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Primary 1’s wonderful work

We have been so impressed by the wonderful work Primary 1 have been doing this week (can you notice the alliteration?). Here are some of the highlights…

Lots of you have also enjoyed getting out in the sunshine both for exercise and to help in the garden.

Thank you for all the pictures you continue to send in. We love seeing your smiling faces and are so proud of the work you are managing at home.

Keep it up!

The Primary 1 teachers

Primary 3 Thursday 21st May

Bonjour! Aujourd’hui, c’est Jeudi vingt et un Mai,

Today would have been our first day doing our P3 residential!

Because of this, we thought it would be fun to have a look at some of the places we would have been, as well as some of the activities we would have done over the next 2 days.

If you were set to be on the residential, today we would have been paying a visit to Linlithgow Palace, St Michael’s Parish Church and the Linlithgow Canal Centre, all of which are full of interesting facts and history. A tourist video and Pdf of information are included below.

Linlithgow Palace investigating-linlithgow-palace

https://www.lucs.org.uk/

In the original overnight residential, you would have had to carry your bags and cases up to your rooms, so why not carry your suitcases up and down your stairs a few times. Also, in the original overnight residential, you had a bed to make – next time your bedding is washed, put your own covers back on for practice!

We also would have had a play in the park and fed the ducks, so have a play in your back garden if you have one, or go on a walk with your family. As we walked around the lock, we would have completed a ‘treasure hunt’, so why not make up a treasure hunt for someone in your family. Or even better, get someone in your family to make one up for you!

At night time today, we would have had a talent show and disco. Why not get dressed up in your party clothes, put the music on, turn the lights down and have a house disco. Break it up with some entertainment and show your family some of your best talents!

Remember to go to bed early – you are exhausted with having had such an exciting day. No talking after lights out and you sleep soundly until about 7am! (This is not how it usually goes! :))

If you are skipping the residential, here’s some school work instead:

Why not check out this web page from the Scottish Opera. I know so many of you are natural born performers and you love to sing, dance and perform. This company are putting together a virtual opera and they are teaching you the songs, dances and acting parts as the weeks go along. The final performance will take place from people’s homes all over the country. If you want to take part in this too, you can. If not, you can just enjoy learning the songs, and storyline of this opera.

Word Boost answers:

Cat’s Ahoy – Miss Smith’s Class:

Verbs: clamp If you clamp something you hold it tightly in place, steer When you steer something you make it go the way you want it to go, quiver If something quivers it shakes with small movements, abandon if you abandon something you leave it behind forever.

Adjectives: silent No sound is made at all, solemn If someone is solemn they are very serious and not happy or funny.

Dougal’s Deep Sea Diary – Mr Woodward’s Class:

Nouns: directions Instructions that tell you where to go or what to do, souvenir something you buy or keep to help you remember a holiday, place or event.

Verbs: drift To move slowly without trying, glisten If something glistens it usually shines because it is wet or oily.

Adjectives: rickety Something weak and shaky and likely to fall apart, glum You are a bit sad or disappointed.

Reading:

Rewrite these sentences changing the underlined word to a different adjective. These tasks will also be posted in Teams.

Don’t Press the Buttons

“I know what we can do!” said Nok.
It was a huge room on the bottom deck of the ship.
Max spotted a strange machine.
Max was scanned by rays of bright light.
“Cool! said Ant.

The Empty Palace

In front of them was a magnificent building with tall glass windows.
He ran towards a door at the front of the building.
It was very quiet.
He picked up a thin, metal object that was on one of the thrones.
Suddenly there was a loud.

The Sands of Akwa

He breathed in the warm, salty air.
They looked around but the beach was empty.
Silently, four strange creatures stepped out from behind the rocks.
They were tall, with spotted skin and eyes the colour of the sea.
Just then a huge shadow was cast over the beach.

Tom Thumb and the Football Team

She tucked Tom into an eggshell cradle and she was happy.
If you’ll stop spoiling those currants you can see how I make a nice pudding for your father’s dinner.
That water was hot.
“Bless us all!” she said. The pudding’s alive! Help!”
That somebody was a hungry tinker passing by.

Stinky Street

He loved living on Stanley Street. Everyone was friendly.
His house was warm and friendly and it had just been painted, worse luck.
“So am I,” Franklin grumbled.
“Something smells horrible and I don’t know what it is,” she said.
“Ugh, what’s that disgusting smell?” he asked.

