Tag: primary 3

How are you all today Primary 3?

I hope you managed to get some sports day activities completed yesterday? If not, don’t worry, you have all week! The important thing to remember is to save all of your scores and submit them altogether on the online form.

Today for Maths, we thought it would be a good idea to go over mixed sums. You will find multiplication, division, addition and subtraction in the worksheets below. Choose your challenge and see how you get on. Please refer to the original instruction videos if you get stuck.

Mild Addition and Subtraction

Spicy Addition and Subtraction

Hot Addition and Subtraction

Mild Multiplication and Division Word Problems

Spicy Multiplication and Division Word Problems

Hot Multiplication and Division Word Problems

Please find the phonics Stories in the Teams files for practise with sounds.

Reading: For reading today we want you to choose one of the books from your reading passport from yesterday. Pick 1 character from that book for our study for today. It doesn’t have to be your favourite character it can be any character as long as you find them interesting. Draw your character in the middle of a sheet of paper and then you are going to write as many descriptive words around your character as possible. We are looking for you to describe what the character is like not what they look like. Are they brave, are they loyal, honest, funny etc. Fill up your page with descriptive words. Then we would like you to write a short paragraph telling us why you chose this character and why they are important to the story/ interesting in the story. Here is Mr Woodward’s picture and description to give you some ideas (please don’t judge the drawing too harshly, Mr Woodward can’t draw feet or hands well!):

Number Talks

15 ÷ 3                       40 ÷ 4

30 ÷ 3                      24 ÷ 4

21 ÷ 3                       64 ÷ 4

51 ÷ 3                       128 ÷ 4

Challenge Sum

342 ÷ 6

Well done Primary three. We can’t wait to see who the winning house is for Sports Day! Keep up the good work!

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Monday 15^th June

Good morning boys and girls!

We hope you all had a lovely weekend and are ready for our final two weeks of the term. This year, our last two weeks of P3 are looking very different to normal, however, we have some very exciting things coming up.

Mrs Ferguson has been busy planning a virtual Sports Day with the P7s and some of the Sports Committee from the Upper School. I have had a look at what is involved and it is very exciting indeed. A message of support has been given to you all to cheer the house teams along too! Let us know what you thought of it once you watch it!

There are a few activities for you to complete. It is up to you whether you complete these all in one day, a few a day or just one a day this week. The important thing is that you keep track of your scores and at the end of all of the activities, you submit your scores into the form provided. Mrs Ferguson will then count everyone’s scores altogether and announce the winning house, exciting stuff!  Mr Woodward and I will be taking part for our teams too! Let’s go Waverley, let’s go! J

Please see the blog for more information.

Rights Respecting Schools

This week our RRS Article is all about discrimination. Article 2 is in the News right now, so could make for some interesting discussion. Some activities you may wish to try are:

• Article 2 uses some words you might not know very well. Look up discrimination, ethnicity, race and gender to find out what they mean. Try to explain Article 2 to somebody at home now that you know the meaning of these words.

• Being happy and proud about who we are as people is important. If you have read the book ‘The Flamingo Who Didn’t Want To Be Pink’, children at William Tyndale School made the story into a video. Try to get all your family and friends to tell you the best things they like about being themselves and the best things about you.
• Imagine that you are treated differently and not allowed to go to school, have friends and play because of the colour of your hair. … How would this feel? What would you say and do? Discuss this with the grown ups at home
• Look at these images above. They show Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Create a poster showing these images with a written caption explaining what each word means and why Article 2: Non-Discrimination is important.

Please remember to forward on all work you do with these articles to help build evidence for the reaccreditation of our Gold award. Thank you.

Spelling

Spelling Words Week Beginning 15th June 2020

This will be our last formal week of giving spelling words. Remember to go over your common words too.

Problem Solving

Tom’s Dad sowed some tomato seed in February. He gave Tom one of the tomato plants in a pot.

At the beginning of May, Tom put his tomato plant outside. On the same day he sowed a bean in another pot.

Ten days later the bean plant was just 1 cm (centimetre) above the soil surface. Tom measured his tomato plant which was already 38 cm tall.

