Primary 4O Monday 25 January 2021 tasks.

Good morning boys and girls.

These are your tasks for today. These tasks are also uploaded to Teams.

• Numeracy

In your learning pack you will find your mental maths sheets. Complete Monday on the third mental maths sheet.

This week, we will be learning about the six times table. We have already learnt about the 2,3,4,5 and 10 times tables. I would like you to warm up by saying the two times table from 1 - 50 or 100 if you feel confident and then start counting backwards from 50 or 100. I would like you to do the same for the 5 and 10 times table. Now count in threes from 1 to 30 and then back again. Then count up in fours from 1 - 40  and back again. How did you do? Which of the tables do you need to practice.

We are now going to remind ourselves, what is multiplication? I would like you to watch again, the Marco the pencil video on YouTube so type in www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPksJHBZs4Q. We are now going to dance and sing the six times table.  Type in the following YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bPW5tHVZ_c. I wonder if this happens when I’m not in the room!!🤔

In your numeracy book copy out your six times table which is attached below and start to learn your 6 times table.

• Literacy

Today for literacy we are doing a comprehension. In your learning packs look at the third comprehension. Read over the text a couple of times then read through the questions and think about what you have been asked. Use the text or picture to help you. In your literacy books answer the questions using full sentences, paying attention to capital letters, full stops, neat handwriting and presentation, as well as spellings. Remember to read over your answers to make sure they make sense. You do not have to write out the questions.

I have also given you spellings to learn for this week, for which ever reading group you are in  (Owls, Eagles, Hawks, Sparrows or Robins). Practice and learn them every day as part of your literacy.

• World Around Us

Today we are going to continue to look at evacuation and evacuees during World War II.

The removal of millions of children and adults from large cities to the countryside to avoid the bombing and destruction of the cities by the Germans was a great organisational event. From the 1st of September 1939, two days before war was declared, many children were sent away to the countryside without their parents to live with other families who would look after them while the war was on. Many of these children had never been on a train or to the countryside. Many children spent months and even years away from their families.
Like any trip away from home, the evacuees had to bring a number of things with them such as clothing, their gas masks, identity cards, washing items and of course some food for the journey.

I would like you to watch a YouTube video on how evacuees experienced and prepared for evacuation. I would like you to go to YouTube and type in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJKk4sFTRMY (Evacuees of the second world war: stories of children sent away from home). In your learning pack you will find the sheet titled ‘What clothes the children take with them’ as you can see there are different items for boys and girls. What do you have that is on the list? What is different compared to what you might take with you today? Using the evacuee suitcase sheet write the items that a boy would take, the items a girl would take, and those items both would have to take in the appropriate suitcase.

• Diary

Complete your diary entry for today. Use the questions on the timetable to help you.