Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 1st February 2021

Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 3:42pm

Monday 1^st 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 1^st 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

2. 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)
3. 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’

4. 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.

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