Each evening Tom measured his two plants.

On the evening of the next day the little bean plant had grown another 2 cm so it was 3 cm high. Each day it continued to grow double the amount it had grown the day before.

The tomato plant grew at a steady 5 cm a day.

After how many days were the two plants the same height when Tom measured them in the evening? How high were they?

Reading: For today’s reading we would like you to begin a reading passport. This is a record of some books that you have read. It does not have to be school books so if you have read all 7 Harry Potter books then you can put down each of the books and write a little bit about them. We need the name of the book, the author and a little bit about what happens in the book as well as what you think about the book. If you can on the map, fill in where the book takes place or where it was written.

Reading Passport

Number Talks:

10 ÷ 2                       18 ÷ 6

6 ÷ 2                        6 ÷ 6

16 ÷ 2                       24 ÷ 6

22 ÷ 2                      48 ÷ 6

Challenge Sum

224 ÷ 7

There will be an instructional video explaining doing the division in Class Materials->Numeracy->Instructional Videos->Number Talks.

Well done everyone for all of your hard work this term. We are so close to the end of P3 now and could not be more proud of how well you are doing. Thank you again to the parent’s for all of your support.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

It’s the end of the week Primary 3 and we have been incredibly impressed with all of the superb work you have been sending us and how much effort you are putting in, we’re so proud of all of you. Please make sure you take time for yourselves as today you would be getting your Free Time Friday time. We know that you all have definitely earned it all! We hope you all have amazing weekends and we are looking forward to next week when we can hear all about the wonderful things you have been up to!

For the final ocean themed activity of the week, why not spend some time in the kitchen (you know there’s a food based activity if Mr Woodward’s involved!) making these delicious ocean cupcakes?

If you have the ingredients these would be a perfect way to start ramping up for the summer, thinking about sitting on a beach, playing in the sea and building sandcastles!

https://theimaginationtree.com/beach-cupcake-recipe/

Mental Maths

The challenge for this week is all about Coding. A few of you have already been impressing us with your coding skills, so we would love to see more!

Critical Skills Challenge Coding

Thank you for your continued support and hard work,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Good morning Primary 3! It was fantastic to hear from you all yesterday, it definitely put an extra spring in our steps listening to your wonderful news and stories!

For today’s ocean themed activity we are getting our science on! We are asking, if you have the materials, to experiment with buoyancy. Before you begin, write your hypothesis, what do you think will happen and what do you think allows sharks to float? Follow the instructions and try to write your own science report on the attached reporting sheet as you are doing the experiment. science investigation sheet

Shark Buoyancy Experiment:

Materials:

Toilet paper roll

Marker

3 pennies

Balloon

Vegetable oil

Bowl

Water

Tape

Instructions:

Draw a shark on the toilet paper roll (or cut out a shark on paper and tape it on).

Tape 3 pennies, equally spaced, on the bottom of the toilet paper roll.

Fill the bowl with water.

Drop the shark in the water. What happens?

Fill a balloon with vegetable oil, tie the balloon closed.

Place the balloon inside the middle of the toilet paper roll.

Place the shark back in the bowl of water. Now what happens? Why do you think it happens? What does it tell you about how sharks stay afloat in water?

Numeracy: Today’s Numeracy is all about number square patterns. We would like you to use your times tables on this number square: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares. What do you notice about the times tables patterns? Do any of the patterns look the same? What kind of patterns do they make? Try as many different times tables as you can and see what patterns you can make. Try to do more than one times table at the same time using different colours and see what patterns you can make, what happens when times tables have the same numbers in them? You could also make it into a game with someone in your house, who can complete their times table first. Take turns to fill in the squares but remember that if you both need the same number to complete your table you will have to think carefully about when to colour it in!

Number Talks

4 x 100                                  4 x 35

4 x 12                                     5 x 35

8 x 112                                  10 x 35

20 x 35

25 x 35

Challenge Sum

812 x 43

Reading

Reading for today is slightly different from our normal Thursday reading.  Today it is about reading and talking about your understandings.

