week beginning 15th June 2020
Welcome
to home learning for this week. I hope everyone is remaining safe and well and
that you have all managed to enjoy the sunny weekend.
This
week’s email that you/your parents have received outlines what you need to do
to join in with The
Virtual Big Sing 2020, so do have a look. Also, on the subject
of singing, Miss Argyle and I would like to know if there is a song you would
like to suggest for all of year 6 to sing at the end of the year? Please make
your suggestions by email (Jaguars@mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk).
Don’t forget that you all have access
to Activelearn
Bugclub, which has a choice of over 100 books for you to choose from,
if you are looking for something to read. I also want to say well done to those
children who have been continuing to practise their times tables skills on
ttrockstars.
Here
is this week’s learning activities as usual. As always, please keep in touch
and share some work with me (on Padlet or by email).
Monday 15th June
Maths:
solve 2-step equations
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Fluent in five: how many can you complete correctly in five minutes?
    
Video link for
introduction: https://vimeo.com/428002477
For extension challenges
see the bottom of the page
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English:
spelling and handwriting
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Word of the week: melancholy (noun) - a feeling of pensive sadness,
typically with no obvious cause. This common Greek word,
used in English, has a somewhat bizarre etymology: coming from the Greek
words Melas – black and khole – bile. It was once thought that when your spleen
produced an excess of black bile, you would feel gloomy. This belief is
rooted in the Ancient Greek school of medicine called humorism, which
suggests that body fluids (humors) directly affect a person’s mood! Include
this word in your writing this week as much as you can.
Task 1 Red
spellings: system, suggest, sufficient
Write definitions of these words; practise spelling them; use them to
practise your handwriting.
Task 2 morphology: the study of words and their parts. Every word has a root word
and some have a suffix, a prefix or both.
Example word family: medic, medicine, medication,
medical, paramedic
Medic is the root word. Find out what the other
words mean and how they are all related.
Now choose one of the root words below and list all
the words in the word family, you can find – with their meanings.
act
form
sign
port
When you’ve finished you should have lots of words
that you can use in your writing this week!
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Tuesday 16th June
Maths:
Find pairs of values
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Fluent in five: how many can you complete correctly in five minutes?
   
Video link for
introduction: https://vimeo.com/428002579
For extension challenges
see the bottom of the page
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English:
Write a diary entry from the perspective of a character
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Listen again to ‘The Sack of Winds’ and make notes on key events. Jot down words and phrases to describe how you
would feel travelling in the storm, as well as phrases/words to describe the
sea/storm. Challenge: can you think of any personification?
Do you
have anything to add to the character profile you made of Odysseus?
Task: Now pretend you are one of the
characters on the ship with Odysseus. Write
a short diary entry as you travel home to Ithica (just a few paragraphs). These
questions might help you think about what to write:
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How would you have felt coming within sight of
the island?
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How would you feel about the storm?
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How would you feel about having brought your
own fate upon yourself, by looking in the sack?
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How would you feel about being torn away
from your course when you were within sight of your home shore?
Now
listen to the next chapter of the story: ‘Circe’
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Wednesday 17th June
Maths:
convert metric measures
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Fluent in five: how many can you complete correctly in five minutes?
Video link for
introduction: https://vimeo.com/428002669
For extension challenges
see the bottom of the page
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English:
understand features of a diary entry and edit own writing.
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Task 1: Use the presentation on diary writing, to
remind yourself about the skills needed to write a diary entry. Now have a
look at the checklist. Using the checklist, how many of the features of diary
writing can you find in this diary extract? (you can highlight them or list
them).
Task 2: Now look at your own diary entry from yesterday.
Is there room for improvement? Use a different coloured pen from the one you
wrote with (it doesn’t have to be green!) to edit. Make sure you have
included features from the checklist; your spelling is as accurate as
possible and your diary entry is interesting.
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Thursday 18th June
Maths:
miles and kilometres
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Fluent in five: how many can you complete correctly in five minutes?
Video link for
introduction: https://vimeo.com/428002822
For extension challenges
see the bottom of the page
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English:
Write a diary entry as Odysseus
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Listen to the next chapter
in the story: ‘land of the Dead’. Task: This time write a diary entry in role as Odysseus,
after he sees the face of his mother among the dead.
