Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 25th February 2021

Date: 24th Feb 2021 @ 10:46am

Thursday 25^th February 2021

Good morning everyone. Remember that today is the last day of learning being posted on the blog (unless you count Reading, which I do not, as it should be done every day).

Tomorrow is Fabulous Friday so you decide whether you want to spread today’s tasks over today and tomorrow or complete it all today.

Here are today’s tasks:

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.

Reading activity for today:

• Make a list of questions you ask yourself as you read.

English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on animals. This week focus on having every letter on the line.

Butterfly

This morning I found a butterfly

Against my bedroom wall.

I wanted to hold it,

To remember its colours.

But instead I guided its whirring shape

Towards the open window.

I watched it drift into the warm air,

Swaying and looping across the summer garden.

In my book, I found:

‘Tortoiseshell, reddish orange with yellow patches.’

But I remember its leaving,

And the patterns of its moving.

Spellings

The spellings for this week, short ‘y’ sound

• • Create a mini story using as many of the spellings as possible (you may add prefixes or suffixes to them):
    • e.g. The syrup stood proud in the cylinder bottle, a symbol of hope for the dry pancakes that laid helpless on the plate. The floppy flat-cakes had heard of the myth of this mystery substance that defied all physics – some had said that it could turn the pancakes into symmetrical pyramids with just a physical touch. Others had mentioned that it could sing beautiful hymns, rhythmically lulling them to sleep as it smothered them. The mysterious bottle suddenly opened…

Writing task

Can I describe the setting based on the film adaptation of Aladdin?

A video has been sent on Seesaw to guide you in describing a setting.

Read pages 22 – 26 which are attached on the blog.

The clip of the film’s cave setting that I refer to in the video is here, Cave of Wonders - part 1 And Cave of Wonders - part 2.

The link to the BBC website mentioned in the Seesaw video is here, Describing a setting with personification.

Success criteria:

• Describe the size of the cave
• Describe any shapes the audience sees
• Use any of the 5 senses (see, hear, taste, smell, touch)
• Use personification (only 1 or 2 needed)

(You can make this writing first or third person)

Maths – Subtraction Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 2 ½ from :

7 , 15 , 23 ½ , 64 , 97

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use subtract fractions from fractions?

There is a White Rose video linked here, Subtract Fractions, which explains how to solve the sheet, White Rose Maths Subtraction.

3. Arithmetic 1 – 18. See the Arithmetic video for guidance on some of the questions.

History

Can I write a tweet for what every day was like for a Mayans?

Follow this link to the BBC website on Everyday life for the Mayans.

Make notes from the website and the video, especially on the workers and any differences between the rich and the poor. This knowledge will help in future lessons when we dig deeper into a typical day of a Mayan.

Your task is to write a tweet to a friend explaining what life was like for the Mayans. If you have never written a tweet before, let me explain some success criteria:

• You only have 140 characters (this includes any spaces but for this time I will allow 140 letters)
• You can use abbreviations or single letters to say longer words, just like in a message to a friend such as: r for are, u for you, 8 for eight/ate, ur for you are / your, 4 for for, y for why etc (I am sure you have many more)
• Stick to the facts and try to explain life for a Mayan in no more than 140 characters or letters.

Fairtrade Fortnight

For the next two weeks, we are celebrating and learning about Fairtrade and the growing challenges that climate change brings to farmers and workers in the communities Fairtrade works with.

Within some of the lessons we look at this week and next, we will discover how our choices as individuals can make a difference to the lives of people around the world and the planet we share.

There are two tasks to complete (task 2 can be completed over the next week or so)

Task 1. There is a Fairtrade Fortnight PowerPoint attached at the bottom of the blog. I have sent a video through Seesaw where I talk through the PowerPoint and explain Task 2 at the end. The link to the video I discuss is here, Changing the World through Your Choices

Task 2. Here is a link to Fairtrade’s Share Your Vision which gives you an opportunity to create artwork, poem, prose (speech) or film for a chance to be exhibited in the online Youth Exhibition at the ‘Choose the world you want’ festival between 22^nd February and 7^th March 2021 but you have to submit by 1^st March 2021. More information can be found through the link and the poster Share Your Vision attached at the bottom of the blog.

(In school, we are going to use the information we found in task 1 to help us come up with ideas for poetry and/or artwork for task 2)

You obviously do not have to submit anything for an exhibition but if you want to create some artwork or poetry linked to Fairtrade, bring it into school from the 8^TH March to share with the class.

Sumdog – Three challenges:

1. Mental subtractions                                             (200 target by Sunday)
2. Divisions for 6, 7 and 9s                                        (200 target by Sunday)
3. Spellings ‘short /y/ sound’                                   (45 target by Friday)

Well done, tomorrow is Friday, arguably the best day of the week!

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