Author: wlemma.hillan@glow

Wednesday 6^th May

Good morning everyone!

I hope you have enjoyed the long weekend and spent some quality time with your family.

Remember to have a look in your new packs to see the activities you have to work through.

Hope you’ve been remembering to keep your fitness up and doing your daily exercising. Let’s do some PE with Joe this morning:

Numeracy – Write out your 10 times table and ask someone at home to check you have them all correct and to test you on these!

You can also watch the video below to help remind you!

Art – What does your house look like inside and outside? How many bedrooms does it have? What other rooms are in the house? Draw a picture of your house from the outside and then draw it from an inside view – try to include as much detail as possible. You can show the inside like the image below:

Literacy – Imagine you lived in a different house (maybe your dream house) – what would it look like outside and inside? What kinds of rooms would it have – a cinema room? A swimming pool? Write a story about showing your best friend around your new house. Describe everything you would see and say how you feel about your house.

Mrs Lockhart and Mrs Morrison will be posting for you on Thursday and Friday.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Mrs Hillan

Hello everyone! I hope you managed to pick up your new learning packs, these should keep you going for the next couple of weeks at least.

Literacy: I have included spelling lists again in your new packs so you can continue learning your next set of words each week. Remember to practise these throughout the week. See if you can find a new way to practise your words.

Listen to a story being read on:

https://www.storylineonline.net/

-note down the story you chose and say why you picked it? Give a review on it – what did you like/not like about it? Would you recommend it to someone else to listen to or read?

Numeracy – Write out your 5 times table and ask someone at home to check you have them all correct and to test you on these!

You can also watch the video below to help remind you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyDZ7f1RfE

IDL – Watch the story that tells the legend of how the Giant’s Causeway was formed using these two video clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHygfkHD5TE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNdhq1OOeU

Try retelling the story in your own words – you could do this as an extended story or as a cartoon strip with the story written underneath each picture. You could even try to write your own versions of this legend. You can use the comic strip template below:

Blank comic strip

Have a good day everyone!

Mrs Hillan

Good morning everyone! Welcome to another week of activities. You can now pick up your new learning packs from the school office – I have put your name on each of your packs.

Let’s start the week with some Joe Wicks:

Literacy – Look at a family in a traditional story (like Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella etc) – how are they different to your family? Can you write sentences comparing the two families?

Why not try reading something different this week? Remember you can access books like the Oxford Reading Tree ones from:  https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

If you click the Pink icon at the top right that says ‘My Class Login’ and enter Primary 3 Deans as the username and Mrs Hillan as the password then you can access these if you haven’t set up your own account.

Numeracy –  Use this link to play Hit the Button – to practise your number bonds, halving, doubling and times tables : https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Why not try challenging someone at home!!

Art & Design – Draw something you love – it could be a favourite toy, your pet or another item in your house, or maybe something in your garden, anything you love! Try to include as much detail as possible!

Enjoy your day!

Mrs Hillan

Good morning everyone and Happy Earth Day!!!

Earth Day is celebrated every year on the 22 of April for the last 47 years. In 1970, a US Senator from Wisconsin, created this national day to create awareness of the environment and how we treat nature. Today this day is celebrated as an international event in 193 countries.

I thought in order to celebrate this, it would be a good idea for you to use whatever you have available at home to create your own ‘Earth’ picture. Below are some lovely ideas:

Below is a link to a Minecraft challenge. The challenge involves building your own sculpture for Jupiter Artland. The winning design will join the permanent collection at Jupiter’s online universe plus other goodies.

https://jupiterartland.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=02c80447c6055c6ad59a34476&id=d40134245a&e=81f173a25e

Numeracy – Try this Multiplication Game:

Jungle Multiplication Game

Literacy – Watch Newsround and find out what is new today – what did you find out? Is there anything you need help understanding? Ask someone at home or Google it.

-Create a bookmark – perhaps you could choose characters from your favourite stories.

-Read a new story today – use your new bookmark to keep your place.

