Liberton Primary School P7 Home Learning Grid 25.05.2020

Writing Reading NumeracyGeneration Lockdown - EditingThis is a writing competition where youshare stories of life in lockdown, judged by published authors.This is your opportunity to write about your experience. You can submit a piece of writing about what life has been like in lockdown and during the coronavirus.This could be a personal experience, a poem, or a creative story. All of you will have had a unique experience that is only yours, and only you can capture in words.Your entry should be 700 words or under.To write a great piece, remember to use your learning from this year. Think about:

Planning Using powerful vocabulary – interesting,

varied adverbs, adjectives and verbs. Vary your sentence structure – think

about openers, punctuation and sentence length.

Creative, unique ideas. Edit

You can get more top tips from here https://generationlockdown.co.uk/2020/05/08/how-to-make-your-writing-unique/ and by looking for other articles on the generationlockdown.co.uk website.

If you already started your writing last week, this is a good time to edit, even if you are not finished yet.

Read your work more than once, aloud or to someone else

Is it clear what you mean? Does your writing flow properly? Are some sentences too long to

read comfortably or are there too many short ones?

Is it interesting? Have you used clear description?

Think about which information is needed for your story and which is unnecessary. Remember, you only have 700 words!

Enjoy some reading Choose a novel for

enjoyment, read for 20 minutes every day.

Reading Comprehension

Read the passage “Who Let The Gods Out” by Max Evans.

Answer the comprehension questions in your jotter.

Make sure you answer the questions as completely as you can, providing as much evidence as possible for each one.

Number sequences - Fibonacci spiralsWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEnR8zupK0A• Put a piece of squared A4 paper on your desk so that its longest side is horizontal.• Start by drawing a square with a side of one about 10 squares up from the bottom edge of the paper and 15 squares in from the right hand side.• Draw another square with a side of one on top of it.

• Now draw a square with a side of two to the right of your first two squares.• Then a square of side three above that.• You can now start to draw your spiral!• Each square has a quarter of a circle in it, joining one corner of the square to its opposite corner.• Can you see where to draw your next square and curve?• The sizes of your squares follow the Fibonacci sequence:

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34

• Can you see why? You will run out of space on your paper when you get to 21 or 34 - it just depends on exactly where you positioned your first square on the paper.

Grammar/Spelling WoW MathsEllipsesEllipsis '...'An ellipsis has different purposes and can be very useful in your writing.• It can be used to show a word or words have been removed from a quote.• It can create suspense by adding a pause before the end of the sentence.• It can also be used to show the trailing off of a thought.

Watch https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zpgjy4j

Play ‘Fill in the gaps’ Write your own example, in your

jotter, for each purpose of an ellipsis.

1. Text omitted from a quotation.2. A passage of time.3. An unfinished thought.

Use the video to help you.

Sumdog (Spelling Challenge) – Latin root words

World of Work

World of Work is an online resource that will support you with your Career Education throughout school and is part of your preparation for transition to high school. We will be completing one task each week.

Instructions on how to use this can be found on the sheet below.

Task 3 This week’s task is-

Write the ‘About Me’ summary in the Profile

Capacity Litres, centilitres and millilitresRemember1000ml = 1LThis week you will also be using centilitres10ml = 1cl100cl = 1L(this is similar to mm, cm and m)

Answer the questions on the sheet below, ‘Millilitres, Centilitres, Litres’, in your jotter.

Mark your answers using the answer sheet.

Extra challenge:Go tohttps://www.educationcity.com/

Do the task ‘Converting measurements’.

Something fun! Road Safety IDL Theme/ProjectLearn to do a coin or a magic trick!

Watchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzxFZQSA-Kc

https://www.care.com/c/stories/4051/easy-magic-tricks-for-kids/

P7 VIDEO:Please send an audio file of you singing ‘This Is Me’ to david.robertson@liberton-pri.edin.sch.uk as well as a drawing of yourself. Only you will know which picture belongs to you. Your voice will be combined with others from the whole class too, so just do your best, it’s just like singing in the choir, which you all did so wonderfully at school! I have emailed the backing track, so please use it to help you.

