Year 6 Home Practice - 11th December 2020

Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 1:04pm

For our penultimate week before Christmas, Year 6 have been preparing for the whole school Nativity with some super pointillism artwork and lots of ukulele practise to perfect the songs. We have also started our new Design and Technology project, sewing, which is a new skill for most of the class, leading to some great selflessness and kindness from others this week. The final sewing piece will begin on Monday!

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have been recapping last year’s knowledge of perimeter, understanding how to find lengths, add them and work out missing ones.
• In English, Room 13 has become very exciting with the mystery of the door unfolding thanks to detective work from the main characters. This week we have developed our skimming skill when researching Whitby Abbey and Bram Stoker.
• In RE, we have improved our knowledge on the story of the Nativity and chosen one of our favourite parts which captures the story well. We then linked our artistic knowledge of pointillism to create some super artwork for the Nativity filming this Thursday.
• In Design and Technology topic of sewing, we have been practicing 4 different stitches: running stitch, over stitch, blanket stitch and back stitch. The children have designed their Christmas themed sewing and are now ready to begin their final piece on Monday.
• In PE, we have been developing our skill of orientating maps and working in larger groups to help assign specific roles that enables us to work more efficiently as a team.
• In Music, we have been perfecting our Ukelele skills for the songs, ‘Blue Christmas’ and ‘See him lying on a bed of straw’. Their performances for the school Nativity were excellent and can be seen on our website very soon.
• In French, we wrote a book called ‘Qui a tue le pere Noel?’ = Who killed Father Christmas? based on the game Cluedo.
• Finally, for Science, we have researched and classified unusual creatures and designed one of our own ready for sculpting next week.

Well done to 93% of you for changing your book this week. Please keep using your Reading Journals to complete your new ‘reading challenges’.

The days when you can change your reading book one last time before Christmas:

Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 20 minutes every day.

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’.

• Sumdog challenges:
  • Perimeter
    • Do not forget that perimeter is the length of the outside of a closed 2D shape.
  • Fractions of a number
    • Use your times tables knowledge for this

(1/5 of 30 = 6, 2/5 of 30 = 12, 3/5 of 30 = 18, 4/5 of 30 = 24)

• • Year 5/6 words - December
    • This week is a recap of our learning, especially with the year 5/6 spellings, therefore I have included 20 of them to practise for next week’s quiz.

(accommodate, achieve, amateur, cemetery, conscience, curiosity, desperate, disastrous, embarrass, exaggerate, foreign, guarantee, harass, hindrance, immediate, lightning, mischievous, necessary, persuade, vehicle)