Today Primary 5/6 revised where and when we should use capital letters. We learned that capital letters should be used
Have a great night Primary 5/6!
Miss Donaldson 📚
This morning in our handwriting lesson Primary 5/6 were practising their pencil control.
After break we did a little work on our partitioning skills in maths and after lunch we did some art. We discussed how most people have to wear masks now when entering public places, such as shops, and how masks often make it hard to work out the personality of the person wearing it. We created self-portraits of ourselves wearing a mask, that reveal what we are like behind the mask.
Have a great night Primary 5/6!
Miss Donaldson 🍎
Primary 5/6 had yet another fantastic day today! Amongst other things, we helped take care of our environment by litter picking in the playground, we talked about strategies to calm yourself down if you are feeling upset or anxious and we played a few different games such as Spin to Win and 21. This afternoon we practised making mindfulness patterns to create beautiful rainbows, inspired by lockdown art. They look fabulous!
Have a great weekend everyone, I’ll see you on Monday.
Miss Donaldson 🙂
Primary 5/6 had a fantastic start to the new school year today and settled in to their new class and school routines really well. We had lots of fun making a lockdown memory jar. We also spent time talking about what we got up to during the lockdown, what we liked about it and what we disliked about it (mostly home school it seems!). It was so nice to see the classroom full of children again! Have a great night and I’ll see you all in the morning.
Miss Donaldson 👩🏻🏫
Well Primary 5, this is it – our last day together! Let’s have some fun today. Now, let me think, what could we do that is fun? 🤔
…I know – Harry Potter activities! ✨
Let’s be honest, none of you are surprised! 😂
Also, don’t feel like you have to complete all of the activities, you will soon see I got a bit carried away!
Activity 1: Sorting Ceremony
Let’s first get you sorted into your houses!
Activity 2: Profile
Great! Now let’s create our Wizard Profile!
First, pick the core of your wand (I’d go for unicorn tail hair myself!). 🦄
Then, select your magic pet. Remember the only three animals you are allowed to take with you to Hogwarts are an owl, cat or toad. This is a tricky one for me – I like how useful owls are for delivering mail but I love my cat so I think I would have to bring her! 🦉🐱🐸
Next, what is your favourite magical beast? Here are some pictures but there are lots more including pygmy puffs, unicorns, centaurs, nifflers, trolls, giants and hippogriffs to name but a few. I would go for a phoenix myself – those healing tears of theirs might come in useful!
After that, chose your animagus (that’s an animal that you can turn into, for example Professor McGonagall turns into a tabby cat whereas Sirius Black turns into a black dog). I would choose a dolphin so I could explore the ocean! 🐬
Lastly, chose your patronus (that’s an animal that you identify with or share personality traits with). I would go for a swallow because they always seem so cheerful and carefree.
Activity 3: Anagrams
Can you match the anagrams on the left with the phrases on the right?
Activity 4: Design a Book Cover
Can you design a new front cover for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?
Activity 5: Comprehension
Activity 6: Map Directions ⬆️➡️⬇️⬅️
Activity 7: Wordsearches
Activity 8: Create Your Own School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
This is a fun one! Create your own school of witchcraft and wizardry – you need to plan the name of the school, its location (Hogwarts is in Scotland, Beauxbatons is in France, Durmstrang is somewhere in Northern Europe but they are very secretive as to where and those of you who have seen Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will know that Ilvermorny is in North-East America), the names of the witches and wizards who founded it, what the school crest would look like, the names, symbols and colours of it’s four houses and the school motto!
Our year together may not have turned out the way we envisioned, but we still had lots of fun along the way. Have a look at some of my favourite moments! 🥰
I’m so sad that our time together this year was cut short; you were such a special class and I absolutely loved being your teacher. The following poem sums it up for me perfectly:
Miss Donaldson 👩🏻🏫🍎
Just kidding – let’s have one last Harry Potter gif to end the year properly. 😂
I hope you all have a fantastic summer; I can’t wait to see you all again in August! 👋🏼❤️
👋🏼 Good morning everyone! Did you all enjoy sports day yesterday? I hope you did! Continuing with the sports theme, today is actually International Olympics Day so our tasks are all going to be Olympic themed! International Olympic Day is celebrated across the world on June 23 every year to mark the importance of games and sports in our lives. 🚴♀️🤺🏌️♀️🤽♂️🧗♀️🏄🤾♀️⛹️♂️🤸♂️🤼
Literacy: Olympics Comprehension
🚨 Remember to also spend time on Sumdog spelling/grammar and use Epic! reading today. Additionally you could also listen to David Walliams Elevenses or Harry Potter at Home.
