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Newsletter sent Friday 29th of May 2020
Class 3 Home learning w/b 1st June
Hi Class 3,
I hope you are all well, and have had a great half term with your family. Here is the home learning for this week.
English:
You have two choices or you can complete both:
Option 1:
Option 2:
https://www.literacyshed.com/the-lighthouse.html
Weekly Spelling Tasks
This terms weekly spellings:
Year 6 Term 3B Spelling Overview
Monday- Challenge yourself to complete an alphabetical list of cities from around the world. Where possible, include capital cities.
Tuesday- record the meaning, an example sentence using the word, associations, synonyms (word with the same/similar meaning), antonyms (word that has the opposite meaning) and a dictionary definition of the following words: appreciate, guarantee and occupy.
Wednesday- Complete this prefix challenge from Talk for Writing? Choose 5 words and apply them into different sentences.
Thursday- Mind map words you associate with Birmingham and words you associate with Johannesburg (see here). This will support a later task.
Friday- Pick 5 Common Exception words from the Year 5/6 spelling list. Choose 4 words that have something in common and an odd one out.
Weekly Reading Tasks
Monday- read the world news section of a newspaper. Discuss with a family member what you have found out.
Tuesday- Visit Worldbookonline and login using Username: wbsupport and Password: distancelearn. Select eBooks and your child can read ‘Where in the World can I Climb a Tower?’. Now design your own tower, thinking about where in the world it should be, its features and purpose.
Wednesday- Click here for a reading activity about The Lost World and complete the questions.
Thursday- Read an age-appropriate story from another culture. This could be from their own collection, Google Books or Oxford Owl.
Friday- Summarise a book you’ve read this week in 100 words. Alternatively, you could summarise the main events in the form of a cartoon strip.
reading comprehensions:
Pentecost-Differentiated-Reading-Comprehension
Maths:
Remember we are a week behind the dates on the White Rose lessons, we are looking at lessons of week 5 w/b 18th May.
worksheets:Lesson 1 – Add and subtract fractions 2019, Lesson 2 – Add fractions 2019, Lesson 3 – Add mixed numbers 2019, Lesson 4 – Subtract mixed numbers 2019
Answers: Answers lesson 1 & 2, Lesson 3 Answers – Add mixed numbers 2019, Lesson 4 Answers – Subtract mixed numbers 2019
Worksheets: Lesson 1 – Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1,000 , Lesson 2 – Multiply decimals by integers 2019 , Lesson 3 – Divide decimals by integers 2019 , Lesson 4 – Decimals as fractions 2019
Answers: Year 6 answers
Recap: Multiplication and Division
Monday- Test your times table knowledge by finding the products and factors in this game. Can you work through all of the levels?
Tuesday- Play multiplication war with a family member with a deck of cards. Flip two cards over and multiply. Whoever has the highest product keeps the cards. What is the inverse division fact. Use 3 cards as a challenge.
Wednesday- Practise their column multiplication and short division with these missing digit games. Can you make your own versions?
Thursday – Choose three or four countries and record the temperature over the course of a week for each of the countries in a table. Draw a line graph showing each country’s temperature each day across the week.
Friday – With the digits 3, 7, 8, 0, 6 make as many whole numbers as you can. How can you be sure you have found all the potential numbers?
History: The Trojan War
Activity Sheet Trojan War Diary Entry
Geography:
- Flags of the World- Flags are a national symbol for all countries. Cultures use different symbols and colours on their flags which are meaningful to them and represent their history and people. Pick 5 countries and investigate their flags. What symbols and colours have they used? Why are these significant to this country? Create a flag for the UK which you feel represents our culture, history and people?
- Tastes of the World- Children all around the world eat a variety of food and many of the foods we eat today are inspired by other countries. Ask a parent if you can research and make a dish from another country which you have not tried before?
- International Games- As part of the London 2012 Olympics a variety of countries were asked to name a traditional game which represented their culture and traditions. These can be seen here. Research these games and take inspiration from them to design your own game. Think about how the game is played, how you win and what equipment is needed. Test the game and make any changes needed.
- From Birmingham to Johannesburg- Think about what it would be like to live in another country. Do you think their life would be the same or completely different? Use the following clip to compare living in Birmingham to Johannesburg. Show the similarities and differences between your life and Nwabisa’s life in South Africa.
- Exploring the World- Throughout history many people have explored new places. You can find out about some of them here. Pick an explorer from the list or one of your choice. You could map out the places that the explorer visited or you could create a piece of art inspired by the places they visited using digital images as support. You could write a diary entry from the explorer’s point of view to share what they have seen and experienced.
Forest School: Rock Cairns
Cairns are man-made towers of natural stones, usually built as a landmark or a memorial.
Gather a range of flat rocks and pebbles in different sizes, and then stack them in order, with the largest at the bottom and the smallest at the top.
Can you make changes to the structure of your cairn, such as using a foundation of lots of smaller stones, and see if it still stands?
Experiment with finding the stones’ balancing points to see how tall you can make your cairn.
Science & Engineering:
Engineering Around the World – Telescopes
- The James Webb telescope will be the largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever built and launched into space in 2021.
- The telescope will be launched into space using a rocket, this means it will have to be strong enough to withstand the vibrations during the launch.
Your task: Use an egg to represent the telescope and design a rocket that will surround and protect the egg/telescope during the launch.
For more information and ideas look here.
RE: Pentecost
The Pentecost is a Christian Holy Day celebrated 50 days after Easter that commemorates the birth of the Holy Spirit among the Apostles. The Apostles were the people who were visited by the Spirit while they were celebrating the Jewish Feast of Weeks Festival.
Music:
Match the Rhythm and Note Name Games
In Match the Rhythm Game, can you copy the rhythm you hear? https://www.classicsforkids.com/games.html
Practice naming notes of the Staff with the Play Note Names game.
RAF Museum poster competition
The RAF Museum is running a free Poster Competition this May half term and we would be delighted for your students to get involved.
There are three age categories and the winning poster from each category will be used as part of our re-opening advertising campaign, plus the winners will each receive a prize bundle from the RAF Museum Shop worth £100. We also have RAF goody bags for two runners up in each category thanks to our friends at RAF Youth & STEM team.
What you need to do:
- Design a poster highlighting all your favourite parts of the RAF Museum.
- Use our poster resource pack CLICK HERE to help plan your design and to remind you of all the essential information you need to include on your poster.
- Post a clear photo of your completed poster on our social media, tag us @rafmuseum, or email marketing@rafmuseum.org. Remember to include your first name and the age category you are entering.
- Competition closes on Friday 5 June and the winners will be announced on Friday 19 June.
Age categories are:
- Under 10s
- 10 – 18 years
- Over 18s
For more details on how to enter the free competition visit rafmuseum.org.
Good luck!
