Year 6 2021-22

Good morning, Year 6! You should all have had an email from us on Friday with a letter about Year 6 hoodies. Please ask your parents to send us a reply by Tuesday afternoon. 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 vertically opposite angles . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: 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 Literacy We didn't finish our plan from Thursday's lesson  at school. If you haven't already done Thursday and Friday's literacy lessons, then do those. If you have, then pick a topic lesson you haven't already done and do that instead. ...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter Practise your area and perimeter skills by playing Swimming Pool Sid - how many swimming pools can you design in the time limit? Main Activity How many of these challenges can you complete? Post your answers in the comments below! (Or email us at year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk ).         If you get stuck with Question 5, watch this video. Literacy If you haven't already watched Miss Davies' fluency video this week, then watch the video below and join in: Otherwise, spend some time on  https://switchzoo.com/zoo.htm  finalising the creature that you will write about next week (remember that at school today we found out that this site worked on the iPads if we used Google Chrome, but not Safari).  Make sure that you are happy with the animal you have created, and remember there are different options available, depending on which animal you start with! (Use the button...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter Have a go at this cube counting game . What is the highest score you can get? Main Activity Today's lesson is about finding the volume of a cuboid . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet: Thursday'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: Thursday's Maths Answers Literacy Today we're creating our own animals and planning the reports we'll write about them next week. Follow along with the video lesson: This is the video from the start of today's lesson:  Remarkable Animals This is the website to use to make a new creature:  Switch Zoo This is the plan we use in today's lesson - you can look at the headings and make notes in your books:  Literacy...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter To warm up, have a go at a Daily 10 Maths Challenge . Choose your own level of challenge and skill to practise. Have a few goes and see if you can beat your previous score. Or you could challenge someone else in your family! Main Activity Today's lesson is about finding the area of parallelograms . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet:  Wednesday'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:  Wednesday's Maths Answers . Literacy Here's the video clip I mention in the lesson: Seven Worlds, One Planet: Africa (watch from 2 minutes in until the end of the section on chimpanzees). Here's the website where I said you could get extra information about chimpanzees:  Chimpanzee Facts ...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter To practise your skills from yesterday, have a go at the game Perimeter Climber . Main Activity Today's lesson is about finding the area of triangles . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet:  Tuesday'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:  Tuesday's Maths Answers . Literacy Follow along with today's video lesson: Here's the extra video I mentioned in the lesson:  Elephant Diet Video , and here is the worksheet:  Elephant Questions GPS Which words should have capital letters? R.E. Read, watch and follow along with the information here about Nirvana Day . There are mandalas at the end for your to download and colour in, or you can learn how to make your own mandalas...

Good morning, Year 6! We'd really like to see some of the learning you've been doing at home. Please email us some photos of your work:  year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk . If you're having any difficulties with your learning, you can ask Miss Ali for help when she calls you, leave us a comment on the blog, or email us. 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 area and perimeter . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: 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 Literacy Today we're practising writing about habitats. Follow along with the video lesson: Th...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter To warm up, go on Mathletics for at least 10 minutes. Main Activity How many of these challenges can you complete? Post your answers in the comments below! (Or email us at year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk ).           Literacy Explore limericks:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zpb3trd Word Aware Play 'Taboo' with someone in your house. This is the game where you have to get the other person to guess the word you are describing, but  you can't mention the name of the word. There's an online version here , or you can come up with your own words.  Topic Computing Dr Chips has lots of STEM activities, including the coding lesson on the home page of his blog! All the information and resources you will need are linked under:  9/6/20 | Computational Thinking Tuesday  and the lesson video is here: Library Catch up with, or start rea...