Activities - Week 6

Good morning Year 6,

It feels like it's been a very long time since we've seen you now, and we miss you all very much. We're looking forward to hearing all about what you've been doing when we speak to you this week! Thank you so much if you've posted a comment on the blog - we have replied to every comment that we've seen. We'd really like to hear some of your 'Magical Door' poems when we call you this week - perhaps you can practise performing your poems before we speak to you? Or, if you prefer, you could post your poems as comments on the blog!

If you've been a little slow to return to schoolwork after the holidays, please make sure you've checked the blog posts from the last few weeks.

Weekly Activities

Literacy

1. Carry on with your diaries. You might not feel that you have anything interesting to write about, but remember that this is a very unusual time. In thirty years or so, your children might be reading your diary to find out about what life was like for you! Remember that you can write about your thoughts and feelings, as well as what you did. If you're stuck for ideas, you could always pick something from the news to write about. There's an interesting article about when schools will reopen here and a video about home learning here. It would also be interesting to add something about Ramadan, for those of you whose families are observing it.

2. An idiom is a common word or phrase which means something different from its literal meaning but can be understood because of its popular use, e.g. "It's raining cats and dogs!" means that it's raining a lot.

Can you work out what these idioms about doors mean?

Challenge: if you or someone in your house speaks another language, can you find another idioms in that language? Is there an English equivalent?

Here's an example in French: Coûter les yeux de la tête literally means that something costs the eyes in your head – it’s a price that’s unreasonable. The English equivalent is ‘to cost an arm and a leg’.

3. Read 'The Door' by Miroslav Holub. Listen to these two different performances of the poem: performance one and performance two . Decide which reading you prefer, and write down why you prefer that version. 

Answer these questions about the poem in your exercise books (you can use note form or full sentences). 

a) What did you like about the poem? What was your favourite line and why? 

b) How did the poem make you feel? 

c) Which line in the poem did you find the most interesting and why? 

d) Are there any parts of the poem that leave you with unanswered questions? 

e) What questions would you like to ask the poet, Miroslav Holub? 

Finally, decide how you would perform this poem, and have a go at performing it. You could ask your family to be your audience, you could perform it to yourself, or you could perform it to us when we call you this week.

Maths

Starter

You have been set some work on algebra on Mathletics. Try to complete at least one of the tasks. (Remember that we can see whether or not you have tried to do this - some of you still need to complete last week's tasks on percentages!)

Main activity

There are five different challenges below. Solving them will involve using a range of maths skills and subject knowledge. Try to solve all five. If you get stuck, please ask us for help when we call you this week! 

Final challenge: make your own algebra puzzle like the one in Challenge 1. If you enjoy solving this kind of puzzle, or you're looking for inspiration, you can find lots more examples by doing an internet search for 'algebra picture puzzles'.Reading1. Miss Davies' Family Poetry Challenge: https://cabotschoolyear6.blogspot.com/2020/04/miss-davies-performance-poetry-family_27.html2. If you haven't already, then do the reading lesson Miss Davies has posted on YouTube for you (there will be another lesson to do on Wednesday - your parents should receive a text with the link to follow): https://youtu.be/GqMqvtIb0G43. We're pleased to see that some of you have started reading on GetEpic. If you haven't logged on yet, please follow the instructions below. If you have already logged on, then your task this week is to read something every day this week, including at least 20 minutes on GetEpic (a book you choose yourself, or one of the ones we have assigned you).

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 - Choose from the selection below!

1. French

Bonjour les enfants !

For French this week, I think you will really enjoy this little video:

https://youtu.be/XcDTgcDCRrI

The mum in the video will show you how to make a fruit kebab with her son. They do everything in both French and English, so you will find out lots of words for fruit in French. And you can even make the recipe with them! If you want to eat it at the end of the day, you can put it in the fridge to keep fresh.

Bon appetit!

Madame Cartlidge


2. Art

Look at the picture at the beginning of this blog post. What do you think is at the end of this path? What's something that you might see on your way there? What do you think the landscape is like to the left of the path? Draw, paint, sketch or make a collage of either what you think the end of the path looks like, or what you think the view to the left looks like.

For some inspiration, check out the top 101 international landscape images of the year (2019) here: https://www.internationallandscapephotographer.com/ if you scroll down, you will be able to view the images in a 'book' on the webpage. (If you're really keen for your artwork to look realistic, then you should probably know that Ms Tupman took this photo on a walk along the Cotswold Way through Westridge Wood, so you might be able to find some other photographs online of what the area looks like. The little white flowers you can see are wild garlic.)

3. Geography

Have a go at taking part in this lesson on settlements.

4. Space Race

What can you find out about the first woman in space? Are there any other space 'firsts' that you can think of and research? There are some incredible images from the International Space Station (ISS) here: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html that might inspire your research!

5. PSHE

Watch these videos about secondary school: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zj2grj6. Then:

a) Make a checklist of things you think you would need for a school day at your new secondary school;
b) Plan the things that you might need to get before you start at your new school (including any stationery);
c) Think and talk about any tips you learnt about how to find your way around your new school;
d) Do any of you family or friends already go to your new school? Ask them for any tips they have about the school.


Have a fantastic week with your families, keep yourselves safe and active, and start practising those poems to share with us! If you get stuck with any of the activities this week, please ask us for help when we call you.

Take care,

Ms Tupman and Mr Town