Year 6 English Home Learning - 18/01/21 - 22/01/21

Hello to my fantastic Year 6 class. It was lovely speaking to some of you on Zoom last week. It was great to hear all about what you did over the Christmas holidays and how fantastic you are getting on with your remote learning. I would just like to say how proud I am of each and every one of you. I can see that both the children taking part in remote learning at home and face to face learning in school are all working incredibly hard, it is fantastic to see.

It has been lovely seeing some of the work you have been producing at home. Calleigh, I thought your video was incredible! Thank you so much for sharing it with me. Lola thank you for sharing your fantastic work with me, I really enjoyed looking at all the brilliant work you have been doing. Keep it up, really proud of you. Lilly, I thought your Maths and English work was brilliant and it was lovely to see that you had completed some of the activities for Happy Healthy Children week. You can head over to our Year 6 Learning Gallery to see some photos of all the brilliant work taking place. If you would like photos of your work on our learning gallery, ask you adults to email them to me. My email address can be found on the Year 6 class page.

Below are your Maths remote learning activities for this week and a reminder of our remote learning expectations. Any videos will be posted on the blog, but remember they can also be found on our school YouTube channel. Myself and Miss Gallagher will also be uploading any readings of Percy Jackson to our Reading and Storytime page, so make sure you are checking it each week.

Remote learning expectations

It is expected that Primary school children will access 3 hours of remote learning every week day whilst learning at home.
New learning blogs will be uploaded every Friday.
Children should be submitting photos of their work to their teacher at least once a week and feedback will be given.
There will be regular contact between school and the children through phone calls and zoom so that the children will be able to talk about their learning and we will be able to provide feedback.
There will be a contact button direct to the teacher to answer any questions and to send pictures of your work (which can then be placed in our Learning Gallery).

Monday 18th January

Spelling: silent letters

This week we are going to be looking at silent letters. Silent letters are letters that we are unable to hear within a word. For example in the word thumb, the b is a silent letter as we don’t hear it, in the word known, the k is a silent letter.

Can you think of anymore examples of words containing silent letters?

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete Extra A please. Here are the key words to support you with this activity.

Reading:

Big? Can I summarise a text?

Here is the PowerPoint explaining today’s learning activities.

Below are 3 different videos to support you with today’s learning. Video 1 (which is titled ‘Monday 18th January – Summarising’) talks you through the powerpoint and explains today’s learning activities. Video 2 (which is titled ‘Monday 18th January – Highlighting key information’) talks you through how to identify key information within a text. Video 3 (which is titled ‘Monday 18th January – Sorting key information’) supports you with sorting the key information identified within the text into the 5 different categories who; what; where; when; and why.

TV, the only friend for millions of OAP’s text

This video is to support the English reading remote learning activities for Monday 18th January.

This is a video to support the children with activity 2 for their English remote learning on Monday 18th January.

This video is to support you with activity 3 from your English remote learning activities for Monday 18th January.

Tuesday 19th January

Spelling: silent letters

Today we are going to be thinking about syllables. Remember syllables are the sounds we can hear within a word. Remember we use a slash (/) to represent a new syllable. There are some examples of words split into their syllables below.

Cas/tle re/sign lis/ten wreck/age

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete Extension A please. Here are the key words to support you with this activity.

Reading:

Big? Can I summarise a text?

Here is the PowerPoint explaining today’s learning activities

Chapter 3 Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Wednesday 20th January

Spelling: silent letters

Can you identify the silent letters in the words listed below?

Should designed surprised known

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete questions 1 and 2 please.

Grammar:

This video is to support the children with understanding what the subjunctive form is, how it is used and how to identify it.

Big? Can I identify when the subjunctive form is being used?

Please watch the video to the left, which explains what the subjunctive form is and explains your learning activities for today. Here is the PowerPoint for you to refer to if needed.

Activity 1 Activity 1 answers

Activity 2 Activity 2 answers

Thursday 21st January

Spelling: silent letters

Can you match the words to their images? Once you have done that, can you identify the silent letter in each word?

hedges wrestling climbing castle

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete questions 3 and 4 please. Once you have completed activity 4, can you put the vocabulary into sentences?

Planning:

Big? Can I plan a setting description based on the planet Pandora?

Today you are going to be planning a setting description based on the planet Pandora.

Here is the PowerPoint explaining today’s learning activities

Planning proforma

Images of planet Pandora

Statutory spellings mat

Adjectives mat

Fronted adverbials mat

When to start a new paragraph mat

Friday 22nd January

Spelling: tricky words