Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 6th January 2021

Date: 5th Jan 2021 @ 3:09pm

Wednesday 6^th January 2021

Good morning Year 6. I cannot express how gutted I am that I will not see you all today. We will hopefully only be away up until half term which gives us just over 5 weeks to keep working hard, recapping, practising and learning new things so we are all ready for Spring 2 when we finally meet up again.

Every day, I will write up a daily Home Learning blog, which will follow the same timetable we do at school and it is important that you complete all the tasks I set. I will explain them all in detail and if any become too tricky or you are unsure of anything, you can always ask your parent to contact school where I will do my best to answer your query as soon as I can.

During this time it is important that you look after yourselves and your wellbeing – remember, the two most important things to me are your happiness and safety so do take care of yourselves and your family during these times.

There will be a YELLOW HOME LEARNING BOOK to collect from the office along with a copy of our new novel, 'Tom’s Midnight Garden'. All work can be completed inside it (including Writing, Maths, History, Art, etc).

Reading

As usual, I believe reading is the number one thing we should do every day as it is the key to all our learning. Please read for 20 minutes. You may 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. If you would like to use this great resource, the username is ‘sto56’ with the password ‘1234’.

School reading books can still be used (and preferred over your home books). Simply notify the school of when you will be coming and I can arrange a box to be in the school office for when you arrive.

Do not forget to continue using your Reading Journals for any thoughts, opinions, predictions and new vocabulary you find. I will give your reading activities each day starting from next week.

English

On Monday, we started our new novel, 'Tom’s Midnight Garden' and were introduced to these characters:

Tom (main character)

Peter (brother of Peter)

Mrs Long (Tom’s mum)

Uncle Alan

Can I write my first impressions of each character based on the evidence from the text?

Depending on whether you receive the school novel today or not, you can still complete this task by remembering what happened in the first 5 pages of the book (Tom left his house as his brother Peter had the measles and Uncle Alan drove the boy to his poky flat). Think about using adjectives to describe what kind of people they are based on what happened during those 5 pages.

When you finally receive the novel, continue reading through chapter 1 (Exile) to page 8. Try to answer the following reading questions:

• How was Tom being deceiving to his aunt? (page 5)
• Why was Tom unhappy with his room? (page 6)
• On page 8, Tom had smiled condescendingly – use a dictionary or internet to find out what that means.
• In the first chapter, what evidence shows that Tom is angry?
• Based on what we have learnt, how would you describe Tom and his brother Peter’s relationship?

Sumdog

I have set two challenges to completed by Sunday: both have a target of 100 correct answers.

• Week 1 – x7 tables
• Week 1 – Rounding and Place Value

Maths – Place Value Week

Can I understand negative numbers in context?

Can I find the difference between positive and negative numbers?

I am sure you will all be used to White Rose Maths, which we use in school regularly and during last year’s lockdown. My planning does not follow the same structure as White Rose Maths so please check which part of the Year 6 curriculum I have sent you to and also follow the video links as it will take you to the explanations of how to complete the activity.

To access the videos below, simply click on the link or type it into a search engine to find them. If you head to St Oswald’s website and click on ‘classes’ – ‘Year 6’ – ‘Home Learning’ – ‘White Rose Daily Maths’, you will find the following resources that we will also be using:

• ‘Year 6 – Autumn Block 1 Place Value: I have attached the video links to this document and the worksheets at the bottom of this blog.
  • Negative numbers (in context)    
  • Negative Numbers - difference

RE

Our new topic is ‘Community: Sources’. To begin to understand this topic, I want you to think about a wide variety of books and the purpose for which they were written.

Did you know that only a few hundred years ago, books were only for the very rich, as they were costly and written by hand by monks. Later, when printing was first invented, they were still expensive and also very few people could read. Nowadays, books are for everyone.

If possible, discuss with someone whether Kindle or electronic books would ever completely replace actual books. Is it a book or not? What makes a book a book? What are the pros and cons? Is it possible to imagine a world without books? Talk about how books enrich our lives, whether they are electronic or hard copies, how they can take us beyond our environment and our own thoughts and ideas. Discuss how books might have influenced your thinking, ideas or behaviour.

Task:

• Look around your house and find many different books (atlas, Guinness World Records, novels, dictionary, diary, cookbook, etc).
• Copy the table below in your YELLOW BOOK and add the books you find to the list.
• In the right column, write what and for whom they have been written for.

French

In French this week, we are going to recap the conjugation of regular ER verbs which we looked at briefly before Christmas.

Watch this video to remind yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DarS8y_zrM&safe=active

Pause the video at 9 minutes 24 and write out the sentences,  choosing the correct verb ending. Press play again and check your answers.  Now read your sentences out loud, being extra careful with your pronunciation. If you like, you can write some more sentences of your own. 

French people celebrate Epiphany on the 6th January with the Fete des Rois. Here's a story to listen to . See how much you can understand. You can always slow down the speed. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04JiV_Ua6Wc&safe=active

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