Suggested Home Learning for Year 6 - week beginning 18.05.20

Hello Year 6! We hope you are well and have enjoyed completing last week’s activities. Did you watch a favourite movie and listen to the music?

KEY TASK- Remember to email us a copy of a 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! Perhaps use Jump Start

Jonny or Joe Wicks every day to stay fit and healthy!

Thank you and enjoy!

The Year 6 Team

DAY ENGLISH This week will build up to writing a thank you letter to a healthcare hero! Monday Focus: Healthcare hero letter – similes, metaphors and hyperbole.

Online task - Complete the daily lesson (18th May) and activities from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1 Alternative non-screen-based task – Write three similes and three metaphors to describe something that you can see through your kitchen window. Remember, a simile is comparing two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’. A metaphor is comparing two things by saying something or someone is something. Look at the examples in the box to see the difference.

Tuesday Focus: Healthcare hero letter – semi-colons and colons Online task - Complete the daily lesson (19th May) and activities from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1 Look back at page 24 of your CGP grammar book to remind you what a main clause is. Alternative non-screen-based task Write four sentences that will fit into your thank you letter. Two that use a semi-colon to separate two main clauses. Two that use a colon to introduce a list.

Wednesday Focus: Healthcare hero letter – preparing and drafting Online task - Complete the daily lesson (20th May) and activities from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1 Use page 21 of your grammar CGP book to remind you of paragraphs so that you are structuring your work effectively. Alternative non-screen-based task – Create a mindmap plan for the letter you are going to write tomorrow. Think about what you would like to say. What would you say if you saw a doctor or a nurse? What sort of feelings do you have?

Thursday Focus: Healthcare hero letter – time to write! Use your grammar CGP book to help you. Make sure that you are proofreading and checking your work. Online task - Complete the daily lesson (21st May) and activities from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1

Alternative non-screen-based task – Write your thank you letter to a healthcare hero. Make sure that you are using all of the techniques that you have used this week!

Friday Focus: Reading lesson – A pocketful of stars by Aisha Bushby Online task - Complete the daily lesson (22nd May) and activities from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1 Alternative non-screen-based task – Pick your favourite character from a book that you are reading. Write an ‘About Me’ paragraph that they could put on their website. What are their favourite books? What are their favourite movies? What are their hobbies?

DAY MATHS

Monday Use the links on Y6 class pages. Complete the lesson and then the tasks on multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 or 1000

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 – Draw a place value grid. Roll a dice and create a two- or three-digit number. Multiply the number by 10 and 100. What happens to the digits? Next divide the number by 10 and 100. What happens to the number?

Tuesday Use the links on the Y6 class pages. Complete the lesson and then the tasks on multiplying decimals by integers (whole numbers).

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 – Make the number 542 using all 6 of the numbers opposite. How many ways can you make the target number?

Wednesday Use the links on Y6 class pages. Complete the lesson and then the tasks on dividing decimals by integers (whole numbers).

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 – Use your skills of rounding to help you estimate the total cost of some shopping. Use the instructions above to help you.

Thursday Use the links on Y6 class pages. Complete the lesson and then the tasks converting a decimal number into a fraction.

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 – Write out a list of 5 fractions. Change the fractions into decimals by dividing the numerator by the denominator Eg. 2/5 2 divided by 5 = 0.4

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 problem of the week from the BBC Bitesize website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1

Write an explanation for which picture of Spiderman doesn’t belong. Why?

DAY OTHER

Monday History

Most Beautiful Places on Earth! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHAWwaYu2H0 Watch this video with someone in your house or a friend via video call. Have a discussion with your family member/friend to answer the following questions - Which place would you most like to visit and why? Which country is it in? Use a map/google to find out where it is. How far away is it in miles/km? What do you think it would be like to be there? Want something more? Create some art work using this place as inspiration or create a travel guide about this place.

Tuesday Science

You’ve made paper aeroplanes – now try a paper hovercraft! Follow the instructions carefully to create this paper hovercraft. Does it work with different materials – wrapping paper, newspaper or magazine paper? A link to help you http://www.sciencefun.org/kidszone/experiments/paper-hovercrafts/

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 your birthday in Spanish! https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/foundation/saying-your-birthday-in-spanish-year-6-wk3-2

Thursday Reading

Try reading something different today! https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/9-12/book-hopes/ This is a link to The Book of Hopes. It is full of poems, short stories and story extracts! Look in the contents page and decide on three titles that you want to read. Enjoying it? Flick through the book and find some more!

Friday Art

Watch this video and try out some of the patterns to create your own optical illusion! Keep practising and then try and teach someone else in your house how to create one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNskHdOs7XE

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

Words with a silent ‘b’ climb bomb crumb comb dumb lamb numb limb doubt debt Need a challenge? Try this game: https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-290575.htm

Words with silent h or k ghost honest mechanic rhythm scheme knitting knock knife knight knee Need a challenge? Try this game: https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-290575.htm

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

Make your own simple guitar. Use a tissue box, shoe box or fruit punnets to create a string-type instrument. Use the box for the base of the instrument and take four to six rubber bands. Wrap the rubber bands around the base, the long way, and make sure there is space between the rubber bands. Experiment with ways of making sounds with the rubber bands.

Plank Challenge Lie on the ground as if you are going to do a press up. Put your forearms flat on the ground and keep your back straight. How long can you hold yourself up? Start by trying a minute. Sock Juggling Roll three socks into balls. Can you juggle with them? Watch the clip below to help you – don’t give up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxzSHRbLAx4

Science Lingua Lab Growing Crystals Grow your own crystals at home with just salt water. It takes about a week for the crystals to grow.

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 – Food & Drink What did you eat today? Write it down. Use the past tense of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ (e.g. For breakfast I ate …, For lunch I drank …)

What is your favourite food? Advanced – Food & Drink

Write a paragraph about your favourite meal. What are all the ingredients? What are your five senses? Use them to describe

the meal. https://www.funenglishgames.com/worksheets/wordscrambles/food.html Work out what these English food names are. (Don’t look at the answers until you’ve tried!)Look at https://www.worldstories.org.uk for stories in different languages.