wHAT’S ALL THAT COMMOTION IN OUR OCEANS?

This week’s focus question: What is an Ocean?

This week’s Maths focus : Calculating angles

ENGLISH

MATHS

ENQUIRY

ACTIVE

Complete the attached SPaG activity. Rewrite the paragraph adding in the missing punctuation.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/

Go to the above link and watch the video for Week 2, Lesson 4 (Introduce Angles)

Complete the worksheet attached to the blog for today.

Challenge: How many different angles can you find in your home? Are the angles acute, obtuse or right angles?

GEOGRAPHY To research the term ‘Ocean’

Watch https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z849q6f/articles/zmqwscw and complete the quick quiz. Then use the following links to research what an Ocean is.

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/geography/general-geography/ocean-facts/

https://www.ducksters.com/geography/oceans.php

Use today as a discussion day as you will be able to use what you have found out later in the week in English.

Choose 2 activities:

· Joe Wicks Workout

· Super Movers

· iMovers

· Just Dance/GoNoodle on YouTube

· Create your own fitness programme

Can you design your own fitness programme that will keep you and your family active? Include a variety of different activities. You could watch Joe Wicks or look at the ‘What’s your name?’ workout challenge attached to the blog for ideas. Remember to include a warm up and a cool down at the start and end of your programme.

Maybe you could make your own fitness video by filming yourself presenting your programme.

Read the example non-chronological report attached to the blog (Sharks non-chronological report).

How many different features of a non-chronological report can you identify?

Write yourself a success criteria for writing a non-chronological report.

Check the list of non-chronological report features on the blog to see if you found the same features as me. Did you find any that I didn’t?

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/

Go to the above link and watch the video for Week 2, Lesson 5 (Calculate Angles)

Complete the worksheet attached to the blog for today.

SCIENCE - Water Cycle experiment

To understand The Water Cycle Did you know that the water we swim in has been around since the time of the Dinosaurs?

Watch the introduction: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgg87h/articles/z3wpp39

Then create a Water Cycle in a Bottle experiment and write a brief explanation of your findings!

Use links https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/water-cycle-bottle-science-experiment/

Or

https://greycaps.com/theteacher/Classengagement/Water-Cycle

Choose 2 activities from the list above.

Over the next few weeks you will be writing your own non-chronological report about the oceans.

This week you will write a section of your report about the world’s different oceans.

Research the 5 main oceans and make some notes to include in this section of your report.

You could use some of the information that you found on Monday. You may also want to read the first chapter of the book ‘Discover the Oceans’ by Lauri Berkenkamp on Get Epic.

https://www.getepic.com/app/read/5735

Think of an appropriate title for your report and subheading for this week’s section.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/

Go to the above link and watch the video for Summer Term Week 1, Lesson 1 (Vertically Opposite Angles)

Complete the worksheet attached to the blog for today.

ART/DT: - Create a water cycle model using a range of materials

Take as much time as you need for this as the enjoyment is being creative together!

Choose 2 activities from the list above.

Using the notes you made yesterday, write the first section of your non-chronological report.

Remember to include some of the features that you identified on Tuesday.

You can choose to lay your report out however you like. You may want the different sections to follow on underneath each other, or you may choose to place sections in different places on the page. Be creative.

Remember to include facts and technical/scientific vocabulary in your writing.

Complete the assigned activities on Mathletics.

Choose 2 activities from the list above.

Complete the ‘Layers of the Ocean’ reading comprehension.

The answers are attached for your to check.

Complete the arithmetic questions that are attached to the blog.

You do not have to time yourself – you can work through them at your own pace.

If you do want to time yourself then allow yourself 30 minutes to complete all the questions.

Use the answers to check it when you’ve finished.

MUSIC

Listen to ‘The Aquarium’ a section of the orchestral piece ‘Carnival of the Animals’ by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.

It can be found on YouTube here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCBDlC0N8Rc

What does the music make you think of?

Why do you think this piece of music is called ‘The Aquarium’? Do you think this is an appropriate title? Why/why not?

What instruments can you hear in the music.

Choose 2 activities from the list above.