Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 4th February 2021

Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 3:21pm

Thursday 4^th February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. I would like to say a huge thank you to all of you (children and parents) for your continued effort with all the work that has been set over the past few weeks. Seeing all the super work on Seesaw has been brilliant. I can tell that you have all put so much effort in. Once again, if there is anything learning related that you are either not sure about or want clarification on, please do not hesitate to contact me – we are all in this together.  

Today is Thursday, meaning it is the last day that I will post any videos or work (apart from reading, of course) as tomorrow is Fabulous Friday. Therefore you can either spread the work over today and tomorrow or complete it for today and give yourselves a well-deserved rest for the weekend.

Here are today’s tasks:

 

PSHE

As part of our Children’s Mental Health Week, I have attached Mindfulness Meditation for Children which is a video helping you learn to relax, focus on breathing and be in the moment, especially if you take it seriously. Meditation is a super way to start the day so give it a go. 

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

• How does the character change throughout the story? Explain your answer.

 

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’).

At the End of School Assembly

Miss Sparrow’s lot flew out,

Mrs Steed’s lot galloped out,

Mr Bull’s lot got herded out,

Mrs Bumble’s lot buzzed off.

Miss Rose’s class … rose,

Mr Beetle’s class … beetled off,

Miss Storm’s class thundered out,

Mrs Frisby’s class whirled across the hall.

Mr Train’s lot made tracks,

Miss Ferry’s lot sailed off,

Mr Roller’s lot got their skates on,

Mrs Street’s lot got stuck halfway across.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, -gue / -que words

• Create a poem using some/most/all of the spellings using any technique you wish - acrostic is usually the easiest (last week’s mini poems were brilliant).

l – let the grotesque tongue argue with the guest

e – even though its queueing for a request

a – and when the dialogue becomes unique

g – go and guess a different technique

u – under the antique cheque we sequence

e – ends the league with only one consequence

 

Writing task

Can I use the text to answer reading questions?

 

Read chapter 22 for enjoyment first before completing the task.

 

There is an attachment, Chapter 22 Reading Task, which has 8 questions to answer. There is no answer sheet but please send it to me through Seesaw and I will mark it for you.

 

The 8 questions are divided into two sections: retrieval and inference

Retrieval       is where you simply find the information in the text and write the answer word for word.

Inference      is where you use evidence to come to a conclusion (what you think it means).

E.g. the main character bows their head, has wet cheeks and red eyes = they are upset.

Or if the character in a book is packing a suitcase with swimming trunks, maps and sun cream = going on holiday.

 

Maths – Fractions Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 90s from:

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I multiply fractions by integers (whole numbers)?

Here is the link for today’s White Rose Maths video, Multiply fractions by integers (whole numbers).

Multiplying fractions by whole numbers is shown with pictures and bar models (which you know I love) so please listen carefully and work through the questions in the video. At the bottom of this blog are the Multiplying Fractions by Integers questions and answer sheets.

3. Arithmetic quiz (1 - 18 questions). Attached at the bottom is a picture of the questions and answers but for this week, I have sent an Arithmetic video of me explaining some of the strategies to help.

 

History

Can I read numbers using the Maya symbols for 0, 1 and 5 and solve problems?

From previous lessons, we have found out that the Mayans also created their own number system. It is a bit like our ‘base 10’, but they have ‘base 20’. I have attached a PowerPoint, Maya Number System, for you to work through and a video of myself explaining each slide.

There is a Maya Number System sheet to complete which is attached at the bottom of this blog. Just as I have mentioned in the video, you decide which challenge you would like to complete.

 

Art

1. As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, today’s art is to Draw Your Feelings which you can do by following the link.
2. Following this, why not try creating some ‘feelings artwork’ by following these steps:

• Just listen to some music - my all-time favourite is Pachelbel's Canon (Cello and Piano version) but you can choose anything - with your eyes closed the whole way through.
  • Focus on how you feel during it
• Keep your eyes closed for the 2^nd time listening and with your pencil/colour/whatever medium you wish, draw how the music makes you feel
  • (You can draw for however long you like)
• Finally open your eyes and see the brilliant ‘feelings artwork’ you have created.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges:

 

1. Mix of 2, 4, 8 times tables                                    (200 target by Sunday)
2. Multiply by powers of 10 and fractions            (200 target by Sunday)
3. Spellings gue and que                                           (45 target by Friday)

 

 

Well done, tomorrow is Friday. We are nearly there!

 

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