Good morning Primary 6,
It’s Thursday, the English word Thursday is named after the Norse god of thunder, Thor. Thursday means Thor’s day in Old English. Thor is represented riding a chariot drawn by goats (They left this bit out of The Avengers) and wielding his hammer . In Latin, Thursday is named ‘Jovis dies’ after the god Jupiter
(The bit they never show you in the movies 🤫)
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths questions.
a) 316,900+81,971+49,500 = 448,371
b) 15,467-8,769 = 6,698
c) 12,742 km – 6,779 km = 5,963 km
d) 20,000-1,543 = 18,457-2,575 = 15,882-6,543 = 9,339 survived
e) £2,000,000-£455,500 = £1,544,500-£103,500 = £1,441,000-£13,900 = £1,427,100 left
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) Alisha went on a shopping spree and bought 12 pairs of shoes. Each pair cost £15. How much did she spend?
b) If Riley eats 5 biscuits a day, how many does he eat over 234 days?
c) Mr Burroughs wants to replace the school’s footballs. Each football costs £9 and he wants to order 134. How much will they cost?
d) Emma buys a jar full of 126 sweets. She wants to get enough sweets to last her all year, so she buys another 4 jars. How many sweets are there in all 5 jars?
e) Miss Huntley needs to order some new whiteboard pens. She orders 6 boxes. Each box contains 24 pens. How many pens are ordered?
f) Brandon goes to watch the football 17 times in a month. How many times does he watch the football over 12 months?
g) Ben loves bouncy balls. He has been so good this ½ term that Miss Huntley buys him a packet of 19 balls. Ben goes out to play and bounces each ball 27 times. How many times were the balls bounced altogether?
h) William watches 4 TV programmes every day. How many programmes does he watch over 365 days?
i) Mr Burroughs chooses 11 people to play in a football team. He decides to put together 12 teams throughout the school. How many players does he have altogether?
j) Lewis takes a train to London. Each train carriage can carry 66 passengers. The train has 11 carriages. What is the total number of passengers that the train can carry?
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 later today or you can send me your answers at:
gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk
Sumdog are running a special competition for North Lanarkshire schools. We’re in the top 100 and today is the last day.
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 split them into their syllables. The first one is done for you.
gadget – gad-get
met
velvet
regret
regrettable
filleted
upsetting
bullet
puppet
trumpeting
rocket
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 later today.
R.E.
Today is Ascension Thursday!
We have been thinking about loving and caring for others all week and we have tried to follow Jesus’ commandment to, ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’
You have created a Caring Wreath to show that you care and you have learned about how Jesus ascended into heaven forty days after his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
Normally on Ascension Thursday we would all be going to Mass. Although we can’t actually go to church today, Bishop Toal is celebrating Mass for all of the children of the Diocese of Motherwell at 11am.
This Mass is being streamed on Facebook so you will need an adult’s permission to watch this:
www.facebook.com/rcmotherwell
Father Campbell is also celebrating Mass on St. Barbara’s Parish website at 10am.
With an adult’s permission, please select a Mass to follow.
You might also like to watch the clip below. You can join in if you like.
It’s the last day before the holiday weekend and before Sports’ Day on Tuesday!!!
For some of today’s activities you need dice or you can make some (see below).
Select one or more of the following to do today:
Look out for news about Sports’ Day activities!
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
