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?

3. 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.

Maths – Percentages Week

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

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

2. 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).
3. 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’.

4. 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!).

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