Tuesday 31st March

Literacy: Handwriting

Warm up

• I can practise my join from the letter e.

Task: Focus – Record your date, title and I can statement in your jotter. Copy out the join ‘ee’ on one line with the sentence ‘I can see the sea.’ X3.

A. Practise joining the eee pattern into your jotter on one line. B. Copy the letter patterns ee on a line, ea on a line and ey on one line each into your jotter. Check over your handwriting.

Main Activity

• I can demonstrate my horizontal join using my neatest handwriting.

Task: Extra – Record your title and I can in your jotter. Copy these words into your jotter using your neatest handwriting: be, see, feet, meet, bee, sea, feat, meat. Homphones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.

 

Task: Extension – Record your title in your jotter. Copy the poem above into your jotter using your neatest handwriting and taking care with your letter joins. Careful with tall letters t, l, k and letters that fall below the line p, f and y. Underline the words that make the ee sound. 📝 

Challenge: can you find and record other ee homophone words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings?

Finisher: Reading – Log into Oxford Owl by clicking on ‘MyClassLogin’ at the top in pink and enter woodp4 with password as the password.

Click on MyBookshelf and search for a book of your choice via age, series or theme. Listen to the story, read the story and then play an activity. You may wish to read 10/15 pages only if your book has smaller print and more content. 📚 

Record the book title in your jotter and give it a rating out of 5 stars (1 ⭐  is poor > 5 ⭐ is excellent).

Maths: Addition

• I can count on and back in 1’s and 2’s.

Warm up task: Mental Maths. Record your title, I can and Q1-16 in your jotter. Complete One more than 1-4, 2 more than 5-8, One less than 9-12 and two less than 13-16. You could record in your jotter like this:

1 more than:

1. 173 – 174

2. 284 – 285

3. 389 – 390

4. 499 – 500   and so on.

 

Main activity: 3-digit addition

• I can add a 1-digit number to a 3-digit number accurately
• I can add multiples of 10 to a 3-digit number.

Task A: Record your title, I can and Q1-16 in your jotter. Write out one sum at a time and calculate the answer by counting on in 1’s. Remember, you can always switch the numbers around mentally to start with the larger number to help you. For most of the sums where the hundreds don’t change, you can cover the hundreds and focus on the tens and units. 

 

Task B: Record your title and Q1-16 in your jotter. Write out one sum at a time and calculate the answer by counting on in 10’s. Remember, the Tens and possibly the Hundreds will change only – your Units will always end in a 0.

Check over your answers and traffic light your work.🚦

SUMDOG CHALLENGE 🏆 ⭐ 🤓

Calling all Primary 4’s… 📢📢📢

The Sumdog competition for our classes is running well and you are all doing grrr-eat! It started on Monday is on until Friday at 3pm. It is based on your Place Value skills. As you work to improve your accuracy, keep your eye on the leaderboard! 😉

Let’s show P4/5 how marvellous we are at maths! 🏆

Today on Glasgow Science Centre at Home:🧪🧬

THE MOULD EFFECT

Tuesday 31 March. A demonstration and explanation of a scientific phenomenon known as the Mould effect. If you’re a skateboarder, you’ve got an advantage to already understanding some of the principles of the forces involved in this mesmerising phenomenon.

Reminder: PE with Joe Wicks is live at 9am on YouTube. Why not search for The Body Coach TV and join in with the family – keep fit, active and healthy! We are loving taking part at home! 🏃🏻‍♂️

Mrs Maher 😃

Well done to those who took part today in the P4 and P4/5 Sumdog competition. 😁 Remember, it runs until Friday 3pm. Good luck everyone! 🏆

 

 

Good morning everyone,

I hope you all had a lovely relaxing weekend and kept yourselves safe indoors. Isn’t it lovely to wake up and see the sun shining brightly. 😃 

As a reminder this week please try to complete:

• learning tasks on the blog in the jotter provided daily
• at least 10 minutes of Sumdog Literacy and Maths everyday
• an activity from the grids in the pack or do a page of the booklet.

Monday 30th March

Literacy: Spelling

Use your spelling method to help you learn your words:

LOOK: at a small group of words and their letter patterns.

SAY: the words quietly, thinking about the letter patterns.

COVER: the key word list.

WRITE: the group of words you have practised

CHECK: how many you have spelt correctly. If you need to, have another go.

Use this to write out your ‘old’ words in your jotter from the spelling focus box below: old, cold, fold, gold, hold, sold, told, scold.

Warm up

• I can read, write and spell words with ‘old.’