Numeracy: In today’s Numeracy we will be looking at subtracting using chimney sums. There will be an instructional video posted to Teams to show you how to do them if you are unsure, please ask if you can’t get the video via Teams.

Mild:

Subtraction Mild

Hot

Subtraction Hot

Spicy

Subtraction Spicy

Number Talks

3 x 26 4 x 25

6 x 26 6 x 25

9 x 26 6 x 325

Challenge Sum

693 x 42

Great work everyone! Remember, these activities will be here for you and are going nowhere so just do what you can!

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Primary 1 21.5.20

Good morning Primary 1.
How are you all? The Primary 1 teachers are still missing you lots and wish we could be back in school together. It is great to see all the photos you are sharing of the work being done at home. You are making us very proud teachers! Keep up the great work and please continue to post your photos on the Learning Journals.
Ms Fox has created some learning activities you might want to try to help develop your art skills while you are at home. She is missing working with you and wants you to continue to practise drawing different objects and things you see in your everyday life. Here are some of the suggestions she gives:
1. On your daily walk you could pick up a leaf, flower or interesting object to draw when you return from your walk, or draw these items from your garden or from your window.

Here are some interesting objects I have found on my walks:

2. Do a drawing of your back garden or of your house from the outside, or a drawing of your favourite room in the house.
3. Draw a member of your family.
4. Draw a pet, or an animal or bird that you see on your daily walk. You could always ask your parents or guardians to take a photograph for you to make it easier
5. Create a poster of the things that you think about when you think of ‘Summer’. This could include the word ‘Summer’ in bubble writing so that you can decorate inside the letters. You may wish to include a picture of the sun, flowers growing, leaves on the trees, cold drinks or salads, your favourite summer outfit, the games that you like to play in summertime (tennis, badminton, pass the ball, running, etc). Your poster should be ablaze with summery colours and drawings.
The most important thing here is that you are practicing your drawing skills no matter what you draw and most of all, that you have fun!!
We will share any photos of your drawings with Ms Fox. I know she will love seeing your super work!
Keep working hard and as always please get in contact if you have any questions.
Miss Christy, Miss Daun and Miss Cunningham

Primary 1 20.5.20

Happy Mercredi everyone!

We hope you are well and are enjoying the activities on the grids that were given out yesterday. We can’t wait to see what you share with us on your learning journals. Remember do what you can and also fit in time for play, relaxing and helping out around the house.

The Rights Respecting School article for this week is focusing on Article 28 – the right to education. Every child has the right to an education. Primary education must be free and different forms of secondary education must be available to every child. Discipline in schools must respect children’s dignity and their rights. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

Give yourself one minute to think of as many reasons as you can why education is important for children and young people. You can think about how it helps you! What does it help you with? What might it mean for your future?

Here are some activities you can try:

Imagine you have been asked to create your ideal lesson timetable for a day or a week at home or in school. Plan it out and decide what you would include and what you would leave out. Make sure it will provide children with a really good quality education!
What do you think makes a good teacher? This video might give you some ideas! Draw an outline of your ideal teacher and surround it with words that describe what that teacher is like.
Teachers and learners go together! So now think about what makes a good learner? Imagine you are talking to a younger brother, sister or friend who is about to start school. Describe to them how to be a really good learner! Invent a cartoon character to represent this good learner.

I like the idea of drawing and writing down what makes a good teacher and a good learner. If you have time to do this activity we would love to see your ideas on your learning journals.

Thank you for continuing to share your work with us!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Miss Cunningham, Miss Christy and Miss Daun

Primary 3 Wednesday 20th May 2020

Ca va Primary 3?

I hope you are all well and are looking forward to a quick online check-in today. I know we are! It is the highlight of our weeks! Remember to log on to Teams today at 10am to tell us your news and how you all are.

For a little bit of Science, why not get involved with Dr Chip’s Daily Dose, at 10am there is a link to follow for today for ‘Wonder Wednesday’, looking at ‘Biomimicry’ taking inspiration from nature for engineering.

Mrs Fox has also given us a little Art lesson should you wish to try it out.

Drawing a symmetrical Mask. The video guide can be accessed here: Symmetrical Mask Guide and the outline can be downloaded from here:Symmetry Mask Outline.

