Good morning Year 6!
I hope you've all had lovely weekends (whilst being careful about social distancing). I spent a lot of the weekend reading, cleaning and catching up with family and friends over the phone. My sister reports that Marley, her elderly cat, thinks that she should ALWAYS work from home. Someone's been leaving positive messages on benches around my mum's town (I love their handwriting)!
If you'd like to 'visit' somewhere this week, then take a Google tour from the comfort of your home! You might like to explore:
Chauvet Cave, in France (this might be of particular interest to anyone with siblings in Years 3 or 4)
Carnegie Hall (do you reconise the music from a Big Write we did earlier in the school year?)
The Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria
I'll end this blog post with some more links you might find interesting. First, here are this week's activities. You can complete them in the yellow exercise books that you have been given.
Weekly Activities:
Literacy - There are two literacy activities this week, because the first one will be ongoing for as long as we aren't at school.
1. Start a diary and update it every day (even if it's only briefly). Make sure to include anything interesting that you do or think about.
You can learn more about famous diarists here.
2. Write a description (at least two paragraphs) about the signs of spring that you can see from your window. Remember to show not tell, and try to include different senses.
Maths - Find at least five different ways of representing the number of dots in this image. Think about: how many dots are there altogether? How have they been arranged in the image? How else could they be grouped, lined up, or gathered together?
Reading - Make sure you are reading every day. If you run out of things to read, try a story from another country: https://worldstories.org.uk/ or listening to an audiobook: https://www.storynory.com/ or https://stories.audible.com/start-listen.
Additional reading resources:
https://www.heleneboudreau.com/drawmemore (read 'Mason and the Mega-nauts' for free and draw along with the chapters. There are no illustrations yet - you can send yours to the author, and they might be included!)
http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ (Neil Gaiman reads the brilliant 'The Graveyard Book' and 'Coraline' (scroll down for Coraline - children who were in on Friday have already listened to the first two chapters of Coraline).)
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/ (illustration classes with author Mo Willems)
https://www.worldbookday.com/resources/primary/ (explore book extracts and other activities)
Topic - research one of the rivers below (or pick one of your own), and choose one of these options for presenting the information you find out:
a) a poster;
b) a non-chronological report;
c) a five to ten-minute presentation to your family (perhaps they could film you?);
d) an advert, persuading people to visit the river.
Facts you might like to include: the source and mouth of the river, the country (or countries) it flows through, the names of any major tributaries, how people use the river, any interesting wildlife that can found along the river, any threats to the river, details of any famous bridges or dams along the river, how the river was used in the past, pictures... and anything else that interests you!
Rivers: Amazon, Nile, Danube, Congo, Mississippi, Murray or Ganges.
Additional resources (also have a look at the previous blog post):
Daily P.E. with Joe Wicks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers
https://www.gonoodle.com/
https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/stories
https://world-geography-games.com/
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Use the Cabot planner to help you organise your day (this was sent home with your home-learning packs, and we included it in the previous blog post). Make sure you are stopping for exercise where possible (see the Joe Wicks, GoNoodle or Supermovers videos)! Remember that if you have any questions, you can contact me or Mr Town through the school office on 0117 377 2630 or at cabotp@bristol-schools.uk. Please make sure you are staying safe.
Have a great week!
Ms Tupman
I hope you've all had lovely weekends (whilst being careful about social distancing). I spent a lot of the weekend reading, cleaning and catching up with family and friends over the phone. My sister reports that Marley, her elderly cat, thinks that she should ALWAYS work from home. Someone's been leaving positive messages on benches around my mum's town (I love their handwriting)!
Apart from staying in touch with loved ones, I decided to visit a quiet hilltop near my house, Coaley Peak, to watch the sunset. The only other people up there were dog walkers, and we all stayed a good distance apart from one another. The water you can see in the background of the photo is the River Severn; beyond that is the Forest of Dean and in the very far distance it's just possible to see the Black Mountains, in Wales.
If you'd like to 'visit' somewhere this week, then take a Google tour from the comfort of your home! You might like to explore:
Chauvet Cave, in France (this might be of particular interest to anyone with siblings in Years 3 or 4)
Carnegie Hall (do you reconise the music from a Big Write we did earlier in the school year?)
The Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria
I'll end this blog post with some more links you might find interesting. First, here are this week's activities. You can complete them in the yellow exercise books that you have been given.
Weekly Activities:
Literacy - There are two literacy activities this week, because the first one will be ongoing for as long as we aren't at school.
1. Start a diary and update it every day (even if it's only briefly). Make sure to include anything interesting that you do or think about.
You can learn more about famous diarists here.
2. Write a description (at least two paragraphs) about the signs of spring that you can see from your window. Remember to show not tell, and try to include different senses.
Maths - Find at least five different ways of representing the number of dots in this image. Think about: how many dots are there altogether? How have they been arranged in the image? How else could they be grouped, lined up, or gathered together?
What if there were 10 times as many dots? Could you still find at least five different ways of representing them?
Additional maths resources:
https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/ (different investigations)
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ (additional help with ratio)
Additional reading resources:
https://www.heleneboudreau.com/drawmemore (read 'Mason and the Mega-nauts' for free and draw along with the chapters. There are no illustrations yet - you can send yours to the author, and they might be included!)
http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ (Neil Gaiman reads the brilliant 'The Graveyard Book' and 'Coraline' (scroll down for Coraline - children who were in on Friday have already listened to the first two chapters of Coraline).)
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/ (illustration classes with author Mo Willems)
https://www.worldbookday.com/resources/primary/ (explore book extracts and other activities)
Topic - research one of the rivers below (or pick one of your own), and choose one of these options for presenting the information you find out:
a) a poster;
b) a non-chronological report;
c) a five to ten-minute presentation to your family (perhaps they could film you?);
d) an advert, persuading people to visit the river.
Facts you might like to include: the source and mouth of the river, the country (or countries) it flows through, the names of any major tributaries, how people use the river, any interesting wildlife that can found along the river, any threats to the river, details of any famous bridges or dams along the river, how the river was used in the past, pictures... and anything else that interests you!
Rivers: Amazon, Nile, Danube, Congo, Mississippi, Murray or Ganges.
Additional resources (also have a look at the previous blog post):
Daily P.E. with Joe Wicks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers
https://www.gonoodle.com/
https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/stories
https://world-geography-games.com/
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Use the Cabot planner to help you organise your day (this was sent home with your home-learning packs, and we included it in the previous blog post). Make sure you are stopping for exercise where possible (see the Joe Wicks, GoNoodle or Supermovers videos)! Remember that if you have any questions, you can contact me or Mr Town through the school office on 0117 377 2630 or at cabotp@bristol-schools.uk. Please make sure you are staying safe.
Have a great week!
Ms Tupman
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