Good Morning Room 13!

I thought I would check in with everyone as we reach the mid point of our first week away from school.

First of all, can I ask that if you haven’t already, can you please log into Glow and check your emails.  I have sent you steps to set up Microsoft Teams which will make it much easier for you to talk to one another about the work you are doing whilst you are off!  If possible, please try and have this set up by Friday.

I hope you are all keeping yourselves and your families safe and healthy.  It is so important that you are keeping yourself busy and active during this time at home.  So I thought it would be nice for me to share what I have been doing and then you can leave me a comment to let me know what you have done this week so far!

 

I have been going out for a ‘Morning mile’ walk with Nyla each morning, to make sure I am still get up nice and early each day!  I completed the Joe Wicks online PE session yesterday which was HARD WORK!  For my Room 13 footballers, I’ve been out in the garden practicing my keep ups and you’ll be very proud that I have reached four in a row now… Yep… more practice definitely needed!

South Lanarkshire schools are uploading a sports challenge every Monday, Wednesday and Friday on Twitter, so I will post that on here too.  Give each challenge a shot and let me know how you get on!

I am starting to put together lists of different websites, games, tasks, challenges for you to work through over the next few weeks.  However if you find any yourself please also share these with me!

Missing you all lots!

Thank you to those who have kept in touch and emailed me already this week… it’s been lovely to hear from you!

Miss M x

 

 

 

 

Good Morning Room 13!!

Thank you for all your messages yesterday and I can see all of you working on Sumdog and Study Ladder! Keep up the great work!

Time for your first ever Tuesday Challenge!  I am going to set you a very quick task, where you needs to go and find items in your house.  Leave a comment with the items you have found, and the I will keep a list of my first 3 winners each week and prizes will be handed out when we are back at class!

I will post this at 10am every Tuesday, so make sure you are logged on nice and early!

Are you ready?

Your first challenge this week is to….

FIND TEN ITEMS IN YOUR HOUSE WHICH BEGIN WITH THE LETTER….

Remember the more creative items your find… the better!

Good Luck!

Miss M x

Happy Monday Room 13… and welcome to your first week of online learning!

Please make sure you have read Blog Posts 1 and 2, which I posted yesterday.  This will explain how I would like you to complete work each week.  You will also find, on Blog Post 1, a copy of the Weekly Timetable Template .  Please make sure you use this each week, to plan out which tasks you will complete each day.

I would suggest trying to watch Newsround each morning before you get going with your activities.

Maths Activities:

• Sumdog
• Study Ladder
• One column of your Learn Its
• Big Maths Beat That
• Hit The Button
• Create your own game to practice all your times tables

Spelling Activities:

Spelling focus can be found by clicking on this link: Spelling 23.3.20

Try to create at least 10 words for each step.

1. Pyramid Writing
2. Rainbow Writing
3. Backwards Writing
4. Complex Sentences
5. Create your own strategy to practice your spelling words.

Writing Activities:

• Complete your sci-fi story by logging into Glow and typing it on a Word Document.
• Create a diary where you record what you do and how you feel each day.
• Write me a letter about your time in Room 13 so far.

Reading

1. If you haven’t already, read up to the end of ‘The Maiden Voyage’ chapter of The Explorer.
2. READ READ READ – Keep going with your class novel or choose a personal reader to read at home.

PE

• Copy and paste the YouTube link below into your search bar.  Joe Wicks is doing a PE lesson every Monday which would be great for you to try!
• https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1
• Outdoor fitness – create 5 stations and do each stations for 2 minutes.
• Ball skills – practice throwing and catching or keep ups in the garden (I know which I will be practising!)

Topic

1. Create your own PowerPoint Presentation – you might want to choose a different president this time!
2. Research a USA law which is different to the UK.
3. Create a poster about USA gun laws.

HWB

• Newsround – try to watch this everyday and then take the quiz at the end of the week.
• Create a poster about general hygiene.
• Do two tasks around the house to help your parents / carers
• Emotional Check In – create a HWB chart to record how you are feeling each day (remember to ask others in your houe how they are feeling too!)

SO! That is loads of activities for you to choose from.  Remember you do not need to complete all of these… these are just suggestions to help you structure your week.  If you come up with any amazing new ideas / games then let me know and I will post them for the class next week! Finally remember to send me over photos of your amazing work and I will share them with the rest of the class!

I will be online each day to answer any questions and remember to log on to the blog on Tuesday at 10am for our first ‘Tuesday Challenge!’

