This week I have reset your Sumdog Grammar Diagnostic for Primary 7.
Log in to Sumdog and begin to work through the tasks in Grammar that it presents to you, this will form your diagnostic.
I have been able to upload you Week 2 Spelling Words and they are also waiting for you to complete.
In addition there is a Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Challenge which will run this week and support your learning in class.
There are also tasks waiting for you on FirstNews. If you can no longer remember your login details for FirstNews I will be redistributing them tomorrow.
Some of you have still to complete your Maths Diagnostic on Sumdog for Primary 7 from last week. This should be your homework priority this week.
For those of you that have completed the Maths Diagnostic, there is a Sumdog Spelling Diagnostic which should be completed this week. This will assess your spelling and reset you Sumdog Spelling for Primary 7.
When this Spelling Diagnostic has been completed I will be able to reload the Primary 7 Spelling words ready for you to use.
Today is the last day of school before the summer break.
It’s probably not how we were expecting the last day to look at the start of the year.
I just wanted to wish you well and hope you all have a lovely summer holiday. I know this year has been very different from any that have come before it, but the best bit of every day is doing something you haven’t done before, so take the summer and do something you haven’t done before.
1,230,868 fish fingers-355,712 fish fingers = 875,156 extra fish fingers. 2,416,092 chips-832,909 chips = 1,583,183 extra chips. 875,156 extra fish fingers+1,583,183 extra chips = 2,458,339 extra fish and chips.
576,175 Lego bricks-216,175 = 360,000. 360,000÷8 = 45,000 bricks in each box
17x£18 = £306, After selling 17 he had 31 left, 31x£47 = £1,457, He collected £306+£1457 = £1,763, Profit is £1,763-£576 costs = £1,187
430,242+639,242+1,620,942 = 2,690,426 visitors
4,400 invites -2,842 no-shows = 1,558, 1,558÷3 = 519.333 so for each guest to have 3 bottles Bruce Wayne would need to buy 520 bottles and would have 2 bottles left over to share between himself and Alfred.
466,209+316,819 = 783,028-181,201= 601,827 people after half time
Here are your questions for today.
Jane wins £802,649 on the lottery one week and £100,876 on a scratch card the following week. She shares the winnings equally between her 3 children. How much money do they get each?
Jae had £467,330. He went shopping and spent £126,309. If he got another £366,892 for his allowance, how much money does he have now?
Scott bought twenty four bags of sweets with eighty six pieces in each one. He plans to divide all the sweets evenly among eight friends. How many sweets will they each get?
The Headmaster is taking all of a secondary school on a trip to Alton Towers. There will be 1836 children and 264 teachers going along. How many 5-seater cars will he need to use?
Filbert was playing a video game and had a score of 200,000. In a hard part of the game he lost 106,848 points. If he got 329,404 more points in the next level, how many points would he have?
The school ordered 1,230,868 fish fingers and 2,416,092 chips for a very hungry school. But, if 832,909 chips and 355,712 fish fingers did not get eaten. How many extra fish fingers and chips did the school end up with?
Joe loved Lego. He had 576,175 Lego bricks before selling 216,175 of them. He split the remaining bricks equally into 8 boxes. How many bricks were in each box?
A salesman bought a case of 48 backpacks for £576. He sold 17 of them for £18 to friends, and the rest were sold to a shop for £47 each. How much was the salesman’s profit?
Bristol zoo recorded its visitors over a four week period. In the first week there were 430,242 visitors. In the second, 639,242 people visited the zoo. In the third and fourth week, a combined total of 1,620,942 people visited the zoo. How many people visited the zoo in the four week period?
Bruce Wayne invited 4,400 friends to a birthday party, but 2,842 couldn’t come. If he wanted to buy enough Irn-Bru so each person could have exactly 3 bottle each, how many should he buy?