Word Boost Word definitions has been added to assignments in Teams. The words are as follows:

Cat’s Ahoy – Miss Smith’s Class:

Verbs: clamp, steer, quiver, abandon

Adjectives: silent, solemn

Dougal’s Deep Sea Diary – Mr Woodward’s Class:

Nouns: directions, souvenir

Verbs: drift, glisten

Adjectives: rickety, glum

Writing: For this week’s writing we are jumping back into space and we are going to spend a day on the International Space Station. Watch this short video to see 2 real astronauts on the ISS and what they get up to on board – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgRMAVoHRbk

Write a diary entry of at least half a page of A4 about a day in space. What would you do during the day, what things would you see, who would you speak to and what would you say, how would you enjoy yourselves, what would it feel like and how would a day on the ISS make you feel? Remember to SHOW the reader what you see and do, don’t just tell them. Use your descriptions and choose the best words!

Maths: For today’s maths we are looking at Tesselation. Tesselation is the creation of patterns using shapes tiled together, e.g.

Your challenge is to create your own tesselation pattern. You can draw the shapes, using a ruler for straight lines, you can use Paint or another art programme on your computer, or you could go outside and create a tesselated pattern in your garden using natural materials.

Today’s Number Talks:

3 x 8 2 x 325

2 x 6 2 x 300

8 x 6 6 x 300

Challenge Sum

362 x 28

Have a great day, and looking forward to speaking with you all.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 3 Tuesday 19th May 2020

Good morning everyone,

I hope you had a restful Monday and are ready for some new activities this week.

Reminders for this week:

We have our class online check-in tomorrow on Teams at 10am.
Carmondean Primary School have registered with Get Set. This will allow families to get active together at home and log their activity to their school team. There will be chances to win weekly prizes, for teams to beat weekly goals and also share their activity to win amazing prizes like fitness trackers. Set out below are instructions as to how to register your activity.· Click on the following link www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo· Click on the families tab· Click on Find school and enter the post code EH54 8PX. Carmondean should pop up and you should click on the name and press submit.
· You will then see a list of teams by primary stage. The school team option is for the staff and their families to log their activity too so we are all taking part! Log your activity and we are all set!
Annual Council Survey on use of school meals accessed here: WLC Survey

Article of the week:

Article 28 – The Right to an Education.

Some of the activities include watching: Be a Mr Jenson for inspiration on what makes a good teacher. Can you think of words to describe what a really good teacher would be like?

Do the same as above, but this time, think of words to describe what a really good learner would be like.

Imagine you have been asked to create your ideal lesson timetable for a day or a week at home or in school. Plan it out and decide what you would include and what you would leave out. Make sure it will provide children with a really good quality education!

Watch The Right to Education and use it to write a poem about education and learning.

Go have a look at The Book of Hopes and read through some of the poems and short stories together. Choose one you like best and teach someone else about it and why it stood out to you.

Maths: Remember there are instruction videos in the Teams Files. Please ask if you need reminders for any of the work. We would be happy to make a resource to help, or even meet online to discuss problems.

Addition Carrying 10s and 100s

Reading: There is a new Word Boost story in the Literacy file in Teams for you to listen to. Your reading task for today is the read the first half of your reading book. New books can be accessed at www.oxfordowl.co.uk Should you have any problems accessing your books, please let us know.

Level 6 – Don’t Press the Buttons

Level 7 (Blue Group) – The Empty Palace

Level 8 – The Sands of Akwa

Level 10 (Red Group) – Tom Thumb and the Football Team

Level 11 (Yellow Group) – Stinky Street

Today’s Number Talks:

2 x 16 4 x 250

8 x 5 4 x 6

8 x 10 8 x 200

8 x 6 8 x 50

8 x 16 8 x 6

8 x 256

Challenge Sum

816 x 45

Keep working hard Primary 3, we are so proud of you,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 1 Home Learning 19.05.20

Good morning Primary 1!

We hope you had a lovely long weekend and enjoyed getting some fresh air. The Primary 1 teachers have been very busy. Miss Cunningham went out for some walks and spotted a few ducks and Miss Daun went out for a cycle to the reservoir. Miss Christy went for a walk in the Pentlands with her dog and she spotted some of the zebras from Edinburgh Zoo on her walk up Corstorphine hill! Here are some pictures of what we were up to:

We are all missing you all very much and it has been lovely to see how well you are all getting on at home. We are all proud of how hard you are working and thank you again for all of your lovely feedback on the Learning Journals.

