Half Term

 Hi everyone! 

I hope you all have a lovely half term! 

Someone asked me to put some links on so that they can recap things they might feel like looking at and so here they are: 

BBC Bitesize  (choose the area that you would like to work on)

Oak Academy Maths 

Oak Academy English 

I want to be clear that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY OF THIS WORK UNLESS YOU WANT TO!!!!! 

But it's here if you would like to look at something in particular. 

I hope you all have the best half term and I look forward to hearing about what you all got up to when you get back! 

Have a good rest! 

Mr Hayden

Spellings

 

Here are last week's spellings so that you can check your answers! 

Spelling List 

Friday 22nd October

 Good morning Class 6! 

Thanks for all the great work that you sent in yesterday! 

Here are your tasks for the day: 

Maths 

Begin with Times Tables Rock Stars again for 15 minutes. 

WALT: Reason from known facts 

Here is the video you need for today.

Here is the worksheet 

Here are the answers for you 

English 

WALT: Write a recount text 

First, we'll do a spelling test! Woohoo!! Get ready for it and no cheating please - I'm watching!! 👀

Here are your spellings for after half term. 

Today we are going to write the sequel to Hurricane! 

Your success criteria are as follows: 

• I have written in a consistent tense (present or past) 
• I have written in the third person 
• I have used adverbs and adverbials 
• I have used figurative language 
• I have used accurate punctuation 
• I have written in paragraphs 

I can't wait to read what you come up with! 

Reading 

Complete 2 more lessons on Reading Plus. Thanks to those who are using it - remember, I can see how much you're doing 👀

Science

WALT: Create a field guide of a local habitat 

Today you are going to create a field guide of a local habitat! Here is the link for your guide. 

 

Begin with this presentation which explains what a field guide is and how to make it. 

You can choose any local habitat! It could be your garden or a local park (if you're currently allowed out of the house) 

To help you to identify the plants and animals there are some guide sheets to help: 

plants 

animals 

I can't wait to see what you find! Happy hunting! 

Wellbeing 

Seeing as it's the end of term, and you've all been working really hard, I would like for you to spend what remains of the afternoon looking after yourselves (because I think the field guide will take you a while to make and complete). 

There are lots of different ways that we can look after ourselves, many of which you already know!

But here are some suggestions that might help you to feel good as we end our half term 

• Do some nice things for others - could you make something? Help someone in some way? Say something nice to someone? Or all three? Doing things for others is one of the best ways to make yourself feel good. 
• Take some time to do some mindfulness activities. There are some mindfulness colouring pages here. You can do some mindfulness yoga here 
• Being creative is always a good way to make yourself feel good. You could try a Draw with Rob (which I really enjoy doing). If anyone wants to try Gunnersaurus as their picture, then there is space on my Arsenal wall for it 👀👀. 
• Alternatively, you can choose something that will help you to relax. Spend some time reading, watching a film, listening to music or playing a game of something. 

You don't have to send me anything to do with your wellbeing activity, but if you want to, I'd love to see what you got up to! 

Have a lovely half term everyone and I can't wait to see you when we get back! 

Mr Hayden

Hurricane!

 Hey everyone! 

Here's the updated Hurricane where you can actually read it - sorry! 

...and here are the last two pages.

Enjoy!!

Thursday 21st October

 

Good morning Class 6! 

I will see you nice and early at 8.20 but here are your tasks for the day: 

Maths: 

Please begin by spending some time on Times Table Rock Stars 

WALT: Use mental calculations and estimation

The video is here

The worksheet is here

The answers are here 

English 

Use Spelling Shed for 15 minutes 

WALT: Plan a sequel to Hurricane

Yesterday you read through the story Hurricane and wrote a summary of it. 

The story ends with a mystery...what will happen to the second tree? Will it fall as well? If it does, will they get to keep it this time? 

Today I would like you to plan the sequel to Hurricane. Begin by describing the storm at night, move on to what happens when the boys wake up, and then what happens with the newly fallen tree? Most importantly, what happens to Hannibal the cat!! 😱😱😱

Use this sheet to help you to plan. 

If you have time, make a comic strip of what will happen in your story, try to recreate the amazing images that show David and George's imaginary adventures! 

Reading

Use Reading Plus and complete 2 reading lessons 

Science 

WALT: Plan and set up an experiment 

Today you are going to continue thinking about microorganisms. We are going to set up an experiment!

Make sure that you're on one of the Zoom meetings so that I can talk you through how the experiment is going to work. 

For parents preparing in advance, you are going to need 2 slices of bread and 2 containers to hold them in. 

We will plan the experiment using this sheet here

We will set up the experiment so that you can observe it over half term! 

PE 

Have a look at this lesson from Oak Academy. It is all about developing balance and coordination when playing invasion games like basketball. Make sure you have a ball ready and some space to move...also a wall that you're allowed to bounce the ball off of 😬. 

Wednesday 20th October

 Good morning everyone! 

Here are your tasks for today! 

This morning in maths we're going to be doing an assessment so here is some revision for you of some things that we have covered so far. Practise and revision is always useful! 