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 later today or you can send me your answers at:
gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk
A special North Lanarkshire Sumdog competition begins today. We qualified last time and finished 40th overall thanks to amazing performances by Dylan, Safeia, Olivia D, Harris, Olivia C, Niall and Shay. They were our only class members who completed the competition.
More people in our class took part than in any other class but because only 7 of us finished 4 other classes finished higher than we did on the Leaderboard.
Primary 1b beat us by 5 places!
For spelling this week I want to look at another spelling rule.
The sound ‘sh’ represented by ‘ci’.
Some words use ‘ti’ to make ‘sh’. Words like station, nation or education.
When a longer word is formed from a root word, however, the ‘sh’ sound is represented by ‘ci’.
It’s the day of your spelling test. Give this list of words to someone in your family and ask them to test your knowledge.
Today I want to give you a writing task. I’m going to give you some headlines from local newspapers. I want you to pick one and write the article that accompanied them:
Local Police Hunt Seagull Thief
Missing Chair Found Up Tree
Police Close Pub After Domino Riot
Fury Erupts Over Noisy Gate
Dream Wedding Ruined by Angry Duck
Cursed Toilet Strikes Again
‘Hooligan’ Granny Terrifies Sailors
R.E.
As today would have been our final First Friday Mass of the school year I would like you to follow Father Campbell’s mass at 10.00 am on Facebook (with an adult’s permission).
Remember to have your SSP (Special Sneaky Playtime). Hopefully the sun will be shining.
H.W.B
Let’s get active with some more Yoga practice. Remember all the good advice Mrs McFall gave on Monday! Enjoy and make sure you drink plenty.
Well done – we have definitely kept our bodies well looked after this week! 👏👏
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths questions.
6,470,920-2,847,936 = 3,622,984
12,825,087-8,596,729 = 4,228,358
26,444,561-8,823,000 = 17,621,561
36,570,818+11,630,999 =48,201,817
£96,832,790-£12,670,889 = £84,161,901
20,000,000+12,530,547 =32,530,547
£11,068,086-£6,500,990 = £4,567,096
The smallest 8-digit whole number is 10,000,000 and the greatest 7-digit whole number is 9,999,999. The difference between them is 1.
$357,115,007-$257,698,183 = $99,416,824
1,000,000÷20,000 = 50 (the same as 100÷2), 50x£25 = £1,250
Here are your questions for today.
Alice is trying to complete a sticker book. It needs 3,500 stickers overall. She has 1,340 in the book and a further 1,872 ready to stick in. How many more stickers will she need?
A supermarket has 12,840 loaves of bread at the start of the day. During the day, 8,570 loaves are sold and a further 20,320 loaves are delivered. How many loaves of bread are there at the end of the day?
In a garden centre, rose seeds cost £1.38, lily seeds cost £1.15 and daffodil seeds cost 85p. Jan buys a packet of rose seeds and a packet of daffodil seeds. How much change does she get from a £5 note?
Barry has 50 litres of fuel in his car and his petrol tank is full. On a journey to Wales, he uses 30 litres of fuel. On a journey to the shop, he used 1,250ml of fuel. How much fuel will he have to put back in to fill the tank?
On a school trip 1,279 people visit a museum. There are 1,020 children and 45 teachers. How many parents are there?
In a week Josh saves £5.75. On Monday, he has £2.55 and on Wednesday his mum gives him 75p. How much does he save the rest of the week?
Charles has 5230 comics. He lends 3265 to Jim and 899 to Ryan. How many does he have left?
A car costs £206,399. In the sale, it has £96,250 off. Harry buys the car and a new Rolex watch that costs £12,599. How much does he spend in total?
Bristol zoo recorded its visitors over a four week period. In the first week there were 630,242 visitors. In the second, 439,242 people visited the zoo. In the third and fourth week, a combined total of 1,320,942 people visited the zoo. How many people visited the zoo in the four week period?
