Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 7th January 2021

Date: 6th Jan 2021 @ 12:52pm

Thursday 7th January 2021

Good morning Year 6. I hope you are all well and taking care of yourself and your family. I also hope you managed to complete the Home Learning tasks from yesterday, especially Maths and English as they will usually be following on from the previous day.

Remember, there is the YELLOW HOME LEARNING BOOK to collect from the office along with a copy of our new novel, Tom’s Midnight Garden. All work can be completed inside it (including Writing, Maths, History, Art, etc).

Well done to the 15 who have already started the new Sumdog challenges – this week’s deadline is Sunday so try to complete both by then.

Here are today’s Home Learning tasks:

Reading

Read for 20 minutes. You may read your own books from home or you can still use Oxford Owl ebooks, where there are a whole range of books from their library. If you would like to use this great resource, the username is ‘sto56’ with the password ‘1234’.

School reading books can still be used (and preferred over your home books). Simply notify the school of when you will be coming and I can arrange a box to be in the school office for when you arrive.

Do not forget to continue using your Reading Journals for any thoughts, opinions, predictions and new vocabulary you find. I will give your reading activities each day starting from next week.

English

Read chapter 2 (page 9 - 16)

• Look up these great words: devotedly, disapproval and subdued – before you read the chapter; it will help understand the story better.
• What was the cause of Tom’s sleeplessness? (page 10)
• Which word tells you in the third paragraph on page 10 that Uncle Alan was not happy?
• Why did Uncle Alan have a disapproving look? (page 11)

Now Tom is about to investigate what the grandfather clock is doing. Your task is to draw the grandfather clock and label it with Tom’s thoughts about it - in thought bubbles.

(This task will show how deep your understanding is of the character of Tom and shows, through his thoughts, some of his characteristics).

Sumdog

I have set two challenges to be completed by Sunday: both have a target of 100 correct answers.

• Week 1 – x7 tables
• Week 1 – Rounding and Place Value

Maths – Place Value Week

Hit the Button is a great way to warm up the brain for maths. There are a few options to choose from so feel free to do as much as you want. For today though, I would like you to focus on times tables: choose your times tables target and practise with ‘Hit the Answer’.

Can I show my understanding of place value up to 3 decimal places?

On Monday, we managed to name the value, partition and order numbers of two decimal places. This learning is to practice the same things but with three decimal places.

To access the videos below, simply click on the link or type it into a search engine to find them. If you head to St Oswald’s website and click on ‘classes’ – ‘Year 6’ – ‘Home Learning’ – ‘White Rose Daily Maths’, you will find the following resources that we will also be using:

• ‘Year 6 – Spring Block 1: Decimals’. I have attached the video links to this document and the worksheets at the bottom of this blog.
• Three decimal places

Today would have been the day we complete the Arithmetic quiz (1-18 questions) so 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 YELLOW BOOK).

I have also attached the answers at the bottom of this blog (for after the quiz so no peeking!)

History

I have changed the timetable slightly with Science and History swapped around (Science is Tuesday and History is Thursday from now on) to coincide with what we are doing in school.

We have a new topic, finally! If you remember way back before Christmas, we investigated the history of the world and discussed famous times such as: the Black Death, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient Egyptians, Tudors, Victorians, etc. The only thing we never had time to do was place them all on a map. If we had, we would realise that one area of the world’s history is only recently known… and that is at the bottom of North America:

Our new topic is … The Mayans!

We knew very little about this society until recent excavations. You will find out most of the information yourself in this lesson. So have a think of this question – why do we study the Mayans in history at school? Do not worry about the correct answer, there are no right answers at this moment – I just want you to be historians and work out things for yourself.

• On a new page in your YELLOW BOOK, write the title The Mayans in the centre and record any ideas around it during this task.n
• Have a look at the PowerPoint presentation (attached at the bottom of the blog, named The Mayans – week 1).
• Look at slides 10-14 which are pictures of famous buildings. What do you think is impressive about them? (Think about the weather near South America).
• Now look at slides 15 – 26. What else do you learn about these clues?
• What would you say are the top two things that the Mayans developed during their time? (Answers will be in tomorrow’s blog!)
• Slide 27 is a link to a video but you can access it here The Maya Civilisation

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