This week in literacy we are having a consolidation week. This means that we will be revisiting some of the sounds we have learned already to make sure they are fully understood. We will be looking at the ee, oo and ck sounds this week and you will find the blending activity attached below. For reading we decided to create a little non-fiction book for you about farming. The comprehension questions will be attached in the messages section of the Learning Journals. Here are the literacy resources:

Literacy19.05.20

blending (1)

lifeonthefarm2 (1)

This week in maths we will be focusing on learning half past on a digital clock. Miss Christy has also created a fun video for you to learn all about odd and even numbers. Please find the maths resources for this week below:

Maths home learning grid 19.5.20 (2)

Half past digital clock worksheet

We are also beginning a new topic of interdisciplinary learning. We are going to start looking at farming (the different types of farms, the job of a farmer, products we get from farm animals and crops, and how farms in Scotland are different from farms in other countries etc). Please find the interdisciplinary home learning grid below:

IDL Week 7 (2)

Thank you again for continuing to share all of your hard work with us! It brings a huge big smile to our faces when we get to see your work at home!

Primary 1 teachers

Primary 3 15 5 20

Bonjour et happy vendredi Primary 3! The weather has been lovely to finish the week off and I hope that for your long weekend the weather continues to stay bright and beautiful and you can all get out in your gardens or take a safe and socially distant walk around some of your favourite walking spots!

Remember that Monday is a holiday so no work will be posted and we don’t expect you to do anything work related at all, enjoy the extra day and we will look forward to hearing all about your long weekend next week when we get back!

If the weather does turn bad, or if you find yourself with some extra time on your hands and you’re feeling creative, why not try this painting and drawing activity. First take a paper and a paintbrush and a paint colour of your choice. Then just let your brush wander over the paper and for even more randomness don’t look at the paper when you are putting paint on it. Then use the random patterns you’ve made to create a picture using coloured pens/ pencils/ crayons/ different paints? The great thing is this will be different every time! Here is a few examples courtesy of Art Angel:

Mental Maths today are as follows, remember to time yourselves to see if you can beat your time taken to complete! Answers will be posted in Teams Files later on in the day.

Your new challenge this week is based on the ‘transport’ aspect of technology you chose to learn about. We will be beginning with learning about the Steam Engine and James Watt’s part in improving this. Link to Pdf is below, and has been uploaded to Teams files. Please let us know if there are any problems accessing this.

Critical Skills Challenge Steam Engine

Have a lovely long weekend everyone.

Thank you for your continued hard work and support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 1 15.5.20

Good Morning Primary 1s!
I hope that you are all keeping well. I have some very exciting news. This morning I came into my kitchen to make my breakfast and there was a trail of glitter and a brown letter sitting in the middle of the floor. Can you guess who the letter is from? I’ll attach a picture of it to the blog and you can read it and find out what it says…

Have a lovely weekend and remember that Monday is a holiday so there will be no new work posted until Tuesday.
The Primary 1 teachers

Primary 1 – Home Learning 14.05.20

Good morning Primary 1,

Happy Jeudi! I hope you are all having lots of fun learning from home and that you manage to get outside today for a walk in the sunshine.

Travel to Tokyo. The Tokyo 2020 Games may not be happening this year but you can still get active, stay connected and win prizes with Travel to Tokyo, Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s official, free programme for children aged 5-11 and their families. This week your challenge is to post 4 different activities. If you would like to get involved, just follow the link: https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo

There are lots of other fun resources on Get Set if you feel like getting active, creative or designing something new. Here are some great examples of some of the design challenges you can take part in:

GET DESIGNING

Design a Mascot for ParalympicsGB – take part in the Mascot Challenge for the chance to have your design displayed at the Paralympic Games!
Wearable colours design challenge – design a wearable product to show support for Team GB and ParalympicsGB!
Olympic and Paralympic Values – trace the Values written in Chinese characters and create your own Beijing 2008 inspired art!
Winter kit – research and design a piece of kit for an athlete at the Olympic Winter Games.

If you would like some more information, follow the link to the Primary Home Learning page: https://www.getset.co.uk/resources/home-learning/primaryhomelearning

Thank you for all of the lovely feedback we received on the learning journals on our personalised videos! We really appreciate all of your support at this time,

We hope to see you all soon!

