Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 15th April 2020

Happy Wednesday! I hope that you all managed to get into the swing of things yesterday and found your learning feet again.

Those children who have acted as digital leaders this year, I have sent you an email via Purple Mash. I would like to put something together about children keeping safe online whilst they are at home. Have a look at the email and see what you think! There is a little video here to explain how 2email can be used by all of you.

Maths - White Rose Home Learning Week 2 - Lesson 2 Ratio and Proportion Problems

Click on the button below to access the website. Please complete Week 2 Lesson 2 - Ratio and Proportion Problems.

Fluency and Sumdog - Have a go at the fluency board below and the Sumdog multiplication challenge that I have set.

English Romeo and Juliet - Today you are going to write the first two paragraphs of either Romeo or Juliet’s diary - The Balcony Scene - Introductory paragraph summarising the evening and the second paragraph where Juliet appears at her balcony, unaware that Romeo is in the Capulet orchard below.  Romeo is in awe. These are the first two boxes from your planning sheet yesterday. You can choose whether to write as Romeo or as Juliet. Think about the language you will use.

I have found an example that you can use to base your writing on. My example is from Romeo’s perspective. I have left the links below so that you can watch the film again and read the texts again. These will help you to capture the moment.

The PowerPoint below gives an example of my diary and the success criteria for this piece of writing. By the end of the week you will have a completed piece of writing, writing different paragraphs each day, You will then be submitting this piece of writing via Purple Mash at the end of the week. I look forward to reading your writing.

Science - Living things and their habitats. LIFE CYCLES.

Today we are going to start our science topic on Life Cycles. It is quite a big topic as it covers a lot of areas. Today we are going to start with a general introduction and then plants and their life cycles. Have a look at the lesson below and follow the instructions for the tasks.

Photography - In addition to the lesson, I want you to have a go at some photography. This is a really creative skill from our computing curriculum. Have you got any plants or flowers in your garden? What about when you go out on your daily walk? What can you spot? Take some interesting photographs and make them into a photo collage. Email them to me at n.gregan@ourladystarofthesea,lancs.sch.uk or via Purple Mash 2email. Let’s see what a beautiful world we live in. Be creative with your photographs. I have been planting with Alfie over the last few weeks. Have a look at our photographs (we have even managed to grow some vegetables and sunflowers).

Have a fun day of learning!
Don’t forget to join the school community at 7pm in prayer - 3 Hail Marys.

Monday March 23rd - Using Sumdog while we learn from home/school

Helping you to learn maths at home with SUM DOG

Follow the instructions, log on and play!

Dear children welcome to our online learning community. We will be helping you to keep learning every day!

We have subscribed every child in the school to the interactive maths website “SUM DOG.COM”. To get started I have made a little on screen instruction video below. You will need your username and password. The passwords for each class are to be found below :

Reception Sumdog Passwords

Year 1 Sumdog Passwords

Year 2 Sumdog Passwords

Year 3 Sumdog Passwords

Year 4 Sumdog Passwords

Year 5 Sumdog Passwords

Year 6 Sumdog Passwords

Home Learning 12th March 2020

English - Grammar paper in your revision book.

Maths - addition and multiplication of fractions. Calculate and then you can check these afterwards, marking and correcting your work. Go through your arithmetic paper, use it as a point of revision - what do you need to correct? What do you now need to revise?

Reading - there is a short read in your revision books - non fiction. Answer the questions in detail.

Spelling - suffixes. There are 20 spellings this week. The test will be on Wednesday.

establishment, advertisement, embarrassment, announcement, management, distasteful, disgraceful, remorseful, sorrowful, grateful, friendliness, justness, bitterness, sleepiness, quietness, unfocused, included, resigned, composed, required.

Home Learning 4th March 2020

English - Semi-colon work in your revision book. Please complete the sheet that you have got.

Maths - formal multiplication. Calculate and then you can check these afterwards, marking and correcting your work. Go through your arithmetic paper, use it as a point of revision - what do you need to correct? What do you now need to revise?

Reading - there is a short read in your revision books. Answer the questions in detail.

