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April 29, 2020April 28, 2020

Primary 6 – Wednesday 29th April

Good Morning Primary 6,

Yesterday I asked you to divide some ‘ow’ words from our spelling list into two columns.

You should have ended up with something like this:

Words with ‘ow’

Sounding like ‘cow’

Words with ‘ow’

Sounding like ‘window’

clown

growl

prowl

scowl

clown

brown

crown

down

frown

slow

known

show

growth

slow

blown

throw

shown

thrown

Today I would like you to sort our spelling words out into a table showing the number of syllables that they have.

Remember a syllable is a part of a word that can be sounded by itself. Each syllable has a vowel sound. For example:

pillow = pil-low

arrow = ar-row

Notice that the double letters are split between the syllables.

One syllable	Two syllables	Three syllables
grow	Follow = fol-low	Following = fol-low-ing

rainbow, window, swallow, tomorrow, barrow, own, mower, borrowing, hollow, sparrow, elbow, burrow, shadow, shallow

Here’s Cressida Cowell reading chapter 16 of, “How to Train your Dragon.”

Hiccup’s fiendishly clever plan has gone wrong. The Green Death is dying but it’s not dead yet. Hiccup declares that this is truly the worst moment of his life as he falls into the dragon’s open mouth. Thinking back over all that we have heard so far about Hiccup try to make a list of all of the worst moments in Hiccup’s life that have lead him to this point. Is this really the worst moment? Were the other times that Hiccup declared, “This is the worst moment of my life.” really all that bad? Would you describe Hiccup as an optimist or a pessimist?

Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths statements.

a) 6.7 lies between 6 and 7. It is closer to 7

b) 4.3 lies between 4 and 5 . It is closer to 4

c) 7.5 lies between 7 and 8 . It is closer to 8

d) 1.58 lies between 1 and 2 . It is closer to 2

e) 5.34 lies between 5 and 6 . It is closer to 5

f) 0.83 lies between 0 and 1 . It is closer to 1

g) 10.8 lies between 10 and 11 . It is closer to 11

h) 23.25 lies between 23 and 24 . It is closer to 23

i) 58.81 lies between 58 and 59 . It is closer to 59

Saying that 58.81 is closer to 59 is ROUNDING 58.81 to 59. Today I want you to round these decimals to the nearest whole number. You don’t need to write the numbers that they are between today, just the answer will do.

1a) 7.4 b) 8.6 c)9.8 d) 2.1

e) 3.47 f) 6.85 g)15.29 h) 20.63

i) 25.27 j) 33.99 k) 42.14 l) 68.50

2a) 4.10 b) 5.90 c) 3.40 d) 8.70

e) 12.80 f) 14.50 g) 17.39 h) 18.72

i) 0.34 j) 0.51 k) 0.50 l) 101.49

Now why don’t we have a Wednesday Workout.

Today is the memorial day of St. Catherine of Siena a woman who lead an extraordinary life. Watch this short film about her and then record in your jotter why she was so special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UvUznvBzt4

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 any of your work at:

gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk

Mr. McIntosh

April 24, 2020April 23, 2020

Primary 6 – Friday 24th April

Good Morning Primary 6,

Congratulations, you made it to the end of the week!

Take a short break.

There, did you enjoy that?

Now let’s get back to work.

Here are the answers to yesterday’s questions.

1.a) 600 b) 500 c)200 d) 800

e) 3100 f) 700 g) 300 h) 2400

i) 900 j) 1000 k) 300 l) 2900

2. 100 pupils

3. 400 miles

4. 200 cm

5. £500

Today I want you to have a go at rounding some decimals. Now, this is really a Primary 7 skill but you have all been doing so well this week I think that you can try it out. There are three videos and three activities here,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6g8d6f

for you to work on.

Let me know how you get on at

gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk

There is also a short place value assessment waiting for you on Sumdog today. It only lasts for one day so you’ll need to do it before dinner time.

Here is Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 13 of, “How to Train your Dragon.”

But today I want you to look back at the similes in Chapter 11

Have a look at this work on how to understand and use similes and metaphors,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkygrj6

Then try the activities that follow it.

If you haven’t checked already, there is a road safety design competition starting on the school’s Twitter today.

You could also try some Spanish alphabet today.

For Health today I want you to look back over your week and make a list of the things that you have achieved. You are all dealing with big changes in the way that you live and learn and today is a great opportunity to remind yourself that you are doing well.

As you round out your week remember that you and your family can still celebrate Mass on the St. Barbara’s Facebook page.