Primary 1 teachers

Primary 3 14 5 20

It’s nearly the end of the week Primary 3 and it has been a great week so far with some amazing work being sent in and we had some really good chat in our check ins yesterday and it was lovely to see how well you’re all getting on, although it did sound like some boredom was maybe setting in! So here are some examples of your great work to keep you inspired and to show off how amazing you all are!

We hope you managed to get outside and start getting into the Olympic spirit with the Get Set Tokyo activity log! In keeping with the sporty Olympic spirit Mrs Ferguson has created a great activity for you to try out at home:

Sock ladder Jumping

Here are your Number Talks for today:

2 x 15 8 x 100

3 x 15 8 x 10

6 x 5 8 x 2

6 x 10 4 x 100

6 x 15 4 x 12

8 x 112

Challenge Sum

482 x 56

Maths for today is the Mayan number system. They use symbols to represent numbers too. They use a shell, a dot and a bar. Please choose your level of challenge below and see if you can use the key to work out which numbers are shown by the symbols.

Mayan Spicy Mayan hot Mayan Mild

Reading can be found in assignments in Teams or below:

Yellow – Brer Rabbit’s Trick Bag

Sentence Level Activity

The following paragraph is about the book. Fill in the missing words with words that you feel make sense.

Brer Rabbit was the most ________ rabbit. He was a _______. He tricked his enemies and ________ his friends. When he tricked his enemies, they all wanted revenge. They tried to ________ Brer Rabbit, but he was too _________. When Brer Wolf was ___________ the chickens, Brer Rabbit decided to play a trick on him. He got a lift into market on Brer Wolf’s ________. Brer Rabbit pretended that the _________ and ___________ had sunk into the ______ _______.

Red – Nelly The Monster Sitter

Sentence Level Activity

The following paragraph is about the book. Fill in the missing words with words that you feel make sense.

Nelly had no ______ there were monsters in her street. They never went out because the _________ get a baby ____________.

Nelly put an ___________ in the newspaper. She was phoned by lots of ___________ asking her to babysit. Nelly’s last family were ______________. Rowan was ____________________. Nelly asked the monsters to _______________ her. Rowan’s Mum and Dad were ___________________ when they got home.

Blue – Tiger’s Discovery

Sentence Level Activity

Fill in the missing words with words you feel make sense in the passage.

Mrs Jones was Tiger’s ___________. He heard she has lost her ____________. Tiger turned his watch to make him ________. He was helping Miss Jones to ______ her earring. He found it in the ______ in the staff ______. He fell into a cup of ________ and was washed down the ________. He gave Miss Jones her ________. He was __________.

Group 8 – The Secret Whirlpool

Sentence Level Activity

Fill in the missing words with words you feel make sense in the passage.

The friends set off to find the ______. They ended up inside a ______ crater. The deeper they went, the ______ it got. They eventually found a whirlpool. Breni calmed it by __________. The whirlpool stopped and they ________ the fragment. When they got to the top of the water, the ________ shouted at them. A ______ of Raptis carried the Krools ship away. They kept the fragment _____.

Group 6 – Blast Off

Sentence Level Activity

Fill in the missing words with words you feel make sense in the passage.

Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger flew off in ______ spaceship. They thought they were headed for ______. ________ was getting smaller and ___________. The controls didn’t work and they almost _______ into the Moon. Seven saved them just in time. Nok’s mum and Dad were on the __________. The children decided to go to planet __________ in the end.

Thank you for your continued support and hard work

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 2 – Home Learning 14.5.20

Good morning everyone!

We hope you are having a good week so far.

Today would normally be PE day with Mrs Ferguson and she has suggested the following activity for some active fun! If you are able to have a go-let us know how you get on 😊

Sock ladder Jumping

Remember the ‘Travel to Tokyo’ activity mentioned on Monday’s blog. All you have to do is log any activity you and your family do. Every little counts and remember there are prizes!

Today is also normally writing day in school. If you are planning to complete your writing today – maybe you could play some relaxing music whilst you do it. We sometimes find that in class it relaxes and focuses us.

We have loved looking at some of your activities on Learner’s Journals and here is a selection of some hard work from the past few days:

Keep up the great work Primary 2 and thank you to the adults at home for helping you learn!

Have a good day boys and girls and we look forward to hearing from you 👍.

