Hi there and welcome to another day of opportunities!!

Just to let you know that we are in positions 2, 3, 5 , 6, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 19- so you’re doing really well in the Sumdog Competition. We just need to get more of you into the top 10, so please keep going. Some people are answering thousands of questions!!!🏆

It’s also  time tonight at 8pm for all the carers. I take out a pan and wooden spoon now, to make even more noise!!

Spelling practice today involves using a phone!

Use the activity for telephone words to practise your spelling.

Literacy

I have linked your grammar lesson to your spellings for this week. We are learning about comparing nouns using comparative and superlative adjectives and this lesson will develop your skill in thinking about adjectives that don’t follow the rules🤔. However, this link is really useful as it has some good examples and it tells you to think about the number of syllables that a word has e.g. powerful has 3 syllables  pow – er – ful.

https://www.ef.co.uk/english-resources/english-grammar/comparative-and-superlative/

In your jotter, write the date and I can use comparative and superlative adjectives correctly.

With this section, you apply the learning from above and what you have already learnt from your spelling words this week. The answers for some words are in the MAKING SURE grid, too!

For the punctuation section, read for meaning! You may have to create new sentences or use commas for pauses. Remember the rules for capital letters and each sentence should have an end mark of some sort!!

Please traffic light your work and, as usual, write a comment about your understanding of the skills you are practising.

Number

As today’s starter, do your bit to help us win the inter-class competition! Play Sumdog for at least 20  minutes and I’ll check on the scores later today.

We will continue to multiply and divide by 10 and 100. Use the information from last Thursday, to remind you of the strategies for multiplying/dividing by 10/100. Remember the importance of the place values. Please date and I can multiply/divide by 10/100

When you traffic light and comment think about whether using the strategy has become easier and you are more confident.

This link let’s you practise your times tables in a different way.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

I thought you might like to try a piece of artwork, in the style of Romero Britto. This is my attempt and it’s especially for you –  if you look carefully in the top  right hand corner, then you will see all your initials.

Here are the sites that I looked at, but there are many other examples if you are interested. Please remember to keep any artwork that you create.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=romero+britto+linda+lawrence&&view=detail&mid=F458043C7E40B4534742F458043C7E40B4534742&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dromero%2520britto%2520linda%2520lawrence%26qs%3DHS%26form%3DQBVR%26sp%3D1%26pq%3Dromero%2520britto%2520linda%26sc%3D3-19%26cvid%3DE991668FD80949388090A9DB3B5DE581

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=romero+britto+linda+lawrence&&view=detail&mid=36E8E0EDBC97DA9FF61836E8E0EDBC97DA9FF618&&FORM=VRDGAR

Bonjour la classe !

Please remember to log any activities onto the Get Set link from last Wednesday, we’re not getting very far!

Let’s get ready to rumble with some spelling practice. Go onto Sumdog and play some of the spelling games for 10 minutes, there is a challenge including 10 words from the previous 3 weeks.

Literacy

Before Easter, I added this link to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I now want you to use the information from Chapter 7, to identify words that the author, Roald Dahl, has used for effect.  Some of you might have a hard copy of these pages in a polypocket, so you could use that to text-mark. This work links to two important skills:I can identify language the author has chosen to use to capture the reader’s interest and imagination and I can identify language the author has used to create images and build mood and tension.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=listen+to+charlie+and+chocolate+factory+ch+6+miss+jeannie&ru=%2fvideos%2fsearch%3fq%3dlisten%2520to%2520charlie%2520and%2520chocolate%2520factory%2520ch%25206%2520miss%2520jeannie%26qs%3dn%26form%3dQBVR%26sp%3d-1%26pq%3dlisten%2520to%2520charlie%2520and%2520chocolate%2520factory%2520ch%25206%2520miss%2520jeannie%26sc%3d0-57%26sk%3d%26cvid%3d9A1C6C5A9B534530B5BCDE4EE81A1C30&view=detail&mid=C148033B00D90F9EBE86C148033B00D90F9EBE86&rvsmid=FF30104B016256BD7C37FF30104B016256BD7C37&FORM=VDRVRV

Read along and listen to the chapter being read, and in your jotter, under the I can headings which are highlighted in red above, identify words and phrases that you think are effective and explain why.

