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.

your-name-workout-kids

• 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.

t-l-52944-design-your-own-planet-activity-sheet_ver_2

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!

Good morning, I hope everyone is in good spirits and keeping their vocal chords tuned for their entries to the school online show. Tomorrow is the last day for entries and a quick reminder that P6 can choose any song from the musical Mama Mia. If you are undecided about your song, don’t worry, I have attached a link to a website with music and lyrics (below).

https://www.stlyrics.com/m/mammamia.htm

Your tasks are posted in Google Classroom, here is a plan for the day;

Task 1 – Exercise with Joe. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Task 2 – Grammar – Complete the Jolly Grammar worksheet for your spelling group.

Task 3 – Go Noodle Brainbreak.

https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/chicken-dance?utm_content=teacher&utm_medium=772747&utm_campaign=share_link&utm_term=chicken-dance&utm_source=clipboard

Task 4 – Maths – Fractions of an amount. – I have tried to explain and attached a chilli challenge worksheet.

Task 5 – Homemade Lunch Pizza– This is a basic recipe which I use myself to make a simple pizza base some lunchtimes (you might need to ask a family member to get some of the ingredients).

You will need;

• equal quantities of flour (I use whatever I have in the cupboard, usually self raising) and plain yoghurt (greek yoghurt, creme fraiche, sour cream)
• a teaspoon salt
• a tablespoon oil

Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl (a half cup of flour / yoghurt should be enough to make 4 saucer sized mini pizza) until you have a non-sticky dough. Use your hands to get all the ingredients mixed together. Leave to sit to 20 min for the dough to rest. Kneed the dough again for a few minutes and split in to 4. Roll out using a little flour and place on a baking tray.

For the base I use some tomato paste mixed with tomato sauce, spread a layer (not too much or it will get soggy) on to the base, grate any cheese on top and add anything else you fancy. Tuna and onion is tasty, so also is thinly sliced ham and sweetcorn. You can change the base using barbecue sauce which will give a lovely sweet version.

Bake your mini pizza for around 10-15 min at 180, keeping an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t burn. Serve and enjoy.

My explanation makes this sound really long, but it genuinely only takes minutes (sometimes I only rest the dough for a few minutes).

Have a go and send me some pictures.

Task 6 – Africa – Animals and terrain.

From completing the task on Tuesday, you now know that Africa is a Continent made up of 54 separate countries. Look at the map which is attached and pay attention to the key.
There are deserts, savannah, rainforest and mountain terrains.
Can you research the differences between the terrains and the type of animals you would find there. Note down what you find, then choose 1 animal to focus on from each terrain.

Use a sheet of paper fold it in 4 and create a colourful information leaflet with key points in each section.

Remember to explain why the animals live in that terrain, what country it is and how the animals adapted? I have included some music to listen to get you in the spirit of Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b81mWYIyTo

These tasks should keep you busy today, if you get stuck remember to keep in contact. I’m looking forward to the 2pm chat tomorrow on Teams.

Mrs Coyle

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.

 

 

 

Good Morning, I hope you enjoyed your first task learning about the continent of Africa and enjoying some of it’s music. It is such a large land area to cover with so many countries and famous landmarks, we will have to pick and choose what we learn about. Hopefully you will find something to love. Remember to tell me if there is anything specific you would like to cover.

As usual your tasks are posted in Google Classroom, here is a framework to follow;

Task 1 – Go Noodle – Get Loose, a short shake and brain break to get you going in the morning.

https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/i-get-loose?utm_content=teacher&utm_medium=772747&utm_campaign=share_link&utm_term=i-get-loose&utm_source=clipboard

Task 2- Writing – Write a short story using the image below to help your imagination. I have modelled a story for you to follow if you need some help.

Task 3– Take some time to create a Mindfulness toy. This craft idea is to create a mindfulness toy much like the ones used in school. You will need a clean jar, some glue, glitter and food colouring. Follow the instructions below and keep safe for times when you like to relax. Consider making one of these as a gift to a family member as an act of kindness. Think of things they may like to see in their glitter jar. Take a photo or describe what you have made.

Task 4 – Numeracy – Fractions (Equivalent Fractions) – Complete the worksheets using your fraction wall to help.

Task 5 – Health and Wellbeing – Use the template or create your own and record three things you are grateful for today. It can be small things like a smile, a hug from mum, but this task is to make you think about things you appreciate without realising. Remember to thank the person if it is a member of your family.

