Today we were thinking about the qualities of friendship. We each thought about what we consider the most important qualities to be and we compared them with our friends’ thoughts and opinions.

 

We value the qualities of trust, honesty, fairness, fun, respect and caring along with othe important qualities.

We have been thinking about numbers all around us and made a poster showing all the ways that we use number and maths in our lives. Today we were adding the digits and numbers in our birthdays and ordering the totals. There are different strategies that we thought about for adding.

We have a note of our codes for Activelearn which we can use for Bug Club reading resources. The same code will be used for any maths resources which are allocated too!

Today we created our Gateways to learning – don’t they look effective? We are settling into our new routines and getting used to our new class bubble.

We have had a lovely day, sharing information about ourselves in our “Owl about me” task. We thought about times when we have used number and maths in our lives and suggestions included: sharing, time, measure, angles and fractions. This afternoon we were thinking about our hopes for this year and are preparing a class tree of aspirations for the wall.

This afternoon the sun came out and we had a fun break playing with  friends in our class.

Have a lovely and relaxing weekend! 

Welcome back to school and to Primary 4/5.

It was so nice to be back together and though some routines have changed, being together and enjoying our first day has been lovely.

We had a chance to chat together, think of some ideas for our class work and and settle into some new routines. We are going to have a great time and thank you for a lovely first day back! 😁

Good morning and welcome to our last day of school for this academic year.

It has been so strange since we have been in lockdown. I have missed  seeing you all so much and being in our classroom together.

I have loved having the privilege of being your teacher this year and whoever your next teacher is, they will be very lucky to have such wonderful young people in their class!

How would you introduce yourself to a new teacher? I remember the lovely letters that I received last year when some of you introduced yourselves.

Here is a template to give you some ideas. What would a teacher like to know?

• any brothers and sisters in school?
• sports, clubs, hobbies and interests
• any favourite subjects in school?
• information about lockdown activities
• your own achievements
• what are you looking forward to?

You could write or type out your letter and bring it in when we return to school – your teacher would be delighted to receive it.

Before we finish for the year, I want to share some of our special class times with you. Thanks for the memories Primary 4/5.

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So everyone, we are now at the end of our school year. All that is left is for me to send love and best wishes to you and your family  for a very happy and safe summer holiday and I look forward to seeing you again in August.

The thought for Tuesday is this….

This is a great thought for today, because it is World Olympic Day!! Just think of all the athletes in all disciplines trying out a new activity when they were young, not knowing how expert they would become! This is what I say to you, isn’t it? How do you know whether you can do something unless you try??

It is very important that the day is celebrated this year because the Olympic Games which should have taken place in Tokyo, Japan have been postponed until 2021 due to the Coronavirus.

Literacy

Here are a couple of videos to introduce you to some of the history behind the Olympic Games.

 

Date and I can answer questions about the Olympic Games

Use the information in the text and from the links to answer the questions clearly and in detail.

3. Traffic light  and comment on your comprehension skills. Have you checked for meaning, sentence structure and punctuation?

4. I have assigned a few books on your Epic site linked to the Olympics for you to look at.

Numeracy

1. Start off with 10 minutes on Sumdog.
2.  The focus today is place value linked to times.

As you can see from the chart, the times are given to the place value tenths (of a second). Yohan Blake’s time is 10 whole seconds and 2 tenths of a second which is written as 10.2 seconds.

Use the information to put the runner’s times into the correct order and then answer questions about the information.

Date and I can use place value to order times correctly.

3. Traffic light 🚦 and comment on your confidence using decimal numbers.

Extra

There are some great interactive and practical activities on this site e.g. designing your own sports equipment and creating a torch relay, but there are also loads of other ideas.

https://www.getset.co.uk/resources/travel-to-tokyo/indoor-activity

I hope that you have enjoyed your learning linked to World Olympic Day and hopefully we will celebrate the Olympics taking place in Tokyo next year.

Until tomorrow ………

 

Are you ready for some Monday madness? Today we are all taking part in the NLC Virtual Sports Day.

Here is all the information that you need to take part. Look on the main school blog for any further information.