Stay Safe x

Miss M 🙂

Room 13, please make sure you have read the previous blog post before you read this one!

This post is just to clarify the work that is to be completed each week.  Hopefully this makes sense for you all!

1) Work for the full week will be posted on a Monday.

2) The work posted is suggested activities.  You do not need to complete every activity listed.

3) If you would rather create your own activity / choose an activity from a previous week… that is fine to do also!  If you come up with something amazing, email it to me and I can share this as an activity for the whole class, on the following week.

4) Four activities to be completed a day.  One maths, one literacy, one PE and one other activity of your choice.

5) I ask that everyone logs on to the blog on Tuesday at 10am (set an alarm on your phone please!) as we will be doing a Tuesday Challenge! More information to follow…

6) A diary entry is to be submitted to me every Friday (pretend this is like your homework, so again I would advise setting a reminder in your phone!).  You can email me your diary entry, send me a picture of your diary entry via email or post your diary entry as a comment on the blog.  This should include some information about your week, activities you have completed, how you have been feeling and just a quick check-in to let me know how you are!

7) Try to vary your activities each week and definitely try to get yourself outside for 15-30 minutes a day!  Make sure you are drinking plenty of water and eating breakfast, lunch and dinner at the correct times of the day!  Keeping a routine in your life whilst you are off is VERY IMPORTANT!

Hopefully this lists everything that you need to know for the upcoming weeks.  Anything that you are unsure about please comment / email me and I will answer any questions that you have.

Lots of love

Miss M x

Hi Room 13…

Missing you lots already!

I hope you have had a lovely weekend and are keeping yourselves safe and healthy!

There will be a number of blog posts uploaded each week so please make sure you are checking for updates on this page regularly.

The plan for just now is… I will upload a number of tasks every Monday and this will be tasks for the whole week.  It will be up to you to select which tasks you wish to complete each day.  Maintaining a routine during the time period where you off is so important.

I have uploaded a weekly timetable template for you to use.  If you open the document on Word, you can fill this in using a computer / laptop.  Or, you may wish to print this off and write in your daily tasks by hand.

To make sure you are keeping your brain working each day, I would recommend choosing at least one literacy task (this would be reading, spelling or writing), one maths task and one PE task.  Keeping yourself moving and getting outdoors (even though it will mostly only be into your garden) is very important to make sure you are staying healthy and active as much as possible.

There is a space to record the work you have done each week at the bottom of the timetable.  My hope is that you will fill this out every week, even adding thoughts of how you were feeling or challenges you want to set yourself for next week and then send this over to me and I will put these all together and we can look back on all your great work when we are back in class (hopefully!)

My aim will be to get the weekly work posted on the blog no later than 11am every Monday morning.

The link for the weekly timetable can be found below:

Room 13 Weekly Work Planner

I have also added an example timetable so you can see the variety of tasks you should be aiming to complete each week.

The first example is a simple timetable, where you may want to just select the subjects you want to focus on each day:

	TASK 1	TASK 2	TASK 3	TASK 4
MON	Reading	Maths	Spelling	PE
TUE	PE	Writing	Art	Maths
WED	Maths	PE	Spelling	HWB
THU	PE	Reading	Maths	Topic
FRI	Outdoor Learning	Maths	PE	Writing

The second example is a more detailed weekly plan, where you may wish to select the subject and the task to complete:

	TASK 1	TASK 2	TASK 3	TASK 4
MON	Reading The Explorer	Maths Learn Its	Spelling Pyramid Writing	PE Joe Wicks Youtube
TUE	PE 15 minutes fitness	Writing Sci-Fi Story	Art Mindfulness Colouring	Maths Daily 10
WED	Maths Create a maths game	PE Go Noodle	Spelling Complex sentences	HWB Create a poster about hygiene
THU	PE 15 minutes fitness	Reading The Explorer	Maths 20 minutes on Sumdog	Topic President Presentation
FRI	Outdoor Learning	Maths Big Maths Beat That	PE Friday Funday – get outdoors and play your favourite sport	Writing Weekly diary entry

Weekly planner example  (Copy of both timetables on Word)

I would love to be able to share all your amazing work on the blog each week so please take lots of photos, videos or send me over your weekly diary entry and I can share this too.   Try to take photos without your face being in it, as I cannot share photos of you online but I can definitely share photos of your amazing work!

Thank you to those who sent me lovely emails over the weekend!  It was a very emotional day on Friday, but hopefully we will be back together sooner than we think.