At the start of a football match there were 466,209 people watching on TV. After kick off, another 316,819 viewers tuned in to watch the game. However, at half time 181,201 viewers stopped watching the match. How many viewers were still watching the match after half time?
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
For spelling this week I want to look at another spelling rule.
The sound ‘sh’ represented by ‘ci’.
Some words use ‘ti’ to make ‘sh’. Words like station, nation or education.
When a longer word is formed from a root word, however, the ‘sh’ sound is represented by ‘ci’.
As we know things just now are very different from what we are used to. By now our new Primary 1 children would have been in to visit the school but, like you, they have not been able to come in for their visits. We are thinking that it would be a lovely idea for you to say a little prayer for them. In order to make them feel welcome to our school in August, I would like you to choose the word for your stage below, write/colour it on a sheet of paper, hold it up and ask an adult to take a picture of you holding your word with a big smile and if it is possible you could wear your uniform. Please email your picture to gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk . We will use these to make our Primary 1’s feel very welcome to our school.
We we’re talking yesterday about how important it is to look after our bodies. Drinking plenty especially during exercise and warm weather to keep us hydrated. Our bodies are amazing things.
Here is a little activity to keep you busy and at the same time learn about all of the parts that make up ‘US’!!
Have you got a roll of wallpaper lying around or if you have been receiving lots of packages (did you know all our posties are busier than their busiest time of the year, Christmas!) during lockdown and have cardboard boxes around I want you to lie them flat on the ground and get someone in your house to draw round you. (The weather’s not looking that good today but should be dry so even do this task outside)
Here we have our template!! Can you label and identify as many parts of the human body, all the organs? See if you can have a good guess at where they are located. Our heart 💓 Should be easy, what about our lungs, liver etc. Try to see how many you can find. You could even put your artistic talents to good use and draw them in.
Remember to email your marvellous pictures to gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.
It’s Wednesday, the day after the day it was yesterday and the day before the day it will be tomorrow. Everyone got that?
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths questions.
632,649-282,519 = 350,130 photos
438,670+234,548 = 673,218
406,938-366,264 = 40,674m
620,784-481,930 = 138,854
1,470,306+1,742,465 = 1,212,771
1,452,602+2,896,289 = 4,348,891
1,180,205-209,890 = 970,315
3,548,205+1,709,878+11 = 5,258,094 animals
4,332,892+3,769,247 = 8,102,139
3,882,675+9,920,249 = 13,802,924
Here are your questions for today.
In 2011 there were 6,470,920 visitors to a theme park. In 2012 the number of visitors declined by 2,847,936. How many visitors were there in 2012?
Reduce 12,825,087 by 8,596,729.
In 1955, Tokyo, Japan had an estimated population of 8,823,000. In 2010, the estimated population was 26,444,561. How many more people lived in Tokyo in 2010 than in 1955?
There are 36,570,818 video DVDs in the Netflix factory. 11,630,999 are audio DVDs. Find the total number of DVDs in the Netflix factory.
Clara withdrew £12,670,889 from her account in order to buy a lot of shoes. The initial amount in her account was £96,832,790. Find the balance left after the withdrawal.
Cathy scored 20,000,000 points on level 2 in a video game. She then scored 12,530,547 points on level 3. How many points did she score in level 2 and 3?
Ben bought a Bugatti Veyron for £11,068,086. The estimated value of the car after 5 years is £6,500,990. If he sells the car after 5 years, how much less money would she have?
What is the difference between the smallest 8-digit whole number and the greatest 7-digit whole number?
Avengers: Infinite War made $257,698,183 in its opening weekend in the US. Avengers: Endgame made $357,115,007. How much more did Endgame make than Infinite War?
20,000 YouTube views a day will earn you about £25. If the video of your gran doing the worm went viral and hit 1,000,000 views in a day how much money would you actually make?
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
For spelling this week I want to look at another spelling rule.
The sound ‘sh’ represented by ‘ci’.
Some words use ‘ti’ to make ‘sh’. Words like station, nation or education.