Mr. McIntosh

April 23, 2020April 22, 2020

Primary 6 – Thursday 23rd April

Good Morning Primary 6,

Here are the answers to yesterday’s questions.

1.a) 50 b) 80 c) 20 d) 80

e) 150 f) 180 g) 220 h) 420

i) 70 j) 200 k) 200 l) 890

2. 140 pupils

3. 430 miles

4. 200 cm.

5. £480

Today we will be rounding to the nearest hundred.

The rule is:- If the number ends in less than 50 round down

Examples:- 324 rounds down to 300, 848 rounds down to 800,

1236 rounds down to 1200, 2847 rounds down to 2800

If the number ends in 50 or more round up

Examples :- 651 rounds up to 700, 765 rounds up to 800,

971 rounds up to 1000, 150 rounds up to 200

1.Round these numbers to the nearest hundred

a) 646 b) 482 c)219 d) 784

e) 3146 f) 681 g) 279 h) 2424

i) 865 j) 995 k) 283 l) 2888

2.There were 137 pupils at the school dance. Round this to the nearest hundred.

3.It is 432 miles from my home to my secret submarine. Round this to the nearest hundred miles.

4.My bed is 196cm long. Round this to the nearest hundred cm.

5. After a lottery win was shared out each winner received £476. Round this to the nearest hundred pounds.

Write your answers in your jotter and I’ll post them tomorrow. You can also send them to me at

gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk

There are more questions like this in your Sumdog challenge this week and in your Studyladder learning pod.

Here is Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 12 of, “How to Train your Dragon.”

Hiccup has gone to speak to The Green Death on his own.

Imagine that you are The Green Death retell the events of the conversation between yourself and Hiccup. Try to write it in the style that we used when writing about being inside The Trojan Horse.

Think about how giant and ancient The Green Death is. Hiccup is no threat to you but something happens in the conversation that makes you take him seriously. Try to describe what is going on inside The Green Death’s mind as you talk together.

In case you missed it we have some new reading materials for you to work on. Your parents should have received a username and password for Scholastic Books. Follow this link,

https://slz03.scholasticlearningzone.com/slz-portal/#/login3/GBRWY9D

to find a new reading book and quiz for you to complete in your jotter.

Remember Monday’s pack of cards workout? Why not try it again today but this time choose your own exercises for each suit.

Hearts

Clubs

Diamonds

Spades

It’s 10 minutes on the timer and you must do the exercise the number of times on the card. Aces are 1, other face cards are 13.

Today is St. George’s Day. There are many stories associated with St. George but the most famous one concerns a dragon. Find out what happened and retell the story in your own words. St George is the patron saint of England, can you discover why?

Mr. McIntosh

April 22, 2020April 21, 2020

Primary 6 – Wednesday 22nd April

Good morning Primary 6,

Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths problems.

1 a) Three thousands b) Four hundreds c) Seven tens d) one unit

2 a) Five thousand b) Five tens c) Five units d) Five hundreds

3 a) Three thousand, eight hundred and seventy b) Nine thousand and fifty one

c) Twelve thousand and forty five d) Twenty thousand and forty

e) One hundred and twenty thousand, four hundred and twenty seven

f) Eight hundred thousand, three hundred and fifty

g) Seven hundred and two thousand and fifty

h) Nine hundred and nine thousand and ninety

4. a) 910 b)20,050 c) 60,006 d) 100,001 e) 909,000 f) 111,011 g) 1,000,000

How did you get on?

Some of you have been emailing me your answers at

gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk

Today, I want to look at rounding.

Think about the number 27. It sits between 20 and 30 on the number line.

These are the closest TENS to 27, but which is closest?

27 is 7 steps away from 20 but only 3 steps away from 30 so if we are rounding to the nearest TEN then 27 is rounded (nearer) to 30.

We say that, “27 rounded to the nearest ten is 30.”

The rule is:- If a number has a 1, 2, 3, or 4 in its units then we round down.

Examples – 24 rounds down to 20, 61 rounds down to 60, 353 rounds down to 350,

27,451 rounds down to 27,450

If the number has 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 in the units then we round up.

Examples – 58 rounds up to 60, 69 rounds up to 70, 397 rounds up to 400,

1,456 rounds up to 1460, 27,305 rounds up to 27,310

1.Round these numbers to the nearest 10

a) 46 b) 82 c)19 d) 84

e) 146 f) 181 g) 219 h) 424

i) 65 j) 195 k) 203 l) 888

2.There were 137 pupils at the school dance. Round this to the nearest 10.

