The news reporters this week are James and Zara.

Last week, Kieran created and presented a Powerpoint about the birth of William and Kate’s third baby.  Delicia told us about the plans of South Lanarkshire Council to give school children in up to 40 schools a free breakfast consisting of fruit and cereal.  Thank you for those interesting stories.

Homework this week is as follows:

• Spelling – The Big Mix – revise all of the words from your 29th January to 23rd April lists in preparation for a 20 word spelling test on Friday.  Spend most of your time revising words which you got wrong or found challenging.  Use the standard spelling homework format (LSCWC 3 times, choose at least 1 of the new activities from the inside front cover of your homework jotter and finally input words to Spelling City or Big IQ Kids)
• Maths – Squares will do Home Activity 17 and 22.  Circles will do Pupil Sheet 6.
• End of term and writing questionnaire – Miss Russell has put 2 questionnaires on Yammer, can you please complete them and then send me a message on the Blog to confirm that you have done them
• Reading – please read at least 10 minutes per night and record any finished books in your Reading Passport

The news reporters this week are Kieran and Delicia.

Homework this week is as follows:

• Spelling – follow the list for the week commencing 23rd April – LSCWC your words 3 times, choose 1 activity from the front inside cover, input your words to Spelling city or Big IQ kids
• Maths – Squares and Triangles Home activity 16 and 19.  Circles Home Activity 5 and 6
• Music – continue to learn the words and tune to our show songs.  Remember your costume needs to be in by this Friday 27th April
• Reading  – aim for 10 minutes per night of anything you choose – record any finished books in your Reading Passport

For homework this week, please ensure that you now know all the words to our two songs, Sunshine on Leith and Life with You off by heart.  Get someone at home to test you.

Also make sure you do at least 10 minutes of reading each night and record any finished books in your Reading Passport.

For maths, spend time going over your times tables and improving the speed of your mental maths.  Use the games on the Blog to help you.  You can also find your own games too.

There will be no homework this week due to the short week.

There are also no news reporters.  Last week, Chloe brought us the sad news that Stephen Hawkins passed away at the age of 76.  He was most famous for being a scientist, author and for living far longer than expected with Motor Neurone Disease.  Rhion brought us a fascinating story about a 99 year old Australian man who broke the record for a 50m freestyle swim.  He was competing in the 100-104 age category and was allowed to compete as his birthday was only a month away.  The new record he set was 35.12 seconds.

Have a great holiday everyone!

Homework this week is as follows:

• Spelling – follow the list for the week commencing 19th March – LSCWC your words 3 times, choose 1 activity from the front inside cover, input your words to Spelling city or Big IQ kids
• Maths – play the Addition games on the Blog (follow the links on the left hand side of the page) in order to help improve your speed and accuracy during our work on Addition over the next 2 weeks
• Music – continue to learn the words and tune to our show songs
• Reading  – aim for 10 minutes per night of anything you choose – record any finished books in your Reading Passport

The news reporters this week are Chloe and Rhion.

Last week Jay reported on the Manchester United and Seville game.

The news reporters this week are Chloe and Jay.

Last week Calum P brought us a great Power Point about the tragic news that 3 bodies were found last week in the River Clyde.  As yet, they have not been identified.  This is unfortunately not the first that this has happened as so far as this year, 6 bodies in total have been found.  Thank you Calum for this sad but mysterious story.

Murron brought us some great facts about the recent extreme weather we have all been experiencing.  She told us that the Beast from the East and Storm Emma caused people in Scotland to be stranded on the M80 for up to 12 hours causing them to have to rely on the kindness of local strangers to bring them hot drinks and food.  There was also a shortage of bread, milk and diesel as people were panic  buying and deliveries couldn’t get through.

Thank you both for your very interesting news reports.

Homework this week is as follows:

• Spelling – follow the list for the week commencing 12th March – LSCWC your words 3 times, choose 1 activity from the front inside cover, input your words to Spelling city or Big IQ kids
• Maths – fractions worksheet
• Music – continue to learn the words and tune to our show songs
• Reading and Topic – to help you learn a bit more about the time period we are studying as part of our Scottish Wars topic, go to the website below and choose just one of the 6 categories(Early Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Medieval Literature, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Daily Life)  to read and review in your reading passport. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A MUST DO TASK!
  • http://www.historyforkids.net/middle-ages.html