When a longer word is formed from a root word, however, the ‘sh’ sound is represented by ‘ci’.
Copy these words into your jotter and split them into syllables. The first one is done for you.
musician = mu-si-cian
spacious
financial
optician
official
sufficient
facial
gracious
tactician
electrician
I’ve assigned you some reading in Scholastic Books.
On Thursday and Friday I put up a special announcement about the buddy letters that you should be writing to the new Primary 1’s.
I’ve now received letters back from about three quarters the class. If you haven’t sent me your’s yet, now is your time to get it written.
Over the course of the last few days we have been learning about the importance of Pentecost. It has shown us how important the feast is in the church’s year.
There are a few activities below which you can complete to reinforce what you have learned about The Feast of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit. You can choose to do one activity or why not complete it together with your siblings.
When you have finished your activities, take a few minutes to pray together with your family. I have attached a lovely hymn that you could sing together to finish off your Pentecost work for today.
H.W.B
I hope you enjoyed your Slushies yesterday!! We just managed to get them made in the warm weather as today is to be a bit cooler.
YOGA 🧘♀️ 🧘♂️
We are going to follow a little Yoga session that Mrs McFall (Daniel and Luke’s mum) has kindly allowed us to share on the Blog.
Below is a great Yoga workout that you can do along with an adult or your siblings. You can also have your favourite ted join in too.
Yoga is a great skill helping you learn the importance of how you breath which in turn helps us relax and sleep well. (Parents: Mrs McFall recommends that you allow your child to go with the flow and, if you are able to accompany them doing the video, ask them similar questions). Remember with any exercise we should remember to drink plenty to keep us hydrated, looking after our bodies!!
Once again a great big thank you to Mrs McFall and Luke. 👏👏
What you may not know is that we have been watching, ‘Mi Vida Loca’ on a Tuesday but in Spain Tuesday is considered an unlucky day, especially Tuesday the 13th
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths questions.
Change it all to pence, 61295p÷65 = 943 programmes
Simplify and remove the decimal points, 4485÷975 = 4.6 or £4.60
24 cubes÷4 = 6, 6×3(to find ¾) = 18, so 18 red cubes, 4 blue cubes and 2 green cubes to make 24.
Try a table, estimate and check
Bags of Red
Bags of Green
Total
1
1
75+90 = 165p or £1.65
2
2
150+180 = 330p or £3.30
3
3
225+270 = 495p or £4.95
(75p too much)
2
3
150+270 = 420p or £4.20
100x50p = 5000p or £50, 80x30p = 2400p or £24, £80+£24 = £104
40%+15% = 55% leaving 45% still to visit, 45% of 250,000 is 250,000÷100 = 2,500×45 = 112,500 people
There are 5 blocks of 200g in 1kg, so divide by 5, £7.50÷5 = £1.50
There are 4 stacks of 90p in £3.60 so she buys ¼ of a kilogram or 250g
Try a table, estimate and check
Buy Lunch
Packed Lunch
Total
5
25
£25+£75 = £100
10
20
£50+£60 = £110
Change everything to grams and divide, 1500g÷30 or 150÷3 (the answer is the same) = 50 days
8x6g of fibre = 48g of fibre in an 800g loaf, 48g÷20 = 2.4g of fibre in each slice
Weight of matches = 45g-23g = 22g, one match weighs 22g÷220 = 0.1g
Total cost of the journey is 114x£1.36 = £155.04, cost for each person is £155.04÷8 = £19.38
35 apple trees cost 35x£24.75 = £866.25, money left = £1200-£866.25 = £333.75, £333.75÷12.50 = 26.7 so he can buy 26 pear trees but not 27
£40÷4.25 = 9.41, so they can buy 9 yo-yos, 9 yo-yos cost 9x£4.25 = £38.25, they have 75p left
If a quarter of the class are boys then three quarters are girls, so 18 is ¾, that means 6 is ¼. There are 6 boys in the class
How did you get on? They were a proper nightmare weren’t they. Today were going to go a little easier.
