Author: WLRichard.Colverson@glow

We have been using blocks and squares in our jotters to help our understanding of various times tables. We have also been looking at charts and diagrams and how these can be used to show data. In maths we have also been using chimney sums for addition, subtraction and multiplication, and found that this made it much easier. We have also been practising our addition and tables in Big Maths Beat That.

For language work we do silent reading every morning. We have also been doing SRAs to help with our reading comprehension. We have been practising our handwriting. We have been planning a piece of writing about ourselves, and have written similes about ourselves to describe ourselves.

For our topic work on the rainforest we have been drawing toucans.

This week we have been doing chimney sums. When we were doing chimney sums we found That if you made sure that you put each number in its own square it was much easier.

For outdoor learning we went to Eiliburn park with Mrs Dobbie to look for hazards. We went to the lake and saw some swans. We also saw swan eggs.

We also did activities to help us with our literacy and spelling. For grammar we looked at adjectives, verbs, pronouns, proper nouns, common nouns and conjunctions (connectives).

We have been practising the points of the compass by running around the playground – out door learning.

We have been using our art skills to create a drawing of a sunset.

We are going to make a movie! We watched  lego movie made by an eleven year old boy that inspierd us to make our own movie.

We are doing stuff on the rainforest. We have been looking at maps to find out where the rainforests are – they are around the centre earth near the equator, in an area called the tropics. They are located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

In drama we have been working on emotions and facial expressions with Mr Turner.

We have been using tally marks for each table for how they behave.

We have been doing Big Maths Beat That to help us with our maths.

We have also been using the commutative law of multiplication.

 

Please do the work that is most appropriate for you. I set a lot of different activities so that you can choose what is best for your own personal learning.

I have created a new folder called “Special Activities” in “Teams” which has new and exciting activities for you for the next couple of weeks. Please take a look. I think some of you might be especially interested in the poetry competition, as you could build on the work you have done in the classroom with Mrs Stewart and me. I think some of you will also be interested in the funfair activity. I will keep adding more.

I have up-loaded some writing activities into the “General” folder in Teams.

I have also previously up-loaded information about our virtual sports tomorrow.

Maths: This seems to be working well for everyone: all of you seem to have material that is appropriate. Finish money first and then move onto measure. I think all 4 parts of TJay 2a Chapter 13 (a,b,c and d) are useful. This will help support your work on decimals to 3 places. If you have finished these you could do TJay 2a revision work on decimals: Chapters 5 and 7

	TJay 1b	TJay 2a	TJay 2b
Money	Chapter 7	Chapter 8	Chapter 7
Measure	Chapter 15	Chapter 13a,b,c and d	Chapter 13

You all appear to still have activities in “Education City” to do and I have added some more literacy/grammar activities, which seem to be popular. I will keep monitoring progress on all subjects.

A lot of you seem to be interested in Martin Luther King. I first put this work together for you for the Tuesday 2^nd June. Why? Why for that day? Why did I think it was important for you? Why is MLK relevant to us all today? Please think about these questions. You could use them, the information that I have supplied combined with any research you undertake. You could then choose how to present this work: a poster, a PowerPoint, a HotPotatoes quiz (could be very challenging or easier for younger children), an essay, a letter (who would you write to?). As usual, use your imaginations! You might also want to use your recent learning on persuasive writing. Some of you have already produced some really good work. I have also up-loaded a photograph related to this work for you to think about, discuss, research and possibly write about. It is in a Word document called “BLM” in the MLK folder.

Don’t forget the work in “Covid Related Activities”, Mrs Lockhart’s work and exercise with Joe.

Take care

 

 

Please do the work that is most appropriate for you. I set a lot of different activities so that you can choose what is best for your own personal learning.

I have created a new folder called “Special Activities” in “Teams” which has new and exciting activities for you for the next couple of weeks. Please take a look. I think some of you might be especially interested in the poetry competition, as you could build on the work you have done in the classroom with Mrs Stewart and me. I shall add to it over time.

