St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 20th January 2021
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 12:51pm
Wednesday 20th January 2021
Good morning Year 6. I hope you are all looking after yourselves and your family. Once again, there are many tasks attached to Wednesday because our usual timetable would include Reading, English, Maths, French, Music and RE, all in one day. Please don’t be overwhelmed by all of this as most of the tasks are short.
Here are the tasks for today:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Now is the time to build up reading stamina by reading for longer. Some of you do this already, which is great, but it is important that we all do it every day.
Reading activity for today:
- How did the book make you feel when you were reading it? Explain your answer.
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 = STOMACH)
My first is in cover but not in lid
My second in octopus, not in squid
My third is in marmalade, also in jam
And my fourth is in pork yet never in ham
My fifth is in uncle and also in aunt
My sixth’s first in treacle and fifth when in plant
My seventh is in every, eve and ewe twice
Whilst my last is in curry as well as in rice.
What am I?
(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).
- Write out the definitions of prefer, refer, transfer and differ (as they are the root words of the family of words given to you). Then create a mini poem using these words.
Writing task
Can I convert direct speech to indirect (reported) speech?
For this lesson, you will be sent a video in the morning (through Seesaw) explaining what the task is.
There is an attached document to go with it, Direct speech to indirect speech.
Maths – Percentages Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 1s.
1024, 1 843, 24 626, 274 763, 1 847 265
With each number count back in 1s, 10 times.
(1024, 924, 824, 724, 624, 524, 424, 324, 224, 124, 24)
- 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 between fractions, decimals and percentages?
This lesson is a culmination of all the learning of fractions, decimals and percentages. The best way to learn these is through practice – and lots of it. So for today’s lesson, watch the video, Converting FDP, and have the FDP cheat sheet I attached at the bottom of the page in front of you. Just because I call it a cheat sheet doesn’t mean you are cheating – use it for the whole lesson.
- Maths Challenge - FDP – today’s challenge is the same type of questions but in table form (which actually might be easier). The reason is because practice will be important so eventually you will just know FDP facts, such as 1/5 = 0.2 = 20%, 4/5 = 80% = 0.8. The more you practise, the easier tomorrow’s lesson will be.
The actual challenge sheet is split into 3 (1 star, 2 stars, 3 stars) which increase in difficulty. The answers are also attached to the same document.
Music
Body perscussion. Follow the link below and complete the quizzes.
French
We have been working on conjugating verbs for the last couple of weeks and you have done very well from what I’ve seen. This week, we are going to make the verbs negative. So instead of saying ‘He is listening to music’, we’re going to write ‘He is not listening to music’.
To do this, we have to put the words ne (nuh)……. pas (pa, silent s) round the verb. For example
Je joue au tennis. (I am playing tennis.)
Je ne joue pas au tennis. I am not playing tennis. The ne goes right before the verb and the pas come straight after the verb.
Nous jouons au football. Nous ne jouons pas au football.
The only complication is when there is a clash of vowels with the Je form of the verb.
So we know Je + aime becomes J’aime – I like. Drop the e from Je and put an apostrophe.
When we want to make this negative, we have to separate the Je and aime to put the ne and pas round. So it becomes Je ne aime pas… but we can’t write this! It has to be Je n’aime pas. It applies to all verbs that start with a vowel such as écouter (to listen) and arriver (to arrive) .
J’écoute = I listen or I am listening. Je n’écoute pas = I am not listening.
J’arrive = I am arriving Je n’arrive pas = I am not arriving.
I hope you understand this.
In your books, write today’s date (you can do this!) and the LO:
Can I make French verbs negative?
Using the same sentences that you wrote last week from the video, please rewrite them in the negative form, putting ne……pas round the verb. If you want to see them again, here’s a link to the video.
You can skip to 9 minutes 52 seconds.
After this, try to write some new negative sentences of your own. Aimer (to like) is a good verb to use because you know lots of food vocabulary.
Some examples would be:
Je n’aime pas les carottes. Il n’aime pas le jambon. Nous n’aimons pas le chou.
But you can’t write those: they’re mine! Well done for having a go.
We’re moving on to weather vocabulary next week so if you’d like to get a head start, follow this link.
Click on full tutorial. Now click on introduction. Then there are 3 other activities to practise – yes/no; either/or; What is it?.
Merci beaucoup. Tu parles très bien le français!
RE
Can I describe my favourite story/passage from the Bible and give reasons for it?
The Bible is important because it brings the reader or listener into the presence of God. It is God who speaks through the words of Scripture. Through Scripture, Christians are given strength and courage in their lives, not only to hear the Word of God, but to put it in action in their lives.
The Bible is a guide to help us achieve our school’s mission of ‘Live, Love and Learn as Jesus taught us’. We can use passages from the Bible to help us pray to God and reflect on our lives. Do you have a favourite story/passage from the Bible?
I have a few. See if any on my list are the same as yours:
Follow this success criteria:
- Choose one of these or one of your own and write a short summary about it (500 words).
- Why is it your favourite?
- Describe how it helps people in their daily lives.