Good morning P7b and welcome back to home learning week three.
I hope you are all well and had a fun, relaxing break? I ‘ve had a lovely time, relaxing and spending time being creative, reading and chatting to my family and friends. I am proud to say my 79 year old mum has learnt how to video WhatsApp so I get to see and chat to her. Although not sure she will approve of me telling everyone how old she is!!
Thank you for the book recommendations I managed to read both ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf’ and ‘Frostheart by Jamie Littler’. Both were really good.
I have now begun reading ‘The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell’.
Although I did not learn how to play the ukulele I did manage to do this…
I have not given up on the ukulele just going to take more time! Please let me know what you got up to in the holidays.
Today’s Literacy Learning
To ease us back into working from home I decided to give us a task that we have done before, right at the beginning of the school year.
Today I want you to look back over the books you have read since returning to school last August. Choose one that you particularly enjoyed and create a book commercial for it. It must be a different choice from the one you completed for our commercial wall.
This is a task that takes time and I’m going to complete one as well on one of the two books I read over the holidays.
Please try and email your work as I would like to collate an upper school reading recommendations page on our website.
Remember do only as much as you are able, this needs to fit in with your family’s life, looking forward to hearing from you.
admin@prestonstreet.edin.sch.uk
Mrs Smyth
From Ms Craig
Hello 7s!
I hope you had a fantastic break and were able to enjoy some of the sunshine. I have been trying to get out for a daily walk or run early in the morning when no one else is out. It’s lovely to see the daffodils and other spring flowers.
There was a birthday over the break – Happy Birthday, Iris! I hope you had a wonderful day.
Maths this week is a little different. I am very confident that you all have the skills you need to do well in secondary school. I am so impressed with how hard you’ve worked! You should be proud of yourselves. Since we can’t do math drama, I’d like to review math you are not comfortable with. This week, can you please look through the Teejay maths books here:
https://prestonstreetprimary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/teejay-2a-textbook.pdf
https://prestonstreetprimary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/teejay-2b-textbook.pdf
Anytime you reach a page where the problems look hard, write down that page number. When you’ve finished looking for all the hard pages, please email me the book (2a or 2b) and the page numbers at admin@prestonstreet.edin.sch.uk
For example, if I didn’t think I could do the problems on pages 94 and 101 of 2a, then I would send this in an email:
Book 2a pages 94 and 101
Each week, we will choose a page to review. If it’s not a page you need, there will be an opportunity for a challenge.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Miss Craig
From Mr Anderson
Good morning guys. I hope you all had a lovely Easter Break with your family in the sunshine. Although we were restricted in what we could do, we still had lots of fun going on local walks, bike rides, playing football and even participating in an Easter Egg hunt which Emily loved. However, my favourite part was receiving my Mars Easter Egg from our Tesco delivery. 😊
Whilst out on one walk, we were told Siegfried and Brighid the swans at Craiglockhart Pond have created a beautiful nest for their expecting cygnets. How exciting!
Finally, Happy Birthday Iris. I hope you had an amazing day!
Social Studies
As it’s our first day back, I would like you to create a phenomenal poster on the year you were born or on the actual day you were born. Your poster can include pictures, drawings and short paragraphs of historical events, sporting achievements, film & music and anything else you can think of.
If you are finding your birth year/day difficult, why not choose another member of your family and create a poster of their birth year/day. Along with the websites provided below, why not ask your family members.
I look forward to seeing all your posters and I will publish them on our school blog this Friday. Therefore, please send in photos of your work no later than midday on Thursday.
Mr. Anderson 😊