Good morning girls and boys,

I hope you are all well and staying safe. I am excited to be in school this morning for the first time in what feels like forever. Some of the girls and boys of key workers will be returning to Burnside this week so if you are one of them then i’ll look forward to be seeing you!!

I hope you have been managing ok with the tasks set for you but please remember not to worry if you don’t get everything done. Everyone’s situation is different and I understand that as it gets closer to the summer holidays and the weather is good it can be hard to concentrate on school work. The most important thing is your healthy and happy and everything else we can pick up when we are back together in school again.

Remember both Mrs Mirner and I set tasks for you so be sure to check both posts. As always a good structure for each day might look something like this;

• 1 numeracy task (i.e. a worksheet, website game, Studyladder)
• 1 literacy task (i.e. diary, book review, spelling game, Studyladder)
• Personal reading (roughly 15-20 minutes)
• Exercise/fresh air (i.e online exercises, playing in the garden)
• 1 other activity (i.e topic, art, ICT, music, baking)

Literacy:

• Reading

Please keep reading either using the your own personal reading books, Oxford Owl tab on glow, this free book website that I had share before or any other resource you have.

https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html

• Reading comprehension

I’ve attached some reading comprehension tasks related to our Under the Sea topic for each reading group. The answers are included so remember no peeking and you may need an adult to help with you some of it.

Kinneys ‘Our Blue Planet’ reading comp

Dahls ‘Our Blue Planet’ reading comp

Rowlings & Ròs ‘Our Blue Planet’ reading comp

Normally at this time of year we are looking forward to the start of Wimbledon but unfortunately like many events it has been cancelled. However this next task might just give you a wee tennis fix and if you really want to get into the spirit of Wimbledon you could even have strawberries and cream while your doing it!

All groups can attempt the first comprehension task with 1 star but some of you are likely to need an adult to help you not only with the reading but also finding the answers. You should aim to answer each question in sentences.

If you would rather however you could do it as a talking and listening task whereby an adult could read it aloud to you and then you answer the questions, almost like a quiz. You might want to choose a harder one if your doing it that way.

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• Writing

As we approach the end of term I thought it would be nice for you to take some time this week to write about some of  your favourite memories from P3.  It might be about the Nativity or our class trip to the Science centre or maybe it’s just a simple memory of a game you played one lunchtime or something that made you laugh so much that your side hurt, it can really be anything.

I would love to read these too so as always please feel free to share them by sending me an email.

• Spelling

We plan to continue with consolidation of the spelling words you have been given so far this week. Please continue to use different active strategies to help you learn and if you can try and come up with as many ‘new’ words as you can for each spelling rule.

• Grammar

This week we want you to think about adjectives. Remember an adjective is a word that describes a noun (naming word). For example the green grass or the soft feather. I wonder if you think of an adjective for each letter of the alphabet.

Adjective Alphabet

Numeracy:

• Mental maths
  • Access ‘DK 10 minute a day’ app to practise your tables. You will need to download this app from your app store first.
  • Visit easi-maths on your glow page and complete 3 x 20 minute sessions.
  • Go onto Studyladder and complete some of the number activities set. (See Mrs Mirner’s post)
  • Revise ‘learn its’ in tab at top of blog.

   

• Addition sums (apologies for the large attachments). Ask an adult or use a calculator to mark.

Circles:

Triangles:

Squares:

• Outdoor Maths

These outdoor maths challenge cards are a fab way to do your maths outdoors and have fun at the same time. There are 3 different star rated challenge levels but I think you are all capable of having a go. Let me know how you get on and if you happen to take any photographs then please send them on to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk .

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• Under the Sea code cracker

A fun Under the Sea code cracker for all groups to give a go although you might need some help from an adult. Remember you can use practical materials to to help you with counting (i.e. cubes, coins, pasta, lego, etc).

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Other:

Sports Day

Although we can’t be together this year, we are looking forward to taking part in an even bigger Sports WEEK.

During the w.c 15^th June, we will post some sporting challenges each day on twitter/school app to challenge as many pupils (and staff & parents) to take part as possible!

Of course, we will want to see that you have joined in so during w.c 15^th June, please e-mail your photos to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk adding ‘Sports Week’ as well as your name and class in the subject box.

Burnside’s Got Talent

Also a reminder that next week between 15^th – 19^th June we are inviting you to tweet a video/photo of yourself performing a talent to share with our school community on our Twitter page.

There will be more information with regards to this unique version of Burnside’s Got Talent on the app but I certainly be using time this week to perfect that special talent of your so to give it your best shot.

A special certificate on the app/twitter will be made available for those parents/carers to  to download and present to you on behalf of us.

Through the years we have enjoyed amazing performances from musicians, singers, actors, comedians, magicians and gymnasts to name but a few.

Time to get practising and I’m super excited to see all our room 6 girls and boys.

Have a lovely week everyone and as always if you need help with anything then just let me know.

Lots of love

Mrs Graham xx

Good Morning Room 6,

Welcome to another week of home learning! I hope you’ve all enjoyed the weekend. Today is “World Oceans Day”.  It happens every year on the 8th June and is all about how we can protect and restore our wonderful and diverse oceans.

Here is the link for the webpage – there are lots of activities and programmes for you to choose from for children of all ages. Have fun exploring this page! Some of them are live and start at 9am so don’t miss them.

https://worldoceanday.school/

As always if you make or do anything  please share it with me on gw16mirnererica@glow.sch.uk

I have uploaded more Studyladder activities for you. Mrs Graham and I are very proud of you all! Have a great week and keep in touch.

