Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 23rd February 2021

Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 2:47pm

Tuesday 23^rd February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday. Well done and thank you to those who have started the Sumdog challenges and sent work through Seesaw. If not, remember that I am here to see any work or help in any way.

Also, thank you to those who have been working hard on their handwriting with the daily poem; I can see a huge difference in you all so keep it up. Little and often is the way to go.

 

Good luck with today’s tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

• Predict what might happen when you are part way through the book. Write your prediction in the form of a paragraph or bullet points.

 

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.

Gorilla…

Has a mouth

Like a watermelon inside.

Teeth like seeds when he yawns.

Eyes like a coal black

Old pit stack

Smouldering there.

Did he stare?

Did he glare?

He makes me afraid.

Strange worlds in his look.

And his coat

Dark as night

With bright

Equatorial

Stars.

 

Spellings

• The spellings for this week, short ‘y’ sound
  • Play the Window Game that I explained in a video before half term. Just to remind you:
    • top left = copy neatly x3
    • top right = say each letter out loud x3
    • bottom left = non-dominant hand x3
    • bottom right = blind writing x3

 

Writing task

Can I describe Aladdin’s character and explain how it is different from the film?

Read pages 8 – 15

Watch the video sent through on Seesaw where I explain how to describe Aladdin’s personality.

 

 

Maths – Subtraction Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 1/5 and 3/5 from:

6, 9,  5 1/5,  13 2/5,  27 4/5

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use the column method to subtract?

See the video from White Rose Maths named, Subtract whole numbers for how to complete the activities.

3. Maths challenge Missing Digits – See the Seesaw video for an explanation of the challenge with the attached sheet at the bottom of this blog.

 

Science

This week something very exciting has happened in the world of Space science.

"Touchdown confirmed" - there is a new robot on Mars!

This video is an animation of how scientists planned the landing, not footage of the real thing, but it gives a really good idea of the successful landing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzmd7RouGrM&safe=active

Amazing, isn’t it?!

Perseverance’s mission is to look for signs of life on Mars. Scientists have to model their investigations on Earth because obviously they can’t nip to Mars. They form hypotheses (good guesses) based on what they can learn here. So, they have researched life forms on Earth that live in extreme habitats. They are called extremophiles.  There are extremophiles living in Antarctica,  in volcanic ash and lava and deep under the sea where there is total darkness. There is also life in Yellowstone park hot springs and in a river called Rio Tinto in Spain which is very acidic.

If life can exist in these extreme environments on Earth, maybe it can also exist on Mars?

Write the date and learning objective

Can I research the possibility that there is life on Mars?

Your first job is to research Extremophiles on Earth and write a paragraph explaining what you have found out.

Now use the ESA kids website to research what scientists think about the Possibility of life on Mars and write a paragraph.

ESA Kids - Life on Mars.

Use this link to find out about Perseverance and write a paragraph about its mission. Why do you think it is called Perseverance?

The Mars Rovers: Perseverance

Finally, what do you think? Will Perseverance find evidence of life on Mars?

Use the underlines words/phrases as sub headings.

Well done. Keep an eye on the news for the latest developments 211 million km away!

 

 

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)

 

 

Well done. Another day completed!

 

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