Hello everyone, I hope you had a lovely weekend. It’s another short week this week so there will be no work set for Friday. We also have a holiday the following Monday so next week’s blog post will go up on Tuesday morning.

Remember, tasks are suggestions only! Do what you feel comfortable with and if you have any questions you can leave me a comment and I will get back to you.

timetable 18-05

Numeracy: 

Would you rather? Remember to explain your answer. (” means inches)

Try to keep up with the Budget Game.

MM: These two pages will revise your knowledge on multiples and factors. Hopefully you remember! If not, this might help you: Factors and Multiples

factors

Multiples

factors 2

DD: Here are some more activities relating to perimeter and area. Watch the videos and try the interactive activity. I have included the worksheet for you to try too.

Area video

Worksheet: area

area2

area3

AA: This week I have set some revision tasks on place value.

reading 3 digit numbers

comparing 3digit numbers

ordering 3 digit numbers

Literacy:

Each group should try and find some time to read a book of your choice.

AA: This week I’m going to give you three chapters to do, but that’s because it’s the last three chapters. Feels like we’ve been doing this book for ages doesn’t it?! I would suggest reading chapter 35 first and then completing the activity for that chapter, as some of the questions involve predictions.

Nowhere Emporium ch 35-37

FF: Pobble365 – try the activities for your chosen day.

Tell Me No Lies – These activities are from BBC Bitesize. You can listen to extracts of a book and use your inference skills to answer the questions. There are 3 different activities for you to try.

CC: https://www.pobble365.com/ – try the activities for your chosen day.

Birds in your garden – this is a comprehension activity based on the birds that you might see in your garden. If you finish this, you could maybe look for other wildlife in you garden/outside. Could you research an animal/insect you find and create some of your own questions?

Spelling:

Gold: You have the suffix ‘ness’.  ‘ness’ at the end of a word means ‘the state of being’. If you take the word ‘kind’ as an example, when you add ‘ness’ it means the quality of being kind or friendly. If you show kindness, it means you are doing something to show your are kind. Can you think of at least 4 more words with the suffix ‘ness’? Other activities could include – finding the definition using a dictionary, test an adult, use your words in a paragraph, create a wordsearch.

Silver: You have the phoneme ‘ow’. This week, practise your words by creating a wordsearch, testing an adult, bubble writing, writing your words in a paragraph or finding the meanings using a dictionary.

Bronze: This week you have the phoneme ‘ch’. You could test an adult, create a wordsearch, use your words in sentences, bubble writing.

Writing:

This week you should concentrate on using your plan to create your story about the doorway. You should include at least 3 paragraphs.

Doorways

Topic: This week, we are concentrating on Geography. There are 195 countries in the world. Can you name them all?

Just kidding, we’ll start off a bit smaller. In Europe there are 44 countries. Your job this week is to name as many of them as you can.

This video might help you:

Remember, the Czech Republic is now known as Czechia and Macedonia is now known as North Macedonia. There are a few sneaky ones in there too… there is another country within Italy. Can you find out what it is called?

This game also helps you learn where each country in Europe is:

Europe puzzle

You can choose the easy or the hard version, whatever you prefer.

Once you’re confident enough, test yourself to see how many countries you can name. You have 8 minutes to complete it.

Countries of Europe

P.E: Find a partner and try a game of Battleships. Watch the video below for instructions.

ICT: 

Recipe Card

Follow the link above for this week’s online tutorial in coding HTML and CSS. Your challenge is to create a webpage for your favourite recipe. I know that many of you have been busy with home baking recently, this will allow you to display the ingredients and method for one of your recipes. If you email the link for your project to me I can post them on the blog at the end of the week then you can all have a go at trying out some new recipes at home!

If you would like to save your project so that you can return to it later, then you can register for a free Raspberry Pi account. Sign up by clicking on ‘sign in’ in the green box to the left of the tutorial screen. Good luck!

Art:  This week, find a picture from a newspaper or a magazine. It can be of anything, but your job is to imagine what the rest of the picture would look like, so you’re extending the picture. I’ve attached an example, I used a pair of Converse as my picture and then drew the rest. I did mine really quickly but you should take your time and use colour if you can.

example

Life skills: Choose a task from the list.

life skills

Non-screen activity: Choose a task from the list.

non screen activities

Have a good week everyone! Remember to send any photos of your learning to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk

Literacy:

AA: NE ch 33 + 34 answers

Hi everyone, some photos of your learning over the past week! Remember, I really enjoy seeing what you’ve been learning and activities you’ve been doing so remember to send any pictures to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk with my name and Room 12 in the subject box!

Hi everyone!

