Suggested Home Learning for Year 6 - week beginning 08.06.2020

Hello Year 6! We hope you had fun making a rainbow in a glass.

KEY TASK- Remember to email us a copy of the key task we have set you, by lunchtime on Friday. This task is highlighted

in red in your timetable below. We would love as many of you as possible to send in this piece of work.

READING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY – Please don’t forget to read every day and get active too!

Thank you and enjoy!

The Year 6 Team

DAY ENGLISH This week will build up to planning and writing a story Monday Focus: apostrophes

Online task - Complete the daily lesson (8th June) and activities from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zn csscw/year-6-lessons/1 Alternative non-screen-based task- Pick 5 nouns (people, places or things) and write sentences using apostrophes to show possession. Write 5 sentences using apostrophes to show contractions.

Tuesday Focus: direct and indirect speech Online task - Complete the daily lesson (9th June) and activities from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1 Alternative non-screen-based task – “Think about a memorable conversation you have had recently,” said Mrs Brookman. “Why!” asked the children. “Because I would like you to write it out to practise your use of direct speech,” smiled Mrs Brookman.

Wednesday Focus: commas for clarity Online task - Complete the daily lesson (10th June) and activities from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1 Alternative non-screen-based task Make a poster to share different ways to use commas. Remember that commas are used for parenthesis, after fronted adverbials, to mark out a relative clause and to separate items in a list.

Thursday Focus: informal Online task - Complete the daily lesson (11th June) and activities from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1 Key task: – Complete p48 in your grammar book. Use the picture opposite as inspiration for writing a paragraph. Write a chatty one first. Next, find formal synonyms for some of your word choices and change the paragraph into a more formal one. Do you need to change the genre you are writing in? Which did you find more of a challenge?

Friday Focus: reading Online task - Complete the daily lesson (12th June) and activities from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1 Alternative non-screen-based task – Reread the second to last chapter of a book you have already read. Think about an alternative ending. How could the ending be different? Could you leave it on a cliffhanger? Could the hero/main character do something to hint to the reader that other adventures await.

DAY MATHS

Monday Use the links on the Y6 class pages. Watch the video and then complete the tasks on finding a rule for one and two step problems

https://stmichaelsprimary.bournemouth.sch.uk/year-6-home-learning/

Log on to MyMaths. Complete one of the set lessons and then the online homework.

Non-screen-based task – complete page 48 to 49 in the Maths SATs question book

Tuesday Use the links on the Y6 class pages. Watch the video and then complete the tasks on understanding algebra

ohttps://stmichaelsprimary.bournemouth.sch.uk/year-6-home-learning/

Log on to MyMaths. Complete one of the set lessons and then the online homework.

Non-screen-based task - complete page 50 to 51 in the Maths SATs question book.

Wednesday Use the links on Y6 class pages. Watch the video and then complete the tasks finding a formula for algebra

https://stmichaelsprimary.bournemouth.sch.uk/year-6-home-learning/

Log on to MyMaths. Complete one of the set lessons and then the online homework. Non-screen-based task – complete page 52 in the Maths SATs question book

Thursday Use the links on Y6 class pages. Watch the video and then complete the task on solving one step equations

https://stmichaelsprimary.bournemouth.sch.uk/year-6-home-learning/

Log on to MyMaths. Complete one of the set lessons and then the online homework.

Non-screen-based task – complete page 53 and 54 in the Maths SATs question book

Friday Log on to TT Rockstars. Go on to Battle of the Bands to play against the other Year 6 classes.

Log on to access the challenge of the week from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1

Non-screen-based task – Test your arithmetic skills and complete p23 of the CGP Arithmetic SATs Buster book.

DAY OTHER

Monday Geography

Investigate the different environments and weather in Brazil. Create a PowerPoint to share the answers to these questions: What is the weather like in Brazil? Name the rainforest. Why is it called a rainforest? Is it always hot in Brazil? How often does it rain?

Tuesday Science

Create a rainforest in a bottle. When you go out for a walk next gather some small twigs and foliage to create a rainforest in a bottle. Can you make a canopy and a shrub layer?

https://ptaourchildren.org/earth-day-craft-rainforest-in-a-bottle/

Wednesday Spanish

Take this lesson teaching you how to speak Spanish. Recap what you have learnt so far and then continue to learn how to say where you live

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/foundation/how-to-say-the-date-in-spanish-year-6-wk4-2

Thursday Reading

Try listening to something different today! https://stories.audible.com/pdp/B07533YSBN?ref=adbl_ent_anon_sc_pdp_pc_0 This is a link to the audible book we are listening to in class– Kid Normal. What impression does the title of the book give you? If you were to have superpowers, what would they be?

Friday Art

Go to the Tate online museum and draw a sound creature. Listen to a sound and use it to inspire a drawing. There are five different sounds to choose from. Your challenge is to draw a creature inspired by the sound you hear. https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/art-technology/draw-sound-creature

Spellings Please learn these during the week and ask an adult to test you on Friday. We would love to know how you have done. Why not send your score when you email us your weekly key task.

Mrs Bridges and Mrs Julia’s English group Mr Short, Miss Brown and Mrs Brookman’s English group

Synonyms and Antonyms – Shouted and Whispered bellowed screeched squealed shrieked squawked whispered murmured breathed sighed muttered Website Link: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-e-244-prefixes-and-antonyms-multiple-choice-quiz-game-powerpoint

Synonyms and Antonyms – Big and Small immense vast gigantic gargantuan mammoth miniature miniscule insignificant microscopic petite Website Link: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-e-244-prefixes-and-antonyms-multiple-choice-quiz-game-powerpoint (OTHER SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS)

Keen Beans! Other things if you would like to have a go: For the keen beans amongst you, why not try out one of these extra activities:

Links to our usual platforms and other websites:

Bug Club https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0

Busy Things https://www.busythings.co.uk

Times Table Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com

French work www.languageangels.com

My Maths https://login.mymaths.co.uk

Oak National Academy www.thenational.academy

Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

White Rose Maths resources https://whiterosemaths.com/

Music Physical Exercise

Think about the sounds of daily life. Go for a walk with your parent or someone at home and take notes on what you can hear. What might you hear on the way? What might you hear when you are there? Compose a song about the noises you heard.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cosmic+yoga Why not try some yoga at home to keep you flexible. The Cosmic Kid session is inspired by Harry Potter.

Get creative Lingua Lab https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-

video/design-and-technology-ks2-developing-

ideas-for-inventions/zdc7nrd

Open the link above and listen to the video about great inventions. Use this as inspiration for creating your own invention. Think about what the world needs right now and then draw a picture of your creation with labels to show us how it works.

Click the link to the Lingua Lab page on the school website for useful online resources and other ideas for helping you to improve your English.

Beginners – Animals Create a new animal. Draw it. Use body parts from different animals (e.g. elephant’s feet, lion’s mane,

crocodile’s tail). How many animals can you include? Label your drawing in English.

Advanced – Animals Research an animal that lives in your home country. Write

a Fact File about the animal for a visitor to your country using subheadings and bullet points.