Answers for this week!
Literacy:
Numeracy:
AA: addition answers
Hello everyone, how are we all this week?
This is our weekly check-in so please leave a wee comment, it might just be to say hello or you might want to tell us what you’ve been getting up to this week. Please try to leave a comment either today or tomorrow. It was lovely hearing from lots of you last week so let’s try and keep it up!
This week I have been busy learning sign language. So far I can sign numbers 1-100, some of the colours and the alphabet. I’ve also been trying to find time to read my book as I haven’t been reading as much as I should be.
I look forward to hearing from you all!
Hello everyone! I have something special for the Harry Potter fans. If you aren’t a Harry Potter fan then why don’t you listen to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – it is free to listen to on Audible at the moment:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
You’re a Wizard!
You’re no longer a muggle so you will need a wizard name! Click the link below to discover yours. My wizard name is: Jean Purkiss!
School Supplies
First things first, every wizard needs wand! Before you head off to Hogwarts you will need to visit Ollivander’s in Diagon Alley to pick up your wand. Take the test below to see what wand is yours. Remember ‘The wand chooses the wizard.’ You’ll need a grown-up to create an account to do this – it’s free.
While you’re here, why not explore Diagon Alley. The video below provides a 360° tour. Simply click play and then use the mouse to drag the screen.
Hogwarts Express
Now that you’ve got all your school supplies, head for platform 9¾ and hop aboard the Hogwarts Express. Harry met his best friends Ron and Hermione onboard the Hogwarts Express. Find out Who is Your Hogwarts Best Friend My best friend would be Hagrid, which I’m pretty happy about!
Take in the views of the Glenfinnan Viaduct as the Hogwarts Express thunders along high above the valley.
Hogsmeade
You’ve arrived at Hogsmeade Station. Feel free to take a look around before you head up to Hogwarts Castle.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Welcome to Hogwarts , let’s find out what house you belong to! Click on the link below and answer the Sorting Hat’s questions.
Once you have been sorted into a house you can find out more about it by clicking the link below.
Hogwarts Tour
Now that you know your house it’s time to explore your new digs!
Hogwarts Great Hall
Potions Classroom
Dumbledore’s Office
Gryffindor Common Room
Hagrid’s Hut
Forbidden Forest
Lessons
It’s time for you to learn all the tricks of witchcraft and wizardry. Create your Hogwarts Student Profile and choose your first class.
Care of Magical Creatures
Flying Lessons
Wizard or Muggle?
You’ve completed your trip to Hogwarts! Click on the link below and choose a quiz to test your Harry Potter knowledge.
Puzzles
Create House-crest-door-hander
Theme Park Rides
Follow the links below to hop on board some of the rides at Universal’s ‘Wizarding World of Harry Potter’. If you can cast the video to your television it will make it even more realistic. Hold on tight!
Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure
Flight of the Hippogriff
(Watch from 1 minute 26 seconds – 2 minutes 36 seconds)
Have fun everyone!
Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and managed to enjoy the lovely weather this weekend! How did your week of online learning go last week?
Like last week, I will post an example of a timetable for you to use if it is useful but remember, these tasks are just suggestions! If something else works for you then continue to do that! I will set tasks on Sumdog, Studyladder and Duolingo as usual too. I will post any relevant answers on Friday.
Numeracy:
Here is a starter for you all – you have to decide which one you would prefer and why you would prefer it! You need to explain why you prefer your choice.
This is a good challenge from BBC Bitesize . Have a go and see if you can get all the answers!
The Royal Bank of Scotland will be running a live video on Facebook every Monday to help you learn about different topics relating to money. The video will start at 12pm and last for 30 minutes. This week the topic is budgeting, which might help with your ‘life skills’ task this week!
MM:
This week we will concentrate on percentages. This first link can be used as a starter:
If you click on the following link, there are videos and activities you can complete. The questions get a little harder so try what you can and remember to try and challenge yourself!
Last but not least, here is a percentage challenge for you to try! Good luck!
DD: This week, I’m going to give you something new to try and that is Area. Please watch the videos and try to work your way through the ‘Count unit squares to find area’ section and the ‘Area of rectangles’ section. If you find it too hard or confusing, please do not worry.
If you managed ok with this then try the following worksheet:
AA: This week you should continue with addition using the written method. (If you prefer using mental strategies then you can use that instead)
Before we finished school, we started to look at length and weight and how to measure these. Can you find anything at home to measure?
Literacy:
I have set some Literacy tasks on Study Ladder for you this week to have a go at.