Task: Focus – Record your date, title and I can in your jotter. A 1-4. Look at the pictures as clues. Write the old word that matches in your book. B. Copy four more old key words neatly into your jotter from the key word list. C. Write a sentence that uses at least two of the words. For e.g. One day I met an old man named Henry who sold me a toy at the market. Can you give me another? 🤔 

 

Main Activity

• I can use my spelling rule accurately to add ‘er’ to my words.
• I can use the alphabet to order letters accurately.

Task: Extra – Record your title and I can in your jotter. 1. Add er to the end of each word in the box. Write the words you have made in your jotter. 2. Write a sentence for each of the er words. (You can make this more interesting by using a connective to extend your sentence – and, but, so because, as well as, while etc.) 3. Put as many of the words as possible into a funny, nonsense sentence. 😁

 

Extension – Record your title and I can in your jotter. Alphabet 1-4. Copy the letters and fill in the gaps. Sort the letters 1-8. Sort the letters so that they come in the correct order of the alphabet. The first one is done to help you. 🔠

Finisher: Alphabetical Order game – Order the words in the word plant using your knowledge of alphabetical order. (Wait & Skip advertising)

https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/alphabetical-order-1.html

Maths: Place Value

Warm up

• I can partition (split up) numbers to 1000.

Task: Record your title, I can and 1-6 in your jotter. Complete each number sequence in your jotter by counting on and back. Check over! 🔍 

 

Main Activity

Task A. Record your title Arrow Card Partitioning within 1000. Write 1-10 in your jotter and split up the Hundreds, Tens and Units that you see. Number 1 has been done for you. 1. 852 = 800 + 50 + 2. Remember not to include the units when they show hundreds and tens only (290 = 200 + 90) and no tens when you only have hundreds and units (905 = 900 + 5). ✏

 

Task B. Write 1-24 in your jotter and record the value of the underlined digit. Here are a few to remind you of your layout.

1. 663 = 600

2. 48 = 8

3. 285 = 200

4. 922 =20

You are writing only the value of the underlined digit as your answer. Check over your answers and traffic light! 🚦

SUMDOG CHALLENGE 🏆 ⭐ 🤓

Calling all Primary 4’s… 📢📢📢

Mrs Macleod messaged me to say that P4/5 would like to challenge us to a SumDog competition! I have accepted because we are amazing mathematicians and problem-solvers… we WILL beat them easily! 🙌🏼

I have setup a competition for our classes starting today, Monday at 9am until this Friday at 3pm. It is based on your Place Value skills. As you work to improve your accuracy, keep your eye on the leaderboard! 😉 

Let’s show them how marvellous we are at maths! 🏆

Today on Glasgow Science Centre at Home:🧪🧬

DESIGN A PLANET🌎

Monday 30 March. Get some paper, pens (crayons or paint) and your imaginations ready! Combine it with some science know-how and join our Planetarium team (Natalie and Veronica) to design a planet of your very own!

Remember to try and get an hour of daily exercise outside in this beautiful weather. I hope you have a lovely day! ☀

Mrs Maher 😁📚✏

Good morning Primary 4,

I hope you are all well and staying safe at home! 🏡

Did you manage to kickstart your day with PE with Joe on The Body Coach TV? 🏃‍♂️ We have been enjoying it from home. Join in with the family every morning at 9am or stream a workout to help keep you fit, active and healthy! 😁 #PEwithjoe

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Here are today’s lessons…

Friday 27th March

Literacy: Writing

Warm up task: Spelling practise

• I can read, write and spelling my common words.

Word list: will, that, this, then, them, they, all, are, my, her. (Revise)

Task: Record your date, title and I can in your jotter. Use Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check to practise your spelling words everyday in a different way in your jotter. You can choose an activity from your grid. This could be: rainbow spelling, bubble words, ABC words (alphabetical order), curly words, word shapes, capital and lower case words or just write out 4x in your jotter. Check over your work to make sure you have the correct order of letters in words! 🔠

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Main Activity

• I can include interesting adjectives to describe my setting.
• I can include VCOP to make my writing interesting.

