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Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 2:41pm

Wednesday 3rd March 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to our last remote Wednesday. Half way through the week is always good to check in on how you are organising yourself this week. Ask yourselves these questions today:

  • Have you been reading every day?
  • Have you started or even finished any Sumdog challenge?
  • Are you going to tick everything off by Thursday or spread it out to Friday?

(Knowing how well you have been doing enables you to plan out the rest of the week)

Do not forget that Reading, English, Maths, French, Music and RE are on the blog today so spreads these activities out or do what you can.

REMINDER – WORLD BOOK DAY 2021

Tomorrow is World Book day where you can dress up at home in one of your favourite characters. Whether you dress up or not, please send in a picture of you holding your favourite book with a message of why it is your favourite. I will be doing the same and I will send my picture to you in the morning.

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • Draw a picture of your favourite part of the book. Write what is happening in the picture and why you chose this.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on seasons through the year. This week focus on forming each letter correctly, which we have done before but this is something we will do in detail next week when you are all back so practising this is a going to help.

Chips

Out of the paper bag

Comes the hot breath of the chips

And I shall blow on them

To stop them burning my lips.

 

Before I leave the counter

The woman shakes

Raindrops of vinegar on them

And salty snowflakes.

 

Outside, the frosty pavements

Are slippery as a slide

But the chips and I

Are warm inside.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound

  • Today, create another mini story with the spellings words.
    • e.g. There was once a cycling hyena who absolutely loved to multiply numbers. He would identify figures in the street and rhyme whilst doing it. One day, the hyena qualified for the Cyclone Cup, a prestigious award once occupied by a python.

 

 

Writing task

Can I use a variety of nouns, verbs and adjectives to describe an evil character’s appearance and actions?

 

Read pages 44 – 50, which are on one of the videos I have sent through Seesaw. 

Watch the main video sent through on Seesaw which explains how to complete today’s objective.

The example of descriptions for an evil character are attached at the bottom of the blog.

Also, the picture I used to describe my evil character is at the bottom of the blog under 'Wanderer picture for introducing evil character'.

 

Maths – Division Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 25 and 75
  1.  , 400 , 1 400 , 170  ,  630
  1. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I explain and use long division?

There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson as well a White Rose video here, Long Division , which explains how to solve the sheet, White Rose Maths Division. Please watch the Seesaw video first.

 

Music

Today we are continuing the topic of ‘Pulse and Metre’. Follow this link, Exploring 4 beats and 2 beats in a bar, to Oak National Academy for today’s lesson.

 

French

Bonjour! Let’s recap the weather phrases once more. You should be getting good at these by now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Ju6XS3tRs

Confession time – in school last week, we didn’t finish all the work so we’re going to do the second half of the sheet this week. If you didn’t manage it all either, click here and download lesson 5 with audio.

http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y6_French/Yr6AutumnFr.php

We’re going to do the left hand side of slide 3 in school, writing our own sentences using seasons, weather and expressions of frequency. If you’ve already done this, well done to you! You could take a piece of paper, fold it into 4 sections and copy one of your sentences into each section and add a picture to illustrate it.  If you upload the photo, I will print it off and add it to our display.

If you’re ready to move on, have a go at slide 4. I’ll be very impressed if you can do sections B and C!

Très bon travail. Merci beaucoup. A la semaine prochaine!

 

RE

Can I explain how people can live out the Our Father prayer in our daily lives?

 

Watch the Seesaw video named ‘RE. Our Father prayer’. There is a copy of the Our father at the bottom of this blog for you to print or copy and paste electronically.

 

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

    1. Division of 2/3 digit numbers                  (200 target)
    2. Fluency with division facts                      (200 target)
    3. Spellings ‘long /y/ sound’                         (45 target)

 

Congratulations as we are now half way through the week!

Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 2:36pm

Tuesday 2nd March 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday.

Well done to those who have started this week’s Sumdog challenges and posted some work through Seesaw. Remember, as always, do not hesitate to contact me about anything regarding learning. So many of you did yesterday as I am here to help during your final week of remote learning.

 

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • How does/did the book make you feel? Explain.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on seasons through the year. This week focus on forming each letter correctly, which we have done before but this is something we will do in detail next week when you are all back so practising this is a going to help.

Still Winter

Ambushing snowdrops,

Beheading buds,

Drowning daisies

In sudden floods,

 

Old Mr Winter

Won’t let go,

Arthritic fingers

Dipped in snow.

 

Grey mist clinging

Like old news,

Badger talking

One more snooze.

 

Blackbird singing

In freezing rain,

Screech Owl calling;

Night again.

 

Cold rat feasting

On the scrap-heap,

Frosty paw-prints,

Earth half-asleep.

 

All things hoping

Spring comes soon,

Snuggle under

Frosty moon.

 

Spellings

  • The spellings for this week, long ‘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 use a dictionary to investigate new vocabulary from Aladdin?

 

Read pages 37 - 43

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

 

The New Vocabulary to Define sheet is attached to the bottom of this blog.

 

 

 

Maths – Division Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 200 and 400

1 600,    4 700,   16 000,  145 000,   876 700

  1. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I use chunking to solve large division questions?

See the video on Seesaw which explain how we use the division chunking method to help you complete the Chunking Method sheet.

  1. Maths challenge Division with Digit Cards – See the Seesaw video for an explanation of the challenge with the attached sheet at the bottom of this blog.

 

 

Science

Today we are going to start a topic called Exercise, Health and the Circulatory system.

Download the Powerpoint and work through it. There is a choice of two tasks on the last slide.

Your poster can be done on a computer or in your book. There is a choice of  cartoon strip templates in the resources.

Enjoy!

 

Fairtrade

This lesson focuses on the difference between wants and needs, and to identify what all humans need to live a decent life.

Task 1:

Think of these questions and note down any of your responses:

  • What do you need to happy and healthy?
  • Of those things, what are the most important?
  • Of those things, what are the least important?

There is a difference to wants and needs. A need is something a person needs to survive and a want is something that is nice to have.

Task 2:

Use the ’12 Wants and Needs cards’ at the bottom of the blog to divide into two categories: needs and wants.

From your two lists, are there some that we can live without?

Task 3:

Select the needs cards that you might need to pay for e.g. healthy food, medicine.

Not all people in the world have enough money to meet their basic needs. Without enough money, it can be difficult to lead a healthy and happy life. Many of the farmers who grow cocoa for our chocolate are not paid enough money to meet their basic needs, even though they work hard.

Read Theresa’s story, on the PowerPoint, which shows how Fairtrade can help farmers and workers to meet their basic needs.

Then think about what can be done to ensure that all farmers and workers get their basic needs met.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

    1. Division of 2/3 digit numbers                  (200 target)
    2. Fluency with division facts                      (200 target)
    3. Spellings ‘long /y/ sound’                         (45 target)

 

Well done. Another day completed!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 1st March 2021

Date: 26th Feb 2021 @ 12:42pm

Monday 1st March 2021

 

Good morning Year 6 and welcome to the start of the last week of home learning. The pupils in school, the teachers and I are super excited to see you next week so do what you can – you are so close to the end, keep going!

Here are the last Monday’s tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • Which character in your book are you most like and least like? Explain you answer.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on seasons through the year. This week focus on forming each letter correctly, which we have done before but this is something we will do in detail next week when you are all back so practising this is going to help.

December Moon

The moon has come out too soon,

it’s still the middle of the afternoon

and the day shows no signs of darkness.

 

What is the moon doing,

sneaking into the sky when it’s light?

 

What is the moon playing at?

Couldn’t it sleep?

Has its alarm clock rung too soon?

 

Do we see the moon this early

in June or September?

 

Or does December bring a special moon,

a let’s-get-these-nights-over-soon moon,

a can’t-wait-for-Christmas-to-come moon?

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound

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

 

Writing task

Can I write as Aladdin in present tense?

Read page 27 – 29. Stop at page 29 then watch the video sent on Seesaw which explains today’s task.

The BBC bitesize link mentioned in the video is here, Past vs Present tense

After completing the task for today, continue reading pages 30 – 36.

 

Maths – Division Week

Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 40 and 60

540, 820, 2650, 7000, 14 650

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

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

  1. Maths challenge Missing Numbers – explanation on the same video. The sheet is at the bottom of the blog.

 

 

PE

Can I solve the noughts and crosses challenge using different tactics?

 

For today’s task, read the Noughts and Crosses challenge , which explains how to set up a large noughts and crosses using paper, hoops or whatever you have at home. The video on the website doesn’t seem to be working so here is a link to their twitter post with the video on it, Youth Sport Trust - Noughts and Crosses. If that link does not work, here is another link to show you how this game can be played, PE at Home - Noughts and Crosses.

