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.
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.
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 Thursday! Easily the most exciting day of the week. Did you know that Thursday is traditionally the day that toast will land BUTTER SIDE UP!
Amazing!
Although, just like any old myth that I made up, you probably don’t want to test it too much.
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths questions.
a) 19.2 points
b) 43.2 miles
c) £76.5
d) 18 miles
e) 108 miles
f) 63.2 cm
g) 25.2 miles
h) 7.2 cm
i) 4.2 cm
j) 129.2 cm or 1.292 m
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) A theatre holds 1060 people. If 389 seats remain unsold on one evening, how many seats have been sold?
b) The school spends £186.20 on fresh fruit during January. In February it spends £188.89. How much has been spent on fruit in total during these two months?
c) A car salesroom sells 12 cars for £9,800 each. How much money have they taken altogether?
c) Jade’s mum buys a pack of 6 kiwi fruit. They cost £1.32. How much does each kiwi fruit cost?
d) What is the product of 19 and 3.6?
e) Mr Daw gives each child in his class 18 stickers during January. If there are 29 children in Mr Daw’s class, how many stickers has Mr Daw given out?
f) Katie spends £1.29 on a magazine and £8.95 on a CD. If she had £12.50 to start with, how much does she have left?
g) Mrs Sherwood puts sweets into bags before the disco. If she puts 14 sweets into each bag, how many bags will be needed to take 196 sweets?
h) Mr Daw shows limited willpower and eats 17 biscuits every day in 2009. (Mrs Mole eats the rest.) How many biscuits will Mr Daw have eaten by the end of the year?
i) Being healthy, Mrs Wollington buys a 2-litre bottle of olive oil. She uses 567ml in one week, then 533 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
This week for spelling it’s time for a roundup.
Here are some of the spelling words and patterns that we have looked at over the last few weeks. Copy them in to your jotter and split them into their syllables. The first one is done for you.
When we pray it is important to remember a few simple things. Prayers can be simple thoughts and words coming straight from the heart. Sometimes God doesn’t seem to give us what we pray for. Do not give up praying – keep on talking to God and listening for he knows what is best for you, even if it is not what you expected. It is also important to remember that we don’t just ask God for things we want. Remember to praise God and thank him for his goodness, to tell him about ourselves and others and say sorry if we have done wrong.
Why not join in with this hymn Alleluia Alleluia Give Thanks to the Risen Lord below to praise God:
I would like you to write out a short prayer thanking God for all the wonderful things you have in your life. I have included a template below for you to use or you can design your own.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
Also as it is Thursday again let’s remember to praise (thank) all NHS workers tonight at 8pm by clapping and making as much noise as you can for them.
We have all been enjoying the lovely sunny weather recently and it has been great to be able to get outside and play. Even though it is important for everyone to enjoy the sun we have got to remember that it can burn your skin. There are three important steps to stop sunburn:
• Cover up with clothing and a hat
• Spend time in the shade,
• Wear suitable sunscreen and apply it often
In the attached sheet the character in it is out in the sun with no hat!!! I would like you to design a hat for the character and make sure it offers suitable protection against the sun.
Please send us your pictures at gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or Tweet @St_BarbarasPS
Remember you can still choose another task from your updated learning grid and there are other tasks on Sumdog, StudyLadder, FirstNews and Scholastic Books.
Finally, because of Sport’s day on Tuesday, we didn’t get to watch the next episode of ‘Mi Vida Loca’ so here it is:
I hope that you are all quite recovered after yesterday’s sports day exertions.
It’s Wednesday,
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) Hayden plays 6 Xbox games. He scores 3.2 points in each game. How many points does he score altogether?
b) Olivia runs 5.4 miles every day. If she runs for 8 days, how far does she run?
c) Riley does a sponsored silence. For every hour, he must be silent he raises £8.50. How much will he raise if he stays silent for 9 hours?
d) Miss Huntley walks 3.6 miles to school. How many miles does she walk over 5 days?
e) Miss Huntley decides to walk home as well, so she walks 7.2 miles a day. How many miles does she walk over 15 days?
f) Caitlyn draws a square. Each side is 15.8cm. What is the perimeter of the square?
g) Brandon’s car drives 6.3 miles on one litre of petrol. How many miles will he cover on 4 litres of petrol?
h) Reece’s hair grows 0.8 cm per month. How many cm will his hair grow in 9 months?
i) Alexander measures rainfall over 7 months. The rain fall is 0.6 cm each month. How much rain has fallen over the 7 months?
j) Elvin buys a new pair of shoes with four shoe laces. Each shoe lace is 32.3cm long. How long are all four shoe laces put together?
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
This week for spelling it’s time for a roundup.
Here are some of the spelling words and patterns that we have looked at over the last few weeks. Copy them into your jotter and begin to practise them ahead of a spelling test on Friday.
When Jesus needed to feel very close to his Father, what did he do? – He would pray. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he was betrayed by Judas. He prayed before he raised Lazarus from the dead and Jesus prayed during the Last Supper, before he broke the bread. Like us Jesus needed to share his worries and problems with his heavenly Father; he knew that he was never alone. Just as we are never alone. God is always with us.
