Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 28th January 2021

Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 4:57pm

Thursday 28th January 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Thursday. I hope you have had a fun and productive week.

Thank you to all who have started or completed the Sumdog challenges so far – you have no idea how this regular practice will make a huge difference week on week.

Also, I would like to say a huge thank you to all your Seesaw messages, whether they are questions, comments or work, keep them coming.

Today’s tasks are:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

• Write a memory or experience of your own that is similar to something you have read in your book.

 

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).

Round and Round

Round and round the playground,

Marching in a line,

I’ll hold your hand.

You hold mine.

Round and round the playground,

Skipping in a ring

Everybody loves it

When we all sing.

Round and round the playground,

That’s what we like:

Climbing on the climbing frame,

Riding on the bike.

Round and round the playground,

All together friends.

We’re sad, sad, sad

When the school day ends.

 

Spellings

This week’s spellings is homophones (words with the same sound but different spelling).

• Create a poem, either an acrostic one with a few of the spellings or one that includes them all.

e.g.       On the isle, I walk down the aisle,

            Allowed, but not aloud

            Passed the sea, but not venturing into the past

            On a coarse road, but not on any course

            Will I reign upon this land whilst it rains on me?

            On my voyage as a knight, during the night.

 

Writing task

Can I write the next chapter in third person using a mixture of writing techniques?

Do not read chapter 18 (143 – 152) yet. Please wait to watch the video where I explain how you have two writing choices.

Once the video is over, I have a success criteria for you. Now this success criteria has 6 bullet points. Your challenge is to complete as many as you can:

• Third person
• Dialogue between the characters (which we have practised in a previous lesson)
• Description of the action (think about choice of verbs)
• Description of the scene (think adjectives)
• Paragraphs
• Verb / Adjective openers

 

One important note:

If you do too much of any of these (apart from third person) it will become boring for the reader. You are the writer so you decide how much of each you want – that will define your writing style.

 

Maths – Addition Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 90s.

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

2. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
   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 solve addition reasoning questions?

Watch today’s video to see the tasks and how to solve the challenges.

4. Maths Reasoning questions
5. Arithmetic quiz (19 - 36 questions). Attached at the bottom is a picture of the sheet (so you can print it or simply write the answers – with workings out – in your HOME LEARNING BOOK). I have also attached the answers (for after the quiz so no peeking!)

 

History

Can I identify key facts about the Maya writing system?

From the first week of research into the Mayans, we have learnt that they developed their own writing system. This was an amazing find by historians as at the same time, across the world, the Celts were living in Britain with no writing ability. Open the Mayan Writing PowerPoint.

1. Attached at the bottom of this blog are Mayan Writing Fact cards. Use these and this video, Maya Writing to try to complete the Maya Writing Fact Hunt Activity Sheet.
2. Write down which are your favourite facts.
3. Look through the PowerPoint at slides 3 – 6 where codices and hieroglyphs are explained. The final task is to copy any of the hieroglyphs form slide 6 into your Home Learning book.

(Once completed, send it me via Seesaw.)

 

Art

Following on from the History lesson into the Mayan writing system, we learnt that the Maya people wrote syllables and words with one or a mixture of hieroglyphs. Look at the same attached PowerPoint for pictures of the hieroglyphs.

Today’s lesson will be split into 2 parts:

1. Watch this video, How Maya Hieroglyphs are written, which shows an expert calligrapher Dr Mark Van Stone drawing hieroglyphs of someone he knows. You will notice that the Mayan sounds are not the same as in English. He then combines the sounds of the name together, just like in the PowerPoint slide 3.
2. This is where you will become a calligrapher and design your own hieroglyphs by using the Mayan alphabet, attached at the bottom of this blog. Just like the video of the calligrapher, you will have to convert your name into Mayan phonetics (sounds) which is quite tricky as we are not fluent with the Mayan language. Therefore, I want you to find what you think is the nearest possible sounds to your name and then piece them together.

E.g. For my name, Mr Mears, I found:

For MR, I decided to change it to Mister and picked MI-TZI as there wasn’t the sound ‘is’ or ‘er’

 

For MEARS, I picked ME-A-TZE, which I think is the nearest I can find (plus there are four ‘A’ options so I picked my favourite).

 

For DANIEL, we struggled as there is no D or N sound so we chose K’A-MI-LE

 

(If this was too much work for today then you could move this activity to Friday)

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