Happy Friday Primary 6,

Today is our last Friday in P6 and it’s FUNday Friday – Virtual Sports Day.

Today is our yearly sports day. Just because we are at home, it does not mean we can’t have a super sports day! Here is our virtual sports day agenda for you and your family to take part in at home. There are 6 main events listed below. Please share your photos and videos of your participation. Good luck!

Egg and Spoon Race · Use a boiled egg or potato, race against someone in your house over a set distance. · If you have no competitors in your house, time yourself to travel the distance and try and beat your highest score each time. The aim is to complete the race without dropping the egg. *Challenge* Make it an obstacle egg and spoon race.

Welly Boot Toss OUTDOOR · Decide on your starting point and use an underarm throw to toss the welly as far away as you can. · Each person has 3 turns, with the furthest throw being the winner.

Sack Race · Find an old carrier bag or a strong bin bag. · Hold the bag by the handles and put your feet inside the bag ready to race. · Hop from the starting point to the finish line. If you have no competitors in your house, time yourself over a set distance and try to beat your score.

Standing Long Jump · Agree on a starting point. · Bend your knees and swing your arms to propel yourself forward into a long jump. · Measure your distance using a measuring tape or by counting footsteps. Each member will have 3 jumps. The furthest jump wins!

‘Shot Put-tato’ OUTDOOR · Normally a real shot put will be used. However, we will use a potato for the ‘Shot-Put-ato’ event! · Decide on a starting point and throw the potato as far as possible using an over arm throw. Each member will have 3 throws and the furthest throw wins!

Create your own obstacle course ·

Option 1 – Basic Course · Start > Bottle Flip > Crawl under a blanket > Jumper ·

Step 1 – Balance: Balance a plastic cup on your head. ·

Step 2 – Flip a bottle ¼ of water before you move on. ·

Step 3 – Crawl under a big blanket. ·

Step 4 – Put on a jumper to finish the race. ·

Or

Option 2 – Challenge Course

Start > Bottle Flip > 10 sit ups > Plastic Cup Balance > 10 Burpees > Jumper and Shorts:

Step 1 – Bottle Flip Challenge ·

Step 2 – 10 Sit Ups and hop one footed to next station. ·

Step 3 – Balance Plastic cup and move to next station. ·

Step 4 – Complete 10 burpees and run to next station. ·

Step 5 – Put a jumper and shorts on over your clothes and run to the finish (stop the clock!)

or Option 3

Create your very own obstacle course.

Be happy and healthy!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs P

Good Morning Primary 6,

Today, as part of our Health Week, is Thoughtful Thursday.  Here are a few activities for you to choose from:

Post a Hug- cello tape paper together. Lay down on top of it and put your hands out to each side. Ask someone to draw your outline. Colour it in.  Post your hug to someone special.

Family and Furry Four-Legged Friends – Who or what do you enjoy spending time with? Is it a family member or a pet? Spend 15 minutes giving this special person or four-legged friend some love and attention.

Write a Poem or Draw a picture for someone you love. Think about a special person in your life. This could be a friend, family member or someone else. · Write a poem or draw a picture for one of these special people. Share it with that person once you have completed it.

An Attitude of Gratitude Each day take a few minutes to talk, reflect or pray for things you are thankful for. Write or draw a picture of one of these special moments, things or people this week.

Feel Good. Do something this week that makes you or someone in your house feel happy. It could be drawing, baking, exercising, dancing or simply giving someone a big hug!

Take Care,

Mrs P

Morning Boys and Girls,

Today is Work Out Wednesday

Here are some activities for you to choose from:

• Family Boot Camp: Each member of the family chooses 5 exercises. These can be any move such as a dance move, martial arts or a fitness exercise. On your next family walk stop every 5 minutes and do one of the exercises for 30 seconds.
• Film yourself doing a short workout of 5 exercises.
• Why not try these fab Zumba for kids videos? I’m sure your family will love to join in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DADHSfEL4U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiRpnDeAOlI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymigWt5TOV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP0wgVhUC9w

