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