Suggested Activities for Home Learning – KS2

Year group: Year 6 w/b: Monday 1st June 2020

Further activities and information on useful websites is available on the school website:

https://www.sirjohnheron.newham.sch.uk/learning-at-home/

Reading

Don’t forget to read every day for at least 20 minutes a day. You can read on your own or with an adult at home.

Home reading book this week

This book can be found here. Read chapters 5 (‘Light and Dark’) and 6 (Bugs are Beautiful Too).

This book is available for free on the Oxford Owl website – all you need to do to access them is to sign up to the website.

Here are some questions you can think about while you are reading: How is Sophia’s front garden different from the others? “I gritted my teeth and rang it.” (p37) What does this tell us about the way Martin was feeling? “Some of them stared at the camera in bleak resignation.” (p38) What does the word resignation mean in this sentence? Why has Sophia been off school so much? (43) “She sounded a bit mollified.” (p45) What does this mean? On p51, which verb is used to describe the movement of the clouds? What does it mean? Why does Martin think Sophia is a confusing person? (p52) Look at p58. Why are three stars used in the text? Why did Martin’s heart sink when he heard Alisha’s voice? (p58)

Here are some activities you can complete about the book you are reading: Use a grid like this for all the new words you have come across in chapters 5 and 6:

Draw a table like this:

Martin Sophia

Record what you know about the two main characters so far from the text. Include evidence from the text to support what you say. What have you inferred about them? What is explicit? Don’t forget to read other books you have at home and there are lots of other books for you to read on the Oxford Owl website

Writing

Spelling task

This week’s spelling rule: commonly misspelt words. Click here to play the game. See if you can spot the correct spelling.

Challenge: Click here for some memory tricks to help remember spellings.

Handwriting task

This week you should practice: printing letters and numbers.

Grammar and punctuation task

This week you need to:

Writing and editing task

This week you need to: write a story with a pirate theme.

Key vocabulary to use in your writing:

Challenge: end your story in a surprising way (this is called a twist). Listen to Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, here. Can you find any other stories with a pirate theme?

Mathematics

Times tables task 10 minutes of Times Table Rock Stars each day

Basic skills task

This week’s learning focus is: Multiplying two fractions and giving the answer in its simplest form.

Example:

Problem solving task

This week you need to:

Challenge: create a bar graph which represents each of the values in the problems above.

Key vocabulary: percentage, proportion, total, sum, graph, statistics, rounding, quantity, greater than, less than.

Topic

Task: During our Crime and Punishment topic, we thought about how crime was detected during different periods. One of the ways now is to look for fingerprints…

(Copy the table onto a piece of paper)

Challenge: is one of the fingerprint types more prevalent in your family? Why do you think this is? Key vocabulary: fingerprint, unique, arch, whorl, tented arch, right loop, detection

Science:

Task: How to Make an Egg Bounce Experiment You will need:

○ Eggs

○ Glass jars (you don’t need the lids)

○ Labels or a permanent marker

○ White vinegar

○ Water

○ Food dye – at least two different colours (optional)

○ A watchful eye!

The experiment:

1. Label each glass jar with the date and either ‘water’ or ‘vinegar’.

2. Fill one (or more) jar/s with vinegar and one (or more) with water until approximately two-thirds full.

3. Add a small drop of food dye to each jar (optional). Each jar could have a different colour for easy identification. Don’t make the colour too dark because it is harder to see the eggs.

4. Carefully place a whole raw egg into each filled glass jar.

5. Watch your eggs. Within a few minutes you will notice that bubbles will appear on the egg soaking in vinegar. Nothing much happens to the egg in water.

6. Continue to observe the eggs over 7 days.

7. After 7 days take the eggs out of the jars and look at the differences between the egg soaked in vinegar and the egg soaked in water.

Along the way, there will be lots of interesting changes to the egg soaked in vinegar. The vinegar is an acid which dissolves the egg shell (calcium carbonate) producing lots of bubbles and a brown scum on the surface. Each day my kids scrape off the scum and gently poke their eggs reporting back that they feel soft and rubbery. The egg in water looks the same and feels normal.

The bouncy bit: After 7 days the eggs can come out of the jars. You will notice that the egg has expanded and become a bit rubbery – this is caused by the vinegar permeating the egg’s membrane once the shell has been dissolved. Hold the egg a short distance over a large bowl and drop it – the egg bounces! Try dropping the egg from a higher and higher height until it smashes. You can try this with the egg soaked in water too…but you will only need to drop it once!

Are you game to eggs-periment with making an egg bounce???

Key vocabulary: acid, Alkaline, chemical reaction, membrane, elasticity, permeating, dissolve, comparison

PSHCE: Changing Me

Task: Design a word bubble which shows all of the vocabulary you think of when you think about going to secondary school.

Challenge: Write a list of questions you have about secondary school.

Don’t forget to send examples of your work to school via email:

info@sirjohnheron.newham.sch.uk

Don’t forget to include your child’s name and class in the email