• Just Dance Use ‘Just Dance’ on YouTube. Copy the dance moves and ask your family members to join! Waka Waka http://www.youtube.com /watch?ve9AdPjMqHKE Uptown Funk http://youtube.com/w atch?v=9QAdPjMqHKE
• Move to Music. Play a song that makes you happy. Invite family members to a pick their favourite song to share. Make up a dance to your chosen song and teach it to someone in your family. Relax and enjoy some music!
• Wicked Workout Have you tried any of Joe Wick’s work outs? Try a Joe Wicks workout online: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=fomkRYcl_mo
• Super Skip Skipping is a fun way of exercising. Many athletes use skipping as part of their training regime to keep them fit. Use a skipping rope, hula hoop or simply skip in a large space to get your heart beating faster.

Don’t forget to drink lots of water when exercising.

Have fun and try your best,

Mrs  P

Good Morning Primary 6,

Today we have Tasty Tuesday.  Please have a look at the activities below and try a few.  If you want, you could post here on this blog and let me know what activities you have tried.

• Name the Fruit · How many fruit and vegetables can you name? · Can you find one for each letter of the alphabet?
• Design your own healthy smoothie then make it. Write a list of your ingredients and design a bottle or container for your smoothie.
• Think about all the foods we eat. They are broken into fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates, protein, dairy and foods high in sugar or fats. Can you group your last meal into the correct food group?  Use the Eatwell Plate to help you.
• Cook or help to prepare a healthy meal. How much did it cost to make?
• Make a healthy sandwich for your lunch. Ask someone to help you and you could even make lunch or dinner for all the family.
• Learning about how and where bacteria grow in the kitchen and how to reduce the risk of this happening by playing this game in the crazy kitchen. https://www.foodstandards.gov.scot/interactives/crazy-kitchen

bon appetit

Mrs P

 

Hello Everyone,

Instead of our normal learning activities, this week your Home Learning is going to be a Health Week. We have created some fun, healthy activities for you to try out at home. Each day we will post some activities, you don’t need to do them all, but we’d like you try a few each day. We hope you will all enjoying the health and wellbeing focus this week. Remember: your brain works well when your body and mind are healthy!

Mindful Monday

• Take a Moment with our very own Your Tuber, Mrs McMillan:

High 5 Breathing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRUuB4If-jY

Sunshine Meditation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjugSmJ_W3c&t=7s

• Using materials of your choice, create a positive/motivational message. This may be a single word e.g. SMILE using stones. Take a photograph of this and share on Twitter, Email or Blog.
• Are you feeling a little worried just now? This lovely book might help answer some of your questions. It’s called Everybody Worries by Jon Burgerman Everybody Worries
• Make a list of 5 things that make you happy, 4 things that worry you, 3 things that make you laugh, 2 things that make you sad and 1 thing that makes you angry. Discuss these with someone in your house. It’s important to share our emotions.
• We are heading for summer so think about ways to stay safe in the sun and think about a way you can share this information. You could: – make a leaflet – film a television advert – write an information leaflet
• Put away all technology and talk to a family member. What is the best part about being at home? What is the worst part? Talk about any worries you might have.
• If you can, source natural objects like leaves, twigs & stones see if you can arrange them to spell the names of family members or recent common words or make a symmetrical design.
• Concentrate Colouring. Colouring is a good way to help you relax and give your brain a rest. Choose a picture or colouring book and colour within the lines. If you don’t have colouring pages, draw some lines on a sheet of paper to create your own. Listen to your favourite music while you colour.

Let me know what activities you decide to do, and if you want to, you can email me – FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

or leave a comment, I’d be really happy to hear from you.

Take Care,

Mrs P

Happy  Friday, Primary 6!

Yet another quick week.  How are you all?  Yesterday Rory and I cycled around Broadwood Loch.  What have you been up to?

Here are today’s tasks:

LITERACY

Starter:

Should hoverbikes be a form of public transport? Your task is to write a balanced argument about the general public using hoverbikes to get around town.

Watch this video to remind yourself of how to write a balanced argument:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zm3nvcw

Activities- I can write a balanced argument

Begin by making notes on:

• Reasons for having hoverbikes – what’s good about them? Who would benefit?
• Reasons against having hoverbikes – what might happen? Is it safe?

