Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 26th January 2021

Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 3:25pm

Tuesday 26^th January 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday. I hope you are all well and safe and into a good routine with the tasks you need to complete each day. I have kept every Monday the same as Monday, Tuesday the same as Tuesday, and so on, which should help you in structuring your day for when you read, complete the Maths and English and any other after lunch tasks. Keep sending me your work through Seesaw: you have no idea how much it brings a smile to my face.

Here are the final tasks of the week:

 

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 picture of your favourite part of the book and write a sentence about what is happening.

 

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.

Skip

One skip

Two skip

Three skip

Four.

Five skip

Six skip

Seven skip

More.

Eight skip

Nine skip

Ten skip

Hop.

Skip skip

skip skip

skip skip

STOP.

 

Spellings

There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week, -homophones (words with same sound but different spelling).

• For each ‘pair’ of words (aloud and allowed) write a sentence to include them both.

 

Writing task

Can I write a recount of Hatty’s fall, as Abel?

See the Seesaw video which explains how to complete this task. Make sure you use the notes from yesterday’s lesson to piece together a recount following these bullet points and write:

• The backstory of what you (Abel) know about Tom
• The event of Hatty’s fall
• You (Abel) cross with Tom and speaking to him for the first time

(I will explain this in detail in the video)

 

Maths – Addition Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 15s.

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

2. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
   1. Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
   2. Add / subtract within 10 000 (this will show quite a few column addition and subtraction questions which will help you throughout the week’s learning).
3. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use the column method to add up to 5 digit to 5 digit numbers?

See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson. Complete the Column addition questions and answers sheet.

4. Maths challenge – is attached to the same sheet which I explain in the video.

 

Science

Can I research the characteristics that make a plant adapted to its environment?

We have learnt so far that adaptations are characteristics that help living things survive. Plants live in all kind of habitats in the world from the Arctic to the desert and everywhere in between. A plant from the rainforest would not survive in the desert – each is adapted to the environment in which it lives.

 

Look at the image of a cactus attached below, or a real cactus if you have one at home.

Copy the labelled diagram of a cactus into your book or print out the Labelled Cactus sheet

How do these adaptations enable it to live in a desert? Read this text to find out:

 

 

Adaptations

An adaptation is anything that helps a living thing survive and make more of its own kind. Cacti have many adaptations for living in places that are sometimes dry for a long time. At other times these places can get lots of rain.

Cacti can have many small, thin roots near the top of the soil. These roots take in water quickly after a rain. The same cactus may have one long, thick root called a taproot. The taproot grows deep in the soil. It can reach water when the soil on top is dry.

Cacti store water in thick stems. The stems are covered with tough skin, and the skin is covered with wax. The pleats help the skin expand to store water after it has rained. The thick waxy skin slows down loss of water by evaporation in the hot, dry climate. The leaves of cacti are sharp spines (thorns or needles). Many animals want the water inside the cactus, but the sharp spines and thick skin protect the cactus and stop animals from damaging the plant.

 

Now explain in your own words how each of the cacti’s adaptations help it survive in the desert.

 

Next, watch this video about a Sundew plant.

Sundew plant

Draw and label a Sundew plant using the vocabulary in the video.

 

Now use the words below to explain its adaptations.  You will need to put them into sentences!

 

Sundew      carnivorous      habitat             bog      poor soil         secrete sticky substance          Digestive enzymes     prey          dissolve             nutrients        unfurl               exoskeleton      

 

You have researched two very different types of plants which live in very different habitats.

Put the subheading What I have learnt

Can you summarise your learning today by explaining how adaptations help plants survive and what would happen to those species that are not well adapted?

Well done! I would love to see your work on seesaw!

 

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