Year 6 Home Learning

Week beginning: 27/4/20

Hello year 6! I hope you have been enjoying the sunny weather this week! Mr Land has been challenging himself every other day by going out for his runs in this heat. He says, “The best part of the run is when I return home and my daughter squirts me with the cold water from the garden hose! It feels so rewarding and satisfying!” Have you been keeping active at home? We hope you have! In other news, Mr Pratley has had his hair trimmed by Millie, his fourteen year old daughter and lived to tell the tale! Mrs Moore has been busy too; last Tuesday she took part in the Guide Dogs Virtual Tea Party Guiness  World Record Attempt. Over 5000 people took part, smashing the previous record of 500. Here’s Mrs Moore and Tessa enjoying theirs:

Okay children – here is your English Learning for the week. Remember to email in any work you are proud of to the new email address

Guided Reading: (30 mins for each daily activity. Read for enjoyment for 30 mins a day too.)

Monday – Rooftoppers. Read page 66 and 67. Answer the comprehension questions.

Tuesday – Rooftoppers. Read page 68. Answer the comprehension questions.

Wednesday – Read for enjoyment.

Thursday & Friday – Plan and write a book review for Rooftoppers so far. Once you start writing, write at the end of the book review what you think will happen next and what will happen at the end of the book.

Consider the following questions to respond to, for the review:

-What is the story about?

-Was what happened unusual? How? Why? Did it add ‘value’ to the book though? How?

-Who are the main characters? Which do you find most interesting? Why? Are there any characters that you have not met yet but you think you will? Who?

-Have the characters changed throughout the story so far? How?

-Were feelings and attitudes/views described in depth? How? Why was this?

-What has been your favourite moment in the story so far? Why is this?

-Have there been any moments in the story that you think you could have improved? What changes would you have made?

-Have there been any characters in the story that you think you could have improved? What changes to the characters would you have made?

-Do you think the writer had a particular reason for telling this story? If so, what was the reason?

-Did you learn anything from the book about people? What were the elements you learnt?

-What do you think the overall message of the book is?

-Would you recommend it to other children your age or adults? Why is this?

Writing

Monday – Finish your response to the statement and question from last Friday.

Tuesday – Plan an information text about what kit/equipment you would need in order to complete a successful free-solo climb like Alex. Think about the physical pieces of equipment he used and also consider the physical characteristics you would need and the mental qualities you would also need.

Wednesday & Thursday – Write the information text – use your plan from yesterday.

Friday – Re-read your information text for sense and check that you have included a creative introduction and sum up your text (final paragraph) with perhaps what equipment and qualities are MOST important in order to be successful. Think about the physical and mental requirements…

Grammar (2 times a week – 1 hour total)

Please visit www.Satsbootcamp.co.uk

(30 mins) Click on Literacy bootcamp and select a grammar or punctuation skill that you know you need to work on. Explore the Learn, Games and Tests and Quizzes options. Play around with these links and test yourself for your chosen skill!

(30 mins) Go to Practise SATS tests link in the top right corner. Click on the SPAG Short Answers link. Please carry out the SPAG short answers Test 6. It says to give yourself 45 minutes, but you should be fine with 30 mins for the test!

Spellings (15 minutes for three days)

Look, cover, write and check the following words (do this for three days):

physical

condition

bruise

essential

definite

thoroughly

substantial

conscience

Apply into sentences if you are fully confident.

Maths Tasks 24^th April

Hello Year 6. For this week’s maths learning I thought you would like a few puzzles to solve which will require you to use your reasoning skills and persevere with a bit of trial and error. Don’t give up if you can’t get it straight away and, if you do think you have the answer, try and prove that you are correct. Remember you can email your solutions in to school. Okay? Here you go…

UPDATE – If you could not read the slides for Sarah’s Smoothies in last week’s work, here are the links to the tasks (you will need to enable flash player). We have had some inspired recipes sent in so far…

Task one: https://teach.conceptuamath.com/client/PremiumMats.html#activity=Gra5020102w

Task two: https://teach.conceptuamath.com/client/PremiumMats.html#activity=Gra5020103w

Task three: https://teach.conceptuamath.com/client/PremiumMats.html#activity=Gra5020104w

Monday/Task One

Remember factors and multiples? A factor is a number that divides into another number with no remainder: 3 is a factor of 12. Multiples are the times tables facts for a given number: 10 is a multiple of 2. For each of the areas A to H in the Venn diagram below, think of a number that can go in it, or say that it is impossible.

Tuesday/ Task Two

Look at the picture additions below. What do you notice? What do you wonder? What can the final shape (?) be? Explain your thinking.

Wednesday/Task 3

Let’s play four 4’s. For this puzzle you have to use four 4’s and any operations to make as many numbers between 1 and 20.  So, you could do 4+4 = 8 divided by 4 is 2 add 4 = 6 – that’s four 4’s.

Thursday/ Task 4

You have solved problems like this before. Think – what do you know? What can you find out?

Friday/Task 5

Pick one of the problem styles from the last four days. Create your own version and ask someone in your family to solve it (you could take a photo and send it to lots of family members!)

Science Learning

Family Science Activity – Friday 24^th April – STATIC MAGIC

The activity: Make objects move without touching them by charging them with static electricity. ExpeRiment: with different objects to see how static electricity affects them. Learn about charged particles like electrons and how things gain or lose charge.

https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/static-magic – for a video clip about the experiment and a full version of the activity information sheet.

What you will need:

• A balloon • A cotton towel or T-shirt or a woolly jumper • Some scrap paper • A paper/plastic drinking straw (optional) • An empty 500ml plastic drinks bottle (optional) • A hard plastic comb or ruler (optional) • Other household objects to test.

What to do:

• Charge up a balloon and try picking up scraps of paper with it.
• Investigate whether the amount you rub the balloon affects how much paper it can pick up.
• Investigate whether the size of the scraps of paper makes a difference.
•  Find out how close you have to be to the paper before the balloon makes it move.
• Try bending a stream of water like Hector does in the video.
• Try balancing a straw on top of a bottle lid and seeing if you can make it spin like in the video.
• Find out which objects are attracted to the charged up balloon and which are repelled by it.
•  Try holding a charged balloon near your hair or your skin.

Going Further:

Try rolling an empty soft drink can along the ground using a charged up balloon http://bit.ly/StaticCanRoll

Try lighting up a fluorescent lightbulb with a charged up balloon – as described here: http://bit.ly/LightBulbBalloon

Try tying two balloons to strings and seeing if you can charge them up with static electricity then hang them up so they repel each other.

Read more about static electricity http://bit.ly/ MoreStaticScience

HAVE FUN!

Music 

Steve Reich and Music for 18 Musicians

Go to the website below and watch Naomi Wilkinson’s video about Steve Reich. Try to answer her questions and join in with the activities she sets.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-steve-reich-music-for-18-musicians/zk44y9q

Can you create your own short rhythmic pattern (motif)?

What could you play it on?

Can other people in your family create their own and can you play them at the same time?

Art

Art Challenge: UNDER THE SEA

The title for your art this week is ‘Under the Sea’.  This can take the form of a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, a collage or anything else that you would like to create. As always, I’m sure you will impress me with your creativity!

Here are some ideas