3.It is 432 miles from my home to my secret submarine. Round this to the nearest 10 miles.

4.My bed is 196cm long. Round this to the nearest 10 cm.

5. After a lottery win was shared out each winner received £476. Round this to the nearest 10 pounds.

Write your answers in your jotter and I’ll post them tomorrow. You can also send them to me at

gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk

There are more questions like this in your Sumdog challenge this week and in your Studyladder learning pod.

Here is Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 11 (part 2) of, “How to Train your Dragon.”

The Hairy Hooligans have turned to the book, “How to Train your Dragon” to find out how to deal with the enormous sea dragon that is sitting on their beach. The advice is, “Yell at it!”

After listening to the chapter review the advice given in the book. Would you say that it was successful?

We know that yelling does work for smaller dragons so is the advice all bad?

Can you think of any way that the Hairy Hooligans could have followed the advice to, “Yell at it.” and it would have worked?

We also have some new reading materials for you to work on. Your parents should have received a username and password for Scholastic Books yesterday. Follow this link

https://slz03.scholasticlearningzone.com/slz-portal/#/login3/GBRWY9D

To find a new reading book and quiz for you to complete in your jotter.

To wake your body up after all that work why not try these stretches

Today you could write a prayer thanking God for the things in your life that bring you joy and comfort.

Remember to keep working on an activity from your new homeworking grids.

Oh, and wash your hands!

Mr. McIntosh

April 21, 2020April 20, 2020

Primary 6 – Tuesday 21st April

Good morning Primary 6,

Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths problems:

a) 770 b) 1080 C) 880

d) 5690 e) 9999 f) 7700

g) 8000 h) 1250 i) 1200

j) Four thousand, three hundred and thirty

k) Three thousand, one hundred

l) Six thousand, one hundred

How did you get on?

Here are your questions for today.

In the number 2436,

The 2 stands for two thousands

The 4 stands for four hundred

The 3 stands for three tens

The 6 stands for six units

1.What do the following digits stand for in the number 3471 :

a) 3 b) 4 c) 7 d) 1

2. What does the 5 stand for in each of these numbers:

a) 5741 b) 8750 c) 9875 d) 1599

3. Write the following numbers out fully in words:

a) 3,870 b) 9,051 c) 12,045 d) 20,040

e) 120,427 f) 800,350 g) 702,050 h) 909,090

4. Write the following numbers using digits:

a) nine hundred and ten b) twenty thousand and fifty

c) sixty thousand and six d) one hundred thousand and one

e) nine hundred and nine thousand f) one hundred and eleven thousand and eleven

g) one million

Record your answers in your jotter. Email them to me at

gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk

5. There is a place value task for you up on Sumdog starting today which ends with an assessment on Friday.

6. There is also a place value learning pod now open on Studyladder to help you along.

Here is Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 11 (part 1) of, “How to Train your Dragon.”

There are lots of descriptive similes used in this chapter,

“…like 50 dragon trying to get in…”

“…like a couple of sleeping babies…”

Listen to the chapter again and try to write down all of the similes that are used. Cressida Cowell is very careful to only use similes that vikings would understand,

“…like dragons…”

“…like babies…”

“…like cliffs…”

Why do you think that she does this?

Why does she not use similes that we would recognise like, “…as tall as a block of flats…?”

What do the similes add to the story?

Record your answers in your jotter. Email them to me at

gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk

For Health and Wellbeing today I have created a new Learning Pod on Studyladder called “Home and Sun Safety” that I would like you to do.

Now listen to this reading from the Acts of the Apostles and think about how the actions of the early Christian Church is being repeated today by the many people and organisations who are helping one another through this time of lockdown.

If there is anyone who is still looking for their log in for Studyladder please email me and I can send it straight to you.

Finally for today, who fancies some Spanish?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uwioVbJMDY

Mr. McIntosh

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020

Primary 6 – Thursday 2nd April

Good Morning Primary 6,

I hope that no one fooled you too much yesterday.

Here’s a maths starter for today,

Rewrite this story using numbers and a.m. or p.m.

I got up this morning at quarter past eight. I arrived at the computer at five to nine and stopped work for my break at ten to eleven. Lunch was one o’clock until ten to two. I finished for the day at twenty five to five and went to bed at quarter to eleven.

I’ve been correcting your work on FirstNews and some of you really need to think about how you are answering the questions. Is what you are writing really what the question is asking? if the question asks for your reasons, are you giving them?

