Good morning Primary 4. What a lovely day yesterday was. I didn’t expect all of that sunshine. Well done for all of your hard work yesterday on day one of our Japanese themed week. Let’s have another fab day.

Missing you all

Mrs Cryans x

Health and Wellbeing

Judo originated in Japan. Judo was derived from Jujitsu, the art for either attacking others or defending oneself with nothing but one’s own body.

Have a go at these Judo drills that are designed to improve movement, strength and mobility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JGECzcT3wg

Check in Activity

Let me know how you are feeling today and how your weekend was. Did you know that the word emoji originated in Japan? Why don’t you send me an emoji to describe how you are feeling today? Remember my email is gw10norwooddonna@glow.sch.uk

Languages

Here is some Japanese vocabulary for you to work on learning this week.

Reading

Today we are going to read the next few chapters of ‘Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-N2tBi4aGI Chapter 4-6

I would like you to write a short summary of what you have read today.  Can you retell the story in 6 points?

Spelling

Choose a task for the grid to work on your weekly spelling words.

Spelling grid

Japanese spelling words

Numeracy

We are going to have a go at Sudoku again today. But today instead of numbers we are using pictures. So remember that the picture cannot be repeated in any row horizontally or vertically.

Choose one of the puzzles to complete.

Art and Design

Japanese writing is called calligraphy, which means it is drawn with a brush and ink.

Here is a worksheet to get you started.

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Can you create something a bit more interesting? Here are some more examples to help you.

STEM

Today I am setting you a STEM challenge.

Japan has had to deal a number of natural disasters. The bridges have got to be strong enough the withstand them.

Can you design and create a strong bridge. You can use any material that you wish.

Music/Listening

Traditional Japanese music is played on a Koto.

Have a listen to some music played on a Koto. How does this music make you feel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK51LblcEOw

Good Morning everyone. I hope you all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the sunshine. I hope you managed to see some friends and family at the weekend. Charlie and I visited my mum and dad again. We sat in their garden and enjoyed the lovely weather. We are having another themed week this week. This week’s theme is Japan. This was the most popular choice when you voted a few weeks ago. Space week was great. Let’s make our Japan themed week even better.

Health and Wellbeing

Did you know that there is an exercise routine every morning in Japan? Japanese people usually do this exercise in the morning maintain their health. Actually this kind of exercise is popular in Japan, China and Taiwan. In Japan, they usually say it as “Rajio Taisou” (ラジオ体操). It is from two words, “Rajio”（ラジオ), which means Radio in Japanese, and the word “Taisou”（体操, which means physical exercise in Japanese. Have a go at some Rajio Taisou!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=199&v=d9yw2WVzLWM&feature=emb_logo

Check in Activity

Let me know how you are feeling today and how your weekend was. Did you know that the word emoji originated in Japan? Why don’t you send me an emoji to describe how you are feeling today? Remember my email is gw10norwooddonna@glow.sch.uk

Languages

Here is some Japanese vocabulary for you to work on learning this week.

Literacy

Reading

This week we are going to read a short book called, ‘Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes’.

This is the blurb from the book that tells you a little about the story.

This story is a true story about a girl named Sadako who lived in Hiroshima, Japan. Sadako dreams to be a very good runner but when she gets dizzy, she can’t live that dream. She gets to a hospital and realizes that it is the leukemia hospital.

Listen to the first 3 chapters by clicking this link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKZLyCck8Nk Chapter 1-3.

After listening, think about the 3 sharings (Likes and dislikes, puzzles and connections). Write these down in proper sentences.

Spelling

We all have the same spelling words this week. They are all Japanese themed. Have a go at finding the meaning of each of the words. Try not to copy straight from the dictionary. Try to write out the definition into your own words.

Japanese spelling words

Numeracy

Mental maths

Have a go at some Sudoku today.

Here is a wee video that explains what to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zRXDsGydeQ

Choose your challenge

ICT

I want you to find out a bit more about Japan.

Here is a template that will show you everything I want you to find out.

roi-g-25242-japan-fact-file-worksheet

Art- Just for fun

Origami is the art of paper folding and is associated with Japanese cultural. Have a go at this origami cat.