As you are reading the activities, you will be working on your critical thinking skills, working out the meaning of the information you are reading and thinking about what it is asking you to do.

It is not expected that you complete them all, there is a selection included that you can choose from. It would be great if you could complete them with an adult or a sibling so that you can share your thoughts and reasoning with them and have a discussion around your understanding.

**Please note – the answers are at the end of the pack of activities for the adults or for checking once done.**

Reading and Reasoning Skills

Thank you for your continued support and hard work,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Good morning Primary 3 and welcome to Mercredi, or Wednesday! We hope you’ve been having a fabulous week so far and we are very much looking forward to our Teams chat. Mr Woodward’s class meet is at 10am, Miss Smith’s chat is at the slightly later time of 10.30am. It’s always what we look forward to most about our week!

For today’s ocean themed activity all you will need is paper, some paint and then anything else you’d like to add yourself on top of that because today we are thinking of making hand-fish. As it turns out a handfish is an actual fish but our hand fish will be fish made out of your own hands! Just add paint to your hands and press your hands to your paper and then add eyes and a mouth and decorate the scene around it, we’d love to see a school of weird and wonderful fish and remember, we may all be different fish but we all swim together!

Maths: For maths today we are leaving weighing behind and looking at volume. Measuring volume means measuring how much of a liquid you have. For volume we use millilitres (ml) and litres (L). There are 1,000 ml in 1 L and in every 1 L there are 1,000 ml. Try these conversions between litres and millilitres:

Converting ml to L

Number Talks

8 x 100                                  10 x 54

8 x 10                                     2 x 54

8 x 2                                       54 x 36

Challenge Sum

834 x 63

Writing

One Reading group last week read about Winnie and Wilbur staying at home, just like we have had to do for months now. Have a little read of

the book and try to write your own Winnie and Wilbur story?

Here is a planning page to get you started. Remember, of course, your core targets. Remember also your paragraphs to show a clear beginning, middle and end. As a challenge, try to use speech marks within your story to show what might be being said. There are some useful phrases in the plan for you to use, but please pad your story out using descriptions. Show the reader with your choice of words, don’t just tell them what is happening.

Writing Plan Winnie and Wilbur

Thank you for your continued hard work and support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Happy Friday everyone, we hope you have some lovely plans for the weekend.

Today’s Mental Maths:

As always, answers will be posted later in the day.

This week’s topic challenge is all about robotics and comparing two iconic robots:

Critical Skills Challenge Robot

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

How are we all this morning? I hope we are all doing well, it was so lovely to hear from you all yesterday in our class chats!

Your work for today is as follows:

Why not log on to Teams, and in the Class Materials File have a go at Mrs Fox’s Art lessons. There are two videos for you to follow in there. She has explained how to draw 3D shapes, and then how to shade them to they pop out from the paper. Here is the sheet to go along with the videos.                    3D Shapes Sheet 1 and 2

Eventually, this practice will allow us to draw a 3D robot made from different 3D shapes! This lesson is to follow. I can’t wait to see the finished pictures!

Reading – Sentence Level Task

Can you find the meaning of these words in your book? Once you have written down the meaning, try using the word in a new sentence of your own. Remember your core writing targets: 

Core Targets for all Writing

• Write sentences with capital letters and full stops.
• Spell most common and CVC words correctly.
• Join sentences with a variety of conjunctions.
• Handwriting should be linked.

Yellow/ Level 11 – The Huge Horrible Beast

1. Plain (p.5)
2. Ought (p.7)
3. Creeper (p.9)
4. Slung (p.10)
5. Gaggle (p.13)
6. Widow (p.26)
7. Wind (p.30)
8. Scamper (p.32)

Red – Jungle Shorts

1. Anorak (p.3)
2. Lend (p.5)
3. Slammed (p.13)
4. Piled (p.14)
5. Enormous (p.15)
6. Struggled (p.16)

Blue – Battle With the Beast

1. Micro (p.2)
2. Villain (p.2)
3. Defeat (p.2)
4. Release (p.3)
5. Mighty (p.8)
6. Rogue (p.9)

Level 8 – Winnie and Wilbur Stay at Home

1. Crowds (p.6)
2. Blithering (p.8)
3. Collar (p.11)
4. Continued (p.12)
5. Tangled (p.15)
6. Delicious (p.17)

Level 6 – The Junk Cruncher

1. Shrank (p.2)
2. Pile (p.2)
3. Blasted (p.2)
4. Micro (p.3)
5. Kitted (p.3)
6. Swerved (p.5)

Please also remember if you run out of things to complete, you have your activities on your learning grid for all other areas of the curriculum as well as Education City and extra Maths and Literacy activities.