I have up-loaded information about our virtual sports day next week. Please take a look.

Maths: This seems to be working well for everyone: all of you seem to have material that is appropriate. Finish money first and then move onto measure. I think all 4 parts of TJay 2a Chapter 13 (a,b,c and d) are useful. This will help support your work on decimals to 3 places. If you have finished these you could do TJay 2a revision work on decimals: Chapters 5 and 7

	TJay 1b	TJay 2a	TJay 2b
Money	Chapter 7	Chapter 8	Chapter 7
Measure	Chapter 15	Chapter 13a,b,c and d	Chapter 13

You all appear to still have activities in “Education City” to do and I have added some more literacy/grammar activities, which seem to be popular. I will keep monitoring progress on all subjects.

A lot of you seem to be interested in Martin Luther King. I first put this work together for you for the Tuesday 2^nd June. Why? Why for that day? Why did I think it was important for you? Why is MLK relevant to us all today? Please think about these questions. You could use them, the information that I have supplied combined with any research you undertake. You could then choose how to present this work: a poster, a PowerPoint, a HotPotatoes quiz (could be very challenging or easier for younger children), an essay, a letter (who would you write to?). As usual, use your imaginations! You might also want to use your recent learning on persuasive writing. Some of you have already produced some really good work on this and I am thinking of adding another related activity. I think this could also be a health activity, what do you think?

Don’t forget the work in “Covid Related Activities”, Mrs Lockhart’s work and exercise with Joe.

Take care

Please do the work that is most appropriate for you. I set a lot of different activities so that you can choose what is best for your own personal learning.

Maths: This seems to be working well for everyone: all of you seem to have material that is appropriate. Finish money first and then move onto measure. I think all 4 parts of TJay 2a Chapter 13 (a,b,c and d) are useful. This will help support your work on decimals to 3 places. If you have finished these you could do TJay 2a revision work on decimals: Chapters 5 and 7

	TJay 1b	TJay 2a	TJay 2b
Money	Chapter 7	Chapter 8	Chapter 7
Measure	Chapter 15	Chapter 13a,b,c and d	Chapter 13

The activities in “Education City” at the moment are mostly to support your learning on fractions. I am adding some literacy/grammar activities.

A lot of you seem to be really interested in Martin Luther King. Ethan has created a HotPotatoes quiz on him. Please try it. I have put 2 different fact files and an easier reading comprehension into the ”MLK” folder – unfortunately I still haven’t worked out how to separate pages of the Adobe documents. I first put this work together for you for the Tuesday of last week, 2^nd June. Why? Why for that day? Why did I think it was important for you? Why is MLK relevant to us all today? Please think about these questions. You could use them, the information that I have supplied combined with any research you undertake. You could then choose how to present this work: a poster, a PowerPoint, a HotPotatoes quiz (could be very challenging or easier for younger children), an essay, a letter (who would you write to?). As usual, use your imaginations! You might also want to use your recent learning on persuasive writing.

Please also continue with our recent work on up-levelling , using Self Assessment strategies including two stars and a wish.

Don’t forget the work in Mrs Lockhart’s folder and “Covid Related Activities” and exercise with Joe.

I have a meeting on Thursday morning so won’t be around to support you during that time but I will check in briefly before and be on-line for you in the afternoon.

Take care!

 

 

Thank you all for the personal projects you have been working on – the ones I have seen are really good. Please continue with these. The ones that you have done: try and up-level them> Use Self Assessment. Use two stars and a wish. To challenge yourself even more create more wishes! You could also extend this into a writing activity where you explain your reasoning. And you could add images to in-corporate art, doing it on the computer will help support your ICT skills: PowerPoint; Word; Publisher; (Paint?). Have fun with it and use your imagination!