Mrs Mirner

Good Morning Room 6!

I hope you and your families are all keeping well and enjoying some of the activities from this week. Please say “hello” to us in the comments below – we love hearing from you all – even if its just to say “hi”.

Mrs Graham and I are very proud of all of you and we are really enjoying seeing some of the work you have been doing on the Under the Sea topic.

Have a look at these amazing Power Point presentations made by Ros and Julia. Ros has researched the fascinating sea horse, and Julia has been visiting Holmhills Park, which inspired her to make a presentation about the lifecycle of a tadpole, since we are looking at lifecycles this week. Well done to both of you.

https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/personal/gw17vallancejulia_glow_sch_uk/Documents/Presentation%2010.pptx

SuperSeahorses

You can access Microsoft Office, which includes Power Point  through your Glow homepage. Its available to all of you as a free download. I am just about to attempt to download it onto the ipad – some of you will be over taking me in your fantastic ICT skills at this rate!

Stay safe and keep smiling Room 6!

Mrs Mirner : )

Good afternoon room 6

This year, although we cannot share the stage in the hall, we are still planning to hold Burnside’s Got Talent. Usually around this time we start to prepare our auditions for the event of the year. As we will not be able to share our talents on stage this year, we thought we would bring the stage to you!  We know you have lots of skills and talents and we want to see them!  Please have a think about your act and get practising! Remember some of the things people have chosen to do in previous years are sing, dance, gymnastics, football skills, magic trick, tell a joke, play an instrument….or you may think of lots more talents to show off from your home this year.

Good morning girls & boys,

I hope you had a lovely weekend in the sunshine. Can you believe it has been this hot? It has actually felt like we were on our holidays the whole time, its been just lovely! Mani has been out in the garden a lot even if he is still a bit scared of the paddling pool. This is a picture of him finally taking his first steps in, I was a very proud mum!

Lubo has just been trying to find some shade and his favourite place to cool off right now is in Mani’s playhouse, that is until his wee brother chucks him out, lol!

Again this week both Mrs Mirner and I will set tasks on the blog so they’ll be two posts you can access for your work. With your parents you choose what you do but remember a good structure for each day might look something like this;

• 1 numeracy task (i.e. a worksheet, website game, Studyladder)
• 1 literacy task (i.e. diary, book review, spelling game, Studyladder)
• Personal reading (roughly 15-20 minutes)
• Exercise/fresh air (i.e online exercises, playing in the garden)
• 1 other activity (i.e topic, art, ICT, music, baking)

Literacy;

• Reading

Please keep reading either using the your own personal reading books, Oxford Owl tab on glow, this free book website that I had share before or any other resource you have.

https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html

• Writing

Why not have a go at writing your own newspaper article about whats been happening to you at home during lockdown. Given the lovely weather we have had you might want to write a bit about the fun you have been having in the sun or maybe something you have achieved during these past 10 weeks that has been important to you, like bike rides, baking or maybe its to do with gaming or a new football trick.

If you would rather you could choose to do a newspaper article on what has been happening in the world right now, a bit like our ‘Newsround’ homework task. I’ve attached a template below as guide to help you set it out but if you would rather just design your own then go for it.

You might even want to do one of each.

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• Spelling

It is a consolidation week for both groups so please use a variety of spelling strategies as often as you can to revise the words given to you so far on the above tab. If possible get an adult to test you at the end of the week.

• Grammar

I have attached a couple of Noun activities below. Remember a Noun is a naming word such as dog or chair or hat.  A proper noun is a special type of noun that always has a capital letter such as the name of a place or a person like Glasgow or Mani. Both count as type of nouns but just always remember to put a capital letter at the start of those proper nouns.

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• Studyladder activities (see Mrs Mirner’s post)

Numeracy:

How did you get on with your shop last week? If you enjoyed it then keep it going although you might want to change what you sell.

Mental maths

• Access ‘DK 10 minute a day’ app to practise your tables. You will need to download this app from your app store first.
• Visit easi-maths on your glow page and complete 3 x 20 minute sessions.
• Go onto Studyladder and complete some of the number activities set. (See Mrs Mirner’s post)

Fractions

All groups had been due to move onto fractions before school closed. While I am not intending on teaching anything new while you are working from home, I have looked at these activities and feel many of you will be able to give it a go by using your prior learning. Fractions basically just means part of something. So if you eat half of a pizza say you are in fact eating a fraction of that pizza. A fraction always has the total number of parts written at the bottom. So one half is written as 1/2 which means 1 part out of a total of 2 parts. Fractions are definitely easier to understand using practical materials or by drawing out shapes to divide up.

You might need an adult to help you with some bits but remember if you are finding it too hard then don’t worry as we will be going over it all again when back in school.

Squares & Triangles;

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Answers fractions workbook

Circles:

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(Some of the chilli challenges are more difficult than others so just do what you can. You’ll see that the answers are included in this pack so no peaking circles).

Summer maths

Given how lovely the weather is right now I have attached a lovely summer maths booklet if you would like to download it. It has lots of fun summer maths challenges but if you get too stuck with a particular page and an adult can’t help you then just move on. You can choose what order you do it in also.

Year 2 Summer Maths Activities

Year 2 Summer Maths Activities Answers

H&W:

I found these fun home sports day cards to do at home, why not give them a try with all the family.

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Other:

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Have a lovely week girls and boys. If you need any help with anything then just let us know and as always we will put a weekly check in up on Thursday.

Lots of love

Mrs Graham xx