Good morning Primary 4,

I hope you managed to kickstart your day with Joe Wicks on The Body Coach TV. We have been enjoying getting up, having breakfast and joining in at home every morning at 9am!

Today is is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and we are raising awareness to protect our environment. There are many ways in which we can care and love our planet but this year our theme is ‘Climate Change.’

Wednesday 22nd April

Literacy: Comprehension

Warm up task: Spelling practise

• I can read, write and spelling my common words

Word list: Earth, planet, water, land, air, reduce, reuse, recycle, and protect.

Task: Record your date and title. Practise your Earth Day spelling words 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 simply write out 4x in your jotter. Check over your work!

Main Activity

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

Earth Day Comprehension Task

Read the text ‘Earth Day 2020’ carefully twice. Take time to think about what you have read about Earth Day. Complete the questions Q1-Q7 in your jotter. Remember to take a new line for each answer, start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.

 

I have given you the quanswer (key words from the question to help you answer) in blue to help you start off your answer.

 

Read and check over your work then traffic light.

Finisher

Take part in an outdoor activity if you wish: pick up litter, craft a nature collage using outdoor materials you find, go on a nature scavenger hunt, look for different types of butterflies, build a bird house or bird feeder,  build a big hotel, or cut back on energy waste at home by switching off water and electricals.

Maths: Subtraction

• I can count back in steps of 100’s.  

Warm up task: Mental Maths. Record Q1-14 in your jotter. Complete mental maths sums by counting back and taking away in steps of 100’s. You can also use the link below as an abacus to help you. Check over your answers. 

HINT: Use your strategy of covering over the Tens and Units and look at the Hundreds column only.

To help you, you can make the number and use – to subtract in 100’s: https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/abacus/

Main activity: Earth Day Bar Graph

Task: Read over your bar Graph task. You can draw the bar graph in your jotter that look like this: vocabularly along the bottom and number 1-7 on the left.

You can see that you have 6 columns along the bottom horizontal axis: Earth, planet, water, reduce, reuse and recycle. You have the numbers 1-7 on the left vertical axis.

Your task is to count the number of each word from the top then colouring each rectangle to show the number of words you found. For e.g. there are 7 Earth words so colour up to the number 7 in the Earth column.

Check over your answers and traffic light your work.

Finisher: Sumdog – take part in at least 10 minutes of games today.

Interested in Science? Today on Glasgow Science Centre at Home:

EARTH DAY – FLOWER FUN

Wednesday 22 April is Earth Day 2020 – so, we are looking at the importance of bees in the pollination of plants. Plus, you get to make your own flower – we can’t wait to see them! You’ll need some paper or card, pens, pencils or paints, some scissors, glue or tape, and some adult permission and supervision. Perfect for over 5s – though younger children will enjoy too with help from a grown-up.

 

Reminder: BLAIR DRUMMOND SAFARI PARK

Have a lovely day!

Mrs Maher