Year 6 - Home Learning Activity Grid 13

Please use the activity grid to engage your child with home learning. There are also a number of website suggestions on our school

website, under ‘Home Learning’ to use alongside this grid. Please find additional materials to support this grid on the pages below. Your child has also been

given a home learning book to complete tasks in. A new grid will be uploaded to the website each week.

English Activities

TASK 1- reading comprehension

Complete Home Activity Task 1 before attempting the English tasks.

Read the poem Throwing a Tree below. Answer the questions about it in full

sentences.

TASK 2- poetry Look at the images below, which show the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Trees are cut down for paper and to create land to grow crops and graze cattle. Write a poem based on the images. This can follow any rhyming scheme you want or could be blank verse (non-rhyming). Think about the type of vocabulary you want to use to create a serious/tragic tone.

TASK 3- GPS

Complete the questions below. Write out your answers in full, practising your neat, cursive

handwriting.

Maths Activities

TASK 1- BBC maths lessons

Complete this week’s lessons from https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncssc

w/year-6-and-p7-lessons/1

TASK 2- problem solving Try this N-rich problem:

https://nrich.maths.org/223

Remember that you can check the Getting Started tab if you need help.

TASK 3- area and perimeter

Complete the questions below. Remember that the perimeter of a shape is the distance around the outside f it. The area is the amount of space it

covers.

Home Activities

TASK 1- science

Watch the following video clip and then read the information below about

deforestation. Complete the activates at the end of the information notes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/science-ks1-ks2-ivys-plant-workshop-

the-impact-deforestation-has-on-plants/zd34hbk

TASK 2- science The production of palm oil is one of the leading causes of deforestation. Watch the clip on this webpage and read the information on there. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/39492207

Once you have finished, create a pros and cons list for using palm oil. Is there a solution to the

problem? Check some of the ingredients in your kitchen at home. Which ones contain palm oil?

.

TASK 3- PSHE During difficult times, it is important that we

practise developing our resilience. At the end of this document are a number of statements. Tick which

ones you think would help you “bounce back” when something tricky happens. Once you have done this, create your own list of things that help you

feel better and get back on track. You may want to decorate this and post it somewhere in your room.

English Task 1- reading comprehension

1. Name the three different types of tools mentioned in

the text that are used to bring the tree down.

2. In your own words, describe the rhyming scheme the

poet has used.

3. List 10 of the adjectives used in the text.

4. The people who cut down the tree are described as

“executioners.” Why do you think the poet chose this

word? How does it make us feel about the tree?

5. The poem makes it seem as though the tree is

difficult to cut down. Find and copy one line that

gives this impression.

6. Find and copy a synonym for “cut” in the second

stanza.

7. What tense is the poem written in? Find and copy a

phrase to justify your answer.

8. In the fourth stanza, the tree is compared to a ship.

Find and copy the phrase that shows this.

9. Is the tree large or small? Justify your answer with

evidence from the text.

10. Do you think the poet approves of cutting down the

tree? Justify your answer with evidence from the

text.

11. In the first line, which word is a synonym for

“hills?”

12. What are the executioners named?

13. How old was the tree?

English task 2- poetry- picture prompts

English Task 3

Maths Task 3- area and perimeter

Home activity 1- science

Home Activity 3- PSHE