We hope that you and your family are safe and well.  Please continue with the packs that we sent home and explore some of the weblinks we posted. If you have been a busy bee and are looking for more work, have a look below.

Checkout the below weblinks and documents (some of the documents also have answers)
You don’t have to print the documents – but can complete these in your exercise book. 

Don’t forget to keep practicing on TT Rockstars  – Have you improved your rock status?  Which times tables do you need to work on?

Also keep reading on Fiction Express.  Which book are you going to read next?  Have you completed any of the quizzes?  Voted?  Or emailed the author? 

Have you been starting your day with The Body Coach Jo Wicks exercises? We have, it’s great fun! https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Science – A free website to sign up to with lots of photos and videos to talk about.  https://explorify.wellcome.ac.uk/

Computing – Coding is one aspect of computing. All children in year 4 have used Scratch to create games.  Log on to the website go to create and click on tutorials.  Here it will show you how to do different things.  Why don’t you make a catch game? Or create animations that talk?   https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted

PE – There are are wide range of activities out there to keep the children active. The following website has even more ideas! https://www.aspire-sports.co.uk/aspire-active-hub

English Mystery Game

Maths Mystery Game

Daily News Story Comprehension

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

If you have completed all the pages from the CGP Maths revision guides, please go to the White Rose Maths website (click on link below) . The focus of the week will be on angles. Remember to record the answers in your exercise books.

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.

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.

Hi all, what strange and uncertain times we are all living in. To get you through the next week I have created a PowerPoint for you with various tasks to complete each day. Some of the slides have hyperlinks to web pages and other slides just require you to read directly from them and work into your exercise books at home.

Stay safe and have a lovely Easter,

The brightest rainbows follow the darkest storms.

PS – Thank you so much Year One for our lovely mugs! So very thoughtful, certainly brought a tear to my eye when I found it waiting for me last week!

This lovely website will give you an insite into the school’s dog and what she is up to. She also has lots of ideas of positive, creative activities you may like to do during these times

New chapters have been released today (Friday 3rd April) on Fiction Express.
The final chapter is now available to read for ‘Takeover’, ‘Ghostwriter’ and ‘The Cape of Bad Hope’. Did you vote for what should happen at the end of chapter 4?
Now read the final chapter and complete the quiz.
You can also interact with the author in the book forum.

Some children have also been reading different books that are on Fiction Express.
Chantelle has read ‘Spycase’, ‘Spychaser’ and ‘Mystery Box’
Jacob M has read ‘Pants on Fire’ and ‘Cool like Zelda’
Luke has read ‘Banana Boy Slides Again’
Lexi C-W has read ‘Stormwolf’
Ana – who has been a star – has read ‘Takeover’, ‘Being Super’, ‘Pants on Fire’, ‘The Golden Amulet’, ‘Gran is a Werewolf’, ‘Banana Boy’ and ‘Zero to Hero’
What did you think about these books?
Write a book review and email it in – we can add it to the blog!