Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 4th March 2021

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 10:25am

Thursday 4^th March 2021

 

Good morning everyone. It’s World Book Day 2021!

 

As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, I just want to remind you that you can send in a picture of you (dressed up or not) holding up one of your favourite books. If you do, please send in a message with your photo of why it is your favourite – the best message will receive a £10 voucher from Moving Works!

Today is potentially your last day of Home Learning so I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped to keep your learning moving forward.

Here are your final tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

• Draw a cartoon strip of the main events from the book.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on seasons through the year. This week focus on forming each letter correctly, which we have done before but this is something we will do in detail next week when you are all back so practising this is a going to help.

The Visitor

Cold fingers clawed the face of earth,

Bold winter strutted round,

Bare branches trembled in the wind,

Their leaves mulching the ground.

Dancing snowflakes chuckled in the

Prancing north-east breeze,

Algid river stood still, crippled,

Aged women coughed and wheezed.

Sheep shivered in the snow-bound wasteland,

Steep and icy were the paths.

In the houses, people huddled,

Skin slowly cooking round the hearths.

Then it happened, one clear morning,

When the bite of cold was sore,

That there came a gently knocking

At the weatherman’s cottage door.

He got up and shambled out to

See, his heart began to sing,

By the door, a young girl smiling,

‘Hi,’ she said. ‘My name is Spring.’

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound

• Make a pyramid with each word to really focus on every letter.
• e.g.                

c

cy

cyc

cycl

cycli

cyclin

cycling

 

Writing task

Can I create my own mini story called, The Library Adventure?

 

Today is World Book Day where we can all dress up and celebrate some of the best loved characters. How many can you mention in just one minute?

Any of those your favourites?

If you had to choose one, who would it be?

This character you have chosen could be the start of a new story. 

Look at the Pobble picture called, The Greatest Library, at the bottom of the blog.

Here is a library, but not just any old library, the books in this library are the most interesting as once opened, they come alive, creating new stories to be opened and read and experienced.

Think what your favourite types of books are. If you could choose one of your books to come alive, which one would it be and why?

If you could be a character in a book, who would you like to be?

Here is a story starter for you to continue:

 

The books had minds of their own…

 

This was no ordinary library.

 

Books about knights and castles would gallop all over the library, bravely and boldly ordering the other books around. The books about thieves would sneak around, lurking behind bookshelves in the shadows. Books about wild animals would occasionally roar and bite other books. The ones containing stories set in the winter would often shiver, covering their neighbours with snow and frost.

 

Lucy loved this place like no other. Reading was the most exciting thing in the world here: everything she read seemed to come alive out of the pages…

 

Your task is to create a story following any of these prompts:

• You or any other character can be the one in the ‘greatest library’ about to read a book
• Introduction = The book comes alive with you (or the character) being sucked into that book’s story.
• Main = The adventure begins
• Ending = This part is completely up to you but it could be:
  • main character is now stuck in the book forever
  • main character saves the day
  • main character solves a quest and returns home
  • main character decides to stay in this world forever

 

Maths – Division Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 250 and 750

7 000 , 15 000 , 5 400 , 64 000 , 97 200

2.  Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I follow the success criteria of long division?
      1. Write out the times tables of the divisor
      2. Look at the first two digits and take the largest chunk possible
      3. Take that away from the answer
      4. Continue taking large chunks in multiples of 10 or 100
      5. Make sure you finish at zero
      6. Add up the chunks to find the answer

There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Long Division’ sheet.

3. Arithmetic 19 – 36. See the Arithmetic video for guidance on some of the questions.

 

History

Can I illustrate and label Pakal the Great?

Follow this link to the BBC website to find information on Pakal the Great, who reigned as King for 68 years.

• Using any of the illustrations from the website, draw Pakal the Great in your book (think middle of the page so you can label him).
• Label him with facts that you have learnt. These questions may help
  • Where did he live?
  • How long did he rule for?
  • When did he die?
  • What did he accomplish?
  • What did Ruz, the Mexican archaeologist, find in the sarcophagus?
  • Any interesting facts?
• Send it to me via Seesaw

 

Fairtrade

 

Watch the video sent through Seesaw which explains the Climate Crisis PowerPoint at the bottom of the blog and the task to complete.

Your task:

You are in charge of your own cocoa farm. Your farm is about to be struck by one of the climate challenges from the PowerPoint. Try to answer the following questions:

• What is your challenge?
• How will this challenge affect your farm?
• Will this challenge affect your basic needs?

(You can use a computer to conduct further research if you prefer)

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

1. 1. Division of 2/3 digit numbers                          (200 target)
   2. Fluency with division facts                      (200 target)
   3. Spellings ‘long /y/ sound’                         (45 target)

 

Excellent work Year 6. Congratulations. Make sure you celebrate in some way for all the effort you have put in. 

 

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