Task: Record your title and I can in your jotter. Write a short paragraph in your jotter to set the scene of a story. You may wish to use either the forest as your setting or the fairytale castle as the setting as well as the vocabulary in the word bank to help you. Use your senses to build up atmosphere and think about what you would: see, hear, smell, touch or taste at that setting. Can you include: wow words, connectives, openers and punctuation to make your paragraph interesting?  📝

 

Read and check over your work then traffic light.🚦

Finisher: Reading. Log on to Oxford Owl using the login woodp4 and password as password. Remember to click on the pink ‘My Class Login’ button and choose a book of your choice. Listen to the text, then read the story on your own. Use your word attack strategies or ask an adult to help you with your tricky words. If your book has more content you may wish to read the first 10/ 15 pages only. 📖 🦉

Maths: Time

Warm up task: Mental Maths. Record your title, I can and Q1-16 in your jotter. Complete mental maths sheet 3:A5. I have wrote some handy hints at the side to help you. Check over your answers. 🔍 

 

Main activity: Time

• I can read analogue clocks and write o’clock/ half past times
• I can record o’clock/ half past times digitally

Task: Record your title, I can and Q1-12 in your jotter. Read the time on the analogue clock and record the hour in digits and the minutes  in words  (o’clock or half past). After that, record the time in digits to show digital clocks times .

Analogue Clock Times ⏰

When the minute hand (long hand) is pointing to the 12 it shows o’clock. The short hand will point to the hour.

When the minute hand is pointing to 6 then it is half past the hour – 30 minutes. If you look carefully you will also see that the hour hand (short hand) is halfway between the 2 hours. It is important to see this when we read and write different times.

Digital Clock Times 1️⃣0️⃣:3️⃣0️⃣

Remember the first two digits are the hours (03). After that, you often see a colon to separate from the minutes : and the minutes are the last two digits. :00 shows on the hour (o’clock) and :30 shows 30 minutes (half past).

Here is an example for your jotter:

Q1. 3 o’clock – 03:00

Q2. Half past 9 – 09:30

 

Check over your answers and traffic light your work.🚦

Finisher: Play 10 minutes of your ActiveLearn account. Click on my stuff and enter the games to play Bronze > Silver > Gold and collect coins.

Sumdog Activity: Take part in at least 10 minutes of Literacy and Maths games today. 🏆

Glasgow Science Centre at Home🧪🧬

THREE THINGS ABOUT MARS ☄

Friday 27 March. The red planet is a fascinating place. Veronica from our Planetarium team will be sharing three things about Mars that are amazing. Suitable for all the family, but ideal for budding astronomers aged 7 and over.

Mrs Maher 😃

Blair Drummond Safari Park 🌲🐯🐸

 

Blair Drummond Safari Park has launched weekly live feeds from animal pens to entertain children.

Join in every week (Thursdays) at 12 where the keepers take you to meet a different animal. They will teach you all about them, all the key facts and information and all the little things that they get up to, to keep staff on their toes.

Watch today’s live feed on Facebook through the ‘Blair Drummond Safari Park’ page and click on the live play button to watch – there’s even a short quiz at the end.

https://m.facebook.com/blairdrummondSP/

Don’t forget to tune in next week to ask your own questions and find out more about their amazing animals! 🐯🐸🐵🦋🐅🦏🦒🌲

Mrs Maher 😁

Good morning Primary 4. I hope you managed to kickstart your day with PE with Joe on The Body Coach TV. 🏃‍♂️ We have been enjoying it from home too. Join in at home every morning at 9am! 😁

Here are today’s lessons…

Wednesday 25th March

Literacy: Comprehension

Warm up task: Spelling practise

• I can read, write and spelling my common words

Word list: will, that, this, then, them, they, all, are, my, her. (Revise)

Task: Record your date, title and I can in your jotter. Practise your spelling words everyday in a different way in your jotter. You can choose an Activity from your grid. This could be: rainbow spelling, bubble words, ABC words (alphabetical order), curly words, word shapes, capital and lower case words or just write out 4x in your jotter. Check over your work!

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Main Activity

• I can skim and scan the text.
• I can answer in a full sentence.

Task: Record your title and I can in your jotter. Read the text ‘The Human Ear – Hearing and Touching’ carefully twice. Take time to think about what you have read. Compete the questions A. 1-6 (mild), B. 1-4 (spicy) and C. (Hot) in your jotter. Remember to try using key words from the questions to begin your answer. For e.g. A1. The outside of the ear… and A2. The channel that connects the outer ear to the inner ear is… Read and check over your work then traffic light.🚦

Finisher: Reading. Log on to Oxford Owl using the login details from yesterday’s post via ‘My Class Login’ and choose a book of your choice. Listen to the book pressing the audio play button and then read the story twice. If your book has more content you may wish to read the first 10/ 15 pages only. 📖 

Maths: Subtraction

Warm up task: Mental Maths. Record your title, I can and Q1-16 in your jotter. Complete mental maths sheet 3:A3. Check over your answers. 🔍 

Main activity: 3-digit formal subtraction

• I can formally subtract 3-digit numbers by 2/3 digit numbers with no exchanging.

