Monday 18th January

Daily News

Good morning everyone and welcome to the new week of home learning. I hope you are all refreshed after a pleasant weekend.

Remember that our House Team Times Table Rockstar tournament is still on – it finishes on Wednesday at midday so there is still plenty of time to accumulate all those points for your team. Blue have built quite a comprehensive lead – thanks to one of their players (the leader board of players will be announced at the end of the competition) but they can be caught!

Mr Simmons’ Joke of the Day

Maths

Over the last few sessions we have been looking at how to divide with decimals. If you have missed them, do go back and watch the videos in last Thursday and Friday’s posts as you will need that information for today’s lesson.

No video today, but I have a set of challenges for you to work through. I warn you that you will not be able to answer these straight away – you will need to do quite a bit of trial and error in many of them. However, if you use your mathematical knowledge and reasoning skills I am sure you will arrive at the answers.

There are 4 separate challenges. I would like you to spend approximately 40-60 minutes on this. See how many challenges you can get through.

Please show your workings and the answers you arrived at when you submit this to ClassDojo.

English

It is time for our new topic. I have a couple of week’s work on this one and am excited to deliver this as it is one of my favourite pieces of work I do in English with Year 6. I am disappointed not to be doing it with you in person, but I am sure we will make the best of it.

I’m not going to tell you too much about what this topic is going to be (spoilers!) but your starting activity will be to use your best descriptive language to describe this picture:

I would like you to use all your descriptive skills – use:

• adjectives (to describe the noun)
• similes (as …. as ….. or ….. like a ….)
• expanded noun phrases (determiner + adjective + noun + qualifier – eg a brown hat which was covered in dust)
• relative clauses (the man, who was tall, …..

(I have deliberately made my descriptions poor so I don’t use up all your good ideas!)

Put all of this together into a passage – remember varied sentence openers and paragraphs – maybe one for the man and one for the horse.

Share your descriptions on ClassDojo.

Reading

During the week I would like you to read for at least 30 minutes each day. You can get more ideas and suggestions of reading material from the Reading@Home section above.

Oak National Academy have just opened their Virtual Library – you can visit that here.

Music

I know from your comments that some of you started to use the Yumu music program during the first week of home schooling. I would like you to either start, or continue with the unit of work ‘Plastic’ again in today’s session.

If you don’t know it, your password and login information will be in your pupil portfolio in ClassDojo. Go down through your submissions to January 6th and you will find a post from me – it will look like a paperclip. If you are struggling to gain access to your account, this video gives instructions on how to use the platform.

Let me know on your portfolio what you have done in the session.

Family Challenge

It’s time for another family challenge. I have heard from at least one family that they really did make it a family challenge, involving their grandparent in the question!

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