Year 6 Blog Friday 12th January 2024

Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 11:25am

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog and Happy New Year

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for up to 30 minutes every night, this will improve the speed at which you read and your understanding of the text. If you come across any new words that you don’t understand, ask an adult or look it up in the dictionary. Building up your vocabulary knowledge is really beneficial.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings (Y5/6 Word List) for your test on Friday. A sheet will go home every Thursday with the spelling list on. This is for home practice only and can be kept with you.

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.

This week’s spellings are (12.01.24 – 19.01.24):

accommodate                     amateur

accompany                          ancient 

according                            apparent

achieve                               appreciate

aggressive                           attached

Maths

Counting

In class, we learnt how to add and subtract in 0.001's. At home, count in decimal steps. Start at 1.372 and continue this sequence… 1.373, 1.374, 1.375, 1.376 etc. Next count back from 4.749 and continue counting…4.748, 4.747 etc.

Sumdog

You have a times table challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday 19.01.24.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

If you would like to do a bit more work on your times tables, Hit the Button is a great game to play.

Follow this link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Reminders

Tuesday 16th January - Meeting for Year 6 parents regarding the End of Key Stage 2 Assessments and Tests, at 6.30 pm in school.

It was great to see everyone in school again after the Christmas holiday. Year 6 have settled back into the rules and routines very well and worked extremely hard this week.

In English, we read the book Eric by Shaun Tan. We wrote a few excellent pieces, including a letter from Eric, explaining why he left so suddenly. Focuses this week were; cohesion, joined handwriting, modal verbs, good vocab choices, conjunctions, pronouns and determiners. Gareth from Literacy Kicks will be working with the children for the next few weeks.

In Maths, we were introduced to Algebra and the concept of using letters or shapes to represent values. We calculated missing values by identifying similarities and differences and wrote simple rules using algebra. We also explored different algebra type questions. This linked nicely to finding missing angles on a line and the geometry work we will be doing next week.

In Science, we produced excellent posters explaining ways in which people can lead a healthy lifestyle.

In P.E, we took part in cross country running.

In Art, we used different techniques to create some fabulous charcoal art.

Have a great weekend.

Year 6 Team.