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Good morning everyone. It’s Friday! Well done for all of your hard work this week. I think Space week has been a huge success. I have learned lots so I hope you have too. Next week our theme will be Japan because this was the most popular choice when I asked you last week.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Mrs Cryans x

We usually begin our Friday Mornings with some activities and play. You could build, create, draw, role play. It’s up to you. Try to take time to do this today.

Health and Wellbeing

We have taken part in lots of Space themed workouts this week. Why don’t you choose your favourite one to do today?

• This is a link to some Space themed Cosmic Yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9W8iV4AJYQ

• Name workout – Instead of spelling your name, have a go at spelling out your space themed spelling words. You don’t have to do them all. Just choose a few, otherwise you will be exhausted.

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• Have a go at this Space themed workout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6gXC20m_ic

• Have a go at some Space themed yoga this morning. There are lots of poses to choose from. Could you make up your own Space themed yoga routine?

Mindfulness task

You can choose any way you wish to be mindful today.

Let me know if you can create a new strategy that we haven’t tried.

Listening and Talking

On Monday you watched a video from the International Space Station – Harmony, Tranquility and Unity. Today you can choose one of the other 3 videos to watch and discuss with someone at home.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/suni_iss_tour.html

Social Studies

Today we are learning about the Solar System. Did you listen to the wee song I asked you to the other day? I can always remember facts easier if they are in a song that I can sing.

We are going on a Solar System Fact Hunt. Try your best to answer the questions and read any sources carefully.

Fact Hunt

You can use the internet, any books you may have or these fact cards to find your answers.

Fact Cards

Design

Today you have been learning about the planets in the Solar System. Now it’s your chance to design your own. Take your time and think carefully about your design.

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STEM

This afternoon you are going to make a rocket in a different way. This time you are going to need an empty squeezy bottle.

Here is the science behind the idea;

Think about a space rocket taking off. The rocket’s action is to push down on the ground with the force of it’s engines, the equal upwards force pushes the rocket up or if you think about air coming out of a balloon, the air is being forced downwards yet the balloon flies upwards.

In the case of our squeezy bottle rockets, as you squeeze the bottle, air is forced out of the straw and pushes against whatever you have sealing the top of the larger straw, this force causes the straw to “fly” through the air.

HOW TO MAKE A SQUEEZY BOTTLE ROCKET

Materials

• Empty Squeezy water bottles
• Cardboard
• Straws
• Scissors
• Glue/sellotape
• Blue tack
• Plasticine

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INSTRUCTIONS

FOR THE BOTTLE

Lift up the sports cap and push in half a straw, seal around it with blu tack.

Squeeze the bottle and make sure air is coming out of the top of the straw, not the sides.

FOR THE ROCKET

Draw and cut out a cardboard rocket.

Seal one end of a larger straw than the one in the bottle with sellotape.

Attach the rocket onto one side of the straw.

Just for fun

I’m not sure if it will be sunny enough to try this today or not. If you don’t try it today you could try it another time. Sorry the pictures are a bit blurry. I can’t seem to get them any clearer. I will put another version on Google Classroom, but it won’t let me put it on here.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Thursday

Good morning Primary 4. I hope you are all having a good week and enjoying your Space themed tasks. I have seen lots of super work so far so let’s keep this up. I hope you have a great day.

Mrs Cryans x

Health and Wellbeing

This is a link to some Space themed Cosmic Yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9W8iV4AJYQ

Mindfulness

‘Think outside the box Thursday’

Complete the picture below. It’s not a heart.

Reading Comprehension

Today your comprehension task is about Space. The questions are a mix of literal and inferential.

Blue Group –  Your final question is an evaluative question. We haven’t looked at these this year yet. This type of question usually asks you what you think about something.

Green Group –

Kaylee –

Grammar

Blue Group – L.I. To use connectives/conjunctions.

First Man to Walk on the Moon (Apollo 11)

Fill in the conjunctions: and, but, so, also

In 1961 President John F. Kennedy made a promise that the United States would land a man on the Moon a___ return him safely to Earth by the year 1970. This marked the beginning of the Apollo Program headed by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.)

The crew of Apollo 11 achieved President Kennedy’s goal on July 21, 1969, b_____ he was not alive to see his dream come true. He was assassinated while visiting Texas on November 22, 1963.

The astronauts on board the Apollo 11 were Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins.