AA: Make sure you have read chapter 29+30 of The Nowhere Emporium and answer the questions below:
FF + CC: Have a look at the following website:
You can use the daily picture or you can choose another day if you want to. Try some of the activities related to your chosen picture.
Try and find some time to do some reading too if you can!
Spelling: I have added your spelling words to Sumdog this week so you should be able to complete some activities on there. However, it wouldn’t let me put some of your words in so you might find that some words are missing. Gold group you are ‘Group 1’, Silver you are ‘Group 2’ and Bronze you are ‘Group 3’.
Gold and Silver group, you have common and tricky words this week. Suggested activities are testing an adult, creating a wordsearch, using your words in sentences or a paragraph, looking up the definition in the dictionary.
Bronze group, you are looking at the phoneme ‘g’ again. Can you think of any other words? Suggested activities are creating a wordsearch, testing an adult, using your words in sentences, checking the definition in the dictionary.
Writing: This week, I have something special for you to try and it involves watching a film. Sound good so far? Into Film have launched a competition for you to write a review of a film using no more than 100 words. The winner will even receive an Amazon gift voucher! I know how well you can all write so I’m hoping lots of you enter the competition! A new winner is selected every two weeks so you can enter as many times as you want. If you want to enter, you should take a picture of your review and post it to either Twitter or Facebook. You MUST get an adult to this for you.
This week you can concentrate on watching the film, taking notes and planning your review. I would suggest you watch your chosen film first and use this to make notes when you’re watching:
Once you have completed that, you can draw the plot of your film in 6 frames using this template:
(You only need to do one film storyboard.)
Next week we will concentrate on writing the review!
If you are happy writing a daily diary entry then please continue to do that too! Remember to include three headings – what you did that day, how you feel and one thing you miss.
Topic:
Even although you’re at home, it’s important to try and stay as active as you can. It is beneficial in so many ways so for topic this week I thought it would be a good idea for you to research how exercise is good for you and what the benefits are for you, both mentally and physically. You could research and then use your research to design a poster, a PowerPoint, or film a tv advert, create a song or radio jingle.
Here are some things to get you started:
Art: Have a look at the link and see what you can find in your house to draw!
how to draw with every day objects
PE:
Can you create your own circuit training course? You can use a Joe Wicks workout as inspiration!
Since the weather is nice you could go outside into your garden and create your own obstacle course. Try and be creative! You could use sticks, skipping ropes, hula hoops, balls or anything else you can find.
Why don’t you check your pulse before your exercise and then check it again after to see what the difference is!
Health and Wellbeing:
Watch the videos on this page which talk about the importance of teamwork. Then you can fill in the worksheet
ICT:
Follow this link for an online tutorial in coding HTML and CSS. This is the language that is used to create webpages, your task will be to create a birthday card. The tutorial involves you opening a new tab where you will code the birthday card, you will still have the original page open with the instructions. You do not need to download any software, this will run within your web browser. Take your time to read all of the instructions carefully and don’t miss out any steps. This is tricky, so don’t worry if you get a bit stuck, just give it a go.
Have a good week everyone and remember to stay safe. If you have any questions or anything leave me a comment and I’ll get back to you. If you have any photos of your learning, send them to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk.
I know some of you are BIG Harry Potter fans so I thought I’d give you this link. You might have seen it already but there are lots of activities that you might enjoy!
I just tried the First Year Muggle Quiz and I got 8/10. Can you beat my score? (I’m almost certain that you will!)
Numeracy
MM: percentage of amount answers
AA: 4d + 4d answers
Literacy:
Remember – if you have been completing work, it would be great to see what you have been up to! Send any pictures to gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk with my name and your class in the subject box!
Hope you have all enjoyed your first week of home learning after the holidays!
Following on from Mrs McGarvey’s message on the school app, we thought it would be a good idea to try and keep in touch with each other by posting a short message on the blog each week. Check-ins will be posted on a Thursday and it would be great if you could respond on a Thursday or a Friday.
You just have to post a wee hello and maybe comment on what you’ve been upto during the week. If you could comment on this post, that would be great!
This week I have been doing my daily walk and enjoying the sunshine. I have also been helping a local charity out by cutting up material. The charity are making bags for nurses to keep their uniforms in and make it easier for them to take them home to wash. It takes a lot of measuring and a very steady hand!
I look forward to hearing from all of you!
Hi everyone, I hope you are all well!
Tomorrow I thought we could do something a bit different and go on a ‘virtual’ school trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. No permission slips or packed lunches required!