Mrs Oliver and Miss Rafferty

Primary 3 13 5 20

Happy Wednesday Primary 3, we hope you have been having a great week so far, we have loved seeing all of your great work and the activities you have been up to. We have had pictures, paintings, videos, even a short clip of Carson doing a backflip! We are loving your creativity and it is so impressive to see how much you are doing with your time away from doing work, well done everyone!

Today we are having our check-in at 10am, we hope to speak to you all as it has become the highlight of our week getting to chat to you all and find out what you’ve been up to!

Today we have a challenge to set you all in light of not having the Olympics and Paralympics this year. The challenge is to keep active however you can and to keep a record of your activities on this website: https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo. You will need to find your school and then record what you’ve done and how long you did it for and there are possible prizes up for grabs!

Your maths today is all about looking at the area of a shape. The area is the space inside a shape. So imagine that all shapes are made up of little squares, to find the area you count all the squares. When writing your answers for the area of a shape you write it as cm² – the small 2 means ‘squared’. There will be shapes in future activities that don’t have squares drawn on and then you need to use multiplication, however we will worry about that when we get there! I will also put up an area instructional video in Teams to help you! Choose your own challenge level:

Mild

Spicy

Hot

And your Number Talks for today:

2 x 7 2 x 500

4 x 7 4 x 500

4 x 8 4 x 30

3 x 8 4 x 2

8 x 7 4 x 532

Challenge Sum

348 x 53

Writing Task linked to reading book. (Please also find in Assignments)

Yellow – Brer Rabbit’s Trick Bag

Written Task

Fill in the acrostic poem to go along with the story.

Red – Nelly the Monster Sitter

Written Task

Fill in the acrostic poem to go along with the story.

Blue – Tiger’s Discovery

Written Task

Write a short acrostic poem about the book using the letters

Group 8 – The Secret Whirlpool

Written Task

Use the following letters to create an acrostic poem about the story.

Group 6 – Blast Off

Written Task

Use the following letters to create an acrostic poem about the story.

Word Boost Definitions –

Tyrannosaurus Drip

Verbs: cling, refuse, roam, scold

Adjective: thrilled, weak.

Cats Ahoy

Verbs: clamp, steer, quiver, abandon

Adjectives: silent, solemn

Thank you for your continued support and hard work,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 1 Home Learning – 13.05.20

Good morning Primary 1!

We hope you are all having a lovely time at home and are continuing to enjoy all of this beautiful sunshine. We hope you have all managed to access the 3 weekly learning grids and are enjoying exploring some of the activities on there. Make sure you are still leaving lots of time for relaxing, playing and helping out at home too.

We would be grateful if you could all take the time to complete West Lothian Council’s School Meal survey 2019-2020 : https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/890ff1b . The survey is very short and won’t take much time to complete!

The Rights Respecting School article of the week is focusing on Article 14 – Freedom of thought, belief and religion. Have a conversation about times your views have been listened to and your choices respected. Can you name all of the places you feel welcome? Now it’s time to choose from one of the RRS suggested activities for this week:

Thoughts and beliefs are usually really important to people. Write down some things you believe in strongly. Share these with your family or discuss them with your friends.
Food choices are really important to some people. Find out about the food rules of veganism or a specific religion. If you have the ingredients at home, why don’t you have a go at making a dish with your family? Watch this video from the BBC and its humorous exploration of food and religion
List as many religions as you can think of. Do you know what symbols are linked with these religions? Have a go at drawing them if you can.
Why do you think religious buildings are important? Think of and draw a building that is important to you or make a sculpture of one of these buildings using things you can find around the house (old cereal boxes, empty toilet roll etc.). This could be a religious building like a church or a temple, or even a school or a library. Write a sentence or two about why this building is important to you.

If you would like some further information about these activities then you can download this week’s pack by following this link: https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/resources/teaching-resources/guidance-assemblies-lessons/article-of-the-week/?utm_source=Unicef_UK&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=rrsa_newsletter_rrs

Previous sets (Article 24, Article 12 and Article 7 are still available if you would prefer to choose one of these activities instead!). We would love to see some examples of your work on the Learning Journals! Thank you for continuing to share your work with us!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Primary 1 teachers

Primary 3 12 5 20

Good morning Primary 3, we hope you are well and we are excited to share some work and some of the VE celebrations pictures we have received yesterday. It is always so uplifting to see the work you’ve been doing and we would love to post every single thing you’ve sent to us, however unfortunately we cannot upload everything due to blog upload restrictions. Here is a selection of photos, including Thomas and his family’s VE celebrations which looked like so much fun and Poppy creating her potato space art, it’s out of this world!

