Good morning boy and girls,

I can’t believe we have made it! Today is the last day of primary 4 and what a year it has been! I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to each and every one of you. It has been a pleasure to be your teacher this year and you have all been such a delight. I will miss you all very much!

Why not take some time to reflect on your year in Primary 4 and share some of your favourite memories.

This year started off well: getting to know your new class, your new teacher, settling in well throughout a new term then enjoying your Christmas as normal. Soon after the New Year we returned for a new term in January and learned lots of new things until all of a sudden the Lockdown happened due to Covid-19. You have had to change from learning in the classroom to learning and home. I am very proud of each and every one of you.

I’d also like to thank all of the parents for being supportive this year, both in school and with online learning. I hope you all have a fantastic Summer holiday and I am super excited to see all of your smiling faces again come August.

This poem is for you…

 

I wanted to leave you with ‘Special Moments’ from P4…

 

I also took some time to reflect and think back on the many laughs we have had during school with all of you boys and girls in the class. I have chosen one person each for the ‘Most Likely to’ awards. I hope you have fun reading them and laugh too.

 

Take care everyone and remember to stay safe!

Love, Mrs. Maher

Good morning boys and girls,

This week we are focusing on Health and Well-being for our home learning tasks with aspects of literacy and numeracy in these.

Remember you can still use Sumdog, Active Learn and Epic to continue your number and literacy learning if you wish or you can revisit any tasks on the blog. 

Here are today’s lessons on Be Active – What are 2 ways in which you can be more healthy this week?

 

Thursday 18th June 2020

 

LITERACY – WRITING INSTRUCTIONS

Write a set of instructions for a recent game you have played. This could be a simple board game such as Connect 4 or any other you like to play.

Purpose: to instruct how something should be done through a series of sequenced steps.

Here is an example:

 

 

Success Criteria:

• Title (How to Play…)
• You Will Need… (materials to play)
• How to Play… (These are your numbered steps i.e 1-6)
• Include Time Connectives (First, Next, Then, After that, Meanwhile, Soon after and Lastly)
• Include imperative verbs (bossy verbs that instruct the players)
• Include a matching illustration to your instructions

You can write your instructions out on paper or in your jotter neatly with clear numbered steps. Read and check over you spelling!

 

MATHS – ACTIVE STATIONS

Create 5 of your own active fitness Stations. These could be any 5 activities that you can practise at home with no PE equipment required: squats, burpees, star jumps, mountain climbers, bench dips (using your arms), planks, leg raises and press-ups.

Create a grid in your jotter with a list of 5 different fitness tasks and across give yourself 3 attempts:  Try 1, Try 2 and Try 3. Time yourself with one minutes for each and record your score of how many completed in 1 minute. Circle your best Try out of 3.

Why not put some music on like we did in the gym hall and see if that helps you to stay focused and increase your score each time. This will help you to improve your fitness.

 

Have a Terrific Thursday!

Mrs Maher

Good Morning P4,

I hope you are all okay and enjoyed the HWB tasks from yesterday.

This week we are focusing on Health and Wellbeing for our home learning tasks with aspects of literacy and numeracy in these.

Remember you can still use Sumdog, Active Learn and Epic to continue your number and literacy learning if you wish or you can revisit any tasks on the blog.

Here are today’s lessons on Connecting – Take time to talk and listen to others, be there for each other and feel connected.

Tuesday 17th June 2020

 

LITERACY – Plan a Zoom Call

Create your own party invite – for a friends/family Zoom call.

Here is an example of an invitation to remind you of the layout and imaging.

Task: Plan a Zoom call (video call via wi-fi) for you and 9 other friends/ family members for a celebration by designing your own party invite.

Party invite should include:

• Dear…
• You are invitied to…
• Time:
• Date:
• Place:
• From…

You may wish to use paper, your jotter or make one at home using any materials that you have. Remember to make this look bright and as colourful as you can.

 

MATHS – Planning a Party Budgeting

You are going to plan the Zoom call party with a budget of £10 for the food and drink for all 10 people. This could be items such as paper plates, plastic/paper cups, crisps, sweets, juice, cakes, sausage rolls etc. Each person  needs to have the same items.

You may choose ANY ITEMS that you wish to have that you would usually enjoy in a social setting as long as it does not amount to a total more than £10. i.e. crisps, sweets, fruit, cakes,  juice etc.

You have the choice to either make up your own items and pricing. Write the items down and give them a price then add up all the costs for 10. How much did you spend? Was there any change from £10? If there was, how much? Record in your jotter.

