Year 6 Blog - 22nd November 2024

Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 8:42am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been learning all about the letters that soldiers used to send home in WW1. We have shared some real WW1 letters together and written in role as a soldier in the trenches, who was writing home to his mother. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned how to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers, including fractions where the denominators are not the same. We have worked hard and we are becoming confident!

RE

In RE, we have shared hymns inspired by the Magnificat together. We have also explored how some women, inspired by Mary's 'yes' to God, may be inspired to become nuns. We researched about the Holy Order 'Sisters of Mercy'. 

Topic 

In My Happy Mind, we have continued to learn all about our brains. We have learned how we might have positive or negative thoughts about our upcoming transition to High School. We decided which thoughts were facts and how we would act in response to them.

In Geography, we completed our Mountains topic by researching one of the seven summits. We created some amazing fact files and worked hard to find out as many interesting facts as we could about our mountain!

In Computing, we continued our work on Tinkercad and learned how to manipulate 3D shapes by changing their colour and size. 

Home practice

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday: 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling -  

Please practise these spellings this week. The rule to practise is use –ant and –ance/–ancy and use –ent and –ence/–ency

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test on Friday.  

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: 

This week I would like you to practise counting up and down in 0.2. 

Choose a starting number and see how high or how low you can go! 

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!

Maths Task: This week's learning is to practise adding and subtracting fractions. 

Have a lovely weekend Year 6!