Literacy
please practice your spelling words for our weekly quiz.
Achievements
On the paper provided please draw a picture of something you have achieved either inside or out of school e.g winning the Winter cup or moving up swimming group etc. please include a sentence or 2 about your achievement and your name and the date.
Numeracy
please play prodigy to practice your number bonds.
Cross cutting themes
you have 2 weeks left to complete your class talk on natural disasters.
Please practice your spelling words in your homework jotter for our weekly quiz
We are busy working on our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies please practice these by playing Prodigy at home.
You still have 3 weeks to work on your class talk which sounds like it is well on the way keep up the great work. Remember to include lots of exciting and interesting facts and pictures on your chosen natural disaster.
Please practice your spelling words in your homework jotter for our weekly quiz
Blue Group
SH
shed, ship, shop, shut, ash,cash,rash,dish,fish,wish
We have been working on telling the time please play https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time to help with these skills. select read the time to a quarter of the hour.
Over the next 4 weeks the children will be working at home on preparing a class talk all about a chosen natural disaster. The talk will be no longer than 5 minutes and the children can chose how they would like to present their talk i.e google slides, poster presentation etc. We will present the talks on the last week of term before the Easter holidays.
Numeracy
Please continue to practice your times tables and division facts by playing daily 10 https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Literacy Spelling
April, May, June, July, August, Autumn, Summer, Internet, Safety, Millburn, Academy
Please practise your spelling words for our weekly quiz
Could you please choose a natural disaster of your choice and write down in your jotter 2 facts and 1 opinion about it
Cross cutting Themes
This week is Internet safety day on Tuesday please complete the sheet Free to be find information below on what your may wish to include.
Why not fill the page with…
• Words that express who or what someone should be #freetobe online (e.g. themselves,
creative, funny, supportive).
• Pictures that illustrate what a better internet could look like.
• Illustrations of what they want their online identity to look like.
• Pledges of what they will do to help create an inclusive internet, such as: ‘I will post things that I
am proud of online’ or ‘I will support my friends to express themselves online’.
They can also fill in the #freetobe hashtag in any way they like!
We are exploring time and how important it is in life. Can you keep a timetable of 1 day in the week writing down in your homework jotter what time you get up, come to school, go to clubs, have dinner and go to bed. Could you draw a clock face for each time.
Literacy
Fact or opinion?
Which is the opinion
There are 33 pupils in p4
Everyone in primary 4 enjoys school dinners
The school opened in 2007
Can you write three statements which are a mix of fact and opinion for us to share in class
Spelling
January, February, March, Winter, Spring, Clock, Quarter, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Please play games to practice your spelling words for our weekly quiz.
Cross cutting Themes
Could you take in any old newspapers or magazines for an exciting project we will be undertaking soon.
If you are working on your 4 or 8 times table could you play daily 10 and try to increase your speed. Then could you find another 4 or 8 times table game on the Topmarks website and write it down in your jotter.
Spelling will focus on topic words this week
Please arrange these words in alphabetical order and learn them for our weekly spelling quiz
inner, core, magma, mantle, liquid, crust, smoke, chamber, outer, ash.
We have been exploring the water cycle could you try to explain to an adult at home how the water cycle works then they could write a sentence about how you did in your homework jotter.
Remember our key words Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
Numeracy
In maths we have been working very hard in multiplication and building our 4 and 8 times table using our knowledge of doubling and partitioning.
We have been using a great song to help us learn. Could you please find another 4 times table song to share with the class.
Spelling
please list these words in your book in alphabetical order and practice their spellings for our weekly quiz.
Volcano, flood, tornado, destruction, lava, tsunami, earthquake, bushfire, avalanche, help.
Cross Cutting Themes
We are exploring non-fiction texts and our topic this term is natural disasters. Choose a natural disaster and note 3 facts in your homework jotter.
