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P4 Homework 18.1.17

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Homework 18/01/17

Homework should have been distributed as normal yesterday despite my absence.

Please note there is a special activity at the bottom of the post.

Spelling– Week 2) o-e and ew

Gorillas (ew) sound like in day or pay

Pandas (o-e) sound

Wolves (o-e) sound

(magic e makes the vowel sound like it’s name e.g bon  bone)

Word Detective and Skimming and Scanning

Write a sentence with each word from your spelling list.

Reading- Homework should have been distributed as normal yesterday despite my absence.

Pink – See bookmark

Orange – See bookmark

Yellow- No reading, but see poetry competition at bottom.

Blue – Meeting Cezanne by Michael Morpugo Read to the end for Tuesday 24th January

Green –  See bookmark

*NEW*   Numeracy- Keep going with your Learnits and  I have begun a competition this week on Sumdog. The children are very keen to participate in this but please remind them that it is for fun and not to feel bad if they aren’t able to spend as much time as others on the computer.

Learnits- The Rules…

The children are asked the question on the learnits card on several occasions and if they answer correctly,  within about two seconds, they can have a tick. Once they have ten ticks they can throw the learnit away. Once the envelope is empty they can have some new learnits. You can keep the envelope at home until it needs refilled.

Don’t feel you have to do all of them at once. A few at a time is sufficient.

Poetry Recital Competition for Scottish Month.

The children have been given the opportunity to read, learn and recite a poem for a recital competition that the school are hosting on Wednesday 25th January.

The children may have brought home more than one poem to read but they should only learn one if they wish to take part.

On Monday 23rd of January we will be holding an audition in the afternoon to see who will be put through for Wednesday’s final!

P3 Poetry

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I have sent home three Scots poems today. Could you please choose one with your child and help them learn it for Monday. On Monday we will have a class recital competition and the two winners will be chosen to go forward to the whole school competition on Wednesday 25th.

I have printed the poems out and have attached a copy if anybody needs it.

P3 Scots poems-2gr8vrx

If anybody knows of anyone who plays the bagpipes or does Scottish dancing could you please contact me. I have a little favour to ask!

Miss Prior

 

P7 information etc.

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FOR 22/1/17 – Learn and recite (with expression) Tam O’Shanter.  We have been working on this in class, have translated it and watched a video.  Some pupils are trying to learn it all but others are choosing at least 15 lines to recite for the competition next week.

Primary 7 have been working on long multiplication (e.g. 367×45) using the vertical sum method and have also been revising short division.  They should be able to show you what we have been doing and explain how they would “work the sums out”.  I have been encouraging pupils to work as fast as possible with accuracy and to finish work in the set times as this is very much a high school expectation – If work is unfinished it will be sent home – thank you for your support.  There is a real need for pupils to learn their times tables and how these times tables fit with division (e.g. 6×6=36 so 36 divided by 6 is 6) Pupils know their own individual targets for times tables (they all have them) and are taking responsibility to learn these.

We are doing a lot of reading comprehension and inferential questioning and will be breaking out into “reading groups” after camp.  Pupils should always have a silent reading book and are encouraged to read a book until the end in order to be reflective.

Please can pupils bring a homework diary because pupils will have individual homework activities that they should record.

I set weekly sumdog challenges and I encourage pupils to try some brain teasing exercises and problem solving like these, should they wish

https://nrich.maths.org/9803

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

We are also working hard on our STEM challenges with VEX robotics and pupils have been using “hour of code” and can do so at home.

https://code.org/learn