St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 9th February 2021
Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 3:42pm
Tuesday 9th February 2021
Good morning Year 6. It is Tuesday – I see this as only three more ‘get-ups’ or two, if you can finish all your work by Thursday, so keep working hard Year 6! Do not forget that this week is Dance Week with the link for our school’s video here, Dance Week Video. If you would like to be on our school’s music video, send me a video of you dancing (just 10 seconds) through Seesaw by Thursday lunch time. Happy dancing!
Here are today’s tasks:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- Make a dictionary containing 10 difficult word from the text.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on old nursery rhymes. This week focus on having the descenders hanging low and the ascenders tall.
Two Little Dicky Birds
Two little dicky birds
Sitting on the wall,
One named Peter
One named Paul
Fly away Peter,
Fly away Paul;
Come back Peter.
Come back Paul.
Spellings
The spellings for this week, -sure / -ture
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- I have sent a Seesaw video (Spellings task) which explains the ‘Window Game’ task to complete.
Writing task
Can I write a play script between Tom and Mrs Bartholomew?
Read chapter 25 and 26 – A video has been sent through Seesaw.
The link for the BBC website I mention in the video is here, BBC Bitesize write a play
Please watch the video sent through on Seesaw which explains how to use the play script WAGOLL (which I have attached as a photo), the BBC Bitesize website and the success criteria.
Maths – Fractions Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting forwards in ¼ then ¾ .
7, 13, 25 ½ , 37, 55 ¼
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use partitioning to solve TU x U and HTU x U mentally?
There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Multiplication Partitioning’ and the challenge ‘Decimals’.
Science
Today we are going to look at Inheritance and Variation.
Inheritance means the passing of characteristics from one generation to the next.
Variation means that offspring will have many different characteristics to their parents. Some variations are more advantageous than others.
Remember the blackbirds last week? The white blackbird would be easier for predators to see so this would be a disadvantageous variation. This characteristic is unlikely to be passed on to its offspring because it might not live long enough to have any babies.
- Add these words to your glossary from lesson 1.
- Something to consider to start with: What if all humans looked the same? Click this link and add your thoughts to the padlet page. + means the good things, - means the bad things and you can add your interesting thoughts in the last column.
https://padlet.com/MrsQuilliam/year6
We will all be able to see each other’s ideas!
- Living things produce offspring of the same kind but offspring vary and are not identical to their parents. Do people ever say you look like your Mum or your Dad or another family member? Have you inherited any of their mannerisms? One of the characteristics that is inherited in humans is whether your ear lobes are attached fully or partially to your head. Are your ear lobes attached? Check with your parents whose you have inherited. Can you roll your tongue? This is another inherited characteristic.
- Have a look at the photo of the Cambridge family below.
What characteristics have been inherited from each parent? Are any of the children identical to either parent? Who looks more like whom, would you say?
- You’re going to have a go at being dog breeders now. Find the resource, Variation: Breeding Dogs below. If the corgi and the greyhound were the parents, what might their puppies look like? Which characteristics might the puppies inherit? How many variations can you make? You can either draw them or print out 2 copies and make 4 different dogs.
Put today’s date and the learning objective:
Can I explain inheritance and variation?
Draw or stick the dogs in your book. Write a paragraph to explain what you have learnt today about inheritance and variation. You could start by explaining what the words mean in your own words.
- Finally, have a go at the end of unit quiz below. This will help you recap all the things we have learnt over the last 6 weeks.
Well done, Year 6. We have reached the end of our topic on Evolution and Inheritance. You have worked as excellent biologists! Next half term, we will move on to a new topic.
Well done. Another day completed!