For today’s Numeracy we are looking at number patterns. Like last week with our letter patterns, number patterns are all about finding out what the sequence is and finishing it off – e.g. 1, 3, 5, _(7)_, _(9)_.  Try and have a go at all of them!

Mild:

1. 0, 2, 4, ___, ___, ___ .
2. 12, 15, ___, ___, 24, ___.
3. 54, 48, 42, ___, ___, ___.
4. 10, ___, 20, ___, 30, ___.
5. ___, 20, 16, ___, ___.

Spicy

1. 11, 22, ___, 44, ___, ___ .
2. 125, 150, ___, ___, 225, ___.
3. 63, 56, 49, ___, ___, ___.
4. 10, ___, 40, ___, 70, ___.
5. 13, 25, 49, ___, ___.

Hot

1. 18, ___, 36, 45, ___, ___ .
2. 1,250, 1,750, ___, ___, 3,250, ___.
3. 84, 72, 60, ___, ___, ___.
4. 1, ___, 1.6, ___, 2.1, ___.
5. 2, 11, 38,___, ___, ___.

Number Talks:

2 x 100                    6 x 22

2 x 15                      10 x 22

4 x 5                        16 x 22

4 x 10

4 x 115

Challenge Sum

963 x 58

Well done everyone, keep up the good work.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Bonjour tout le monde, ca va? J’espère que tout va bien! Remember we have our class chats this morning at 10am, we are looking forward to hearing from you all!

Have you all visited the Great Science Share website yet? They are hosting a groove along that you can get involved in: https://www.greatscienceshare.org/great-science-groove

As well as this, they set science themes for investigating each week.

This week’s theme is UN World Environment Day. You can ask questions which will be answered by experts and share your learning along the way to be shown in their online showcase. https://www.greatscienceshare.org/getinvolved2020#weekly-themes-2020-wk5

Writing Task – https://www.literacyshed.com/mon-ami-le-robot.html Watch the clip about a boy and his robot who go off in search of energy packs for the robot. Can you make a written account of the story, using lots of description. What do they see, where do they go and what happens? Your story should show a clear beginning, middle and end and show this in paragraphs. Perhaps you can try to add speech to let us know what you think would have been said between the Robot and the little boy.

Please share your stories with us when they are done and remember your core targets:

Core Targets for all Writing

• Write sentences with capital letters and full stops.
• Spell most common and CVC words correctly.
• Join sentences with a variety of conjunctions.
• Handwriting should be linked.

Maths: We are reading scales today! Not musical scales, but weighing scales. I know a lot of you have been busy in the kitchen and so we are going to mix cookery and maths. Make sure to always wash your hands before handling food! If you have kitchen scales at home, take some items you want to weigh and tell us what they are and what the weight was using the scales:

What Does It Weigh

If you don’t have kitchen scales, or if you do and you fancy playing a weighing game, inputting weight in either kilograms or grams: https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/mostlyPostie/index.html

Number Talks:

2 x 45                      4 x 22

5 x 100                    6 x 11

5 x 40                      3 x 22

5 x 5

5 x 245

Challenge Sum

235 x 74

Well done everyone!

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Good morning everyone. How are we all doing with our learning tasks? Did anyone manage to solve the Maths problem yesterday? It was such amazing weather though, so hopefully you all were outside enjoying that too!

Today Mrs Ferguson has a PE challenge for you all below to practise your throwing and your aim.

Over arm target throw

Can you please remember to log your activity on the Get Set Tokyo web page to win you or our school some sports equipment and prizes!

