Each day, Monday to Thursday there will be pictures of staff caught reading. Can you guess who they are? The answers will be revealed at the end of the week! Here is Monday’s!
Whole School Reading Challenge Grid – Give it a go!
Category: Primary 5 Blog
Scottish Book Week 13th – 17th November
Royal Mile Primary will be taking part in Scottish Book Week (13th – 17th November). We will have fun and exciting activities for the whole school and in the classes during the week and we are hoping that you and your children will be able to join us in our reading week at home.
We will be launching Book Bugs P1 -3 on Friday 17th November and a separate invite will be sent from the class teachers with a time to join the class.
We will have book competitions that the children can take part in and win a book prize. This year we have a Draw Your Favourite Character from a Book competition for Nursery, P1 and P2. We have quizzes for P3-4 and P5-7 and a chance everyday to guess who was caught reading in school. There will be a reading challenge grid on the School classes Blog and we hope that you will help the children complete some of these challenges and send in either the challenge or pictures that we can share their achievements.
Staff will be reading in different classes over the week and sharing their love of reading.
The challenge in class this year is for children to agree a Recipe for Reading in Royal Mile Primary so please discuss with your children at home what they enjoy about reading and what makes them want to read. We will compile all the ideas and use that to encourage more great reading in school.
We are passionate about creating a Royal Mile Primary Reading Community and hope that you can share sometime with your children next week to read with them or even tell them about your favourite book as a child.
LETS GET READING!
Thank you.
Home Learning Week Commencing 6th November 2023
Maths and Numeracy
| Practice | Apply | Correct | Extend |
| Answer times tables questions in your jotters. You can use the Topmarks Daily Ten resource to give you questions (level 3, multiplication) or just come up with your own. | In your homework jotters, solve the following multiplication questions using the grid method. 32×3= 25×5= 34×6= 56×2= 87×8= 93×6= | Work out which of the following number sentences are incorrect and correct them in your jotter. 45×3= 125 72×8= 576 84×4= 420 93×6= 558 74×5= 450 54×3= 160 | Follow the link below to complete this week’s home work problem solving challenge. https://nrich.maths.org/1129 |
Spelling
This week’s spelling sound is g (making the same sound as a j, like danger).
Core words
giant, legend, tragic, magic, gentle, general
Mild words
damage, danger, energy, digest
Hot words
emergency, gymnasium, intelligent, engineer
Learning Across the Curriculum
In line with this week’s literacy learning on creating a spooky podcast or audiobook, listen to some of the stories on the Stories Podcast website below. Please write down the name of the story you listened to, a brief summary of what happened in the story and how many stars out of five you would give it.
Home Learning Week Commencing 30th October
Maths and Numeracy
Please complete one of the activities below to support learning in class on multiplication and division.
| Practice | Apply | Correct | Extend |
| Practice drawing out arrays for different multiplication questions. You can check you were right by using the Array Builder. | In your home learning jotter practice writing out simple multiplication questions with the linked facts below. E.g. 3×4=12 4×3=12 12÷3=4 12÷4=3 | Look at the examples below. Please spot the mistakes and correct them in your home learning jotter. 3×6=18 30×60=180 4×9=36 40×9= 3600 7×7=49 70×70= 490 8×3=24 24÷3=3 | Create a design for your dream house. Draw the different rooms showing the length, width and area of each room. Your design must have: -A living room with a length of 7m and a width of 11m. -A garden with an area of 320m2. Everything else is up to you. |
Spelling- soft c sounds
Practice this week’s spelling sounds using look, say, cover, write, check.
Core words- face, race, dice, slice, rice, ice
Mild- nice, trace, space, spice
Hot- surface, price, chance, recite
Across the Curriculum
Choose an animal from either a dessert, polar or rainforest habitat. Either draw a picture of it or find a picture to stick into your jotter. Label any adaptation that the animal has to help it in it’s habitat i.e. a polar bear is white so that it can blend in to it’s surroundings.
Primary Five Poetry
Before the holidays Primary Five went to the Scottish Poetry Library to find out more about different poems and meet real life poets!
After this in class we started looking at poems by Grace Nichols, learning about different structures of poems, metaphors and similes.
We looked at the poem Morning then created our own about bedtime.
Bedtime comes with bampots screaming
Bedtime comes with buzzers buzzing
Bedtime comes with sinks gurgling
Bedtime comes with car radios playing
Bedtime comes with Mum’s Netflix playing
Bedtime comes with my phone mumbling
Bedtime comes with the upstairs furniture moving
Bedtime comes with car alarms ringing
Bedtime comes to put on the diffuser and tuck me in
By Eliska
Bedtime comes with the moon glowing
Bedtime comes with the door creaking
Bedtime comes with the bed wobbling
Bedtime comes with the light flickering
Bedtime comes with the wind blowing
By Diton
Bedtime comes with TVs speaking
Bedtime comes with buzzers beeping
Bedtime comes with my Mum talking
Bedtime comes with my Dad snoring
Bedtime comes with fridges gurgling
Bedtime comes with car radios singing
Bedtime comes with light switches clicking
Bedtime comes with bampots screaming
Bedtime comes with books rustling
Bedtime comes to drag me to bed- spoil sport bedtime.
By Jack
Royal Mile Primary School 