Home Learning OpportunitiesClass: Year 6Learning activities set for the week beginning Monday 11th MayLearning activities to be completed by Friday 15th MayTo send your writing to your Class Teacher, e-mail it to: 6bp@osborne-pri.bham.sch.uk

Home Learning Opportunities Week 1 Summer 1Monday AM Monday PMMaths Literacy

Complete the Monday activity from Doors.

Complete Pages 15+16 of spelling revision book.

ICT – Online Safety First to a Million – see the activities below.

Reading

Complete Moonfleet (in your revision folders)

Online Learning:BBC Bitesize Year 6 Session : Simplify Fractions

Use TT Rock Stars/ Numbots

Online Learning: Online Learning: Online Learning:

Use Scholastic Reading online

Tuesday AM Tuesday PMMaths Literacy

Complete the Tuesday activity from Doors.

Complete Pages 17+18 of spelling revision book.

ICT – Debugging

World Cup – Algorithm planning adventures

ReadingActivity 1 with extract 1 for Tell Me No Lies

Online Learning:BBC Bitesize Year 6 Session : Compare and order fractions

Use TT Rockstars/Numbots

Online Learning: Online Learning:

BBC Bitesize – Algorithms and Debugging

Online Learning:Click on the link for The Week magazine on your school website.

BBC Bitesize – Tell me no lies by Malorie Blackman.

Wednesday AM Wednesday PMMaths Maths problem – More Fraction Bars

LiteracyComplete the Wednesday activity from Doors.

Complete pages 36+37 of punctuation revision book.

Physical Education ReadingComplete 10-minute tests – Set C Test 5.

Online Learning:BBC Bitesize Year 6 Session : Add and subtract fractions

Online Learning: Online Learning:PE with Joe/The Body Coach – You TubeJust Dance Kids – You TubeTake a look at Kingsbury Schools Sports Partnership Twitter for challenges! @ksspcoaches@kingsburyssp@ksspsgo

Online Learning:

Use Scholastic Reading online

Thursday AM Thursday PMMaths Maths problem – Bryony’s Triangle.Go to the nrich.maths.org and type in Bryony’s Triangle (see activity below)

LiteracyComplete the Thursday activity from Doors.

Music

ReadingActivity 2 and 3 with extract 2 for Tell Me No Lies

Online Learning:BBC Bitesize Year 6 Session : Adding and subtracting mixed numbers.

Online Learning: Online Learning:BBC Bitesize Year 6– Duration, Tempo and Beethoven.

Online Learning:

BBC Bitesize – Tell me no lies by Malorie Blackman.

Friday AM Friday PMMaths

Maths Problem – Fractions in a box.

LiteracyComplete Pages 38+39 of Punctuation revision book.

PSHEDesign a poster that we can share with the younger children at Osborne with tips and ideas to help them during their time at home. What do you think is helpful to do everyday?Have you got any inspirational quotes that may help them if they are worried?The best ones sent into the email address will be shared with our other year groups.

Reading

Online Learning:Rockstars/Numbots

BBC Bitesize Year 6 – Using relative clauses.

Online Learning: Online Learning:Use Scholastic Reading online

ICTMonday: ICT - Online Safety

Tuesday – ICT – Debugging

READINGReading Tuesday

PractiseYou may need paper and a pen or pencil for some of these activities.

Read extract 1 and complete activity 1 below.

Extract 1Gemma turned the page. Here, a mum with smiling eyes and untidy hair like a halo hugged her daughter tight, whilst the headline below the photograph yelled out, MOTHER SAVES CHILD FROM OVERTURNED CAR. And on the opposite page, a mum standing next to a boy, her arm around his shoulders. The headline that went this photograph declared, MUM FLIES OFF WITH SON FOR NEW HEART. Gemma only ever kept the headlines that went with her mums – never the full newspaper article – but she could remember the story that went with this one. The mum’s son needed a heart and liver transplant and the doctors in Britain had all but written him off. But not his mum. His mum was determined to do whatever it took to keep her son alive, so she’d taken him to America. And it had had a happy ending. The boy received his transplant and lived.

Gemma sighed. She liked happy endings.

Gemma misses her mother, taking comfort from the cuttings in her scrapbook. Mike is new to the area and has a secret about his missing mother. They are inextricably linked and their effect on each other's lives will be explosive. Published by Macmillan Children's Books.

Activity 1Extract 1 focuses primarily on the character of Gemma.

