Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 11th February 2021

Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 12:48pm

Thursday 11^th February 2021

 

Good morning everyone. Well Year 6, we have made it to the final day of learning being posted here on the blog (tomorrow is Fabulous Friday). I hope you have found all the videos helpful and my feedback to your work on Seesaw supportive. Remember that you can spread your work over today and tomorrow or complete it today and start you well-earned half term break early.

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

• Design a new front cover for your book. Remember to include the title, author and pictures.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on old nursery rhymes/action verses. This week focus on having the descenders hanging low and the ascenders tall.

The Morning Rush

Into the bathroom,

Turn on the tap.

Wash away the sleepiness –

Splish! Splosh! Splash!

Into the bedroom,

Pull on your vest

Quickly! Quickly!

Get yourself dressed.

Down to the kitchen.

No time to lose.

Gobble up your breakfast.

Put on your shoes.

Back to the bathroom.

Squeeze out the paste.

Brush, brush, brush your teeth.

No time to waste.

Pick up your school bag

Up off the floor.

Grab your coat

And out through the door.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, -sure / -ture

• Write out each word in parts with different colours. This should be in syllables to help with your visual memory:
  • capture, adventure, measure, enclosure

 

Writing task

Can I note down the differences between the novel and the film of Tom’s Midnight Garden?

For our final lesson on Tom’s Midnight Garden, I would like you to watch the BBC adaptation and compare it to the book.

Here are the links to all the Tom’s Midnight Garden series parts:

BBC Episode 1

BBC Episode 2

BBC Episode 3

BBC Episode 4

BBC Episode 5

BBC Episode 6

You may watch this over a few days or all in one sitting (but I think in total it comes to about 2 and half hours).

Please copy the table and complete it whilst you watch it. Just focus on the differences between what you remember in the book compared to the series. Aim for at least 10 main differences between them (there may be missing or added parts, characters portrayed differently or different settings).

Differences
Book	BBC series

 

Maths – Multiplication Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forwards in 2 ½ .

7 , 15 ¼  , 23 ½ , 64 , 97

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use my multiplication knowledge to solve problems?

I have sent a video explaining how to solve the sheet, Multiplication Word Problems. Remember to use RUCSAC

(Read, Underline, Calculation, Solve, Answer, Check) which is explained in the video.

3. Arithmetic 19 – 36. See the Arithmetic video for guidance on some of the strategies we use.

 

 

History

Can I investigate information about the Mayan calendar and create a report?

Follow the video on Seesaw and the PowerPoint information, Mayan Calendar Time Detectives, to complete the following tasks:

1. How do we measure time? (Think about seconds, minutes, months, years and spider diagram some of these – slide 1).
2. Read through slide 2 – 4
3. Slide 5 - Mayan calendar research by making notes using these websites:
   1. Mayan calendar 1
   2. Mayan calendar 2  
   3. Mayan calendar 3

There is a Mayan Calendar Report worksheet attached to the blog which I explain in the video.

Try to answer the following questions:

Can you name three things about the Haab calendar?

Can you name three things about the Tzolk’in calendar?

How long is the calendar?

Any interesting facts?

4. Report – also explained in the video. 

 

 

Art

• To end the term, please choose a video or two to complete some artwork for fun. I love Disney so follow the link How to Draw Disney Series.
• Following last week’s ‘Express Yourself’ art, I have attached Art Journaling which explains that for a week, keep journal entries of only VISUAL forms to express your experiences of that day.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

1. 1. Fluency in 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9x tables                  (200 target)
   2. Multiply by 10, 100 and two digit numbers     (200 target)
   3. Spellings -sure / -ture                                            (45 target)

 

 

Well done, tomorrow is Friday. We are nearly there!

 

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