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Activities - Week 8 - Monday

Good morning, Year 6!

The blog will be updated from Monday - Friday this week. Please check the blog every day and complete the learning activities.

 GPS

Rewrite each sentence below, replacing the conjunction with a semicolon. 

1. The boys were very excited because they were going bowling
2. On a hillside, the goats bleated loudly and the valley echoed with the sound.
3. John raced through the gates when he was running late for school.
4. Long shadows emerged through the streets as the sun was slowly setting.
5. The dog barked at his owner because he wanted to go for a walk.
Literacy

This is last week's family performance poem from Miss Davies. Can you learn it? If you have a ball and some outside space, you could add actions!








Word Aware

Write a list of five nouns, five adjectives and five verbs that could go with this picture. For example:

noun: broom
adjective: high
verb: soar 


Maths 

Starter
To get ready for today's lesson, spend at least 5 minutes playing Times Table Rock Stars. 

Main Activity
Today's lesson is about multiplying fractions by whole numbers.

First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Monday's Maths Video

Then complete this worksheet: Monday's Maths Worksheet
(Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.)

Then check your work against the answers: Monday's Maths Answers



Topic

Science

 This lesson reviews the learning we did earlier this year about how plants reproduce: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrcpscw. Read through the information, watch the videos and complete the activities.

Challenge: can you think of five different plants in your local area that really on bees for pollination?


P.E.

Choose from the activities below:

 1. Try at least five of these different zumba actions: https://family.gonoodle.com/channels/zumba-kids.

2. Give this twenty-minute work-out a go: https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/total-motion.

3. Keep fit with Joe Wicks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Have a great day and remember to check the blog tomorrow!

Mr Town and Ms Tupman

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