When we pray we are having a conversation with God. When we talk to God, he listens. We don’t have to have special times for saying prayers. Often we say them at bedtime but we can talk to God at any time. Do you ever feel unsure about what to say to God? Don’t worry as God our Father likes to hear about everything we have to tell him and he is always ready to listen.
The apostles knew how important it was to pray to God but like us they often felt uncertain about how to pray. One day they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. What was the prayer that Jesus taught them? – The Our Father.
Watch this short video about how Jesus taught his disciples the Our Father:
Let’s say the Our Father now. I have copied the words to help you if you need it.
I would like you to download the picture below if you can and colour it in. If you can’t download it why not draw a picture like this one.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
I hope you enjoyed sport’s day yesterday and had plenty of fun! I would like you to keep having fun whilst exercising. Research shows that regular exercise has lots of benefits including:
improving fitness
increasing concentration
building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
encouraging healthy growth and development
improving posture and balance
lowering stress
Encouraging a better night’s sleep
Today we are going to have a Wild Workout with Andy. Andy is off to the Arctic to see what he can find. Let’s join him and exercise on the way!
Remember you can still choose another task from your updated learning grid and there are other tasks on Sumdog, StudyLadder, FirstNews and Scholastic Books.
It’s Wednesday, the name Wednesday actually derives from two mighty but distinct pagan gods.
The Old English word for Wednesday indicates that the day was named for the Germanic god Woden or Odin.
In Romance languages, the name is derived from the Roman god Mercury. (For example, Wednesday is Mercredi in French.)
So watch out for ravens today. They are said to be the eyes of Odin and will carry news back to him about your plans and schemes.
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths questions.
a) £22×10 = 220 £22×2 = 44
£220+£44 = £264
b) £16.75×200 = £3,350 £16.75×50 = £837.50 £16.75×3 = £50.25
£3350+£837.50+£50.25=£4237.75
c) £0.80×20 =£16 £0.80×7 = £5.60
£16+£5.60 = £21.60
d)12,905 ants
e) 4,277 trees left
f) 3,325 miles to go
g) 4,001 fiction books
h) £731 left to save
i) 1,037 miles further
j)226,574 people more
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) 316,900 people live in Coventry. Warwick has a population of 81,971 and a further 49,500 live in Leamington Spa. How many people live in Coventry Warwick and Leamington Spa altogether?
b) 15,467 people went to Spain for their summer holiday on 12th August 2014. The following day 8,769 people travelled to Spain. How many more people went to Spain on the 12th
c) The diameter of Mars is 6,779 km and the diameter of Earth is 12,742 km. How much bigger than Mars is the Earth?
d) A mother frog laid 20,000 eggs. 1,543 failed to develop into tadpoles. Sadly 2,575 tadpoles were eaten by dragon flies and trout. Another 6,543 met their deaths in various ways over the next year. How many of the eggs grew up to be frogs?
e) I won £2,000,000 in the lottery. I bought a house for £455,500, I bought a Jaguar XK convertible for £103,500. I also went on a luxury cruise that cost £13,900. How much money have I got left?
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
Sumdog are running a special competition for North Lanarkshire schools. We haven’t made the leader board yet because lots of you are on Sumdog but are not answering the competition questions! You’ve got until the 21st. We would be in the top ten if you were answering competition questions instead of playing other games!!
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 underlines the one that has a different spelling pattern. The first one has a clue.
magnet, cabinet, tablet, bonnet
wicket, helmet, cricket, bucket
upset, droplet, triplet, pellet
socket, locket, ticket, gadget
Here are the answers to yesterday’s comprehension exercises
This week we have been looking at Jesus’ commandment to:
‘Love one another as I have loved you.’
Jesus showed his love for all of us on Good Friday when he died on the cross. Tomorrow we are going to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension. On this day, forty days after his resurrection on Easter Sunday, Jesus ascended into Heaven leaving the disciples behind to carry on with his work and to be witnesses for him. They were a little scared to be left without Jesus but they believed in him and they knew that he would not leave them alone. They were quite right of course; the Holy Spirit came to help them on the Feast of Pentecost and we’ll explore that later.
Below you will see two very different video clips about the Ascension. Please watch both of them.
Now what I would like you to do is to draw or make your own reminder of what happened on the Feast of the Ascension.
You could think about making the figures of Jesus, his disciples and the two people dressed in white – you could even create your own video clip.
Or you could draw them and write a sentence or a paragraph below; you might want to make a picture using other media – e.g. cotton wool for the clouds.
I have attached some ideas to help you below.
Whatever activity you choose to do, please email it to gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or, with an adult’s permission, upload it on to Twitter @St_BarbarasPS
Time to waken up and put your best foot forward!
We’re getting closer to Sports’ Day – so time for a little movement. There are two video clips to get you moving and some tasks below. Enjoy!
Now for those tasks:
Play some music lasting about ten/fifteen minutes and do these:
Jumping Jacks/Star Jumps
On the Spot running
Plank
Squats
Add your own and have fun!
Remember to have your water bottle handy and to take a few breaks!
Remember you can still choose another task from your updated learning grid and there are other tasks on Sumdog, StudyLadder, FirstNews and Scholastic Books.
