Year 6 2020/2021

Hello to our Year 6 class and their families!

If you are currently learning from home, this is where we will add our links and activities each week. They will mirror the work we cover in school but please don’t panic! You don’t have to do everything, just enjoy doing what you can together.

Generally speaking, the English homework, Maths homework and spellings will still be posted on Seesaw every Monday afternoon. Below are links for times tables and reading at home:

• Times Table Rock Stars https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student 
• Read Theory comprehension https://readtheory.org/auth/login
• Oxford Owls eBook library https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/free-ebooks/

It would be lovely if you could share your work with us through Seesaw or email at r.carson@knottyashprimary.co.uk

Take care,

Mr Houghton, Miss Haws, Mrs McCormick and Mrs Brown. 

Maths and English for those working from home:

For those of you having to stay at home, it's always a good idea to use the time to do a bit of revision on some key skills. To keep your skills sharp, use the Times-Tables Rock Stars, Oxford Owls and Read Theory websites - they are chock full of excellent practice tasks.

Writing Challenge -  You could write a diary extract/recount telling me about your week off. I would like it to be at least 3 paragraphs long and I would like you to focus on using description (adjectives, adverbs and similes).  In your diary, I would like you to pick three different events/days and describe each one, telling me what happened, who was there and when it was. Explain your thoughts and feelings and how the events were.

Good luck with all of these activities and I hope you are keeping well.  If you can, it would be great if you could upload your work to SeeSaw.

Maths Work - working from home? Try these tasks:

This week in class we will be exploring ordering numbers and also rounding.  I will upload any worksheets we complete.  Watch these videos to help your understanding:

This video is for ordering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QruhHg42BOU

This video is for rounding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd-E18EqSVk

English

In English, this week we are focusing on using prepositions in our writing, adding detail and description. Below are different activities you can do to remind yourself of how to use prepositions in your sentences.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zs9ytrd

There is also a link below about settings and how we identify a setting. After completing your character description, you may wish to do a setting description of the scene where the witches are on the heath. We will be doing this at the end of the week also.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpccwmn/articles/z8mqsrd

Any worksheets we do in class will be uploaded below to help support your home learning.

Maths

In Maths this week, we will be working on adding and subtracting numbers that have a decimal.  We will also be looking at labelling number lines too.  I will be uploading any worksheets that we do this week.

Below are some videos that will help you with the work.

Hello all,

I hope you are still doing very well.  Here are some more tasks to keep you occupied if you are stuck at home isolating !  As always, if there are any problems, just give me a shout. 

Thanks,

Mr Houghton :)

P.s. I would love to see anything that you are proud of on seesaw, twitter or email! :)

Task 1 - Mathematics: More problems relating to time and clocks - so very useful.  The worksheet is attached below.  Try practising reading a 24 hour clock and understanding how to read the time in 24 hour clock.

Task 2 - Grammar: Modal Verbs worksheet.  Explore a variety of Modal Verbs (They tell us the possibility of something happening.)

Task 3 - Create your own comic strip on an A4 page. It can be about anything.  Maybe use characters from a story you like e.g. Harry Potter or Avengers.  Remember to think about who is going to be in your story, what is going to happen in your comic and where it is going to be.  Think of a start, middle and an end before you begin.  In a comic strip, you can annotate each picture and also use character's speech bubbles.  I would love to see them and put them on the website if you finish them.

Task 4 - Reading : Continue to read a book from your house.  If you need any suggestions for online books or eBooks, let me know.

Task 5 - Online apps: keep using Times Tables Rock Star and the Spelling shed; I have all log ins if you need them.

Task 6 - Inclusive Curriculum: After researching Greta Thunberg recently, it could now be a really good opportunity to explore how we can protect our planet and how we can look after the environment.  It would be great if you could do a small project on this.  You might want to make a book art book, a poster, a power-point or a video presentation of your chosen topic.  

You could explore sustainable energy/renewable energy - find out what it is, different ways of producing sustainable energy like wind turbines or solar panels and draw a picture of different types of sustainable energy sources.

https://www.ducksters.com/science/environment/renewable_energy.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kUE0BZtTRc  National Geographic - renewable energy

https://climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/energy/

You might also want to explore climate change, what causes climate change and what the effects of climate change are.

Then you might want to look at how we can combat climate change in our local communities.  Look at reduce, reuse and recycle, as well as, fossil fuels and renewable energy.

http://www.ecokidsusa.org/3rs.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv7OHfpIRfU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok8rMT2KCy0

It is a really important topic and you can present your ideas in anyway that you want.

Enjoy the work and, as always, make sure you do something that makes you smile every day!