Here is one example, –  Charlie sat nervously – the word nervously is effective because Charlie doesn’t know if this bar will have a golden ticket and he knows that it could be a real disappointment for everyone. Imagine how you would feel if you were Charlie.  Roald Dahl is building the mood and the tension. 

Another example, – the use of italics to emphasise thoughts and ideas.

Remember that you need to explain why you find the words and phrases effective, how did they make you feel, did they build the mood, like nervously? Please traffic light and comment on your learning.

Number

Go onto Sumdog and take part in the Competition today for at least 10 minutes, try to finish a level and achieve progress in your own skills. Well done to ML, PM and DB who are in the top 10 of the competition- please keep going, I don’t want you to lose your places👍🏻!

We have been revising different strategies for adding and subtracting, so today we will look at using number lines to calculate.

These videos are a great reminder of how to use an empty number line.

In your jotter –

date, I can add and subtract using an empty number line

then draw straight number lines and jump the place values to calculate the following sums. Check whether you are adding or taking away!!

1.   547 +  231  =
2.   826  –  305 =
3.  191  +  527 =
4.  445  +  655 =
5.  687   –  389 =
6.  330   –  147 =
7.  221  +  435 =
8.  1000 – 764  =
9.  509  + 299 =
10.  989  –  898 =

Remember to traffic light and comment on your number skills.

Start to create a poster/handy hints list for our mental maths strategies including some examples and build onto this when you get a good idea. We have done something similar in class, but now your skills should have developed so that you can explain more strategies. Here is one idea, but it doesn’t include any examples. I am sure that you can create some amazing and really helpful strategy work, by looking back at your home learning.

Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday!  I’ll be back with you tomorrow!

– it’s National Superhero Day!

No matter if your favourite heroes are real or fictional it is a day to be thankful for them. No matter if they wear masks, capes, scrubs or uniforms, all people who are doing important jobs at this time deserve a well- deserved shout out for whatever they do.  Who do you think of as a real life superhero?

Spelling – compare the superheroes using ier and iest

e.g. Iron Man is funnier than Batman,  but Hulk is the funniest. Use words from yesterday’s extension work and here are a few others to help.

For your main task, I thought you might like to create your own superhero comic strip, either in your jotter or on a pc, using some cool features.   I can create a superhero comic strip

Here is an example of a cartoon strip

Here is a link to some handy hints for writing your superhero cartoon strip.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Creating+a+Comic+Strip+for+Kids&&view=detail&mid=C2A37FF940038AF21C94C2A37FF940038AF21C94&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DCreating%2Ba%2BComic%2BStrip%2Bfor%2BKids%26Form%3DVDRSCL%26%3D0

Remember that you could be the superhero staying at home, washing your hands and helping to keep others safe or a family member might be a keyworker doing their work to keep things going!

Make your comic clear,  colourful  and have fun!! 

Number

As a starter today, let’s focus on mental strategies for addition.

Play this game, go to addition section and select the level that you feel most confident with – obviously, you don’t pick a level which is super easy and leave it at that!! You keep your brain working, think about and apply the skills that you have been practising.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/289/KS2_Maths_Invaders

One of the strategies we use to add and subtract is the knowledge that 9 and 11 can be used as 10 and adjusted.

56 + 9    =   56  + 10  = 66       then adjust   66 – 1= 65

56 + 11   =  56 + 10  = 66      then adjust    66 + 1  = 67

We can then use this strategy for other numbers near to multiples of 10  e.g.  147  +  29     147  +  30  = 177   then 177 -1= 176

£ 859 – 51  = 859  – 50 = 809  then -1 = £808

Number  Date and I can add and subtract using adjusting

Remember to put in £ signs when you need them!

Finish off with some mental subtraction to find the superheroes. https://www.mathplayground.com/superhero_subtraction.html

I will be back on the blog for all my P4/5 superheroes tomorrow, so until then ……  

The sumdog competition is now available !!

Here we are again, the start of another week!