We would also like to remind you that tomorrow at 10am we will be having our Teams check-in. We thought to change the time to the morning and see how it goes, if the afternoon suits people better we will return to the afternoon and if the morning is better we can keep it to then? We are looking forward to chatting with you all and seeing how you are getting on, we miss you all!

We would also ask your parents if it would be possible for them to follow this link and complete this short survey from West Lothian Council, this would be much appreciated!

https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/890ff1b

Your Word Boost story for this week will be added to the Literacy folder in Teams.

Here are your Number Talks for today (the answer to yesterday’s challenge sum will be in Teams. If you have any of your own methods for solving the challenge sum that we haven’t covered please let us know and we will upload videos using your method)

4 x 5 6 x 600

4 x 10 10 x 600

4 x 50 16 x 600

4 x 49 16 x 599

Challenge Sum

385 x 46

Maths for today is written vertical addition. Please see the link below and the Teams Maths files for the sheet. These sums involve carrying. Keep your eyes peeled for the instructional video in Teams as a reminder of how to calculate this type of sum.

Addition and Carrying

Phonics stories have been uploaded into the Teams folder too.

Reading has been uploaded into Teams Assignments, however if you do not have access, please see the True / False activities below that correspond to your books on Oxford Owl.

Yellow – Brer Rabbit’s Trickbag

Comprehension: T/F – Read the following statements and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

Brer Rabbit decided to follow Brer Wolf to see where he was getting food from.
Brer Wolf did not allow Brer Rabbit a lift to market.
Brer Rabbit cut the ears off of the horses.
Brer Wolf found the fire and got heated up.
Brer rabbit had a big party and they all ate the chickens.
Brer Wolf and Brer Fox brought Brer seagull to try to trick Brer Rabbit and they hid in the sunflower fields.

Red – Nelly the Monster Sitter

Comprehension: T/F – Read the following statements and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

Nelly has hardly any work from the monsters. She wasn’t busy at all.
Nelly was called by humans to babysit, not monsters at Number 28.
Rowan growled like a bear, and threw a shoe at her.
Nelly phoned the monsters to help her babysit Rowan.
When Rowan’s Mum and Dad came home, Rowan threw his jigsaw at them.
Nelly blew them a monster kiss from the door.

Blue – Tiger’s Discovery

Comprehension: T/F Read the following statements and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

Tiger saw something sparkly on top of a pile of papers.
Tiger climbed to the top of the papers and the sparkly thing was the earring.
He slipped into a mug of tea.
He managed to climb out of the mug.
He escaped from the staffroom by crawling under the door.
He told Miss Jones he was wet and late because he fell in a cup of tea.

Group 8 – The Secret Whirlpool

Comprehension: T/F Read the following sentences as and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False.

Breni could calm the whirlpool.
The fragment was not in the whirlpool, it was under the sand.
He put the fragment safely into his helmet.
The crater went dark when they got out of the water.
A voice shouted at them “Stay where you are”.
The Krool came to help them out of the cavern.

Group 6 – Blast Off

Comprehension: T/F Read the following sentences as and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False.

They were going to crash into the Moon.
Nok put his hands over the control and two balls of pink energy formed.
The ship tilted, but it was not in enough time.
They skimmed the surface of the Moon.
Tiger’s family appeared on the screen.
Their next stop was Planet Exis.

Thank you for your continued hard work and support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 1 12.5.20

Good morning Primary 1s

Today is Mardi. Can you say that? Have a look outside the window and see if you can describe the weather in French. Here are some helpful phrases:

Quel temps fait-il? (What is the weather like?)

Il fait beau (It is nice)

Il fait froid (it is cold)

Il fait gris (it is grey)

Il fait chaud (it is hot)

Il pleut (it’s raining)

Il neige (it’s snowing)

If you want a reminder of how to say some of these words and some alternative phrases, this video will help

There are a lot more phrases in this video than we would normally teach, but it is helpful to listen to French being spoken to understand pronunciation. Have a go repeating the French phrases and don’t worry if you can’t remember them all!

