Gooooood Morning Room 8! I hope you had a lovely weekend and are ready for your next week of home learning.
Here are your task suggestions for this week:
Chilli Challenge: Subtraction revision
Individual group tasks:
- Sqaures: Revise 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables. Counting in 1000s, 2000s and 5000s.
- Circles: Revise 3 and 4 times tables. Choose another times table you want to learn. Order a list of 4 digit numbers from biggest to smallest/smallest to biggest.
- Triangles: Revise the 3 and 4 times tables. Coutning in 10s, 20s, 50s, 100s, 200s, 500s. Revise these questions for quick recall – 5+9, 6+9, 7+9, 5+7, 5+8, 6+8.
Active maths games and activities you can choose from:
- Dice or card game (like we did in class) – you choose what kind of equations you want to do.
- Knots and crosses multiplication – you can only draw in the grid if you get the answer correct (can be changed to addition, subtraction etc)
- Make up your own maths board game.
Reading
Writing
Clicking the link above will give you access to lots of creative writing prompts. Choose your favourite to help you write a creative story. Don’t forget to include VCOP to make your writing more interesting. You could include your thoughts and feelings also.
Spelling
Red: (o) come, some, done, month, mother, brother, none, son, nothing.
Blue: (ie) tried, cried, fried, died, dried, supplied, replied, tie, lied.
Green: (ou) count, house, round (igh) high, right, thigh (y) fly, shy, dry.
HWB
- Newsround and Quiz
- Helping around the house
- What is the difference between a need and a want? Split these activities correctly – cfe-c-021-needs-and-wants-activity-_ver_3
- Design yourself a super hero. Come up with some words to describe yourself – t-p-840-super-me-worksheet_ver_1
- Do you know how to keep yourself safe around medicine? Can you take a quick quiz about this to test your knowledge – cfe-p-183-keeping-safe-around-medicine-differentiated-quick-quiz-english_ver_2
The mini-topic that received the most votes was Africa! This is the topic we will be learning about the next few weeks but if time allows we will do a little work on Extreme Earth as there was some votes for this topic also.
Below are a list of tasks to complete this week about our mini-topic. You can complete as much of these as you like.
- Research different ways of making a living in Africa and compare them to jobs in Scotland. Are there similarities?
- Use the African Yoga Story cards to do some yoga – Yoga Story African Animals
- Write a story about going on a safari.
- Research Tingatinga art and create a piece of your own.
- Research about the desert and use your knowledge to create a piece of work inspired by it.
- Find out the names of different African countries and label them on a blank map.
- Research what is being done to ensure everyone in Africa has access to clean water. Find out how water can be made safe to drink. Share my findings with someone at home.
- Find out about the daily life of a child in an African country. Compare it to yours and write or draw the similarities and differences.
- Research how animals in Africa have adapted to the climate and then create a poster to show my findings. African Animals Fact File Activity Sheet – Animal Facts
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sl/burnsideroom2/ – head over to Miss Ferry’s blog to see the school trip for this week 🙂
I will be in school some days this week so I may not reply as quickly as usual but I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Have a great week everyone 🙂
