Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 11th January 2021

Date: 8th Jan 2021 @ 12:36pm

Good morning Year 6. I hope you had a relaxing weekend with your family full of fun! If you have used the timetable given to you on Friday, you should be set up with a plan of when you can complete each day’s activities.

Aim to complete everything I set so that when we get back, we can use all of this knowledge to continue on with our learning.

For those who have not yet done so, your YELLOW HOME LEARNING BOOK is by the office along with a copy of our new novel, ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’. All work can be stuck and written in your YELLOW BOOK.

Here are today’s Home Learning tasks:

Reading

Read for 20 minutes. School reading books are preferred and you can change them any time, just give the school a call of when you will be coming in and I can get your box ready for you at the office.

You may also read your own books from home or you can still use Oxford Owl ebooks, where there are a whole range of books from their library. The username is ‘sto56’ with the password ‘1234’.

Reading activity for today:

• Re-read a chapter, Pick out three words that you feel are powerful words and that you could use in your own writing in the future.

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 staying on the line.

Three Little Ghostesses

Three little ghostesses

Sitting on postesses

Greasing their fistesses

Up to their wristesses

Oh, what beastesses

To make such feastesses

Spellings

There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week – cial / -tial.

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

Writing task

I realised that I had not attached the answers for Friday's reading task so at the bottom of this blog is an attachment called 'Answers for Friday's Tom's Midnight Gardeb reading task'. 

Can I write a report to Peter explaining what has happened last night?

1. Today is chapter 4 (pages 25 – 35)
2. Stop reading at page 33 (even though the chapter isn’t finished yet, read the part where it says, ‘He also wrote to Peter – the first of an important series of reports.’
3. The main task today is to write that report to Peter, as Tom. To help, follow the ‘Report to Peter Success Criteria and WAGOLL’ sheet attached at the bottom of this blog.

Maths – Fractions Week

1. Warm up your Brain: Hit the Button. Today, focus on Number Bonds: Make 100 and practise with ‘Hit the Answer’.
2. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 question target for this week). It begins on Monday and finishes this Sunday:
   1. 9 times tables to help you become more fluent
   2. Equivalent and Simplifying Fractions
3. Main lesson: The objective for today is a recap of equivalent fractions:

Can I find equivalent fractions using my multiplication and division knowledge?

Remember that equivalent means the ‘same value’ or ‘amount’ so even though ½ looks different to 2/4, it is the exact same amount. We can prove this using a fraction wall like the one attached at the end of the blog named, 'Fraction Wall'.

Look at the line in middle of the two halves and follow it down; you should see that 2 quarters, 3 sixths, 4 eighths, 5 tenths and 6 twelfths is the same amount.

TOP TIP – Remember what I always say, “Always use a bar model for fractions”, followed by “Bars are amazing!”

Watch the video here, Equivalent Fractions, to help you understand how to solve the question sheet, which is attached at the bottom of this blog (hopefully this lesson is straight forward ready for tomorrow’s learning)

4. Maths challenge – ‘Maths challenge - equivalent fractions’. This should stretch your thinking as you will have to explain your understanding. Do not worry if you get stuck: look at the answer sheet, work out how they got to the answer, then carry on with the questions.

PE

I always mention how Reading is the most important thing you can do … well, I have one more REALLY important thing that you should do every day – and that is to MOVE! We always run a daily mile which makes us feel healthy, alert and happy. It is for these reasons I am suggesting that you get yourself moving every day, whether that is running (be careful as it is slippy outside these days), scooting, biking, walking, star jumps, hopping – whatever it is, we need to get our heart rate up.

In our Year 6 PE lessons, we always learn about two different activities, with this half term being Gymnastics and Games. Therefore, I will always provide two challenges that you can do at home, along with links and videos to see them. You can choose to do just one but it would be great to do both, either today or as many days as you can.

Gymnastics:

• Click on the link here, Balance Time To access the task of balancing and the video is here, Video for Balance Time
• Before you start, warm up your body with the following: 20 star jumps, 20 squats, 20 seconds running on the spot. Wait 30 seconds then do the same one more time.
• Now you are warm, swing your arms around in circles; left first then right. Do the same with your legs. Before any type of balancing, we need to make sure our joints are loose so we do not injure ourselves.
• Now we are ready to start. Follow the questions and dedicate some time to practising different balances safely.
• Two important points for gymnastic balances is pointed limbs and stillness
• See if you can create a sequence of three balances without wobbling.

Games

• Click on the link here, Avoid the Defenders, to access the task of dribbling and the video is here,  Video for Avoid the Defenders.
• Before you start, warm up your body with the same as the gymnastics: 20 star jumps, 20 squats, 20 seconds running on the spot. Wait 30 seconds then do the same one more time.
• Now you are warm, you can open the link and follow the steps. You can use any equipment in your house to dribble around: you can use the kitchen, your bedroom or from your kitchen to the lounge having random obstacles in the way.
• It mentions using your feet to dribble but you could use your hands (squatting down to hit each time) but if that is too tricky, use something in your house that could resemble a hockey stick (brush, toy lightsaber, large plastic or wooden spoon, etc)
• Try to keep the ball or scrunched up paper close to you and try to add speed to your movements.

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