Good morning Primary 5. You have all been working so hard and staying so positive well done! I have enjoyed seeing your work everyday and seeing all of your hard work!

Health and well being:

Joe Wicks Workout on Youtube.

Literacy:

Grammar worksheet.

Blue + Red: Today you have 2 tasks.

Task 1: Spelling complete this worksheet on spelling longer words and looking at homophones.

Task 2: Revision of plurals.

Green Group: Unleveling words. Write in as many words as you can for said. Some examples are exclaimed, shouted, screamed.

Numeracy:

Circles: Today you are going to look at common percentages of amounts. You will know some of the common percentages such as 50% is half of something. Use the information at the top of the page to help you.

Squares: Today you are going to look at time. We are going to revise the minute hand (big hand) and hour hand (small hand) on the clock. Use the information at the top of the page to help you.

Diamonds: Today you are going to look at time. We will be revising days of the week, months of the year and seasons.

Technology:

NEW TOPIC: Scottish Wildlife!

Today I would like you to use your research and note taking skills to research animals that live in different parts of Scotland.

Good morning Primary 5. I was so impressed with your stories today, you put in so much effort and really tried to meet the success criteria! Hopefully the sun is going to stay so let’s have a great day of learning.

Health and well being:

Today I would like you to do some yoga. Pick your favourite cosmic yoga from youtube.

Literacy:

Today we are going to do some reading comprehension.

Blue Group I would like you to pick the 2 or 3 star challenge.

Red Group I would like you to pick the 1 or 2 star challenge.

Green group I would like you to pick the 1 star challenge.

Our reading comprehension is about safety in the sun, at the beach and in the sea. As we enter summer and might be allowed to travel further to beaches it is important we know how to stay safe.

Sun, Sea and Beach Safety Comprehension Activity Sheets

Numeracy:

Circles+Squares: Today you are going to be looking at solving maths problems with fractions in more depth. Follow this online lesson to learn more about fractions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z76qmfr

Diamonds: You are working with fractions today. Use the online lesson to help you find a fraction of an amount.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjtg47h

Spanish:

Today we are going to be learning about clothing in Spanish: la ropa!

Spend some time going through the powerpoint on items of clothing. It also spends some time revising colours!

Clothes Lesson Pack PowerPoint

Then match the clothing in English to the clothing in Spanish!

Clothes Lesson Pack Matching Activity Sheet

You could even watch a video on Youtube about the pieces of clothing in Spanish to help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C34RI0vAW8

Good morning Primary 5. I enjoyed reading about your weekend in the sunshine. Well done to those of you who tried the art and design challenge yesterday well done!!

Health and well being:

Joe Wicks workout is todays challenge, start your day off well.

Literacy:

Today’s task is some writing. I would like you to write a story based on one of the images below the success criteria.

Success Criteria:

• Describe the setting using your senses what does it look like, smell like, feel like…
• Describe the characters using the FANTASTICS
• write in third person (he, she, they). I don’t want you to use I.
• Give your story a beginning, middle and end, remember there has to be a main event!
• Use the FANTASTICS throughout
• Use good punctuation
• Try to use smilies, metaphors, onomatopoeia, rhyme, alliteration

Use this as a check list when checking your writing. Here are the pictures you are to use, choose one to base your story on.

Numeracy:

Today’s challenge is a little different.

I am going to give you a list of numbers and you have to come up with as many questions as you can.

For Example: If 6 is the answer what could the question have been? It could 2×3, 3×2, 3+3, 12-6, 24-8, 5+1, 2+1×2 and so on.

1. If 8 is the answer what could the question be?
2. If 26 is the answer what could the question be?
3. If 70 is the answer what could the question be?
4. If 12 is the answer what could the question be?
5. If 66 is the answer what could the question be?
6. If 40 is the answer what could the question be?
7. If 36 is the answer what could the question be?
8. If 1000 is the answer what could the question be?

I would also like you to practice your times tables.

Social Studies:

The Iron Age

Today you are going to learn all about the Iron Age and what life was like during this time. You will get a chance to test your knowledge and think about what you would wear to battle! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrv4dty

Good Morning Primary 5 I hope you all had a lovely weekend in the sunshine, what lovely weather we had! I enjoyed spending some time outdoors and Cocoa loved playing in her paddling pool! I can’t wait to hear what you were all up to. It’s a new month and the last month of school before Summer. It has been such a quick year, but I have loved being your teacher.

Health and Wellbeing:

The sun is shining again today Primary 5. Your task today is to spend some time outdoors you could walk, cycle or run. I would like you if you can to take some pictures on your walk of things we see, hear, smell and feel.

Literacy:

Weekend News: I would like to hear all about your weekend in the sunshine. What did you do?, did you have any nice food in the sun? We can now visit one family member in their garden, did you see any family you hadn’t seen for a while? How was it seeing them again? How did you feel? Did you do some exercise? Tell me all about it!

Blue Group: Homophones. Remember homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and are spelled differently. For example: pear and pair (a pear that you buy from the shops to eat and a pair of socks). Complete this worksheet choosing the correct homophone for the sentence. You can google the meaning of the word to help you.

Homophones

Red group: Correct the spelling mistakes.

Green Group: Correct the spelling mistakes.

Numeracy:

Since we had no numeracy or literacy last week, we are going to ease ourselves back in gently with some online learning. I would like you to spend some time on either Top Marks or sundog doing some addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and also some work on fractions. Remember to challenge yourself!

Art and Design:

Lets get creative. Today you have 2 challenges:

1. Shadow art! Since it is so sunny outdoors have a go at shadow art!  I have posted some examples on Google Classroom, if you cant access this give me an email. Here are some examples below, remember to send me your pictures and videos!

1. Cloud and sky ideas. Use the could as your inspiration. Spend some time looking up at the sky and/or clouds, what do you see? Draw what shapes/pictures you make out of the clouds. Some more ideas:

“We learned about how bees live and survive.” – Mason

“We learned how honey bees collect nectar.” – Milosz

“Honey bees see differently from us, they see flowers in a blue colour.” – Alan

“We were using our books to create a new version of snakes and ladders” Mia.

“We used the characters from the book to create our snakes and ladders” Louise.

P.2/3 were taking part in some rainforest drama activities this afternoon. They were creating freeze frames of their drama scenes are were also recreating some rainforest animal sounds.

Annie “I am a bird eating spider from the Amazon.”

Mason “I am a parrot from the Amazon, they only really speak or make noises when spoken to.”

Ryan “I am a scary tiger who is trying to eat a toucan.”