It took them four days to reach the Moon’s orbit. It was journey of 250,000 miles. Michael Collins stayed on board the “Columbia,” the main part of the spacecraft known as the command ship, a_____ orbited the Moon.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin exited the Columbia a____ went into the lunar lander. The lunar lander was named the “Eagle.” They descended to the surface of the Moon.

They landed the Eagle at a flat location on the Moon called Tranquility. Neil Armstrong was the first to leave the lunar lander by means of a ladder. When he took his first step onto the Moon’s surface he said these now famous words: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

One of his first actions was to plant the American flag on the surface of the Moon. Next, he and Buzz Aldrin went to work setting up scientific instruments s____ that scientists could learn more about the Moon. They took photographs and they a_____ collected 56 pounds of rock and soil samples. The two astronauts spent a total of 2 hours and 31 minutes outside of the lunar landing module.

Two days after their arrival, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin blasted off from the Moon and rejoined the Columbia command ship. Parachutes slowed the command module down s____ that it landed safely in the Pacific Ocean back on earth. It was a successful and historic 8-day mission.

Green group – L.I. To use capital letters and full stops.

COSMIC

This is the opening to the novel Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce, but there are lots of mistakes. Can you rewrite the sentences correctly?

Add the 5 missing full stops and 7 missing capital letters.

a rocket launched yesterday from a private site in Northern china, is missing yesterday the internet was alive with rumours of a secret manned space mission today NASA and the russian Federal Space Agency both confirmed that a rocket did take off but denied it was theirs the rocket entered high orbit and then disappeared into ‘deep space’ no manned rocket has left Earth’s orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972

Numeracy

Today I have set you a SumDog challenge. You will be working on rounding and multiplication. I will reward 50 coins to everyone who has a go at this challenge and 100 coins to the person who answers the most correct questions!! Have fun!

Social Studies

This Afternoon you are going to go on a journey through Space. Click on the link below to begin your journey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrK1U3WbYhY&feature=youtu.be

ICT-Research task

You are now going to find out a little more about the Sun, the Moon and the Earth

Use your research skills to decide which facts are about the Sun, which facts are about the Moon and which facts are about Earth.

You can show your answers in any way you choose. This could be a table, a poster, a PowerPoint or you could just write them down.

Roughly spherical and is over 15 million degrees at its core.

Over 40,000km at its circumference.

Largely made of gas.

Travels at 100,000km an hour through space.

More than 100 times the size of the Earth.

Roughly a quarter of the size of Earth.

Orbits the Earth at about 3,000km an hour.

A ball of rock that orbits the Earth.

Something extra

Tonight Coats Observatory are hosting a virtual viewing night. It starts at 9:30pm. I know it’s probably past most of your bedtimes, but might be worth staying up for.

https://www.facebook.com/events/558987074780549

Click on the link for some fantastic viewings of the Moon through our portable telescope and ask any astronomy related questions you can think of.

Wednesday

Good morning everyone. Well done for all of the amazing work you have sent me so far this week. I am so proud of you all. Keep up the good work.

Mrs Cryans x

Health and Wellbeing

Name workout – Instead of spelling your name today, have a go at spelling out your space themed spelling words. You don’t have to do them all. Just choose a few, otherwise you will be exhausted. Remember that the password is kids

your-name-workout-kids

Mindfulness task

Have a go at some massage today.

Writing

L.I. To write a recount.

A recount is when you retell a story.

Watch the video below.

https://www.literacyshed.com/thewaybackhome.html

I want you to retell the boy’s adventure. It is a simple story, but I want you to make it as exciting as possible. Describe the boy, his rocket, the planet, the journey and the alien. Think about how the rocket moves, could you use adverbs?

This story mat might give you some vocabulary ideas

Space Story Word Mat

Your success criteria for this task are

• I can use exciting sentence openers.
• I can use adjectives for description.
• I can use adverbs.

Remember that when you are checking over your story, always check that you have met your success criteria.

Mental maths

Have another go at Rocket Rounding on the TopMarks website. This will help prepare you for your main task.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/rocket-rounding

Squares – Work on 4 digit numbers and beyond

Circles – Work on 3 digit numbers

Ryan – Work on 2 digit numbers without a number line (try 3 digits for a challenge).

Kaylee – Work on 2 digit numbers with a number line.

