Good morning all, what another lovely sunny day it was yesterday. It makes me smile to hear the animals from Gorgie Farm enjoying being outdoors.
Whilst I have been working from home I have been following the newly opened (Although closed at the moment)
LOVE Gorgie Farm on twitter and facebook, where they do live tours around the farm and stream a variety of activities that you can do at home. Yesterday they were showing you how to make a bug hotel out of household materials including toilet and kitchen rolls and plastic bottles. So, for all you that love nature, it might be worth a visit. They also have a website: www.gorgiecityfarm.org.uk
Today’s Literacy Learning
I have had a few enquiries with regards to the Book Commercial Task so for those of you needing some support or reminder of how to do them here goes:
Basically a book commercial is a way of selling a book to others that you have enjoyed. Just as shops use commercials to persuade us to buy their products you are creating a commercial to try and persuade others to read your book.
Instructions
- Choose a book that you have read and enjoyed and you think other people would enjoy to.
- Get an A4 sheet of paper and fold in half to look like a book.
- Recreate the front cover of your chosen book onto the front page of your commercial, remember this does not have to be a perfect replica.
- On the inside pages you get your chance to sell the book to others by using descriptive vocabulary to grab our attention. For example; Awesome Read, Exciting Adventure, Magical Worlds. Anything that you think will hook someone in.
- You could also choose a WOW sentence from the book and add that.
- You could focus on the main character and tell us about them.
- You could include information on the age range or genre of the book.
The only limit is your imagination!
Have fun and remember do as much as you can 😊
Then if possible email me your work to: admin@prestonstreet.edin.sch.uk
Happy Day
Mrs Smyth
From Mr Anderson
Good morning P7B. How are we today? I hope you are managing to get outside and are taking advantage of the good weather. I know I am when I’ve finished all my work and helped Emily to do her nursery activities. Yesterday we created fabulous bunny masks and hopped around our garden. However, less about my antics. What is on the menu today?
Oh, almost forgot. If you would like me to post your fabulous Social Studies poster/PowerPoints, please send them to the following address so I can post them in tomorrow’s blog. admin@prestonstreet.edin.sch.uk.
Mr. Anderson 😊
Mandarin
Dàjiā, zǎo ān. Jīntiān wǒmen jiāng xuéxí hànyǔ. – Good morning everyone. Today we will be learning Mandarin.
In the next couple of weeks, Mrs. Tai has promised me she will be creating new and exciting resources for you to work through. However, until then, she has asked for you all to continue with the resources she created before we split up for Easter.
Online resources
- Linguascope: The Mandarin section has beginner sets of vocabulary and games. It’s a very organized way to revise or learn by topics. Username: prestonstreet Password: psps1234
- Hello China Video Series: Available on YouTube. This is a series of videos about Chinese culture.
- BBC Bitesize clips: You can find some stories in Mandarin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zvckjxs
- Chinese Buddy: A YouTube channel with catchy songs to learn Mandarin words
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJdwm0ut_GzVT5VzzylqDQA/videos
- Panda Tree: Some free learning resources like videos, stories and games.
https://www.pandatree.com/FreeLearningMandarinResources
Apps for tablets
- Fun Chinese: There are some free games to learn basic Mandarin words and characters.
Advanced Mandarin learners or near native speakers
- Yes Chinese： You can find graded readers for different age groups
http://www.yes-chinese.com/reading/
- Learning Chinese Through Stories: You can listen to stories at different Mandarin levels.
https://learningchinesethroughstories.com
For learners of traditional Chinese
- HuaYu World 全球華文網: 推薦僑教雙周刊及繪本花園
You can find Mandarin Newsletter for children and free digital pictures books in traditional Chinese. More resources in learning traditional characters are also available.
From Mr Parkin
Hello the P7s!
As always I hope you are getting on well.
I was in the hub school yesterday and it was great to see a few familiar faces!
First of all below is the answer grid from yesterdays Mental Maths
Today we are going to continue our Mental Maths using the same website but a different idea-
Number of the Day
This is the website – https://mathsbot.com/starters/numberOfTheDay
It should be fairly straight forward – you can either choose to use the number and questions you first see or have a play about to suit your ability level.
You can choose the range that the Number of the Day is between and there are 4 difficulty levels – Challenge being the most difficult.
You may see some words which you are not overly familiar with – feel free to research what these are asking you to do!!
As always please get in touch with any of your completed work or questions!
Take care 🙂