We hope you had an enjoyable week and made the most of the lovely weather. As always it was super to see the things you have been working on at home. We really enjoyed reading about the things you have learned during the home learning period so far. You have been learning lots of different things such as den building, learning about animals and how to organise a sports day. We saw lots of good up-levelling in these paragraphs!
This week our learning grid has a social studies focus. We are learning about ‘Castles’. Some of the tasks we have set this week are tasks to work on over a few weeks. These longer projects will need you to plan your time and think about how you can organise the tasks.
A big part of this term in P5 usually involves helping the nursery children with their transition to P1 in Kirkliston Primary School. We know that you were really looking forward to helping the nursery children with this. We have included some activities that you can do, so that you still help with this. We will arrange for your tasks to be shared with our future P1s.
Please read below for information on all the other learning experiences we’ve planned. We really do look forward to hearing from you and seeing your tasks, thank you to all of you who have sent them in.
Every week we will upload a short video to explain a task or show you how to do something included in your learning grids. We are looking forward to sharing things with you this way. We hope you enjoy the videos and they help you with your home learning.
You can find the learning grid for this week below with information about the different tasks and extra resources to help you to complete the activities.
You will still find maths, spelling and grammar activities on Sumdog to do in addition to your grid. You can also find other activities on the HWB, PE and Support for Learning pages.
We look forward to hearing from you this week.
From Miss Hall and Mrs Graham
Learning Grid:
Information about your tasks:
Catapult Challenge:
Maths
Four Operations:
It is important to continue to practise addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies on a regular basis. Little and often works well with this. We have included activities on Sumdog to help with this. You can also ask your child to complete questions verbally.
Time:
This week’s time focus is on being able to tell the time on analogue and digital clocks. Children should be able to explain each of the hands on a clock and know that each number on an analogue clock represents 5 minutes. In addition to this, they should know what numbers represent o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past times. In P4 the children had experience of telling the time with 5 minute interval times. They should be able to show 1.20 on an analogue clock and write this as a digital time. This week, the children will be asked to tell the time in one minute intervals and count on and back in time. Using a mix of digital and analogue reinforces your child’s understanding of time.
This week’s activity asks the children to complete worksheets which involve drawing the minute hand on clocks when given the digital time, writing the digital time when shown an analogue clock, determine am or pm times and count on and back from a given time.
Telling the Time 12 Hour Clocks Worksheet
Telling the Time 12 Hour Clocks Worksheet 2
Count on and back in time worksheet
Literacy
Spelling
This week’s spelling is double consonants. The main practise for learning your spelling words this week is Across words.
Activity – Across Words
In this activity you should write your word down with a coloured pencil, then fit across words into it using a normal pencil. E.g.
Remember the reason for these activities is to learn your words and of course spelling increases your vocabulary. If you find any words challenging then it’s good practice to use LOOK, COVER, WRITE and CHECK. Do this until you have learned the word.
Reading:
Reading for enjoyment is very important. Reading texts that children enjoy can help to develop their comprehension skills. Reading aloud helps to build fluency, expression and confidence. Reading is also an important tool for developing the writing skills of children. Reading enables children to build vocabulary and knowledge of the structure and techniques used in different writing genres.
The ability to read an unfamiliar text for specific information is also an important reading skill to develop. This week’s reading task is a longer text about Castles. The children should choose to focus on either the mild, spicy or hot comprehension text and questions. The children should read the text twice, before reading the questions. They should then read the question and read the text again to find the answer. They try to write their answers in full sentences where possible, remembering to use capital letters and full stops properly. Children should try not to use their own knowledge, but rather find the information in the text.
Writing:
Your writing this week is imaginative. You should write a short story using your imagination (and knowledge) on how this man ended up locked in this dungeon? Here are some ideas to get you started or perhaps you have your own.
• He is accused of stealing, but they’re wrong. He was only…….
• He was a jester and the King thought he was a spy. He wasn’t a spy, he was…..
• He was caught helping some enemies escape from the dungeon but he didn’t mean it, he…
• He was the castle cook and after a meal the King and Queen became very ill. They accused him of attempted poisoning. But he didn’t do it, it was…..
Hopefully that gives you some ideas on your storyline. It’s only a short story, but remember to plan the beginning, middle (event) and an ending. Include as much detail as you can using adjectives (describing nouns) and describing all the senses, hearing, smelling, listening, seeing and what are you hearing.
You can write in 1st person (as if you are the man in the dungeon) or 3rd person, using ‘he’.
Finally, remember capital letters, full stops, other punctuation and good sentences!
Art:
This week’s art is Castle themed. You have a choice of four different castle theme related characters or scene. You have to consider what and all that might be missing from the scene. For example the picture of the Queen may include her beautiful ornate bedroom and all her ladies in waiting holding her clothes, jewellery and/or food.
Try to add as much detail as possible in your drawing and you can colour with anything you wish, crayon, paint, pens etc. You may also wish to add some speech bubbles to have the characters talking to each other.
Social Studies:
The theme for the next few weeks is castles. We will be using this topic to find out more about people, place and events in Scotland’s history. You can find the details of a research task for children to find out about a Scottish castle of their choice in the document below. The children are asked to find out about the history of the castle, famous inhabitants and important events that took place in the castle. The children are asked to use their research to create a model and present their findings in a method of their choosing. The children may choose to make a video, they can create a PowerPoint, a fact file or another method. This task will involve the children putting their maths learning into practise. The deadline for the task will be Tuesday 16th June. The children will need to plan and organise the activities so that they have met the success criteria and achieved the learning intention. To support with this, the document below contains activity sheets to help them to break down the task into manageable chunks.
Health and Wellbeing:
Normally at this time of year, P5 are involved in activities to support the nursery to P1 transition. This year’s transition looks very different to other years, but we know P5 were really looking forward to this. We are keen for the children to be involved as much as possible as we know they will be super buddies in P6. Activities for nursery transition are linked to the book – ‘We are Going on a Bear Hunt’. Information that has been shared can be found here:
P5 might want to get involved by drawing a picture of bear to share with P1. They could put this in their window so that it can be seen on nursery children’s daily walks.
This week’s task is to write a letter to a P1 buddy to introduce them to Kirkliston Primary School. In their letter P5 should:
• Introduce themselves
• Explain the role of a buddy
• Ask questions about the nursery child – name, age, things they like to do
• Ask questions about the transition activities e.g. Have you drawn a bear? What does it look like?
• Tell the nursery child how they felt when they were in P1
• Talk about some of the things that children can do and learn at KPS
• Talk about your favourite things at KPS
• Talk about the things children can do in the playground
Learning Conversation:
Your class teachers are writing your end of year reports. We would like you to be involved in this process. Please remember to complete the learning conversation form about your year in P5 if you haven’t already done this.