St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 19th January 2021
Date: 18th Jan 2021 @ 12:37pm
Tuesday 19th January 2021
Good morning Year 6. This is the 10th day of Home Learning and a great time to reflect on how well you are organising yourself. Hopefully you are using some sort of timetable, whether that is the one I provided for you or your own. I understand that some days it might be difficult to complete everything but as long as you do your best each day, then that is all we can ask for. Remember to plan in some treats or 'little wins' throughout the day to reward yourself for completing tasks.
Here are the tasks for today:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that stamina. It is so important that you keep this your number one priority.
Reading activity for today:
- Draw a cartoon strip of the main events in the story.
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 give you a poem to copy in your neatest handwriting. This week focus on having clear spaces between your words.
Riddle (yesterday’s riddle = SHADOW)
My first is in fish but not in chip.
My second in teeth but not in lip.
My third’s in potato but not in plum.
My fourth’s in mouth and also in thumb.
My fifth is in pear but not in cherry.
My sixth is in bacon but not in berry.
My last is in chocolate but not in crumble.
Sometimes when I’m empty you’ll hear me rumble.
(Tomorrow I will reveal the answer)
Spellings
There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week, -fer (and suffixes attached to them).
- All the spellings are on Sumdog (deadline is Friday for this as you can have your own spelling quiz at home).
- Highlight each syllable to help you spell (e.g. prefer, preferring)
Writing task
Can I create dialogue following the 4 speech marks rules?
Read chapter 12 (up to the end of page 94, where the aunt arrives, furious at what Hatty has done and blames her). Hatty, feeling guilty and disappointed in herself, returns to Tom, who is feeling guilty for watching Hatty take all the blame. What do you think might be said to each other? Surely Tom might want to make Hatty feel better, apologise or say something to make her laugh? But how would Hatty respond?
This is a task which will enable you to show your understanding of speech marks from yesterday’s lesson.
Remember, to follow the 4 main rules when writing your dialogue between the two characters:
- Speech marks at the beginning and end of speech
- New speaker, new line
- Punctuation inside the speech marks
- Capital letter at the beginning of every speech mark
Here is one example, which has been mixed with action (the writer has used an indent rather than leaving a line):
Hatty moped over towards Tom who hesitated. He wasn’t sure what to say. After a long silence, Tom broke it saying, “I can’t believe she said that. We were only playing.’
“No,” said Hatty, staring at her shoes, “I was playing. You weren’t even here.”
“What do you mean?” said Tom defiantly. “I was right here playing with you.”
Hatty looked Tom in the eyes, “Not to my aunt you weren’t. You do not even exist.” She turned away and started kicking leaves that had fallen on the grass.
Tom looked puzzled. He did not know what to say back. “Listen,” he finally blurted, “Let’s head over to the pond. I am sure I saw a new path that led to a place I have never been before.”
For this lesson, add your written dialogue to Seesaw for me to give you feedback.
(Then finish reading chapter 12).
Maths – Percentages Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 10s.
1024, 1 843, 24 626, 274 763, 1 847 265
With each number count back in 10s, 10 times.
(1024, 1014, 1004, 994, 984, 974, 964, 954, 944, 934, 924)
- Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
- Mix of 7 and 9 times tables
- FDP – converting between fractions, decimals and percentages
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
Can I convert fractions to percentages?
Today is to convert fractions to percentages. So we are taking the learning from last week and adding it to our percentage learning. Once again, this isn’t completely new learning but it has been a long time since we looked at this. You might become confused at times but mistakes are proof you are learning.
Tip – if you use the equivalent fraction learning from last week that 10/100 = 1/10, you can always create bars into tenths which will be equivalent to 10% so:
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1/10 = 10%, 2/10 = 20%, 3/10 = 30%, and so on.
Keep the question sheet in front on you during the video, Fractions to Percentages .
The following picture from the video is a great example of how percentages and fractions are related.
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4. Maths challenge – Fractions to Percentages. These challenges are split into 3 pages so completing one would be fine but for those who want to show they are completely secure with converting, attempt all three. If you do complete any, send it to me on Seesaw: I would love to see how well you did.
Science
In this lesson, we are going to learn how fossils are formed and how they provide evidence for the theory of evolution. We will learn what the fossil record is and why there are parts missing from the record. In this lesson, you will need a piece of paper and a pencil.
Work through the first part – How fossils are formed. You don’t need to make notes when the teacher suggests it because you are going to switch to BBC bitesize for this. Pause the video at the end of the section explaining how fossils are formed, after you’ve done the putting the stages in order activity. Now click on this link to go to BBC bitesize: How are fossils made?
Watch the short video and complete the 2 activities below. It’s quite short but the explanation is easier to follow.
Now complete the cartoon strip attached to the blog below. Add in the missing words and draw pictures.
Now go back to the Oak Academy lesson and do the next 2 sections, What fossils tell us and what is missing from the fossil record.