St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 24th February 2021
Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 4:07pm
Wednesday 24th February 2021
Good morning Year 6. I hope you are all still well as we hit halfway through the week. 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 do not be overwhelmed by all of this and do what you can today – remember to look after your wellbeing!
Here are the tasks for today:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- Write a short memory or experience of you own that is similar to something you have read in your book.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on animals. This week focus on having every letter on the line.
Lizards
They emerge as arms of sun
Prise the clouds apart and stroke
The waiting, weathered wall.
Heads like probing fingertips,
Out to greet the hands that woke
Them with their golden call.
Speckled pocket dinosaurs
Dart at blink-speed from their cracks,
To stretch on smiling stones.
Summer’s gift, their kiss of life,
Bathes their mottled leather backs
And lubricates their bones.
Nothing tempts their tails to twitch,
Nothing turns their polished eyes
Or troubles them, it seems.
Danger breathes her whispered call.
Stealthy wing-beats stir the skies.
They disappear like dreams.
Spellings
The spellings for this week, short ‘y’ sound
- Today, write each word out in bubble writing. I have included the alphabet in bubble writing below for you, just in case you were unsure about any letters.
Writing task
Can I use the reading skills of retrieval and inference to describe the character of the Moor?
Read pages 16 – 21 (attached on the blog)
In this lesson, you are to retrieve information about the Moor. Watch the video sent through on Seesaw which explains how to retrieve and interpret his actions to help describe his personality.
The Impressions List and Target board are attached to bottom of the blog.
Maths – Subtraction Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 1/7 and 3/7 from:
4 , 16 1/7 , 27 4/7 , 81 , 45
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use column method for subtracting decimals?
There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Decimal subtractions’
- Maths challenge Decimals Missing Numbers. The same video on Seesaw will help guide you through the challenge.
Music
Today is the start of a new topic, ‘Pulse and Metre’. Follow this link, Understanding Pulse and Rhythm to Oak National Academy for today’s lesson.
French
Bonjour! On va continuer à apprendre le temps. We are going to carry on with our weather topic, adding expressions of frequency to our sentences (normally, sometimes etc).
Here’s a song to remind you of the weather phrases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBvJVOuBPXI
Now, you need to know what these words mean. Use this dictionary to look them up and listen and repeat the pronunciation.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french
You need the French to English page. Write the date in French in your book and the title:
Can I add expressions of frequency to weather sentences?
Write these words into your book and translate them into English:
Quelquefois et
Souvent mais
Jamais aussi
Normalement toujours
Now find the French words for the seasons and write them in English and French in your book. Add a little picture to help you remember them.
Now click this link and download lesson 5 with audio.
http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y6_French/Yr6AutumnFr.php
Ignore the poem if you wish! You are going to do the sheet on slide 3.You can print it out or just write the answers in your book. Do the right hand side of the sheet first as it’s easier. Now have a go at the left hand side, using the sentences on the right as models for your own sentences. It is asking you to describe the weather in England in summer, winter in Siberia, spring in Italy and autumn in Scotland.
You don’t need to do slide 4. We’ll come back to this next week.
Bravo – ce n’est pas facile! Well done! It isn’t easy!
RE
Can I illustrate a stained-glass window and give reasons for its design?
Please watch the Seesaw video named ‘RE. Stained-glass window’ which explains the task for today.
There is a template of a stained-glass window for you to use at the bottom of the blog if you wish but you may design your own.
Sumdog – Three challenges:
- Mental subtractions (200 target by Sunday)
- Divisions for 6, 7 and 9s (200 target by Sunday)
- Spellings ‘short /y/ sound’ (45 target by Friday)
Congratulations for making it to the end of Wednesday!