Maths: 

WALT: Use the order of operations 

I would like for you to have another go at the order of operations today. There are 2 lessons here that will go over how to calculate using the order of operations and then there is another lesson to consolidate your learning and push you on a little further. 

Order of operations Lesson 1

Order of Operations Lesson 2

English

Begin by practising your spellings on Spelling Shed

WALT: Precise a text 

Today we are going to be finishing off our secret stories and then moving on to looking at a new story in class. As you can't finish your stories (because you don't have your books), you can skip straight to the new story! 

It's called Hurricane and you can read it here

Once you have finished, I would like for you to read it again, this time make some notes about what the key events are as you read. 

Then I would like you to precise the text - precise is a fancy word for summarise. So can you please write a summary of what happens in Hurricane. 

Reading

Please complete the vocabulary lesson (if you haven't already) and 2 more of your reading lessons. 

Science 

WALT: Research micro organisms 

Begin by looking at this website for some general information about microorganisms 

Then have a look at this PowerPoint presentation that gives you some more information about micro organisms and how some can be helpful and some can be harmful. Read to slide 11. Then I would like for you to make a poster about the helpful and harmful microorganisms. 

History 

WALT: Devise a battle plan 

Following on from yesterday's lesson where you ordered the events of the Battle of Marathon, I would like for you to write the battle plan for your Athenian army captains! 

Begin by reading the PowerPoint again and focus on slide 11. Here it tells you what General Miltiades planned. Focus on putting the strongest hoplites (soldiers) on the flanks (at the sides) and running quickly to get past the arrows from the archers! 

Write a set of orders to your generals and include a diagram so that they know what it will look like! 

Tuesday 19th October

 Good morning! 

I hope you're all feeling okay today! 

We're in the middle of assessment week this week so what I'm putting on the blog may be a bit different to what you would usually get for English and Maths.

You're lucky because yesterday we did a maths lesson as usual! 

Maths

WALT: Use the order of operations 

Watch the video here

The worksheet is here 

The answers are here 

English

So far this week, we've done a reading test and a Grammar, punctuation and spelling test. In order to get yourself a bit of revision, have a look at this lesson.

Revise relative clauses here: 

If you have time left over then revise fronted adverbials here

Guided Reading 

Use Reading Plus and complete 2 reading lessons 

History: 

WALT: Order the events of the Battle of Marathon 

We began looking at the difference between Athens and Sparta last week. So have a look at this PowerPoint from slide 8 which will tell you all about the Battle of Marathon. 

Then have a look at this worksheet. Use the 3 star sheet and order the events from the Battle of Marathon. Read the PowerPoint again carefully to check to make sure you got it right! 

RE

WALT: Explain our understanding

We have been thinking about the key question: 

Creation and Science: Conflicting or Complimentary? 

I would like for you to begin by looking at the statements on this page. 

Sort them on a continuum line like this one

No Christians believe  --------------------------------------------------------------------All Christians believe 

Some answers will definitely be right and some are open to discussion. See what you think. 

Then I would like for you to think about all that we have learned. What we have learned about Genesis 1. What Christians believe about Genesis 1 being an amazing poem and metaphor. Think about what we learned about scientists and what they think about the creation of the universe. Then I would like for you to write a short answer to the key question: 

 Creation and Science: Conflicting or Complimentary? 

What do you think? Do you think you can believe in Genesis 1 and Science? Explain using examples from what you have learned, including from the visit from Reverend Collishaw! 

Mr Hayden

Friday 8th October

 Good morning Class 6! 

I hope you're all feeling okay this morning! 

Here are your tasks for the day today. 

Maths: 

WALT: Use long division with remainders 

I know long division is tricky but I would like you to stick at it, watch the video carefully and do your very best! If you hadn't quite got it on Wednesday, you were so close! 

Here is the video 

Here is the worksheet 

Here are the answers 

English 

WALT: Use the past progressive and the present progressive tense 

The past and present progressive (or continuous) talk about an action that is ongoing and doesn't end. 

For example: Ahmed is delivering his goods or Ahmed was delivering his goods. 

Have a look at the PowerPoint here (from slide 15 until the end) and see how it works. 

Then I would like for you to write some sentences about this picture: 

You should write a sentence in the present progressive and then change it to the past progressive. 

For example: 

Hassan is handing the delicious bowl of steaming noodles to Ahmed 

Hassan was handing the delicious bowl of steaming noodles to Ahmed. 

Do 5 examples (10 sentences in total) and try to make them as descriptive as possible. 

Guided Reading: 

Use Reading Plus and complete at least two reading lessons. 

Science: 

WALT: Know the characteristics of living things 

We are looking at how different living things are classified. Begin by looking at this PowerPoint 

Here is the sheet for sorting out the characteristics. See if you can match the characteristics to the group of animals. 

Music 

It's very difficult for me to show you what we're doing in class today so I have found something that is similar that you can do at home! 

Lesson 

This is the second lesson in this sequence so do your best with the quiz at the start - I got 80% when I did it because I didn't know the name of the song in the final question! Hopefully you can do at least as well as me!