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Please click here for the Reading Revision. You will find a Fiction and Non-Fiction text for your child to use along with the answers at the back of each set of questions.
Writing Revision - Click Here
In the final unit of writing we will be creating an adventure in an historical setting. I have included an opening to the story 'The Golden Phoenix,' your child is to continue the story by creating an adventure for the characters Tom and Jerry.
When reading through the story, they can use the checklists to 'Text-mark' (highlight) how the beginning of the story has already included some of the Narrative Features.
In this document you will find:
Please click here for the WAGOLL's, questions and answers for Mathematics Revision
This term we have been looking at Animals including Humans and Living Things and their Habitats. Please click below to find the relevant revision.
This term we have been looking at World War 2 and Biomes. During Assessment Week we will be asking the children to do a three minute talk in both History and Geography. They need to consider all of the learning objectives we have covered over the term to help them.
Please click below to find the Rubic Cube we will be using with learning objectives we will be expecting the children to be able to present to the class.
For Qatar History, you need to revise from page 31 to page 47.
NEWS
Celebrating Success - The children's Big Writes in Poetry
Striving for Evidence -International Day Posters
Some dates for your diaries:
08.03.19 School Fayre
14.03.19 International Day
17.03.19 Assessments Start
04.04.19 End of Term 2
Head of Year 6 atorley@nbabarwa.com (Miss Torley, 6 Red)
Spellings
Red group study the first 6 words
Blue and Orange groups study the first 12 words
Green group study all the words
The children must look up the spelling words for their group in the dictionary and write the meanings in their homework books. They should then choose five words and write them in sentences. This will be checked after they complete their spelling test on Wednesday.
1) advice
2) advise
3) device
4) devise
5) licence
6) license
7) practice
8) practise
9) deceive
10) conceive
11) receive
12) perceive
13) ceiling
14) Linnaean
15) exoskeleton
16) annelid
17) arachnid
18) mollusc
19) echinoderm
20) classification
Mathematics
Complete the following calculations, you may need to do the inverse to find the missing number.
Remember to take care with your place value.
Science - Classifying Organisms - click here
Choose an animal, draw it and describe it.
Next week, you will swap your work with a partner and you will have to try and classify your partners animal.
Topic - Biomes
Choose one Biomes to research and do a poster about. Think about the Climate, Weather, Habitats and Animals in that Biome.
Rainforest
Deciduous Forest
Taiga Forest
Grassland
Savannah
Desert
Tundra
Ice
THIS IS DUE WEDNESDAY 13th MARCH.
Maths
Mathematics
Science
Exercise
Using the exercise diary handed out from class teacher.
Starting 10.02.19 until 16.02.19, record all the physical activity you have done each day and the amount of time spent on each activity.
It is recommended that you do an hour of exercise each day. Add up the time you spent on each activity to see if you met this recommendation.
BONUS – send a picture of you taking part in an exercise activity, this could be from National Sports Day.
Topic
Use the PowerPoint presentations to refresh your knowledge on the Topics covered in the World War II unit. Choose one area to research in further detail and create an A3 poster on your chosen topic. Your poster must contain 20% pictures and 80% written information (NOT TYPED!). This is due on Wednesday 20th February.
SPaG
Spellings: Write the words every day, write the definitions for each word and then five sentences, using one of your spelling words in each sentence in to your homework book.
Writing
Mathematics
Science - Healthy Lifestyle
Create a poster about a healthy lifestyle. You may want to consider any or all of the following that you have learned about this term: The Circulatory System, The Digestive System, how nutrients and water are used in your body and the effects of exercise on your body.
Make a spider-diagram for 'Newspaper Features' and add all the features around it that you need to include.
Write a newspaper article that to go with this picture.
*Red Group can use the planning template. Other groups should make their own plans.
Red: Complete section 1 identifying the correct place value for decimals GOOD LUCK!!!
Orange and Blue: Complete section 1 as above and then complete the conversion of English to decimal
numbers. Think carefully about the decimal number rules and where the 0’s and decimals go.
Green: Complete sections 1, 2 and 3. Select the most appropriate way to add and subtract decimals. Will you
always need to use column addition or can you use rounding? Good luck!
Please completed the section that you have been allocated BUT if you feel confident enough to answer the
other sections then that is up to you. Always worth a try
Red: Complete section 1 adding and taking away negative numbers. Remember to follow the rules carefully and draw your own thermometer number line to help you work out the answers.
