This morning, as part of our Health and Wellbeing topic on Reacting to Peer Pressure, Gregor and Gary our local Community Police came to speak to P6.  We found out the different names for drugs and discussed the classifications of drugs.  We also discussed what can happen if your friends take drugs and become involved with the police.  We were surprised to learn that if someone gets a police record because of drugs they won’t be able to do certain jobs.

We had many volunteers who wanted to see if the were flexible enough to escape from the handcuffs.

This afternoon, after been chased by an excited boxer dog, we went down to The Luggie.  We revisited some of the names of the trees and wildlife then found out about how the river flows and how the debris travels long the river.  We also investigated why one part of a river is deeper than another.  Finally, we had to create 3, 4 or 5 digit number a then round them to them to the nearest 10 and 100.

PLEASE REMEMBER WELLIES OR OLD SHOES/BOOTS AND COAT.  HOPEFULLY WE ARE OFF TO THE LUGGIE TOMORROW (WED)

Literacy

Speech Marks corrections.  Pretend you are the teacher and mark this child’s sentences by using the key below.

KEY

“ “         speech marks

//          new line

• full stop

,         comma

A-Z      capital letter

 

 

1. I want to go home shouted Martha

 

2.           is that a clown ? asked Stephen

 

3. that’s a good picture said his friend can I have one ?

 

4. I think that is funny laughed Freda

 

5. I’m scared screamed John

 

6. Ouch ! yelled the man

 

7. Thank you they said to the lady

 

8. Good bye he said as he walked down the street

 

Read to someone at home.  Don’t forget to discuss what you have read and you must bring your book to school every day as we will be using it in class.

Red Group New Book

Blue Group Read to the end of The Butterfly Lion

Green Group Read to the end of Kasper

 

 

Practise your times tables.  Everyone knows what times tables they have to cover.  Here are some websites to help you practise.  Please record in your homework jotter how you prefer to practise your tables, the websites you visit or if you find a really useful website also write it down in your jotter for others to try.

Here are some website that may help:

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/multiplication-and-division

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/

http://www.what2learn.com/home/examgames/maths/subtraction/

http://www.mad4maths.com/multiplication_table_math_games/

 

Remembrance Sunday:

• The Victoria Cross is the highest award of the United Kingdom Honours system. It is awarded for gallantry “in the face of the enemy” to members of the British Armed Forces.
• Research some of the 74 Scottish recipients of World War I who have received the Victoria Cross. Complete:

 

Name: Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Regiment or Battalion:
Victoria Cross Awarded For:
Interesting Facts:

 

• Design a new medal to be awarded and describe the criteria for being awarded your medal.

 

This morning we went along to the Peace Garden in Greenfaulds. We were to work in 2/3s to create a logo for OL (outdoor learning) for a North Lanarkshire website. We’ve submitted our entries so fingers crossed. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

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This morning we had football coaching led by Clyde FC.  This was our second session.  We focused on dribbling  with the top part of our foot, small touches and used an outside cut to stop the ball.

Tomorrow (Friday) we are going to Peace Garden in Greenfaulds remember to bring your wellies or old shoes/boots and a coat.

This afternoon we had Hallowe’en Coordinates to plot and find.  We also had a go at the Witches Washing Line where we had to bite the doughnut off the washing line.  It was messy but good fun 👻 🎃!

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This afternoon P6 attended a workshop led by SPCA officers.  Some children went to a workshop about wild animals and played a game to increase their knowledge of wildlife in Scotland.  Others  attended a workshop on pet patrol that focused on pet ownership then played a game about making the right decision about an animal’s care and rehoming.

With only 56 days to Christmas, Mrs Rutherford and Mr Kieran had their first choir practice for our Christmas Show.  This year the choir will be singing up in the town centre.

Numeracy

I’ve uploaded new activities on everyone’s Active Learn Account.  The activities focus on  negative numbers.

Literacy

Each child has copied their spelling words into their homework jotter or on a piece of paper if they didn’t bring their jotters to school.  Pick at least 6 words from their list and put the word into an interesting sentence, underlining with a ruler the spelling word.  Everyone should have at least 6 sentences.

In Literacy this week, we are revising how to punctuate direct speech.  Copy these sentences neatly into your jotter, remember put in “ around the first word spoken and ” around the last word spoken.  If you need to, highlight the words spoken first.

1.   I just want to mess about with Stig said Barney.
2. All right then. Put your boots on. Said Granny.
3. Good morning, Stig. Do you remember me Barney asked Stig
4. Granny have you got anything you don’t want asked Barney.
5. I mean things like windows and chimneys explained Barney.

Other- The Life and Times of Guy Fawkes

 Research the life and times of Guy Fawkes.

Cut these out and put them or write them into your jotter in the right order – then draw pictures to match the writing.

 

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A Letter was sent to the King which told him of the plot!

 

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Guy joined the Spanish Army.

 

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Guy and his friends wanted to get rid of the king and parliament on the 5^th November.

 

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Guy Fawkes was christened in York in 1570.

 

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Guy knew all about explosives and they hid the gunpowder in barrels in the cellars of parliament. So they were ready to blow up parliament.

 

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Guy and 6 others were all taken to court and then hanged.

 

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The King ordered guards to search the building, and Guy was found hiding in the cellar.

 

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In 1603, a new king James I was crowned. And English Catholics were afraid he would be cruel to them.

 

This morning we continued our Big Writing Work.  We had to use VCOP to write a letter.  Our letters were written in the style of Harry Potter and were responding to a letter written by Harriet.

This afternoon we were very busy working on different activities.  We had Halloween Art, l’halloween French, Bronze Section of our Clyde Football booklet and Sum Dog. No wonder we were tired tonight! Enjoy the Halloween Disco if you’re going!