This morning Mr McCrae, a music teacher, joined us from Greenfaulds High school.  He demonstrated his playing of a trombone and asked if any P6 would like to get brass tuition. He’s coming back next Wednesday  to give out information letters and applications forms to those pupils interested.

This afternoon we had to do our PE outside. First of all we had a go at our first orienteering course. We had to stay with our partners, use a map to locate letters placed around the school then collect all of the letters. We then had to unscramble the letters to make a word which was WOODLANDS. After orienteering, we played capture the flag which really got our hear eat up too.

This morning we had our final session with Cumbernauld Living Landscape.  We were learning about how animal friendly our school grounds are.  Tracey from Cumbernauld Landscape told us that “Woodlands have one of the best animal friendly school grounds in the whole of Cumbernauld!” This was because of our hedgehog hotel, bug hotels, beehive, wormery, pond, bird boxes, gaps under our fences as well as the long grass, trees and berries.

Homework W/B 3^rd October 2016

Literacy:  Revision of nouns, verbs and adjectives.

• Write this sentence out in your jotter. Underline the verb, put a circle around the noun.

The cat sat on the mat.

• Write this sentence out again this time change the noun or verb or add an adjective to change it.

The sad cat sat on the mat.

The cat sat on the wet mat.

The cat slept on the mat.

Can you make up at least 10 different sentences?

Maths:  Practice your times tables.  Everyone knows what times tables they have to cover.  On Friday 7th October, we will have a tables test.  Here are some websites to help you practice or you can make the TGTs we made in class.  Please record in your homework jotter how you prefer to practice 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/

French:

Complete the Salut French sheet.  It looks at different ways to say hello, goodbye, how are you?

Practice you French with someone at home by having a conversation.  Use the phrases on the sheet to help you with your conversation.  Remember you may need to be the expert and teach the other person how to say the French phrases.

Jotter Check in for Table 2 on Friday 7^th October- Merci!

Wow!! Have a look at our very own musical instruments. They were all fantastic.  Some people are going to bring theirs in tomorrow.

This morning we were building on our previous work on using commas in a list. Today we were learning to put a colon that looks like this : at the beginning of a list. The colon introduces the list and goes in front of the first item on the list.

Don’t forget: tomorrow we continue our work with Cumbernauld Living Landscapes.  The weather forecast is good but you’ll still need a warm jacket and wellies or shoes you don’t mind getting muddy.

This morning we continued our work on speech marks.  Everyone is making good progress and some people used very impressive powerful verbs for said like: murmured, uttered, screamed and yelled.  We also revised some greeting in French.

Have a good weekend and I am so looking forward to seeing and hearing all your home made musical instruments on Monday (as part of this weeks homework). 🎼🎤🎸🎻🎺🎷🎧.

This afternoon we worked with the people from Cumbernauld Living Landscape.  They were helping us learn more about our green corridors here in Cumbernauld and the wildlife that lives there.  We had four stations we had to move around:

1. Feeling Furry- matching animal fur to the animals found locally in Cumbernauld.
2. Tell Tale Tracks- spotting and identifying the tracks that animals leave behind by using a key.
3. Skull Duggery- matching the teeth, shape of teeth and shape of the skull to wild animals.
4. Dropping Hints- match the poo, yes poo,  to local animals by looking at it closely and smelling it!!

Finally, we had to listen to a sound clip and match the sound to animals found locally.

Our work continues next Tuesday with Cumbernauld Living Landscape when we will go outside.  Please remember to bring waterproof footwear as well as warm and waterproof clothes.

Literacy:  We are looking at speech marks.

Task One

Put the speech marks in the correct places, however, you will also need to add all the other punctuation that is needed as well.

Watch out for any questions or exclamations.

1. Hello said Greg
2. You look tired said Martin
3. Can I come in asked the man
4. No screamed the man
5. Come here, I want to see how much you have grown said Grandma
6. Is that my bag. I thought I’d lost it asked Daniel
7. Run! The dog is after us. Shouted Sally
8. I know what I want for my birthday said Tina

Task Two

How many other words can you think of that you could use instead of the

word said. Write down at least eight other words for said.

Maths:  We are looking at fractions.

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=

Here are some websites that you may find useful!

Task 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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

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.  Your instruments don’t need to be handed in until Monday 3^rd October to give you time to work over the weekend.

Jotter Check in for Table 2 on Friday 30^th September- thanks.

We are delighted to welcome two new children to our class this morning.  I am sure P5/6 will make them feel very welcome.  This afternoon we continued to learn more about the Five Pillars of Islam.  We had to cut out and glue 2 statements and match them to one of the pillars.  We were surprised to find out how much we now know about the Five Pillars of Islam.

This morning all of our P6s went for playground training with our Active Schools Co-ordination, Stephen. This was to help train P6s when they become buddies or playground helpers.

Meanwhile P5s went over to the Luggie to collect sign of Autumn for the infants’ play area.   We were all very keen to find conkers so had to research what a conker tree looks like and then we  began our search.

This morning we identified our success criteria for our reports on he work of the SSPCA.  This follows on from our SSPCA workshop last Friday. We will complete our reports tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow….P6 must remember to bring in their PE kits, if they’re not already in school, as the active school co-ordinator is going to give them some training for playing with the younger pupils.

P5 bring your wellies as we’ll go outside for PE/Outdoor Education.