This is a game that should be played with another family member, if possible. Here are a few ideas to make it interesting:

  • Race against each other (walking or running depending if you are inside or outside your house)
  • Take turns (so it becomes fairer)
  • Perform different movements when placing your item down:
    • Crawling, sliding, Spider-Man moves, lunging, side-stepping, galloping, jumping, leaping, hopping, move around cones, etc
  • Or when you arrive at the noughts and crosses layout, perform one of these moves:
    • 5 push-ups, star jumps, burpees, lunges, running on the stop, jumping on the spot, spotty dogs, etc

 

Do not forget to keep yourself active. My favourite things at the movement are dancing and yoga.

Here is a great Yoga video to help aid you in being more flexible. Yoga for kids with Adriene

 

Fairtrade

In today’s lesson, watch the clip, Change the World with Your Choices, which you may remember from Thursday’s task. The video will help to start thinking about the power of your choices

Use the ‘Choices and Consequences’ matching cards to lay them on a table and match up a choice with a consequence.

Then think about the following questions or even discuss them with someone in your house:

Who was affected by these choices?

What countries were impacted by these choices? Can you find them on a map?

Can you identify the choices that were about buying choices?

Can you identify the choices that were made after buying the product?

 

For an extra task, consider alternative choices and the negative consequences that may arise as a result.

  1. Look at the choices cards and pick an alternative choice that might have negative consequences e.g. Instead of choosing to recycle your rubbish you might throw it in a regular rubbish bin. Write these on the back of the choices cards.
  2. What are the negative consequences of these choices? Now write possible negative impact of these alternative choices on the back of the consequences cards.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

    1. Division of 2/3 digit numbers                  (200 target)
    2. Fluency with division facts                      (200 target)
    3. Spellings ‘long /y/ sound’                         (45 target)

 

 

Congratulations! The last remote Monday is now complete.

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Fabulous Friday 26th January 2021

Date: 25th Feb 2021 @ 3:16pm

It’s Fabulous Friday 26th February 2021!

 

Only 1 week left!

As you know, Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!

 

Read

 

For a minimum of 30 minutes.

 

Spelling Quiz

 

Don’t forget to have a spelling quiz today. Try to get someone to quiz you on the 15 spellings, in random order.

 

Maths Game - Bingo

 

I have attached two PowerPoints, Times Tables Bingo and x10, x100, x1000 Bingo which you can print as slides, pick your numbers, randomly shuffle the cards (questions) and play.

 

Finish anything off

 

If there is anything you need to complete, you can do that today and upload to Seesaw for any help or feedback.

 

Science experiment

Following the incredible news of the NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, Mrs Quilliam has been conducting an experiment to see how the rover will search for life on Mars. Please watch the video sent through Seesaw which will explain how you can access the equipment and conduct the experiment yourself.

There are also instructions attached to the blog named, Is there life on Mars Year 6?

 

The Friday Catch Up video has been sent through Seesaw.

 

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 25th February 2021

Date: 24th Feb 2021 @ 10:46am

Thursday 25th February 2021

 

Good morning everyone. Remember that today is the last day of learning being posted on the blog (unless you count Reading, which I do not, as it should be done every day).

Tomorrow is Fabulous Friday so you decide whether you want to spread today’s tasks over today and tomorrow or complete it all today.

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • Make a list of questions you ask yourself as you read.

 

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.

Butterfly

This morning I found a butterfly

Against my bedroom wall.

I wanted to hold it,

To remember its colours.

But instead I guided its whirring shape

Towards the open window.

I watched it drift into the warm air,

Swaying and looping across the summer garden.

In my book, I found:

‘Tortoiseshell, reddish orange with yellow patches.’

But I remember its leaving,

And the patterns of its moving.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, short ‘y’ sound

    • Create a mini story using as many of the spellings as possible (you may add prefixes or suffixes to them):
      • e.g. The syrup stood proud in the cylinder bottle, a symbol of hope for the dry pancakes that laid helpless on the plate. The floppy flat-cakes had heard of the myth of this mystery substance that defied all physics – some had said that it could turn the pancakes into symmetrical pyramids with just a physical touch. Others had mentioned that it could sing beautiful hymns, rhythmically lulling them to sleep as it smothered them. The mysterious bottle suddenly opened…

 

Writing task

Can I describe the setting based on the film adaptation of Aladdin?

A video has been sent on Seesaw to guide you in describing a setting.

Read pages 22 – 26 which are attached on the blog.

The clip of the film’s cave setting that I refer to in the video is here, Cave of Wonders - part 1 And Cave of Wonders - part 2.

The link to the BBC website mentioned in the Seesaw video is here, Describing a setting with personification.

Success criteria:

  • Describe the size of the cave
  • Describe any shapes the audience sees
  • Use any of the 5 senses (see, hear, taste, smell, touch)
  • Use personification (only 1 or 2 needed)

(You can make this writing first or third person)

 

Maths – Subtraction Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 2 ½ from :

7 , 15 , 23 ½ , 64 , 97

  1. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I use subtract fractions from fractions?

There is a White Rose video linked here, Subtract Fractions, which explains how to solve the sheet, White Rose Maths Subtraction.

  1. Arithmetic 1 – 18. See the Arithmetic video for guidance on some of the questions.

 

 

History

Can I write a tweet for what every day was like for a Mayans?

Follow this link to the BBC website on Everyday life for the Mayans.

Make notes from the website and the video, especially on the workers and any differences between the rich and the poor. This knowledge will help in future lessons when we dig deeper into a typical day of a Mayan.

Your task is to write a tweet to a friend explaining what life was like for the Mayans. If you have never written a tweet before, let me explain some success criteria:

  • You only have 140 characters (this includes any spaces but for this time I will allow 140 letters)
  • You can use abbreviations or single letters to say longer words, just like in a message to a friend such as: r for are, u for you, 8 for eight/ate, ur for you are / your, 4 for for, y for why etc (I am sure you have many more)
  • Stick to the facts and try to explain life for a Mayan in no more than 140 characters or letters.

 

 

Fairtrade Fortnight

For the next two weeks, we are celebrating and learning about Fairtrade and the growing challenges that climate change brings to farmers and workers in the communities Fairtrade works with.

Within some of the lessons we look at this week and next, we will discover how our choices as individuals can make a difference to the lives of people around the world and the planet we share.

There are two tasks to complete (task 2 can be completed over the next week or so)

Task 1. There is a Fairtrade Fortnight PowerPoint attached at the bottom of the blog. I have sent a video through Seesaw where I talk through the PowerPoint and explain Task 2 at the end. The link to the video I discuss is here, Changing the World through Your Choices

Task 2. Here is a link to Fairtrade’s Share Your Vision which gives you an opportunity to create artwork, poem, prose (speech) or film for a chance to be exhibited in the online Youth Exhibition at the ‘Choose the world you want’ festival between 22nd February and 7th March 2021 but you have to submit by 1st March 2021. More information can be found through the link and the poster Share Your Vision attached at the bottom of the blog.

(In school, we are going to use the information we found in task 1 to help us come up with ideas for poetry and/or artwork for task 2)

You obviously do not have to submit anything for an exhibition but if you want to create some artwork or poetry linked to Fairtrade, bring it into school from the 8TH March to share with the class.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges:

 

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

 

 

Well done, tomorrow is Friday, arguably the best day of the week!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 24th February 2021

Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 4:07pm

Wednesday 24th February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. I hope you are all still well as we hit halfway through the week. Once again, there are many tasks attached to Wednesday because our usual timetable would include Reading, English, Maths, French, Music and RE, all in one day. Please do not be overwhelmed by all of this and do what you can today – remember to look after your wellbeing!

Here are the tasks for today:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • Write a short memory or experience of you own that is similar to something you have read in your book.

 

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.

Lizards

They emerge as arms of sun

Prise the clouds apart and stroke

The waiting, weathered wall.

 

Heads like probing fingertips,

Out to greet the hands that woke

Them with their golden call.

 

Speckled pocket dinosaurs

Dart at blink-speed from their cracks,

To stretch on smiling stones.

 

Summer’s gift, their kiss of life,

Bathes their mottled leather backs

And lubricates their bones.

 

Nothing tempts their tails to twitch,

Nothing turns their polished eyes

Or troubles them, it seems.

 

Danger breathes her whispered call.

Stealthy wing-beats stir the skies.

They disappear like dreams.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, short ‘y’ sound

  • Today, write each word out in bubble writing. I have included the alphabet in bubble writing below for you, just in case you were unsure about any letters.

Image result for bubble writing letters

 

Writing task

Can I use the reading skills of retrieval and inference to describe the character of the Moor?

 

Read pages 16 – 21 (attached on the blog)

In this lesson, you are to retrieve information about the Moor. Watch the video sent through on Seesaw which explains how to retrieve and interpret his actions to help describe his personality.

