Year 6 Home Practice - 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 2:54pm

Nearly one month has passed in Year 6 and you have all done extremely well. You are now organising yourselves efficiently with handwashing, the morning tasks and working on your individual targets. The past week we have introduced new Home Reading books and to clarify, these are the days each reading group will change their books:
Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

We have had an amazing response with 100% of you changing your books this week. Remember, as always, read 20 minutes every day.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• Our place value knowledge has widened as we have ordered, compared, identified, rounded, added and subtracted numbers up to three decimal places.
• Using our novel, ‘Clockwork’, we have improved our reading skill of retrieval and learnt how to describe scenes using exciting vocabulary.
• In Geography, we located the three peaks of the UK (Ben Nevis, Snowdon, Scafell Pike) and compared Ordinance Survey maps to Google maps to help us figure out the best route up Scafell Pike.
• For RE, our topic of ‘Unconditional Love’ continued with the ‘Prodigal Son’ story where the children animated one of the scenes to show their understanding of how the story relates to our lives today.
• In Art, we have used the Apple version of PowerPoint, Keynote, to create some self-portrait art. Check out some of the pictures in our Year 6 gallery.
• In French, we have been practicing our numbers to 100 and learning how to say the different family names. 

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

• Reading – you have all chosen your second Home Reading book for Year 6 this week so reading every night for 20 minutes is essential. You still have your new Reading Journal so any opinions, thoughts, discussions or vocabulary you come across, write them in there. We can then discuss these when you bring it into school.

• Spellings (-ious and ous words) which will be looked in detail from Monday:
  • • cautious, various, vicious, precious, conscious, conscientious, gracious, suspicious, perilous, hazardous, marvellous, adventurous, dangerous, glamourous, famous
• Sumdog challenges:
  • Decimal Place Value
  • SPAG – More Amazing Adjectives!
  • Spellings (-ious words)
    • I suggest writing these out first three times, 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.