Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 12th January 2021

Date: 11th Jan 2021 @ 3:20pm

Tuesday 12^th January 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. I hope you are all well and ready for today’s learning.  

Aim to complete everything I set so that when we get back, we can use all of this knowledge to continue on with our learning.

Here are today’s Home Learning tasks:

 

Reading

Read for 20 minutes. School reading books are preferred and you can change them any time, just give the school a call of when you will be coming in and I can get your box ready for you at the office.

You may also 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. The username is ‘sto56’ with the password ‘1234’.

Reading activity for today:

• How does the main character treat other people in the book? Explain your answers. (If you have a non-fiction book, name three facts you have learnt).

 

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

Handwriting

Every day this week we are going to focus on our number 1 class target, Handwriting, which must be joined. Each day, I will type out a poem to copy in your neatest handwriting. This week focus on staying on the line.

Camilla Caterpillar

Camilla caterpillar kept a caterpillar killer-cat.

A caterpillar killer categorically she kept.

But alas the caterpillar killer-cat attacked Camilla

As Camilla Caterpillar catastrophically slept.

 

Spellings

There is a spelling file attached to Monday’s blog which covers the spellings for this week – cial / -tial.

• All the spellings are on Sumdog (deadline is Friday for this as you can have your own spelling quiz at home).
• Apologies for yesterday as I set the Sumdog challenge for Monday 7pm, instead of 7am – at least mistakes are welcome in Year 6!

 

Writing task

Can I write a recount as Tom describing the scene of the garden?

 

1. Today is chapter 5 (pages 36 – 43)
2. After reading the chapter, you will realise that despite the fact Tom was in the garden for a very long time, only a few minutes had gone by back inside the house of flats. This may be confusing at first and is part of the whole mystery of the story, so do not read the ending yet and spoil it for yourselves. You may be thinking, “Is it time travel, a different world or something completely different?’”

The whole chapter describes, in a lot of detail, the garden, but to help I have attached a link to the full movie Tom’s Midnight Garden film here (please do not spoil the book for yourselves as you can watch this later). Instead, watch it from 17.38 – 19.21, which is the part where Tom enters the garden for the first time.

3. Imagine you are Tom entering that garden. Use the following bullet points to structure a recount which should help describe the scene (you can add feelings and thoughts if you want to but remember the objective is describing the setting).
   1. Name the nouns you see in the video and make a list: hedges, flowers, expanse of land, sun dial, etc.
   2. Write a few adjectives around them to see which fits best: large, beautiful, smooth, high, dazzling, etc.
   3. Now name a few verbs: hung, wrapped, covered, narrow, disappearing, etc.
   4. Steal any vocabulary from the chapter.
   5. Then piece it together as you, Tom, make your way through the garden for the first time like this…

 

Stepping out of the back door, dazzling light struck me. It took me a while to take in my surroundings but as my eyes adjusted, the garden came into view. An array of colours, as far as the eye could see covered the wide expanse of land. Intertwining paths leading to unknown places twisted here and there and disappearing into the distance. I decided to make my way around the outside to take everything in; I didn’t want to miss a thing…

 

 

Maths – Fractions Week

1. Warm up your Brain: Hit the Button. Today, focus on Number Bonds: Make 1 (1 decimal place) and play.
2. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 question target for this week):
   1. 9 times tables
   2. Equivalent and Simplifying Fractions
3. Times Tables Quiz – Every Tuesday we complete a quiz. Try to ask someone in your house to ask you 13 questions (your target or mixed).
4. Main lesson: The objective for today is to follow on our learning from yesterday,

Can I simplify fractions?

 

This learning follows on from yesterday’s equivalent fractions. Remember that equivalent fractions have the same value or amount which we use to help us solve problems. Simplifying fractions is very similar and is a way of making fractions simpler, hence the name.

Use the fraction wall from Monday’s lesson (it is also on the video) to see which fractions ‘match up’.

E.g. 4/10 can be simplified to 2/5 because they are the same size.

In the video, you will have a chance to look at the fraction wall carefully but hopefully you will realise that if you know your times tables, you will be able to simplify easily.

To access the video, click here, Simplify Fractions, with the questions and answers attached at the bottom of the blog.

5. Challenge – ‘Maths challenge cards’ and their answers are at the bottom of this blog

 

 

Science

In your home learning book, write the date: 12.01.21

And the title: Evolution and Inheritance - Glossary

Click on the link to find today’s lesson.

 

What is the Theory of Evolution? (The National Academy)

 

Pause the lesson as soon as the Star words come up on the screen. You are going to make a glossary so write the words down in a list, leaving 2 or 3 lines between each so that you have space to write a definition for each by the end of the lesson.

On the next page, write the learning objective: Can I explain Darwin’s theory of Evolution?

Follow the lesson, pausing to write when the teacher tells you. Check your work as you go along.

By the end of the lesson, you should be able to write the meaning of all the words on your glossary page. You will need to know the meanings of these words to help with the rest of the topic.

 

You might like to have a go at the Bird beak activity that the teacher demonstrated.

In this activity you will simulate bird feeding by using a beak to collect food and place it into a stomach. There are four different beak shapes. This activity will allow you to explore the wide variety of beak types that can be seen within the bird population, as well as developing an understanding of which beak type would be most successful if rice was the available food.

Equipment to represent bird’s beaks: ·  teaspoon · pair of  tweezers ·  clothes pegs

· chopsticks    ·plastic beaker to represent the birds’ stomach.

·Uncooked rice to represent the bird’s food or anything else you have that is similar.

 

Draw a table like this in your book:

 

Beak type	1st go	2nd go	3rd go	Median/Mean
Teaspoon
Tweezers
Clothes peg
Chopsticks

 

You should select one of either a spoon, tweezers, clothes peg or chopsticks plus a plastic cup. You are now a bird. Your chosen implement is your beak, and the plastic cup is your stomach. The beak must be held in one hand and the stomach should be placed on the table. The stomach must remain upright at all times, and you can only put food into it using your beak. Set a timer for 1 minute.

Now pick up as many grains of rice as you can in the time and put them in the cup.

After one minute,  you should stop feeding and count the number of grains in your stomach, then return the rice to the table and record the total in your table.

Do you think you would pick up the same number of grains each time? If not, should you repeat your results? How many times? (The more times you do it, the more accurate your results will be.) Which one is  the ‘right’ answer? You could sort your data (number of grains of rice) into order and choose the middle number – the median, or you could total them and divide by the number of goes you had to give the mean average.

What did you find out? If rice was your food, which beak would be best? Write your conclusion underneath your table.

Well done!

Next time you see a bird, have a look at the shape of its beak. Maybe you’ll see what it eats if you watch carefully. Can you spot different shaped beaks?

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