The Impressions List and Target board are attached to bottom of the blog.

 

Maths – Subtraction Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 1/7 and 3/7 from:

4 , 16 1/7 , 27 4/7 , 81 , 45

  1. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I use column method for subtracting decimals?

There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Decimal subtractions’

  1. Maths challenge Decimals Missing Numbers. The same video on Seesaw will help guide you through the challenge.

 

Music

Today is the start of a new topic, ‘Pulse and Metre’. Follow this link, Understanding Pulse and Rhythm to Oak National Academy for today’s lesson.

 

French

Bonjour! On va continuer à apprendre le temps. We are going to carry on with our weather topic, adding expressions of frequency to our sentences (normally, sometimes etc).

Here’s a song to remind you of the weather phrases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBvJVOuBPXI

Now, you need to know what these words mean. Use this dictionary to look them up and listen and repeat the pronunciation.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french

You need the French to English page. Write the date in French in your book and the title:

Can I add expressions of frequency to weather sentences?

Write these words into your book and translate them into English:

Quelquefois                                     et

Souvent                                             mais

Jamais                                                            aussi

Normalement                                              toujours

Now find the French words for the seasons and write them in English and French in your book. Add a little picture to help you remember them.

Now click this link and download lesson 5 with audio.

http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y6_French/Yr6AutumnFr.php

Ignore the poem if you wish! You are going to do the sheet on slide 3.You can print it out or just write the answers in your book.  Do the right hand side of the sheet first as it’s easier. Now have a go at the left hand side, using the sentences on the right as models for your own sentences. It is asking you to describe the weather in England in summer, winter in Siberia, spring in Italy and autumn in Scotland.

You don’t need to do slide 4. We’ll come back to this next week.

Bravo – ce n’est pas facile! Well done! It isn’t easy!

 

RE

Can I illustrate a stained-glass window and give reasons for its design?

 

Please watch the Seesaw video named ‘RE. Stained-glass window’ which explains the task for today.

There is a template of a stained-glass window for you to use at the bottom of the blog if you wish but you may design your own.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges:

 

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

 

 

 

Congratulations for making it to the end of Wednesday!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 23rd February 2021

Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 2:47pm

Tuesday 23rd 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.

 

 

MathsSubtraction 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

  1. 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.

  1. 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. 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!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 22nd February 2021

Date: 21st Feb 2021 @ 5:37pm

Monday 22nd 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

  1. 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’

  1. 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. 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.

 

Dance Week Performance 2020

Date: 12th Feb 2021 @ 3:52pm

Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 12th February 2021

Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 4:46pm

It’s Fabulous Friday 12th February 2021!

 

Congratulations for getting to the last day of half term!

Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!

 

Read

 

For a minimum of 30 minutes.

 

Spelling Quiz

 

Don’t forget to have a spelling quiz Today is the spelling quiz. Hopefully you can get someone to quiz you on the 15 spellings, in random order.

 

Complete the number activity – Yes / No

 

See the attached document at the bottom of the blog, Yes/No Game for how to play

 

 

Dance Week

 

Thank you to everyone who has sent in a video of themselves dancing. The compilation music video should be finished soon.

 

Finish anything off

 

If there is anything you need to complete, you can do that today and upload to Seesaw for any help or feedback.

 

LENT

Lent is when Jesus spent 40 days wandering the desert, fasting and resisting temptation. During this time, you have an opportunity to be like Jesus. You can choose to resist temptation, pray and do acts of kindness.

Lent begins next week during half term on Wednesday 17th February 2021. Why not make a Lenten Promise on the template (attached at the bottom of the blog). Some examples are:

To help around the house more.

To say a prayer for someone every day.

To swap iPad time for reading time.

To talk to a family member or friend more.

 

 

The Friday Catch Up video will be sent through Seesaw by the end of the day.

Have a super half tem!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 11th February 2021

Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 12:48pm

Thursday 11th 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

  1. 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.

  1. 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?

  1. 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. 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!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 10th February 2021

Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 2:51pm

Wednesday 10th February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. I hope you are all still well as we hit halfway through the week. Once again, there are many tasks attached to Wednesday because our usual timetable would include Reading, English, Maths, French, Music and RE, all in one day. Please do not be overwhelmed by all of this and do what you can today – remember to look after your wellbeing!

Here are the tasks:

 

Dance Week

Do not forget that this week is Dance Week with the link for our school’s video here, Dance Week Video. If you would like to be on our school’s music video, send me a video of you dancing (just 10 seconds) through Seesaw by Thursday lunch time. Happy dancing!

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • Make a timeline of the important events in the story.

 

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.

Incey Wincey Spider

Incey Wincey spider

Climbed up the water spout;

Down came the rain

And washed the spider out:

Out came the sunshine

And dried up all the rain;

Incey Wincey spider

Climbed the spout again.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, -sure / -ture

  • Watch the video sent through Seesaw for how to play ‘Pyramid’.

 

Writing task

Can I design open ended questions for an interview with Tom?

 

I have sent a video explaining today’s lesson. Please watch it first as it will help in structuring an interview between yourself and Tom.

The link to the BBC video that I refer to in the video is here, How to Interview People.

The template, if you would like to use it, is attached at the bottom of this blog, named Interview Template.

 

 

MathsFractions Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting forwards in 1/5 then 3/5

Use the numbers to begin: 4 , 16 1/5 , 27 4/5 , 81 , 45

  1. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I use the grid method for up to 4 digit x 2 digit calculations?

There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Multiplication Grid Method’ and the challenge:

Maths challenge – Missing Numbers

 

Music

Follow this link, Developing Beatboxing, to Oak National Academy for today’s lesson.

There is also an image attached to the bottom of this blog named, What are your favourite songs? This has a template for you to complete for fun to note down your favourite songs at different times.

 

French

Quel temps fait-il?

Click this link and download Lesson 4 with audio.

http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y6_French/Yr6AutumnFr.php

Listen again to slide 2 with the rhyming weather forecast. Try this a couple of times until you are confident with the pronunciation.

Now you are going to use a map of France to write and ‘perform’ your own weather forecast.  It doesn’t have to rhyme! There is a map of France in the resources.

Use an atlas or online map to add as many places as you can manage – at least 6, please, more if you can. Add the places to the map then draw a weather symbol next to them.

Then use the model on slide 3 to help you describe the weather. For example, A Paris, il fait gris. You don’t need to put all the dots in. Trim the map and stick your map in your book with the date in French and title Can I describe the weather? Write your weather forecast underneath.

Extra challenge: Can you add some negative sentences? Remember, we add ne ….. pas round the verb to make a negative. For example, you could say. A Nîmes, il fait chaud. Il ne fait pas froid or il n’y a pas de vent. In Nimes, it is hot. It is not cold or it is not windy. (note: du changes to de after a negative) Have a go!

This work would be even better if you could make a video of yourself ‘performing’ (or just reading) your weather forecast and put it on Seesaw. You might like to dress up as a TV presenter – comedy outfits appreciated!

Bonne chance!

 

RE

Can I write a prayer of unity?

 

Jesus often spoke to his disciples about the importance of unity among them.  He gave them the model of the unity between himself and God the Father.

Attached at the bottom is a passage from John 17: 11, 20-23 which is a prayer to the disciples of how they could be more effective if there was unity among them.

  • From the passage, what were your favourite words and phrases and why?
  • What can you learn from this Gospel reading?

Your task is to create your own prayer of unity that we could read out in school (when everyone returns). What message would you like in your unity prayer? Will you ask the Lord for more unity or will you name how we can be more united in your prayer?

Only as guidance, you may wish to start your prayer with:

Lord / Dear Lord / O Lord God / Father

And possibly end with:

Amen

(For how long your prayer has to be: short medium or long, I do not mind)

 

 

Sumdog – Three challenges:

 

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

 

 

Congratulations for making it to the end of Wednesday!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 9th February 2021

Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 3:42pm

Tuesday 9th February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. It is Tuesday – I see this as only three more ‘get-ups’ or two, if you can finish all your work by Thursday, so keep working hard Year 6! Do not forget that this week is Dance Week with the link for our school’s video here, Dance Week Video. If you would like to be on our school’s music video, send me a video of you dancing (just 10 seconds) through Seesaw by Thursday lunch time. Happy dancing!

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • Make a dictionary containing 10 difficult word from the text.

 

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

Handwriting

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

Two Little Dicky Birds

Two little dicky birds

Sitting on the wall,

One named Peter

One named Paul

Fly away Peter,

Fly away Paul;

Come back Peter.

Come back Paul.

Spellings

The spellings for this week, -sure / -ture

    • I have sent a Seesaw video (Spellings task) which explains the ‘Window Game’ task to complete.