Here’s Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 8 of, “How to Train your Dragon.”

There is lots of speech in this chapter. The humans are having a conversation but the dragons are talking too.

Summarise the February conversation between Hiccup, Fishlegs and Toothless. Try to explain why they are each saying what they are saying. Does Hiccup really believe that he is gaining Toothless’s trust?

You can tweet your answers to any of the challenges @St_BarbarasPS and I’ll be able to see them or you can hit the “Leave a reply.” button at the top of these posts.

I hope that you have been practising your key spelling words for this week. Perhaps today could be the day for a test? Give the list to another member of your family and see how many of them you can spell correctly. Practise the ones that you get wrong for the rest of the week. If you get them all right have a test using the words on your family spelling word list from Tuesday and then practise those.

You also have a spelling challenge running on Sumdog that finishes tomorrow.

Mr. McIntosh

April 1, 2020March 31, 2020

Primary 6 – Wednesday 1st April

Good morning Primary 6,

The “Four Operations Competition” ended yesterday on Sumdog with the Genius Girls winning.

Congratulations Genius Girls!!

Here’s the answer to yesterday’s maths starter,

“I started adding work to Studyladder at twenty to four and finished at twenty past five.

How long did I spend on Studyladder in minutes?”

20 minutes until 4 + 1 hour until 5 + 25 minutes past 5 = 105 minutes

How long did I spend on Studyladder in hours? (This is trickier)

105 minutes is 1 hour and 45 minutes or 1 and three quarter hours or 1.75 hours.

Did you get it?

You can tweet your answers to any of the challenges @St_BarbarasPS and I’ll be able to see them or you can hit the “Leave a reply.” button at the top of these posts.

Here’s Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 7 of, “How to Train your Dragon.”

This is the first time that Toothless has seen Hiccup or heard him speaking dragonese. Imagine yourself in Toothless’s position, locked in a basket, taken from your cave, surrounded by humans. Write a short description in the first person (I and me) about what you are seeing, hearing, thinking and feeling. Remember when we wrote about being in the Trojan Horse and try to do something similar. Make your writing full of adjectives, adverbs and emotional content.

Lots of people did brilliantly on the 2D shape and 3D object learning pod on Studyladder yesterday! Keep up the good work, it’s great to see how much you know.

Have another look at your key spelling words for this week. Try to use as many of them as possible in one paragraph,

“The TEACHER said that it was NECESSARY to BICYCLE to the LIBRARY but, because of the LIGHTNING, I felt that this was AMBITIOUS and decided to SEPARATE myself from the WEIGHT of the bike and walk instead. He called me a VEGETABLE and so I reported him to the GOVERNMENT, for the TWELFTH time.”

Here is an interactice maths starter for today. Can you finish in less than 6 minutes?

Sporcle speed game

Mr. McIntosh

March 31, 2020March 30, 2020

Primary 6 – Tuesday 31st March

Good morning Primary 6,

How did you get on with yesterday’s maths challenge?

Mrs. McIntosh bought eye-liner for £4.20, hair conditioner for £5.55 and face cream for £3.79.

How much change did she get from three £5 notes and what coins could she have been paid in?

You find the answer by adding all of the costs together £4.20+£5.55+£3.79 to make £13.54

Then subtracting that from 3x£5 = £15

£15 – £13.54 = £1.46

So Mrs. McIntosh gets £1.46 in change.

There are a few different ways to make this in coins but the one which uses the least number of coins is

£1, 20p, 20p, 5p and 1p

Here’s Cressida Cowell reading Chapters 5 and 6 of “How to Train your Dragon”

Old Wrinkly says that the times call for a new kind of hero and he implies that Hiccup could be that hero. Compare and contrast the two ways of being a hero that Old Wrinkly talks about. The old way followed by characters like Snotlout and Professor Yobbish and the new way that Hiccup could show them.

Keep practising your key spelling words and try to add other words in the same family.

For example – lightning, light, lighten, lighting

I added some new learning pods on Studyladder you should have a look at. Remember you can switch from one pod to another and go back when you want to.

Here’s a maths starter for today.

I started adding work to Studyladder at twenty to four and finished at twenty past five.

How long did I spend on Studyladder in minutes?

How long did I spend on Studyladder in hours? (This is trickier)

Mr. Mcintosh

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020

Mental Maths Answers

Good afternoon boys and girls,

As promised, I have uploaded the answers to the mental maths questions. How well did you do? I will post another few questions tomorrow for you to try.

Bye!

Mrs Grant 🙂