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Week beginning 04.05.2020

+LITERACY AND ENGLISH

WRITING : Create a piece of poetry with

Keyworkers as your theme. The picture below will help you to think

about this.You can use a structure like an Acrostic or Haiku, as we’ve used in school or just write as you feel.

SPELLING: Use the Common Word List to choose a wordlist for this week.

Between 6 and 12 words is a good length. You can use our Active

Spelling Strategies to practise these. You could do this outside in the garden

or if you’re out for a walk, you can collect some natural items to create

your words with.

Silent Letters Spelling Rule: Your Spelling words for this week are on

Sumdog. When I speak to you on the phone, I’ll give you your login, if you

don’t have it already. In case we don’t chat, here is a word list:

lived damaged followed jumped

TECHNOLOGIES

ALIEN PLANET

This is going to be a 3-4 week challenge. I’ll give you an Overview of the Challenge and then let you know the Section to focus on each week:

Overview of TaskDesign and create an alien from one the planets in our solar system and create an audio recording of the alien describing its planet.

CRITERIA:The alien should not be any larger than 20cm tallThe alien can be made of any materials available at home.

FAITH DEVELOPMENT

Liturgy

Lots of our Faith involves us in sharing our faith together as a community at home, in church

and at school. Motherwell Diocese have prepared a children’s liturgy for each week while it’s more difficult to celebrate faith together. Here is the link for this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWzAOpU6h4U&t=11s

Our Lady and The Rosary

This is the beginning of the Month of May. During this month, we focus on the life and

vocation of Our Lady and we try to pray to her.

MOVIE NIGHT

Watch a movie together at home. There are some great learning activities you can

do the next day, too…

Investigate your movie…

Each person has to create questions to find out about

after watching.

Where was the movie set or how was the set designed if it’s

an animated movie?

How was it created?

Who starred in the movie or did the voices?

Which country is the movie set in or based on?

Can you find out more about this country? You could

investigate its geography, customs or cultures.

Create a ‘Movie Map’ with stops for the most important

events, scenes and characters or your favourite ones.

Names: Mrs Horne and Mr Cassidy




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READING: I hope you’re still finding time to enjoy reading or listening to a story. The website below has great e-books free of charge, to choose from.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/

VISUALISEDraw and annotate your drawing about

your favourite part of a book you’ve been reading or a movie or programme

you’ve been watching this week.

Character SketchDraw a circle or bubble in the middle of a piece of paper and some spider legs

sticking out from it. For each spider leg, write something about your character. You can think of what your character:

Looks like Does Says

Thinks Feels

Influence the plot of the story

The alien must come from a planet in our solar system.The audio must include facts about the planet’s distance to the Earth and the Sun, how long it takes to orbit the Sun and its size.The audio must be no longer than three minutes.

This Week’s Task:Design your alien on paper, paying attention to the conditions you found out about on your chosen planet. Lots of factors will determine the qualities your alien needs to survive there, for example:

LandscapeAtmosphereWeather ClimateHours of light/darkness

Many people find that praying to Our Lady during difficult times helps to strenghthen their

Faith. Can you make a special copy of the ‘Hail Mary’ and try to use this prayer more often or try to pray a decade of the Rosary each day for the

month of May?


Week beginning 04.05.2020NUMERACY AND MATHS

Mental MathsYou can try a Daily Mental Maths activity. You can use your book or try

some online skills practice:

Skills Practice Spend some time practising basic

Maths Skills Topmarks Website is great for this and familiar to you. Some of our

favourites are:Place Value Basketball; Hit the Button; Mental Maths Train and

Number Fact Families

Sumdog

Times Table and Topic Maths Activities are set for you on our Sumdog Account.

www.sumdog.com

Problem Solving:

How Many?This problem looks at Maths in the real world. It helps you consider

different counting strategies. Find it here at

https://nrich.maths.org/14404

Zios and Zepts Drawing or modelling will help with this problem. It will help to develop Logical Thinking and has a fun, alien-creature

theme.

FOOD

It’s really important to stay healthy by having a healthy

diet as much as you can.Cookin’ Castle

http://cookincastle.com/

This is a great website which can help you to learn about Food Hygiene and about Healthy Nutrition. We’ll keep this activity on for a

couple of weeks to give you time to find out about both. St Ninian’s is listed in the

schools when you enter the website.

Favourite Recipe

Do you have a favourite recipe or something

you’ve always wanted to cook or bake?