Road Safety Watch

‘Road Ready? Expect the Unexpected’.

https://vimeo.com/268811066 Draw a route to Liberton

Primary or to your new high school, from your home, and identify any local danger spots.

Create an ‘if/then’ plan, with an adult, looking at potential scenarios and planning what to do if they happen. For example, ‘If I get to xx street and there are lots of parked cars, then I will walk to xx crossing and cross the road there.’

Consider different weather conditions and times of year.

Extra challenge: Go to

https://www.think.gov.uk/thinkmap/ . You can type in your location and change the filters to see the number of road accidents in your area.

RME

Personal Project See the page below on guidance to

producing your personal project.Task 3 Week 3

What is the place of worship for your world religion?

Describe the building and draw, print or copy a picture of an example.

What happens in this place of worship? What are the rules/customs? Compare this information to at least

one other religious place of worship. Present this information in your

personal project.

Song of The Week Sign Language Art/Music/Drama/PE

Listen to the song below and complete a review, following how we complete it in class.

Song title: The UniversalArtist: BlurReleased: 1995https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrbxWOMpwfsRating:Reasons for rating:What do you think the song is about?;How does it make you feel?:Song/artist with a similar style:

Sign LanguageGreetingsWe did some sign language last term.

Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyicdRl3ULg

Learn the different greetings. Try them out on people in your

home and teach some of the new signs.

Extra challenge: Use https://www.british-

sign.co.uk/print-a-word-in-fingerspelling/ to learn to spell out the names of the people in your family.

PE Watch and follow Mr Moir’s fitness

video.Drama

News Snapshots Choose a headline from the sheet

below. Create a photo snapshot starring

yourself which might accompany your chosen news story.

You can use costumes, props or just improvise with what you have!

Don’t forget to send it to your teacher!

Health & Wellbeing Sciences/Technologies QuestionsYear Book In previous years the P7’s have produced a year book in the classroom, as a memento of their time at primary school. This is something that pupils come back years later and say how much they enjoy looking back on this time. We will be collecting information and pictures over the next few weeks. It is really important that everyone takes part in this to make it a Year Book for the P7s 0f 2020.

Task 2 Send an older photo of

yourself, a nursery or P1 photo would be perfect.

Write one positive, past memory you have of primary school, in a word document and send to your teacher.

Activity – Logic and reasoningComputers use logic to perform simple and complex functions. Logic is a systematic way of thinking, step by step, which also allows for inferences to be made.

Lay any 10 objects to create a flat

pyramid pattern:

Can you move only three items so the triangle points downwards instead of upwards?

To complete this puzzle you must think logically about which items to move.

Share your thought process with someone else.

david.robertson@liberton-pri.edin.sch.uklisa.witherspoon@liberton-pri.edin.sch.uk

We would really love to hear how you are doing. Please email us a quick hello and let us know how

things are going and/or share some of your work with us that

would be great.

Dear Primary 7,

Please find below some information about ‘My World of Work’ and Task 3, ‘About Me’, to complete this week. These activities are part of the work we would have been doing in school to prepare for transition to high school. The information in your World of Work profile will be shared with your high school teachers, so please try to do these tasks if you can!

Let us know how you get on and please contact us if you need any help with it!

Mrs Mackintosh, Mrs Witherspoon and Mr Robertson

Go to https://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/ican

Type in your first name Type in your second name Type in the school name- Liberton Primary School and choose Liberton Primary School –

Edinburgh from the drop-down menu

Your access code will still be 1234 if you haven’t changed it from previous weeks.

Task 3: Write the ‘About Me’ summary in the ProfileDuration: between 30-40 minutesDue Week Beginning 25.05.2020

Learning intention: I will learn about what a Profile is and how to start to summarise myself

What is a Profile:A profile is a positive record of your achievements and emphasises your strengths. The Profile on My World of Work gives you a space to write about yourself, your skills and achievements.

