Y6 Home Learning Ideas (11.05.20 - 22.05.20)Dear Year 6 Parents,We hope you are all well and that the children are happy and settled during these very strange times. We are missing you all very much and hope that we will be able to see you all soon. We trust that you will find the information within this guide helpful and that you will be able to use it to support your children throughout the following weeks – if you choose to. It was so lovely to speak to some of you on the phone when we called. We are thinking about you all and are missing you very much. Please don’t hesitate to send us an email if you have any questions or have some work you’d like to share with us.Sarah McKenzie (smckenzie@st-james-pri.gloucs.sch.uk)Rachel Williams (rwilliams@st-james-pri.gloucs.sch.uk)Adrian Kellers (akellers@st-james-pri.gloucs.sch.uk)

Learning by Questions @ Homehttps://www.lbq.org/homeFull access to Year 6 question sets in Maths, English and Science, curated by week. Totally free to use, no registration needed.

BBC Bite SizeBBC Bite Size are continuing to produce online sessions for different curriculum areas and we know that many of you have been finding these useful.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

MathsWhite Rose Home Learninghttps://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/Follow the weeks on this site as they are added. There is a useful teaching clip and activity to accompany each learning step. For each session, watch the video clip and complete the worksheets. Answer sheets are also provided so that you can check your own work. Until the school login is sorted out, the sheets for week 4 and week 5 are saved in our book bag (these will be deleted once you all have the login).Week 4: FractionsLesson 1: multiplying fractions and mixed numbers by integersLesson 2: multiply fractions by fractionsLesson 3: divide fractions by integersLesson 4: fractions of amounts applied in context, e.g. money, measures

Week 5: Fractions, decimals and percentagesLesson 1: multiplying and divide by 10, 100 and 1000Lesson 2: multiply decimals by integersLesson 3: divide decimals by integersLesson 4: decimals as fractions

Can Do Maths Parent PacksThese focus on practising and applying learning that has already taken place this year and will follow the same basic structure: some ‘Do It’ practice, problems to solve including a game, empty box, challenges and worded problems. The content will be based on units taught so far this year - there are now 6 packs of these in the bookbag (6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6). Although they are longer able to produce a video for each day of the workouts, they have updated the playlists on their channel and have put together generic videos for each game and workout for reference.www.buzzardpublishing.com/cando-videosCan Do Maths Workout 6.5: Fractions - CalculatingMonday: Workouts A and DTuesday: Workout EWednesday: Workouts B and FThursday: Workouts C and GFriday: Workout HCan Do Maths Workout 6.6: Addition and Subtraction - Adding and Subtracting DecimalsMonday: Workouts A and D

Tuesday: Workout EWednesday: Workouts B and FThursday: Workouts C and GFriday: Workout H

Corbett maths5 a day tasks (excellent daily consolidation) - aim for gold but there are easier and trickier options so please be led by your child.https://corbettmathsprimary.com/

Kahn Academy is useful for clips to support with methods:https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic-home

WritingAny writing at all would be wonderful and remember any writing you do for any other subject counts!

Here is the link to the expectations in writing for Y6 to help you to remember what elements to include:http://stjamescofeprimary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Year-6-Expectations.pdf

With any of these writing activities that you complete, please email them to the class teacher. If you have handwritten them, just take a photo and email it that way. We would love to read them!

Literacy Shedhttps://www.literacyshed.com/alma.htmlUse Alma as a stimulus for your writing - it’s a little bit creepy but will generate some great writing. Using the link above you will be able to see some work generated by other Y6 children.

Write as a narrative Write a newspaper article about the events going on in the town about the missing

children - The Literacy Shed is a wonderful resource to stimulate writing and they are producing more resources to support learning at home.

Watch the short film on the link below and have a go at some of the tasks suggested underneath. In a timeless Parisien street there is a little shoemaker called Mr Botte. He makes and sells a special kind of shoes and business is good. However, the little shoemaker's life is about to change... a new shoe seller is in town and he will do anything to gain business. Mr Botte's business starts to fail. How will he cope? Maybe he will get some help from unexpected quarters. https://www.literacyshed.com/littleshoemaker.html Describe the shoemaker and his shop.  Retell the story in a fairytale style Use show don't tell to describe the shoes coming alive but leave your reader

wondering what is happening.  Describe the rival shoe maker using specific language to make him sound sly and

cunning.  Create some dialogue between the two shoe makers.  Write some dialogue between the shoemaker and his shoes.  Create a new plan to get rid of the shoemaker.  Create persuasive arguments for the little shoe maker's shoes. Explanations or instructions about how to make magic shoes. 

