Year 6 Home Practice - 2nd October 2020

Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 1:11pm

Another super week of learning from Year 6. We have started our ‘Daily Mile’ exercise and already we have seen an improvement in our fitness levels. Well done to 90% of you for changing your Home Reading books this week – let’s aim for 100% next week! As another reminder, these groups can change their books on the following days:

Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

This year we are using Sumdog as a great way to practice our learning that has been taught in school that week. We will always have a maths, spelling and grammar challenge to practice all week from Friday to the next Friday. We have had a brilliant response from Year 6 with 85% completing all the challenges by Wednesday – keep this up everyone, as little and often will help our learning for the following week.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we are using our place value knowledge to add large and decimal numbers mentally.
• We have begun our new novel, ‘Private Peaceful’ and investigated themes and predictions from the cover, blurb and first chapter.  
• In Geography, we enjoyed a game of ‘Search, Find and Recover’ where groups had to search for information for the features of mountains and create their own mountain map – check out the pictures on our Year 6 gallery page.
• For RE, we have completed our topic of ‘Unconditional Love’ through creating our own Beatitudes to help make our school a better place.
• In Art, we continued to use Keynote to cleverly focus on one part of our face (eye, mouth, etc) like a ‘view finder’ and then practiced techniques to sketch those in our Sketch book.
• In French, we have been developing our dictionary skills, looking up new words and understanding the abbreviations n/f/s = noun, feminine, singular.
• Also, in Science, we researched non-flowering plants found on the school grounds and investigated the question, how do they reproduce without flowers?

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

• Reading – In Year 6, we read for a minimum of 20 minutes every day. You still have your new Reading Journal so any opinions, thoughts, discussions or vocabulary you come across, write them in there. We can then discuss these when you bring it into school.

• Spellings (-tion / -sion / -ssion words) which will be looked in detail from Monday:
  • • direction, collection, addition, action, rotation, creation, punctuation, subtraction, division, television, discussion, session, mission, percussion, profession
• Sumdog challenges:
  • Addition – whole numbers
  • SPAG – Verbs
  • Spellings (-tion / -sion / -ssion words)
    • Once again, I suggest to first write these out on a piece of paper, then play the games. We will look at these spellings in more detail from Monday so the spelling of these words will be easier after we have investigated them.