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+LITERACY AND ENGLISH

WRITING : This week we’re going to be imaginative and try to write a story about the adventures you had when you woke up and you were…

‘Only an Inch Tall!’

You can use this as your title or create one of your own. Here are some ideas to think about to help you to plan your writing…

How did you discover that you’d changed size?

Do you know how it happened?

How did you feel when you discovered your new size?

What challenges or problems did you face?

Were there any advantages to being only one inch high?

Did you discover any new skills/talents/possibilities?

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.The alien must come from a planet in our solar system.

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…

Write a Movie Review.

Practice writing to give your opinion by creating a movie review. I’ve attached a Checklist below to help you to remember

what you should include to make your review an effective and informative piece

of writing.

I’ve also attached a template that you may wish to use to help you to structure your writing or if you don’t feel confident

about writing longer sentences and paragraphs on your own. If you’re happy to work without this and create your own structure, that’s great! Do what’s best for

you.

Names: Mrs Horne and Mr Cassidy

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Week beginning 11.05.2020 How did other people

react to your new size?

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’s a copy of the two live Word Lists:

List 1: answer, swords, wrestle, whole, wrap, write, wrapped,

know, rhinoceros, honest, hour, dishonest

List 2: kick, kicks, kicked, bring, bringing, stamp, stamps,

stamped, call

GRAMMAR: Grammar Activites are set on Sumdog.

READING – POETRYDo you have a favourite poem? Try reading it and

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

Make your alien! Remember that you can use any items you have at home. It doesn’t have to be fancy or perfectly finished off. Just have fun creating it; enjoy working with someone else on this if you can; make sure that you are following the criteria we set out in Week 1 and… take a picture of your fantastic creations to let others see!

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

Faith.

Have you made a May Altar yet? When you’re out for a walk, you’ll be able to collect lots of

natural items like wild flowers and stones, which you can decorate and arrange. We’re doing this at home this week. I’ll let you see

how it goes.

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Week beginning 11.05.2020thinking about it. If you don’t I’ve attached one for you to read and think about.

VISUALISESimply draw what the poem makes you think about.

AND/ORDraw a circle or bubble in the middle of a piece of paper and some spider legs sticking out

from it. Explore most important element in your poem, You could think about what this

feature: Looks like

Sounds like Says/acts

Thinks Feels like

NUMERACY 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

FOOD

Brilliant Breakfasts.

It’s really important to have breakfast. Overnight when

BE KIND

KINDESS CARDS

Showing Kindness can be really simple and can help to keep everyone happy at home. Try to

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.

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Week beginning 11.05.2020favourites 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 and Activity Maths

Strike it out for Two

This activity is great fun and will work your logical thinking and

addition and subtraction skills. It will be good for Superhero power training too because

you’ll need to try to outsmart your opponent.

You don’t need a fancy numberline to take part – you can easily make your own with

pencil and paper or on the gorund outside.

https://nrich.maths.org/10091

you’re sleeping is the longest time that your body goes

without food or drinks so it needs refuelling in the morning (I know some of you don’t want

to eat straight away).

Breakfast is even better when it’s fun to make and we all have a little more time to do this just now. We made Robot Toast…

what can you create?

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…

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

kindness 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’

Fitness GoalsIn School we set Weekly

Challenges. We have a big think and then we decide:

What we’d like to achieveHow we’re going to achieve itWhat help we’ll need to get

there.

How are your fitness diaries going? Keep this up if you can. It will really help you to stick to

your plan.

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!

This week try to include some Outdoor Exercise. Cycling, Scooting, Walking,

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Week beginning 11.05.2020Running and Energetic Play all count and they make you

feel happy too!

What do you like to do to play outside?

ART

Junk Modelling

What can you make from recycled packaging or bits and pieces from home? You can use

materials from outdoors or inside. Be as creative as you like! Just check with an adult

before you start that materials are clean, safe and available for you to use. I’d love to see some

pictures of your creations on Twitter or on our Google

Classroom 😊

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?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.

TEACH YOUR PARENT

Fun Fitness

Try learning something new together this week. There are lots of great ideas online. You might

want to try one of the live Fitness ideas together… you could try one of Joe Wicks’ workouts together or one of Oti Mabuse’s

dances.

Active Spelling

If you’d prefer more of a pencil and paper task, can you teach someone at home how to use one of the Active Spelling Strategies that we use in school. Go on… show them how much fun you can have with letters and writing and

how fantastic you can make them look!

MAKE YOUR OWN CHALLENGE!

This week, challenge yourself to try something new. This can be anything you like. It could be a part of the Learning Grid that you haven’t tried before or

anthing else you like!

If you can, record your challenge by drawing, writing,

taking a photograph and if possible, share it with use via Twitter or Google Classroom.

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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. If you’d like to get in touch with me, remember you

can send me an email at:gw07hornerosalind@glow.sch.uk

Have a super week! 😊 Mrs Horne x

Poetry

~~~Wind on the Hill

~~~

No one can tell me,Nobody knows,

Where the wind comes from,Where the wind goes.

It’s flying from somewhereAs fast as it can,

I couldn’t keep up with it,Not if I ran.

But if I stopped holdingThe string of my kite,

It would blow with the windFor a day and a night.

And then when I found it,Wherever it blew,

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Week beginning 11.05.2020I should know that the windHad been going there too.

So then I could tell themWhere the wind goes…

But where the wind comes fromNobody knows.

By A A Milne

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