Watch the short film on this link and then complete one tasks below. All is peaceful on the Southern ocean as the penguins relax on their icebergs. That is until Dr. Hammer and his sardines decide to test their weapons of mass destruction. Once the weapon is unleashed there is only one 'person' to save the world from disaster and that is

Fox, Spy Fox. He embarks on a mission to save the world but ends up fighting for the life of the lovely Lily. When he has freed Lily, they save the world from the evil Dr. Hammer and his evil, fishy minions. https://www.literacyshed.com/spyfox.html

Write the next adventure of Spy Fox using a different wild animal as the villain and including equally inept minions. We quite like the idea of a huge Ape - like King Louis in The Jungle Book - with cheeky monkey minions.

Create a newspaper report for the events outlined in the film. Design a 'Bond-like' gadget that fox could use in his missions.

Take 5 – Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boycehttps://stjamesbookbaghome.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/take-5_year5_6_cosmic-by-frank-cottrell-boyce_0.pdf1. Explore it – Read through the passage together. Use the questions at the bottom to discuss the extract – you may want to record notes about what you discuss.2. Illustrate it – Re-read through the passage a few times (maybe record it and play it back over and over). Draw what you imagine as you read/listen to it. Have a look back and see what you have drawn. Discuss why you have drawn that. What words/phrases did you hear to prompt your illustration.3. Talk about it – Use the questions to discuss the extract. Children can re-read it if they like.4. Imagine it – Re-read the passage. Use the questions prompts on the sheet to discuss imagining being in Liam’s position.5. Create it – Create an advert for a DraxPhone. Think about what features you would want your smartphone to have. Then write a letter to go with the advert to your parents saying why you should have one before secondary school.

Jane Considine Super Sentence Stackers Great writing sessions on YouTube - live lessons but can easily re-watch, e.g. Blue Umbrella, Hair Love… You don’t need to limit yourself to just one chunk!

Literacy with Miss Phttps://literacywithmissp.comOne English idea is being added a day - lots of scope here for inspiring writing.

Inspirational writing using a picture stimulushttps://www.pobble365.com/ - scroll down for short and long writing ideas.  By clicking on the Pdf link, the writing tasks are presented as a Power Point – much more user friendly for children to use independently.

Class 13 - Newspaper article about Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk. For anyone who was absent before school ended, it would be great for you to watch ‘The Walk’ as a stimulus. Alternatively, you could write some ‘good news’ articles based on some of the heroes/treasures we are hearing about in these difficult times. For extra lessons to support you with writing a newspaper report, there are some lessons provided by Oak National Academy here: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/english#subjects

Class 14 - daily diary or poetry task making sure each day they use adventurous vocabulary and complex grammar

Spelling, Grammar and PunctuationConsolidate and revisit the content covered so far. This sheet is a good guide for revision, definitions and explanations:http://www.tranmerepark.leeds.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Phrase-clause-explanation.pdfSome useful revision activities, covering the main areas of grammar and punctuation on BBC Bitesize. They will also be launching lessons from 20th Aprilhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mnLearning by Questions @ Homehttps://www.lbq.org/homeFull access to Year 6 question sets in Maths, English and Science, curated by week. Totally free to use, no registration needed.

Keep practising the Y5/6 Common Exception Words - link belowhttps://www.chawton.hants.sch.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=54&type=pdf

ReadingSee Virtual Book Bag for ‘100 Books to Read’ as well as ‘Take 5 CLPE’ resourcesDedicate time every day for DROP EVERYTHING AND READ - ideally at least an hour.Love Reading for KidsA very helpful book recommendation website for children and with the mission to engender that lifelong love of reading in kids. You can register for free.https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/

GeographyChoose an area of North America and write a non-chronological report about it, making sure you refer to the physical and human aspects of the region.

ScienceElectricityBBC learning zone have fabulous science clips.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj44jxsLearning clips linked to electricity, conductors and circuitsAfter your child has watched a clip, are they able to start a knowledge organiser on an A3 piece of paper? Each time adding more and more key information to it once another video has been watched. This can be done independently, all they need to know and understand is that, they need to write/draw down the key information they have learnt from each of the short video tutorials. See below for an example – there are plenty of other examples on the internet for inspiration/ideas for presentation.