I know lots of you have been using Sumdog, I hope you have been enjoying it. I’ve just had an email to confirm that Sumdog’s South Lanarkshire Maths Contest starts tomorrow at 8am. It will run until 8pm on the 21st May.

Here are the rules:

• Students can play at any time.
• For the score to count, the South Lanarkshire Maths Contest activity must be showing in the green panel on the left of the student’s screen when they click to start each game.
• Their scores are based on correct answers.
• A class’s score is the average of the scores from all students from that class who take part.
• To appear on the leaderboard, at least 10 students from a class need to play.
• Each student who answers 100 questions will receive an item for their Sumdog house.

I’m sure you all know how competitive I am, so I am really hoping you take part in this! Scores are based on accuracy, not speed, so take your time answering questions.

Good luck!

Hello everyone, how has your week been?

Has anyone had a lockdown haircut yet?! Mr P needed one so I was in charge of the clippers! I think I did a pretty good job and he seems happy with it so I’m taking it as a success!

Remember to try and leave a comment by Friday to let me know how you are getting on. If you would prefer to email me, you can do that too – gw16pantonjennifer@glow.sch.uk

Comments will not show up until I approve them so it may take a while for your comment to show up on the blog.

Stay safe everyone!

Hello everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend.

As always, tasks are just suggestions and there is no expectation of you completing everything.

home learning timetable 11-05

Numeracy: Here’s is a starter for you all to try – which would you prefer and why?

Hopefully you’ve had a chance to try the Budget game so you can continue with that. Let me know how you are getting on with it!

I hope you all enjoyed the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory escape room challenge. I have another one for you to try, this time it has a Hogwarts theme!

Hogwarts Escape Room

MM + DD: Why don’t you try some of these Maths challenges that are designed to keep you active too?

maths on the move MM+DD

Have a go at the BBC Bitesize challenges – they are uploaded on a Friday!

Bitesize Challenge

AA: Why don’t you try some of these Maths challenges that are designed to keep you active too?

maths on the move AA

Have a go at the BBC Bitesize Maths Challenge – they are uploaded on a Friday.

Bitesize Challenge

Literacy:

AA: Have a go at reading chapters 33 + 34 and try the following:

Nowhere Emporium ch 33 + 34

FF:

Pobble365 – have a go at the activities for your chosen day.

setting and context – These tasks are designed to help you with creating setting and contexts in your writing.

CC:

Pobble365 – have a go at the activities for your chosen day.

The Worst Witch – Try these reading activities based on The Worst Witch.

Spelling:

Gold group: You have the prefix ‘ir’ and ‘im’ this week. Both of these prefixes mean ‘not’. So if you take the word ‘impossible’ – you have im – possible so it means not possible. The same goes for the prefix ‘ir’.  Take the word ‘irresponsible’ – ir and responsible means not responsible. See how many more words you can find with the prefix ‘im’ or ‘ir’. You could try writing them in sentences or finding the definition.

Silver group: You have the phoneme ‘ow’ this week. This sound can be represented in the following ways: ‘ow’ and ‘ou’

Have a go at finding as many words as you can in this picture:

ow phoneme picture

Read the story and find all the representations of ‘ow’

ow phoneme story

You could also use the words you find in sentences and practise your weekly spelling words.

Bronze group:

You have the phoneme ‘ch’ this week.

Read the story and find all the ‘ch’ words. You might want to use the words you find in your own sentences.

ch phoneme story

Other activities you could try are: testing an adult, finding more words with the ‘ch’ phoneme, making a wordsearch, bubble writing.

Writing: For writing this week, I thought you could try some imaginative writing. This week, we will focus on the planning stage and then next week we can focus on writing it. Have a look at the following link:

Doorways

If you click on the links on the right hand side, you will see some images and some extracts from books. Your job is to read the extracts to give you some inspiration. Think about how the authors describe the doors and how they create tension and suspense. You might want to underline or write down any words or phrases you think are effective.

Next, have a look at the images provided. You might want to us one of these images or you might have your own idea. Draw the door you want to use in your story, make sure you included lots of detail as this will help with your writing. Around the outside of the door, write down words or phrases that you will use in your story. Think about what you can see, hear, touch, smell and how you feel.

Next, think about your character. How does your character feel? Do their feelings change as they go through the door? Think of words or phrases to describe how they move and how they act. Think about what they might say.

Lastly, think about what is going to be on the other side of the door. You might want to draw this too and write words and phrases around the outside of your drawing.

Keep your plan safe so you can use it next week!

Topic: For topic this week I thought you could concentrate on women’s roles during the war. Have a look at the following information and choose an activity to complete.

Women’s contributions to war

I made a propaganda poster to encourage women to join the war effort. I used some images online to help me.

