Good Morning Primary 6,
Yay, It’s Friday!!
Time for a spelling assessment.
Here are your spelling words for this week. If you can, have another member of your family read them to you as you write them into your jotter, when you are done correct them using this list.
arrow, narrow, sparrow, yellow, elbow, pillow, window, follow, hollow, borrow, sorrow, burrow, shadow, shallow
For those of you who are feeling confident here is an extended list with some extra words from this week.
growl, known, prowl, show, growth, scowl, clown, slow, blown, brown, throw, crown, shown, down, frown, thrown
Here’s Cressida Cowell reading chapter 18 of, “How to Train your Dragon.”
Toothless has shown extraordinary bravery. Why? Make a list of the possible reasons for Toothless to behave so out of character. Even Toothless seems surprised by his own actions telling himself that dragons are selfish even while he is flying up The Green Death’s nose.
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths questions:
Example :- 3.48256 = 3
a) 2 b) 4 c) 7
d) 9 e) 5 f) 8
g) 12 h) 12 i) 26
j) 1 k) 28 l) 32
Today I would like you to use what you have learned about rounding this week while doing some division. Don’t worry though you can use a calculator for all of these sums, it’s just the rounding that you will need to do yourself.
Write down the answers to these division sums and then round them to the nearest whole number.
Example: 34 ÷ 7= 4.857 rounded to 5
a) 30 ÷ 7 b) 45 ÷ 6 c ) 78 ÷ 15 d) 104 ÷ 27 e) 215 ÷ 46 f) 400 ÷ 39
g) 840 ÷ 350 h) 1000 ÷ 76 i) 2500 ÷ 104 j) 15 ÷ 14 k) 0.2 ÷ 0.3 l) 85.6 ÷ 100
Yesterday I asked you to look at some statements and decide if the situations were fair or unfair in your opinion. Today I would like you to look at statements and decide if your behaviour is fair or unfair.
a) You are punished for breaking the rules but you’re not given a chance to talk your way out of it.
This is …….
b) You see someone else breaking the rules so you break them too.
This is …….
c) You want a bit of fruit bar so you try to cut a deal using your chocolate bar.
This is …….
d) You are being so annoying that someone gets furious and yells loudly at you.
This is …….
e) You do the wrong thing but you have a plan for how you will talk your way out of it.
This is …….
f) You are working with someone else to pack up 25 chairs. You pack up 5 chairs and they pack up 20.
This is …….
g) A friend shares their fruit bar with you so you share the bar of chocolate you don’t want with them.
This is …….
h) Everyone else is working but you are talking.
This is …….
i) You are working with someone else to pack up 25 chairs. You pack up 15 chairs and they pack up 10.
This is …….
j) A few people in class are talking when they should be working and you are talking too.
This is …….
Today is the first Friday in May and we would have been going to Mass today. You can follow Holy Mass which is being streamed through Facebook (supervised by an adult) by Father Campbell at 10am on weekdays.
Remember you can still choose another task from your learning grid and there are other tasks on Sumdog, StudyLadder, FirstNews and Scholastic Books.
You can email me any of your work at:
gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk
Mr. McIntosh
