Year 6 Weekly News & Homework Friday 28^th January

Key Messages:

• Reminder to ensure children are reading at home and bringing in their reading records.
• Please ensure children are wearing correct school uniform and shoes.
• Author of the Term competition – Create your own sidekick animal just like Philip Pullman’s books. Be as creative as you like.
• Art competition – create your own art work of a Gorilla like the illustrations from Anthony Browne’s book.

Home Learning:

The year 6 team thoroughly enjoyed looking at your photos of how you have all evolved over time!! Well done.

Reading:

Minimum 3x a week. Reading record must be signed by an adult. Can be completed on your own or with your parents.

Spelling Shed: 

Once a week – Friday to Friday. 

Tasks will be completed online, with new tasks set every week.

Tasks will always follow the spellings being taught in class that week. 

 Times Tables Rock Stars: 

Minimum 3x a week.

Can be completed on tablets, laptops or mobile phones though the app or the website.

 My Maths: 

Once a week – Friday to Friday.

Tasks will be completed online, with new tasks set every week.

Tasks will always follow the subjects being taught in class that week.

Home Learning Task: 

Make a poster or write a story/essay about how the world would be different if dinosaurs had not gone extinct. Be as creative as you can!
Ideas: Think about whether humans would have evolved or not, and how dinosaurs would have evolved over time too. Here is an article about it http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170918-what-if-the-dinosaurs-hadnt-died-out

English:

This week children have been learning to add description, action, speech and how the character is feeling into our writing. We have rewritten the Jelly fish attack from our core text Kensuke’s Kingdom and have thoroughly enjoyed weaving all the above into our writing.

 Next week, will be discovering a different species on Kensuke’s Island – a chimera (a single organism that's made up of cells from two or more "individuals"). We will then research, plan, learn about and create non-chronological reports on our newly discovered creature. We will really need to use our imagination.

Maths:

This week in maths we have be focusing on percentages of amounts and finding the whole amount. We have been using bar models to support our learning and have remembered that finding 10% is the star of the show.

Next week, we will be moving onto to learning about Algebra and using this to form and solve equations. Our focus is to really use sentence stems to support us with reasoning questions and explaining our learning.

UBBC:

This week in Science and History, we have been learning about Charles Darwin’s discoveries on his voyage on the HMS Beagle. We learnt new vocabulary words and research the evolution of different animals before sharing our findings with the class. We also took part in a debate about whether the Iguanas or finches had adapted the most and why. This has built on our prior learning about natural selection. To end the week, we investigated which beaks would be best to picking up different food. We needed to create and make a range of finch beaks and use a range of material to pick up a range of bird seeds.

 Next week, we will be learning about how the world has evolved over time, and we will be creating some art work based on evolution.