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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

  • 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

     

     

  • 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

  • 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

     

  • 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

     

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