GOOD LUCK!!!
Orange and Blue: Complete section 1 as above and then complete the negative number table. Think carefully about the negative number rules you have learned in class.
Green: Complete sections 1, 2 and 3. You must find the number patter and write in the next 3 numbers into the sequence.
Please completed the section that you have been allocated BUT if you feel confident enough to answer the other sections then that is up to you. Always worth a try ☺
History
Design and create a paper plane inspired by the World War II topic currently being covered in History.
There is no limitation to the size of the plane.
Any materials can be used.
This is due on Monday 14 January.
Diary - To keep the children practising their writing skills. Please encourage them to write a paragraph or two in English everyday about what they have been doing.
Spellings - The children need to keep learning the spellings for Year 5 and 6.
This is a list of spellings Year 6 need to know by the end of the year, please familiarise yourself with it and encourage your child learn them. We will use them throughout the year in our spelling test.
Mathematics - The children should continue learning their multiplications. This will help them next term as we move on to calculating and comparing Percentages, Decimals and fractions, Algebraic Formulas, Perimeter, Area and Volume.
Science - In Term 2 we will be studying the Circulatory System, please encourage your child to research this and bring in a some information they have found out.
Topic - In Term 2 we will be studying World War 2, please encourage your child to research this topic and what happened to cause World War 2 and bring in a some information they have found out.
Reading Comprehension - Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry.
Maths Revision
SPaG
Science
History
Geography
Please refer to the homework over the past half term and the homework dated 15.11.18.
Writing
Read through 'Gran Can Rap'
Can you identify any key features of Poetry, use the Features list to help you.
Mathematics
Red Group - Match the calculation to the correct answer using your knowledge of BODMAS.
Orange and Blue Group - Use 3 numbers to create a calculation that will work out to the answers given, using your knowledge of BODMAS.
Green Group - Correctly use the order of operations to carry out calculations.
This week in Science we look at the difference between series and parallel circuits and experimented with them using the equipment.
Task 1-
Your homework task this week is to convert and label a series and parallel circuit using the correct symbols on the worksheet.
Task 2-
You must then draw your own series and parallel circuit in your books, labeling the different symbols used.
Good Luck!
Task 1 - Match the symbols to their meanings.
Task 2 - Fill in the gaps in the sentences using the words provided in the box.
Task 3 - Can you draw a map of your local area using the map features you have learnt about this term.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Red Group - Do Questions 1-4 of page 1 and Questions 1-4 of page 2.
Blue & Orange Groups - Complete pages 1 and 2.
Green Group - Complete pages 1 - 3.
Writing
Read through the Play Script and find your task on page 2. Remember to use the features of a Play Script within your work.
Mathematics
Mathematics worksheets
Red Group - Multiply and Divide numbers with decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.
Blue & Orange - Simplifying Fractions.
Green Group - Simplifying Fractions and Ordering Fractions.
Online Games
Please find on Abacus the mathematics activities for Multiplying and Dividing decimals by 10,100 and 1000, and also changing mixed numbers to improper fractions.
Science
Topic
Treasure Maps
Design a treasure map and write instructions for a friend to follow and find the hidden treasure.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Writing
Read the Play Script for your group.
Using the set of instructions, use the features we have learnt this week to edit the play script and improve it.
Red Group
Blue & Orange Group
Green Group
Mathematics
Science
Look at the scientific diagram of a circuit and label each part.
Using your scientific knowledge can you now draw a scientific circuit from the real drawings?
Topic
Can you label the seven continents and important features of a map of the world?
Writing
Mathematics
Using the mental and written methods we have learned in maths, complete these sums.
Please complete this mathematics work to help solve the problem of organising an event.
Science
To finish off the unit in Science, choose the correct word for each blank space to complete each sentence.
Topic
In our next unit of Topic we will be studying maps, for homework, we will like the children to collect maps and bring them in to school. They could be road maps, tourist maps, maps on take away menus or maps on leaflets.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Reading
Writing
Maths
Science
Red - Answer questions 2 - 6 and show all your working out.
Blue and Orange - Answer questions 2 - 6 and show all your working. Remember to show all remainders as a fraction.
Green - Answer questions 2 - 6 and show all your working out. Remember to show all remainders as a fraction, then write 3 questions for dividing 4-digit numbers by 2-digits and solve them using the chunking method.