We’ll be encouraging all of our families to get involved and to tweet their pictures and videos to @WoodlandsCnauld @NLActiveSchools with the hashtag #NLSportsDay

An added bonus is that the best photo/video will win £50 worth of sports equipment for our school!

Above is the timeline for the day. With a 10 am start for a video warm up on the NLactiveschools twitter.

There are 7 events taking place. Above is the list and equipment needed to take part. But don’t worry! There is an alternative list too. If you don’t have any of them be as creative as you can.

The resource pack contains an explanation of each event, possible adaptations and the scoring system.

Resource Pack

I hope that you have a fun, fantastic day taking part. I’ll be cheering you on!!

Fun, fantastic Friday is here, so everyone cheer!!!

Our final wellbeing thought for the week is ……

What have I done and what am I going to do to help me do well in my learning?

Literacy

1. Spelling test. What have you been doing as a learner to help you learn your spellings? Have you practised, made corrections, been tested by an adult, made links?  Think about how you learn.
2.  Your literacy focus involves writing a recipe for success. As you know you need ingredients for a recipe, so think about some aspects of your learning that are important.

Here are examples to help you think of some ideas – also think about our SKILLS FOR LEARNING wall – communication, creativity, self-management, working with others, problem solving and enquiry.

Date and I can write a recipe for successful learning

Think of the 5 most important ingredients for you to be a successful learner. You can illustrate your recipe and make it into a useful learning tool for yourself.

3. I hope that you have thought carefully about your own ways to make your learning the best it can be. Share your ideas with adult – can they identify these ingredients in your learning experiences?

Numeracy

1. Start by going onto Sumdog and work to achieve the skills level you are working on.
2.  Our focus today is capacity.  Capacity is the total amount of fluid that can be contained in a container. It is the word we use when we are measuring liquids.

This link shows a measuring jug, what the scales look like and how to measure the amount of liquid in the jug.

https://youtu.be/GFTlete-nMM

Date and I can measure the capacity of liquid in ml.

Look at the scales and intervals carefully when deciding on the measurement of liquid in each measuring jug.

3. Traffic light 🚦 your answers. Which learning skills have you used to complete this task? Are there any that weren’t on your Recipe for Success?

4. This game lets you practise reading the capacity of liquids.

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/capacity/index.html

Extra

As we are thinking about keeping going with our learning and trying something new, here is a Health and Wellbeing grid for you to try out. There might be activities here that you haven’t tried before, so give them a go!

So, until we meet again next week………

 

Let’s get ready to rumble …. it’s Thursday!

Our Health and Wellbeing theme for today is to BE ACTIVE!

What are 2 ways in which you can be more healthy this week?

Literacy

1. Spelling – Think of a move and spell out the letters of each word while you are moving. Here are some ideas for moves.

2.  Let’s write out some instructions for a game.

Here is information about a game of cards called Rummy.

Handy Hints

•   We know that instructions have to be very clear
•   Subheadings for information
•   Use numbered steps
•   Use imperative “bossy” verbs like take, put, deal, etc.

      Date and I can write clear instructions for a game

Use a template like this one to write out the instructions clearly.

Now try to play the game – were your instructions successful?

Numeracy

1. Starter for 10 minutes on Sumdog  – let’s make a skill level change this week!

2.  Let’s stay with data handling and use these skills to find out information from labels.

Date and I can use food label information to make healthy choices

Use the information on the labels to answer these questions carefully.

3.  Traffic light and comment on how well you were able to find and use the information to answer questions.

Extra

Being physically fit helps your overall wellbeing, so here is an activity which you can keep working at to improve your physical strength, speed and stamina. Pick just a few to do each day and then try your 2nd and 3rd attempts at intervals across a week – don’t try to do it all at once and remember to warm up and stretch before you start!!

Being active and healthy is helped by having enough sleep 😴. For 8 to ten year olds you should be getting about 10 hours sleep each night in order for your body and mind to recharge. The game below shows you things to avoid in order to get a good night’s sleep.

We started with a panda and we’re ending with pandas. I hope that you have a great night’s sleep and lovely sweet dreams. Have a look at one of Mrs McMillan’s relaxation videos on Take a Moment – found on the school blog, they might help you to sleep, too!