Mr Gifford has 282,519 photos on his camera. His sister has 632,649. How many more photos does Mr Gifford’s sister have?
Samantha has 438,670 DVDs in her collection. Tara has 234,548. How many DVDs do they have together?
In an endurance race, George ran 366,264m. The winner ran 406,938m. How much further was the winning distance?
Sam the giant ate 481,930 people. His dad ate 620,784 people. How many more people did his dad eat?
In January, 1,470,306 people visit the swimming pool. In June the number of visitors increases by 1,742,465. How many people visit in June?
On Monday, one million, four hundred and fifty two thousand six hundred and two people watched a football match on TV. On Wednesday, two million, eight hundred and ninety six thousand two hundred and eighty nine people watched a football match on TV. How many people watched the two games?
A brand new Ferrari costs £1,180,205. In the sale, the price is reduced by £209,890. What is the new price of the Ferrari?
A farm in Australia has 3,548,205 sheep, 1,709,878 cows and 11 dogs. How many animals are there in total?
What is the sum of 4,332,892 and 3,769,247?
There are 3,882,675 West Ham fans in the world and 9,920,249 Liverpool supporters in the world. What is the total number of West Ham and Liverpool fans in the world?
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
For spelling this week I want to look at another spelling rule.
The sound ‘sh’ represented by ‘ci’.
Some words use ‘ti’ to make ‘sh’. Words like station, nation or education.
When a longer word is formed from a root word, however, the ‘sh’ sound is represented by ‘ci’.
Copy these words into your jotter adding the missing letters
music – mus—–
space – spa—–
finance – finan—-
opti- – opti—-
office – offi—-
suffi– – sufficient
face – fa—-
grace – gra—–
tactic – tacti—-
electric – electri—-
I’ve assigned you some reading in Scholastic Books.
On Thursday and Friday I put up a special announcement about the buddy letters that you should be writing to the new Primary 1’s.
I’ve now received letters back from about three quarters the class. If you haven’t sent me your’s yet, now is your time to get it written.
The Feast of Pentecost is a very important celebration in the Church’s year and watching the short clip below will give you a snapshot of the importance of this great celebration.
The Feast of Pentecost is seen as the Birthday of the Church.
The Holy Spirit came to the disciples not only as a reminder that Jesus would always be with them but so that they received the strength and courage to continue to build God’s kingdom, not only in Jerusalem but to ensure it reached the ends of the earth. In John’s Gospel on Sunday we heard not only about Jesus’ word but about Jesus’ action, “he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit”. Jesus’ breath gives new life, eternal life into the disciples, giving them the courage to go out and spread the word by being given special gifts. Jesus gave them the gift of speaking different languages to be able to carry out his work all over the world.
The Holy Spirit came to us in the Sacrament of Baptism and will or has come again to us in the Sacrament of Confirmation. Talk to an adult about your Baptism/Confirmation(if you have made it yet). Think about all the wonderful gifts God has given us and give thanks to the Lord for all that we have to be glad of. Just like the disciples we give thanks to the Lord of all the gifts he has given us. We are so grateful to God for always being with us.
With the hot weather that hopefully we have all been enjoying we are going to look at ways to help us stay hydrated. We know that we need to drink plenty of water and ensure we do that more frequently during hot days.
Another great way to enjoy the hot weather is with a lovely cool Slushie!!
Yum Yum. Below there is a great recipe, with a little bit of science thrown in, that lets you make a slush with your hands!! Yip that is right you don’t need a fancy NutriBullet or a blender, just your hands. So here goes :
Instructions to make a cool mouth-watering smoothie!!
Place one cup of your chosen juice into a small Ziploc bag and zip tight.
Place 4 cups of ice and half a cup of salt into a large Ziploc bag along with the juice bag and zip that tight too.
