Hello Primary 4,
We hope you are all well and have had a good week. Here is a positive quote for the week for you:
‘Focus on what you can do, right now, where you are.’
You will find below the link to your new Learning Grid for this week below and it’s a slightly different one because it’s introducing our new topic- Electricity! Yey! We have included as much as we can for you to learn about at home and there will be a couple of extra things for you to do on the website too.
Electricity Home Learning Grid 06.05.20
This week’s focus task is topic related and you will see this in the ‘Focus of the Week’ box on the Home Learning Grid. We look forward to seeing your models and how innovative you have been by trying to use things from around the house. Please send your work to admin@kirkliston.edin.sch.uk.
Remember, don’t forget to keep checking twitter @KirklistonPS for other exciting daily activities.
Keep Safe, Keep Smiling and being the amazing pupils that you are,
Miss Afzal, Miss Maxwell and Mrs Quinn 😊
Additional Information to Support Home Learning
Moving forward to support more teacher / child interaction we will highlight one box on the grid where we would like your child to share their learning by emailing it to their teacher.
This week our focus activity is based on STEM (Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Maths). We would like you to share the activity with us by emailing it to: admin@kirkliston.edin.sch.uk.
Topic: The activities are structured in a way so that pupils can participate in the learning using skills that they have already been taught, such as: researching, taking notes, making a fact file, creating a model and designing a poster. There are some video links to support learning as well as some specific worksheets that are relevant to certain boxes. All the activities apart from one (4. researching to find out what sort of jobs involve electricity) can also be completed without the video clip.
Each box on the grid related to our new topic is numbered to break up the different learning areas. We have signposted where we recommend the pupils should start as this activity is focusing on any prior knowledge on Electricity. After that, they can choose which activity to do. Below you will find resources linked to the topic grid:
Electricity Mind Map activity sheet Electrical Appliances in my Home
Electricity Research Map Safety with Electricity
Please note that the tasks can be completed without watching the video links.
Supplementary resources: Here are some extra learning activities and other resources that can be used:
Electricity from the Mains and Batteries Electricity Word Search
Spot the dangers Electricity Vocabulary
Further suggested activities:
- Make your own electricity quiz for someone else to answer.
- Create an Electricity Superhero who helps people to be safe around electricity.
- Suggest some changes that you could make at home to save electricity.
- Research an aspect of electricity that interests you.
Numeracy and Maths: New challenges and competitions are set by your child’s teacher on Sumdog each week, results can then be reviewed. Sumdog is intuitive to your child’s ability, this means that questions are based around previous accurate answers and therefore activities are level appropriate.
This week’s focus will be on Division.
- Division challenge on Sumdog using the unique log in username and password for this week’s subtraction challenge: https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in
- Below you will find a power point to support the learning of division and slides with other activities included too:
Primary-4-Division Design Your Own Board Game
Reading- For reading this week, as well as pupils continuing to read something of their own choice daily, there is also an Electricity themed reading comprehension to complete via Microsoft Forms. We would like the children to first read over a reading comprehension passage about Electricity. All the questions on the form will we based on facts written in this passage. Whilst your child may already have some previous knowledge about Electricity, the skill is to be able to find the answers only within the passage. The passage may have to be read over multiple times to find the answers, this is perfectly fine and should be encouraged. Here is the link:
Electricity Reading Comprehension
Remember our Microsoft Form activity each week is a great way for your child’s teacher to view their learning as the responses are received directly.
There are also many websites where you can listen to stories for free. Storyline Online allows children to watch and listen to celebrities read a wide selection of stories. https://www.storylineonline.net/
You can also listen to Mrs Quinn’s Fairytale Friday which is read every Friday at 12pm. Find the link on Twitter @KirklistonPS
Spelling- Your child’s teacher uploads individual word lists onto Sumdog for your child every week, although these words do not appear as a list they are embedded within the games and challenges played.This week we are focusing on words linked to our Electricity topic. We have included Electricity Vocabulary above, under the topic section should you wish to see what sort of words might come up in the games. Some of the words might differ from this list.
Writing- This week there are two small writing tasks. One is to make a fact file and the other is to design a poster. All pupils have had experience of creating these already and we have included some tips on the Electricity grid to help them with this.
Fact File Self Assessment Writing Checklist
Many of the supporting worksheets and documents we have uploaded are just a guide for you to use. Please don’t feel like you have to complete all the work provided – pick the ones which will work best for your family during this time. For example, we have provided fact file and game board templates for this weeks Writing and Numeracy and Maths activities but your child might prefer to draw up their own instead.