Next Saturday is Japanese Children’s day, or Koi Nobori.  In the week leading up to Koi Nobori, koi carp streamers start appearing all over Japan to celebrate the festival. This is popularly known as ‘golden week’.  This week, children have been learning about how the festival is celebrated and making Koi Nobori streamers of their own. Here are some pictures of some of our streamers – don’t they look so colourful!

Literacy: Silent Letters

Red

1. autumn
2. business
3. champagne
4. cupboard
5. gnash
6. handkerchief
7. parliament
8. raspberry
9. receipt
10. solemn

Green

1. debt
2. knight
3. listen
4. numb
5. salmon
6. should
7. subtle
8. whistle
9. would
10. wrestle

Blue

1. answer
2. sword
3. whole
4. wrap
5. wrath
6. wreck
7. wren
8. wrist
9. write
10. wrong

 

Red

Write these letters as headings. Sort your words into lists under the correct ‘silent letter’ headings.

d             n             g              i               p

So, for example, if one of your words this week was ‘hymn’, you would write hymn under your n heading, because hymn has a silent n.

Add at least one more of your own words to each list.

Green

Write these letters as headings. Sort your words into lists under the correct ‘silent letter’ headings.

b             k              l               t

So, for example, if one of your words this week was ‘calm’, you would write calm under your l heading, because calm has a silent l.

Add at least one more of your own words to each list.

Blue

What am I?

Write the key word answers in your book.

1. I join your hand and arm.
2. I’m an old ship at the bottom of the sea.
3. I’m a very small bird.
4. I’m all the parts put together.
5. I’m an old-fashioned weapon.

Can you think of any other words with silent letters? Write them in your jotter.

 

Maths

Around the House: Make a list of five numbers that you find around the house. Investigate the factors of each and write them in your jotter.  For example, if one of my numbers was 12, I would write:

12: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12

Arrays: Choose 3 multiplication sums to draw an array for. For example:

6 x 3 = 18

***

***

***

***

***

***

This is 6 lots of 3 stars.

6 x 3 can also be written as

******

******

******

This is 3 lots of 6 stars.

 

Topic

Koi Nobori, or children’s day, is coming up soon in Japan. In Britain, we don’t have a day to celebrate children.  Write 3 reasons that might convince a politician to create a children’s day in Britain.

Then, draw a koi nobori to represent your family. Remember:

1. Koi Nobori start with a multi-coloured streamer which represents the river.
2. the children’s carp are always smaller than carps representing adults.

Miss Donaldson  🙂

A warm welcome back after what I hope was an enjoyable holiday for you all, despite the weather! ☔️   I can hardly believe that we are now in our summer term and you only have 11 weeks left of Primary 5!  I’m looking forward to everything we will do in our remaining time together, and I hope you are too! 👍🏼

Miss Donaldson