Smile and get ……

This week, there is going to be another Sumdog competition between Primary 4 and ourselves based on Place Value, so let’s see if we can be the successful class this time! It is all set to go this morning, so don’t delay!! We need as many people joining in as possible, please.

Okay, so let’s get on with today’s learning.

Spelling – Words ending in ier and iest

With these words we are comparing the level or amount of something e.g. happy, happier, happiest and as you can see, the y has been changed to an i.  So here, you are seeing the reason for some of the spelling rules that you have already seen in your own spelling walls.

Please write or type out your words 3 times, checking that they are correct!

Please read the information and then follow the examples to complete your tasks. Write the date, I can use ier and iest to compare words correctly and as usual please traffic light/ comment on how you got on with learning and applying the skill.

This quick quiz will help you to learn the rules for adding these endings.

https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks1/english-spelling/year-2-letters-ier-and-

Number

Here is your morning maths starter. Again, lots of maths skills to keep your mind active and help you to apply different number functions.

Number – Reading and writing numbers

When you write the number in words, you write it as you would say it  e.g. 56, 738  is fifty six thousand, seven hundred and thirty–eight. You must remember to put in the and and  hyphen – if you need to. There is no excuse for incorrect spelling as I have provide you with all the words that you will need!

So, now it’s time for you to practise reading and writing numbers with 4 and 5 digits. Write the date and I can read and write numbers correctly.  Follow the instructions and explain why some of these are wrong by referring to place values etc.

To finish off today, this game focuses on place value headings and also revises multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?a=activity03

Have you tried the relaxation links that were on the school blog? I tried Mrs McMillan’s “Take a Moment ” activity and found it really useful.

Well, everyone, catch up with you tomorrow, and don’t forget the Sumdog competition and logging any activity onto the Get Set link from last week.

Well here we are again, at the end of another week of home learning! 

Well done to those who have logged their activities on the GET SET link ( Wednesday’s Blog). Please remember to add in all the activities from yourself and your family, too!

It’s Friday – so you know what that means! Who is going to check your spelling for this week? The words are easy – remember that they all end in the same letter! Do you give yourself a treat if you get them all correct?

Our writing focus this week involves your spelling words and any other words that you can rhyme with them.

You are going to be writing a poem about Earth Day.  

We have written acrostic poems and poems which have rhyming word endings, so your spelling words would be great, but I will leave the choice  of style up to you. The information from Wednesday’s lesson will help you with themes and words that you might use.

Now – here’s the exciting part! If you take a look at this site http://poetryzone.co.uk/       you will see that there is a section where you can send your poem to the site and there is the possibility that it could be published online! How cool would that be?!

Whether you want to send your poem or not, please make sure that you spell and punctuate your work correctly.

In your jotter please date and write I can write an Earth Day poem but you can give your poem its own title; and at the end, traffic light your work and add a comment.

Something a little different for maths today. When Mrs Keith came in to see us a few weeks ago, we were thinking about problem solving and enquiry and the different questions that we needed to ask ourselves. For this task you will need coins. Just follow the clues and move your coins around in the row until you have matched the clues.  In your jotter write the date, I can solve word problems involving money, and draw your answers.

For this task, you are asked to look at the dice and imagine what would be on the other side of the dice using the clues. For the second question, do not use the dice totals shown – use all of the information that you have been given.

This site has lots of word problems to look at and you can try different number operations add/subtract or multiply/divide https://www.mathplayground.com/GrandSlamMath1.htmlan

In case you are missing learning about the Vikings, this is a great site for learning about lots of different topics. I have included the link to Viking myths, but feel free to look at anything that interests you.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/english-ks1-english-viking-sagas/zkyqd6f

As always, I would love to hear how you are getting on so please use the comments link to keep in touch. Let me know if you submit a poem to the poetry zone site and I will keep a lookout for it. I hope that you have a safe and relaxing weekend.  See you next week!

Here is a useful French sentence   Je me lave les mains – I wash my hands. I hope that you are continuing to use soap and hot (as hot as is comfortable) water and washing your hands for 20 seconds!

For today’s spelling practice, write the y ending words without the y, so that they are nouns ( can you do this with all of them or are there any odd ones out?). If you can spell the nouns correctly, it is easy to pop the y back on the end, when you need to.

