Weekly Planner 2

Week commencing: Monday 30th March 2020Class: Year 6 Squirrels and Magpies

Languages, Literacy and CommunicationTo continue with our topic this term of 'Time Travellers,’ this week you will be using the picture 'Air Hotel 3000' from ‘Pobble 365’ as a stimulus for your written work. Use your imagination to write an advertisement for this new type of hotel.

http://www.pobble365.com/air-hotel-3000/

Here are some tasks you can try from the activity: Explore your creativity and artistic flare through the challenge 'Picture Perfect' Read the 'Story Starter,' and write a newspaper article reporting on the Air Hotel 3000’s first outing,

perhaps interviewing some of the passengers on board! Add those extra details with 'Sentence Challenge' Test your grammar with 'Sick Sentences'

Writing Task 'Starting a Word’ – 1. Play with a partner. 2. Look along the bottom of the page and choose a prefix (word-start) each. 3. Take turns to write a word beginning with your prefix. 4. Write at least four each! 5. Look up a really hard word beginning with your prefix in a dictionary. 6. Write three short definitions – one true one (from the dictionary) and two different made-up definitions.

Reading Comprehension Challenge – This week's reading challenge is ‘The Humble Potato and More.' Give yourself 30minutes to read the booklet then work your way through the answer booklet developing key skills of inference and deduction. Answers to the comprehension challenge will be uploaded on Friday so you can check how you have done.

And remember to Read, Read, Read - enjoy reading for pleasure and for sustained periods of time in your bedroom, living room or even venture out into your garden! 'The school Reading List' is a lovely resource listing a wide range of wonderful recommended reading materials from children's classics, to graphic novels, to magazine and newspaper recommendations and are suitable for a wide range of ages, interests and abilities.

Visit: https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/magazines-and-newspapers-for-children-and-teenagers/

Read Theory - Develop your reading and comprehension further by signing up as a student (NO SCHOOL CODE NEEDED) and having a go at answering the questions about the different texts.

Visit: https://readtheory.org/app/sign-up/role

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Mathematics and NumeracyThis week we have allocated work on Active Learn which continues in developing your understanding of place value of whole numbers and decimals. We will also revise written methods and mental strategies in addition.Remember to log onto https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 to view your allocated tasks in the 'My stuff' section and the school code is j3as - Enjoy!

This week's activities include:

Homework - Addition Challenges Bug Zapper Problem solving – Sushi Restaurant

Here are some other activities you can try: Try the extra challenges on active learn to consolidate your understanding of place value including:

Fluency Fitness and Mastery Checkpoints. Log onto TT Rock Stars at https://ttrockstars.com/ and practice those times tables - Which type of

Rock Star are you? Will you make it to Rock Legend? Your current weekly challenge is to complete x10 Garage challenges!

Health & Well-beingHave fun this week doing something together.

Choose from the list of 100 things to do Indoors...

Join Joe Wicks the Body Coach live every morning at 9am prompt and get active with families from all around the world!

Which activities do you fancy this week?

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Cross Curricular

At the start of our topic 'Time Travellers' you've all pooled together so many wonderful ideas and questions that you would like to explore linked to our theme on mining. So far this term, you have learnt so much about mining - you've gained first-hand experience of life as a collier when visiting The Big Pit; learnt about mining in Wales whilst visiting The National Waterfront Museum in Swansea; investigated real life primary sources of evidence to piece together evidence and to discover more about the Elba Colliery disaster; displayed creative flare participating in a watercolour and mining workshop at The Glynn Vivian; and explored light and dark through a drama workshop based on our class book 'Town is by the Sea.'

Your next challenge is to use knowledge gathered over the past few weeks to choose at least two of your remaining activity ideas from the 'Time Travellers challenge grid' to complete each week.

Try out the following ideas:

Will you choose to write a poem based around the theme of mining; perform a dance to portray the different jobs people had working in the mine; or create a job advert for a collier and/or haulier? Be creative and have fun! Pob lwc!

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Year 5 and 6 Topic Tasks Spring Term

Complete a task each week linked to our topic ‘Time Travellers.’ You can present your information HWB using your class group or teams. Use a range of multimedia to showcase

your work E.G. Photographs, audio, video footage, PowerPoint and SWAY. Remember to label your work with your name and title of task.

Make a model or design a labelled diagram of a replica of a mine or an artefact that you may find there.

Pretend you are a news reporter and you have just received word of the Elba colliery disaster. Write or record a report describing it.

Create a picture on the theme ‘Through my Window.’ Imagine there is a mine underneath and draw a cross-section of the scene. Use a medium of your choice.

Write a short story or play script that is set in the mines.

Think about the main characters, scenes, dialogues and plot.

Research and create a presentation on ‘Child Labour Around the World.’

Make an A-Z list of words linked to Mining. Include definitions of your words.

Perform a dance to portray the different jobs people had working in the mine.

Write a diary entry of a child worker in the mine during the 1800’s. Describe your working day, include key events, thoughts and emotions.

Invent a poem, rap or song about mining.

Create sound effects or a piece of music using ‘Chrome Music Lab’ to reflect the toil of working in a mine.

Research what games children may have played during the 1910-1920 during the peak of mining and play them with a friend/family member.

Create a job advert for a collier and/or haulier. Include a description of what the job entails and what qualities and skills would be required to carry out the job.

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