Look in the text and find this section: ‘Gemma sighed.’

Using the text, write a detailed summary paragraph that explains why Gemma sighed.

You will need to refer to the extract in your explanation.

Reading Thursday

Read extract 2 and complete activity 2 below.

Extract 2Mike glared at his grandad. All the long drive down, Mike hadn’t said a single, solitary word. He’d nodded, shaken his head or shrugged as appropriate whenever Nan or Gramps asked him a question, but that was it. Mike remembered how months before

Gramps and Nan sat together in the courtroom never saying a word to him or each other. And how much he’d hated them for it.

‘I know what you’re thinking and you needn’t worry.’ Mike glared at his grandparents. ‘I’m not going to disappoint you.’

Let them take that any way they wanted!

‘I see that whatever else your mother did, she certainly didn’t teach you any manners,’ Gramps told him. ‘Or respect for your elders.’

‘My mum taught me that families are supposed to stick together.’ Mike said pointedly.

‘Meaning?’ Gramps prompted with a frown.

‘The meaning can wait until Mike has settled in,’ Nan said briskly. ‘We’re all getting off on the wrong foot here. Come on, Mikey. I’ll show you up to your room.’

Nan took hold of one of Mike’s smaller bags and led the way up the stairs. Reluctantly, Mike picked up his larger suitcase and followed her. Nan waited until they were on the landing before she spoke again.

‘You mustn’t mind your grandad,’ she said smiling. ‘He’s all bark and no bite.’

His bark is so bad that he doesn’t need to bite, Mike couldn’t help thinking.

Activity 2Revisit the text and focus on the character of Mike. He appears to be very angry in this extract.

What does the writer tell us about him through description? What do we find out about his mood through what he says and how he reacts to Nan and Gramps?

Write a short paragraph to explain how we know that Mike is angry in this extract.

You could use the following answer stems: Mike is angry because it says ............................................. ............................................. shows that Mike is angry

because ............................................. The writer shows us that Mike is angry when she says .............................................

Activity 3Read extract 2 again and focus on the last two paragraphs.

As readers, we are anticipating what may happen next. Will Mike and Nan have another conversation? Will Gramps come upstairs and join in the conversation?

Will Mike go back downstairs to talk to Gramps? Will Nan leave Mike in his bedroom?

Thinking about what you have read so far, write the next paragraph.

Imagine you are the writer, Malorie Blackman, and try to mimic her style.

Look back at extract 1 and see how she manages description and at extract 2, to see her use of dialogue.

Then decide if your paragraph will include description and/or dialogue.

MATHSMaths Problem Wednesday

More Fraction BarsLook at these different coloured bars.

 

Put the bars in size order - can you do it without cutting them out?

Now focus on this bar:

  This bar represents two wholes, or the number 2. You might find it easier to think of it as two bars which are each 'one whole' that have been stuck together. 

We are thinking about all the other coloured bars as fractions of this bar, so we are thinking about them as fractions of 2.

For example, look at Bar S below:

 

Drawing lines helps us measure it against the black bar:

 

What fraction of the black bar is Bar S?

Go through each of the other coloured bars and compare them to the black bar. What fraction of 2 is each bar?

Write down your ideas for each bar. For example, you could write:Bar S is two thirds of the black bar.orBar S represents 23 of 2.orBar S is 113.

Maths Problem Thursday

Bryony's Triangle

Watch the video BryonyTriangle.mp4 in which Bryony demonstrates how to make a flower from a square of paper.She then sets you a challenge: what fraction of the original square of paper is the shaded triangle?

Maths Problem Friday

Fractions in a BoxWe have a game which has a number of discs in seven different colours. These are kept in a flat square box with a square hole for each disc. There are 10 holes in each row and 10 in each column. So, there would be 100 discs altogether, except that there is a square booklet which is kept in a corner of the box in place of some of the holes.

We haven't drawn a grid to show all the holes because that would give the answer away!

There is a different number of discs of each of the seven colours.Half (12 ) of the discs are red, 14 are black and 112 are blue.

One complete row (of 10 holes) of the box is filled with all the blue and green discs.

One of the shortened rows (that is where the booklet is) is exactly filled with all the orange discs.

Two of the shortened rows are filled with some of the red discs and the rest of the red discs exactly fill a number of complete rows (of 10) in the box.

There is just one white disc and all the rest are yellow.

How many discs are there altogether?What fraction of them are orange?What fraction are green? Yellow? White?

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