Maths: Finish money first and then move onto measure. I think all 4 parts of TJay 2a Chapter 13 (a,b,c and d) are useful. This will help support your work on decimals to 3 places. If you have finished these you could do TJay 2a revision work on decimals: Chapters 5 and 7

	TJay 1b	TJay 2a	TJay 2b
Money	Chapter 7	Chapter 8	Chapter 7
Measure	Chapter 15	Chapter 13a,b,c and d	Chapter 13

I also don’t think anyone has finished “Education City”. I have had a look through it and you all seem to have activities still to do. I think I will add some more literacy based. If you find any of the activities challenging please do ask me for support.

Have you done all of Mrs Lockharts work?

Exercise with Joe. Do Bitesize.

I have reduced the amount of work that I am posting: I am trying to make it more focused. Please let me know any thoughts.

Take care!

 

 

Maths: Finish money first and then move onto measure. I think all 4 parts of TJay 2a Chapter 13 (a,b,c and d) are useful. This will help support your work on decimals to 3 places. If you have finished these you could do TJay 2a revision work on decimals: Chapters 5 and 7

	TJay 1b	TJay 2a	TJay 2b
Money	Chapter 7	Chapter 8	Chapter 7
Measure	Chapter 15	Chapter 13a,b,c and d	Chapter 13

Health: Exercise with Joe.

HotPotatoes. If you have not tried it, please do. Look at previoues daily plans in Teams general folder for a spelling activity.

We have to do maths, literacy (language) and health every day. We can, of course, do other areas of the curriculum as well. How we do them is up to us. I think these unusual times have given us the opportunity to use some unusual teaching and learning techniques. I think Devon and Zoey have been using “TikTok” to create their photos of themselves for “Teams”. Could we do something with “TikTok”?

I would also really like to do something about masks. Please look at the “Covid Related Activities” and “Covid Related Links” in Teams general folder. I have up-dated it

Have fun, take care and hope you had a good weekend!

Fun Friday!

I have had the pleasure of chatting with some of you over the last few days, and as a result have changed the plan for today.

Please do the work that is most appropriate for you. I set a lot of different activities so that you can choose what is best for your own personal learning.

How about a personal project?

If you would like some more ideas for activities please look at the other daily plans in this folder (Teams General) and that will give you loads!

Take care all of you and have a good weekend.

When using Teams please try not to click on “Start a new conversation” each time. Please click on “Reply”, as it makes things in there much easier to find. Thanks

Maths: Finish money first and then move onto measure. I think all 4 parts of TJay 2a Chapter 13 (a,b,c and d) are useful. This will help support your work on decimals to 3 places. If you have finished these you could do TJay 2a revision work on decimals: Chapters 5 and 7

	TJay 1b	TJay 2a	TJay 2b
Money	Chapter 7	Chapter 8	Chapter 7
Measure	Chapter 15	Chapter 13a,b,c and d	Chapter 13

Spelling activity: choose a list of Fry’s words that is appropriate for yourself. Create a Word document with a table of 2 columns and 25 rows. Write your chosen 25 words in the first column. Using a dictionary, on-line or book, put a definition of the word in the second column next to it. I have created an example to support you if you are not sure how to do this. I have also created a dedicated folder in “Files” for this work. Please include your name as part of the file name to differentiate it from the others. Here is a link https://hotpot.uvic.ca/ to where you can download the program and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3pMWXqeqdo is a tutorial on how to use one of the applications in it. I think we could also use it for maths, possibly to help teach some of the children in the lower school, and maybe set some more challenging activities for your classmates. Some of you have successfully published your own – well done! If you haven’t tried these yet, please do, as they can be a fun way to learn.

Spanish / Art activity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlpET4GWzus&feature=youtu.be

I also don’t think anyone has finished “Education City”.

Have you done all of Mrs Lockharts work?

I have reduced the amount of work that I am posting: I am trying to make it more focused. Please let me know any thoughts.

Take care!