Homework Week Beginning Monday 2nd 2019
Due Friday 13th December
Literacy
Spelling
P3 and P4 practise words around advertisement:
offer, advertisement, snappy, bright, picture, product, positive, layout, eye catching, slogan
Reading
Reading for enjoyment:
Read a book of your choice for 15 minutes every night
Could you please bring a book to school for silent reading in class, thank you.
Handwriting
In jotters: joins to anti-clockwise
P4: You have 20 pounds to spend for Christmas shopping. Write down what you could buy, add the prices and calculate the change.
Cross Cutting Theme
Advertisement: working sheet ‚Food Advertising‘
Christmas Performance
Please practise your song words for the performance
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh,
Aah!
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
[Spoken] Ok everybody clap your hands
I'm a superstar and i'm coming out tonight!
I've had a little makeover and I'm all dressed up tonight
A cheeky drink a naughty wink
we'll loosen up alright
Stand up and put your shades on
'cause i'm about to shine
My blinding light will thrill you
'cause there's no starlight like mine
Ooh! Ooh!
Sparkle and shine!
Planets gather round
Sparkle and shine!
Let's all make a dazzling sound.
Here's something you won't believe
it's the first time ever Christmas Eve!
I've got my light within me
and it's coming out for you
I'm dizzy with self-confidence
I hope you can feel it too
I'm Lighting up the skies tonight
So come on, join the party!
Make the moment last all night
And keep the stars all stary!
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
Sparkle and shine!
Planets gather round
Sparkle and shine!
Let's all make a dazzling sound.
Here's something you won't believe
it's the first time ever Christmas Eve!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrP2_JjEfH4
Dance
here is the music for you to help with the dance practise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgyliXHF9j8
Cross Cutting themes
We have started to look at our coding skills could you please find a definition of the word coding and write it in your homework jotter and also list 3 jobs that you would need coding for.
Spelling
Please practise your spelling words by playing games such as spelling tennis etc with someone at home
Ask, another, black, bring, door, every, fell, found, green
Could you read a book of your choice for 15 minutes every night
Play the topmarks game to help with your growing knowledge of money
coins game
Order coins
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game
Toy shop Mixed coins exact money
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Please research article 12 of the UNCRC with someone at home and note down in your jotter what you think this article means.
Reading
Please read a book of your choice from home for 15 minutes per day and complete one of the Bloom's activities below
Applying
Name someone you know who is like the main character, explain why?
Analysing
What was your favourite part of the story and why?
Spelling
Please practice your spelling words by playing spelling games at home such as spelling tennis etc. Can you list the words in alphabetical order in your homework jotter?
Spelling words -
after
many
baby
know
children
gave
house
found
dinner
last
We have been working on our mental maths skills and exploring Prodigy please continue to play this at home, have fun.
As part of our reading we have been exploring Blooms buttons to help our understanding of what we are reading. Could you please in you homework jotter CREATE a different ending for our class novel "Boy in the Dress" remember to keep to the theme of the story.
Go onto TT Rockstars to practice your times tables.
Homework week beginning Monday 9th September 2019
Literacy
Please practice the baseline joins we have been working on in class
ull, it, at, ut, ill
can you think of three words for each pattern such as pull, dull, bull write these out in your homework jotter in your best handwriting don't forget the joins.
Can you also collect 2 WOW words from your reading book as we are going to display them on our WOW Word wall.
Numeracy
Go onto Topmarks and find the best addition and subtraction games
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/addition-and-subtraction
Cross Cutting themes
On the paper provided can you tell me all about an achievement you have been able to do since the Summer holidays.
Home work Week beginning the 2nd September 2019
Homework this week is due in on Thursday 5th of September
Literacy
As part of our learning this term we are exploring WOW Words to help improve our Vocabulary and Writing. Please read a book of your choice for at least 15 minutes per day and list down the best 10 wow words you find which we will use in our writing.
Numeracy
Please find on top marks Place value games to help improve these skills
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/place-value
Cross cutting Themes
In Science our topic is What makes me me! can you look closely at the people in your family and note down some similar and different characteristics.