Why not give it a try this week?

It would be great to see your creations

Reading or listening to recipe instructions helps to develop

your Literacy Skills Weighing out quantities or

BE KIND

KINDESS CARDS

Showing Kindness can be really simple and can help to keep everyone happy at home. Try to show kindness in simple ways this week. Chat to your siblings and grown ups and agree on

some acts of kindness that you’ll try to achieve each day. Here are some ideas to get you

started:

I’ve attached a bigger copy of this below…

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Physical Fitness:Joe Wicks does an excellent

and free workout at 9am every weekday! Catch him by going to YouTube and

searching for “PE with Joe” or you could try ‘Jumpstart

Jonny’ for a fun and energized workout. He often

includes fun and game elements too. He’s live on youtube at 9 am each day.

Dance: Oti Mabuse does a great Dance Class at 11:30 each day live on youtube.

These classes are saved so that you can watch them at any time. They are for boys

and girls, are simple to follow and have fun themes

like ‘The Greatest Showman’. ‘Frozen’ and

‘The Jungle Book’

Skills Practice! Do you have a fitness goal that you’d like to achieve?

Maybe you could hold that plank for a little longer or increase your number of skips in a certain time?

In School we set Weekly Challenges. We have a big think and then we decide:What we’d like to achieve

How we’re going to achieve it

http://www.sumdog.com/



https://nrich.maths.org/1005

using the correct amounts helps your Mathematical

Thinking and you might get to eat something delicious too. That’s a win all round!

You can develop your creative Wrtitng skills by

recording your own recipe on paper using words and

images or in type or even by making a VLOG or voice recording of your recipe.

You could design your own cards and cut them up to shuffle and choose an act of

kindness each day.

What help we’ll need to get there.

Talk at home about a fitness or exercise goal you have

and make a note of it. Decide when, where and how often you’ll practise.

Remember! Set achievable goals to help you to achieve

success. When we set goals we are trying to make a positive

change and notice an improvement. The

improvement can be really small and that will still be

fantastic work!

ART Art meets Science in this activity (and

it’s also lots of fun!)

You’ll need some paper towel and some felt tipped pens.

1. Fold the paper towel in half

2. On the outside half (like the front of a card) write a word or draw an outline in black or a

dark colour

3. Open your paper towel and draw a picture on the inside half. Outline it in black and then

colour in.

PRACTICAL

Reflection Time Daily Reflection

Instead of focusing on what your haven’t achieved in a

day or on what ‘s gone wrong, let’s focus on what

went well… you’ll be able to find something!

Reflect at the end of your day with these simple

thinking prompts:What went well today?

How do I feel about this?What didn’t go so well?

TEACH YOUR PARENT

This week let’s say ‘Thank you’

At school lots of you make cards for teachers and friends and this is a lovely thing to do.

Your parents are doing such a great job looking after you at home and helping you with your learning and I know that you’re helping them too. Can you create a card or even just a little note to say ‘Thank you’ for doing a terrific job!

This will make them feel really special.

And remember not to worry about having a bad

MAKE YOUR OWN CHALLENGE!

This week it’s a Photography Challenge… Can you create an acrostic poem using the

word

PHOTOGRAPHTry to find and take a picture of one thing

beginning with each of the letters and create your

acrostic picture. You can theme it or not, whatever


Week beginning 04.05.20204. Fold your paper towel back over

so that you can see your word.

5. Examples: you could write ALIEN and draw an alien inside; you

could write KINDNESS and draw a heart inside.

6. Get a plate or shallow dish and pour a glass of water onto it.

7. Drop your folded paper towel into the water and watch what

happens…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX19xFfaRo8

or search ‘The Dad Lab’

Colourful Magic Trick with Paper Towels

Follow the link above for a tutorial and find out how to create something

magical!

How I feel about this?Tomorrow I will try…

Tomorrow I’d like to…You can write this reflection

down, draw it or just talk about it with someone else.

day. This happens to all of us and the best thing is a chat about it, maybe a cuddle, a good

night’s sleep and a fresh start in the morning. You got this, P5 x.

you choose. What will your collage look like?

Will you try my Challenge or create one of your own? I’ll

be excited to hear from you…





Have a great week Primary 5! Remember to stay at home, stay safe and to look after yourselves and your families. I’ll be giving you all a wee phonecall as usual and I look forward to chatting with you.

Have a super Holiday Friday too! 😊 Mrs Horne x



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