Spelling - suffixes. There are 20 spellings this week. The test will be on Wednesday.

encouragement, embankment, disappointment, entertainment, compartment, thoughtful, unsuccessful, respectful, insightful, stressful, illness, oddness, laziness, lioness, business, unaided, wrecked, heated, muted, untamed

Home Learning - Wednesday 26th February 2020

Spelling - cial and -tial

official, special, social, artificial, financial, essential, partial, confidential, initial, influential, presidential, torrential, potential, crucial, officially

Maths - Revise, Revise and Revise - use IXL and Maths is fun.

Complete the worksheet on dividing fractions.

English - Watch the clip where Dorothy meets the scarecrow and complete the sheet in your homework book.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmqRx3ypWwU

Dorothy meets the Scarecrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yejtZgzB5Ik

Home Learning - Year 6 Half Term Learning

With our assessments fast approaching, it is time to start preparing ourselves so that we know what to expect. when the tests finally come around. For homework this week, it is time to do a little revision ready for assessment week the first week back:

Spelling - please take your spelling books home this half term. Revise all spelling patterns that we have learnt since September.

English - There is a revision sheet at the back of your homework book - have a look at it. Particularly the tense aspect that you have been previously taught in other year groups.

Use IXL English to help you revise punctuation, word classes and sentence level work. Simply type this into the search bar.

Maths - Have a look back in your maths book at the reasoning questions that you have been answering for homework. What aspect of the arithmetic curriculum needs your attention?

Column addition/subtraction, formal multiplication, multiplication of decimals, short division, long division. Adding and subtracting fractions and multiplying fractions.

This website is brilliant - use it to teach and revise concepts

MATHS IS FUN

Reading - Can you complete the Fantastic Book Awards book? Read the next two chapters of Mary Poppins.

Home Learning - Wednesday 5th February 2020

Spelling - words ending tious and cial and tial

cautious, infectious, ambitious, superstitious, nutritious, scrumptious, fictitious, official, special, artificial, financial, partial, essential, initial, social

Maths - Complete the two pages of reasoning questions.

English - ~To write a letter of complaint in role as PL Travers to Walt Disney. Click on the task below to find the toolkit and planning information that we discussed in class.

Think about how PL Travers would speak and what she would say in her letter to Walt Disney. What was she unhappy with? Remember to be respectful of Walt but firm in your complaint. This is a formal piece of writing, therefore the language that you use should demonstrate that. Think about the requirements of a Year 6 writer and your previous targets. How can you ensure that you are including and evidencing them in this piece?

Home Learning Wednesday 29th January

Spelling - all of our words end in cious.

conscious, delicious, malicious, ferocious, vicious, precious, spacious, gracious, unconscious, luscious

For each word, can you include it in a complex sentence that is made up of a subordinate and main clause?Write 10 sentences in your book.

Maths - complete the Rapid Reasoning questions in your book.

Science/English - In the Wizard of Oz, we have seen that Dorothy’s house is destroyed by a cyclone. But what is a cyclone? Produce a piece of research as a poster, PowerPoint or in your book that answers these questions.

What is a cyclone?

When and where do cyclones form?

What are the types of cyclones?

Features of a cyclone.

Cyclone safety

Homework - Wednesday 22nd January

Spelling - next week will be a random test covering all of the spelling rules that we have looked at this year:

Silent letters, -ible ending, -able ending, -ibly and -ably ending, -ent ending, -ence ending, ei words, -ant, -ance and -ancy ending

Maths - Complete the two reasoning sheets with questions on for homework. Think carefully about what the question is asking you and how you are going to jot and annotate to get to your answer.

English - is Harry Potter a classic text? Complete the sheet in your book with 4 different reasons for it being a classic text and 4 different reasons against it being a classic text. Think about the criteria for something being a classic? This needs to be in school on Monday please.

Science - Who Was Carl Linnaeus? Next week, as part of our classification unit, we will be looking at the scientist Carl Linnaeus - but who was he? Complete some research about his scientific work. Can you collect some cohesive devices as you are researching? Record in your homework book.