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Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact: [email protected]
Literacy Tasks and Resources:
ReadingL.I.: I can read or listen to texts for enjoyment.
S.C.: · I can answer inferential question about texts and explain my thinking. · I can answer/ask evaluative questions about texts/sources. · I can answer and ask Blooms questions
Listen to / read Chapters 4 & 5 of “The Boy Who Grew Dragons” – I will email and upload a sound clip of me reading them aloud, or you can listen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPxAvQQv4v8 and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYGEJUm2Ss
If you already have this book it would be great if you could read along. There are some questions below.
Reading GroupsYou can read your book (and any others you like the look of!) at Oxford Owl.Username: p4 mps Password: P42020Check the grid below to see which book has been assigned to your reading group. ResourcesAudio files, Reading group grid, Blooms questions
SpellingL.I: We are learning to spell common and tricky words. S.C.:
I can correctly spell my weekly words.
I know the meaning of my weekly words and can use them in speech and writing.
Jades: revising a_e, u_e, ea – learn your words and complete Mrs McGarva’s challenge.Fire Arrows: Spelling List 2 – common words - alphabetical order task belowPascals: ti in station – alphabetical order task below
All groups check Sumdog – I have added a spelling task with these words and an assessment you can try at the end of the week.
ResourcesWord list for each group, spelling tasks, Sumdog
WritingL.I: We are learning to recognise and use homophonesS.C.: I can say what a homophone is. I can give examples of homophones.
Well done to those of you who completed Mrs Stefani and Mrs Bell’s writing challenge last week. If you didn’t get a chance you can still catch up – just look at the 11th May learning grid for details.
This week we are learning about homophones. Please see below for information about homophones and a task.
ResourcesHomophone facts and tasks.
Maths and Numeracy Other Curriculum Area:
Mrs McGarva’s challenge – Jades
Write about the picture - you will remember these from class! Use the pictures and the helping words to help you build some amazing sentences. Remember what Mrs McGarva always looks for – neat handwriting, longer sentences, and check your spelling!
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact: [email protected]
Mental ArithmeticNumber Talks Check Up Week
All of the pupils across the school are going to be carrying out a Number Talks check-up this week.Here is the link to the check-up https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKQasb8XqilhAtfbYBGWxsoFUM1k2N0JHOVcyWlYwNzNYQjBRTTZOSVhUOS4u I will also send out a link to the check-up in Teams and on email. A paper copy will come to you if that has been requested. Remember you can use all of your usual supports to complete this check-up so get your maths toolkit ready before you start.
Core LearningL.I.: We are learning to recognise and write all simple fractions to tenths.We are learning to find fractions of a quantity.
S.C. - I can use my division skills to find fractions of an amount.
We are continuing to practise finding fractions of an amount. Use your division skills to help you.
It might be useful to write out your times tables before you start.
ResourcesFractions of a quantity questions.Some suggested games:https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/build-a-fraction/latest/build-a-fraction_en.html
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/fraction-matcher/latest/fraction-matcher_en.htmlDaily Ten – choose level 3 then fractions!
Sumdog TasksRemember to log into Sumdog and check the tasks allocated to you on the left hand side. I have added a times table competition – good luck!
Remember the National Numeracy Week activities are still in Teams – look in the Announcements channel!
STEM
Try to get into Teams – you can go in through Glow on a web browser, or you can download the app in the app store or play store – it looks like this:
We have a new channel in our P4 Teams where I will post your tasks – it’s called Announcements – don’t forget to check it!
Don’t forget you can still read 1st News – the online version of the newspaper is on the school website and in Files on Teams.
Remember to check your Glow email if you can! Log into Glow then check the Outlook tile.
Don’t forget Sumdog – contact me if you need a login reminder. There are spelling and maths tasks for you to complete and a times table competition.
How did your crystals go? Mine are growing in my kitchen – the instructions said leave them for a week – my week is up on Monday 18th May so I will put a picture up on Teams when they are finished! This week, you could try a salt rainbow – see the picture below.