 

Writing task

Can I write a play script between Tom and Mrs Bartholomew?

Read chapter 25 and 26 – A video has been sent through Seesaw.

The link for the BBC website I mention in the video is here, BBC Bitesize write a play

Please watch the video sent through on Seesaw which explains how to use the play script WAGOLL (which I have attached as a photo), the BBC Bitesize website and the success criteria.

 

MathsFractions Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting forwards in ¼ then ¾ .

7, 13, 25 ½ , 37, 55 ¼

  1. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I use partitioning to solve TU x U and HTU x U mentally?

There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Multiplication Partitioning’ and the challenge ‘Decimals’.

 

Science

Today we are going to look at Inheritance and Variation.

Inheritance means the passing of characteristics from one generation to the next.

Variation means that offspring will have many different characteristics to their parents. Some variations are more advantageous than others.

Remember the blackbirds last week? The white blackbird would be easier for predators to see so this would be a disadvantageous variation. This characteristic is unlikely to be passed on to its offspring because it might not live long enough to have any babies.

  1. Add these words to your glossary from lesson 1.
  2. Something to consider to start with: What if all humans looked the same? Click this link and add your thoughts to the padlet page. + means the good things,  - means the bad things and you can add your interesting thoughts in the last column.

https://padlet.com/MrsQuilliam/year6

We will all be able to see each other’s ideas!

  1. Living things produce offspring of the same kind but offspring vary and are not identical to their parents. Do people ever say you look like your Mum or your Dad or another family member? Have you inherited any of their mannerisms?  One of the characteristics that is inherited in humans is whether your ear lobes are attached fully or partially to your head. Are your ear lobes attached? Check with your parents whose you have inherited. Can you roll your tongue? This is another inherited characteristic.
  2. Have a look at the photo of the Cambridge family below.

What characteristics have been inherited from each parent?  Are any of the children identical to either parent? Who looks more like whom, would you say?

  1. You’re going to have a go at being dog breeders now. Find the resource, Variation: Breeding Dogs below. If the corgi and the greyhound were the parents, what might their puppies look like? Which characteristics might the puppies inherit?  How many variations can you make? You can either draw them or print out 2 copies and make 4 different dogs.

 Put today’s date and the learning objective:

Can I explain inheritance and variation?

Draw or stick the dogs in your book. Write a paragraph to explain what you have learnt today about inheritance and variation. You could start by explaining what the words mean in your own words.

  1. Finally, have a go at the end of unit quiz below. This will help you recap all the things we have learnt over the last 6 weeks.

Well done, Year 6. We have reached the end of our topic on Evolution and Inheritance. You have worked as excellent biologists! Next half term, we will move on to a new topic.

 

 

Well done. Another day completed!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 8th January 2021

Date: 7th Feb 2021 @ 2:45pm

Monday 8th February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. I hope you all have had a super weekend! The weather was not too bad on Sunday so I hope you managed to get out and be active for a while. This is the last week of the half term meaning we only have 5 days left of learning to do (4 days if you finish it all by Thursday) so keep going Year 6 as you have all been brilliant so far!

Here are the tasks for today:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • Write a note to your friend telling him or her a bit about the book. Explain why you think he or she should read it.

 

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

Handwriting

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

Ring-a-Rng o’Roses

Ring-a-ring o’roses,

A pocket full of posies,

A-tishoo! A-tishoo!

We all fall down.

Ring-a-ring o’roses,

A pocket full of posies.

One for you, and one for me,

And one for little Moses.

A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, -sure / -ture

    • Have a look at this BBC Bitesize clip, -sure or -ture? to try out which would the correct spelling be for ture/sure or even er (in some words)
    • Sumdog spelling challenge starts today. 

 

Writing task

Can I write a letter as Peter to Tom?

Read chapter 23 and 24

A video has been sent through Seesaw explaining the task for today. The link to the BBC Bitesize lesson is here, Features of a letter.

 

Maths – Calculating with Fractions Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting forwards in factions steps of 1 ½

4, 8 ½ , 19, 2 ¾ , 26 ½

  1. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I use known facts to solve multiplication problems?

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

  1. Maths challenge Triangles – on the same video with the challenge and answers on the same sheet.

 

 

PE

 

As mentioned on Friday, this week is our Dance Week with no better way to celebrate it than to learn a new dance routine that the whole school can perform in.

 

Follow this link, Dance Week, and practise it as much as you want. It would be great if you could send a short 10 second clip through Seesaw of you dancing any part of the song. Then we will put everyone’s clips together to create a whole school video.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

    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. You have now completed the last Monday of this half term! 4 days left!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 5th February 2021

Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 3:54pm

It’s Fabulous Friday 5th February 2021!

 

Good morning Year 6. It’s FRIDAY!

Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!

 

Today you just need to:

 

Read

 

For a minimum of 30 minutes.

Remember you can change your book any day – just give the school a call any time.

 

Spelling Quiz

Don’t forget to have a spelling quiz Today is the spelling quiz. Hopefully you can get someone to quiz you on the 15 spellings, in random order.

 

Complete the number activity – Countdown

 

See the attached document at the bottom of the blog for how to play

Countdown game explained 

 

 

Dress to Express

 

Today is the last day of Children's Mental Health Week so why not wear an outfit that makes you feel great!

 

Finish anything off

 

If there is anything you need to complete, you can do that today and upload to Seesaw for any help or feedback.

 

Next week is St Oswald’s Dance Week at St Oswald's. Visit the video here where I explain the routine for you to learn. Have fun and we cannot wait to see your dance moves.

 

Don't forget to see another Friday Catch Up video posted on Seesaw later on today.

 

Have a well-earned relaxing weekend!

Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 4th February 2021

Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 3:21pm

Thursday 4th February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. I would like to say a huge thank you to all of you (children and parents) for your continued effort with all the work that has been set over the past few weeks. Seeing all the super work on Seesaw has been brilliant. I can tell that you have all put so much effort in. Once again, if there is anything learning related that you are either not sure about or want clarification on, please do not hesitate to contact me – we are all in this together.  

Today is Thursday, meaning it is the last day that I will post any videos or work (apart from reading, of course) as tomorrow is Fabulous Friday. Therefore you can either spread the work over today and tomorrow or complete it for today and give yourselves a well-deserved rest for the weekend.

Here are today’s tasks:

 

PSHE

As part of our Children’s Mental Health Week, I have attached Mindfulness Meditation for Children which is a video helping you learn to relax, focus on breathing and be in the moment, especially if you take it seriously. Meditation is a super way to start the day so give it a go. 

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • How does the character change throughout the story? Explain your answer.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on puns and wordplay. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your letters the same size (so each ‘a’ is the same as every other ‘a’).

At the End of School Assembly

Miss Sparrow’s lot flew out,

Mrs Steed’s lot galloped out,

Mr Bull’s lot got herded out,

Mrs Bumble’s lot buzzed off.

Miss Rose’s class … rose,

Mr Beetle’s class … beetled off,

Miss Storm’s class thundered out,

Mrs Frisby’s class whirled across the hall.

Mr Train’s lot made tracks,

Miss Ferry’s lot sailed off,

Mr Roller’s lot got their skates on,

Mrs Street’s lot got stuck halfway across.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, -gue / -que words

  • Create a poem using some/most/all of the spellings using any technique you wish - acrostic is usually the easiest (last week’s mini poems were brilliant).

l – let the grotesque tongue argue with the guest

e – even though its queueing for a request

a – and when the dialogue becomes unique

g – go and guess a different technique

u – under the antique cheque we sequence

e – ends the league with only one consequence

 

Writing task

Can I use the text to answer reading questions?

 

Read chapter 22 for enjoyment first before completing the task.

 

There is an attachment, Chapter 22 Reading Task, which has 8 questions to answer. There is no answer sheet but please send it to me through Seesaw and I will mark it for you.

 

The 8 questions are divided into two sections: retrieval and inference

Retrieval       is where you simply find the information in the text and write the answer word for word.

Inference      is where you use evidence to come to a conclusion (what you think it means).

E.g. the main character bows their head, has wet cheeks and red eyes = they are upset.

Or if the character in a book is packing a suitcase with swimming trunks, maps and sun cream = going on holiday.

 

MathsFractions Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 90s from:

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

  1. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I multiply fractions by integers (whole numbers)?

Here is the link for today’s White Rose Maths video, Multiply fractions by integers (whole numbers).

Multiplying fractions by whole numbers is shown with pictures and bar models (which you know I love) so please listen carefully and work through the questions in the video. At the bottom of this blog are the Multiplying Fractions by Integers questions and answer sheets.

  1. Arithmetic quiz (1 - 18 questions). Attached at the bottom is a picture of the questions and answers but for this week, I have sent an Arithmetic video of me explaining some of the strategies to help.