Or you could use the online shopping tool for Tesco/Asda. This will let you add items to your basket and calculate the total.

Remember you get more for your money when you buy multipacks of items of 10 rather than individual items..

Budget carefully!

 

ACTIVE -Plant and Flower Hunt

Why not take some time today to get outdoors for a long walk and see which plants and flowers that you can find.

 

Have a great Wednesday everyone!

Mrs Maher

 

 

Here are Friday’s answers to the Problem Solving cards that you can mark.

I hope that you managed to use your addition and multiplication skills and also tried hard to use Guess, Check and Improve to solve the problem.

 

Good morning boys and girls,

Well done for making it to the end of another week.

Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to beat Primary 3 in the NLC Sumdog Contest as they placed 65th and our final position was 140th. However, can I say a huge WELL DONE to all of those who tried.

 

Here are today’s lessons:

Friday 12th June 2020

 

Literacy: Writing   

Warm up – Sumdog Spelling

• I can order letters in my spelling words accurately

Super Spellers from last week with good accuracy: Callum, Nathan, Lilly, Emily and Isla.

Take part in at least 20 minutes of your Sumdog Spelling words game dated 12.6.20.

I will give 50/ 100/ 200 points for accurate spelling and time played today.

 

Main Actvity – Narrative   

This week is Narrative writing on a story that is imaginitive. If you are struggling to think of an idea, I have given you some ideas below. You are free to write as much as you like – it can be as short as a few sentences for Beginning, Middle and End or three detailed paragraphs for BME. The choice is yours!

The first thing to do is spend time planning your story. You could use either a story planning sheet or a story mountain to help you plan what happens.

You can use these posters to give you some help:

Here is an example of what a good one looks like:

You could perhaps write about:

• Magical Powers – Suppose you had the power of magic. You could do anything you wanted to do. You could make all of your wishes come true. What would your first three wishes be? How would you make them come true? What would happen? Write your BME.
• If I was – If you were not you, who would you like to be? Somebody you know? A super hero? A special kind of person? I would be __________. Think of what would happen. Write your BME.
• Space Adventure – In the box is a very special spacesuit just for you. Open the box carefully. Put on the spacesuit. Climb into your spaceship and – off you go! Write your BME.
• Ben’s Adventure – This is Ben the dog. He’s got nothing to do and no one to play with. Don’t let him get bored! Make up a friend for him and send them off on an adventure. Write your BME.
• Help! – Imagine one day you go to school and just as you go in, everything shrinks. Except you! Suddenly everything is tiny and you’re a great big giant. What do you do? Write your BME.
• Pirate Pete – This is Pirate Pete. He is sailing on a gigantic ship across the seas. Pirate Pete is looking for an island with a cave. He wants to hid some treasure in the cave. What happens? Write your BME.
• The Dreaded Dragon – The dreaded dragon has come to town. The people are frightened and run away. The hide in their houses. But along comes someone who saves them. Who? Wrote your BME.

 

Success Criteria: (My Story has)  

• an interesting Title
• Described the setting and atmosphere using descriptive language (adjectives/ adverbs/ wow words)
• I have introduced my character(s) and told the reader about them (adjectives/adverbs)
• I have explained what is happening at the beginning of the story – B
• My story has an interesting and believable problem – M
• My character solves the problem in a believable way
• I have shown the thoughts and feelings of my character as they deal with the problem
• I have finished writing effectively to complete the story – E
• I have written in paragraphs – new idea or event for each
• I can include Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation in my writing
• I can add speech in my story *Bonus Points*
• I can read and check that my writing makes sense

 

Remember to include the characters thoughts and feelings and read over your writing as you go.

If you would like a challenge, your Middle paragraph could have a new event where there is a twist or turning point in the story.

Check your punctuation and that you have not missed any words out.

When you are finished, read over to check your writing makes sense.

Who are the Star Writer’s going to be this week?

 

Well done to this week’s EPIC READERS!

Maths: Problem Solving

• I can calculate a two step problem
• I can guess, check and improve
• I can keep on trying when things get difficult

Choose one problem solving card out of the choice of three. You will need to read the card carefully and use your counting on and back skills for addition and subtraction. You should use your strategy of Guess > Check > Improve to solve the problem. If you do not get it right first time, keep on trying!

I will post the answers on Monday.

 

Fun Finisher – Sumdog 

Take part in at least 20 minutes of Maths games today.

 

 

Remember to have fun over the weekend and enjoy spending time at home with your family. Take care and stay safe!

Mrs Maher