Maths
Warm-Up: Times Table Olympics
⏱ Time how long it takes you to answer these questions:
🥇Gold Medal: 0-2 minutes
🥈 Silver Medal: 2-3 minutes
🥉 Bronze Medal: 3 minutes and up.
Main Activity: Decimals Place Value
Remember when ordering numbers we look from left ➡️ right, so pay attention first to the tens, then the units, then the tenths.
Optional Activities:
Enjoy your penultimate day of Primary 5 and I’ll be back with you tomorrow!
Miss Donaldson 💫
👋🏼 Good morning everyone! We have nearly come to the end of our last full week of online lessons – hasn’t the time flown? I can hardly believe that we have been home schooling now for 13 weeks! Where has the time gone! 💨
Anyway, I hope that you have enjoyed Health and Wellbeing week so far. I sent my nephew the party budgeting activity that we did on Tuesday and he was a big fan – he asked me to make him up another version which has more options and a bigger budget. I would be more willing to do it for him if I hadn’t noticed that I wasn’t listed as one of his party guests – the cheek! 🙄
Today our focus is to keep learning!
Literacy
Task 1: For your literacy warm-up today I would like you to hop over to Sumdog and practise your spelling and/or grammar for 15 minutes.
Task 2: Recipe for Success 👨🍳👩🍳
For our literacy task today, we are going to be thinking about what we would like to work on next year. It is up to you what you want to focus on; perhaps your story writing, times tables, handwriting or even making friends. Wherever you feel you need to strengthen.
Here is a template to show you the layout for your recipe for success:
Ingredients Section
Now, obviously these are not going to be typical ingredients! We don’t need any flour or eggs for this recipe! The ingredients that you will be needing are things like positivity, focus, patience, hard work and belief in yourself. Try to include at least 6 ingredients.
Think about the quantity of each ingredient too; a typical ingredient section not only tells you what to put into your recipe but also how much to put in. For example, you might want 2 cups of effort in your recipe and a few sprinkles of fun. ✨
Useful quantity words:
Equipment Section
You could be literal and talk about the kitchen equipment that you would need to bake, for example, a cake (a mixing bowl, cake tin, whisk etc.), or you could think about what you will need to help you be successful next year (perhaps a helpful teacher, supportive friends, lots of paper to practice and so on).
Method Section
We are once again going to use those command words, also known as imperative verbs. Think about how real recipes are written. For example, you could write “Combine your cup of hard work with a dash of positivity. Whisk together until smooth”.
Task 3: Kindness Diary
Lastly, don’t forget to fill out your kindness diary today!
Maths
Warm-Up: Mental Maths
Main Activity: Measuring
I can measure capacity.
*Top Tip* Work out what your scale is going up in first. Some jugs go up in 2’s, some go up in 5’s and some go up in 10’s.
🌶 Challenge:
Extension:
Now it’s time for a treat! Measure out your ingredients for your favourite recipe – fairy cakes, pancakes, brownies, scones…Yum! 🍪🧁🍰
Other Activities you could complete today:
Have a great weekend!
Miss Donaldson 🦩
👋🏼 Morning Primary 5, how are we all today? I hope you are all enjoying Health and Wellbeing week so far; we will be looking at keeping active today! 🏃♀️🏃
Before we get onto that though I wanted to congratulate yesterday’s Sumdog champions YS, MM, RA, EH and NM on their fantastic accuracy yesterday – one of them answered a mammoth 315 questions correctly yesterday! Outstanding work! 🏅
Literacy
Task 1: For your literacy warm-up today please practise your spelling words of the week by completing one of the spelling tasks below. Remember your spelling words of the week are all compliment words:
Task 2: Game Instructions
For our literacy task today, we are going to be practising our instruction writing skills. We will be writing out the instructions for how you play a game. The game that you write about is your choice, but it would be wise to pick a game that you have played often as you are more likely to know the rules clearly. For example, you could choose to write the instructions for one of our P.E. warm-up games, such as Jailbreak or the Rock, Paper, Scissors game.
