Its Christmaaaaaaaas! Today, Primary 5 made sock snowmen as part of our enterprise for the Christmas Fayre on Saturday. Don’t they look great! Primary 5 will have the opportunity to purchase their sock snowman on Friday, as I know there are a few children who cannot make the fayre on Saturday  🙂

Well done for those of you who handed your homework in on time – a fantastic 17 of you earned yourselves a raffle ticket this week!

Literacy

Our spelling words this week are:

1. any
2. asked
3. began
4. change
5. does
6. every
7. knew
8. know
9. place
10. until

Task 1: Please could you practise the words by writing them out in three ways; big, really small, and in your best handwriting.

Task 2: Read either a short story or a chapter of a book and write a short summary telling me what happened.

Maths

We have been revising our number bonds in Primary 5.

Task 1: Please complete your number bonds worksheet.

Task 2: In your jotters, please write out a further 6 number bond facts that equal 100. (For example you could write 61+39=100)

Our favourite games in maths last week were:

Hit the Button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Sumdog: https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in

Active Learn: https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0

Other

This Friday is Children in Need day, which we will be celebrating in school.  Log onto the BBC Children In Need website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2dkVnZqV0NWTkqdygMWQftJ/scotland) and research one of the charities or organisations which is helped by Children in Need.

Explain:

1. What the project is called and what it does.
2. How the money has helped.
3. Explain why people in Britain should try and raise money for Children in Need.

Miss Donaldson  🙂

Well done to the children who handed their homework in on time and were given a raffle ticket for our prize draw!  Every child in the school will receive a raffle ticket, if they complete their homework and hand it in on time (on the Monday).

Literacy:

For your homework this week Primary 5 I would like you to practice the spellings of

1. heard
2. might
3. used
4. woken
5. half
6. often
7. around
8. between
9. while
10. where

Please play “to me, to you” with an adult (the adult begins by stating the word you are about to spell.  You then reply with the first letter of the word.  Your adult should say the second letter, you will say the third and so on until you have spelled the word).

Secondly, please create 4 sentences using the words above.

Maths:

We have been revising multiplication as an extra activity this week. An excellent game is to be found on Topmarks called ‘Hit the Button’.  We are moving on to practising the 2, 4 and 8 times table, so it would be a good idea to focus on these three when you are playing.  The Active Learn site has been experiencing some technical difficulties and is not working at the moment.  You may still play on Sumdog.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Additionally, in your jotters, please write out the 2, 4 and 8 times table.  You could even ask an adult to test you!

Remembrance:

This Sunday is Remembrance day and we will be learning about what this means on Wednesday afternoon this week.

Please research and answer the following questions:

1. What is Remembrance day?
2. Why do we hold a two-minute silence?
3. Why do we wear poppies on Remembrance day?
4. Why do some people wear white poppies or purple poppies?

If you do not have access to a computer, you are welcome to use the class I-Pads to do this research, I will make sure that I am in the class for the last 20 minutes of lunch on Thursday and Friday to give you a chance to do this.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Miss Donaldson

Literacy

This week the high frequency words that we are focussing on are:

1. write
2. woke
3. sometimes
4. different
5. following
6. inside
7. other
8. such
9. through
10. together

For your task please copy the words out three times into your jotter. Then, order the words from most difficult to remember to least difficult to remember.  Come up with a spelling strategy for your three most difficult words.  For example, the word together is made up of three separate words (to get her = together).

Numeracy

As ever, you are expected to log on to Heinemann Active Learn to play some maths games.  You are also welcome to use SumDog at home.

You are also asked to complete a maths worksheet entitled ‘Stepping Out’ in which you will be counting up in steps of either 0.2, 0.5 or 0.7.

Other

Finally, research the SSPCA and write down 3 facts or pieces of information that you discovered.

Miss Donaldson

Today in RME we learned about the Buddhist festival of light.  We learned that Buddhists often create flags and display them outside of their homes to make them more colourful.  We created our own flags and, in the middle, we wrote what our hopes and dreams are for the future.