Task: Record your title and I can in your jotter. Take your time to write out one sum at a time with neat digits written underneath each other and the – symbol to the left. This will help you keep the HTU in the correct columns. Use a ruler to draw your answer lines.

Let’s talk through sum number 1 as an example. Start by looking at the digits in the Units column and takeaway the bottom digit from the top (7-6). Record your answer (1) underneath your digit (6) then do the same for the Tens column (5-2). Record your answer (3) underneath  your digit (2) and finally the Hundreds column (3-1). Record your answer (2) under the digit (1). Your answer should be 231. Remember to start from the Units, move to the Tens then the Hundreds. Use your fingers to help you count back accurately.👍🏼

Check over your answers and traffic light your work.🚦

Finisher: Play 10 minutes of your ActiveLearn account. Click on my stuff and enter the games to play Bronze > Silver > Gold and collect coins.

Sumdog Activity: Take part in at least 10 minutes of Literacy and Maths games today. 🏆

Glasgow Science Centre at Home
Click on the link below for:

A QUESTION OF PERCEPTION 💭 🤔 

Wednesday 25 March. Your brain is amazing, but sometimes trying to make sense of the world about it can be tricky. Join our team for an exploration of how your senses can be fooled. Suitable for all the family, and with science over 7s will enjoy.

Mrs Maher 😃

Tuesday 24th March

Literacy: Handwriting

Warm up

• I can practise my baseline joins.

Task: Focus – Record your date, title and I can statement in your jotter. A. Practise joining ai from the baseline to the top. Copy the pattern into your jotter. B. Copy these letters into your jotter: ai, ay, and ey. Remember to join to the top of the next letter.😀

Main Activity

• I can demonstrate my neatest handwriting.

Task: Extra – Record your title and I can in your jotter. Copy the ai and ay words neatly into your jotter. Take care when forming tall letters such as t, l and d and remember to rest y on the line with the tail falling slightly below.

Task: Extension – Record your title and I can in your jotter. Copy the poem into your jotter. Underline the letters that make the ai sound. Check over your capital letters, commas and your exclamation mark. 📝 

Challenge: can you find and record other words that make the same ai sound? (Hate, mate, weight, straight etc.) Record them in your jotter.

Finisher: Reading – Log into Oxford Owl by clicking on ‘MyClassLogin’ at the top in pink and enter woodp4 with password as the password.

Click on MyBookshelf and search for a book of your choice via age, series or theme. Listen to the story twice and then you could read to/with and adult or a sibling. 📚 

Record the book title in your jotter and give it a rating out of 5 stars (1 ⭐  is poor > 5 ⭐ is excellent).

Maths: Addition

Warm up task: Mental Maths. Record your title, I can and Q1-16 in your jotter. Complete mental maths sheet 3:A2. Check over your answers. ✏

Main activity: 3-digit formal addition

• I can formally add 3 digit numbers by 3 digit numbers with no carrying.

Task: Record your title and I can in your jotter. Take your time to write out one sum at a time with neat digits written underneath each other and the + symbol to the left. This will help you keep the HTU in the correct columns. Use a ruler to draw your answer lines. Calculate each sum.

First, start by looking at the digits in the Units column and add them together. Next, do the same for the Tens column and finally the Hundreds column. Remember it’s easier to add the highest digit first so switch the digits around if you have to (for e.g. 7 + 2 is easier to work out mentally than 2 + 7 – switch the digits around). Use your fingers to help you count on accurately. 👍🏼

Check over your answers and traffic light your work.🚦

Finisher: Play 10 minutes of your ActiveLearn account. Click on my stuff and enter the games to play Bronze > Silver > Gold and collect coins. ➕

Sumdog Activity: Take part in at least 10 minutes of Sumdog Maths and Literacy games today.

WELL DONE to: LMcL, RC, CM, RB, SB, MB, AM, NS, LB, SS, IP and HD for taking part today and improving accuracy. 🏆

Check out the Glasgow Science Centre at home to view:

CHAIN REACTION🧬🧪

Tuesday 24 March. Learn about nuclear fission, through our energy-packed ‘chain reaction’ exhibit from our Powering the Future exhibition. Suitable for all the family, ideal for ages 8 and over.

https://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/gsc-at-home

Reminder: PE with Joe Wicks is live at 9am on YouTube. Why not search for The Body Coach TV and join in with the family – keep fit, active and healthy!