 

History

Can I read numbers using the Maya symbols for 0, 1 and 5 and solve problems?

From previous lessons, we have found out that the Mayans also created their own number system. It is a bit like our ‘base 10’, but they have ‘base 20’. I have attached a PowerPoint, Maya Number System, for you to work through and a video of myself explaining each slide.

There is a Maya Number System sheet to complete which is attached at the bottom of this blog. Just as I have mentioned in the video, you decide which challenge you would like to complete.

 

Art

  1. As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, today’s art is to Draw Your Feelings which you can do by following the link.
  2. Following this, why not try creating some ‘feelings artwork’ by following these steps:
  • Just listen to some music - my all-time favourite is Pachelbel's Canon (Cello and Piano version) but you can choose anything - with your eyes closed the whole way through.
    • Focus on how you feel during it
  • Keep your eyes closed for the 2nd time listening and with your pencil/colour/whatever medium you wish, draw how the music makes you feel
    • (You can draw for however long you like)
  • Finally open your eyes and see the brilliant ‘feelings artwork’ you have created.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges:

 

  1. Mix of 2, 4, 8 times tables                                    (200 target by Sunday)
  2. Multiply by powers of 10 and fractions            (200 target by Sunday)
  3. Spellings gue and que                                           (45 target by Friday)

 

 

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

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 3rd February 2021

Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 3:12pm

Wednesday 3rd February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. We are half way through the week – well done! Once again, there are many tasks attached to Wednesday because our usual timetable would include Reading, English, Maths, French, Music and RE, all in one day. Please do not be overwhelmed by all of this and do what you can today – remember to look after your wellbeing!

Here are the tasks:

 

PSHE

Expressing yourself through movement can be achieved with Yoga; a fun way to refresh your body and mind so that you can focus better. Follow this 10 minute video here, Yoga with Adriene

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • Design a birthday card for the main character. What age are they? What would they like the most as a gift?

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on puns and wordplay. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your letters the same size (so each ‘a’ is the same as every other ‘a’).

You Tell Me

Here are the football results:

League Division Fun

Manchester United won, Manchester City lost.

Crystal Palace 2 Buckingham Palace 1

Millwall Leeds nowhere

Wolves 8 A cheese roll and had a cup of tea 2

Aldershot 3, Buffalo Bill shot 2

Evertonil, Liverpool’s not very well either

Newcastle’s Heaven, Sunderland’s a very nice place

Ipswhich one? You tell me.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, -gue / -que words

  • Write out each word in parts with different colours. This could be in syllables or random but try to keep the gue and que in the same colour as it will help your visual memory:
    • Antique, grotesque, unique, league

 

Writing task

Can I write a summary of the Rip Van Winkle tale?

Do not read a chapter today as I have another story, Rip Van Winkle, which is the tale spoken about in Tom’s Midnight Garden, chapter 21.

Watch the YouTube video of the story being read here Rip Van Winkle. Then watch the video sent through Seesaw where I explain the task for today.

 

Maths – Calculating with Fractions Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 9s from:

725, 950, 1620, 700, 237

  1. Main lesson. The objective for today is:

Can I continue to add fractions with different denominators?

 

Today’s lesson is very similar to Tuesday’s but with more reasoning questions. You can watch yesterday’s video which should help and then watch today’s video by White Rose Maths, Adding Fractions video which will guide you in answering the sheet, Adding Fractions questions and answers, attached at the bottom of this blog.

 

Music

Follow this link Beatboxing Basics, to Oak National Academy for today’s lesson.

 

French

First let’s recap the phonics sounds from the last week by watching the video again. This week, you are going to try and write down the number and colour words that contain the sounds.

Before you start, write the date and learning objective in your book:

mercredi quatre février

Can I use phonics to help me spell French words?

Then write each of the phonic sounds, leaving space underneath each to write down the words that have the sound in. Spread them out on your page. The sounds are:

ou       eu       an       oi         in/un              i           on

Now listen to Emilie again, pausing the video when she asks you to think of the numbers and colours that have that sound in. Have a go at writing the words under the right sound then start the video again to check your spelling. Please correct it if you make a mistake. Mistakes are fine! They help us to learn.

Key French sounds

 

We are continuing with our weather learning this week.

http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y6_French/Yr6AutumnFr.php

Click on Lesson 4 with audio.

On slide 2, weather symbols appear with audio rhyming weather with the place name.

Have a go at this slide several times to help with pronunciation. On slide 7, see if you can give the weather to match the symbol.

Now try the French Weather Puzzle at the bottom of this blog.

To finish, here’s a weather song to listen to and join in with.

Weather song

Merci beaucoup! A bientôt!

 

RE

Can I give reasons why we should be a good friend to others?

Listen to a song about friendship e.g. You’ve Got a Friend, Anytime You Need A Friend, Anytime You Need a Friend - Mariah Carey

Watch the YouTube video here, Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.

 

I have sent a video through Seesaw explaining what today’s task is.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges:

 

  1. Mix of 2, 4, 8 times tables                                    (200 target)
  2. Multiply by powers of 10 and fractions            (200 target)
  3. Spellings gue and que                                           (45 target)

 

Congratulation, you have made it to the end of the day! What will today’s treat be?

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 2nd February 2021

Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 3:37pm

Tuesday 2nd February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday. I hope you are keeping well and enjoying the tasks that have been set. Remember to set yourself a target for today – something small to achieve by the end of today (helping the family with tea, cleaning/tidying a room, completing all the work).

Here are today’s tasks:

 

PSHE

Watch this video, A Journey Through Musical Emotion and think about the different ways that music can change how we feel and express ourselves. Research shows that people feel more positive after singing to music so either use one of these songs If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out - Cat Stevens and Express yourself - Labrinth.  

Or simply find a favourite song and have a good sing out loud (just ask the adult in the house first).

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that stamina. It is so important that you keep this your number one priority.  

Reading activity for today:

  • Look at the apostrophes in the text. Write down 10 words which has an apostrophe, and explain why it is there.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on puns and wordplay. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your letters the same size (so each ‘a’ is the same as every other ‘a’)

Wordspinning

Spin pins into nips.

Snap pans into naps.

Mix spit into tips.

Turn parts into traps.

Switch post into stop.

Whisk dear into dare.

Carve hops into shop.

Rip rate into tear.

 

Spellings

There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week, -gue / -que

  • Write out two lists, one for all the gue words and one for the que words. Say each word out loud – can you hear why it has a gue or a que spelling?

 

Writing task

Can I write a diary entry as Hatty?

Read chapter 21.

I have sent the lesson introduction on Seesaw which explains today’s task.

 

Maths – Calculating with Fractions Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 15s from:

725, 950, 1620, 700, 237

  1. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets):
    1. Mix of 2, 4, 8 times tables
    2. Multiply by powers of 10 and fractions (the more you practise with multiplying by fractions, the easier Thursday’s lesson will be)
  2.  Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I add fractions with different denominators?

See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson and the main sheet is named, Adding fractions questions and answers

  1. Maths challenge – More adding fractions (explained in the video)

 

 

Science

Firstly, have a go at this Odd One Out activity from Explorify. How many similarities can you see between these blackbirds? How are they different? Which one would you say is the odd one out? There is no right or wrong answer here as long as you can justify your choice.

Unusual blackbirds - Explorify (wellcome.ac.uk)

When you have looked closely and discussed the points above, scroll down and read the Background Science section. We have touched on variation within a species in lessons 1 and 2 but will come back to it later in this topic of Evolution and Inheritance.

Last week, we looked at plant adaptations that help them survive. This week we are going to look at how some animals are adapted to their environment. In your book, write today’s date and the learning objective:

Can I explain how animals are adapted to their environment?

Choose 2 of these animals that you would like to research. Find out how each is adapted to its environment.

Otter,       Camel,       Elephant,    Desert Scorpion,   Arctic Fox.

In your book, for one animal, draw (in pencil!) a large picture of the animal and label it, explaining its adaptations. For your second choice, write a factfile explaining your research.

 

The headings you should use in your factfile are:

Name of animal: This is your heading so make it bigger and bolder than the rest of your text.

Picture (draw or print one):

Habitat (where it lives):

Diet (what it eats):

Life span (how long it lives):

Adaptations:  This section must be the most detailed!

 

Try to use all the words given below for your chosen animals. You need to put the words into sentences and may not necessarily need the words in the order I have given them.

 

Otter - webbed feet, propeller tail, whiskers, nostrils, ears, oily skin, quick, feet pads,

 

Elephant- trunk, tusks, tail, ears, slow, big, rough skin, teeth,

 

Camel -  hump,  water,  fat,  desert,  arid,  food,  feet,  nostrils, eye lashes,  temperature , store (They do not store water in their humps!)

