As the school remains closed, I hope everyone is staying safe at home with their parents. Here are a few suggestions of how you can continue your learning at home :

Today is World Book Day

• How many books can you read today, I wonder which one is your favourite?
• Look at some of the titles on The First Minister’s Reading Challenge, some of these books are available as ebooks, how many can you read today, in class we really enjoyed the book about Solomon Crocodile, I wonder if you now have a new favourite!
• Can you make your own book? Staple or stick a few pages together and then decide on your character for your book. Draw lots of pictures on each page to tell a story, if you can, have a go at writing this story, I can’t wait to see your books next week.
• Can you create a story about a snowy day?
• Doorway Online is a good resource to practise your sounds, this also helps you to blend the sounds together. Some of our recent sounds have been, ee, oa, oo, w, ch, ng and sh. Can you create words and sentences with these sounds?

I hope the weather improves quickly and it will soon be safe to return to school. I will post more suggestions of ways to continue your learning tomorrow. Remember you can post photographs of snow activities or reading activities on #SPSlovestoread or #SPSsnowday

Happy World Book Day to P5!

We would love to see and hear about your activities today – you can tweet us using #SPSsnowday, or for World Book Day activities, #SPSlovestoread.

Some activities that you might choose to engage with today:

– Cosy up and read a good book!

– Share a story with a family member or friend. Remember to pay attention to punctuation and read with expression.

– Visit www.worldbookday.com and try out some of the activities there.

– Be an author and illustrator for the day and write your very own book. Choose a genre that you enjoy and remember to show, not tell!

– Continue to work on your World Book Day t-shirt or hat design – there will be another opportunity organised for you to wear these to school.

– Keep practising your times tables – identify one that you find tricky to remember and practise it in as many different ways as you can.

– Thinking back to our Science activities on Dangers to Living Things, research one of the ‘True or False’ that you were unsure about, such as:

“The centipede is a predator”

“All fish are prey to another animal”

“You can make a complete food chain using just predators”

“You can have more than one herbivore in a food chain”

– Continue to engage with your Study Ladder activities.

Hello P7B,

First of all “Happy World Book Day”! I hope you are all staying safe, keeping warm but also having some fun in the snow!

Below are some more activities that can be completed at home today:

• Visit http://www.worldbookday.com/ for some ways to celebrate at home! There are lots of fantastic activities and resources you can engage with.
• Continue our French language learning from earlier this week by directing someone at home through a course you have designed. Here is a reminder of our basic commands:

• Continuez tout droit: continue straight on
• Tournez à droite: turn to the right
• Tournez à gauche: turn to the left

• Access maths and numeracy learning activities via Sumdog.
• Continue to revise converting decimals, fractions and percentages. Test yourself with the examples below. Fractions, decimals and percentages
• In preparation for our return to school we will be starting a task to write a newspaper article reporting on the impact of the Blitz. I have attached an example written previously for you to grasp an idea of basic layout and content. Complete some research on the key features of a newspaper report and get started on your project. WW2-newspaper
• Engage with active spelling tasks with your words received on Monday. Why not take this learning outdoors and capture your work in a photograph?
• Play a game of times table bingo with someone at home.
• Continue with all the tasks on your home learning grid, due in this Friday (2^ndMarch).

• Most importantly stay safe and warm and enjoy your day. Keep me up to date with what you get up to here or via twitter @Ms_ClarkeSPS@SimpsonPrimary