Main Task

Squares- L.I. To round numbers to the nearest 100

rounding Squares

Circles and Ryan- L.I. To round numbers to the nearest 10

rounding Ryan

Kaylee – L.I. To fill in the missing number on a number line.

Kaylee missing numbers

Health and Wellbeing

Mrs McLaughlin has set you a task for your Health and Wellbeing today.

L.I: we are learning to create a daily menu for an astronaut in space. Tasks: 1. Read the following fact sheet:

Eating in Space Eating in microgravity can be very different than eating on Earth.

Credits: Fred Sayers

Imagine going camping for more than a week with several of your close friends. You would make sure you have plenty of food and the gear to cook and eat it with. The food would have to be stored properly and be non-perishable to avoid spoilage. After finishing your meal, or at the end of your camping trip, you would then stow all your gear and dispose of your trash properly just before the ride home.

Astronauts basically do the same thing when they go to space. Preparation varies with the food type. Some foods can be eaten in their natural forms, such as brownies and fruit. Other foods require adding water, such as macaroni and cheese or spaghetti. Of course, an oven is provided in the space station to heat foods to the proper temperature. There are no refrigerators in space, so space food must be stored and prepared properly to avoid spoilage, especially on longer missions.

Condiments, such as ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise, are provided. Salt and pepper are available but only in a liquid form. This is because astronauts can’t sprinkle salt and pepper on their food in space. The salt and pepper would simply float away. There is a danger they could clog air vents, contaminate equipment, or get stuck in an astronaut’s eyes, mouth, or nose.

Astronauts eat three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nutritionists ensure the food astronauts eat provides them with a balanced supply of vitamins and minerals. Calorie requirements differ for astronauts. For instance, a small woman would require only about 1,900 calories a day, while a large man would require about 3,200 calories. An astronaut can choose from many types of foods such as fruits, nuts, peanut butter, chicken, beef, seafood, candy, brownies, etc. Available drinks include coffee, tea, orange juice, fruit punches and lemonade.

As on Earth, space food comes in disposable packages. Astronauts must throw their packages away when they have finished eating. Some packaging prevents food from flying away. The food packaging is designed to be flexible and easier to use, as well as to maximize space when stowing or disposing of food containers.

2. Watch the following video clips discussing what food you eat is space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7z3iA1Iruw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnmA35ibSMY
3. Create a daily menu (Breakfast, lunch, and dinner) for the astronauts to eat. Think about the Eatwell Guide we have been using and what you need for a healthy diet. Think about the packaging, what foods can the astronauts take into space?

I can’t wait to read your astronomical menus!

Miss McLaughlin’s email address is gw18slmclaughlin@glowmail.org.uk

Science

Have a look at these 3 pictures.

Which one do you think is the odd one out? Think about;

• appearance
• what they do
• where they might be found

Tuesday

Good morning Primary 4. I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the gorgeous weather we are having. We are continuing our Space theme today. I hope you are enjoying the activities so far. Try your best to send me your completed tasks.

Missing you all

Mrs Cryans x

Health and Wellbeing

Have a go at this Space themed workout today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6gXC20m_ic

Mindfulness task

Choose 2 breathing techniques to focus on today.

You could choose from

• Balloon breathing
• Star fish
• Bubbles
• Fingers
• Rainbow
• Elephant
• Back to back

Reading

L.I. To create a visual summary about what I have read

Today we are going to read a short story called, ‘Moonshot’.

This story is about the first men to land on the moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ApgcRQ7tk

Think carefully about the main events in the story.

Create a comic strip that shows the main events. Challenge yourself to retell the story in 6 pictures.

Spelling

Choose a task for the grid to work on your weekly spelling words.

Spelling grid

Numeracy

Today I want you to practise some Multiplication.

Have a go at this game to warm you up

 https://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_SpaceRaceMultiplication.html

Main activity

Continue to work on multiplication today. Self-correct using the answer sheet. Try not to look until you are finished.

Squares –Multiplication squares

Circles –multiplication circles

Ryan –multiplication Ryan

Kaylee –Multiplication Kaylee

STEM

Today I am setting you a STEM challenge.

Follow the tutorial to create your own rocket. What changes could you make to the design to make it fly higher/further?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hThMoHB88w

Tomorrow we will be learning about the Solar System.

Listen to this song. It will give you a nice introduction to the main features of the planets in the Solar System.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2prtmPEjOc