 

Desert Scorpion – nocturnal, burrow, heat, control their metabolism, exoskeleton, sharp claws, venomous.

 

Arctic fox – fur, insulation, seasonal camouflage, foot pads, sense of smell, teeth, claws, body shape.

 

Finally, please reread your work to check it makes sense and that your spelling, punctuation and handwriting are of the same high standard that we would expect in school. I’d love to see your work on Seesaw.

Well done!

 

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 1st February 2021

Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 3:42pm

Monday 1st February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. I hope you had a super relaxing weekend and are well rested to begin this week's learning. Our Fabulous Friday will continue this week meaning that you do not have to feel pressured into completing everything on the day that it is set: you can either spread it out into Friday or complete everything before Friday; it is your choice. 

Here are the tasks for the day:

 

Children’s Mental Health Week – ‘Express Yourself’

This is a special week where you can take part in activities to explore different ways to express yourself and the creative ways you can share your thoughts, feelings and ideas. Each day’s activity will be under the heading PSHE.

PSHE

Set yourself a target just for today (finish all the work by a certain time / complete the extra Maths challenge / help around the house, etc) and when you complete it, think about how that makes you feel and reward yourself with something (TV, a good book, favourite game).

I have attached mindfulness sheets if you wish to colour them in during a quiet time at home.

At 9am there is an assembly hosted by Blue Peter’s Lindsey Russell and CBBC Presenter and Place2Be Champion Rhys Stephenson for you to watch which is available to all children, schools and families. The link for it can be found here, Children’s Mental Health Assembly.

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Building up your reading stamina and speed will help for when you return.

Reading activity for today:

  • Do you like the title of the story? Do you think it is appropriate for the plot? Think of 5 better titles.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on puns and wordplay. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your letters the same size (so each ‘a’ is the same as every other ‘a’)

Sunday in the Yarm Fard

The mat keowed

The mow cooed

The bog darked

The kigeon pooed

The squicken chaked

The surds bang

The kwuck dacked

The burch rells chang

And then, after all the dacking and changing

The chalking and the banging

The darking and the pooing

The keowing and the kooing

There was a mewtiful beaumont

Of queace and pie-ate.

 

Spellings

There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week, -gue / -que

  • All the spellings are on Sumdog (deadline is Friday for this so you can have your own spelling quiz at home).

 

Writing task

Monday 1st February 2021

Can I analyse the author’s description of a scene and write my own?

 

Read chapter 19 and chapter 20 and watch the video sent through Seesaw. I will be referring to the BBC website on personification so click the link here, Personification , to learn more about it.

I have attached a picture of the scene I refer to in the video at the bottom of this blog, English - describing a scene.

 

 

Maths – Calculating with Fractions Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting backwards in 25s.

725, 950, 1620, 700, 237

  1. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets):
    1. Mix of 2, 4, 8 times tables
    2. Multiply by powers of 10 and fractions (the more you practise with multiplying by fractions, the easier Thursday’s lesson will be)
  2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I add mixed numbers together?

See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson and the main sheet is named, ‘Adding Mixed numbers with same denominator’

  1. Maths mixed numbers challenge – is the White Rose Maths. Watch this video Adding mixed numbers video as well which will give you extra information on how to solve mixed numbers with different denominators.

 

PE

Once again, I cannot stress enough how important it is to be active every day, whether you follow Joe Wicks, go for a walk, head out on your bike, scoot, hop, dance, just make sure you move.

For our PE learning, we still have it split into two: gymnastics and games.

  • Warm up – let’s continue to up the warm up time with:
    • 40 star jumps, 10 second rest
    • 40 squats, 10 second rest
    • 40 seconds running on the spot, 10 seconds rest
    • Rest for a whole minute before repeating a second time
  • For this week’s gymnastics, have a look at Ship Shape, which asks you to create different shapes (wide, curled and narrow).
  • There are a few challenges on there, such as using small and larger body parts, creating a sequence on your own or with a partner.
  • Can you add your shapes to the rolls from last week to create one final sequence? The video for Ship Shape is here, Video for Ship Shape.

Games:

  • Click on the link here, Circuit - Feeling Flexible , with the video here, Video for Feeling Flexible
  • Don’t forget to be warm for any PE activity you do. Copy the same as gymnastics if you are not warm already.
  • Click on the link to see the 5 stations to follow. This type of training might get you a bit sweaty but not too much. The purpose of these exercises is to help you become flexible which help to prevent any future injuries. I actually do these every day, sometimes morning and night.
  • Let me know how you get on through Seesaw.

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 29th January 2021

Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 4:07pm

It’s Fabulous Friday!

 

Good morning Year 6. I hope you have had a great week so far.

Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!

Today you just need to:

Read a minimum of 30 minutes.

  • This could be great opportunity to finish that book you love or begin a new exciting story

 

Complete the number activitySpeed Shooting

  • Speed Shooting – in this game you need another player
  • Turn your hands into ‘shooters’ and holster them (we have played this in class before)
  • Your partner gives you times tables questions (you pick the tables and they pick the questions)
  • How many can you answer in 30 seconds / 1 minute?
  • ‘Shoot them’ with the answer (can you beat your score?)
  • Challenge – Shout Out – where each person asks one question alternatively

 

Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see (like the spellings quiz).

 

The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!

 

Do not forget to see my Friday Catch Up video.

Have a super weekend!

 

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 28th January 2021

Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 4:57pm

Thursday 28th January 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Thursday. I hope you have had a fun and productive week.

Thank you to all who have started or completed the Sumdog challenges so far – you have no idea how this regular practice will make a huge difference week on week.

Also, I would like to say a huge thank you to all your Seesaw messages, whether they are questions, comments or work, keep them coming.

Today’s tasks are:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • Write a memory or experience of your own that is similar to something you have read in your book.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on chants. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your descenders below the line and formed correctly (f, g, j, p, q, y).

Round and Round

Round and round the playground,

Marching in a line,

I’ll hold your hand.

You hold mine.

Round and round the playground,

Skipping in a ring

Everybody loves it

When we all sing.

Round and round the playground,

That’s what we like:

Climbing on the climbing frame,

Riding on the bike.

Round and round the playground,

All together friends.

We’re sad, sad, sad

When the school day ends.

 

Spellings

This week’s spellings is homophones (words with the same sound but different spelling).

  • Create a poem, either an acrostic one with a few of the spellings or one that includes them all.

e.g.       On the isle, I walk down the aisle,

            Allowed, but not aloud

            Passed the sea, but not venturing into the past

            On a coarse road, but not on any course

            Will I reign upon this land whilst it rains on me?

            On my voyage as a knight, during the night.

 

Writing task

Can I write the next chapter in third person using a mixture of writing techniques?

Do not read chapter 18 (143 – 152) yet. Please wait to watch the video where I explain how you have two writing choices.

Once the video is over, I have a success criteria for you. Now this success criteria has 6 bullet points. Your challenge is to complete as many as you can:

  • Third person
  • Dialogue between the characters (which we have practised in a previous lesson)
  • Description of the action (think about choice of verbs)
  • Description of the scene (think adjectives)
  • Paragraphs
  • Verb / Adjective openers

 

One important note:

If you do too much of any of these (apart from third person) it will become boring for the reader. You are the writer so you decide how much of each you want – that will define your writing style.

 

MathsAddition Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 90s.

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

  1. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
    1. Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
    2. Add / subtract within 10 000 (this will show quite a few column addition and subtraction questions which will help you throughout the week’s learning).
  2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I solve addition reasoning questions?

Watch today’s video to see the tasks and how to solve the challenges.

  1. Maths Reasoning questions
  2. 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 HOME LEARNING BOOK). I have also attached the answers (for after the quiz so no peeking!)

 

History

Can I identify key facts about the Maya writing system?

From the first week of research into the Mayans, we have learnt that they developed their own writing system. This was an amazing find by historians as at the same time, across the world, the Celts were living in Britain with no writing ability. Open the Mayan Writing PowerPoint.

  1. Attached at the bottom of this blog are Mayan Writing Fact cards. Use these and this video, Maya Writing to try to complete the Maya Writing Fact Hunt Activity Sheet.
  2. Write down which are your favourite facts.
  3. Look through the PowerPoint at slides 3 – 6 where codices and hieroglyphs are explained. The final task is to copy any of the hieroglyphs form slide 6 into your Home Learning book.

(Once completed, send it me via Seesaw.)

 

Art

Following on from the History lesson into the Mayan writing system, we learnt that the Maya people wrote syllables and words with one or a mixture of hieroglyphs. Look at the same attached PowerPoint for pictures of the hieroglyphs.

