In Maths we will be looking at units of time.
Go to this website and find out which day of the week, date, month and year you were born on.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/calendar.html

Monday’s Child by Mother Goose
Monday’s Child is fair of face
Tuesday Child is full of grace
Wednesday’s Child is full of woe
Thursday’s Child has far to go
Friday’s Child is loving and giving
Saturday’s Child works hard for a living
But the Child that is born
On the Sabbath Day,
Is witty and wise and good and happy!
Can you find out what the poem says about other people in your house?

For extra practise on time  including worksheets and games have a look at:

http://www.snappymaths.com/other/measuring/time/time.htm
We still need to practise our times tables. Have a look at this link to the Guardian Education Blog for some great resources and ideas to help provide a solid times tables platform. This link also explains why learners need to know their tables.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/teacher-blog/2013/apr/29/times-tables-teaching-resource

Literacy
Letter of Complaint
Imagine that you’ve been feeling poorly and have taken some medicine to help you get better.
Imagine that instead of making you better (doing what it said on the bottle) the medicine has actually done something unexpected to you.
Perhaps the medicine has made you bigger or smaller. Maybe the medicine has changed you into something else!
What you have to do is write a letter of complaint to the people who made the medicine.
Make sure that you tell them what has happened to you. Tell them what things you now find difficult because of the effects of the medicine (you could also mention anything that you find easier!). Tell them exactly what you want them to do about the situation and why.
Remember to set out your letter correctly!

Pancake Tuesday
In France they call it Mardi Gras, which means Grease or Fat Tuesday. Research and find other names, used around the world, for Pancake Tuesday. Did you make pancakes? Write down the recipe in your thinking jotter- don’t forget to include the ingredients and equipment used.

Today we had three acts competing in the Woodlands Got Talent: Rebecca and Timothy; Megan and Erin and Chloe.   They were fabulous stars and a credit to P5/6. The rest of the class were a wonderful audience. It was an entertaining afternoon and we all enjoyed ourselves.

Megan and Erin came third and won 100 points for their house- pine.  Well done, Girls 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

This afternoon we lauched our Paper Airplane Competition. We only had 14 people pay for a paper airplane. At this rate we are going to run at a loss!!!!! Tomorrow, please bring in 50p to take part in the Paper Airplane Competition. Remember to tell your friends, brothers and sisters- we need more people to support our event.

In our maths lesson today we were learning how to read different timetables.  Then we had to create our own timetables for the Micro Tyco- Paper Airplane Competetion.  As we started we realised we needed to take into consideration lots of information before we could even begin to create the timetable.   We found it tricky at first but got there in the end.

This morning we filmed our creative dances.  Mrs Pollock thought they were outstanding.  We gave each other feedback and enjoyed watching  our performances on the iPad. After playtime, we looked at different units of time and the relationship between them.  We then closed our eyes and predicted when 1 minute was up. Some children were very good at this.  Finally, we guessed how many star jumps we could complete in a minute.

Today we wrote to many different people asking them if they could come to our school for Careers and Enterprise Week. We’ve asked people if they could support our week by coming into school and explaining about their jobs.  In our lesson,  we also revised how to address and envelope and how to fold a letter correctly to fit in an envelope.

Today all the literacy groups started new books today. One group was reading a non fiction text all about the 20th Century, another group had a new fiction book called ‘The Demon Headmaster’ and the final group had a book with fiction and non fiction in called  ‘Antarctic Adventure’.

This afternoon in the ICT suite, we created a poster to inform people what the RUTF bars are and how they are used by UNICEF.  We had to search for images of RUTF bars on google image then copy and paste the image onto a word document.  Then we started to write some information about the RUTF bars.

Yesterday we braved the wind and rain and went to Summerlee Museum. We learned even more about Victorians.  We dressed up as Victorian children, played with Victorian toys and wrote with slates and nibs with ink.  We also got to see a belt used to punish Victorian children; we were glad not to have gone to school during Victorian Times!!

Maths

Real-life time – at home or in their local surroundings, ask your child to look for representations of time shown on clocks, whether on real clocks or on posters, in newspapers, etc. both analogue and digital format. Ask them to draw them in their homework jotter.

Have a look at this website:

http://www.snappymaths.com/other/measuring/time/time.htm

There are many worksheets which involve telling the time both in analogue and digital times. There are also many ICT games to play.  Pick at least 6 activities from this website.

Design a clock, watch or time keeping device. Bring it into class to show the rest of the pupils.

Times Tables – Keep practising them. Many children’s scores dropped last week in their tables test.

Literacy

Robert Burns is widely regarded as Scotland’s greatest poet. So to mark Burns Night on 25 January, here’s a variety of activities for you to try and learn about his life and work:

http://www.burnsheritagepark.com/fun.htm

http://www.scotland.org/burns-night/

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Can you research Robert Burns’s life and answer these questions:

1. Where was he born?
2. What was his nationality?
3. What was he famous for?
4. Would you like to meet him? Explain your reason.
5. What would you have talked about?

HWB

This is our last fortnight with our KID POWER BANDS. It is our last opportunity to gain as many KID POWER POINTS.  Keep a record of the points you earn for the next fortnight.  Think of ways/activities that will get you active and earn points.  Soon we will be handing the bands to another class can you create a list of top tips to help them get the best from the bands?