Our literacy focus today is the past tense of verbs. Lots of verbs end in d or ed, but then there are others which can be very different.

This link will help you to think about the correct words. Another handy hint would be to think about what you would say in class!

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=nessy+irregular+past+tense&&view=detail&mid=B27244AFA900E123F7C0B27244AFA900E123F7C0&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dnessy%2Birregular%2Bpast%2Btense%26mkt%3Den-gb%26httpsmsn%3D1%26msnews%3D1%26plvar%3D0%26refig%3Da18ac201191241e7a6caf93c2edb4b11%26sp%3D

This link takes you to the past tense of lots of irregular past tense verbs.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=past+tense+verbs+you+tube&refig=65d80c03bcae44489e17418852455fc1&httpsmsn=1&msnews=1&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dpast%2520tense%2520verbs%2520you%2520tube%26FORM%3dEDGSH3%26refig%3d65d80c03bcae44489e17418852455fc1%26httpsmsn%3d1%26msnews%3d1&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=017F2FFFD97E5F404469017F2FFFD97E5F404469&FORM=WRVORC

So, let’s try out what we’ve learning about the past tense of irregular verbs.

Please write the date, I can change verbs into the past tense correctly and traffic light at the end of your work.

The instructions and examples are clear for you to follow, so please read them carefully.

How are your times tables coming along?

Here’s a great mash-up to help you improve your recall and identify the patterns.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=practise+times+tables&&view=detail&mid=9E8AA940852FAEDEAE5B9E8AA940852FAEDEAE5B&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dpractise%2Btimes%2Btables%26FORM%3DHDRSC3

For our focus today, I want us to look at multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100.  Remember to think about how many places a digit has to move, and which way for the number to become bigger (x) or smaller (÷). In class we used whiteboards to practise, so find a way to check the place values before you write the answers in your jotter.

This video is a good reminder of how to use place values to help you calculate these sums.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=multiply+and+divide+by+10+and+100+y4&&view=detail&mid=0324742EA3256BE69E600324742EA3256BE69E60&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dmultiply%2Band%2Bdivide%2Bby%2B10%2Band%2B100%2By4%26FORM%3DHDRSC3

Here are some examples of how I have taught you to x and ÷ by 10 and 100, to help refresh your memories! Please use this place value chart to help too!

So, please write the date and I can multiply and divide by 10 and 100. Follow the instructions and for the problems, just think logically and carefully. Does the number get bigger/smaller? How many place values have the digits moved? Put the numbers under the chart to help you.

Here’s a cool interactive site to help you with your multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, and 1000!

https://www.iknowit.com/lessons/e-multiplying-and-dividing-whole-numbers-by-10-100-1000.html

As we are still experiencing strange times, like Christians celebrating Easter and Jews celebrating Passover during the “Lockdown”, it is another special day, today! It is the start of the Muslim month of Ramadan. This link is entitled “What is Ramadan?” https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpdtsbk/articles/zjc2bdm

There are lots of other sites, including this report from Newsround.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/44327653

Good morning, good morning – we’ll learn the whole day through, good morning, good morning to you …and you….and you…. and you!!

A big shout out and welcome to any visitors who may be joining our class blog, too

Hopefully, that clip has woken you up and you are singing and dancing ready to begin another day of home learning.

As another alternative for keeping fit and getting exercise, I have signed us up for Get Set Tokyo.

You can log any exercise and submit the information, so that we can keep a check on our contribution to the event.

https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo/log-activity

Click into the site and all you do is put in the school’s postcode

G67 4BA , select Woodlands and click Primary 4/5. 

Follow the instructions and remember to press submit at the bottom of the page.  Let’s get moving!!

For your spelling practice, write the y words in alphabetical order. You may need to go to the second or third letter to order correctly.

It is a special day today, – it is 

Here is a Powerpoint that will give you some information about the theme for this year’s Earth Day.

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-g-3761-earth-day-reducing-your-carbon-footprint-powerpoint

Your  reading task for today is all about Earth Day. Please read the text carefully and answer the questions in your jotter.

