Year 6 Home Practice - 8th October 2020

Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 3:51pm

Well done to everyone for completing their Home Practice. We have had 96% changing their Home Reading books this week – let’s keep aiming for 100%. 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

This year we are using Sumdog as a great way to practice our learning that has been taught in school that week. We will always have a maths, spelling and grammar challenge to practice all week from Friday to the next Friday. We have had another brilliant response with 90% completing all the challenges by Wednesday – keep this up everyone, as little and often will help our learning for the following week.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have been using different strategies to add large numbers together and how to effectively use the written method.
• In our novel, ‘Private Peaceful’, we have developed our understanding of the characters, Tommo, Charlie and Mother and explored the themes that might run through this story.  
• In Geography, we learnt how the world consists of tectonic plates (part of the Earth’s crust) and that they move at an incredibly slow pace – around 100mm a year!
• For RE, we have begun our new topic, ‘Vocation and Commitment’, with some excellent debates on what makes a vocation. We also created some questions and interviewed a firefighter via zoom to understand their commitment to their role.
• In music, boomwhackers have been our focus to create our own unique beats.
• In French, we used the bilingual dictionaries to further understand, ‘le, la and les’.
• In Science, we have continued our research into non-flowering plants with mosses, ferns and conifers, and deciding how to present our research.
• Finally, this Friday, we celebrated our ‘Hello Yellow’ day which helped us to understand resilience and what ‘powers’ we have to improve our resilience.

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

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

Most of you are using your Reading Journals really well – just remember to add in any thoughts, vocabulary or any opinions you have of the book at any time, not just after finishing it.

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 (-sion / -ssion / -cian words)
  • We will be learning the -sion, -ssion spellings again, along with -cian words, which will be looked in detail from Monday:
    • division, television, discussion, session, mission, percussion, profession, politician, magician, electrician, optician, musician, technician, Egyptian, dalmatian
• Sumdog challenges:
  • x2, x5, x10, x4, x8
  • SPAG – More verbs
  • Spellings (-sion / -ssion, -cian 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.