Remember Muirhead Miles starts this week – see the HWB section below. You can try using Digimap to measure your route. https://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/ username: KA107BT password: rharts0392
Personal Project/ Presentation Health and Wellbeing
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact: [email protected]
Oceans and Ocean LifeThis week we are going to take an artistic look at our Oceans topic. Here is a link to a website where you can see many seascape paintings by Scottish artists. Take a look through the different paintings and then look at the tasks below.
http://www.scottishartpaintings.co.uk/seascape-paintings.asp
How are you all feeling? Remember it’s ok to have a blue day! Try some yoga or mindfulness from https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga or from the suggestions below. Sports Day / Muirhead Miles - check on Teams, Twitter and the school website to see how you can take part in Sports Week 2020!
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
Listen to or read Chapters 4 & 5 of ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’.
What would you grow?Tomas finds a dragon-fruit tree and grows dragons in his garden.
1. What would you grow in your back garden and why? Perhaps money or wishes or kittens?
2. Draw and then name your special plant or tree.
Vocabulary check upThere are some great “wow” words used in this book
1. What does ‘whoa’ tell you?
2. What are limbs?
3. What does it mean if something is aloft?
4. What is the meaning of gargantuan?
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
Reading Books
Blueberries Pineapples Strawberries Raspberries Grapes
1. Go to Oxford Owl and login with username “p4 mps” and password “P42020”2. Go to My Bookshelf where is says ebooks.3. Search for the book title your group has been given.4. There is a page at the start of the book with notes for your grown up, and
there are activities at the top of the screen for you to play.5. Happy Reading! 6. I will give you another book next week but feel free to browse the other
books in the meantime!
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
Spelling Lists
Jades Fire Arrows PascalscakecamespadeJunerulerflute
streamwheatteam
eachyearaway
always
accidentbelowcloudyeleven
footballgroup
holidayI’mI’ve
playtimepractisingwhisperedemotion
knewbiscuit
stationcollection
rationcreation
operationportionnation
talkairlift
landneedmove
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
Mrs McGarva’s challenge – Jades – write about the picture
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
Fire Arrows and Pascals – Alphabetical Order
Here is a reminder both of alphabetical order and of the letter formation you should be using.
Rewrite your spelling lists in alphabetical order – strive for neatest handwriting possible.
Challenge! Use your own dictionary or an online dictionary like http://wordcentral.com/ to look up your spelling words and find out their meaning. You could write out their meaning or use each word in a sentence.
Remember if you use word online in Glow, you can listen to immersive reader read out your sentences!
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
Writing Skills - Homophones
Task 1 – make a list of all the homophones you can think of. Check spelling!
Task 2 - Complete the task sheet below – you can just do this in your jotter or a piece of paper – find a homophone for each word.
Task 3 – Can you think up 5 sentences which have pairs of homophones in them? For example:
I ate a pear while I was wearing my new pair of shoes.
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
Finding fractions of a quantity
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
Look at the Scottish seascape paintings in the link http://www.scottishartpaintings.co.uk/seascape-paintings.asp or any others you might be able to find.
1. Which artist was your favourite and why?2. Do you have any pictures like this in your house, or have you ever seen
them anywhere else?3. Which ocean do you think these artists are probably painting and
drawing?4. Do you ever walk/cycle/scoot at the seaside during your daily exercise?5. Have you ever walked along a beach? Where was it?6. Can you draw or paint a seascape picture? Or even share a photograph
you have taken? The photographs I have shared are all ones I have taken at Troon or Barassie beach recently.
We used Cosmic Yoga a lot in class – why don’t you try some at home? Here is their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Muirhead Primary and Early Years Centre Home LearningClass: P4 Teacher: Mrs Mair Date: week commencing 18th May Email contact:
There are some yoga poses on the cards below you could also try.