Task 6 – Dancing with Sam from RL Live at 3pm – follow the link below to take part in the dance class with Sam.

https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Frlsportservices%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cdavid.rose%40renfrewshire.gov.uk%7C7b861440efd74d40861408d801587368%7Cca2953361aa64486b2b2cf7669625305%7C0%7C0%7C637260826696524978&sdata=e0v9v7VTeBRzQyURVBJmRssvO7azJIKb%2BcI1zjFx4DQ%3D&reserved=0

Have a great day, get outside for a breath of fresh air and enjoy listening to the birds.

Mrs Coyle

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

Good morning on another beautiful morning, I hope you all managed yesterdays tasks and are ready for today.  I am introducing a mini topic on Africa, where we will be investigating the people, animals, music and art.

Your tasks are posted in Google Classroom, here is a framework for the day;

Task 1 – Exercise – Choose Joe Wicks and complete his daily class or suggest a different class (you might have found someone different, I like the Les Mills dance class) for your friends.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Task 2 – Spelling activity – Spelling City

Use the link below, find your word list and try out the free  word search. Then create a game with your family, a loop card game where they can only use the card if they can correctly spell the word would work well.

https://www.spellingcity.com/users/stfergusps

Task 3 – Go Noodle Brainbreak

https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/the-maxarena?utm_content=teacher&utm_medium=772747&utm_campaign=share_link&utm_term=the-maxarena&utm_source=clipboard

Task 4 – Maths – Equivalent Fractions – watch the two video clips to help revise what you understand about equivalent fractions. Use the fraction wall you made yesterday, or the one I’ve attached to complete the worksheet and finally exercise 3 & 4 from the booklet.

Task 5 – Mindfulness Task – Understanding  yourself. Sometimes we live with people (brothers and sisters) who we think we know really well, but we can often become complacent  and never really speak to them, today’s task should help with this.

Look at the list of questions and the template for the Fortune Teller. Choose some questions and fill the template with them, now go and get a family member to ask you the questions and you can ask them.

Task 6 – Africa Mini Topic.

First we need to investigate facts about Africa;
Where is Africa?
Is it a country?
How many people live there?
What size is it, in comparison to Scotland?
What is the weather like?
Can you create a colourful factfile or an A4 sized word document with the information you have found?
You have a map page to label and colour to add to the factfile which will help with information.
While you research and work on your factfile, click on the link and listen to the African music in the track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njj4CX4OAMU

Have a lovely day researching and enjoy listening to the music, its maybe not your taste but it is quite relaxing.

Remember if you are stuck with the maths, message me.

Mrs Coyle

 

 

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

 

 

Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a good weekend with the beautiful weather and got a chance to relax. You made an amazing effort last week, thank you, it wasn’t our usual Health Week so it was great that so many of you made the best of it. Well done.

This week we are back to our usual timetable of tasks alongside the RL Olympics, where we are just outside the top 10 schools, that’s down to all your effort!

The tasks for today are posted in Google Classroom and run as follows;

Task 1 – Exercise activity. If like me you haven’t been out and about much you’ll feel very unfit, there are lots of exercise programmes to follow.  Joe Wicks is very popular.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Task 2 – Spelling. Choose the Jolly Grammar spelling list for your group and complete.

JG3 List 29

JG4 List 28

Task 3 – Go Noodle brain break.

https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/wiggle-it?utm_content=teacher&utm_medium=772747&utm_campaign=share_link&utm_term=wiggle-it&utm_source=clipboard

Task 4 – Numeracy – Fractions (revision) There are two links and a booklet for you to complete. Create a fraction wall, answer exercise 1 & 2 and play the fractions quiz (mega easy).

Task 5 – Health and Wellbeing –  Mindful Task

Think about the statement;

Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day!

Look for what is good in your life,  draw out the magnifying glass and draw an example of something good from today, then write a few lines to tell me about it and why it was good.

Task 6 – R.E. Pentecost – This Sunday was Pentecost Sunday, where Jesus apostles were together and they were filled with the Holy Spirit. Read the passage and complete the crossword.

Have a good day today, get out and enjoy the good weather. If you have questions message me and remember that you don’t have to print pages, just write the sentences on a some paper and take a photo or open a document online and send that.

Mrs Coyle