Numeracy Division Sums (with no remainders)

Should you wish to try the ‘Hot’ challenge, please see the Teams files for instructional videos on how we write out division sums.

Mild Dividing by 2 and 3

Spicy Dividing by 4 and 5

Hot Dividing by 3 and 4 Beyond the 3 and 4 times tables stations. (Please see the instructional video to show an introduction to written division if you wish to choose a challenge.)

Spelling:

Please see Teams files for Phonics stories for this week’s words.

Reading:

True or false. Please read the statements below to check whether they are true or false. If the statement is false, write out the correct statement in a full sentence. If it is true, write ‘true’ and write down the page number you found the true statement on. Make up 3 of your own when you are finished.

Yellow/ Level 11 – The Huge Horrible Beast

1. Ze lived in the African plains.
2. Ze was clever, but not very brave.
3. His father gave him advice to pick up and keep anything he found on his journey.
4. Ze told the widow he was travelling in search of his fortune.
5. Ze was terribly scared of the huge and horrible beast in the barn.
6. Ze took the whole chest of golden coins home with him.
7. The monkey stole the coin bag from the milkman.
8. The monkey kept the coins safe up in her tree.

Red – Jungle Shorts

1. Lenny was at the front of the line because he was getting help with his stuck zip.
2. Mr Cox told the class the letter wasn’t very exciting.
3. Lenny begged his Mum for a real football strip.
4. They had pancakes for tea with jam and pineapples.
5. The market was 2 streets away from where Lenny lived.
6. He saw a man who wore a wide straw hat and jungle shorts at the market.

Blue – Battle With the Beast

1. Arkon was standing in front of a glistening blue lake full of electricity.
2. The Pool of Power is a mighty energy source.
3. Every 500 years the Pool of Power needs to be recharged.
4. The map was on the island in the centre of the Pool of Power.
5. They all pressed buttons on their backs to fly.
6. When Nok touched the rock, a rainbow filled the sky.

Level 8 – Winnie and Wilbur Stay at Home

1. Winnie hated flying on her broomstick and looking at the streets below. She had a fear of heights.
2. The streets were empty and Winnie and Wilbur had to stay at home.
3. Winnie thought it would be easy to stay at home all the time.
4. Wilbur liked to lick his paws and wash his face.
5. Wilbur loved the new collar Winnie made him.
6. Winnie sang a song as she washed her hands.

Level 6 – The Junk Cruncher

1. Planet Senton is the closest planet to Exis.
2. Planet Senton was a lovely clean planet.
3. The Junk Cruncher looked like an ugly fish.
4. Its job was to swim around in Space looking for water.
5. Inside the Junk Cruncher it was like a palace.
6. There were lots of other fish inside sorting out the rubbish.

Number Talks:

2 x 124                    35 x 10

6 x 100                    35 x 2

6 x 20                      35 x 20

6 x 4                        35 x 24

6 x 124

Challenge Sum

362 x 54

Have a great day and let us know how you get on with the learning tasks for today.

Mr Woodward and Miss Smith.

Good morning everyone. How are we all? We hope you had a lovely weekend. Who can tell us the date today in French? Do you remember how to say ‘first’? and also, we are into a new month. Who knows ‘June’ en francais?

This week’s Rights Respecting Schools Article is Article 19: Protection from violence, abuse and neglect.

Some activities you may wish to try are:

• Article 19 means that no child should be hurt, hit or treated badly. Find out about the punishments for children in schools in Victorian times. Imagine you lived then and wanted to end physical punishment in school. Write a letter to Queen Victoria explaining why you think things should change.
• Draw or list some of the people whose job it is to help you stay safe and protected.
• Think about the feelings we have when we know  we are  safe and cared for. Write a poem or song to describe how this feels. Use good metaphors and similes to describe the emotions.
• What do you know about being safe online? Have a conversation about this with the adults you live with. Talk about safe settings on your router and on all devices in the house. Ask your family to look at this Safer Internet website and let you watch some of the videos in the resources section.

Please remember to share these with us so we can build evidence for our reaccreditation.

