Good morning Primary 5!  I hope that you are all doing well this week.

👏🏼 A big well done to yesterday’s Sumdog winners! Still no girls in the top 5, although RB you just missed out on the top spots. Let’s see who wins today! 🤔

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Literacy:

As always, on Wednesdays we practise our comprehension skills! 🔎

 

Wednesday 20^th May

Comprehension

I can explore the features of a non-fiction text.

 

 

Warm Up:

Today to warm us up we are going to be practising our spelling words of the week.  This week, our spelling words are:

Choose one of the spelling activities below to practise them!

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Main Task:

Similar to last week, today we are going to be reading a fact-file about a country.  Read the following information piece about China. 🇨🇳

 

Here are this week’s questions:

Understanding Questions

1. What is China’s official name?
2. Where are China’s deserts?
3. What is the climate like in the north of the country?
4. What is China’s main language?

 

Language Questions

1. Find the adjectives in the text that are made from these nouns.
   • The east
   • The south
   • The west

tropical	an area of fairly level high ground.
plateaus	very hot
frequent	a tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans
typhoons	happening often

 

Information Questions

1. Why do you think that the writer has used subheadings? Are they useful or not? Why?
2. Why do you think the writer has included a map?
3. What information have you found out about Mount Everest?
4. Why do you think that China has ‘many different climates’?
5. Would you like to visit China or not? Explain your reasons.

Extension:

Choose a country that you are interested in or have visited.  Make a list of questions showing what information you would like to know about this country.

Can you use your research skills to find the answers to your questions?

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Maths

Warm Up: Mental Maths

1. Make 7,639 10 times bigger.
2. Use the > or < symbol to compare these two numbers: 15,725 ___ 15,726
3. Write the next even number after 7,522
4. What is the difference between 432 and 456?
5. Round 7,898 to the nearest 10.
6. Write eighty-six thousand, three hundred and forty nine In digits.
7. If I spend £6.76 how much change will I get from £10?
8. 1,026 + 614
9. Double 87.
10. What is the next multiple of 8 after 48?
11. What is 122 less than 1,627?
12. If I have a £10 note, a £5 note, six £1 coins, a 20p, two 10p’s and a 2p how much do I have in total?
13. The time is 11:20. What will be the time in an hour and a quarter?
14. What comes next? 55,333    55,433    55,533    55,633
15. What is 63 divided by 7?
16. The date is Wednesday the 20^th of May. What will be the date next Thursday?

 

Main Task: Mental Subtraction

20.05.20         Subtraction

I can use a variety of mental strategies to help me with subtraction problems.

 

 Activity 1

1. June can carry 172 people. There are 31 people on board.  How many more people can go on board?
2. How many more people can go on board
   • Alice
   • Mary
   • Sarah
   • Jane
   • Kate?
3. How many more people can Alice carry than
   • Mary
   • Sarah
   • Jane
   • Kate?
4. How many fewer people can Kate carry than
   • Jane
   • Sarah
   • Mary?
5. Find the difference between the number of people that can be carried by
   • Sarah and Mary
   • Jane and Sarah
   • Mary and Jane

Activity 2: Problem Solving and Enquiry

Can you choose one parcel from each shelve to make a pair with the given difference?

Traffic Light today’s work and leave a comment to say how you found subtracting mentally today 🚦

 

Extension:

Choose one of the Topmarks games to practise your subtraction skills or head over to Sumdog to work on your mental maths speed and accuracy!  Come on girls, we need to activate some girl power, the boys are ruling the roost! 🦸🏻‍♀️

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/addition-and-subtraction

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Head on over to the main blog to see what Mr Green has posted for this weeks assembly.  It is all about Article 12. 🗣

Our activity this week is to:

Write a creative story, a poem, a short play script or are you creative enough to design a piece of art using the title ‘Head My Voice’. Share it with your family.

or

Design a poster for display  about the importance of Article 12

 

Also, have a go at making the megaphone – I’m sure your family will be delighted! 📣

Miss Donaldson 🍬