TROON PRIMARY SCHOOL & EARLY YEARS CENTREHome Learning: Primary 5

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Reading Spelling WritingWe are learning about word association.

We are learning to identify what a mystery is.We are learning to use our spelling strategies with our spelling words. We are reflecting on lockdown.

Listen to chapter 2 of Catscape. Chapter 2 audio link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWf5Miul4XI&feature=emb_logo

Task 1: It’s a mystery!Many of you correctly suggested that Catscape is a mystery! Some ofyou thought that there may be some elements of an adventure in this story too! Complete the ‘It’s a Mystery’ Worksheet attached or use the document on Teams.

Task 2: Catscape WordsCan you use these words below to create your own sentences? Intriguing, appreciate, stifled, exasperation, collide, quizzical, systematically and huffily

Task 1:Using the ‘Order! Order!’ approach, write your spelling words out in alphabetical order.

Task 2:Please do a spelling assessment on Friday.Complete the task in jotter. Spelling lists are attached to this overview.

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Task 1:We are now entering our seventh week of lockdown. This task is to allow you to reflect and capture different moments of your life in lockdown. Consider and complete these questions… (There is an A4 size template attached)

NumeracyMental Arithmetic Core Learning ICT Support

We are learning to use mental strategies involving all four operations to solve problems.

We are learning to find the volume of a shape by counting cubes. Task 1:

Log into Sumdog and complete the Sumdog Challenge.ICT extension: Experiment with Chrome Music Lab and Hour of Code.Peter Patilla Unit 22

Unit 22 sheet is attached to this overview.

Task:Complete the worksheets attached to this

overview.

Natural Disaster/Extreme Weather Health and WellbeingWe are learning about natural disasters and their impact on the planet and humans. We are sharing our learning.

This week we are looking at earthquakes. Please watch the National Geographic YouTube clip about earthquakes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ho6z32yyo

Task 1: Please read the PowerPoint about earthquakes that is saved in our Natural Disasters folder on Teams.The website of the British Geological Survey (www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk) provides details of recent earthquakes in Britain and around the world. Look at the map showing the earthquakes around the British Isles in the last 50 days. What is the closest earthquake to where you live? Where did the earthquake happen? When did the earthquake occur? How strong was the quake? Use the worksheet attached to complete the task. Extension task – research where was the biggest earthquake to have happened recently in the world?

Task 2: Areas around the world that may be affected by earthquakes on a regular basis need to think about earthquake proofing when designing houses and buildings. Your tasks is to design a building that is earthquake proof! Look at the worksheets attached to the overview to help you with your design. Good luck!

Your task this week is to share your learning on Teams. You might want to share your earthquake proof building design, a cake you have baked or tell the class about a book that you have been reading.Make sure you’re getting in your 60 minutes of PE a day.The Body Coach https://youtu.be/K6r99N3kXMEOti’s kids dance classes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqwXciMDFYAMindfulness meditation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihwcw_ofuM

Spelling Words

P5aEmoji Green Yellow Talisman

programme community definite throughtelegram curiosity desperate althoughhologram ability literate doughdiagram visibility secretary doughnutgrammar captivity stationary through

grammatical activity dictionary coughparallelogram eternity Wednesday trough

monogram Flexibility familiar roughprogrammer possibility original tough

program sensitivity animal enough

Spelling WordsP5b

Emoji Egypt Astronauts Butterfliesprogramme community definite through

telegram curiosity desperate althoughhologram ability literate doughdiagram visibility secretary doughnutgrammar captivity stationary through

grammatical activity dictionary coughparallelogram eternity Wednesday trough

monogram Flexibility familiar roughprogrammer possibility original tough

program sensitivity animal enough

NumeracyMedium Hot

Complete Worksheet 1. Complete Worksheets 1 and 2.

Catscape – Chapter 2 – It’s a Mystery WorksheetComplete your answers in your jotter or on Teams.

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1- Learn about the genre - mystery. Someone at home may be able to give you some more information. Write down any other book that you have already read, that you would say are mystery stories.

2- What features of the story so far in Catscape suggest that this book is a mystery?

3- What would you imagine will happen in the rest of the book- to follow the mystery genre.

Worksheet 1

Worksheet 2

Earthquakes Around The British Isles In The Last 50 Days

What is the closest earthquake to where you live?

Where did the earthquake happen?

When did the earthquake occur? How strong was the quake?

Where was the biggest earthquake to have happened recently in the world?

When was it?

What magnitude was it?