Problem Solving for today:

Once you have been successful, why not try to draw it again, this time with 4 circles on the bottom row and fitting the numbers 1-10 into the circles in the same way. Is it possible?

Reading: Please read the first half of your new book by visiting www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Yellow / Level 11- The Huge and Horrible Beast

Red – Jungle Shorts

Blue – Battle with the Beast

Level 8 – Winnie and Wilbur Stay at Home

Level 6 – The Junk Cruncher

Spelling:

Spelling Words Week Beginning 1st June 2020

Number Talks:

2 x 125                    25 x 10

4 x 25                      25 x 4

6 x 100                    14 x 10

6 x 20                      14 x 5

6 x 125                    25 x 14

Challenge Sum

652 x 43

Just a reminder that the new home learning grid for other areas of the curriculum can also be accessed on the blog. Here is a link to it if you missed it last week.Learning Grid May – June

Thank you for your continued hard work and effort.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Welcome Primary 3 to Thursday’s blog post! We’re now nearly at the end of the week which means we’re nearly at the weekend! Thank you so much to all of you who took part in our Teams chats yesterday, it was so lovely to hear from you and we love hearing stories of what you’ve been up to and how creative you are being.

For today’s Children’s Gardening Week ideas, why not try to make this DIY bird-feeder using a plastic bottle, some scissors, pencils, string and bird feed? Remember that anything using scissors and cutting into the bottle will need to be done with an adult! But hopefully the bird feeder can be used to attract all kinds of birds to your garden like the Blue Tits Annabel has had visiting her garden!

https://www.sainsburysbank.co.uk/money-matters/build-a-bird-feeder

Reading: Answer these comprehension questions related to your stories. Use full sentences with capital letters and full stops.

Don’t Press the Button

1. Who pressed the wrong button and filled the spaceship with footballs?
2. What did the buttons on the spacesuits do?
3. Where on the ship was the fabricator?
4. When did the fabricator make a humming noise?
5. Why was Ant not listening to Nok?
6. How did they all enjoy themselves at the end of the story?

The Empty Palace

1. Who were they looking for in the palace?
2. What happened to the people in the palace?
3. Where did they find Arkon?
4. When did Tiger’s watch start glowing red?
5. Why did Badlaw take the King and Queen?
6. How did they escape the palace?

The Sands of Akwa

1. Who was the Akwan warrior who introduced himself to the group?
2. What was the name of the beast that attacked the group?
3. Where did the group split up to?
4. When did the two Raptiss start to fight each other?
5. Why were the group on Akwa?
6. How did the three friends protect Livi?

Tom Thumb and the Football Team

1. Who cut open the fish to find Tom Thumb?
2. What game did Tom Thumbs dad teach him how to play?
3. Where did the Tinker find Tom Thumb?
4. When did Tom escape the house?
5. Why do you think Tom was desperate to get outside?
6. How did Tom get back home at the end?

Stinky Street

1. Who wanted to buy Franklin’s house?
2. What did Franklin put behind the radiator?
3. Where did Mr Bragg end up buying?
4. When does the factory do fish pies?
5. Why do you think Franklin didn’t want to move?
6. How did Mrs Cox save the day?

Numeracy: Letter patterns – look at these patterns and try to complete them by figuring out the patterns and continuing them.

1. m n o p q r … …
2. C D E F G H … …
3. L K J I H … …
4. b d f h j l … …
5. r q p o n … …
6. E H K N Q … …
7. ab cd ef gh ij … …
8. az by cx dw … …
9. a c e g I … …
10. zy xw vu ts … …

Number Talks

8 x 5                                       15 x 10

8 x 2                                       15 x 1

8 x 50                                     10 x 11

8 x 56                                     5 x 11

15 x 11

Challenge Sum

615 x 83

Thank you for your continued hard work and support

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Bonjour et bon Mercredi! We made it to Wednesday and that means today we have our Teams catch up chat! It was lovely to see and hear from so many of you last week and Mr Woodward was impressed he finally got the whiteboard working so you could all have a play about and write messages and attempt to play noughts and crosses against each other! Maybe a noughts and crosses tournament is in order? The chat will be at 10am, looking forward to seeing you all there!

