Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 22nd February 2021

Date: 21st Feb 2021 @ 5:37pm

Monday 22^nd February 2021

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to the start of another week. I do hope your half term week was filled with fun, family and lots of relaxing moments. I have been keeping myself busy throughout from painting a bathroom, cleaning every room and practising a new skill for me - a handstand!

Do not forget to check Seesaw for any videos that I have sent. Here are Monday’s tasks:

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.

Reading activity for today:

• Over the half term, which was your favourite book to read and why?

English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on animals. This week focus on having every letter on the line.

Nature’s Numbers

One old observant owl

Two tame tickled trout

Three thirsty throated thrushes

Four fine fantailed fish

Five. Fantastically famous frogs

Six swiftly swimming salmon

Seven sweetly singing songbirds

Eight engagingly eager eels

Nine nippy and neighbourly newts

Ten tenderly tiptoeing tortoises.

Spellings

The spellings for this week, short ‘y’ sound

• The spelling sheet is attached at the bottom of this blog.
• Sumdog spelling challenge starts today. 

Writing task

Can I analyse the new novel cover and predict the story?

Watch the video sent on Seesaw which explains today’s task.

Maths – Subtraction Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in ¼ and ¾ from:

6, 4 ¼ , 8 ½ , 36, 187

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use mental strategies to solve subtraction questions?

See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson and the main sheet is named, ‘Mental Subtraction’

3. Maths challenge (decimals) – explanation on the same video. The sheet is attached to ‘Mental subtraction’.

PE

Can I problem solve to find my way across the river?

Physical Education (PE) is where we learn through moving by practising a skill and then evaluating how we moved afterwards so we can complete activities better when we try again.

In today’s task, follow the link Cross the River, which is an adventure activity using your knowledge of movements to get ‘across the river’. There is a video here, Cross the River Video, which explains how to keep yourself safe while playing.

Here are a few examples of how to make it easier or more challenging for yourself:

• Use different number of objects
• Use smaller objects (pieces of paper) or larger objects (cushions)
• Have 3 lives to get across or have none
• Have a start and finish point that is further away (moves through rooms or is outside)

As well as PE, you should also being doing PA, Physical Activity, which is where you move your body to raise your heart rate up. The weather is slowly warming up recently so whether you do an indoor physical activity (Joe Wicks, circuit training, play an active game) or outdoor physical activity (running, biking, scooting) make sure you look after yourself by keeping fit.

Sumdog – Three challenges

1. 1. Mental subtractions                                             (200 target)
   2. Divisions for 6, 7 and 9s                                       (200 target)
   3. Spellings ‘short /y/ sound’                                    (45 target)

Congratulations! The first Monday back is now complete.

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