Year 6 Home Practice - 16th October 2020

Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 6:07pm

Well done to the whole class for reading this week. We have noticed an improvement already in those who have read every day so please keep it up; little and often will make a huge difference this year. As well as reading, we have introduced the Home Reading Journals where you can add comments, opinions, vocabulary and any thoughts. This helps to show us how much you understand the book you have read. Thank you to those who have written detailed comments about their books. Once again, just to remind you, here are the days when you can change your book:

Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

Another thank you to those who have completed their Sumdog challenges by Wednesday. All the challenges will be a practice of last week’s learning which will always help when we review it the following week. We will always have a maths, spelling and grammar challenge to practice all week from Friday to the next Friday. This week have had another brilliant response with 87% completing by Wednesday. 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have been learning a range of mental strategies for multiplying large and small numbers.
• In our novel, ‘Private Peaceful’, we have investigated the relationships between Tommo (the main character) and every other character and improved our skill in summarising events. In Mrs Wood’s English lesson, we learnt about the brilliant story of Macbeth and wrote a letter to Lady Macbeth.
• In Geography, we learnt how mountains are formed through two tectonic plates moving towards, away and across each other, which eventually (over millions of years) creates ‘folded’, ‘fault-block’ and ‘dome’ mountains.
• For RE, in our topic of ‘Vocation and Commitment’, we wrote as John the Baptist and the impact that had on many people’s lives as Jesus began his mission.
• In PE, we have been preparing for this year’s first Intra Competition and the first ever Virtual Inter Competition – Football. It consists of dribbling around cones in the fastest time possible. All the schools in South Ribble are taking part so fingers crossed for those in Year 6!
• In French, we have been writing sentences using opinions and negatives, e.g. “I love … I hate …”
• Following last week’s research into non-flowering plants in Science, we have presented our information to the class and are now beginning to classify animals.

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks to be completed:

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

Please write in your Reading Journals often.

As you may know, we have access to Oxford Owl ebooks where you can read 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’.

• Spellings (-ant, -ance)
  • Just like last week, these spellings will be looked in detail from Monday:
    • assistant, assistance, arrogant, relevant, important, importance, appearance, extravagant, hesitant, reluctant, nuisance, hindrance, ignorance, resistance, restaurant
• Sumdog challenges:
  • x2, x5, x10, x3, x6, x9
  • SPAG – Adverbs
  • Spellings (-ant, -ance words)
    • Once again, I suggest to first write these out on a piece of paper, then play the games. We will look at these spellings in more detail from Monday so the spelling of these words will be easier after we have investigated them.