There is a live lesson all about monkeys this Thursday at 12 noon on their Facebook page. During the lesson, there will be a question and answer session if you have anything you would like to ask Shonagh. After the lesson, there will be a fun quiz to test your knowledge. I will be watching too so leave me a comment below to let me know what your favourite part was or a fact you learned.
If you can’t tune in live, don’t worry. The video will still be available to view later. Last week’s lesson about penguins is still available to watch. You can access their Facebook page by clicking on the link below, no account required.
https://www.facebook.com/blairdrummondSP/
Hello everyone! I hope you all made the most of your Easter holidays and are managing to stay safe.
Now that we’ve all had time to adjust to being at home so much, I will post work up for you each week. Please take your time with tasks and do not stress too much about getting everything completed. Each week I will give you Numeracy, Literacy and other tasks to complete. I will post the answers on a Friday. I will continue to set activities on Duolingo and StudyLadder. Please continue to use Sumdog too. If you have any questions or need help with anything, leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Remember not to rush and complete everything in one day. You might want to create your own timetable and complete 3-4 things each day. I have included a timetable that you might want to use. Please remember that these tasks are only suggestions, I know you will have lots of other learning opportunities with your adults at home so make sure you continue to do these too! It’s really important to stay as active as you can too.
Numeracy:
Pie Corbett Maths – https://corbettmathsprimary.com/ – please have a look at the 5-a-day maths questions. There are 4 different levels so you should choose the ones you think will challenge you. Try to complete one each day. The answers are at the bottom of the page so you can check them when you are finished each day.
MM: Go to the Pie Corbett website, click ‘Videos and Worksheets’ and click on the ‘Think of a Number’ video. Watch that and complete the worksheet. Complete the following two pages:
Challenge: Can you remember how to work out the percentage of an amount?
E.g. 25% of 28 = ?
Remember, 25% is the same as 1/4, so to work out 25% you would divide 28 by 4. The answer would be 7. Try this worksheet.
DD: Click this link: Perimeter and watch the video. (This should be a recap as we did cover this in class a few weeks ago!) Have a go at answering some of the practice questions. Have a go at the following worksheets too.
As a challenge, why don’t you work out the perimeter of each room in your house, or your garden?
AA: Go to the Pie Corbett website, click ‘Videos and Worksheets’ and click on the ‘Addition’ Video. Watch that and complete the worksheet, try as much as you can! I have included 2d+2d, 3d+3d and 4d+4d so you can complete whichever ones you feel comfortable with!
Challenge: 2, 4, 6, 8 challenge
Literacy:
Grammar: I have set some tasks for you to complete on Sumdog.
Writing: Write a diary entry each day this week explaining your day. Try to include three different headings: what you did, how you felt and one thing you miss.
Reading:
AA: Make sure you have read chapter 27 + 28 of The Nowhere Emporium and complete the following tasks.
FF: Write a book review for The Borrowers. I have included a template that you might find useful. Select a book you would like to read, write down 5 facts you know just by looking at the front cover and a further 3 facts you know just by looking at the blurb on the back.
CC: Write a book review for Poppet. I have included a template that you might find useful. Select a book you would like to read, write down 5 facts you know just by looking at the front cover and a further 3 facts you know just by looking at the blurb on the back.
Spelling:
Gold: Suggested activities – test an adult, write a paragraph using your words, Stop the Bus, write the definitions of your homophones, create a wordsearch.
Silver: Try to find as many ‘f, ff, ph’ words in the picture and highlight your phoneme in the phoneme story. You could also write new sentences with the words you highlight.
Bronze: Can you think of any other words that have the phoneme ‘g’? Think about how you pronounce the ‘g’ in these words. You could also create a wordsearch, test and adult, bubble writing, write your words in alphabetical order. You can also highlight the ‘g’ words in the phoneme story and write new sentences with the words you find.
Art:
I’m sure you will all have heard of Captain Tom Moore who has been raising money for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday. So far he has raised over £25 million! Wow! His birthday is actually on the 30th April which is really soon. For a creative activity, I thought it would be nice to design a birthday card for Captain Tom. His address is available online so you could even send it if you want!
Health and Wellbeing:
Lastly, BBC Bitesize will be posting lessons daily, with a variety of topics. During the following weeks I could possibly set these as work but feel free to have a look/complete any tasks that you want to.
Stay safe, happy and healthy everyone!
Hi everyone, here are the answers to the Reading activities.
Nowhere Emporium ch 25+26 answers
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