Go back to the video clip at 3.04 mins and list useful ‘for and against’ and these words to link the arguments together:

 

Use this template to help you write a balanced argument:

Here is the success criteria for your argument:

• The title is a question

·        The opening paragraph introduces the argument.

·        It contains opposing views of for and against.

·        There is evidence to support your arguments.

·        There is a concluding paragraph that includes the writer’s own opinion.

·        It is interestingly written.

·        It is written in the third person (except final paragraph).

·        The final paragraph is written in the first person.

·        It is written using formal and technical language.

·        It contains a mixture of causal conjunctions and adverbials that have been used correctly (see useful words and phrases sheet). Plenary: Share the success criteria with someone at home then ask them for some feedback in the form of 2 stars and 1 wish. If you want, you can email the feedback you received FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.u

MATHS:

Starter:

Activity: I can investigate the probability of getting heads or tails.

• We are going to investigate whether we have an equal number of heads and tails when we toss a coin 30 times.
• We will also investigate whether we get an equal number of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4, 5s and 6s when we roll a dice 30 times.
• Record your findings.
• Perhaps we will have 15 heads and 15 tails when we toss our coin 30 times??
• Perhaps we will have each number on the dice 5 times. (five scores of 1, five scores of 2 etc.)
• It’s up to you to find out!

Challenge and Finisher:

Write out 2 events which have:

• Likely chance to happen
• Certain chance of happening
• Impossible chance of happening
• Unlikely chance of happening
• Equal chance of happeningActivity: I can investigate the probability of getting heads or tails.
  • We are going to investigate whether we have an equal number of heads and tails when we toss a coin 30 times.
  • We will also investigate whether we get an equal number of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4, 5s and 6s when we roll a dice 30 times.
  • Record your findings.
  • Perhaps we will have 15 heads and 15 tails when we toss our coin 30 times??
  • Perhaps we will have each number on the dice 5 times. (five scores of 1, five scores of 2 etc.)
  • It’s up to you to find out!

Have a great weekend and look after yourself,

Mrs P

Good Morning Everyone!

Can you believe it’s Wednesday already and we’re almost halfway through the week?

Here are today’s tasks:

LITERACY

You work for The Iconic Transportation Company who have invented a new method of transport – the hoverbike!

It is your job to let people know about the new invention and increase sales of hoverbikes.

Let’s remind ourselves of the features of advertisements by watching this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8thrJwnKft0

Activities: I can use language to persuade my reader

Your task is to create a persuasive advertisement and persuade people to buy one.

Think about:

• what the hoverbike is?
• who the hoverbike is for?
• what the hoverbike can do?

Remember to:

• ensure the advert is attractive, colourful and eye catching
• ensure the reader knows the name of the hoverbike and where they can buy one or find out more information
• exaggerate
• tell the reader the benefits
• use powerful adverbs
• repeat good points
• include a snappy slogan
• ask the reader a rhetorical question

Plenary:

Self-assess you advertisement then, if you can, send me a photo of you advert to FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

NUMERACY

Starter:

Activity: I can list all the possible outcomes.

e.g. 1a) There are 4 odd numbers out of 9 possible outcomes: 11, 3, 7 and 21.

Challenge:

*Challenge*

Finisher:

http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L115/index.html#

Have  a great day everyone and try your best,

Mrs P

 

Hello Primary 6,

Yesterday, it was very strange to be in school without any children and also reminded me of how much I am missing your cheery smiles.

LITERACY:

Today’s Literacy activities are based on a short animation about a hoverbike.

http://www.pocketmovies.net/download/hoverbike

Activities:

Bob’s hoverbike has arrived! But he’s not sure how to use it. Luckily inside the box, is the instruction leaflet. What do you think could be written on it?

You are going to write the instruction leaflet that came with the hoverbike. Let’s remind ourselves of how to write an instructional text by watching this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmx4y6sjwXM

As you are not writing a recipe or how to make something you won’t need a long list of ingredients or equipment.

Think about:

• What Bob needs to know to make it work?
• What could go wrong if the hoverbike isn’t used properly?
• What Bob has to do to make sure the hoverbike doesn’t get damaged?