1. Click on the Profile tab and view the sections that makes up the Profile.2. In the All about me section you will see the quiz results for Animal me and My interests, click the button ‘Write summary’3. Use this space to summarise your quiz results and information about you– sentence starters are provided below to help with this.4. You should click on “save summary section” as you write. Please make sure you click save once your summary is complete.5. Once the summary is complete you can click ‘back to profile’.

Here are some suggested sentence starters that you can use:

What type of person are you?I am __________ person. I have shown this when____________________My animal me is____________this tells me I’m good at___________I like to learn by (doing/watching/reading/talking)

What do you enjoy doing in and out of school?I enjoy ________ and ________.

What are your interests?In my spare time/ During the weekends I _________.My favourite (sport/hobby/etc.) is ________.My interests are ___________My favourite subjects at school are________________. The subjects I find harder are_____________

Add anything else you think would be important for your profile.

Millilitres, Centilitres and Litres

1. Complete the table

MILLILITRES LITRES CENTILITRES

2,500 ml862cl

346cl

9.43 L

10,060 ml

2.Seven equal water bottles altogether contained 14L of water. How much would each one contain in ml and cl?

3. Callum had a 1.6 litre bottle of lemonade. How many 400 millilitre jugs would he be able to fill up with lemonade?

4.Write in order.

(a) Start with the largest volume. 666 cl 10 L 6 L 606 ml 6 cl

(b) Start with the smallest volume.

13 L 1L 3 cl 1.3 L 1003ml 133 cl

Answers

1.Millilitres Litres Centilitres2, 500 ml 2.5 L 250 cl8, 620 ml 8.62 L 862 cl3, 460 ml 3.46 L 346 cl9, 403 ml 9.403 L 940.3 cl10, 060 ml 10.06 L 1006 cl

2. 2000 ml 200 cl

3. 4 6

4. (a) 6 L 66 cl 606 ml 10 L 6cl

(b) 1003 ml 1L 3cl 1.3 L 133 cl 13 L

Reading comprehension task

Blurb

Reading comprehension –

Who Let The Gods Out (answer the following in your jotter or a separate piece of paper)

1) Look at the front cover: make a prediction about the story by using the title and the images on the front of the book.

2) Read the blurb. Clarify what a cushy retirement is.

3) What do you think Elliot’s problems are?

Read the extract of chapter one, ‘A Not Quite Normal Day.’ Answer the following in your jotter or on a separate piece of paper.

4) Why has the author repeated the word ‘normal’ in the first paragraph?

5) Find a word that is a synonym for guided.

6) What is Mr Sopweed worried that Elliot might do to the school?

7) Find evidence that Elliot doesn’t want to stay at school.

Grammar focus8) Find an example of an apostrophe for contraction. 9) Find 3 adjectives from the text. 10) Find a hyphenated word in the text.

R/ME Personal Project.

Prepare and present a Personal Project on a World Religion of your choice.

Each week there will be a new task to add to your presentation.

Begin by selecting and researching your topic, then present the information in your own way to produce the highest possible standard of project work.

Points to remember: You may handwrite, word process, make a Power Point or use a combination of these. Use your own words, do not copy and paste someone else’s writing. Include a variety of presentation techniques. Make it interesting and attractive for readers to enjoy. Make sure the front page/slide clearly states your title and your name. Include an introduction, glossary and bibliography.

Helpful hints for a Personal Project Spend time researching the topic thoroughly. Be selective about what you include. Reference all your sources in the bibliography. Vary your presentation by including things like: tables graphs maps lists

photographs/illustrations diagrams newspaper cuttings artefacts quizzes diary entries related adverts games any fun, interesting or clever way of presenting what you have found.

Squared paper for Fibonacci task

Fibonacci spiral ”answer”

Drama - News Snapshot Headlines