If you would rather, you could look at how the war affected children. It’s hard to imagine how you would have felt during the war so these first hand accounts might help.  There are some good writing activities that you could try. There are also some book recommendations from author’s who experienced war. I recommend The Lord of the Flies, it’s one of my favourites!

A child’s view of war

Can you become a WW2 codebreaker?

WWII codebreaker

There are lots of activities relating to VE Day on the Poppy Scotland website if you want to have a look:

http://learning.poppyscotland.org.uk/veday75/

ICT:

PE:

This week I thought it would be good for you to set your own walking challenge:

• Steps Challenge – Can you climb Ben Nevis in the comfort of your own home? Can you walk the Coast to Coast path in your living room? Can you walk one million steps in three months? (10,000 steps a day) Step up to the challenge and stay active at home.

The Ramblers website has information on the step equivalence of several mountains and long distance trails that you can challenge yourself to walk the distance of from the comfort of your own home. Those of you without access to a Fitbit or other smart watch that can track your steps can download a free tracker app to a mobile device. Information on some of these apps can be found on the Ramblers website, please ensure that you get permission from an adult first before downloading anything.

If you are going to set yourself a challenge, please let me know what you’re going to do and how you are getting on with it!

Art:

This is such a simple way to inspire awareness and awe about the astoundingly beautiful and amazing patterns in nature!

Choose a leaf, flower, pine cone, stick or stone and bring it home to examine. If you can’t get outside, look online or find a picture.

Take time to observe and talk about the patterns you see. What shapes/colours can you find? How are they organised? Why might these patterns exist?

Then draw/recreate the patterns. What do the patterns make you think of? What other things in the world have you seen that are similar?

Finally, have fun and make your own picture with the same shapes and colours!

Life skills: Choose an activity from the grid.

life skills

Non-Screen activities:

non screen activities

Have a good week everyone, and as always, if you want to share any of your learning with me, send any pictures to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk with my name and Room 12 in the subject box. Any questions, just leave me a wee comment and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

Hi everyone!

Thank you to those of you who sent me photos from home. It’s lovely to see what you have been getting up to. Here are a few more photos of what you have been up to!

Since it’s a short week, I’m posting your answers today!

Numeracy:

Have you all had a go at the budget game? Let me know if you have and how you find it.

What about the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory escape room… did you escape? I won’t lie, I found a few bits quite tricky!

MM+DD: 

classroom supplies answers

babysitting fees answers

AA:

There are lots of different answers for both of your problem solving sheets so I won’t post all the possible solutions!

Literacy:

AA: NE ch 31 + 32 answers 

Hello everyone!

I’m posting the weekly check-in today as it’s a short week this week, so please leave a comment at some point this week to let me know what you have been up to.

This week I plan on going out for my daily walk, hopefully with nice weather. I’m also planning on baking some cheese scones which is my new favourite thing to bake!

I look forward to hearing from you all!

Our trip this week is to the Science Centre who have a lesson every weekday at 10am. The schedule for this week is below. Choose what lessons you would like to take part in and follow the link below to access the video on that day.

Glasgow Science Centre at Home

Monday 4th May – Make a Planisphere

What is a planisphere and why would we need one to look at the night sky? You’ll see how you can make a planisphere with our handy planisphere print out. We will show you how to use the planisphere for backyard astronomy. You’ll need the planisphere print out (download below), some scissors, blu tack, a split pin (or similar) and some adult permission and supervision. Most suitable for budding astronomers aged 7 and over.

Download the planisphere print out

Probability has never been so much fun! Explore the ‘The Monty Hall problem’ with us – will you decide to ‘stick or switch’ when the odds of winning a prize change? The chances of this maths problem being a hit are stacked in your family’s favour! For a further probability activity to try out afterwards you’ll need a pack of playing cards. Fun for everyone with science and maths over 7s will enjoy!

Wednesday 6th May – Straw Oboes

Strike the right note for a tuneful family activity! Learn about how sound travels, how we get different pitches and make your own straw oboe. To join in at home, you’ll need some paper or plastic straws, some scissors, and adult permission and supervision. Ideal for ages 5 and over.

Thursday 7th May – Coat Hanger Clanger

Tune in for an entertaining exploration of how sound travels through different materials. You can try this out at home! You’ll need some string, a sturdy ‘wire’ metal object like a coat hanger, whisk or the top of a grill from a cooker (minus the steak!). Plus you’ll need adult permission and supervision. Ideal for ages 5 and over.

Friday 8th May – Make Your Own Codebreaker

Learn about cryptography and find out how to send and receive your very own secret messages. You will need some paper, a ruler, pens or pencils, scissors, and some adult permission and supervision. Most likely to appeal to over 7s.