Today’s lesson will be split into 2 parts:

  1. Watch this video, How Maya Hieroglyphs are written, which shows an expert calligrapher Dr Mark Van Stone drawing hieroglyphs of someone he knows. You will notice that the Mayan sounds are not the same as in English. He then combines the sounds of the name together, just like in the PowerPoint slide 3.
  2. This is where you will become a calligrapher and design your own hieroglyphs by using the Mayan alphabet, attached at the bottom of this blog. Just like the video of the calligrapher, you will have to convert your name into Mayan phonetics (sounds) which is quite tricky as we are not fluent with the Mayan language. Therefore, I want you to find what you think is the nearest possible sounds to your name and then piece them together.

E.g. For my name, Mr Mears, I found:

For MR, I decided to change it to Mister and picked MI-TZI as there wasn’t the sound ‘is’ or ‘er’

 

For MEARS, I picked ME-A-TZE, which I think is the nearest I can find (plus there are four ‘A’ options so I picked my favourite).

 

For DANIEL, we struggled as there is no D or N sound so we chose K’A-MI-LE

 

(If this was too much work for today then you could move this activity to Friday)

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 27th January 2021

Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 3:40pm

Wednesday 27th January 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. We are half way through the week – well done! Once again, there are many tasks attached to Wednesday because our usual timetable would include Reading, English, Maths, French, Music and RE, all in one day. Please don’t be overwhelmed by all of this and do what you can today.

Here are the tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

  • What do other characters think or say about the main character? Why do they feel this way?

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on chants. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your descenders below the line and formed correctly (f, g, j, p, q, y).

Summer

Apple – dapple summer

apple – dapple time

poppies red as ribbons

daisies white as lime.

Apples, plums and peaches

songbirds in the trees

summer suns are glowing

picnics, ices, teas.

Apple – dapple summer

pollen in the breeze

thistles pricking fingers

nettles on the knees.

Noses sore with sneezes

eyes as red as wine

summer suns are glowing

and it’s called

Ahhhhh Tiiiiiisuuuueeee

time.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week are homophones (words with the same sound but different spelling).

  • Try to complete the Sumdog spelling challenge before Friday so you can practise hearing the words in the sentences to help you know which spelling it is.

 

Writing task

Can I experiment with verb and adjective openers?

Read chapter 17

Watch the video sent through Seesaw.

You will need the Verb and Adjective sheet at the bottom of this blog.

 

Maths – Addition Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 9s.

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

  1. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
    1. Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
    2. Add / subtract within 10 000 (this will show quite a few column addition and subtraction questions which will help you throughout the week’s learning).
  2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I use the column method for adding decimals?
  3. Challenge

*Please see the video for both the main lesson and the challenge*

 

Music

Follow this link Body Percussion - Part 2, to Oak National Academy.

 

French

We were doing really well with our French phonics so here’s a video to watch first to practise some sounds.

Key French sounds

This week, we are learning weather vocabulary. Here’s a song to start.

Weather vocabulary song

Quel temps fait-il? means what’s the weather like? Aujourd’hui means today.

Hopefully by the end of the lesson you will remember the phrases in the song.

Click on this link and download Lesson 3 with audio – describing the weather.

To describe a variety of weather phrases in the present tense

You will find it easier to do slide 4 before slide 3.

Slide 5 is true or false: Vrai ou faux (vray oo fau, silent x)

Now write the date in your book and the learning objective:

Can I describe the weather in French?

Choose 8 of the weather phrases from slide 3 and draw a weather symbol to go with it.

Then write this question and answer it.

Quel temps fait-il aujourd’hui? Aujourd’hui, ………

Here’s another song to finish.

Quel temps fait il?

Merci beaucoup. A la semaine prochaine.

 

RE

Can I describe what life would be like if we followed St Paul’s words?

 

The Bible contains different styles of writing. The New Testament contains lots of letters.

 

St Paul was a prolific letter writer. He wrote letters to many of the early Christian communities before, and sometimes after, he visited them e.g. Rome, Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi and Colossae. He wrote to explain his understanding of the Christian faith.

One of them was from ‘1 Corinthians 13: 4-7’ where Paul writes about the power of love:

 

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud. Love is not rude, is not selfish, and does not become angry easily. Love does not remember wrongs done against it. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices over the truth. Love patiently accepts all things. It always trusts, always hopes, and always continues strong.

This video may help in understanding this letter from St Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7it actually begins at 3.00 minutes

 

If this passage was taken seriously by world leaders, or people in your town/village, or in your class, what would life be like?

 

Your task: To write a paragraph or two of the answers to these questions:

  • What would you class be like if this was taken seriously? Would things change? Give me an example.
  • What would your village/town be like if this was taken seriously? Give me an example. How would that change make you feel?
  • What if world leaders took this seriously? What would the world be like? How would everyone feel?

Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 26th January 2021

Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 3:25pm

Tuesday 26th January 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday. I hope you are all well and safe and into a good routine with the tasks you need to complete each day. I have kept every Monday the same as Monday, Tuesday the same as Tuesday, and so on, which should help you in structuring your day for when you read, complete the Maths and English and any other after lunch tasks. Keep sending me your work through Seesaw: you have no idea how much it brings a smile to my face.

Here are the final tasks of the week:

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that stamina. It is so important that you keep this your number one priority.  

Reading activity for today:

  • Draw a picture of your favourite part of the book and write a sentence about what is happening.

 

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 having clear spaces between your words.

Skip

One skip

Two skip

Three skip

Four.

Five skip

Six skip

Seven skip

More.

Eight skip

Nine skip

Ten skip

Hop.

Skip skip

skip skip

skip skip

STOP.

 

Spellings

There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week, -homophones (words with same sound but different spelling).

  • For each ‘pair’ of words (aloud and allowed) write a sentence to include them both.

 

Writing task

Can I write a recount of Hatty’s fall, as Abel?

See the Seesaw video which explains how to complete this task. Make sure you use the notes from yesterday’s lesson to piece together a recount following these bullet points and write:

  • The backstory of what you (Abel) know about Tom
  • The event of Hatty’s fall
  • You (Abel) cross with Tom and speaking to him for the first time

(I will explain this in detail in the video)

 

MathsAddition Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 15s.

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

  1. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
    1. Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
    2. Add / subtract within 10 000 (this will show quite a few column addition and subtraction questions which will help you throughout the week’s learning).
  2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I use the column method to add up to 5 digit to 5 digit numbers?

See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson. Complete the Column addition questions and answers sheet.

  1. Maths challenge – is attached to the same sheet which I explain in the video.

 

Science

Can I research the characteristics that make a plant adapted to its environment?

We have learnt so far that adaptations are characteristics that help living things survive. Plants live in all kind of habitats in the world from the Arctic to the desert and everywhere in between. A plant from the rainforest would not survive in the desert – each is adapted to the environment in which it lives.

 

Look at the image of a cactus attached below, or a real cactus if you have one at home.

Copy the labelled diagram of a cactus into your book or print out the Labelled Cactus sheet

How do these adaptations enable it to live in a desert? Read this text to find out:

 

 

Adaptations

An adaptation is anything that helps a living thing survive and make more of its own kind. Cacti have many adaptations for living in places that are sometimes dry for a long time. At other times these places can get lots of rain.

Cacti can have many small, thin roots near the top of the soil. These roots take in water quickly after a rain. The same cactus may have one long, thick root called a taproot. The taproot grows deep in the soil. It can reach water when the soil on top is dry.

Cacti store water in thick stems. The stems are covered with tough skin, and the skin is covered with wax. The pleats help the skin expand to store water after it has rained. The thick waxy skin slows down loss of water by evaporation in the hot, dry climate. The leaves of cacti are sharp spines (thorns or needles). Many animals want the water inside the cactus, but the sharp spines and thick skin protect the cactus and stop animals from damaging the plant.

 

Now explain in your own words how each of the cacti’s adaptations help it survive in the desert.

 

Next, watch this video about a Sundew plant.

Sundew plant

Draw and label a Sundew plant using the vocabulary in the video.

 

Now use the words below to explain its adaptations.  You will need to put them into sentences!

 

Sundew      carnivorous      habitat             bog      poor soil         secrete sticky substance          Digestive enzymes     prey          dissolve             nutrients        unfurl               exoskeleton      

 

You have researched two very different types of plants which live in very different habitats.

Put the subheading What I have learnt

Can you summarise your learning today by explaining how adaptations help plants survive and what would happen to those species that are not well adapted?

Well done! I would love to see your work on seesaw!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 25th January 2021

Date: 24th Jan 2021 @ 12:59pm

Monday 25th January 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. I hope you had a fun weekend with all the snow. I managed to make a daddy snowman and a baby one, and they are still there!. This week set yourself a target of what you want to accomplish: maybe it is to complete everything, send me your writing every day or complete the Sumdog before Friday – whatever it is, write it down and let’s see how well you do at the end of the week.

