Hi Primary 6,

I hope you’re all having a lovely day in the snow.  If you’re looking for something to do I’ve suggested a few activities below:

Literacy: My Snow Day Recount

Write a recount about what you have been doing on your snow day today. Remember the features we looked at in the football match recount and wrote in our Blackridge Walk recounts. You can write it on paper, Microsoft Word or even Sway!

To make your recount even better, make sure you’ve been out to enjoy the snow and then you can tell me all about it!

You should include:

• A title – grab the reader’s attention
• First paragraph – introduce your recount and give the reader an idea of what it’s about. Maybe include an opinion. Make the reader want to read on!
• Main part of text – write it in chronological order (the order it happened). Remember all the important details. Include your opinions and feelings, maybe even a quote (what someone said – remember speech marks!)
• Conclusion – summarise your recount.
• Use headings to separate your paragraphs.
• Include pictures or photos if you want to engage your reader even more.

Maths : Snowy Volume

Keep up your skills in measuring volume.

• You could estimate how much snow is in a container, a handful or even a snowball. Then measure it to see if you were right. Let it melt – does the volume change? Why or why not?
• Make some 3D shapes with the snow then calculate their volume – measure their length, breadth and height then multiply them.

You could practise some other areas of measure too, for example:

• Measure the height of your snowman
• Calculate the area of your snow-covered garden
• Weigh your snowball. Does the weight change when it melts? (Don’t let it melt all over the house!)

Can you come up with some other measuring activities? Let me know!

Of course, a bit of times tables practice never goes amiss.

Naturecam competition

We need to start getting organised with our video. Without giving too much away in public before the final production (!) you could be having a think about the following:

• A to do list. What do we need to get organised? What do we need to think about? What tasks need done? What jobs could people take on?
• The video. What do you think the end project should look like? A lot will depend on what the camera catches but can you come up with a rough idea of what order it will go in and how we can put it all together? What will it contain?
• Research task – can you find out about the habitats of the animals we’ve seen so far (or hope to see) and how they have adapted? How will they cope in the snow?

Enjoy your day, make sure you get some time out in the snow and keep warm!

See you tomorrow,

Miss Reid