Date, I can answer questions about Earth Day 2020 and traffic light at the end.

Mental maths involves a variety of different skills as usual. Are there any particular questions that are more challenging? Do we need to focus on specific skills? Please let me know.

I would also like to say well done to the children who are going onto Sumdog, doing the assessments and generally practising. I can see improvements in your skill levels 😁

Some of the questions involve perimeter and area – here is a lesson about these concepts to help you.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/maths/area-and-perimeter-year-4-wk1-1/

Continuing the Earth Day theme, here is a graph to help you practise basic data handling. Copy out the table neatly into your jotter, or you could use a table in a Word document- we tried this out in ICT.

The following task involves some litter picking and it also shows how to think about adding whole numbers and decimals together.

https://www.matific.com/gb/en-gb/guests/episodes/recyclingdecimaladditionbasic?utm_source=cio&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-teachers-en

Keep up with all the ideas from WWF – this week the focus is freshwater.

https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/learn-love-nature-focus-freshwater

Bonjour mes enfants!

Spelling warm up today is a little Sumdog assessment of 6 words from yesterday’s list. 

Handwriting

The focus for today is writing smoothly, keeping the writing evenly spaced and paying attention to the letters and joins. As you can see there are rhyming words here which have the same letter patterns as some of your y words in your spelling list.

Please remember to write the date, the “I can…” and traffic light  all your pieces of work once you have finished. You can also write a comment to self assess how you are getting on, too!

Another maths warm up to keep your brain thinking about lots of number and maths skills. Don’t forget, there  are Sumdog and Activelearn opportunities for you to practise whenever you want to

Today our number focus is adding and subtracting 1, 10 and 100 to/from a number. It shows us the importance of place value when we are calculating.

Look at these videos which show the steps.

Addition

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=adding+1%2c+10%2c+100&&view=detail&mid=9C1EF824CFDAB61AD2EE9C1EF824CFDAB61AD2EE&&FORM=VRDGAR

Subtraction

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=adding+1%2c+10%2c+100&&view=detail&mid=D41EBE7565AE838ED1D8D41EBE7565AE838ED1D8&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dadding%2B1%252c%2B10%252c%2B100%26FORM%3DHDRSC3

Remember to write the date, the “I can…” and traffic light your work once you have finished.

To follow on from today’s written work, have a go at the Daily 10, where you could start at level 3, adding to 3 digit numbers.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

Finally, just to let you know that ABC Music Home School has free lessons that are available.  www.abcmusichomeschool.org.uk

A number of museums have virtual tours so that you can have a look around, but I found this information about Vikings on the National Museum of Scotland website. Lots of interactive learning!

https://www.nms.ac.uk/search?term=vikings&submit=Search   

Welcome back!

I hope that you are all well and raring to go after the Easter break.

I hope that you have been keeping up your exercise. Remember that you can exercise with Joe Wicks or you can have a go at some GoNoodle activities. https://www.gonoodle.com/for-families/

or https://www.gonoodle.com/good-energy

Today, your spelling words focus on the y ending.

Use the Buzzing Bees spelling idea or one of your own to practise spelling the words.

Write the date, I can use y endings correctly ; and traffic light your work when you have finished.

Follow the instructions to write out sections A and B in your jotter.

The spelling  activities demonstrate how we can change nouns into adjectives and adjectives into nouns by changing the endings.

The y ending. Look at this short video as an introduction

Look at the following tasks, follow the instructions and examples to complete these spelling skills successfully.

For your mental maths, here are some questions to get you thinking. I have given you some handy hints and these are good questions to help you think about and build upon number skills that you already have! Remember that a quarter is half of a half!!

This BBC Bitesize link shows you different ways that you can partition numbers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z69k7ty/articles/zyk8pbk

For today’s Place Value focus, you are going to partition the numbers into their values and then make numbers from the values given. Examples are given for you to follow.

Try out a Top Marks partitioning site – there are lots of games to help you practise.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=partitioning%20place%20value

LCF are offering online classes for children  – fun French and Spanish  based on Club resources and Babelzone. If you would like to join, please take a look at https://www.lcfclubs.com/babelzoneNEW/   – there is a free trial.