For today’s Garden Week idea why not try creating your own version of a sensory path in your garden? (Depending on the weather, maybe if it rains it’s an indoor activity?) Outline a path in your garden if you can, then using whatever you have that you will be able to walk on barefoot set out your path. Have a go at walking along your sensory path and try to describe using a few adjectives how it feels in each section. Get other members of your family to try it too and see if they felt the same things you did!

Writing:

Don’t Press the Button

Imagine yourself on a spaceship and there is a button that makes anything you can think of. What would you make using the button and what would you use it for? Describe the spaceship you are on, describe what the button looks like and describe what you make with your button. Make sure to have a beginning, middle and end to your story with 1 problem you need to solve using the thing you make with the button.

The Empty Palace

You are the son or daughter of a king and queen. One day you wake up and the whole palace is empty. How do you feel being in an empty palace? Your mission in your story is to investigate and track down everyone in the palace. How did they disappear, what happened to them and how do you get them back?

Sands of Akwa

You have landed on a strange planet looking for some special treasure. What does the planet look like, who is with you and what are you looking for? While looking for the treasure you meet some people who try to help you, and some people who want to stop you. Who are these different people? Your story should start when you land on the planet, you meet the different characters and our adventure should take you to your treasure.

Tom Thumb and the Football Team

Tom Thumb spends part of the story stuck indoors when all he wants to do is go outside. Think of an adventure you would like to have in your local area once you are allowed outside again and write about it. Where would you go, what would you do, who would you be with? How does it feel being stuck indoors and how does it feel to finally be allowed outside again?

Stinky Street

In Stinky Street Franklin is trying to stop the sale of his house so he doesn’t have to move away from where he lives. Imagine that Franklin actually wanted to move. Where would he move to, what does his new house look like? What kinds of things are near his new house and who does he meet? Describe the excitement of moving to a new house and of meeting new people and exploring a new area.

Maths: Today we are looking at weight and converting weight from grams to kilograms. To change between grams and kilograms you have to remember that there are 1,000 grams (g) in 1 kilogram (kg). So 1,000g = 1kg, 2,000g = 2kg etc.

Converting g to kg and kg to g

Number Talks

2 x 45                                     5 x 30

4 x 45                                     10 x 30

2 x 40                                     3 x 15

2 x 5                                       10 x 15

8 x 45                                     15 x 33

Challenge Sum

384 x 52

Thanks for your continued support and hard work,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

It’s Tuesday, it’s mardi, it’s already nearly the middle of the week! We have been delighted with the hard work and creativity you have all been showing us across these last few months and we hope you have enjoyed doing everything as much as we have enjoyed seeing it.

For today’s Children’s Gardening Week activity, if you have the materials, create a a fairy house for your garden. You will need a plantpot, or just something you can paint and can stand on its own, and some paints. Once it’s done leave it in your garden and wait for the fairies to come!

Spelling: Phonics stories have been uploaded to teams.

Reading: Answer these true or false statements based on your reading books. If the statement is false write the correct statement underneath using full sentences. Make up 3 of your own when you are finished.

Don’t Press the Button

1. There’s a lever on the ship that makes it go backwards and forwards.
2. The Fabricator made Max a spacesuit.
3. The spacesuits had 5 buttons.
4. Tiger’s spacesuit had wings and Max’s had a holo-board.
5. Ant made the room fill with basketballs.

The Empty Palace

1. The kids found out Nok is a King.
2. Nok’s parent’s had gone missing.
3. Badlaw was the one who kidnapped Nok’s parents.
4. Wooden legs and arms grew out of the Krool’s body.
5. Arkon, The Small One, could help to get Nok’s parents back.

The Sands of Akwa

1. When they arrived on Akwa the beach was full of animals.
2. Livi was an Akwan warrior who met the group on the beach.
3. The screaming Raptiss made the Akwans fly off into the air.
4. The group split up with Tiger and Cat shrinking and running to the cliffs.
5. The two Raptiss ended up teaming up together to chase the group.

