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Term 2 In Primary Five

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Please take a look at the planned learning this term in Primary Five. If you have any questions or queries please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Mr McPheely

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Home Learning Week Commencing 29/1/24

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Spelling

In the next few weeks in spelling we will be focusing on irregular plural forms of plurals. This week we will look at words which end in ‘f’. The rule is the ‘f’ is removed and ‘ves’ is then added to the end of the word.

e.g. leaf- leaves

There are some exceptions though, like words which end with a ‘ff’, which just have a ‘s’ added on.

e.g. cliff- cliffs

Core words:

elf-elves

leaf- leaves

knife- knives

cliff- cliffs

bluff- bluffs

sniff- sniffs

Mild words

loaf- loaves

self- selves

shelf- shelves

cuff- cuffs

Hot words

dwarf- dwarves

yourself- yourselves

roof- roofs

wife- wives

Maths and Numeracy

This week in numeracy the focus will be on money. Learners should choose five items they would like to buy. This could be anything from a pencil case to a new games console. They should choose three different retailers and show the price from them then underline which one they would buy from.

Children should be wary of hidden costs or savings associated with different buying options i.e. money off, delivery costs etc.

Learning Across the Curriculum

Choose one character from the Spiderwick Chronicles or Matilda and create a character fact file. Your fact file should include, their name, a picture of them and at least five facts.

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Home Learning Week Commencing 22/1/24

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Spelling

This week the spelling pattern is using the suffix ‘ily’ to create adverbs. The rule is if a word ends in a y and you want to turn it into an adverb you drop the y and then add on ‘ily’. So happy becomes happily.

Core words

easily, lazily, angrily, happily, luckily, wearily

Mild words

clumsily, noisily, speedily, prettily

Hot words

hungrily, heavily, merrily, steadily

Maths and Numeracy

This week we will continue to focus on subtraction skills in numeracy. Please choose one activity from the PACE grid below.

Practice	Apply	Correct	Extend
Use concrete materials at home to practice subtracting amounts. For example to find 21-9 take 21 objects (coins, fruit, lego etc.) and take away 9. Count how many you have now.	Answer these questions using either the number line or column method. 1. 542-123= 2. 847-231= 3. 432-185= 4. 853-536= 5. 974-428=	From these ten number sentences, identify the 5 incorrect answers and then solve them in your homework jotter. 1. 649-225=424 2. 4 537- 2 316= 2 221 3. 763-439= 322 4. 854-539= 315 5. 745-221= 483 6. 732-214= 478 7. 973-268= 705 8. 4 579- 2 537= 1 975 9. 8 472- 5 735= 2 737 10. 9 532- 8 532= 4 67	Create either a poster or a video explaining how to use either the number line or column subtraction method.

Learning Across the Curriculum

Please choose one of the areas or sites within the centre of Edinburgh and find five facts about it. You should be able to share these with your classmates on Friday.

Grassmarket

Edinburgh Castle

Victoria Street

St Giles’ Cathedral

Scottish Parliament

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Home Learning Week Commencing 15th January 2024

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Avery belated Happy New Year to all Primary 5 families. I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable break. It has been fantastic welcoming back all of the Primary 5 learners and am looking forward to sharing our learning this term.

As previously, home learning is set on a Monday and supplements the in class learning children complete. Home learning should be completed in the home learning jotter and returned on a Thursday.

Spelling

This week in class we will be focusing on the ‘ai’ sound. Your child will learn the ‘core words’ as well as either the ‘mild’ or ‘hot’ words. You can practice spelling words using the look, cover, say, write, check approach as well as breaking down words to their sound.

Core words: repair, raise, curtain, afraid, bargain, obtain

Mild words: despair, Britain, certain, praise

Hot words: straight, mountain, fountain, traipse

Maths and Numeracy

This week and the previous week we have been focusing on short division. Learners have had the opportunity to create videos or posters explaining how to use the short division or ‘bus stop’ method. Please choose the appropriate level of challenge from the PACE grid below and write the problem, solution and workings in the home learning jotter.

Practice	Apply	Correct	Extend
Use concrete materials and knowledge of times tables to find the answer to the following questions. 12÷4= 21÷3= 18÷6= 20÷5= 35÷5=	Solve the division questions below, writing the answers in your maths jotter. 93÷3= 1072÷4= 156÷3= 623÷7= 348÷6= With remainders 452÷3= 967÷4= 236÷3= 562÷7= 946÷6=	Identify the incorrect number sentences and write them in your jotter with the correct solution. 350÷7=40 448÷8=56 336÷6=56 602÷7=83 513÷9=57	Come up with your own division questions using five digit numbers. You could also challenge yourself to divide numbers giving an answer in decimals.

Learning Across the Curriculum

Choose the top five things to see or places to go within a 30 minute walk of school. What can you do there? Why would people want to go? Who would enjoy it most (is it for adults or children?).

It doesn’t have to be famous or tourist attractions. You could choose a local park, shop you like or even a friends house, as long as you can explain why.