Good morning Primary 2 and welcome back to another week of home learning. We hope you had a good weekend. This week we will only be posting up to Thursday as Friday and next Monday are a bank holiday. This week Renfrewshire Council are promoting Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme is ‘Kindness’. How many kind things can you do or say this week. If you want a challenge then try the challenge below. Let us know how you get on by leaving us comments. Also, look out for this week’s online Olympics challenge.
Spelling and Literacy
Countdown Words! How many words can you make using these letters?
Look at the different ways to make the long o sound! Watch the video above and then see how many words you can come up with with the long o sound. Which spelling do you use? Remember if you hear the long o in the middle of the word then chances are it is the ‘oa’ spelling e.g. coat. If you hear a consonant at the end of the word like ‘rope’ then it is the magic e ‘o_e’ spelling. If you hear long o at the end, then most likely it will be ‘ow’ spelling! snow
Divide you paper into 3 sections and title each section with ‘oa’, ‘o_e’ and ‘ow’ at the top. See how many words you can come up with in each section. You can draw pictures too beside your words
Pick 3 or 4 words and write a sentence. Remember a sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop.
Reading
Remember to keep reading every day if you can, even if it’s just for 10 minutes! If you have run out of books to read then you can download free ebooks from renfrewshire Libraries online (if you are a member). Also, you can dowload free ebooks from Oxford Owl. If you are not sure which book band to select, then look at your reading book from your original homework packs, that will give you a good starting point.
Choose your starter activity. The answers will be posted later.
Money, Money, Money!
This week we will focus on money. Can you remember all the different coins up to £2? What notes do we use? Click on the links below to refresh your memory, you can print these if you have a printer. Remember in Scotland we use British coins and notes as well as Scottish notes.
Inherited characteristics are characteristics which we get from our parents and/or grandparents. They are aspects of our bodies or our abilities which are passed down through the generations. Some baby animals look like their parents when they are born and some do not until they are older. We inherit characteristics from our families such as eye colour, hair colour and even blood group. Have a look at video below and then click on the animal quiz link!
Carefully unscrew the lid of a bottle of lemonade and take it off. Pour the lemonade into a tall glass , until the glass is about 3/4 full. (You can even stir a couple of drops of food dye into the lemonade if you wish)
Write down what you think will happen if we add raisins into the lemonade.
Now drop some raisins into the lemonade, then watch to see what happens! The raisins will sink to the bottom, then start to float to the surface.
Keep watching the raisins. When they float, they will stay there and then sink down to the bottom again. The raisins will keep bobbing up and down for a couple of hours. Write up and draw your results.
What’s happening?
Fizzy drinks are full of tiny bubbles of gas called carbon dioxide. The bubbles are light so will float up to the surface. When you drop raisins into the lemonade, lots of bubbles stick to them and carry them to the surface. When these bubbles burst, the raisins will sink down again and start to collect more bubbles, before bobbing up again!