How would he have felt at this point in the
story?
How would he feel about bringing his crew to
this place?
Make some notes before you begin writing. These notes might also help
Use all the skills you learnt about in
yesterday’s lesson to help you. When you look at the finished piece of
writing you should be able to see all the features of a diary entry. Give it
to a member of your family to read (or email it to me) – ask if she/he found
it interesting, and understood what was happening.
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Friday 19th June
Maths:
reasoning with number and shape
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Fluent in five: how many can you complete correctly in five minutes?
https://nrich.maths.org/10918 This
challenge begins at a bronze level and moves up to gold. Complete as much of
it as you can (spend 45 mins approx). You will need some cubes with numbers
on them. Dice are ideal for this – if you have six dice (from 6 board games?)
that’s perfect. Alternatively, you could: make some paper/card ones; use six
blocks of any kind that are the same size (find a way to write numbers on
them – ask permission from an adult first); make six small dice with blue tac
or play-dough; be as resourceful as you can. If you are very good at reasoning
with shape (at least gold level), then you may be able to use your
imagination to visualize and solve the problems!
Key questions to help you
solve this:
How
are you working out the totals?
how can you arrange them to change the total?
For extension challenges
see the bottom of the page
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English:
Write a descriptive speech
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Listen to ‘Song of Spheres’. What do you think the song might
have sounded like? List some adjectives, similes or metaphors.
Now listen to this music and imagine that is
the song from the story. Add more adjectives, similes and metaphors (you
might change some of the ones you had).
Task: Write a
speech for Odysseus to give to his men about the Song of
the Spheres.
Bronze: I can use adjectives to describe what
the song sounded like.
Silver: I can also include how the song made
Odysseus feel.
Gold: I can also use figurative language in
my speech.
You could record yourself,
in role, giving the speech to your crew if you want to.
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Afternoon lessons (choose one for each day)
Science
Archimedes principle:
Archimedes is famous for
discovering that you can find the volume of an object by how much water it
displaces, he did this when trying to solve a problem. Find out more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijj58xD5fDI
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SRE: Stereotyping & Body Image
Activity 1: a quick stereotyping activity – to promote thought and discussion.
Activity 2: work through
this presentation and complete the activity towards the end.
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PSHE: Transition – how can we begin to prepare for changes?
Watch this video about
transitions and how young
people have managed them. https://riseabove.org.uk/article/lets-talk-about-change/
Jot
down your responses to these questions:
What do you think will be
different about secondary school (compared to primary school)?
What do you think will be
similar?
What do you think are the
most important things a year 6 pupil needs to know about secondary school?
What do you think are the most exciting things are about
starting secondary school?
What do you think some pupils are nervous
about when starting secondary school?
How do you think pupils’ feelings
might change over the first year at secondary school?
What advice would you give to someone who
is nervous about starting secondary school?
We have the opportunity to ask a Year 7 student in a local
high school some questions, or discuss any of your
worries / concerns, which will be answered in a
future week. Please write your questions down. Please
email them to me so that we can get advice from a year 7 student.
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History: What
do archaeological sites tell us about what life was like in Ancient Greece?
Have a look at the places in this short video. They are all
ancient archaeological sites in Greece.
Now make an information
leaflet, for tourists, about one of these 3 sites: The Parthenon in Athens; The Amphitheater in Ephesus; The Temple of Apollo at Delphi
You’ll need to do a bit of research to find
information for your leaflet. You might like to find out:
Some of the history about
the site; what other attractions are nearby; when the best time of year to visit
is (when can they expect the perfect weather?); Anything else interesting
about the area.
You should include at least
one drawing of the place in your leaflet.
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Refugee Week: empathy and understanding
Click here for the lesson
and links.
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Maths extra challenges
(choose from these activities): https://nrich.maths.org/577
; https://nrich.maths.org/6288
(this one is interactive and needs internet connection to play the game); https://nrich.maths.org/2129; https://nrich.maths.org/numbertricks;
https://nrich.maths.org/5714
You may well need these resources for
some of the tasks this week:
Grammar glossary: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/at-school/education-glossary/grammar-literacy-glossary-a-c/
Dictionary/ thesaurus: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/
This maths glossary may also be
useful: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/at-school/education-glossary/maths-education-glossary-a-l/
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