Remember you can access books like the Oxford Reading Tree ones from:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

If you click the Pink icon at the top right that says ‘My Class Login’ and enter Primary 3 Deans as the username and Mrs Hillan as the password then you can access these if you haven’t set up your own account.

Writing Task – see the task on the Blog from Miss Taylor for this week’s writing task on Lucy’s Lockdown

On Thursday and Friday you should hopefully see some tasks put on from Mrs Morrison and Mrs Lockart.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Mrs Hillan

Good morning everyone!

Hope we are all remembering to do our daily exercise! Remember you can go on to Joe Wick’s lessons or you could ask someone at home to create an account on GoNoodle – it is free to join!

Literacy – Pick something to read – fiction or non-fiction (could be a book or something online)  – Take notes from what you have read – list at least 10 key points or new things you have found out.

*Local libraries are providing ebooks online for you to choose from – you can ask an adult at home to register for free  by following the link below:

https://www.westlothian.gov.uk/eBooks

Numeracy – Write out your 2 times table and ask someone at home to check you have them all correct and to test you on these!

You can also watch the video below to help remind you!

IDL: Continuing with our topic on Great Britain, below is a picture of the Welsh Flag:

There are many stories of dragons throughout history, and we cannot be sure why the dragon was chosen for the Welsh flag. We do know that Henry Tudor carried a flag depicting the dragon into battle in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Many Welsh people today are proud of the red dragon as it symbolises strength and courage. Which animal would you chose to represent our country if you could pick one – draw this and say why you picked it. You can also try drawing the Welsh Flag.

Enjoy your day!!

Mrs Hillan

Welcome back everyone!!!

Hope you had an enjoyable Easter break and feel well rested. It would be lovely to see any of the fun activities you got up to over the holidays, any of the STEM challenge activities you completed or any other things you have created – remember you can share these on the school website!

You should still have some activities in your packs to keep you going, but here are some other activities you could also do this week:

• Write a personal story about your Easter holidays – What things did you do? When did you do them? Who was with you? Where were you? How did you feel?

• Pick one of the characters from your reading book or a book you are reading at home – create a character description of them. You can draw the character and around them write some WOW words to describe how they look and their personality or you can write a description of them underneath. Include as much information as you can on them.

• Lead your own Number Talk at home – create some questions using adding, take away or multiplication – ask people at home to work out the answers to these and then explain to you how they got their answers. Check to see who agrees with each other! Remember that you must know the answers to the questions you ask!

Enjoy the sunshine!!!

Mrs Hillan

This is your writing task from Miss Taylor – it looks like lots of fun!!!! My Easter Bunny name would be Wiggles DeThumper!

1. How to Find your Easter Bunny Name

2. What does your Easter bunny look like

3. Description layout

4. Easter Bunny sheet

5. Miss Taylor’s Easter bunny example

Have fun completing this! Can’t wait to read all about your own Easter Bunnies!!!!!

Good morning everybody! Hope you are having a lovely week so far. Below are some other tasks for today:

-Research April Fools Day – read up on why people play April Fools Tricks.

Write a made-up story of something you have apparently done– something that is almost believable, but silly too.

• Create some tricky adding and takeaway sums for someone at home to do. Ask them to create some for you too – see who gets the most correct!

• Take a walk around your house – note down at least 10 items – try your best to spell them correctly. Use a dictionary or Google to check the spelling of each word and then write a definition next to each one to say what it means.

• Watch the Easter Story – write down the 3 most important points you took from this:

• Create an Easter card for your family. Use whatever materials you have to make this as bright and fun as possible. If you Google DIY Easter cards, they have some super ideas.
• Easter wordsearch – you can use the link below to access one or you can Google Easter word search and there are loads you can download.

https://www.dltk-holidays.com/t.asp?t=https://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/images/c-wordsearch.gif

I will also post a writing task from Miss Taylor and RME task from Mrs Lockhart very shortly.

This will be the last day I add extra activities this week, you might get some on Thursday or Friday from Mrs Wallace or Mrs Stewart. Have a lovely Easter, have fun, relax and stay safe!!!!

Mrs Hillan