Good morning Primary 6,
It’s Wednesday, the name Wednesday actually derives from two mighty but distinct pagan gods.
The Old English word for Wednesday indicates that the day was named for the Germanic god Woden or Odin.
In Romance languages, the name is derived from the Roman god Mercury. (For example, Wednesday is Mercredi in French.)
So watch out for ravens today. They are said to be the eyes of Odin and will carry news back to him about your plans and schemes.
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths questions.
a) £22×10 = 220 £22×2 = 44
£220+£44 = £264
b) £16.75×200 = £3,350 £16.75×50 = £837.50 £16.75×3 = £50.25
£3350+£837.50+£50.25=£4237.75
c) £0.80×20 =£16 £0.80×7 = £5.60
£16+£5.60 = £21.60
d)12,905 ants
e) 4,277 trees left
f) 3,325 miles to go
g) 4,001 fiction books
h) £731 left to save
i) 1,037 miles further
j)226,574 people more
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) 316,900 people live in Coventry. Warwick has a population of 81,971 and a further 49,500 live in Leamington Spa. How many people live in Coventry Warwick and Leamington Spa altogether?
b) 15,467 people went to Spain for their summer holiday on 12th August 2014. The following day 8,769 people travelled to Spain. How many more people went to Spain on the 12th
c) The diameter of Mars is 6,779 km and the diameter of Earth is 12,742 km. How much bigger than Mars is the Earth?
d) A mother frog laid 20,000 eggs. 1,543 failed to develop into tadpoles. Sadly 2,575 tadpoles were eaten by dragon flies and trout. Another 6,543 met their deaths in various ways over the next year. How many of the eggs grew up to be frogs?
e) I won £2,000,000 in the lottery. I bought a house for £455,500, I bought a Jaguar XK convertible for £103,500. I also went on a luxury cruise that cost £13,900. How much money have I got left?
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’.
Look carefully at these words.
Copy them in to your jotter and underlines the one that has a different spelling pattern. The first one has a clue.
- magnet, cabinet, tablet, bonnet
- wicket, helmet, cricket, bucket
- upset, droplet, triplet, pellet
- socket, locket, ticket, gadget
Here are the answers to yesterday’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.
This week we have been looking at Jesus’ commandment to:
‘Love one another as I have loved you.’
Jesus showed his love for all of us on Good Friday when he died on the cross. Tomorrow we are going to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension. On this day, forty days after his resurrection on Easter Sunday, Jesus ascended into Heaven leaving the disciples behind to carry on with his work and to be witnesses for him. They were a little scared to be left without Jesus but they believed in him and they knew that he would not leave them alone. They were quite right of course; the Holy Spirit came to help them on the Feast of Pentecost and we’ll explore that later.
Below you will see two very different video clips about the Ascension. Please watch both of them.
Now what I would like you to do is to draw or make your own reminder of what happened on the Feast of the Ascension.
You could think about making the figures of Jesus, his disciples and the two people dressed in white – you could even create your own video clip.
Or you could draw them and write a sentence or a paragraph below; you might want to make a picture using other media – e.g. cotton wool for the clouds.
I have attached some ideas to help you below.
Whatever activity you choose to do, please email it to gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or, with an adult’s permission, upload it on to Twitter @St_BarbarasPS
Time to waken up and put your best foot forward!
We’re getting closer to Sports’ Day – so time for a little movement. There are two video clips to get you moving and some tasks below. Enjoy!
Now for those tasks:
Play some music lasting about ten/fifteen minutes and do these:
- Jumping Jacks/Star Jumps
- On the Spot running
- Plank
- Squats
- Add your own and have fun!
Remember to have your water bottle handy and to take a few breaks!
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