Your Hoverbike Instruction Leaflet should be split into 3 sections or subheadings:

1. How to use the hoverbike.
2. Warnings and safety information.
3. How to care for the hoverbike.

Plenary:

Self-assess your instruction leaflet.   Did you:

1. Write in the present tense?
2. Use imperative or bossy verbs that tell the reader what to do?
3. Use time connective such as first, next, then?
4. Use adverbs such as slowly, carefully etc?

MATHS:

Starter:

Activity: I can use probability vocabulary to state the chances of an event happening.

Challenge:

Plenary:

http://www.trox5.com/interactive/games/pond.html

Choose describing chances or if you would like more of a challenge, select finding or showing probability.

Remember to be good and keep smiling,

Mrs P

 

Good Morning Primary 6,

How are you all today?  Did you have a great weekend?

The teacher’s are all back in school today, it will seem so strange without you all.  We are getting ready and making plans for your return to school in August.  I’ll try to login into First Class during the day in case anyone is looking for me and I’ll definitely check my emails tomorrow night.

Here are today’s tasks:

Maths

Probability or chance is how likely something is to happen. If something has a low probability, it is unlikely to happen. If something has a high probability, it is likely to happen.

Starter:

 

Probabilities are most commonly shown as fractions. The probability of getting ‘tails’ when you toss a coin is a 1 in 2 chance, or 1/2.

Probabilities can also be shown as decimals or percentages. A probability of 1/2 can also be shown as 0.5 or 50%.

Activity: I can use probability vocabulary to state the chances of an event happening.

*Challenge*

Plenary:

Try this game: http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L118/index.html#

LITERACY

This week’s Literacy activities are based on a hoverbike. A hoverbike (or hovercycle) is a vehicle that can hover, but otherwise resembles a motorbike.

Starter:

Let’s find out more about hoverbikes.

Use google search find out key facts about a hoverbike or a hovercyle

• Where could you buy one?
• How much would it cost?
• Who is using a hoverbikeRemember to write in note form, not full sentences.

Activities:

Let’s look at other Terrific Transportation Invention. In your Epic account I have assigned you this book. I can see some of you haven’t manage to read any books yet. To login:

Go to www.getepic.com/students.

Then enter the code: uzc7238 (This is our class code.)

Now click your name.

Read the book Terrific Transportation Inventions and then take the quiz at the end.

Choose one method of transport from this book and create at least six questions for the information. You must have at least 3 skinny questions and 3 fat questions. Perhaps you could even remember some of our work on Blooms? Send your questions to a friend or me at FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

 

*Challenge*

Look at the word “courageous” on P18

1. Write its meaning.
2. How many syllables?
3. Write a synonym (a word that means the same) for courageous
4. Write an antonym (a word that means the opposite) for courageous
5. Write a sentence with this word in it.
6. What other words can you create from the letters used for this word?

 

Plenary:

Would you like a hoverbike? Why or why not? Explain your answer in a couple of sentences.

Or

Design, draw and label your very own hoverbike.

Hope you have a great week,

Mrs P

Good Morning Primary 6,

I cannot quite believe that we are at the end of another week of home learning. You’ve all been working hard and I think you are all superstars!

Here are today’s tasks:

LITERACY

Starter:

Have a look at this picture.

Think about why it might be there? When did it get there? Who can fit through it? How do they fit through it? What’s at the other side? Who is at the other side?

Activity

I can create a narrative, imaginative story.

Success Criteria:

• I can include descriptions of characters
• I can describe the setting
• I can follow story line format: Beginning (5 ways to open: characters, setting, object, dialogue or question)
• I can use VCOP (in particular can you use speech?)
• I can include 1 Simile

Challenge:

How many wow words can you use to engage your reader’s interest? Can you use different figurative language? (Onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration or metaphor)

Plenary:

Read your story to someone, family, friend or you can email it to me J

FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

MATHS

Starter

Have a go at converting these lengths.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activities:

 

Plenary:

Have a go at the measurement quiz on Sumdog. It’s opened from 10am this morning until 4pm tonight. There are 15 questions and it’ll take you less than 5 minutes to complete. Good Luck!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and stay safe!

Mrs P