In Maths we continue to look at money. Some children are working on money to £1, £5, £10, £20 or £100 so the activities below can be adapted to allow the children to practise with the amounts of money they are most comfortable with.

Look at catalogues, websites etc and analyse the cost of different items in different shops and analyse impact of special offers on their overall costs and budget.

Christmas Budget Challenge- children to budget for a family for Christmas including dinner, gifts, transport/travel, clothes, special treat such as panto/cinema.

Children take on jobs for modest pay (concepts that money has value and finding the best deal will get them most for their money). Discuss concept of saving money from several jobs to purchase more expensive items.

Using newspaper/ internet/ adverts compare interest rates on credit cards and other companies and the impact this has on final cost items.

Here are some websites that you may find useful!

The Cost of Money Quiz – http://www.nationwideeducation.co.uk/finance-education/personal/students/07-11_cost-of-money/int_quiz.php

Financial Soccer – http://www.financialsoccer.com/index.php?language=12&countryID=49

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

Many children still need to spend time learning their tables. It would be helpful if the children could have their times tables “at their fingertips”. The times tables help the children in so many areas of maths. Each child in the class knows what tables they should be working on. Between now and Christmas we will be having table tests every week. Here are some ideas to help your child learn their tables:

TGT (Team Game Tournament) children can make the cards at home.

Chant/Sing/Write the tables out

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

Literacy

We have been working on Thriller stories. Here are some ideas for a triggers:

• A Hobby- Two children go fishing. One of them falls in the loch. Who will come to rescue them?
• Noises- Odd sounds are coming from the professor’s workshop. The main character decided to investigate.
• The box- A parcel arrives marked ‘Fragile-open with care@. Someone clumsy tries to open it!
• Night Lights- Two friends see strange lights at night. They decide to stay up one night and solve the mystery.

Text Detectives- We have been looking at how powerful verbs can help writer show what characters are like rather than telling the reader what they are like. Look through different books and find examples of powerful verbs for walked , said and looked.

Advent

Research charities that show care and love for others at Christmas. Make a list of them and a brief outline of how they show care and love.

CHRISTMAS SONGS ANAGRAMS

1. Deck the halls with gbuobs of holly!
2. When Santa got stuck up the nyiecmh!
3. Whilst pershedhs watch their flocks by night!
4. egiljn bells eginjl bells elginj all the way!
5. Joy to the rowdl, the Lord is come!
6. In the akleb mid winter!
7. We wish you a merry mactshirs!
8. You’d better not thous, you’d better not cry!
9. Sleigh bells ring! Are you glinsetni?
10. Come and join the blatienorce, it’s a very special day.
11. Tip, if you are stuck write the letters on paper and rearrange, look for patterns-tion sp ie etc

Christmas Baubles

Choose 3 colours. You may not use any other colours. Now colour the baubles but make sure that each one is different. (You may use each colour more than once on any bauble if you wish.) How many different designs can you make?   See your jotter for the bauble design.

We had great fun in P.E. with Scottish Country Dancing.  We played Musical Statues whilst freestyle dancing to the ceildh music, then we split into groups and created our own Scottish Dances. We performed, as a group, on the stage and another pupil filmed our routines.  Finally, Mrs Pollock taught us Strip the Willow which we all enjoyed without too many arms and legs being tangled up.

This week our maths has focused on the Christmas Fayre. This has given us many opportunities to practise our maths skills in a real life context.  In our learning logs we created a mind map of the ways we used maths to help us with the Christmas Fayre.  Remember the Christmas Fayre begins tomorrow at 10am.

Today we have been very busy making things to sell at the Christmas Fayre. We decided to form a production line. After one or two issues with the stock we had to stop and do a full quality control check. A few people were threatened with dismissal.  After rectifying the quality control issues normal production continued. Tomorrow we will be selling raffle tickets at 50p for the Chocolate Advent Calendar

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Today in maths we calculated the cost of the material we need for the Christmas Fayre.  Some children went to three different shops to buy and pay for the materials we needed. We need to earn £27.92before we can make a profit.

Remember 50p for the raffle tomorrow.

