Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 14th January 2021

Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 1:18pm

Thursday 14th January 2021

Good morning Year 6. We have some exciting Seesaw news. You may already be aware but you have all been emailed by school with a personal link to a new Seesaw account (Family Seesaw app) that will enable you to send work to me privately. I can give you feedback, as I would in school, and I will do my best to get back to you with it on the same day. It will be best used for any writing, History, RE, Science, etc that would need my input on. Whereas with Maths, I will attach the answers so you can get regular feedback on how you are progressing with your Maths learning. Any queries you have with remote learning should go through the office where a phone conversation may be easier. I cannot wait to see your work.  

Stay safe and let’s get ready for today’s Home Learning tasks:

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Now is the time to build up reading stamina by reading for longer. Some of you do this already, which is great, but it is important that we all do it every day.

Reading activity for today:

• Which character in this book are you most like? (the question can be the same for non-fiction books too as there might be a real person or animal you are most like)

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

Handwriting

Every day this week we are going to focus on our number 1 class target, Handwriting, which must be joined. Each day, I will give you a poem to copy in your neatest handwriting. This week focus on staying on the line.

Toboggan

To begin to toboggan, first buy a toboggan

But don’t buy too big a toboggan,

(A too big a toboggan is not a toboggan

To buy to begin to toboggan).

Spellings

There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week – cial / -tial.

• Find the definition of 5 words and create sentences with at least three of them.

Writing task

Can I use the evidence from the text to justify my opinions of Hubert, James, Edgar or Hatty?

Prediction from yesterday's lesson:

'I think the person in the window is Mrs Bartholomew and she can see Tom and everyone else in the garden.'

'I think his body knows when he needs help so he goes invisible like the time when he didn't want to see the gardener. His body knew to go invisible and that is why the gardener didn't see him. Or the time when he got frustrated that he couldn't open the door so he went as a shadow through it.'

1. Today read chapter 8 (61 – 66) and 9 (67 – 71) where we are introduced to new characters: Hubert (the eldest), James and Edgar (who are still older than Tom) and Hatty (the youngest).
2. The objective is to use evidence from the text but I want you to pay close attention to not only how the author describes the characters but mainly what the characters do, which will help in determining what kind of person they are.

Copy the table below to complete. To help, I have added an example. You can pick anything that they do, even if it is small, and name the impression they have on you because of their action. So, if any of the boys run away from Hatty, you might think that would be mean. Therefore, you would say the boys are mean and the evidence is ‘because they ran away’. Or to be more precise, you would use evidence from the text like below:

3. I have attached an Impression List to help, which includes many adjectives to choose from.
4. You may choose just one character to focus on but for a challenge, see if you can find 2/3 impressions for each character based on just one chapter.
5. Then send it to me through Seesaw.

Maths – Fractions Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting. We have done this so many times at the beginning of lessons: on number lines, out loud, etc. Today let’s practice counting in 100s. Add 100 to these numbers, ten times: 252, 1846, 15 635, 5.4 (e.g. 252, 352, 452, 552, 652, 752, 852, 952, 1052, 1152, 1252) 
2. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 question target for this week):
   1. 9 times tables
   2. Equivalent and Simplifying Fractions
3. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I convert mixed numbers to improper fractions?
   2. Today is a slight reverse of yesterday’s lesson.
   3. Tip:

• improper fractions have numerators larger than the denominator (11/7)
• mixed numbers have whole numbers and fractions together

Follow the video, Mixed numbers to improper fractions  which will explain how to convert mixed numbers into improper fractions following easy steps:

• Partition the mixed number (3 ½  = 3 whole and ½ )
• Work out how many parts will the wholes be split into? (3 wholes = 6 halves)
• Add the fractions together to make the improper fraction (6 halves and 1 half = 7/2)

Complete the worksheet at the bottom of this blog.

4. Challenge – Challenge of mixed to improper sequences questions and answers are at the bottom of this blog too.
5. Arithmetic quiz (19 - 36 questions). Attached at the bottom is a picture of the sheet (so you can print it or simply write the answers – with workings out – in your YELLOW BOOK). I have also attached the answers (for after the quiz so no peeking!). Try to time yourself 20 minutes for this.

History

This week we are learning more about the Maya civilisation, especially the Chichen Itza. I have attached a PowerPoint all about the Chichen Itza, which is the ruins of the dazzling ancient city that once centred the Mayan empire.

Objective for this week is:

Can I research the Chichen Itza to create an informative poster?

Chichen Itza website 1

Chichen Itza website 2

Chichen Itza website 3

Here are some questions for you to research and make notes on.

What are the 3 main things the Mayans did in Chichen Itza? (there might be many reasons so choose what you think are the 3 main points of Chichen Itza)

When was it discovered?

When was it all built?

Any interesting facts?

Once you have answered these on your mind map (which might look like a spider diagram of your notes – we have done many of these before), use the History informative poster template (or your own design) to create tourist information for a 10 year old.

The best thing to do is to follow these steps:

• Have the ‘Chichen Itza’ as a title
• Pick a maximum of 6 things to write in your information sheet but make the information simple to understand (so it could be only one or two sentences for each section)
• Make sure the poster looks appealing to the eye
• Draw one main or 2/3 pictures
• Add colour if you have any

Finally, send it to me through Seesaw – I can’t wait to see them!

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