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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

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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

 

 

 

 

 

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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

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Primary 6 – Monday 20th April

Well, Good morning Primary 6!

I hope that you had a lovely break and that you are all ready to get back to it.

Uniforms on? Then we can begin.

Let’s get our heads back to it with some trips up and down the number line.

Write down the number that is:

a) 10 after 760  b) 200 after 880  c) 70 before 950

d) 300 after 5390  e) 2000 after 7999  f) 1000 before 8700

g) 4500 after 3500  h) 4000 before 5250  i) 8700 before 9900

j) four hundred and thirty after three thousand nine hundred

k) two thousand five hundred before five thousand six hundred

l) two thousand nine hundred before nine thousand

I’ll post the answers tomorrow or you can email them to me at

gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk

I’m going to be using this email for all your work from now on so if you do anything that you want to send me that’s the address to use.

Here’s Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 10 of “How to Train your Dragon.”

It’s the Thor’s Day Thursday celebrations. After you have listened to the chapter write a newspaper report about the events of the day. Create a headline and then imagine that you are a viking reporter moving through all of the events reporting about what is happening and who it is happening to. Try to use the language that you find in newspapers, you introductory paragraph should tell the who, what, where, when and why of the story and then your following paragraphs should recount each event in greater detail.

It’s always a good idea to get some interviews in towards the end of your article. Perhaps you could imagine an interview with the winner of the Gull’s Egg Eating competition that Gobber throws up during or speak to the mother of the Ugliest Baby winner, she would be so proud. You can write the article in your jotter or word process it.

Send me a copy at

gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk

Now that your brain is fired up let’s get your body moving.

Grab a deck of regular playing cards and set a timer for 10 minutes.

Each suit in the deck is a kind of exercise and the number on the card is the number of times that you need to do it. So:

Spades = squats

Hearts = push ups

Clubs = lunges

Diamonds = jumping jacks

Shuffle the deck and put them near you then start the timer.

Take the first card and complete the exercise,

so if you draw the five of spades, it’s 5 squats

the seven of diamonds, its 7 jumping jacks

after you finish each exercise take a new card and keep going.

If you draw any face card it’s unlucky 13 of that exercise, but aces only count as 1.

If you reach the bottom of the deck before the timer runs out, you’re done! If not, keep going until the timer runs out.

Remember to pick an activity from your new grid to try today.

R.E. – St Thomas the Apostle is often called, “Doubting Thomas” find out why and explain if you think it is fair that he has been given this title.

Let me know how you get on with the activities today. You can email me or hit the comment button below. I’ll be updating Sumdog and Studyladder tomorrow with some new challenges and learning pods.

 

Mr. McIntosh

 

 

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Primary 6 – Friday 3rd April

Good morning Primary 6,

Hey, have you noticed? It’s Friday, the best day of the week! No school tomorrow!

You only have to wear your uniforms today and then tomorrow you can dress any way you like.

You all have been wearing your uniforms, right?

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Wait, you haven’t been wearing your uniforms?

Well, honestly!

Here is the solution to yesterday’s maths starter.

I got up this morning at 8:15 am. I arrived at the computer at 8:55 am and stopped work for my break at 10:50 am. Lunch was 1:00 pm until 1:50 pm. I finished for the day at 4:35 pm and went to bed at 10:45 pm.

How did you get on?

Let me know in the comments. 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 bottom of these posts.

Here’s Cressida Cowell reading Chapter 9 of, “How to Train your Dragon.”

Hiccup and Fishlegs are really struggling to train their dragons. Hiccup has been keeping a notebook of the methods for training Toothless that he has tried. None of them are working but he does not want to try, “Jokes and Riddling Talk” unless he really has to. Why do you think this is?

By the end of the chapter we discover that dragons love jokes. What do you think a dragon joke is like? Try to write a dragon joke.

Old Wrinkly thinks they are all worried about the wrong thing and the test is, “piddly.”

What does Old Wrinkly know that the others have missed?

Here is a spelling starter for today. How many words can you make from these letters?

Y  R  E  A  T  I  N  T  C

They also make a nine letter word. Can you work out what it is?

 

Good Luck

Mr. McIntosh

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

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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

 

 

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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

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