This morning, the children were excited to be playing badminton.  Everyone wanted a big green raquet, even though Mrs Pollock explained that some children would find it easier to control the blue raquet. The children started to practise their back hand and overhead shots.  When  it came to the rallies some children swapped their raquets for the smaller blue ones and found it easier.

Today we finally got to write our thriller stories. We planned our stories three weeks ago. We tried our best to hook the reader and create suspense for the reader.

This afternoon we started our new learning about the Victorians. We worked with a partner and discussed the things we already knew about the Victorians and what we would like to learn about the Victorians.  We did this outside because it was dry and we had been stuck in during morning break and lunchtime. We then had a quick quiz based on the Victorians. If we thought the statement was true we ran to the left if we thought the statement was false we ran to the right.

We we also discussed our plans for the Christmas Fayre.  If you can please bring in a chocolate or sweet for our fundraising- thanks.

This afternoon, in groups, we started our Christmas wall display for the hall.  Those children who didn’t get a turn, will get a turn tomorrow.  If you want to see this finished display you will need to come along to the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 28th November!

It was lovely to return to school today and receive a warm welcome from  P5/6, especially on such a miserable day- thank you boys and girl!!

In Maths we continue to look at money. Some children are working on money to £1, £5, £10, £20 or £100 so the activities below can be adapted to allow the children to practise with the amounts of money they are most comfortable with.

Create some special offers Ask children to make up some special offers for a favourite product. They show the price for an individual item and the special deals. Back in class they share the deals they created.

Using coins Ask your child to choose an item from home with a price shown on the item (e.g. from a pizza menu, food packaging or newspaper, etc.). Ask children to record the coins or notes that could be used to pay exactly for this item. Can they make up a different combination for the same total?

Price list Ask children to choose a type of shop and think of items that the shop is likely to sell. They think of three items costing less than £5 and three items costing more than £5. They write these in order from lowest to highest price to make a price list for the shop.

Catalogue buying catalogues Give your child a catalogue page. Tell them they have £5 to spend. What items or combinations of items could they buy? Discuss the combinations together.

My budget Ask children to imagine they earn £5, £10, £20 or £100 a week. They draw up an imaginary budget showing how they plan to spend and/or save that money.

Saving up Ask children to select some items advertised in a catalogue and record different ways that these items would be saved up for. For example, they could save up at £12 per month over 10 months for an item costing £120, or £10 over 12 months, £5 over 24 months etc. They bring these into school and ask a partner to see whether they agree with their calculations.

Bank words brainstorm Ask children to create a display of as many words as possible connected with different bank accounts. They traffic light these to show their understanding of the words.

Here are some websites that you may find useful!

The Cost of Money Quiz – http://www.nationwideeducation.co.uk/finance-education/personal/students/07-11_cost-of-money/int_quiz.php

Financial Soccer – http://www.financialsoccer.com/index.php?language=12&countryID=49

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

Many children still need to spend time learning their tables. It would be helpful if the children could have their times tables “at their fingertips”. The times tables help the children in so many areas of maths. Each child in the class knows what tables they should be working on. Here are some ideas to help your child learn their tables:

TGT (Team Game Tournament) children can make the cards at home.

Chant/Sing/Write the tables out

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

Between now and Christmas we will have a tables test every week.

Literacy

Choose a book you have read previously. Think about Bloom’s Taxonomy (see separate sheet given to you by Mrs Pollock for help). Choose at least six reading activities- at least one from each of the six taxonomies. Record them in your thinking jotter.

Create a poster or power point presentation to help teach other pupils about Bloom’s Taxonomy. Use this website to kick start your ideas:

http://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/blooms-taxonomy/14-brilliant-blooms-taxonomy-posters-for-teachers/

 St Andrew’s Day

Use sources to research the life of St Andrew. Select key information to create a fact sheet possible areas to consider could be: St Andrew’s Life; St Andrew’s Day Traditions; The Saltire and Patron Saint of Scotland and Other Countries.

Have a look at web link below.

http://digital.nls.uk/oor-wullie/

It comes from The National Library of Scotland. It is all about Scots Language learning and features one of Scotland’s best kent cartoon characters, Oor Wullie.  Choose at least three of the activities and when possible record them in your thinking jotter.