Today, if you have time, we would like you to have a look at this video

It is a super music lesson where you will learn to create different rhythms. The teachers had a go and found it really tricky! Hopefully you can do better than us!

We hope that you have a lovely day. Please remember that although school work is important, it is more important that you are keeping happy and safe.

Thank you for all your continued support.

The Primary 1 teachers

Primary 3 11 5 20

Happy Monday Primary 3! We hope you have had a fantastic weekend and you made the most of it. Did you celebrate VE day? If you did let us know how you celebrated, we’d love to get some photos up on the blog to show off! Thank you for all of your hard work it has been great to see all the work you have been sending us in, we couldn’t be prouder of all of you!

For today how about creating a space scene using paint, paper and potatoes. If you have any potatoes that you aren’t going to eat, cut the potatoes into a range of shapes (with adult help!) that are space themed and you can design a planet and some aliens that could live on your potato are planet. Here is a short video to show you how to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM2JQvRvlBs

Here are today’s Number Talks:

4 x 11 10 x 15

4 x 9 12 x 25

4 x 21 14 x 54

13 x 42

Challenge Sum

547 x 65

Reading

Please read the second half of your books. For the list of books, please see Wednesday 6th May’s Blog post.

Problem Solving

Please visit Four Triangles problem to try this problem out. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the 4 triangles back together?

Spelling words for this week

Spelling Words Week Beginning Monday 11th May

Rights Respecting Schools

Article 14 – Freedom of Thought.

Every child has the right to think and believe what they choose and also to practise their religion, as long as they are not stopping other people from enjoying their rights. Governments must respect the rights and responsibilities of parents to guide their child as they grow up.

Watch Article 14

Additional Tasks

Poppy gave us a great competition idea should you choose to take part. Visit Design a Book Token to download the template, then draw your design idea and send it to

World Book Day Design a Book Token Competition,
Book Tokens Ltd,
6 Bell Yard,
London WC2A 2JR

If you’re unable to post your entry, you can email a scan or photo to competitions@booktokens.co.uk with ‘World Book Day Design a Book Token Competition’ in the subject line. Please remember to attach both your entry and contact details (on the second page of the template).

Thank you for all your continued hard work and dedication,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 3 Friday 8th May 2020

Good morning Primary 3.

Today is a special day indeed. Does anyone know why?

No, not just because it is Free Time Friday day, it’s because it is VE Day!

VE stands for Victory in Europe and this day is celebrated and remembered. On 8 May 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill made an announcement on the radio at 3pm that the war in Europe had come to an end, following Germany’s surrender the day before. It is important to remember that the war was sill being fought on this day in other areas of the world and lots of the soldiers were still being held as prisoners of war elsewhere as well. To mark VE Day, there is a 1 minute silence at 11am. Lots of online things are happening to celebreate VE Day today. Let us know if you do anything with your family.

If you want to find out more about VE Day have a look here on Newsround: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48201749

Your Mental Maths for today is below. You can choose which one you wish to complete. I will post answers at the end of today for you to check. Remember to try to beat your time taken to complete them accurately from last week.

Mrs Fox has given us some ideas to continue your Art in the link below. Since the weather has been so nice, why not try some of the outdoor activities and let us know how you get on!

Indoor and Outdoor Activity Sheet

This week our Topic Challenge is about living in Space. Tim Peake was the first official British astronaut to walk in space in 2016 and so part of your challenge is to find out all about him. The main part of your challenge is to design your own livable space habitat. Remember our needs and wants challenge? Think about what you would need to survive and how you might get it/ make it/ grow it in space. Design your space habitat and then if you have time and you have asked permission you could try building a model. The challenge will also be posted in the Interdisciplinary folder in Teams.

Here are some links to websites that might help you with some ideas:

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-habitat/en/

https://www.esa.int/kids/en/learn/Life_in_Space/Living_in_space/How_to_build_a_house_on_the_Moon

https://www.kidsnews.com.au/space/nasa-reveals-3dprinted-habitat-tower-that-humans-could-live-in-on-mars/news-story/fa1e702a09e22e9c4d3897e7ddcfca53

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Well done for your continued hard work.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Primary 1’s amazing work this week!

It looks like Primary 1s have been enjoying the lovely sunshine this week. It has been great seeing photos of you out playing in the garden. Some of you have also managed to fit in a few of the activities from the learning grids. Here is a selection of the super work we have seen…