Here are the tasks for the day:

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Building up your reading stamina and speed will help for when you return.

Reading activity for today:

  • Pick a descriptive word from the text, write it down and, using a thesaurus (real or from the internet), write down 5 synonyms (same as) and antonyms (opposite) for that word.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on chants. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your descenders below the line and formed correctly (f, g, j, p, q, y).

We want to wear our wellies

We want to wear our wellies

When it’s windy.

We want to wear our wellies

When it’s wet.

We want to wear our wellies

When the weather on the telly

Say’s it’s going to be

The warmest day yet.

 

We want to wear our wellies

Even though our feet get smelly.

We want to wear our wellies

Because they’re red.

We want to wear our wellies

When it’s wet or warm or windy-

But we never wear our wellies in bed!

 

Spellings

There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week, homophones (words with the same sound but different spelling).

  • All the spellings are on Sumdog (deadline is Friday for this so you can have your own spelling quiz at home).

 

Writing task

Can I write a character description of Abel?

Read chapter 15 (pages 113 – 123).  In this chapter, Hatty and Abel have a bonfire to get rid of the bows and arrows in exchange for a small knife which she carves her initials into trees. Tom then climbs the wall and Abel quickly makes Hatty swear on the bible that she will not ever climb that wall.

Why did Abel make her swear on the Bible?

Do you think there could be another reason behind his strange behaviour?

 

Your task is to illustrate, label then describe Abel.

  1. There is a picture on page 124 to help you illustrate but you can use the description on page 50 (bottom half).
  2. Label the picture, not with a description of his appearance, but a description of him as a character from what you have learnt.

To help, think about:

  • The things he has done in the story (you do not have to remember them all, just 3 things). Skim through the book from page 50 onwards, if you need to, but just think about anything that Abel has done.
  • Is he kind or rude, aggressive or understanding. Use the Impressions List at the bottom of the blog to find good vocabulary for Abel.
  • What would his thoughts be: towards the garden and Hatty and the cousins?
  1. Now piece all of this together to create a character description, which should be a paragraph long (this will help massively for tomorrow’s lesson).

 

E.g. Here is an example of part of task 2 and 3 (you will obviously write more than this):

2. Abel fixed the green house glass that Hatty broke with her arrow = shows he is calm and kind.

Abel warned Hatty of making arrows = caring

 

3. Abel is the gardener of the big house. He spends every day there tending to every corner of it. He is very kind towards Hatty, especially if she makes a mistake like the time when she broke the green house glass and he mended it calmly. Abel shows he cares for Hatty often by warning her of things that could get her into trouble.

 

MathsPercentages Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 25s.

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

  1. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets):
    1. Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
    2. Add / subtract within 10 000 (this will show quite a few column addition and subtraction questions which will help you throughout the week’s learning).
  2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I use various mental strategies to add numbers together?

See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson. The attached worksheet is called ‘Mental strategies - questions and answers’.

  1. Challenge – is to name the strategy you chose for each question and write it next to the answer (I will not take ‘I just did it’ as an answer – describing your process takes you one step closer to mastering maths).

 

PE

Being active is once again so important. Hopefully you are going for walks, running, biking, etc but if the weather is keeping you inside, prepare a little circuit that raises your heart rate and makes you sweat a little. Through Seesaw you can send me videos of anything, including PE so keep them coming, I love to see them all.

Gymnastics:

  • Click on the link here, Sequence Champions, with the video here, Video for Sequence Champions.
  • Warm up – let’s continue to up the warm up time with 30 star jumps, 30 squats, 30 seconds running on the spot. Rest for 30 seconds and repeat one more time.
  • Loosen the joints again with arm circles, leg circles. Never do anything that makes you feel in pain.
  • Once again you will need a dice or something equivalent to choose 1-6 randomly.
  • Then create a sequence using any of the rolls or balances we have looked at in the past. To remind you here is a list we made the last day you were all in:
    • Rolls – egg roll, teddy bear roll, side roll, pencil roll
    • Balances – 4 point, 3 point, 2 point, 1 point, dish, arch, front and back support

Games:

  • Click on the link here, Battleships 2, with the video here, Video for Battleships 2.
  • Don’t forget to be warm for any PE activity you do. Copy the same as gymnastics if you are not warm already.
  • In this follow up game to last week, we introduce an ‘ultimate battleship’ that allows the player to bring a ship back to life. Watch the video for guidance and try to play it with someone.
  • If everyone is busy, have the ‘ultimate battleship’ in a very far position for you to aim at. How many times can you knock it over in a minute? Which is the furthest distance you can knock it over in? (just be careful not to knock over anything else in the house!).

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 22nd January 2021

Date: 21st Jan 2021 @ 3:48pm

Friday 22nd January 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Congratulations - you made it to the end of another week! Thank you once again to those who have sent in their work via Seesaw. I am happy to see any work, whether you are celebrating or needing support, I do not mind.

This Friday is the start of my weekly ‘Friday Catch-up’ videos so please check your Seesaw for my message.

Here are the final tasks of the week:

 

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:

  • Write about a memory or experience of your own that is similar to something you’ve read in the book.

 

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 having clear spaces between words.

The soldiers (Yesterday’s lesson = Matchsticks)

Who were the soldiers

tall and erect

who came to your door

while you still slept?

Who were the soldiers

pale and thin

who never knocked

to be let in

but stood on guard

with hats of tin?

(Answer is at the bottom of the blog)

 

Spellings

There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week – fer

  • Today is the spelling quiz. Hopefully you can get someone to quiz you on the 15 spellings, in random order. Then ask them to come up with 3 sentences for you to write for your dictation.

 

Writing task

Yesterday’s great example of reported/indirect speech (past tense and third person)

Tom and Hatty had an argument. Tom had accused Hatty of being a ghost but she didn’t take it very well. Tom punched her trying to prove she was a ghost. Hatty ended crying but then Tom took back what he had said and put his arm around Hatty to comfort her. She carried on with her jobs, sniffing every once in a while.

 

Can I write a report, as Tom, explaining why Hatty is from the past (and which part of history)?

Read chapter 14

In this chapter, Tom is researching information on how Hatty must be from the past and therefore a ghost.

 

As you read this chapter, make notes on the information Tom finds that secures this. Make bullet point notes (which we have done many times) to help. Some of the following sub-headings can be used to give you a start:

 

  • Monarchs (Kings and Queens of England) – page 110
  • 17th, 18th or 19th Century? – page 110
  • Trousers – page 111
  • Skirts – page 112
  • First World War - 112

 

With this information, your task is to write a report detailing why Hatty is from the past and therefore a ghost.

 

Success criteria. Explain each of your reasons with:

  • Formal language (no contractions – don’t, can’t)
  • Use modal verbs (could, should, might, will, does mean)

 

I have sent a video explaining how to work through each task of making notes and using them to create a report.

 

MathsPercentages Week

  1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 0.01s.

1024, 1 843, 24 626, 274 763, 1 847 265

 With each number count back in 1s, 10 times.

(1024, 924, 824, 724, 624, 524, 424, 324, 224, 124, 24)

  1. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
    1. Mix of 7 and 9 times tables
    2. FDP – converting between fractions, decimals and percentages
  2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
    1. Can I find percentages of amounts?

Today’s lesson is about finding percentages of amounts. There is a video for the lesson here, Percentage of amounts, which works through a few strategies to solve a range of questions.

I have also sent you a video of me explaining how we solve percentages of amounts in class. I work through multiples of 10%, 5% and 1% so please watch as it should jog your memory.

Complete the attached ‘Percentage of amounts sheet’ at the bottom of this blog.

 

  1. Maths challenge – Percentage of amounts is attached at the bottom of this blog. My video should help you in solving both the ‘challenging’ and ‘very challenging’ sections.

 

Art

Following yesterday’s History lesson, we learnt about 6 of the Mayan gods that they worshipped over a thousand or more years ago. One of the main gods that they worshipped was Kukulkan. Kukulkan was a powerful snake god whose name means ‘feathered serpent’. He was the primary god of the Itza people in the latter part of the Maya civilisation. They even built a temple, which is called the Kukulkan, with a huge serpent guarding the temple with a gaping mouth. Have a look at the PowerPoint, Kukulkan Images, which show some jewellery, coins and artwork that show Kukulkan.

 

As you can see in the images, Kukulkan is often drawn to look like a dragon. This god was not unique to the Maya civilisation as he was also known as Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs (another ancient civilisation who ruled in the same country, Mexico, just after the Mayan ended). For you to sketch the Kukulkan, follow the video, How to draw a double headed Aztec Serpent (Kukulkan).

 

Keep your sketch as well as your other pieces as we will put them together for a final art piece in the future.

 

 

Handwriting answer = Milk Bottles

 

Have a super weekend everyone!

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