Hi Everyone,
We hope you have all had a good week? The end of term is getting so close now and we are so proud of how you have all coped with your school tasks online. We know things have been challenging and everyone will have adapted to work in a way that suits them. We just wanted to let you all know that we think you are absolute stars.🤩
Thanks to those who are in touch regularly. We love receiving your emails showing off all the wonderful work you are doing. Remember your tasks might appear in the ‘Star Workers’ section, have a look at the bottom of the page for this weeks. If you have any news share it too and send us a picture for the ‘News’ section.
Please check in each week.
Burnside’s Got Talent!
If you wish to participate you can send a video of you doing something really cool to the school twitter page. We will then share them. Full details are on the app. We look forward to seeing how creative and talented you all are. Deadlines for entries approaching fast!
SPORTS WEEK!
As we can’t have our usual sports day events, a whole school programme of events will be posted on the school app each day of this week. A different activity for each day. Please share pictures of you taking part.
See the link below which includes all the information for each days sports activities to help get you prepared.
Burnside Sports Week – 15 – 19 June 2020
Remember to have FUN!
Find below all of this weeks tasks.
This weeks suggested tasks are below, remember your tasks will be allocated to your working groups and some for everyone to complete. Please check you complete the tasks only for your groups. There is also a new activity grid which will run for 4 weeks (we are now on week 3 of this). In it there are additional suggested activities which you can choose to do.
You can also go online to Sumdog and Study ladder to complete activities too. Each page has allocated activities on them or you can play general games. We have been checking in on progress and can see how you are doing and what activities you are taking part in.
👏👏👏Last week’s ‘Star Sumdog player’ is Fraser. Well done!👍
Spelling
Bananas: Unit 9 Phoneme k Representations- c, k, ck, ch
Extension words: cabin, kangaroo, crack, school, echo, cartoon. keep, flock, chemist, packet
Task 1: Can you write each work in the Elkonin box format.
Task 2: Choose 4 words and write the dictionary definition for each
Task 3: Chalk write your words (can be done inside on a board or if you have permission to use outdoor chalks)
Oranges: Revision of all sounds
Task 1: Get an adult to read the following sentences to you and then write them out, try sounding words out carefully.
I will bring you a new toy from the shop.
The three pigs came out to play with us.
She let the phone ring and ring.
Only the queen had to sit on the black chair.
The boy took his boat to the pond to sail it.
Task 2: Underline the sounds you found most tricky to remember in the sentences. Practise more of those words.
Literacy
Writing task- All Groups (Continued from last week)
We would like you to try and complete a 5 day well being journal. It is a slightly bigger task than normal so we would like you to complete it over 2 weeks. You could complete 2-3 one week and then the other 2-3 the following week.
Weekly Wellbeing Journal Pack 1 Monday
Weekly Wellbeing Journal Pack 1 Tuesday
Weekly Wellbeing Journal Pack 1 Wednesday
Weekly Wellbeing Journal Pack 1 Thursday
Weekly Wellbeing Journal Pack 1 Friday
Reading- Every group should read for at least 15 minutes each day.
Dragons
Sun Safety Reading Comprehension 3
Centaurs and Unicorns 1
Sun Safety Reading Comprehension 2
Unicorns 2
Sun Safety Reading Comprehension 1
Maths
Triangles: Practise Learn Its: 8 times table
Circles: Practise Learn Its: 2, 5 and 10 Times tables
Countdown Challenge
Can you reach the target?
Art
We have been enjoying nice walks outdoors and hopefully taking more time to look at nature. Try out this fun art activity. Art in Nature, what can you find to observe, re-create and imagine.
Health and Well being
We have had some great fun in Primary 4, it just didn’t end like we had planned.
Take time to think back through all of Primary 4 and reflect. Please share these with us and we will post them up next week for all to see.
As this is ‘sports week’. We though we would give you a few more ideas for indoor sports to keep you fit and active just in case the weather is not nice. What games can you come up with? Email us your pictures.
Inter Disciplinary Learning:
Since we celebrated World Ocean Day last week and undertook some activities, we thought we could continue that learning this week.
Task 1: Watch the following PowerPoint about the layer of the Oceans
Layers of the Ocean PowerPoint
Task 2: Ocean Layer activities
Task 3: Read the following book ( there are plenty to choose from) type Oceans in the search bar
https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html
4 Weekly Activity grid: Last week of the grid
Additional activities can be found on the following grid. These can be chosen as and when you like. Have fun with them. Send us examples of you completing these too.
4-Week-Additional-Activity-Grid-2
“Star Workers”
Can you see your work on the Star Workers board? Unfortunately we haven’t received many pieces this week, please keep emailing them in. Well done to those who have work posted. If you would like to be in next weeks board send us some pictures of your tasks.
“In the Class News”
Keep sending us updates of the interesting, fun things you are doing.
Click on the link to watch the Video clip: Video
Remember to check in with us each week and let us see some of your work. You can either comment on this blog post or if you wish you can email both Mrs Rhicard and Mrs Steele,
gw07rhicardjoanne@glow.sch.uk
gw11steeleemily@glow.sch.uk
or photos can be sent to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk where photos might be chosen for twitter, include a subject line Room 7 Mrs Rhicard/ Mrs Steele to ensure we see your pictures as this is used by all the classes.
Remember if you send a comment or image to this blog it should not contain information about pupils or images of children as this is a public Blog.
Let us know if there are any questions or you need help with anything.
Take care and stay safe.
Mrs Rhicard and Mrs Steele
