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General Homework for 28th February

World Book Day – is our focus for our literacy homework this week. Please look below this post or at this link and complete 1 or 2 of the suggested activities.

Reading –  Reading books will go out on Thursday to be returned for Monday the 7th of March.

Additionally – we have been talking about Space and things we might like to find out more about within this topic (such as astronauts, asteroids, black holes or aliens). Where you have time this week, begin to research an aspect of this topic (using books, videos etc.) and find out at least 3 facts about your chosen area. We will begin to share these facts next week in class as part of our presentation work and this will be a focus of next week’s homework.

Maths – Look over your new Mental Agility Activity Sheet. Have a go at one or two activities on the sheet.

Here is a picture of the Mental Agility Activity Sheet and an an electronic copy of this file:

We read Digiduck and the Magic Castle to start us off on the theme of All fun and games? Exploring relationships and respect online. We created masks of our very own ‘digiducks’ as we worked on our kindness ‘spells’ and recorded our class recipe. In literacy, we focused more on our tricky ‘red’ words as well as continuing to explore Safer Internet Day and Equalities Week work. We created self portraits in response to ‘We Are All Different’ as well as thinking about what ‘bullying’ is and why this might happen.

In maths, we continue to work on reading and writing the time. We start to look at quarter past and quarter to in both digital and analogue times after working well to show half past and o’clock on analogue and digital clock faces. We also continue to work on estimating how long things take to do, making some good guesses before checking out our guesses with a timer!

We continue to work on our Space topic, in exploring the orbit of the earth around the sun and we worked with our Primary 7 buddies to create some clay art from natural materials we gathered in the grounds of the Canongate Kirk. We even had some time to spare to play Red, Red River and some Chaos Tig in the playground!

As we come to the February break please remember to have fun! We look forward to seeing you all on the 21st of February!

General Homework for 7th February

Reading –  Reading books will not go out this week due to the upcoming February break. 

Literacy – Practise reading your red words and complete the work in your child’s orange jotter.

Safer Internet Day – create a poster or leaflet with your top 5 tips to stay safe online.

Maths – Continue to look over your Mental Agility Activity Sheet. Have a go at one or two activities on the sheet. We are thinking about estimating (having a really good guess/prediction) about how long things take. Have a guess at some of the things on the worksheet that goes home today. You might want to time some of these after your guess to compare!

Here is a picture of the Mental Agility Activity Sheet and an an electronic copy of this file:
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