Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 2:36pm

Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday.

Well done to those who have started this week’s Sumdog challenges and posted some work through Seesaw. Remember, as always, do not hesitate to contact me about anything regarding learning. So many of you did yesterday as I am here to help during your final week of remote learning.

 

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

• How does/did the book make you feel? Explain.

 

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.

Still Winter

Ambushing snowdrops,

Beheading buds,

Drowning daisies

In sudden floods,

 

Old Mr Winter

Won’t let go,

Arthritic fingers

Dipped in snow.

 

Grey mist clinging

Like old news,

Badger talking

One more snooze.

 

Blackbird singing

In freezing rain,

Screech Owl calling;

Night again.

 

Cold rat feasting

On the scrap-heap,

Frosty paw-prints,

Earth half-asleep.

 

All things hoping

Spring comes soon,

Snuggle under

Frosty moon.

 

Spellings

• The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound
  • Play the Window Game that I explained in a video before half term. Just to remind you:
    • top left = copy neatly x3
    • top right = say each letter out loud x3
    • bottom left = non-dominant hand x3
    • bottom right = blind writing x3

 

Writing task

Can I use a dictionary to investigate new vocabulary from Aladdin?

 

Read pages 37 - 43

Watch the video sent through on Seesaw where I explain how to describe Aladdin’s personality.

 

The New Vocabulary to Define sheet is attached to the bottom of this blog.

 

 

 

Maths – Division Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 200 and 400

1 600,    4 700,   16 000,  145 000,   876 700

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use chunking to solve large division questions?

See the video on Seesaw which explain how we use the division chunking method to help you complete the Chunking Method sheet.

3. Maths challenge Division with Digit Cards – See the Seesaw video for an explanation of the challenge with the attached sheet at the bottom of this blog.

 

 

Science

Today we are going to start a topic called Exercise, Health and the Circulatory system.

Download the Powerpoint and work through it. There is a choice of two tasks on the last slide.

Your poster can be done on a computer or in your book. There is a choice of  cartoon strip templates in the resources.

Enjoy!

 

Fairtrade

This lesson focuses on the difference between wants and needs, and to identify what all humans need to live a decent life.

Task 1:

Think of these questions and note down any of your responses:

• What do you need to happy and healthy?
• Of those things, what are the most important?
• Of those things, what are the least important?

There is a difference to wants and needs. A need is something a person needs to survive and a want is something that is nice to have.

Task 2:

Use the ’12 Wants and Needs cards’ at the bottom of the blog to divide into two categories: needs and wants.

From your two lists, are there some that we can live without?

Task 3:

Select the needs cards that you might need to pay for e.g. healthy food, medicine.

Not all people in the world have enough money to meet their basic needs. Without enough money, it can be difficult to lead a healthy and happy life. Many of the farmers who grow cocoa for our chocolate are not paid enough money to meet their basic needs, even though they work hard.

Read Theresa’s story, on the PowerPoint, which shows how Fairtrade can help farmers and workers to meet their basic needs.

Then think about what can be done to ensure that all farmers and workers get their basic needs met.

 

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)

 

Well done. Another day completed!

 

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