Good Morning everyone!

Here is the new Home Learning Grid for the next 2 weeks:  home learning grid 5

Literacy – Weekend News

Today is the 1st June, a new month! I hope you all had a great weekend and managed to spend some time outdoors. Perhaps you finally got to see some family?!  I’m sure it will have been a special weekend for many of you and I would love to hear what you did, who you saw and how you felt.   Please write your weekend news in your jotter and draw a picture to go with it.  Remember to include:

• punctuation – at least capital letters and full stops!
• openers – At the weekend…   Yesterday…   On Saturday….
• connectives – and      but    because      so
• adjectives – think of interesting describing words to explain what you did and how you felt.

Maths – 3D Shape

Last week you practised naming and describing 3D shapes.  Today we are going to practise making a 3D shape by creating a net.  A net is what a 3D shape looks like if it is opened out flat.

Watch the video first:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt7xk2p/articles/z247tv4

Next, see if you can carefully deconstruct a cardboard box (cereal, teabags, biscuits etc) to have a look at the net.  What 3D shape does the net make?  Can you draw around the net to make another one?

For a challenge, have a look at this activity and see if you can work out which nets will make a cube:

https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Cube-Nets/

Remember our email address for sending work and questions is:

wlpolkemmet-ps-primary3@westlothian.org.uk

Have a lovely morning,

Mrs Harding

Good morning boys and girls

Jigsaw Jack today would like you to think about friendship.

First he would like you to listen to this video from toy story

All the toy story films are about friendship and the most special friendship in toy story is between Andy the little boy and Woody the cowboy. Woody is everything a good friend should be. What makes Andy and Woody such good friends? Share your thoughts with an adult at home.

Jigsaw Jack wants to be a good friend! He would like you to help him. Can you sort these statements into true and false depending on if they are something a good friend should be or not.

Be kind

Say sorry if they have upset you

Have no other friends

Care about other people

Have lots of toys and games

Only talk to me

Copy everything I do

Bring me presents all the time

Once you have done that can you draw a picture and write a sentence to say why you are a good friend.

‘I am a good friend because……’

Have a lovely weekend boys and girls,

Speak to you on Monday.

Miss Beaton and Mrs Melia

Good morning

Hope you are wide awake and ready to get moving with Jump Start Jonny.

The staff at Polkemmet Primary School have made a video of activities for you to try to keep fit and active during lockdown.  Enjoy!

Literacy – Free Writing Friday

I would like you to write a piece of writing of your choice.  You may choose to write a letter, a set of instructions, information or a comic strip.

Always remember to check over your work!

Art

Lets be creative with some Abstract Art.

Farming

I would like you to have a look at the images below of different farm buildings and spaces and discuss with an adult what you think they are used for.

Five Minute Box

A few children worked with Miss Watson using the 5 minute box.  If you wish to support this we have provided the resources below for those who wish to complete more activities to support phonics and tricky words.

Five-Minute-Box-1-Activities – Polkemmet

If you are looking for extra activities to try out at home here is a grid you may wish to use.

Hope you have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

Mrs Docherty

Good afternoon boys and girls.

Today for maths we would like you to practise your number bonds to 10.

Can you play hit the button – click on number bonds – addition within 10. See how many questions you can get in 1 minute. Try again see if you can beat your score.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Miss Beaton and Mrs Melia

Good afternoon

Numeracy

I would like you to complete the activities from BBC Bitesize by clicking the link below.  Please watch the video and complete the activities.  Then try to complete some questions  on the Sumdog Challenge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7hdqp3

Science

Daily Daft

Mrs Docherty

Good morning everyone,

For Literacy this morning we are going to look at blending. Blending is what we do when we say all the sounds and form a word. For example,

c     a     t     if we blend these single sounds together we make the word cat.

There are some words we can’t blend. These words are often called tricky words, you are learning these on the word walls. Watch this short film on BBC Bitesize,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm/articles/zv3cy9q

Can you try to blend some of these words,

Here is a fun blending game you can do with the playdough that you made at the beginning of the week.

As you say the sound for each letter squash the playdough. Once all the playdough is squashed try to say the word.

For Science today, we are going to investigate forces by making a paper helicopter. Watch the film to see how,

Once you have made your helicopter we would like you to test it. Remember, it has to be a fair test so make sure you are dropping it from the same height. Gravity is the force that is bringing it down to the ground. What happens when you change the size of the propellers? Which size works best? You might need to make a few helicopters to test.

Remember to send us pictures of your helicopters to

wlpolkemmet-ps-primary1@westlothian.org,uk

Pop back later for more activities,

🙂

Mrs Melia and Miss Beaton

Good morning

Time to wake up with some yoga!

Literacy

I would like you to write a story using  Roll a Story to help you plan the characters, setting, emotions, props and problem.  When writing your story please remember to use capital letters and full stops.  I would like you to use adjectives to describe the characters and setting.  Once you have written your story please read it over. It would lovely to read your stories, you can send them to the class email.

Mrs Docherty

Good afternoon boys and girls.

I hope you are enjoying your activities this week for fairyland- The Three Little Pigs!

This afternoon for maths can you practise your doubles.

We would like you to ask a grown up to count out a number of items for example toys, sweets, lego or maybe go outdoor and get some leaves. See if you can double the number. For example your grown up might ask you to get 2 leaves, double it how many would you need? You should now have 4.

Enjoy your day everyone

Miss Beaton and Mrs Melia

Good morning everyone.

For PE this morning we would like you to join Joe Wicks again.

For Literacy this morning we are going to be writing about the three little pigs and their houses. Tell a grown up what the first little pig built their house out of, then the second and finally the third. In your jotter draw the 3 little pigs next to their houses.

Then in your jotter write about the houses in the correct order. For example,

The first pig made a house out of …

Remember to take a picture and email it to us at

wlpolkemmet-ps-primary1@westlothian.org.uk

Pop back later for some more activities.

🙂

Mrs Melia and Miss Beaton