Mrs Maher 😃

Good morning everyone,

I’d like to inform you that Miss Donaldson P5, Mrs Macleod P4/5 and I have collaborated to plan and organise a series of progressive lessons suitable for the age and stage of our learners. As noted in the cover letter, if you look at the blog for your child’s class and it is too difficult, go to the class below for support and keep going if necessary until they find the learning that suits them. Likewise, if it is too easy, please go to the class above for challenge. If you would like to complete more, then pupils can try another class’s blog.

Together, we have outlined weekly Literacy lessons to cover:

Spelling > Handwriting > Comprehension > Grammar/ Punctuation > Writing focus/ Free writing.

Also, our Numeracy and Maths lessons will cover:

Place Value > Addition > Subtraction > Multiplication > Challenge Problem Solving or Other.

Children should complete:

• learning tasks on the blog in their jotter provided daily
• at least 10 minutes of Sumdog Literacy and Maths
• an activity from the grids in their packs or do a page of their booklet.

Monday 23rd March

Literacy: Spelling

Use your spelling method to help you learn your words:

LOOK: at a small group of words and their letter patterns.

SAY: the words quietly, thinking about the letter patterns.

COVER: the key word list.

WRITE: the group of words you have practised

CHECK: how many you have spelt correctly. If you need to, have another go.

Warm up

• I can read, write and spell words with magic e. (+ revise ow/ ou/ oa/ oy/ ar/ ss/ wa)

Task: Focus – Record your date, title and I can in your jotter. Write 1-16 in your jotter and find the missing letters. Record your words in your jotter.

Main Activity

• I can use my spelling rule accurately to add ‘ing’ to my words.
• I can read, write and spell: there/ their, vowel letters, silent k, y + ed.

Task: Extra – Record your title and I can in your jotter. A. Use your spelling rule, drop the ‘e’ and add ing to your words. B. Make words with your given letters by adding ch or sh.

Extension – Record your title and I can in your jotter. A. Write a sentence for 1. here and there. 2. his, hers, their. B. Copy the sentence and put in the missing vowel (a,e,i,o,u) letters. C. A silent letter is missing from these words. Write them correctly in your jotter. D. Add ‘ed’ to these words. Remember, you need to change one of the letters.

Finisher: Magic ‘e’ memory game – Match the pairs of magic ‘e’ words.

https://www.helpfulgames.com/subjects/english/302-magic-e.html#

Maths: Place Value

Warm up

• I can read, write and order numbers to 1000.

Task: Record your title, I can and 1-16 in your jotter. Complete Mental Maths Sheet 3:A1.

Main Activity

Task: Q1-6 – Write the 3 digit number shown on each abacus. Check over your answers. Write all 6 numbers in order of size from smallest to largest. Q7-13 – Add £100 to each price. Rocket challenge (optional): You have 7 beads on your abacus, how many numbers can you make? Check over your answers and traffic-light your work.

Game: Play 10 minutes of your ActiveLearn account. New Place Value games have been assigned to your account. Complete Bronze > Silver > Gold tasks and complete coins along the way.

https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0

Reminder: Your login is the first four letters of your first name and surname. The password is woodlandsp4 and the school code is: 6kwa

Sumdog Activity: Take part in at least 10 minutes of Literacy and Maths games today.

Mrs Maher 😁📚✏

On Friday, all children were issued with a home learning pack to continue learning at home in the coming weeks. Please refer to the cover letter from the Head Teacher for information. 📚 

On Monday’s to Fridays, I ask that you check the class blog everyday at approximately 10am for daily lessons that are uploaded. Also, look out for information about Sumdog challenges for the week. 🏆

Kickstart your week with PE with Joe Wicks, The Body Coach. It starts tomorrow morning (Monday 23rd) at 9am on YouTube.🏃🏻‍♂️
Click the link below to go to ‘The Body Coach TV’ and join in with the live workout everyday at 9am.
This is free for all children and I encourage everyone at home to take part, keep active and have fun! 🙋🏼‍♀️

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

 

From tomorrow at 10am, Glasgow Science Centre will be bringing a bit of Science into your home to inspire you. Click on the link below if you are interested in taking part in some Super Science. 🧪

 

🌋 LAVA LAMPS 🌋

Monday 23 March. We’ll be showing you how you can make your very own lava lamp. Ideal for ages 8 and over.

https://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/gsc-at-home

https://www.youtube.com/user/scienceshowbob

I hope that during this difficult time everyone is staying safe and looking after each other! 😁

Mrs Maher