Good morning everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend and are ready for some more Home Learning activities! Here is your positivity and motivation for the week.

Here are you work suggestions for the week:

• Squares: Squares 11.5.20. Revise counting in 6s, 7s, 8s, and 9s.
• Circles: Circles 11.5.20. Revise the 2, 3, 4, and 5 times tables. Revise your knowledge for digit numbers. Can you order them from biggest to smallest/smallest to biggest?
• Triangles: Triangles 11.5.20. Revise the 2, 3, 4, and 5 times tables. Revise counting in 10s, 20s, 50s, 100s and 200s.

Reading

• Crayons: Crayons 11.5.20
• Pencils and Rulers: Pencils and Rulers 11.5.20
• Pens: Pens 11.5.20

Spelling

• Red: Consolidation of recent weeks words – sign, design, gnome, cushion, push, pull, gym, mystery, rhythm.
• Blue: (th) them, this, then, there, these, father, mother, that, rather.
• Green: Consolidation of recent weeks words – crumb, comb, climb, know, knot, knew, cuff, cliff, stiff.

Writing

Can you choose one of these story settings and write a paragraph describing it. Remember to include VCOP to up level your writing. You could use descriptions of your senses to also make it more interesting to the reader – what you could you see, hear feel? You can send a picture of your stories to the school photos email.

• story setting descriptions.

HWB

• Newsround and Quiz.
• Keeping yourself active – in the house, garden, walking, cycling etc. You can look at previous weeks for ideas.
• Design a healthy eating poster.
• Research some healthy recipes and try them out (I have been trying lots of different smoothies!)
• Help around the house (I’m sure it would be appreciated)

Expressive Arts

• Dance and Movement Recording Activity
• Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh Art Appreciation Activty
• Mime Differentiated Role Play Challenge Cards
• Musical Instruments Wordsearch

I hope you have a great week. Please let me know if you have any questions and don’t forget to check tomorrow for our Tuesday Challenge – it might be a little different this week 😉

Hi everyone. I hope you have all had a good week! I have been hearing from much more of you which is great! Please leave a short comment below to let me know how you are and what you have been up to this week 🙂

Welcome to your Tuesday Challenge for this week.

Choose one of these spelling challenges to complete using your words for this week: Spelling challenges

Remember you can send pictures to the school email to show me how you got on (gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk).

Enjoy and good luck!

Good morning everyone! I hope you enjoyed your weekend and managed to relax a little. Thank you for some of your positive quotes that you sent to me. They were all fantastic and I found it very tricky to choose a favourite. So instead we have “Room 8’s Page of positivity!”

You can look back at this any time you feel you need some positivity! I am going to stick this on my wall so I can do the same thing.

Here are your tasks for this week. As previously mentioned, these are suggestions and you do not have to complete all of them. Just try your best and do what you can!

Triangles:  Triangles 04.05.20, Triangles 04.05.20 – 2

Circles: Circles 04.05.20, Circles 04.05.20 – 2

Squares: Squares 04.05.20, Squares 04.05.20 – 2

Grammar: 

Commas 04.05.20

Spelling:

Red: (gn) sign, gnaw, gnome, design, gnarl, gnash.

Blue: (wa) wash, was, water, wall, wander, watch, warm, walk, wasp.

Green: (mb) comb, lamb, climb, crumb, dumb.

Reading:

• Some of you might like to read this book: How to not go to school. It might give you some giggles and there are some discussion points throughout.
• Here is a Viking Comprehension task you might be interesting in doing: Viking Comprehension 04.05.20, Viking Comprehension Questions 04.05.20. 
• Can you summarise any of the stories above? Maybe you could summarise a book you have recently read? Summariser 04.05.20
• Are there any words that you find tricky? Can you use your word building strategies to figure our what they mean? (Reading the sentences round about it) Can you use a dictionary or the internet to find out the definition of the word? Word Building 04.05.20

HWB:

• Weekly Wellbeing journal: KS1 Weekly Wellbeing Journal Pack 1 Monday, KS1 Weekly Wellbeing Journal Pack 1 Tuesday, KS1 Weekly Wellbeing Journal Pack 1 Wednesday, KS1 Weekly Wellbeing Journal Pack 1 Thursday, KS1 Weekly Wellbeing Journal Pack 1 Friday.
• Getting some physical activity – this can be in anyway! Here is some dance flashcards you could use to make up your own dance: 4xA4 flash cards.
• Newsround and Friday Quiz (I got 2 out of 5, not great 🙁 )
• Plan your own healthy meal – plan a healthy meal.
• Can you create a family tree? – family tree

Extra ideas:

• BBC bitesize add 3 new lessons everyday for each year group. Simply click on Year 3/P4 and there is lessons on lots of different curricular areas! Here is the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
• Some good viking links, games and activities on topmarks: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=vikings
• Topmarks can be used for maths games too!
• The Mystery at the Grand Portrait Gallery Maths Game
• The Science Centre upload a lesson every weekday at 10am if you want to have a look at this: https://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/gsc-at-home/coming-soon

Just a quick reminder that Thursday is in in-service day and Friday is a holiday so it is up to you whether you complete tasks on these days. If you still haven’t checked in you can go back to do so. Have a great week, keep sending your photos and keep an eye out tomorrow for the Tuesday Challenge!

Stay safe,

Miss M 🙂

I have been seeing all the great photos you have been sending to the school photos email! They are fantastic and it looks like you are doing lots of fun activities at home. Please remember I am unable to post photos with any faces in them but I have loved seeing them all. Here are a few great examples of what some of the children in Room 8 have been up to!

Have a great weekend! Don’t forget to check-in and take part in our Tuesday Challenge! 🙂