All the best,

Mr Houghton :)

Tasks for week beginning 11th of May 

Hello all,

I hope you are still doing very well.  Here are some tasks for this week!  As always, if there are any problems, just give me a shout. 

Thanks,

Mr Hall :)

P.s. I would love to see anything that you are proud off on twitter or email! :)

Task 1 - Mathematics: Questions about measurements worksheet (attached below).

Task 2 - Grammar: A worksheet on using apostrophes for contractions.  A contraction is when an apostrophe takes the place of a letter to shorten and join two words e.g.  could not = couldn't 

Task 3 - Writing: watch a movie and write me a review of it; you could also watch a series.  I would love a summary of what the movie was about - remember not to include any spoilers.  I would also love to hear several points about what you liked about the movie and several points about what you might have changed about it.  Finally, I want you to say whether you would recommend the movie or not.  Remember to use description of the characters and story, as well as, Year 6 punctuation.

Task 4 - Reading : Continue to read a book from your house.  If you need any suggestions for online books or eBooks, let me know.

Task 5 - Online apps: keep using Times Tables Rock Star and the Spelling shed; I have all log ins if you need them.

Task 6 - Inclusive Curriculum: sketch and colour a portrait of Greta Thunberg.  Around this portrait write facts about her.  Find out:  who she is, what she has done, where she is from,  why she has done it and when she has done it.  Feel free to throw in more information that you find interesting.

Here are some links to help:

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/kids-club/cool-kids/general-kids-club/greta-thunberg-facts/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzLuAHLR53A

Tasks for week beginning 4th May 2020:

Hello again,  I hope you are keeping well and looking after eachother.  If you ever need anything, just give me or anyone at the school a shout.  Remember to check out the twitter, it's Deaf Awareness week this week and I am sure there will be some super challenges!

It's important that you access Times tables Rock Stars, the Spelling Shed and read some a of a book weekly as these will help keep your basic skills coming along.  If you need any of the log ins for these please do let me know.  However, the most important thing is that you keep busy and happy!

Thanks again and have a great week!

Mr Hall :) 

P.S.  if you haven't already, check out the challenges from previous weeks!

Task 1 - Maths : Learn to tell the time.  Try and learn 24 hour clock too.  Then work out the time problems I have attached.

Task 2 - Grammar : Read my list and instruction for revision, then follow the question commands to collate a lots of description.

Task 3 - Writing : Use all of the descriptive techniques from the Grammar task to complete a written piece using the writing document I have uploaded - it's based on Little, Red, Riding Hood.

Task 4 - Reading : Continue to read a book from your house.  If you need any suggestions for online books or eBooks, let me know.

Task 5 - Online apps - keep using Times Tables Rock Star and the Spelling shed; I have all log ins if you need them.

Task 6 - Inclusive Curriculum:  in the last term we were exploring Ideal Societies.  I would like you to think about what the perfect society (place to live) would look like.  I want you to plan a town/village/city and try to make it the perfect place for YOU to live.  it is all your opinion, therefore there is no right or wrong answer.

Here are some prompts for you to think about: what shops are there? What do the houses look like? Are there any natural features like lakes, mountains, forests or oceans etc? What do the people look like or wear? Do they have any form of transport or do they walk? What jobs do they have? What do they do for fun? Are there any animals? Are there any places to visit like zoos, theme parks or cinemas?

This is how you might do this project:

Step 1 - Make a list of all buildings/shops/natural features that would make your town perfect - think about transport and where houses and shops might be placed.

Step 2 - Make a list of what would make the people that live there perfect - would they have food, jobs, hobbies, homes, pets, families or money?

Step 3 - Think about how you want your people to live and how you want your town to be organised. Where would everything go, who would look after it?

Step 4 - Get a page and draw or paint your perfect society/town.  Think about where you want everything to go to make it perfect.

Step 5 - write a paragraph about what makes your settlement a perfect place to live.

Step 6 - Tweet it!

Tasks for week beginning 27th of April

Here are some tasks to work your way through this week.  Try and find the enjoyment in learning and, of course, if you have any questions or problems, give me a shout! :)  Feel free to keep going with the Easter Work which is further down the class page or start working away at these tasks! :)

Mr Hall

P.S. All of the worksheets should be attached just below this writing.

Task 1: Maths Worksheet based on the four functions -  attached to the class page.

Task 2: Grammar worksheet based direct speech - look at the rules poster and have a go.

Task 3: Writing challenge - write a story with direct speech, use some characters and a setting of your own choice. Check out the writing task worksheet.

Task 4:  Find time to read a book and watch a movie, then chat to someone in your house about it.

