Good morning Primary 5. Fantastic job yesterday. I have been so impressed with your numeracy work this week it has been fantastic! Well done on completing such interesting booklets yesterday!!

Health and well being:

Today I would like you to do Joe Wicks Workout!

Literacy:

Today we are going to write an imaginative piece set in the Scottish wildreness.

I want you to close your eyes and imagine you are in the Scottish Wilderness, what can you hear? What can you see? What can you feel? What can you smell?

Remember to use lots of adjectives and the FANTASTICS to help you!

Numeracy:

Circles: Today you are continuing to look at volume.

Squares: Today you are continuing to look at volume.

Diamonds: Today you are continuing to look at weight.

Scottish Wildlife Topic

With an adult, research how human activity can endanger animal life and discuss my feelings about it.

Good morning Primary 5. You are all doing a great job, keep it up!!

Health and well being:

Today I would like you to do Joe Wicks Workout!

Literacy:

Writing!

Today I would like you to create a Scottish Wildlife booklet. I have included a template below for you to use. I would like you to include some information on Scottish wildlife such as different Scottish animals, the climate in Scotland and some pictures of these animals.

Booklet

Numeracy:

Circles: Today you are continuing to look at volume.

Squares: Today you are continuing to look at volume.

Diamonds: Today you are continuing to look at weight.

Scottish Wildlife Topic

Create an art piece with sunsets and silhouettes. I have included an example below. Think of the silhouettes of Scottish animals that you could use.

Good morning Primary 5. You are all doing an amazing job with your home learning journey! You should be so proud of yourselves. Let’s have a great day of learning!

Health and well being:

Today I would like you to get moving and do just dance on youtube! I hope you have lots of fun with this!!

Literacy:

Today we are going to do some online lessons!

Blue Group: You are going to learn how to use a thesaurus. A thesaurus is great for supporting you with your learning. It gives you synonyms for words, a synonym is a different word that means the same thing. For example if you looked up hungry in a thesaurus, it would give you starving! Which is a much more exciting way to say hungry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf96ncw

Red Group: You are going to learn how to use a thesaurus. A thesaurus is great for supporting you with your learning. It gives you synonyms for words, a synonym is a different word that means the same thing. For example if you looked up hungry in a thesaurus, it would give you starving! Which is a much more exciting way to say hungry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh2xhbk

Green Group: You are focussing on handwriting and using commas in a list!

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

Numeracy:

Circles: Today you are going to move on to learn about volume. Us the information at the top of the worksheet to get an understanding of what volume is. You have 8 questions to answer.

Squares: Today you are going to learn about volume. This is the amount of space taken up by an object. Use the information at the top of the page to help you answer the 7 questions.

Diamonds: Today you are going to look at weight and the vocabulary used with weight. Use the information at the top of the page to help you.

Scottish Wildlife Topic

Solo Talk time!!

I would like you to research everything you can about 1 wildlife animal. I would then like you to present your solo talk to your family. You could video the solo talk and send it in, I would love to hear it!

Good morning Primary 5. I am so amazed with all of your hard work yesterday especially with your reading comprehension. You all challenged yourselves and showed a great understanding of the text! I have been enjoying looking at all of the birds in my garden now and trying to identify them, I hope you have too!

Health and well being:

Today I would like you to do some Yoga and just take some time to breathe. Try to take a minute to focus on your breathing, breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth. This can really help improve your concentration and help keep you nice and calm.

Literacy:

Challenge time!

Today I am giving each group a challenge! You have some literacy challenge cards focussed on grammar, I would like you to see how many of them you can complete in 30 minutes!! Good luck! Remember to tell me your number when you send in your work!

Blue Group:

Challenge Cards

Red Group:

Challenge Cards.pdf Red Group

Green Group:

Challenge cards green

Numeracy:

I have set you a challenge on Sumdog today! Try to get as many correct answers as you can! It will be revision of what we have learned so far.

I would also like you to spend some time practicing your times tables.

Scottish Wildlife Topic

Todays task is to design and create a bird feeder. Remember birds beaks can be small so make sure they can fit in to get the food without the food falling out! I am not giving you an example of one today as I would like you to be creative!! Enjoy!

Good morning Primary 5. I hope you all had a lovely weekend in the sunshine! I am looking forward to seeing the amazing work you complete this week!

Health and well being:

It’s a new week let’s start it off right: Joe Wicks Workout on Youtube.

Literacy:

Today we have some reading comprehension to do. It is all about birds in your garden! Since the weather has been lovely and we have all been outdoors more I don’t know about you but I have been noticing more and more beautiful birds in my garden! This is our chance to learn more about them!

Blue Group I would like you to do the 3 star challenge.

Red Groups I would like you to do the 2 star challenge.

Green Group I would like you to do the 1 star challenge.

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Numeracy:

Today we are going to take our maths learning outdoors!! I have included some outdoor maths challenges for you to complete.

Circles: 3 star challenges

Squares: 2 star challenges

Diamonds: 1 star challenges

Outdoor Maths Challenge cards.pdf

Scottish Wildlife Topic

Today I would like you to spend some time researching food chains in Scotland (Scottish Wildlife foodchains). I would then like you to draw your own. Here is an example of a food chain in the Rainforest.

Good morning Primary 5, thank-you for all of your hard work yesterday! I will reply to everyones emails today, I know this is a hard time for everyone when we can’t see our friends and teachers everyday but remember I am just an email away of you need a chat.

Health and well being:

Joe Wicks Workout on Youtube.

Literacy:

Today we are going to do some writing. Use this grid to make your writing fun. Pick a topic that interest you and write an exciting story! I want to see how well your story writing has progressed.

This story grid gives you some ideas about home learning, take it on an adventure!

Story grid

Numeracy:

Friday Challenge Questions!

Circles+ Squares: Complete these challenge questions and use your problem solving skills.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z966dp3

Diamonds: Complete these challenge questions and use your problem solving skills.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z8ppqfr

Scottish Wildlife Topic: Expressive Arts

Create an advert for a documentary about Scottish Wildlife. It could be a poster, video or sound recording. Have some fun with this you could use some drama to create your own video advert!

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: