Year 6 Home Learning

Week beginning 4th May 2020

Dear Year 6,

We continue to be very proud of you and how well you are coping in these strange circumstances. We hope that you have had a good week with your families and that you are finding ways to be able to keep in touch with extended family and friends.

A huge thank you again for the determination and effort being consistently shown in your home learning. It is great to see so many of you striving towards the extensions. You have shown fantastic creativity in your English work so far, we have enjoyed looking at the species you have created and how you have applied your knowledge of Charles Darwin’s theory of adaptation to your own creature. In maths, you have applied great thinking and problem solving strategies to work through the problems; it’s been great to see the different approaches that have been taken and you have applied your knowledge of numbers well. We have seen lots of improvement in your artwork with you carefully taking the time to observe what you have drawn and how you have considered light and shade in your sketching.

Below are the activities we would like you to have a go at this week. Remember if you are unsure, we will support you as best as we possibly can through dojo. We look forward to hearing about how you are getting on and what you have been doing.

Maths:

Times tables: Each day there will be some set work for you to complete on Times Tables Rockstars. This will consist of different game types, in the ‘garage’ in the ‘studio’ and ‘soundcheck’. Of course, once you have completed these, you can keep playing, try out new game features and spend your earnings! Try to aim for 20 minutes a day on this.

Fractions, percentages and degrees investigation

To help with maths this week, you will need to think about converting between fractions and percentages, and relate these to turns in a circle.

1 whole = 100%. In a circle this is a 360 degree turn.

½ = 50%. In a circle this is 180 degrees.

Activity One- Now complete the following table:

Fraction Percentage Degrees in a turn

1 whole 100% 360°

½ 180°

25%

¾

⅛ 36°

33.333%

To challenge yourself, come up with your own fractions to convert.

Activity two- Choose some of these shapes and label the size of each fraction, along with its equivalent percentage and degree turn.

Extension: Pick one of the shapes and explain how you were able to calculate the fractions. Which were the easiest to solve? Which were the most difficult to solve?Challenge: Can you work out the fraction amount of the red square in the following shape?

English: How can we use vocabulary, punctuation and grammar to make our reader think in a certain way?

Activity: Using the work you have completed (including the sketch of your new species and the information in your factfile and your plan) write the first draft of your non-chronological report on your species. Make sure you have included information on the following aspectsL

- General introduction to spark interest- Physical appearance - Habitat- Diet- Adaptations over time (this one is really important as it links to our Charles Darwin

work in science).

Try and ensure you have answered the following questions (and perhaps more) in your writing.

Some questions to prompt your thinking include:

● What does your species look like?

● What does it sound like? What words/descriptions can you liken this to?

● How could you describe its habitat?

● Where is it placed on the food chain?

● What type of animal is it?

● How is it adapted to the environment in some way?

Remember that this is a non-chronological report to be published to adults and is therefore more formal than a fact file so think about how you will ensure your vocabulary choices, sentence structures and use of grammar are appropriately linked to the purpose and audience. You need to include an introduction to intrigue the reader and give them a general overview of your species.

Below is a modelled example which might help get you started. Try really hard not to copy but use it to identify the features and language devices you could try and include in your own writing.

Minute but unique, the undeniably powerful hoggle most commonly resides at the edge of woodland areas of many school grounds throughout the United Kingdom. This nocturnal

mammal, which has specialist hearing enabling it to only hear frequencies inaudible to humans, sleeps throughout the day whilst the open land is occupied by its most likely cause

of death: humans. With its distinctive pointed tail (used to fend off predators) and steely determination, the hoggle can travel at vast speeds across grasslands helping it to seek out

and catch its prey within seconds.

Extension: Now you have drafted your non-chronological report, read your work aloud and edit your grammar and punctuation as necessary. It may help to read it to someone. Then create a published version of your report, thinking about how you might include presentational devices such as sub-headings, diagrams, photographs, captions and labels. A ‘Did you know?’ box is a great way to shift formality in a more formal report. Perhaps you could include a bullet point list too.

Also think carefully about how and where to position each paragraph of your report so that it makes the most sense for the reader and to ensure it is easy to navigate the text.

Spelling:

Choose 6-10 different words from last week that can be found in the Year spelling list in⅚ your reading log. Use strategies such as spelling scribble, rainbow spellings, triangle spellings or spelling tennis (catching a ball and saying the letter) to help you learn them. Perhaps your parents or siblings could be the teacher and test you at the end of the week.

Reading:

Listen to ‘Wonder’. We will send you 15 minutes of reading per week day.

Work through the Let’s Think English lite lesson, adding your comments to the blog. These will then be responded to.

https://islingtongovuk.j2bloggy.com/lteprimary/

Read at least 3x a week for 20 minutes. Summarise your reading to someone in your family and fill in your reading log.

Science:The diagram below covers the learning that we have covered over the past few weeks. Let’s recap.

Over the last many millions of years, there have been many examples of organisms becoming extinct and others evolving into new organisms over many generations. Scientists have had to piece together evidence to work out how organisms evolve. Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection was one of the first to help us explain how evolution occurs.

Activity One:

Now, we’re going to think about the bigger picture of the evolution of life on Earth. Below are twelve pictures of different creatures/events from our planet’s history. You will need to place these on to the timeline and think about how long ago they first existed. To give you a helping hand, there are letters on the timeline with which you can match the creatures/events. You can then check your answers on the next page and see how accurate you were!

Answers

A) Bacteria, the earliest life form on earth 3500 m

B) 1st complex plants (simple seaweeds)650 m

C) 1st complex animals (sea worms and jelly fish)570 m

D) 1st vertebrate520 m

E) 1st land plant480 m

F) 1st animals on land400 m

G) 1st amphibians390 m

H) 1st dinosaurs230 m

I) 1st flowering plants130 m

J) 1st primates75 m

K) Dinosaurs became extinct65 m

L) 1st modern humans0.2 m

So, how did you do? Were there any matches that surprised you?

Activity Two:Watch the YouTube clip (up until 1:35). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2_6cqa2cP4It is called ‘The Evolution of Life on Earth’ and posted by AsapSCIENCE.This video cleverly explains the evolutionary history of life on Earth in a different way. The videographer has taken the history of Earth and shrunk millions and millions of years of existence into a scale of 24 hours. This will hopefully help you to understand that the history of life on our planet was incredibly slow to develop and humans have not been living on our planet for very long at all in the grand scheme of things.

Did any particular part of the video shock you? Explain which and why.

Activity Three:We have researched animals which have adapted and evolved over the years but there are also some animals which seemed to have ‘stopped’ evolving and have therefore stayed more or less unchanged for millions of years. Some examples include:

Choose a creature from above and write any ideas you have about why these creatures may have stayed the same for millions of years.

Extension:Research your chosen creature and find out some scientific facts about them and maybe even any scientific theories or facts about why they have not changed for millions of years.

Project:

PDL: What does ‘Achieve’ mean? How have I changed during my time at Berrywood Primary School? What are my personal achievements?

As we enter the summer term and your final term with us at Berrywood, our attentions turn to working alongside you to create your final leavers’ production ‘Achieve’. This is a show that celebrates your personal achievements whilst you have been at Berrywood as well as being an opportunity to stop and reflect upon what has happened and how the school, local community, the country and the world has changed during your time at primary school. Over the next few weeks, we will set you some tasks for your project learning that will help you to consider this.

We don’t know exactly what format the final show will be in and what it will look like at the moment but we will find a way to ensure your time with us at Berrywood is marked and celebrate you looking to the future to begin your secondary school journey.

In the meantime, your home learning project sessions will begin to build the foundations for ‘Achieve’.

Activity 1: This week, we would like you to investigate the meaning of the word ‘achieve’ and apply it to the context of Berrywood Primary School or any other school you have attended in your primary school journey before Berrywood. You should consider your achievements both within and outside of school.

Try and think further than just your academic achievements - there are personal, social, emotional and environmental achievements that you will also have. Think out of the box and record all these in an initial mind map of ideas.

Activity 2: Now using these ideas, create a ‘role on the wall’ using the outline below or by drawing your own. The inside area of the outline should show your achievements and the space around the outside should be a record and reference in who supported or influenced you to achieve those outcomes.

Extension: At the bottom of your ‘role on the wall’, summarise in a few sentences what you think the meaning of the word ‘achieve’ is. Use your own reflections from the activities and

perhaps a dictionary definition as part of your summary.

Other learning opportunities:

- PE with Joe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faE7889AIaU

- Science with the Winchester Science Centre

https://www.winchestersciencecentre.org/science-home/science-home/

#.Xor4d4hKhPY

- Let’s Think English lite https://islingtongovuk.j2bloggy.com/lteprimary/

- Times tables rockstars

- 5 - a - day (aim for gold but you may want to build your confidence with bronze or

silver or challenge yourself with platinum) https://corbettmathsprimary.com/5-a-day/

- Purple mash activities

- See Twitter @BerrywoodP for daily ideas

Submission of work:Please submit your work using the purple mash email address by Friday at 5pm each week.

The instructions below will help you to know how to do this:

Emailing on Purple Mash – KS2

1. Search email in the search bar

2. Click on 2Email - it needs to be the tools and games version

3. Click on compose

4. In the To section type in your Class Teacher’s name e.g. Miss Cunningham, Mr Rolfe, Miss Lowe

5. To send us your work, click on attach work and choose the file you wish to upload. You can send work created in Purple Mash and work saved to your own electronic devices e.g. desktop/ laptop/ tablet

To upload photos to an email, please follow the instructions below:

1. Open 2simple email.

.2. Compose new email.

3. Add your teacher’s name to the field and click on ‘attach picture’.

4. Click on the 2nd icon – clipart.

2. Click on ‘choose file’.

3. You should then get the option to choose a file from your device. If you are using a tablet or phone, it will give you the option ‘get photo’ and you can choose from your camera roll.

We hope you have a lovely week. Remember each week that we get through is another week closer to us returning. We very much look forward to seeing you as soon as we are able to.

With our very best wishes, keep smiling,

Miss Cunningham, Mr Rolfe, Miss Lowe