Shake the large bag over the sink or outside for 2-5 minutes or until the juice bag turns to slush.
Pour into a cup and enjoy!!
If you have your own recipe/method for making a Slushie please email this along with a picture of your Slushie to gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.
It’s Monday, the beginning of a new week and of a new month.
Magnus was beating me at Connect 4 during Goldentime on Friday, but I accidentally knocked over the game before we could finish. So sad. 😢😂😢
June is important for a lot of reasons. It’s the middle of the year which means that 2020 is nearly half over already and the name ‘June’ may come from the latin word ‘iuniores’, meaning ‘younger ones’, like you.
Just think a whole month devoted to young people. Those Romans were pretty great (apart from all the slavery and murder and persecution and conquest and stuff).
Here are the answers to Friday’s maths questions.
a) 475 tickets
b) 25 shelves
c) 12x£9,800 = £117,600
£150,000-£117,600 = £32,400
If they sell 3 more cars then I estimate that they will make £27-£30,000 (3×9 = 27 plus the hundreds)
So, they need to sell 4 more cars to meet their target.
d) 8x30p = 240p or £2.40
£2.40-£1.92 = £0.48 or 48p.
It is 48p cheaper to buy kiwi fruit by the pack.
e) The product of 19 and 3.6 is: 19×3.6 = 68.4.
The sum of 2.87 and 3.5 is: 2.87+3.5 = 6.37
The difference between the two is: 68.4-6.37 = 62.03
f) 18×29 = 522
1000-522 = 478 stickers left
g) 2x£1.29= £2.58
£2.58+£8.95 = £11.17
£12.50-11.17 = £1.33
h) 1440÷12 = 120 packs
120x72p = 8,640p or £86.40
i)17×364 = 6188
6188+28 = 6,216 biscuits
j) Change it all to ml.
2,500ml-567ml = 1,933
1,933ml-650ml = 1,283ml or 1.283 litres
We’ve been doing questions like this for a while and it’s time for a proper workout.
Mr Todd buys 17 drinks at 48p each and 12 drinks at 52p each. What is the total cost of the 29 drinks?
A printing shop charges 3p per page and 75p for the cover. John pays £4.35 for his book, including the cover. How many pages are in his book?
There are 60g of rice in one portion. How many portions are there in a 3kg bag of rice?
2753 people go to a sports event. Each person pays £2.30 for a ticket. What is the total amount of ticket money collected?
Programmes cost 65p each. The total money from the programme sales is £612.95. How many programme are sold?
Samira bought a present in France. She paid 44.85 French Francs for it. 9.75 French Francs equal £1. What was the cost of the present in pounds and pence?
There are 24 coloured cubes in a box. Three quarters of the cubes are red, four of the cubes are blue and the rest are green. How many green cube are in the box?
A shop sells 6 green apples for 75p and 10 red apples for 90p. Jason bought some bags of green apples and some bags of red apples. He spent £4.20. How many bags of each type of apples did he buy?
A car boot sale charges an entrance fee of 50p for adults and 30p for children. 100 adults and 80 children pay to go in. How much money do they pay altogether?
250,000 people visited a theme park in one year. 15% of the people visited in April and 40% of the people visited in August. How many people visited the park in the rest of the year?
Cheddar cheese costs £7.50 for 1kg. Marie buys 200 grams of cheddar cheese. How much does she pay?
Cream cheese costs £3.60 for 1kg. Robbie buys a pot of cream cheese for 90p. How many grams of cream cheese does he buy?
30 children are going on a trip. It costs £5 including lunch. Some children take their own packed lunch. They pay only £3. The 30 children pay a total of £110. How many children are taking their own packed lunch?
A packet contains 1.5 kilograms of guinea pig food. Remi feeds her guinea pig 30 grams of food each day. How many days does the packet of food last?
