Year 6 English Home Learning - 25/01/21 - 29/01/21

Hello to my fantastic Year 6’s! I hope you are all keeping safe. It has been lovely speaking to some of you on the phone over the past week. I am so proud of all the hard work you have been getting up to at home! It is fantastic to hear that you have been completing activities from the website, watching the videos to support your learning and listening to some of the Percy Jackson readings. Myself and Miss Gallagher will be uploading a new chapter of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief each week. These can be found on at the bottom of the English blog’s posted weekly or on our Reading and Storytime page.

Thank you to all those children who have sent me some photos of the brilliant learning they have been doing at home. Henley, I was really impressed with all the work you have been completing, I can see that you have been working really hard. I was really impressed with your views on what the world would be like if we didn’t have any rules both at home and in school. Kaden, I was really impressed with all the learning you have been getting up to at home, my favourite was your robot using different shapes, I thought it was fantastic! It was really creative and a great way to learn about different shapes. Calleigh, your History project on the Black Plague was brilliant, I really enjoyed reading all the facts you included and I have learnt some new things myself! Lilly, I can see you have been completing some of the Maths and English activities which is brilliant. Erin, I was really impressed with your English, RE and Art work, keep up the great work. I have been updating our Year 6 Learning Gallery with the amazing photos you have been sending me, so make sure to have a look! Remember, you should be sending me some photos of any activities you have completed at home at least once a week so I can give you some feedback and showcase your learning! Instructions on how to send me photos of your work can be found on the Year 6 class page.

Below are your English remote learning activities for this week. If you have any questions about any of the activities or want to share what you have done with me, my email address can be found on the Year 6 Class Page.

Monday 25th January  

Spelling: useful conjunctions

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

Fasten          crumb          debt

For Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday’s spelling sessions we are going to be looking at spelling useful conjunctions. Remember a conjunction is used to join 2 independent clauses together. We use the acronym FANBOYS to remember our co-ordinating conjunction and ISAWAWABUB to remember our subordinating conjunctions.

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete Focus A please. Once you have found all the words in the wordsearch, can you put them into sentences?

As an extra challenge, can you write down which conjunction each letter represents in both FANBOYS and ISAWAWABUB?

Reading:

Big? Can I draw inferences from a video?

It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson's Greek mytholog...

 Today we are going to be looking at drawing inferences from the trailer for the film ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’.

Here is the PowerPoint for today’s learning activity. You can find the trailer for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief under the heading Monday then reading. Have a look at the PowerPoint before watching the trailer, I will ask you to refer to the trailer on slide 9.  

 

 

Tuesday 26th January  

Spelling: useful conjunctions

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

Knew          answer          thistle

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete the Extra activity please. Remember a compound word is two individual words joined together to create a new word.

Examples:

Foot + ball = football

Sun + flower = sunflower

Play + ground = playground

Reading:

Big? Can I infer how a character is feeling from their actions?

Today we are going to be looking at creating inference bubbles. Inference bubbles are where we make a note of inferences we generate whilst reading the text. Our inference bubbles today are going to focus on characters feelings and emotions.

Here is the PowerPoint for today’s learning activity. There is also a video to support you with today’s activity. Have a look at the PowerPoint before watching the video, I will ask you to refer to the video on slide 8.  

Percy Jackson Chapter 4 pages 44 and 45

Wednesday 27th January

Spelling: useful connectives

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

Whistle          thumb          wrinkle

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete Extension A please. Remember to read your sentences aloud to see if they make sense. This will help you to choose the correct conjunction.

Grammar:

Big? Can I identify and use different tenses correctly?

Today we are going to be looking at past, present and future tense. Here is the PowerPoint for today’s lesson. On the PowerPoint you will find questions to support your learning and understanding as well as activities to complete.

 

Thursday 28th January

Spelling: statutory spellings

Here are the words that we are going to be focussing on for Today and Friday’s spelling session:

Competition    explanation        profession        pronunciation         solution     imagination

All of these words end in tion (which makes the shun sound).

Your spelling activity for today is to identify definitions for each piece of vocabulary listed above. You can use a dictionary or dictionary.com to support you with your definitions, however please make sure you put them in your own words.

Grammar:

Big? Can I identify and use different tenses correctly?

Today we are going to be looking at 3 different tenses: present perfect; past progressive; and present progressive. There are videos explaining the meaning of these tenses and a video of me talking you through your learning activities today. Please watch the video of me talking through your learning activities first and I will let you know when you need to refer to the other videos. Here is the PowerPoint explaining today’s learning activities.

This video is to support the children with their English learning activities on Thursday 28th January.

A short video explaining how the perfect present tense is used in English

Past Progressive - a simple way to introduce the Past Progressive tense including the use and form.If you like the video make sure that you subscribe to my c...

A short video explaining how to use the present progressive tense in English

Present perfect activity           Present perfect activity answers

 Friday 29th January

Spelling: statutory spellings

For today’s spelling activity we are going to be putting the vocabulary we looked at yesterday into silly sentences. Remember your sentences can be as silly as you want but they need to be grammatically correct (make sense).

Competition    explanation        profession        pronunciation         solution     imagination

Example:

Unfortunately, the nail-biting competition between Sally the snake and Roger the rabbit has had to be postponed, as Sally has consumed too many chocolate bars and is unable to move.

Reading/Writing:  

Big? Can I identify features of a newspaper report?

Today we are going to be looking at identifying features of a newspaper report and generating headlines and writing paragraphs based on image. Here is the PowerPoint explaining today’s learning activities.

Matching activity          Matching activity answers

Newspaper report         Images to support writing

Model headline and paragraph  

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Chapter 3

Year 6Jessie Twigger