons Roar

Blue Group Read P82-118

Green Group Read P162-193

Improving Sentences

These sentences are really boring and need to be made more interesting!

Rewrite each one neatly in your homework book.

Think about all the ways we have been learning to improve our sentences in class:

• use powerful verbs
• use adjectives (but not too many!) to describe the noun
• add adverbs to tell the reader about the verb
• extend your sentence  by using connectives
• add a super sentences starter – time, place and character
• add extra information – don’t forget the commas!
• don’t forget PUNCTUATION!

1. The band played.
2. The police searched the park.
3. The witch climbed onto her broom.
4. The footballer kicked the ball.
5. The man walked up the hill.
6. The cat walked along the wall.

Art

We have been looking at the work of the Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso.  Here are some links to help you learn more about Picasso:

Blue Period – http://youtu.be/ux-bGaAK9LI

Early works (covering blue rose and cubist)   http://youtu.be/Odqhkt3kYiA

Picasso in action – live painting- http://youtu.be/pNrYupcDlXE

Child Narrated – http://youtu.be/_fNvBJAJw4s

As well as a famous painter, Picasso was also a famous sculptor.  Use junk modelling to create a Picasso inspired model.

This afternoon P6 planted a black currant bush and pansies.  We chose our planter because we think it will get the afternoon sun.  We had  to prune the bush and plant it deep within the planter then surrounded it with pansies.

Literacy: Figurative Language

Figurative language is when words and ideas are used to create mental images and give impressions.  When we use figurative language in our writing and poetry it gives our ideas strength and helps the reader to understand what we mean.

Personification is when we write about an object as if it is human, e.g. “the tulips smiled as the sun rose”

Similes are when we say one thing is like another, e.g. “the snow was on the ground like a thick warm blanket.” Similes contain the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Metaphors say something is something else.

e.g.      Tony is a tower of strength.

Christiano Ronaldo is a goal machine.

Copy the examples below neatly into your jotter below, either write P (personification), S (simile) or M (metaphor).

1. The Alarm clock went off like a bomb!
2. She was as quiet as a mouse
3. The ants marched home
4. The moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas
5. She’s as mad as a hatter!
6. The trees whispered to each other in the darkness
7. The sun went to bed.
8. She ate the mountain of food greedily
9. The frog’s tongue moved like lightning

In your jotter write at least 2 sentences that use a hyperbole.

Green Group Read up to P161

Blue Group Read up to P92

Red Group Read “A Jumble for the Queen”.

Maths– We have be looking at 2D and 3D shape.

• Complete the sheet on 3D shape identifying vertices, faces and edges.
• Pick one of these ideas to try at home:

Robot challenge Ask children to draw a picture of a robot using at least 3 different 2D shapes.  Ask children to name some of the shapes they used.

3D objects at home Ask children to write down five real-life examples of different 3D objects in their home and, if they can, to give the mathematical name of the 3D object, e.g. toilet roll is a cylinder.

Rectangles on 3D objects Ask children to make drawings of 3D objects in the home that have at least one rectangular face, for example, door, TV, picture frame

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-shape-and-weight.html#quad

• Continue to practice tables.

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/ (this website has links to many other websites)

Science: Design and make a musical instrument that can change pitch and can make a loud sound and quiet sound.  Use junk material you have been collecting.  Remember to make your instrument as good looking as it sounds.

This afternoon we continued to look at the work of Pablo Picasso.  Some us were looking at The Girl with a Dove portrait.

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Some of us were looking at his Cubism work and trying to develop our own portraits using 2D shapes.  Another group were rolling die to create a distorted and disproportionate face.

Don’t forget we are going to have group table tests tomorrow.  Part of this week’s homework was to revise the times tables facts.

Literacy

All the phrases below need apostrophes to make them correct. Rewrite each phrase twice; first with an apostrophe to show singular possession and again with an apostrophe to show plural possession. For example:

the girl’s friends (singular);

the girls’ friends (plural).

1. my brothers headphones
2. the teachers books
3. the pupils punishment
4. the cartoons characters
5. the teenagers music

Green Group read up to P94

Blue Group read up to P49

Red Group read up to P16

Maths

 Tables Test this Friday (20^th April)

This week we have been looking at Prime Numbers.Each child has chosen a worksheet to do on Prime Numbers. They should complete their work on the sheet.

Complete Ex 2 or 3

2)Football teams- Investigate which players in your favourite football team wear prime numbers on their shirts.

3) Prime suspect- Children choose a prime number between 30 and 100, e.g. 43, and write the two numbers either side of it, e.g. 42 and 44. They find the number of factors for the two adjacent numbers, e.g. 42 (eight factors) and 44 (six factors). Ask them to investigate if there is a prime number that lies between two numbers with the same number of factors.

 Art

 This term we are going to be looking at the life and work of Pablo Picasso.  Create an interesting fact file or power point presentation about his life. Try to summarise in your own words the information rather than copying and pasting large chunks.

This morning for writing and science we carried out a science investigation to see how far the sound of the tuning fork carried.  We ensured our investigation was a fair test by keeping the variables the same.  We then wrote up our Investigations in our jotter.  We were amazed to discover the tuning forks could be heard over 50m from the sound source.

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