Task 5:  Keep on practising on Times Tables Rock Stars and the spelling shed.

Task 6:  Do a project based on an Ancient Society.

Choose from: The Indus Valley People,  The Ancient Sumer People, The Shang Dynasty and (my personal favourite) the Ancient Egyptians.

A project may be presented as a Book Art Book, a poster, a PowerPoint or even a video of yourself talking about what you have learned or found interesting. Try to pick out things that you find interesting like the burial process, their armies, the weapons, their art or the rulers of Ancient Egypt. You might want to creatively display information and facts and decorate them while also do a piece of art or a model - that might be what your whole project will look like.

https://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-egypt.html/ -> here is a website for some good information on Egypt 

YouTube is also great for information on Ancient Civilisations, as well as, Horrible Histories on the BBC iPlayer.

Good Luck and remember to pick something you enjoy! :)

Welcome to the class page for Year 6. 

We're hoping to create a gallery of all the lovely things you're doing while school is closed. 

Send content to r.carson@knottyashprimary.co.uk

Stay safe and happy!

Hello everyone! I hope you are all well, I have seen some of you on Twitter which has been fantastic! Keep up the good work because it is giving me a good laugh! If you have not done one of Mr England’s challenges, why not try one today? Myself and Ms McCormick are really missing all of you and we cannot wait to see all your smiling faces again soon; I know Ms McCormick is very keen to get the raffle up and running again soon!

Most importantly, keep doing at least one thing a day that makes you and your family smile but also keep doing little bits of homework to keep your brain in tip top condition! The grammar, reading and maths practise books should last a little while longer so keep going with them. You may be doing one test a day in each subject or maybe one page a day from each book or maybe you might do just one page/test from one book each day.  It is about pacing yourself and doing a little bit each day.  If you find something too hard, you can always skip it and come back to it later. If you complete these booklets, please let me know and I can direct you to some new activities. As well as using these booklets to develop your skills, you should also be exploring TT Rockstars,  The Spelling Shed and a book of your choice.

The Easter Holidays have sort of begun now so I am not uploading a hefty amount of work, just some ideas to keep you busy.  Remember, if you need any help or even want to show off something that you are proud of, please do e-mail me (some of you have already and it has been great to hear from you) or tweet us! Please do Tweet us, it always puts a smile on all our faces!

Good luck with everything and I am sure we will see each other all again soon,

Mr Hall 😊

Reading:

Keep doing some activities from the SATs Buster Workbooks.

Read a book daily.

If you cannot find a book then try my favourite book: The Hobbit.

It’s amazing and if you finish it then watch the movies – if you are allowed.

The Hobbit Audiobook - https://archive.org/details/TheHobbitAudiobook/The+Hobbit/Chapter+01+-+An+Unexpected+Party.mp3

The Hobbit (download the book/PDF) - https://archive.org/details/TheHobbitByJRRTolkienEBOOK/page/n1/mode/2up 

Writing:

Write a recipe for something you have cooked or you are going to cook.

Daily writing lessons with Jane Considene - https://www.youtube.com/c/thetrainingspace

Grammar/Spelling:

Keep doing some activities from the SATs Buster Workbooks.

Check out The Spelling Shed.

Maths:

Keep doing some activities from the SATs Buster Workbooks.

Regularly use TT Rockstars

Science:

Watch some episodes of David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet – it is utterly fabulous and very informative. 

Here is the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07dzjwl/episodes/player

Pick an animal, country or continent from an episode and do a fact file on it.  You could do a poster or a book art booklet. Keep it fun and something you’re interested in

Languages:

If you can, download Duolingo for free and begin learning a language.  They do five minute lessons – excellent!

Teach your family some British Sign Language

PE:

Use the Real PE log into explore that website and do some PE.  Here’s the Information for that:

Real PE sessions website: home.jasmineactive.com

Parent email/username: parent@knottyashp-1.com

Password: knottyashp

Daily keep fit session with Joe Wicks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Geography/History:

David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet  (see the science task).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07dzjwl/episodes/player

Art and DT:

Mrs Cartwright's Crafternoons (see the PPT below).

Sketch or paint something – I had a go at painting my shed this week.

Cook something and write the recipe -  maybe make something using the chocolate from your easter eggs. You can also do another recipe.

Easter tasks (decorate eggs, Easter baskets, Easter bonnets, chicks, chocolate nests!).

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easter-egg-brownies

Other Ideas:

If you come up with any other ideas, please let me know and I can add them to this.

-Hoover your house

-Help make dinner

-Create an Easter Egg Hunt map for your house and garden.

Maths ideas

http://www.iseemaths.com/lessons56