Here are some examples:
Remember all instructional writing follows a similar structure. Today you should include:
Additionally, you could add diagrams to illustrate your instructions for the reader.
In the rules section remember to use command words (imperative verbs) such as ‘turn’, ‘pull’, ‘throw’, ‘jump’ and also think about using time openers such as first, next, then, after that, finally and so on. Number each step so that the reader can clearly see the order that you complete the instructions in and use adverbs (quickly, carefully, safely, cautiously, swiftly) and adjectives to add more detail.
Task 3: Kindness Diary
Remember to complete day three of your kindness diary also!
Maths
Warm-Up: Mental Maths
Main Activity: Circuit Fitness
Today for our numeracy activity you are going to create, time and record 5 circuit stations.
First you need to think of what activity you want to do at each station. Here are some ideas that I found of traditional circuit training activities but you don’t have to do these you could invent your own – perhaps a station that you do the floss dance at! You need to pick something that you can do 10 of so that you can time it, no endurance activities such as the plank as that is about how long you can do it for rather than how many you can do.
Once you have decided what you want to do at each station you should create a table like the one below. I have put in an example activity to show you what it should look like.
| Attempt 1 | Attempt 2 | Attempt 3 | |
| Burpees | 0.52 s | 0.49 s | 0.53 s |
| Activity 2 | |||
| Activity 3 | |||
| Activity 4 | |||
| Activity 5 |
Now we are set up and ready to go! Complete 10 of whatever you choose for activity 10 (in my example I would do 10 burpees) and time how long it takes you. Record you time in your table. Then do 10 of activity 2 and record your time and so on. Once you have completed all 5 activities do you second and third attempt to see if you can improve your time! ⏱
Other Activities you can complete today:
Miss Donaldson 👍🏼
👋🏼 Morning everyone! Did you all manage to get outside yesterday? It was quite hot wasn’t it? Before we get into today’s activities, I just wanted to say a big well done to yesterday’s Sumdog champions; DM, RA, NM, MM and EH! Excellent work boys! In addition, a huge well done must also go to HM, RA, ZM and NM for reading a massive 19 books between them yesterday on Epic! What a fantastic effort! 🏅
I think you will find today’s activities really fun; they are all about connecting with people.
Literacy
Task 1: For your literacy warm-up today please practise your spelling/grammar on Sumdog.
Task 2: Party Invitation
For many of us it has been a long time since we have seen our families and friends and we may be feeling lonely and disconnected from people. For today’s activity we are going to organise a pretend post-lockdown party! First thing’s first – the invitations!
Your task is to design an invitation to send to your family and friends. Key things to include:
Task 3: Kindness Diary
Remember to complete your kindness diary too!
Maths
Warm-Up: Mental Maths
Main Activity: Party Budgeting
You have £30 to spend on your party and not a penny more! What would you get? You need to provide food, drinks, entertainment and a something for the party bag.
Other activities that you could complete today to connect with the people around you:
Have a fantastic Wednesday and remember
Miss Donaldson 💗
👋🏼 Good morning Primary 5! I hope that you all enjoyed the start of Health and Wellbeing week yesterday. Today we will be looking at valuing the world around us. 🌳🌼🌱☀️🌸🍃
Literacy
Task 1: For your literacy warm-up today practise your spelling on Sumdog.
Task 2: Nature Handwriting ✍🏼
Rewrite the following poem in your best handwriting. Remember to concentrate on your letter height, your letter spacing and your joins.
Task 3: Kindness Diary
Remember to complete your kindness diary today including what you did, who you did it for, the reasons for your act of kindness and how it made you feel. 💕
Maths
Warm-Up: Mental Maths
Main Activity: Insect Information Handling
Can you answer the questions? 🐜🐞🐌🐛🐝
Other activities involving nature that you could complete today:
Enjoy your day!
Miss Donaldson 👩🏻🏫