Every 100g of brown bread contains 6g of fibre. A loaf of bread weights 800g and has 20 equal slices. How much fibre is there in one slice?
A box contains 220 matches and weights 45 grams. The empty box weights 23 grams. Calculate the weight of one match.
The cost for using a minibus is £1.36 for each kilometre. 8 friends go on a 114 kilometre journey. How much does each person pay?
A farmer has £1200 to buy apple trees and pear trees. Apple trees cost £24.75 each. Pear trees cost £12.50 each. He buys 35 apple trees. How many pear trees can he buy with the money he has left?
A school buys some yo-yos as prizes. The yo-yos cost £4.25 each. The school has £40 to spend on prizes. They buy as many yo-yos as they cab. How much money is left?
In a class, 18 of the children are girls. A quarter of the children in the class are boys. Altogether, how many children are there in the class?
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
For spelling this week I want to look at another spelling rule.
The sound ‘sh’ represented by ‘ci’.
Some words use ‘ti’ to make ‘sh’. Words like station, nation or education.
When a longer word is formed from a root word, however, the ‘sh’ sound is represented by ‘ci’.
Copy these words into your jotter and practise them in any way that you choose:
music – musician
space – spacious
finance – financial
optic – optician
office – official
suffice – sufficient
face – facial
grace – gracious
tactic – tactician
electric – electrician
I’ve assigned you some reading in Scholastic Books.
On Thursday and Friday I put up a special announcement about the buddy letters that you should be writing to the new Primary 1’s.
I’ve now received letters back from about half the class. If you haven’t sent me your’s yet, now is your time to get it written.
“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak”
“When Pentecost day came round, they had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech.”
The Feast of Pentecost brings to an end the Season of Easter and falls 50 days after Easter Sunday. Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit. As we heard in the first reading of how the disciples were all together and how they were afraid now that Jesus had left them. On this day they were given the gift of speaking many different languages so that they could travel far and wide to spread the good news.
We learn that God is always here for us, we just need to ask him for help if we are afraid, worried or feeling lonely. He will answer our prayer and help us. Especially in these times when we are feeling sad about not seeing our friends and families like we use to. God will be by our sides to guide us through to better times.
Above you will see an image of Pentecost. There are important symbols that are associated with Pentecost – we can read about them in the extract above from the Acts of the Apostles. We also saw Father Campbell in his red vestments when watching Mass yesterday.
For today’s task I would like you to design your own Pentecost poster incorporating some of the important symbols of Pentecost. This poster will remind us that the Holy Spirit is with us in everything we do. Please email your poster to gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.
Over the weekend hopefully we were all able to go visit a member of our family! This has been something we have taken for granted all of our lives (as we probably did this every weekend or more). From Friday onward this has been a very special time for many. Hopefully your family don’t live too far away and you have been able to spend some time with them. It must have been a great feeling to spend time, in our gardens, with loved ones.
How it has lifted all our spirits and given us such a positive boast. If you were able to visit someone you have not seen during Lockdown you will know this feeling. Hopefully it won’t be too much longer until we can see all of our family.
Today is also a new month/season JUNE begins our three months of SUMMER, can you believe it!! This too should make us feel more positive as hopefully we have lovely weather.
Being positive makes our world a better place and after all the changes that have happened over the last few months, we will begin to see a brighter, happier, and more POSITIVE future ahead.
I would like you to take the word POSITIVE and write an acrostic poem. (Remember you take the word POSITIVE and in large letters you write it down the left-hand side of your page and then write a word/sentence that begins with each letter of POSITIVE).
Here is an example for the word Welcome to let you see how your poem should look.
You can email your poem to gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.
Now to keep that positive vibe going let’s try a little Zumba.
Remember to have plenty of drinks throughout the day. It’s going to be another hot day and we need to stay hydrated!! Watch out for tomorrow’s post to give you another idea for keeping hydrated!!
It’s Friday! The end of another week. Did you lose any Golden time this week?
