literacy – Page 5 – St. Barbara's Primary School

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

Primary 6 – Monday 30th March

Good morning Primary 6,

I hope that you all had a relaxing weekend and got a chance to enjoy the sunshine. I sat in the sun below the west tower of my palatial mansion thinking about ways of stopping the wild deer from eating the grass on the smaller of my two tennis courts.

Here is Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 4 of, “How to Train your Dragon.”

After listening to the chapter use what you know about the dragons and the Hairy Hooligan Tribe to describe the perfect viking dragon. What kind of qualities are the Hooligans looking for in their dragons?

You have new spelling, reading and maths challenges up on Sumdog today

The key words for your spelling are

teacher

library

bicycle

necessary

separate

chocolate

lightning

twelfth

ambitious

vegetable

parallel

government

weight

You could write and practise them in your jotter this week to help you online.

There are some new maths challenges of Studyladder too.

Here’s a little brain teaser to get you started today

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?

I tell you the answer tomorrow.

Mr. McIntosh

March 27, 2020March 26, 2020

Friday 27th March

Happy Friday Primary 6!!

I’ve been so happy to see so many of you working on Sumdog, First News and StudyLadder this week, but I know that you must be missing me so I took this picture of me smiling so that you remember what it’s like being in my class every day.

Now is also a good time to remind you that you have spelling and literacy challenges as well as maths on Sumdog and some new mental maths challenges on Studyladder.

How did you get on with your literal, inferential and evaluative questions yesterday?

The inferential ones are always the hardest, but those are the ones that really show how much you understand the story.

Here is Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 3 of, “How to Train your Dragon”

Hiccup and Fishlegs have escaped from the caves in Wild Dragon Cliff but their troubles are not over yet.

Sequence their escape up Madman’s Gulley until the part of the story where Gobber The Belch yells, “Heroes or exile!”

You could do this in bullet points or you could create a comic strip which shows this part of the story with captions explaining the action.

Keep using your learning grids and remember that sometimes even your parents need a break from how wonderful you are.

Mr McIntosh

March 26, 2020March 25, 2020

Thursday 26th March

Good Morning Primary 6

Here is Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 2 of “How to Train your Dragon”

After you have listened to both parts try to write some literal, inferential and evaluative questions and answers about the chapter. You can listen and watch more than once.

Just in case you have forgotten

Literal Comprehension – What it says

What is the Author saying?

Remember the facts
Identify the main ideas
Find the details
Summarise
Locate information and use clues to give meaning

Questions you should ask yourself

What words show the main ideas of the story?
How can you summarise what is happening?
What happens first, second, third and last?
How are the things that happen alike?
What things belong together?

Inferential Comprehension – How it says it

What am I understanding?

Read between the lines
Find clues/collect evidence
Have ideas
Make predictions
Judge the mood
Find the author’s point of view

Questions you should ask yourself

What is the author hiding?
What effect does this character have on the story?
What effect does this event have on the story?
What will happen now?
How can I prove my ideas?
What is the author’s message

Evaluative Comprehension – What it means to me

What do I think about this?

Why has the author written this way?
What are my feelings about these characters?
What are my feelings about these situations?

Questions you should ask yourself

Could this possibly happen?
Is this logical?
What other way could this story have gone?
Is my thinking fact or opinion?
Do I agree or disagree with the author’s message?

As you write your questions remember,

Inferential answers need evidence to back them up so inferential questions must be based on evidence in the first place.

Evaluative answers can be different for different people but again their views must be justified so your questions must relate closely to the story so that the opinion that they form makes sense.

I know that you might find the inferential questions tricky but that is why you need to collect your evidence first. Authors are always hiding something – sleuth them out!!

Mr. Mcintosh

March 25, 2020

Wednesday 25th March

Primary 6

Cressida Cowell is reading, “How to Train Your Dragon” a chapter a day on her youtube channel.

Have a listen to the first chapter and then visualise one of the characters.

I have a real soft spot for Gobber the Belch because he reminds me so much of one of you.

Mr. McIntosh