Good morning Primary 6,
Yay, It’s Monday!!
Here are the answers to Friday’s maths questions.
a)£0.96 for 6 melons, £0.94 for 8 melons. It’s cheaper to buy 8 melons.
b) £11.52
c) 12 melons – 2 groups of 6.
d) £7.58 per person so £31.40 for 4.
e) £10.50 per class paying by the minute. 3 classes are £31.50. It’s cheaper to buy 3 classes for £30.
This week we are working on some word problems that involve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Calculate the answers to these questions in your jotter.
a) There is room in a multi-storey car park for 45 cars on each of 4
floors. How many cars are there if the car park is half full?
b) It takes 750 bricks to build one wall of a house – how many bricks
will be needed to build all four walls?
c) 28 people eat school dinners. On average, each pupil is given 9
chips. How many chips do the dinner ladies need to cook each day?
d) There are 8 classes in school, each with 34 pupils in them. How
many letters need to be photocopied if each person is to take one home?
e) A postie drives 18 miles to each day to make deliveries. How far do they travel in 7
weeks?
f) A car travels at 55 miles per hour (mph). How many miles will it
travel in 8 hours?
g) A school dinner costs 69p. How much will it cost to have school
dinners every day for 6 weeks?
h) The benches around school cost £40 each. How much did it cost
to buy 22 benches?
i) The swimming pool is 12 metres long. How many metres would I
swim if I did 83 lengths?
j) Emma saves £0.59 each week. How much has she saved after
16 weeks?
Remember, decimals make no difference to how you add, subtract, multiply or divide you only have to remember to keep the decimal points above one another, in a straight line.
This is not how we would write out sums to find the answer so don’t write them this way in your jotter. Use place value, carrying and decomposition (borrowing) to find your answers.
I’ll post the answers to these tomorrow or you can send me your answers at:
gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk
Sumdog are running a special competition for North Lanarkshire schools. We haven’t made the leader board yet because lots of you are on Sumdog but are not answering the competition questions! You’ve got until the 21st. We would be in the top ten if you were answering competition questions instead of playing other games!!
This week for spelling we’re looking at words which end in ‘et’.
Here is your word list for this week. Copy the words into your jotter and practise them in any way you choose:
jacket, packet, racket, ticket, wicket, cricket,
thicket, locket, pocket, rocket, socket, bucket
Here are the answers to Friday’s comprehension exercises
I’ve assigned you some reading in Scholastic Books.
Here are three new comprehension exercises for today. You can choose to do as many of them as you wish.
I’ll post the answers on tomorrow.
R.E.
Yesterday was the sixth Sunday of Easter. In the Gospel, Jesus said that if you love him, you will keep his commandments.
Commandments are rules. However God’s rules are all about love – about loving God and each other. If we love someone, we try our very best to show that by being polite, kind, generous and happy when we talk to them or about them to others.
You have rules and home and we have rules in school. Just like the Ten Commandments, our rules are all about looking after each other and doing the best for each other so that we can all be happy together at home or in school.
Sometimes we break the rules – adults as well as children. If we break God’s rules, we call that sin. Don’t worry though, we can make it better.
Just like at home or in school, if we are sorry and say that to the person we have hurt – and try our best not to do it again – God will forgive us because he loves each one of us so much.
We can read about the Ten Commandments which were given to Moses in the Old Testament which is the first section of the Bible.
You can see them here. Read them or ask an adult for help then chat to someone in your family about them.
In the New Testament (the second section of the Bible), Jesus spoke about love all of the time. In fact, he made a ‘New Commandment.’
He asked us all to, ‘ Love one another as I have loved you.’
If you think about it – we all love ourselves and look after ourselves.
Jesus is saying simply that we should love everyone else as much as we love ourselves. If we all did that, the world would be a much happier place! In fact, if we all did that then we would be following the Ten Commandments without even realizing it!
At Easter, Pope Francis told us that we should love and care for each other, ‘No ifs, no buts!’
Today, let’s think about how we love each other: our family and our friends.
I would like you to choose one of the following activities. You can download and print a picture or you can make one of your own. When you have finished it, place it somewhere where all of the family can see it to remind yourselves of how just much you love and care for each other.
Please email your pictures to gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or, with an adult’s permission, upload them on to Twitter.
Healthy Snack Day!
We’re heading towards our Virtual Sports’ Day next Tuesday and what better way to prepare than to think about healthy snacks for the day.
They don’t need to be fancy…just healthy and delicious.
Have a look at some of these:
Try to create a healthy snack of your own. What ingredients might you need?
Cooking Skills for Learning, Life and Work!
Depending upon your age, you could practise some of these skills as you prepare your snack. You might need to ask an adult for help.
You will be using skills that will be with you for the rest of your life. These skills are progressive. That means that if you haven’t peeled or sliced ingredients before (see the Primary 1 list) you will need to practise these before you move on to the next list!
Remember to wash your hands before you begin!
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At Early Level Primary 1 |
First Level
Primary 2- Primary 4 |
Second Level
Primary 5 – Primary 7 |
| o Peeling
o Slicing o Mixing o Spreading
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o Washing ingredients
o Peeling o Cutting o Juicing o Grating
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o Weighing o Measuring o Kneading o Chopping o Baking o Grilling |
Once you have made your snack, take a picture before you eat it and share it with all of us!
You can email your picture to gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission. Happy Healthy Snack Day!l
Remember you can still choose another task from your updated 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