I didn’t and so I will be playing Connect 4 with Magnus this afternoon until it looks like I’m about to win and he knocks the game over “accidentally.”
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths questions.
a) 671 seats
b) £375.09
c) £117,600
c) £7.92
d) 68.4
e) 522 stickers
f) £2.26
g) 7 bags
h) 6,205 biscuits (he will also be exceptionally unhealthy)
i) 900 ml or 0.9 l
Today’s maths questions should seem familiar. They are almost the same as yesterday’s but they have been made harder by adding a little twist to each calculation. See how you get on.
a) A theatre sells 467 tickets for a matinee performance. A school group then books a further 118 tickets. If the theatre holds 1060 people, how many places are left unsold?
b) The school buys 820 new books, which are put onto new bookshelves. If there are 34 books on each shelf, how many shelves must Mr Baldwin put up?
c) A car salesroom has a sales target of £150,000. They sell 12 cars for £9,800 each. How many more cars do they need to sell to meet their target?
d) Jade’s mum buys a pack of 8 kiwi fruit for £1.92. Individual kiwi fruit cost 30p each. How much cheaper is each kiwi fruit by buying in a pack?
e) What is the difference between the product of 19 and 3.6, and the sum of 2.87 and 3.5?
f) Mr Daw gives each child in his class 18 stickers during January. If there are 29 children in Mr Daw’s class, and Mr Daw had a pack of 1000 stickers to start with, how many stickers has Mr Daw left at the end of January?
g) Katie buys two magazines for £1.29 each and spends £8.95 on a CD. If she had £12.50 to start with, how much does she have left?
h) Pencils cost 72p for a pack of 12. In one year, the school has to buy 1440 pencils. How much do they cost altogether?
i) Mr Daw shows limited willpower and eats 17 biscuits every day in 2009, except for Christmas Day when he eats 28. How many biscuits will Mr Daw have eaten by the end of the year?
j) Being healthy, Mrs Wollington buys a 2.5 litre bottle of olive oil. She uses 567ml in one week, then 0.65 litres the next week. How much does she have left in the bottle by the end of the second week?
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
Time for a spelling test.
Here are some of the spelling words and patterns that we have looked at over the last few weeks. Give them to another member of your family and have them test you on your knowledge.
Yesterday I put up a special announcement about the buddy letters that you should be writing to the new Primary 1s.
I’ve had 6 returned so far. Today I’m setting the buddy letter as your literacy task. If you have already written it and sent it to me, congratulations take a break and enjoy the sun. If you haven’t, now is your time to get it written.
We have been learning how Jesus prayed for his friends and for all of us and how he taught his disciples to pray to our Heavenly Father. We know that saying our prayers is very important. On the accompanying illustration of Jesus praying, draw pictures or write names in the thought bubble of yourselves and some of the other people Jesus was praying for. You could choose your families and friends, as well as our brothers and sisters throughout the world.
Colour your picture in when you have finished writing in the names of your family and friends. Now show someone your picture and tell them how much you love them and that you will remember them in your prayers.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS
It is very important for us to talk about how we are feeling. It is especially important now as some of you may be worried about the changes we have all had to make in the last few months. Talking to someone, exercising and relaxing are all great ways to help your health and wellbeing and keep you feeling happy. Today I would like you to play the lanterns game below where you write down how you are feeling and what has made you feel that way. You will then see your feeling float up into the sky.
Click on whichever video you like or do all three! Magnus’ favourite is “I like to move it.” He doesn’t like to do it himself but he does like to watch me.
Now for some relaxing time. A great way to relax is by doing yoga. Yoga is an ancient form of exercise that focuses on strength, flexibility and breathing to boost physical and mental wellbeing. The main components of yoga are postures (a series of movements designed to increase strength and flexibility) and breathing.
Why not send us some pictures of you taking part in any of the exercises you have been doing today. Send to gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or Tweet @St_BarbarasPS
