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Activities - Week 5


Good morning, Year 6! It's the first day after the Easter Holidays; we would normally be welcoming you back to our classrooms this morning, but instead this is a virtual welcome back to school! We're looking forward to hearing what you've been up to when we make our calls to you this week. 

If you have taken the past two weeks off your schoolwork, then have a look over the last two weeks on the blog, and see what's been posted (especially the Topic links).
Weekly Activities


Literacy

 1. Keep writing in your diaries! Watch what some of these children have to say about what life in lockdown has been like for them - perhaps it will inspire you to add some thoughts to your diary. If your family is taking part in Ramadan, which starts later this week, you might also like to write about that in your diary.

2. We will be working through some of the ideas from this workbook. You might like to work through it at your own pace, or you can follow along with the activities we post on the blog. This week, we'll be focussing on the first two activities from the booklet:

What do you miss doing?

Make a list of all the things you miss doing, that you wish you could open your front door and go to do. Some categories to think about include: seeing family, seeing friends, day-to-day activities, playing sports, exploring your interests, places you love to visit.

Be specific - it's not enough to write 'playing with my friends'. Here are some things from Ms Tupman's list (the list isn't complete, though):

seeing my parents in Devon, and just sitting talking to them, making dinner, going for walks etc.; visiting my sister in London; hugging my nieces; playing hide-and-seek with my nieces; putting my god-daughter to bed on a Thursday evening and reading books with her until she gets sleepy; visiting my friends' house for dinner every Tuesday; swimming; driving to school every morning and listening to my music playlists; listening to podcasts on my drive home each evening; making travel plans to see friends at the weekend; planning big travel adventures for the summer holidays; popping out to the shops when I only need one or two things and being in and out of the shop in five minutes; walking to my local cafe at the weekend; visiting libraries; going to National Trust properties, museums and art galleries; taking the train; going to the sea; walking on Dartmoor... and many, many more things, including: seeing everyone at Cabot (children and adults)! 

 I opened the Magical Door and saw...

1. Read Kit Wright's poem 'The Magic Box' here: https://cabotschoolyear6.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-magic-box-kit-wright.html and/or listen to him perform it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zkpmhyc.

2. Make a list of all the things which could be behind a magical door.

3. Turn your list into a poem, using the sentence starter: 'I opened the magical door and saw...'

Here's an example:
You could vary the sentence starter so that different senses are explored, for example:

Once you've finished your first draft, go back through and decide what to add extra description to. Can you use personification to help?
For example, 

I opened the magical door and saw shadows dancing.

Can be edited to become:

I opened the magical door and saw a shoal of hungry shadows, tangoing through busy streets.

We'd love to read or listen to your finished poems - you can either post them as comments on this blog post or read them to us when we call you over the next week or so. 


Maths

Starter

You have been set some percentages tasks on Mathletics. Try at least two tasks (remember that we can monitor your Mathletics activity and can tell whether you've tried to do this or not). 

Main activity

Suppose that you were writing out all the integers, starting from 1. What would be the 100th digit you wrote down? In which number would it occur?

For example... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20...

...the 10th digit I wrote was a '1' and it occured in the number '10'. 
...the 20th digit I wrote was a '1' and it occured in the number '15'.
...the 25th digit I wrote was a '7' and it occured in the number '17'.
...the 30th digit I wrote was a '2' and it occured in the number '20'.

Once you've found the 100th digit, can you find:

- the 500th digit?
- the 1000th digit?
- when you will have written the digit '9' for the 300th time?

Can you work out an efficient way to find the answers, so that you don't have to write a list of all the numbers and then count the digits?

What else can you find out?

Challenge: will digits which are multiples of 10 always occur on the first digit in a number? Why/why not?


Reading

1. Miss Davies' weekly family poetry challenge: https://cabotschoolyear6.blogspot.com/2020/04/miss-davies-performance-poetry-family_20.html

2. Log onto the GetEpic site using the instructions below. Look at what we've recommended for you, and see what you can find for yourself. As a minimum, read the Space Race book you have been assigned and take the quiz on it which you have also been assigned. (We monitor the use of this site, and we can tell who has logged on and how long they have spent reading. If you cannot access the site, tell Ms Tupman or Mr Town when they call you this week.)
  1. Go to www.getepic.com/students
  2. Log on with our class code: qav6098
  3. Click on your name and start reading! 

Topic

1. We're sticking with the door theme! Doors are not only exciting for what may lie behind them, they can be designed to invite you into their world. A few years ago, a derelict area of Funchal in Madeira was transformed by local artists who decided to bring the dead doors to life. The beauty of the art opened new doors, and soon homes, shops and restaurants flourished there. Here are a few of those doors. (You can find many more doors by searching 'Funchal doors'!)


Draw, paint or create your own door. What design will you choose? What does it represent?

2. Carry on researching the solar system (this is the topic task which was set last week). 



Have a great week, keep yourselves safe and active and start thinking about what you want to share with us when we speak to you! We really miss you all and wish that we were seeing you in school today. Until then, here's a snapshot of our daily lives from each of us (Ms Tupman on a wet walk in the woods - note the steamed-up glasses - and Mr Town with some homemade blueberry muffins - yum!). 

Take care,

Ms Tupman and Mr Town


 


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