I realise that is a lot of information so please take your time to read through all of this very carefully.

Any questions, queries or even if you want to just check in… please leave me a comment or send me an email.  I am checking my emails and the blog daily so I will get back to you as quickly as I can.

Stay safe and will speak to you soon.

Miss M x

 

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are all keeping safe and healthy with everything that is going on just now!

Below I have attached a number of different activities that you can work through for the next couple of days.  As you can understand, this is a very uncertain time so please bare with me until I can get weekly work put up for everyone to complete.

If you have any questions please just leave a comment on any of the blog posts over the next couple of weeks.  I will be checking these daily, so I will reply to you as quickly as I can.

Work for pupils in self-isolation:

8 Digit Number Activity Booklet

Book Review

Design A Book Cover

Highland Cow Art Work

Human Organs Matching Worksheet

Learn Its

Personal Hygiene Wordsearch

Tribes of the Rainforest Comprehension

You should be able to click on each ‘green link’ and the relevant work will open on a word document or PDF.

Please make sure you are constantly checking the blog for updates, as this will be the best way for me to communicate with you all.  Please also pass this message on to anyone in the class (via phonecall or text) if you think they are unaware of the class blog being used during the school closure.

Please keep yourselves safe and well and please keep in touch, even by leaving a comment on the blog to check in with me! It’s going to be a very quiet few weeks without you all!

Miss you lots!

Miss M 🙂

Room 13…

Please can you leave a comment on this blog post to confirm that you can see it.

Thanks

Miss McKinnon 🙂

Happy Monday Room 13!

I hope you have all had a lovely weekend and are keeping safe and healthy with everything that is happening in the world just now!

We will make sure that we continue to do everything we can to keep ourselves as healthy and hygenic as possible!  Our hand washing train and our amended nurture welcomes in the morning are definitely going to help!

For just now it is business as usual, your homework for this week is listed below.

1) Please write out each word 3 times

2) Please complete rainbow or pyramid writing for EACH word (pleases try not to use an excessive amount of pages in your h/w jotter to complete this!)

1) Please read the chapter ‘Maiden Voyage’ (Pages 78 – 89)

2) Write a brief summary (minimum of 3 sentences) in your homework jotter.

Those of you who have not completed your reading assessments with Mr Campbell will do this after lunchtime tomorrow.  Therefore, PE will be done in the gym hall with the tennis coach.

I need all parents night AND P7 heptathlon letters returned to class this week too!  The parents evening time slots are filling up very quickly, so please get these back to me ASAP.

Let’s have a great week everyone

Miss M 🙂

Happy Monday Room 13!

Busy week ahead but hope you are all looking forward to it.

All consent forms MUST be returned to class ASAP for our basketball trip which is THIS SUNDAY! I need to organise parent helpers, therefore the sooner you can get these back to me the better!  I hope you are all as excited as I am for this trip… it should be amazing!

Homework this week will be reading, maths and spelling.  We finally managed to get 100% homework this week… so let’s push for that again!

Please write out each spelling word three times.

We will be starting our new book in class this week.  The chapters are longer than Street Child, so it may take us a week or two to work out how best to work through the chapters each week in class and at home.

For this week please read the chapter titled: ‘The Den’ (Pages 18 – 32).

Finally, please choose at least one chilli challenge and complete in your jotter.  Copies of this will be handed out in class too.

Mild:

1) 25 + 63         2) 100 – 45           3) 4 x 4              4) 25 ÷ 5

5) 0.2 + 0.7     6) 34 + 52         7) 500 – 150         8) 6 x 3

9) 15 ÷ 5        10) 1.8 + 2.3

Spicy:

1) 168 + 324      2) 150 – 27          3) 6 x 8              4) 27 ÷ 3

5) 5.2 + 3.7          6) 437 + 81         7) 225 – 75         8) 7 x 5

9) 42 ÷ 6        10) 4.8 + 8.2

Hot:

1) 1235 + 4632         2) 800 – 135         3) 8 x 7          4) 150 ÷ 5

5) 12.2 + 28.7           6) 2304 + 9592        7) 900 – 355

8) 12 x 12      9) 360 ÷ 6       10) 71.8 + 32.1

 

PE kits to be brought in tomorrow for tennis, and for those participating in the Cross Country event on Wednesday please remember to bring clean and warm clothes!!

Looking forward to a great week and an amazing school trip to round it off!

Miss M 🙂