Tom Thumb and the Football Team

1. Tom was put into a cradle made up of cupcakes.
2. Tom got stuck into the pudding and thrown out the house.
3. Tom’s Mum gave him a bath inside of a thimble.
4. Tom ended up making friends with King Arthur.
5. King Arthur drove Tom back to his village to find his parents.

Stinky Street

1. Franklin lives on a street with a brick wall on one end and it overlooks an ice cream shop.
2. Chicken and Rhubarb pies are made on Thursdays.
3. Mr Bragg wanted to buy Franklin’s house.
4. Franklin wanted Mr Bragg to buy the house more than anything.
5. Franklin’s Mum danced around with fairy lights on her head after Mrs Cox came to visit.

Maths – Subtraction

Please see Teams files instructional videos for an example of the ‘spicy’ and  ‘hot’ worksheet which involves decomposition (breaking down numbers and carrying them to different columns.)Please choose your challenge. If you do not feel confident with trying decomposition sums, stick with the ‘mild’ choice as we did not spend much time at all on this in class.

Mild

Mild HTO-THO

Spicy

Spicy TO-O with help boxes

Hot – Extreme challenge

Hot TO-TO with help boxes 1

Here are your Number Talks for today:

2 x 7                                       2 x 16

4 x 7                                       10 x 16

3 x 7                                       10 x 14

7 x 7                                       2 x 14

14 x 16

Challenge Sum

374 x 62

Thank you for all your hard work and support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Hello Primary 3! We hope you’ve had a lovely and well rested time over the weekend and you managed to make the most of it. Thank you so much for all the work you’ve sent us, for all the messages and interactions we’ve had from you, it has been wonderful to see how hard you’ve been working so thank you!

Please see here for the new Home Learning Grid:

Learning-Grid-May-June.pdf

This should see you up until the Summer Holidays, should we need it to last this long. The grid includes things you would have been learning in class had we still been there. We will continue to post daily Numeracy, Literacy, RRS and extra tasks, however, the activities on the grid can be done in jotters, on paper, or as you see fit. Please complete what you can of it and do what fits with your schedule and family life. There is no expectation that every single activity is completed or indeed that the ones completed are shared with us. We are happy to see your work should you wish to record it for us and send it. Please remember we are always on hand to help out if you need any reassurance or have any questions.  Thank you P3! We hope you enjoy the activities.

Rights Respecting Schools Article of the week: Article 15 Freedom of Association with a focus on setting up or joining groups.

• During these times it can be difficult to stay in touch with other young people and groups that we are part of. Make a list of 5 children that you would like to get in contact with. Write them a letter or video call them this week to find out how their week has been.
• Think about a group or club you are part of. Create a poster or leaflet to encourage other people to join. Make sure to list all of the reasons why it is a good idea to join this group.
• The word ‘association’ is interesting. You have perhaps heard of the Football Association (FA) or the Automobile Association (AA) Look up the meaning of ASSOCIATION and explain to somebody in your home what it means.
• How does the following short clip relate to article 15. Can we learn anything from it? Article 15

This week is National Children’s Gardening week which means, should the weather be good, there is plenty of things for you to do outside or inside to get into nature and gardening! Some of the ideas mean having seeds to plant but there are plenty that you can do without having access to seeds too, including colouring and some recipes you could try out! This website has many ideas for things to try and we will be highlighting one of our favourite ideas each day: https://www.childrensgardeningweek.co.uk/fun-things-to-do/

For today why not try making stone garden markers so that when you can grow your own plants you can leave your marker where different plants are?

And some problem solving for this morning:

Reading: Read the second half of your book if you haven’t done so already. A reminder of the books you should be reading:

Level 6 – Don’t Press the Button

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

Spelling Words

Spelling Words Week Beginning 25th May 2020

And your Number Talks for today:

2 x 36                                     3 x 15

4 x 10                                     10 x 15

4 x 6                                       13 x 10

4 x 36                                     13 x 5

13 x 15

Challenge Sum

632 x 54

We hope you continue to work with the same levels of effort and enthusiasm and thank you for all you have been doing, we’re very proud of all of you!

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward