St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 13th January 2021
Date: 12th Jan 2021 @ 8:48am
Wednesday 13th January 2021
Good morning Year 6. We are half way through the week! Well done to those who have started or completed the Sumdog challenges so far: we have 22 pupils for x9 challenge but only 5 pupils for the fractions challenge - keep using Sumdog as it is great for practice.
Wednesday will always have extra tasks in as our timetable at school has French and Music so for today, try to complete as much as you can.
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:
- Finish the sentence: “I love the way the author …” Give examples to support your opinion.
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 staying on the line.
Peter Piper
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper;
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
Where’s the peck of pickled pepper
Peter Piper picked?
Spellings
-cial / -tial words
- All the spellings are on Sumdog (deadline is Friday for this as you can have your own spelling quiz at home).
- As an extra challenge, write each word, then colour in each syllable to help you spell, e.g. special, substantial, confidential
Writing task
Can I predict the next part of the story justifying with evidence from the text?
- Today read chapter 6 (44 – 54) where Tom sees the garden at various times: different seasons and different times of the day. He also witnesses the large fir tree being struck by lightning and the next time he visits the garden, the fir tree is standing. This is very confusing to Tom and he tries to ask his aunt and uncle about it without giving away what he knows. Now read chapter 7 (pages 55 – 60) as it is only very short.
- After reading both chapters, what are your predictions of the story now? Do you think it is a dream, Tom is a ghost or somethings completely different? To make a decent prediction you must refer to some evidence from any part of the story to try to validate it.
- We will be introducing individual Seesaw very soon so you can send your predictions directly to me and I can give you some positive feedback, hopefully that same day. We can then compare the predictions with those in school (do not worry, I will always keep your work private). Tomorrow, I will post some of their predictions too for you to have a look at.
Maths – Fractions Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting. We have done this so many times at the beginning of lessons: on number lines, out loud, etc. So for us to get used to this again, let's practice with counting in 10s. Add 10 to these numbers, ten times: 252, 1846, 15 635, 5.4 (e.g. 252, 262, 272, 282, 292, 302, 312, 322, 332, 342, 352).
- Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 question target for this week):
- 9 times tables
- Equivalent and Simplifying Fractions
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
Can I convert improper fractions to mixed numbers?
Follow the video to remind you of what improper fractions and mixed numbers are, Improper to mixed numbers. We have looked at this before but use the video to jog your memory.
Remember that illustrations will help, e.g.
(There is no challenge for today as you will need today’s and tomorrow’s learning for Thursday’s challenge, which is converting back from mixed numbers to improper fractions)
Music
Improvising rhythmic patterns. Follow the link below and complete the quizzes.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/improvising-rhythmic-patterns-6hh3jt
French
Start by watching this song and counting along:
(35) French numbers 1-100 - YouTube
Now, watch this video again to remind yourself how to conjugate a regular ER verb:
(35) French er verbs - YouTube
Then write the date in French in your home learning book: mercredi treize février
Now write the learning objective: Can I conjugate regular ER verbs?
Pause the video at 6:08 and copy out the verb jouer – to play, setting it out in exactly the same way as the video. So Je joue (I play) should be on the same line as Nous jouons (we play). Verbs are always set out like this so that the plural form of the subject pronoun is next to the singular form. Please use a different colour for the endings, just like on the video.
Pause the video again at 7:50 and copy out the verb Aimer – to like. Notice the endings are the same. Try to set it out just like you did for jouer.
J’aime Nous aimons
Tu aimes Vous aimez etc
Do you know why J’aime is written like this and not Je aime? See if you can find out if you’re not sure.
Find a dice if you have one. If not, just write the numbers 1 – 6 on bits of paper and turn them face down. Practise saying the correct form of the verbs by rolling the dice:
1 = Je 4 = nous
2 = Tu 5 = vous
3 = Il/elle 6 = Ils/elles
So if you roll/pick up 4, you would say nous jouons and nous aimons.
NOTE: PRONUNCIATION OF PLURAL FORMS OF AIMER: nous aimons is pronounce nou zaimon; vous aimez is pronounced vou zaimay, ils aiment = eel zaim; Elles aiment = ell zaim. There is what’s called a liaison between the final s of the pronoun and the verb because the verb starts with a vowel.
Don’t worry about the ‘on’ form of the verb as we haven’t talked much about that yet. It is an informal way of saying we…., but that’s just a step too far for now! Ignore it.
Merci beaucoup. A la semaine prochaine!
RE
See attached sheet for an explanation of the lesson, RE - researching the Bible.