STEM LearningSTEM Learning is producing some great resources which can be used to investigate scientifically at home - great to do with siblings if that helps. Have a go at any of these - you don’t have to stick to electricity. Photos of anything you do would be wonderful and we would love to see them!https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary

Religious Educationhttps://www.natre.org.uk/uploads/Free%20Resources/2%207-11%20RE%20Today%20and%20NATRE%20home%20learning%20Spirited%20Arts.pdf Click on the above link to find out more about the Spirited Art and Spirited Poetry competition. You will have 3 themes to choose from, and you are able to use any resources and medias. Your work can be 3d or 2d and remember to use the sentence stems on page 3 to explain your thoughts about your art as you were doing it. The closing date is the 31st of July 2020, so you have plenty of time to be creative.

ArtTexturehttps://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/foundation#subjectsOak National Academy sessions about texture: Lesson 1 - Texture Treasure HuntLesson 2 - How can we use visual texture to add interest to our art work?CollageCan I use collage to express a mood or feeling? Choose a feeling/emotion and produce a collage to represent it using things you already have at home. Pop ArtTake a look at this link;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhEyoDCTSDQ

and this one to understand some of the concepts behind the pop art movement – it is great fun!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBm8_ooPVoResearch different artists, e.g. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein - could create a knowledge organiser as you gather information.

Use their work to inspire your own Pop Art compositions, e.g. explosions, self-portraits… - could use paint, collage, pens…

SketchingSketch in your own style not following a drawing program. Do a 10 minute daily sketch of something e.g. an animal one day, a person the next, a flower.Sit in the garden to draw or sketch.DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE VALUE OF DRAWING AND SKETCHING AND PAINTING - it’s super for brain development and relaxation.

DTLego DesignCan I develop drawing/design skills?Create a Lego version of yourself. Add feature so that it looks like you. Use the link below to a video tutorial to help guide you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiFc4y3qH9M Design a Lego vehicle/Pet/House, all must be in the style of Lego. Try to make it look at 3D as possible.American DinerPlan a menu typical for an American diner in the 1950s. Once you have researched and planned your menu, you could prepare it for people at home and then evaluate it suggesting any modifications you would make. Would definitely love to see some photos of this if you do it!

MusicTry to listen to various types of music and write down your thoughts on it - Mr Kellers has made a play list to go with this:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4TrX9eXcTHk0bg9HFQTzeLSome questions to help you:

Do I like it? Why? How does it make me feel? What does this make me think of? What instruments can I hear? Is it fast/slow/loud/quiet? You might even want to try and draw some pictures based on the music that you are

listening to.

Have a go at using things that you have around the house to make some instruments that you can use to play along with. (Some ideas can be found here https://feltmagnet.com/crafts/Music-Instruments-for-Kids-to-Make). Send a picture/video of your instrument to us and explain how you can make sounds from it.

http://www.musictheory.net/lessons A great site that you can use to learn about music theory – from note lengths all the way to making different types of chords.

Computinghttps://studio.code.org/s/express-2019 Earlier this year, we used this website to learn various tools for coding. There are plenty of courses on there that you can go through, some that we have done that you can re-visit, and others that are completely new.

Plan and create a video where you teach someone how to do something. Film it in different parts and edit it together. There are a few free programs that you can use, such as iMovie on iPad. Most Windows computers also have a video editor built in.

http://www.typingclub.com Learning to touch type is a great skill to have ready for secondary school. This website is free and doing some a day will help you type quicker and quicker.

Philosophy for Children (P4C)Here are some ideas and stems for discussing big questions.https://www.thephilosophyman.com/p4c-questionsSome more clips here to promote discussion.https://www.youtube.com/ThePhilosophyMan/videosTimewww.youtube.com/watch?v=RGsfGFzx4-E Watch the video and discuss your thoughts. Split a room in your house in two (if you have string you may want to use this to split it up). Write down any points (both in favour or not in favour) and put them on one side of the room or the other – one side for ‘Yes’ (in favour) or ‘No’ (not in favour). See what goes where and discuss why. Then see if you can summarise and decide whether you agree or disagree.

Modern Foreign Languageswww.duolingo.com to learn another language. You do need to setup an account, but there are some daily free lessons to work through, and you can choose from a variety of languages such as: French, German, Spanish and Japanese. This will take time, but again, a little bit everyday and you will get better and better. Maybe when you have learnt something, video it and send it to us!

HistoryVE Day Celebrations - put a PowerPoint together explaining about VE Day and share your own experiences of VE Day celebrations.The Oak National Academy have put together a series of lessons on the Second World War which would be an excellent recap of what we did earlier in the year. https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/foundation#subjects (scroll down to the bottom of the page)