Tuesday 26th May (Numeracy)

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Today I am setting you 7 Problem Solving challenge questions.

Challenge 1

Jane is standing in a queue.

There are 5 people in front of her.

There are 2 people behind her.

How many people are in the queue?

An illustration of Jane.
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Challenge 2

Rosie says that she has 80 pence and Mo says he has 12 pence.

Rosie gives Mo 25 pence.

How much more money does Rosie have than Mo now?

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Challenge 3

If

The graphic shows three rows of math sentences; Row 1: 70 + circle = 100; Row 2: 50 + triangle = 100; Row 3: circle + triangle + square = 100.

What is the value of the blue square?

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Challenge 4

The perimeter of this regular hexagon is 42 cm.

A regular hexagon.

Four of these hexagons are put together to make this shape.

What is the perimeter of the shape?

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Challenge 5

Charlie has a tin of paint.

The tin is half full and weighs 5.8 kg. Charlie paints a wall in his house.

The tin is now a quarter full and weighs 3.1 kg.

How much does the empty tin weigh?

A full tin of blue paint.
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Challenge 6

A spinner has 5 equal sections. The sections are labelled A to E.

A spinner partitioned into five equal segments labelled A, B, C, D and E.

The arrow is pointing to the centre of section A.

The left spinner is pointing at letter A and the right spinner is pointing at letter D.

Tom rotates the arrow clockwise so that the arrow is now pointing to the centre of section D.

What angle has the arrow been rotated through?

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Challenge 7

4 congruent triangles are shown inside a rectangle.

Four congruent triangles places in a rectangle with a width of 21 cm and a height of 16 cm.

What is the area of one of the triangles?

*Remember to calculate the area of a triangle the formulae is 1/2 (BXH)

Tuesday 19th May (Literacy)

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Having read chapter 7 & 8, I now want you to read chapter 9 and answer the following questions. You will be using INFERENCE as your reading strategy.

  1. Why is it so hard to dig?
  2. Why did Stanley find it hard to sleep?
  3. How has Stanley’s weight helped him?
  4. Why does Stanley nearly faint?
  5. Why do you think Elya just told Myra to marry Igor?
  6. Magnet says ‘make sure nothing’s living in it’. What might he be referring to?
  7. Why was it surprising that Zero finished his hole first?
  8. Why did Stanley enjoy the shower so much?

 

Extension Task –

Finish writing Stanley’s letter. Think about the character, emotions, thoughts and how the setting/environment is impacting him.

Tuesday 19th May (Maths)

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Maths Starter

Pizza Hut Challenge

Today our maths is going to focus on applying numeracy and money handling skills into a real life context. There are 3 Chilli Challenge cards in the files below. Mild, Hot and Spicy. Choose one and work through the questions reading them carefully to see which number operations should be applied➕➖➗✖️. Click to see the menu below as well.

Pizza Hut Chilli Challenge cards

Pizza Hut menu

Extension – Sumdog Challenge

Monday 18th May (Maths)

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L.I – revise strategies for multiplication and division.

Mental Maths Starter – Time yourself to see how long it takes you to complete all 25 questions on division. Remember there will be some questions that require remainders.

 

Main Lesson

Today we are going to practice our multiplying and dividing using formal methods. You will also use mental maths strategies for multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Watch the 2 videos below to remind you how to do this.

 

Jotter Work – Complete the following questions. For Q15 each question requires a different number operation.

Extension – Sumdog Challenge

Monday 18th May (P7-S1 Transition HWB Friendship)

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Question time!

What animals can you see in the picture?

In what ways are these two animals different?

In what ways might they be similar?

How do you think the two animals discovered each other?

How have they become friends?

What do you think makes a good friend?

How can you show other people that you are a friendly person?

What kind of people do you like being friends with?

What kind of people would you not want to be friends with?

Complete P1-3 of P7-S1 Friendship Workbook below

2 110520 Friendship Worksheet

Monday 18th May (Literacy)

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Lesson Starter –

In your jotters, write a descriptive paragraph about one of the pictures below. Use the ideas below to help you be descriptive. When you send the work to me, I will try and guess which lizard picture you are describing.

Task 2 – Read Holes Ch 7-8. When reading chapter 8 highlight on the text, evidence about the yellow spotted lizard. Collate your evidence about yellow spotted lizards on the page below.

 

 

 

Friday 15th May (Maths)

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Maths Starter – Problem Solving

Sumdog Challenge

Today marks the beginning of the Renfrewshire Sumdog Maths Challenge. Each class has been entered into the competition. However to make this extra competitive, we are making this a class competition between ALL classes at Glencoats. The contest will run from 15th – 21st May. The class with the most participants answering the most questions correctly wins! Good Luck 👍

MAKE SURE P7 WIN!

Friday 15th May (Literacy)

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Task 1 – Complete the missing syllables in these three-syllable words. Write the whole word too.

 

Reading

  1. Literacy Starter activity on Seesaw

2. If you haven’t already done so ‘skim’ and ‘scan’ through Chapters 4-6 of ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar taking notes on the setting.

Holes Ch 4, 5 & 6

3. You are going to write a descriptive paragraph about Camp Green Lake. Take this starter sentence.

“Camp Green Lake is a dry, flat wasteland”

Expand on this to write a full descriptive paragraph about the setting. 

Rowling – Must have a variety of sentence openers, prepositional phrases and expanded noun phrases which have been selected carefully for effect.

Dahl – Use a variety of preposition in writing and also use ambitious vocabulary to make writing more interesting

Walliams – Write 3-4 sentences. Try to include an adjective (descriptive word) in each sentence.

4. Read over your work and check for missing punctuation. Try to up-level your descriptive paragraph.

Extension Task – Drama (Hot Seating)

You are going to take on the role of Stanley. Prepare questions for an adult to ask you based around;

  • What Stanley felt when he first saw Camp Green Lake?
  • How did it compare to his childhood idea of Camp Fun and Games?

Once you have prepared the questions and answers for Stanley, why not have a go recording a live interview. You are now in the hot seat in the role of Stanley answering questions for 1 minute. Try to impersonate how you imagine the character to be.