Activities - Week 3 (including free books)

Good morning, Year 6! 

Technically, today is the start of the Easter holidays. We will still be posting on the blog and calling you over the holidays, however for the next two weeks, the activities on the blog will be optional.

What do you normally do for this holiday? It's my dad's birthday on April 10th, which almost always falls during the Easter holidays (as you'll remember from our RE lessons, the Easter holiday moves, depending on when a particular full moon occurs). Because of this, I almost always spend the holiday with him, often travelling somewhere. The only exception is when he's travelling somewhere with my sister instead of me. This year, of course, he'll be celebrating his birthday by himself - let me know if you have any ideas of how my sister and I can still make it special for him!

When I spoke to my dad this weekend, he reminded me that four years ago we travelled to Poland for the Easter holidays. One of the places we visited, Toruń, is famous for being the birthplace of both the astronmer Nicolaus Copernicus and a particular type of gingerbread (or, as it is known in Polish: pierniczki). Toruń is one of a few Polish cities which suffered little damage during WW2, and has many beautiful buildings. To learn more about Toruń, visit their tourist information page. 

Gingerbread is one of those things for which there are many different recipes. Here's an easy one from the BBC that you might like to follow. I've always preferred using a mixture of spices in gingerbread, and not just ginger. How do you like yours?



Weekly Activities


Literacy

A quick reminder first: don't forget to keep updating your diary daily! Remember that somedays you might want to write a lot more than on other days. Also, your diary doesn't necessarily have to be a record of what you did - it can also be a place where you record your thoughts, feelings and questions.


Our second writing activity this week is to use both your non-choronological report and persuasive writing skills to research and write a travel guide. You might want to pick somewhere you've already been, or perhaps you'll choose somewhere that you'd like to go once the outbreak is over.

You might find these video clips helpful to watch:

How to write a non-chonological report;
How to write a persuasive text;
Writing a travel guide (watch up to 7 minutes, 30 seconds).

(The second part of the last video is worth watching if you would like an extra challenge, and would like to try your hand at writing a travelogue.) 

You can write your travel guide in your yellow exercise books, but if you want to add pictures or maps and publish your writing, you might find this video helpful: how to make an 8-page booklet.

Some things you might want to include in your travel guide are:

• What to pack;
• When to go;
• What to do and see;
• Where to stay;
• Background information about the destination. 

Maths

Starter

Many of you have already played calculator bingo in class to practise your knowledge of place value: https://nrich.maths.org/1288. (You will need to allow Flash to run!) If you have problems with Flash, then try your hand at being a Number Detective: https://nrich.maths.org/204.

Main activity

Find at least 10 different things in your house that you can express as a ratio (and as a fraction). Here are some examples from my house:

• The ratio of limes to mangoes to bananas in my fruit bowl is 3:2:4; the fraction of fruit that is limes is 3/9 (or 1/3), the fraction of fruit that is mangoes is 2/9, and the fraction of fruit that is bananas is 4/9. 
• The ratio of white flowers to purple flowers in my vase is 7:9; the fraction of flowers that are white is 7/16, and the fraction of flowers that are purple is 9/16;
• The ratio of copper coins to silver coins in my purse is 3:7; the fraction of coins that are copper is 3/10, and the fraction of coins that are silver is 7/10. 

 Additional maths resources:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://login.mathletics.com/

https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/ (different investigations)

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ (help with angles)

Reading

Complete Miss Davies' Performance Poetry task!

Week 1 is on the blog here: https://cabotschoolyear6.blogspot.com/2020/04/miss-davies-performance-poetry-family.html (week 2 will be added after the Easter holidays).

We have set you all up on a free reading website. The details for how to access the website are below (I think you might only be able to access the website during school hours - if this is a problem, give Mr Town or me your parents' email address next time we call, and I can give you access at different hours). 

1. Go to www.getepic.com/students
2. Log on with our class code: qav6098
3. Click on your name and start reading! 

MORE free books and/or reading activities:

• There are some free books available if your parents sign up to Oxford Owl (they will need an email address to do this);
• Audible have lots of free stories available at the moment (you will need to search to find the right age): https://stories.audible.com/start-listen;
• Borrow books from your local library using the Libby app (ask your parents' permission first);
• Borrow more books using the BorrowBox app (ask your parents' permission first);
• Book Trust have lots of different activities available on their website which they update regularly;
• National Literacy Trust's Family Zone has links to several authors sharing their books, plus a range of other activities;
• Puffin Schools has lots of reading resources;

Don't forget that you can hear one of David Walliams' World's Worst Children stories each day on his website: https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/ 

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

Because it's the holidays, here are a range of different topic tasks to choose from:

1. Make an insect sculpture! Watch this video; use objects from your house, garden, or that you gather on the next walk you take to create the insect of your choice. 
2. Draw a floating 3D cube! Instructions here. 
3. Invent an animal! Watch this video. Invent your own, or ask a family member to invent one for you to draw. 
4. Make a leaning tower! Learn about the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Can you use items in your house to create a leaning tower? How high can you get before it falls over? Rebuild it in a different way to see if you can improve it. Can you strengthen its base to make it stronger?
5. Design your dream bedroom! Look at the pictures below for inspiration, or look online to find some incredible children's bedrooms. Find all the things that you would need for your asbolute, money-is-no-object, dream bedroom, including bedding, toys, furniture and decorations. You could screenshot them into a Powerpoint or Word document. You could even try out different paint colours online.

  

  

Hope you all have a good week!

Remember that if you have any questions, you can contact us through the school office on 0117 377 2630 or at cabotp@bristol-schools.uk. Please make sure you are staying safe.

Ms Tupman and Mr Town