Numeracy – All pupils have a worksheet to complete for Friday 6/10/17
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Reebops in P7 Science
In Science this week, P7 investigated inheritance and variation through Reebops -imaginary animals, made from play dough.
The new proud parents learned the relationship between genes and inherited traits and how hereditary information is passed from one generation to the next, and how the physical appearance of offspring can be determined by combinations of genes received by parents.
Have a look at some of our adorable offspring 🙂
Chromatography in P7 Science
In Science Primary 7 have been looking at methods of separation. They looked at distillation and filtration as ways of separating some materials and were set a challenge to separate ink particles using chromatography.
They learned that the ink separates through water at different speeds due to having different weights – this is how the patterns are created.
Their challenge was to guess the black pen I used out of 4. Most groups solved the puzzle correctly 🙂 Well done.
Homework P4 26/09/17
Spelling
All children are learning when to use ck or k to end a word.
They have words and three activities to complete.
See jotters for words.
Activity:
Write your words in the correct column k ck or c
To earn 10 points on the Challenge grid. If anyone has lost this please let me know.
Tell an adult what your spelling rule is. Protector ck. Think of other rules we learned and try to teach someone at home.
Reading
Roald Dahl: See bookmarks Tues, Wed,
J.K. Rowling: See bookmarks Tuesday, Wednesday
Enid Blyton: Read P 50 to the end for Tuesday 3rd October
Jeff Kinney: See bookmarks Wed, Thurs
Julia Donaldson: See bookmarks Wed, Thurs
David Walliams: Reading will be given tomorrow Wednesday 27th
P3 Homework for Week Beginning 25th September
Primary 3 Homework – Week Beginning 25th September
We will soon complete our topic on the human body. Having investigated how our organs and senses work, we will finish by thinking about how our bodies protect themselves (e.g. sweat, reflexes and ear wax!), and how we can look after them too.
On Friday we will have our first visit to the school library. Hopefully everyone will find something they’re interested in, so watch out for books coming home!
Best wishes,
Mr Buchan
Numeracy
Please keep practising the Learnits. Each Friday there is a ‘Beat That’ challenge, where pupils try to improve on their scores from the previous weeks against the clock.
We will also be focussing on subtraction, learning to do this faster and with bigger numbers. Keeping on playing the + / – games will really help with this. In class we are extending from +1 / -1 and +2 / -2, playing more with +3 / -3 and +10 / -10.
Some helpful online games would be:
www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=PostSortingcalculationsv2
http://www.arcademics.com/games/mission/mission.html
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids
The first two use numbers up to 20. The third one can go up to 100 and is quite a bit trickier if you fancy a challenge!
Reading
Pages to be read from class reading books will be written down in the grids as usual. Some children will also have quizzes based on this week’s books. If time is short, though, please prioritise the reading. Hearing pages out loud is so, so helpful in developing fluency.
Spelling
Each week our spelling words come from the next sound we are practising (in this case ‘ar’) and also from a list of the 100 most common words in English.
For this week we have:
star park
far scarf
bark far
have like
because into
Well done with the wordsearches last week!
As well as the usual look, say, cover, write and check (twice for each word) please write three or four sentences that use up all this week’s words.
P7 News and Homework 25.9.17
There is a meeting tonight for Camp – Burnbrae Primary – 7pm.
If you are unable to attend do not worry as I can issue any relevant info missed.
CROSS COUNTRY – For those who are going then it is tomorrow and Vogrie have recommended wellies to go and runners to change in to.
GIRLS FOOTBALL – This Thurs, please return your slip asap.
HOMEWORK (for Fri) – Pupils have been given out a dictionary worksheet as well as a maths revision of Volume worksheet, we have also been looking at prime numbers and square numbers (e.g 3² = 9) and pupils MUST be revising their multiplication up to 12x.
Maths (see below)
P6 Spelling Homework 25.9.17
Monday 25th September
Please READ, COVER, WRITE, CHECK words twice.
Complete one activity from the sheet into your jotter.
Complete the sheet handed out.
Chocolates – please do 2 activities from sheet.
For Monday 2nd October
P2 Homework W/B 25.9.17
Hi everyone,
Here is the homework list for the week ahead:
Spelling – List 5 ” qu” . The homework handed in so far shows a lot of hard work taking place at home; thank you and well done!
Reading – Please continue to refer to the post-it notes in each book.
Numeracy – P2 seem to love numeracy ( that’s what they tell me anyway!) This week, we’ll practise +3/-3 and so, on Wednesday, a new sheet of cards for you to cut up and use as flash cards will be sent home.
Each Monday we focus on money ( Money Monday) and so any chance at home for your child to count up pennies is invaluable. ( 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p will suffice just now). Children love to play shops and so this is another way to encourage them. A shop doesn’t have to be anything ‘fancy’ – even just a few empty cartons from your cupboards with prices on ( start with under 10p prices) can give lots of fun practice.
Every Friday we focus on fractions ( Fraction Friday!) Children do find this a tricky concept so am just focussing on halves and quarters and this week, we’ll look at sharing out items equally between 2 and 4 people. Any opportunity you have to reinforce this at home, say in playing games, would be very helpful.
Topic – Harvest – a letter will be coming home soon about an appeal for food donations P1 and P2 are going to make.
PE – Wednesday and Thursday. However, our school is gearing up to start The Daily Mile Challenge and so, P2 will soon be getting out and about, building up to walking and running a mile ( most days). This will not happen on PE days.
Toys– I notice that children keep bringing in toys to school. I would encourage children not to bring any toys in as these can get lost, damaged and can be distracting for the children. I don’t mind children bringing in small toys for Golden Time on a Friday but recently, some toys have been rather large and take up a lot of safe storage space!
Thanks in advance for your support,
Miss S Brunt