TUESDAY

20 minutes of reading in English

Spend 20 minutes writing about a time when you hid from someone. This can be ficational or non-fictional.

Maths

Grade 6
Complete questions from class

Grade 5
Complete work issued in class




WEDNESDAY

20 minutes of reading in German


Improving Similes


If you want to say a kid is very noisy you can say:
He is as noisy as an elephant.

That is an ok simile, but we can improve it by thinking of something even noisier than an elephant.
Well, what is noisier than an elephant? A whole herd of elephants. And so a better simile might be:

He is as noisy as a herd of elephants.

If you want to say something is old you could say:It's as old as the pharaoh.

Some pharaohs are 5000 years old after all. But, how can we improve that? By thinking of someone even older than the pharaoh like the pharaoh's grandmother. So we can improve this simile like this:

It's as old as the pharaoh's grandmother.

Try to improve the following similes.

It's as smelly as socks.

It's as dangerous as a shark.

It's as cold as a milkshake.





THURSDAY
20 minutes of reading in English


Maths
Try out these word problems Grade 5


# A large box contains 18 small boxes and each small box contains 25 chocolate bars. How many chocolate bars are in the large box?

# It takes John 25 minutes to walk to the car park and 45 to drive to work. At what time should he get out of the house in order to get to work at 9:00 a.m.?

# Kim can walk 4 kilometers in one hour. How long does it take Kim to walk 18 kilometers?

# A factory produced 2300 TV sets in its first year of production. 4500 sets were produced in its second year and 500 more sets were produced in its third year than in its second year. How many TV sets were produced in three years?

# Linda bought 3 notebooks at $1.20 each; a box of pencils at $1.50 and a box of pens at $1.70. How much did Linda spend?

# Tom and Bob have a total of 49 toys. If Bob have 5 more toys than Tom, how many toys does each one have?

# John can eat a quarter of a pizza in one minute. How long does it take John to eat one pizza and a half?

# John can eat a sixth of a pizza in two minutes. It takes 3 minutes for Billy to eat one quarter of the same pizza. If John and Billy start eating one pizza each, who will finish first?

# John read the quarter of the time that Tom read. Tom read only two-fifth of the time that Sasha read. Sasha read twice as long as Mike. If Mike read 5 hours, how long did John read?

# Jim, Carla and Tomy are members of the same family. Carla is 5 years older than Jim. Tomy is 6 years older than Carla. The sum of their three ages is 31 years. How old is each one them?

# Mel had $35 and withdraw some more money from his bank account. He bought a pair of trousers at $34.00, two shirts at $16.00 each and 2 pairs of shoes at $24.00 each. After the shopping, he had $32.00 left. How much money did Mel withdraw from the bank?

# How many minutes are in one week?

# A painter charges $ 225 for materials and $ 35 per hour for labour. The total cost of painting an office is $ 330. How many hours did it take the painter to paint the office?

# Three toy cars and 4 toy trains cost $18. Two toy cars and 3 toy trains cost $13. What is the price of one toy car and the price of one toy train?



FRIDAY
20 minutes of reading in German

MONDAY
20 minutes of reading in English

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