Year 6 English Home Learning - 22/02/21 - 26/02/21

Hello to my amazing Year 6 class. I hope you are all well and keeping safe. It was lovely to see so many of you on our Zoom call this week. You are all working incredibly hard and showing a really positive attitude towards your learning, I am so proud of all of you. Our next Zoom meeting will be on Wednesday 24th February at 1:30pm, it would be great if you could all attend.

Thank you to all those children who have been sending me photos of their incredible work they have been completing at home! It is great to see some of you are completing your own learning tasks alongside the work I have been setting you. Remember, you should be sending me photos of the learning you have completed at home at least once a week and any pictures or documents you send to me must come from an adult’s email address.

I know things have not been easy the past few weeks, but the positive attitude and perseverance each and every one of you have shown during this difficult time is incredible. You should all be so proud of yourselves. I know it can be tricky to get up and complete your online learning sometimes but it will really support you when you come back to school, hopefully it is not long before we are all back together again so keep going Year 6, you can do this!

Remember, if you are finding any of the learning tasks I am setting you tricky and have any questions about any of the learning, you can send me an email and we can go through the learning together. My email address can be found on the Year 6 class page. Also make sure you head over to our Year 6 Learning Gallery regularly as I am posting all the brilliant work you have been sending me on there. I have been receiving so many amazing pictures, I will need to start a third learning gallery soon!

Below are your English remote learning activities for this week Chapter 6 of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief can be found at the bottom of this blog post or on our Reading and Storytime page.

Monday 22nd February 2021

During today’s English lesson, we will be identifying ible and able words and putting them into sentences, clarifying the meaning of vocabulary and exploring the meaning of retrieval. We are going to be focussing on some pages from Chapter 5 of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and clarifying vocabulary within those pages, identifying key information and generating our retrieval questions.

Spelling: able, ible, ably and ibly

Starter: How many times can you write each of these words in 1 minute? (quick write)

Knight night our are

Here is the link to today’s spelling activity. I would like you to complete Focus A please. Once you have completed Focus A, can you put the words into sentences? Here are the answers for today’s spelling activity.

Reading:

Starter: Clarify

Reading Starter

Big? Can I ask and record retrieval questions?

This video is to support the children with their English remote learning activity on Monday 22nd February 2021.

Here is the PowerPoint for today’s learning activities. I will ask you to refer to the video on slide 6.

Pages 58 – 61 of Percy Jackson Chapter 5

Dictionary.com

Tuesday 23rd February 2021

During our English lesson today, we are going to look at adding the suffixes able, ible, ibly and ably to root words, drawing inferences from a text and answering retrieval questions which ask us to locate particular words or phrases within the text.

Spelling: able, ible, ably and ibly

Starter: Can you put the vocabulary listed below into silly sentences?

Whole hole bare bear

Here is the link to today’s spelling activity. I would like you to complete Focus B please. Once you have completed Focus B, can you put the words into sentences? Here are the answers for today’s spelling activity.

Reading:

Starter: Inference

Reading starter

Big? Can I locate words and phrases to answer questions?

Here is the PowerPoint for today’s learning activities.

Pages 58 – 61 of Percy Jackson Chapter 5

Find and copy text and questions

Find and copy text and questions answers

Wednesday 24th February 2021

During our English lesson today, we are going to be identifying whether we need to add the suffix ible or able to a root word, exploring relative clauses and identifying, representing and using commas to avoid ambiguity.

Spelling: able, ible, ably and ibly

Starter: How many times can you write each of these words in 1 minute? (quick write)

Allowed aloud through threw

Here is the link to today’s spelling activity. I would like you to complete the Extra activity please. Once you have completed Extra activity, can you write definitions for the vocabulary you have formed? You can use a dictionary or dictionary.com to help you. Here are the answers for today’s spelling activity.

Grammar:

Starter: Relative clause

Grammar starter

Big? Can I identify and use commas to avoid ambiguity?

Here is the PowerPoint explaining today’s learning activities. Please watch the video below before completing your learning activities today.

This video is to support the children with their English remote learning activities on Wednesday 23rd February.

What will I learn? How commas can make the meaning of a phrase or sentence clearer.Questions: How did the meaning of the phrase 'pink zebra crossing' change ...

Draw the Sentence Adding Commas Image for writing

Thursday 25th February 2021

During today’s English lesson, we will be looking at the relationship between ation and able words and completed word sums and thinking about how we form a subordinate clause, do they always need a subordinating conjunction? We will also continue to look at using commas to avoid ambiguity.

Spelling: able, ible, ably and ibly

Starter: Can you identify the meaning of the following vocabulary?

Cell isle serial

You can use a dictionary or dictionary.com to help you.

Here is the link to today’s spelling activity. I would like you to complete the Extension A and B please. Here are the answers for today’s spelling activity.

Grammar:

Starter: Subordinate clause

Grammar starter

Big? Can I identify and use commas to avoid ambiguity?

Here is the PowerPoint explaining today’s learning activities. Please watch the video below before completing your learning activities today.

This video is to support the children with their English remote learning activities on Thursday 25th February.

Commas fluency activity

Commas fluency activity answers

Commas reasoning activity

Commas reasoning activity answers

Friday 26th February 2021

During our English lesson today, we will be looking at words where the y makes an I sound and putting them into sentences, identifying how commas can change meaning within sentences and planning an adventure story based on Percy and Grover venturing to find Percy’s long lost father.

Spelling: Y makes the I sound

Starter: Can you identify which vocabulary is spelt correctly and which is spelt incorrectly?

Cerel fair tail sigt steeal sum

Can you put the following vocabulary into sentences?

Your sentences today MUST include a relative clause. If you are unsure of the meaning of a word, use a dictionary or dictionary.com to clarify the meaning.

Physical symbol system crystal mystery typical

Example:

The breath-taking, luminous crystal, which had been protected by the tribe for centuries, appeared to be growing larger and larger.

Planning:

Starter: Commas

Grammar starter

Big? Can I use a range of punctuation when planning an adventure story?

Here is the PowerPoint explaining today’s learning activities.

Adventure Story Planning (word document) – click this link if you DO have access to Microsoft word at home

Adventure Story Planning (PDF) – click this link if you DON’T have access to Microsoft word at home

Example Planning Proforma

Statutory Spellings