Home Learning – Week 3 (WB 6.20.2020)

Dear Year 6, we hope that you are all doing well during these challenging times. As part of the Year 6 family, we are all missing you but are also aware that being at home is the most safest place to be at the moment. Remember to follow some of the tweets on the school’s website such as how to keep active and keeping safe online. If you have completed the revision guide booklets, below are some activities that you could complete Use the exercise books that you were all given to record any written work. Kind regards, Year 6 Team 🙂

Maths

Day	Key Skill
Monday	Vertically opposite angles
Tuesday	Angles in a triangle
Wednesday	Angles in a triangle – Part 2
Thursday	Angles in a triangle – Missing angles
Friday	Angles in special Quadrilaterals

English

Watch the clip below of Mega City (taken from the Literacy Shed). After you have watched the clip, choose some of the following:

• Retell the story in your own words as a 3rd person narrative. 
• Retell the story in the 1st person either as Jack or his dog.
• Describe the city and the countryside using specific language to create a mood/atmosphere. 
• Write a dual narrative both through  the eyes of Jack and his dog. 
• Write dialogue between the pair and focus on the differences between speech and thought.
• Create an advert for your own pet food using a range of persuasive devices.

Grammar

Focus for grammar this week is on Word Classes and Grammatical Terms. This will cover areas such as adjectives, pronouns, determiners, etc. Download the booklet and answer the questions (in your exercise book). Remember you do not need to complete every section.

Grammatical Terms & Word Classes
Question Booklet	Click Here
Answer Booklet	Click Here

Spellings

For spellings this week, read through each sentence and identify the word which has been spelt incorrectly and then correct it. Afterwards, look through the answer sheet and check to see if you have identified all the misspelt words correctly.

Identify Misspelt Words Task
Spellings Questions	Click Here
Spelling Answer Sheet	Click Here

We understand that now the government have taken the step to close schools this will be inconvenient and possibly a bit overwhelming. It certainly wasn’t in our plans.  We have developed a pack for ideas and activities over this time.

Tip 1: You don’t have to recreate school in your house. Desks and tables are not mandatory. In fact sitting on a couch (even upside down) or in bed can make it more comfortable.

Tip 2: Read every day. Read to your child / children. Listen to them read. Read comics, read picture books, read on-line, read books that you loved when you were a child. And if you need some chill out time, find an audiobook.
(Check out this website for more reading tips https://readforgood.org/reading-inspiration/ )

Tip 3: Play. Play board games and card games. Play charades. Play Pictionary. Have lego competitions – but try and stay away from the consoles!

Tip 4: Write letters and diary entries documenting your days. Keep them! It will be interesting to look back at these and remember the time they were stuck at home!

Tip 5: Enjoy a slow rhythm together at home…no early morning rushing to get to school on time.

Tip 6: Be creative. Do the things you don’t normally have time for. Build a fort. Design a robot. Bake cakes. Paint.

Tip 7: Make a record of what you have done with the day – take photos and email them to school. (Look out for updates on our Twitter feed to see if your photo makes it onto our twitter feed)

Tip 8: Get physical and get active. You may be in the house but that doesn’t mean you can’t exercise.
Useful links:        Youtube – Cosmic Kids Yoga, Joe Wicks kids workouts, Go Noodle, Just dance

                                Twitter – Follow CapnPetesPE

We look forward to when school is open again and the children can share all the activities that they have been doing.

Please keep following our twitter feed for any further details or ideas over this period.

Activities

Complete your POWer Projects
See the Project sheets for more information

Complete your ‘Dennis to the Rescue: Recycling at Home’ Booklet

Maths
Complete Disaster Maths Quests

Work through rest of the revision guides, focusing on areas you know you need to work on.
Estimate the area and perimeter of different rooms in your home. How can you find out if you are correct? Draw scale diagrams for each room with labels.

English
Work through rest of the revision guides, focusing on areas you know you need to work on.

Design yourself a superhero and create a comic strip of their adventures. What makes the superhero unique? What superpower do they have? What adventure will they get up to? Be as imaginative as you wish.
Write book recommendations and reviews for the books you have read over the period. Create some art work related to the book to go on display when we start back at school.

Create your very own Thesaurus by identifying any ‘amazing’ vocabulary in the books that you read, record the definition of those words and challenge yourself in finding their synonyms.

For some free online grammar activities go on to: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar  – the website has a range of activities for you to try.

On-line Activities:

TT Rockstars – What level can you get to in ‘Garage’? Can you get faster in ‘Studio’? Aim to play at least 10 games a day. Send ‘Rock Slams’ to your teacher. Look out for when your teachers are playing a live Battle (Keep an eye on school website and year group area for more details)

Fiction Express – Use your new log ins and start reading. Mr Mahal recommends ‘Ghostwriter’ (new chapters published weekly with the option to vote to decide what happens next). Mrs A-B recommends ‘Mystery at Moon Base’ which is a complete book.

Home Learning Projects – https://www.robinhoodmat.co.uk/learning-projects/ Try to complete some of the 5/6 projects every week. Include links to various sites for various subject areas.

Testbase – Maths questions taken from lots of example tests – Look out for the URLs on your group pages for the questions. (The questions will also come with a tab for the mark scheme so you can check your child’s answers too)

Literacy Shed – Visit the ‘Literacy Shed’. Watch different short films to get some inspiration for your free writing. (Below each clip are some ideas for your writing). Mrs A-B recommends ‘Monkey Symphony’ and Mr Mahal recommends ‘Mega City’.

Maths Shed –  Choose the games you wish to play. Log into https://play.edshed.com  and  type in your personal username and password.

Gordon’s Maths Games – https://garyhall.org.uk/gordons-numeracy-itps.html

Music Activities – https://home-ed.info/heresources/music_resources

Please check out the school website and the Year 6 Blog for further activities and information. https://coundon-coventry.org.uk/category/year-6-blog/

Welcome all to the Year 6 blog.