Friday 2nd July Home Learning

Friday 2nd July

Hello there Year 6! Unfortunately we are back to home learning and will not be returning to school until Friday 9th July. It is expected that you complete all of today's lessons.

Please find below our home learning lessons for today. Don't forget that Ms Price-Hunt will be contacting you throughout the week to check on how you are doing and to answer any questions. Please contact the office if you need to update your phone number.

Remember - email all your completed work to missrashid@reedley.lancs.sch.uk and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

Keep those brains busy!

Miss Rashid and Ms Price-Hunt :) 

K.L. Justifying statements with evidence and summarising events.

Following on from our reading yesterday, please find attached 3 post read tasks to download here.

Choose whichever one you want to get started with and work on the post-read tasks for 30 minutes. If you finish one task before the 30 minutes is up, please have a go at another one. 

This should take you about 1/2 hour.

Remember to spend 20 minutes reading for pleasure to work towards your reading award.

Grammar 

K.L. Explore, collect and use vocabulary typical of formal and informal speech.

This week our grammar focus is going to be based around formal and informal speech. This links really closely to our Romeo and Juliet topic and will help you enormously when you come to your writing tasks at the end of the week. 

Today we are going to explore how we can change our vocabulary between formal, informal and slang words. Download and complete this activity here. (The possible answers are provided for you at the bottom of the sheet)

Writing

K.L: Creating a toolkit of features and planning our writing.

Today you are going to be preparing to write a formal letter on Monday. (You are going to be writing a letter to Romeo from Juliet after he has been banished for killing Tybalt).

Task 1: Here are two really good examples of letters that have been written by other children. Can you please read through them and make a list of all teh features of formal letter writing that they include? TOP TIP: You might also want to magpie some good ideas and phrases for your own work! Download the letters to read through here. (Please note: in these letters the children have written as Juliet to her Father - you will not be writing the same piece as this)

Task 2: Now it is time for you to plan your own letter. Remember: you are going to be writing as Juliet. You are going to be writing to Romeo at the point in the story where Juliet has just heard from her nurse (nanny) that Romeo has killed Tybalt (Juliet's cousin) and has been banished out of Verona (surprise, surprise though - she still loves him and wants to marry him). You will need to download this planning sheet here to help you along. 

I have asked you to include:

• Cohesive devices to link paragraphs. This could be repetition of words from the previous paragraph, fronted adverbial phrases to move ideas along, fronted adverbials to link back to ideas. If you still need more support with this, there are some suggestions on this page here.
• Thoughts/ feelings and Shakespearean phrases. You might need to revisit the text from yesterday to find some of these and pop them in your plan. 
• Oxymorons. You created some of these yesterday. For example - Juliet could write 'Oh you beautiful villain, why wouldst thou slay my cousin?'.

You should spent about 1 hour on this including the grammar activity.  

Maths

KL: Multipying fractions.

Please begin by having a go at this cold task here.

Then check your answers here.

If you got the questions correct - awesome! That means you are already confident with multiplying fractions! Please begin with this activity sheet but I would like you to start on the section called 'Apply'. 

If you didn't get the fractions correct - super! That means we are going to learn something new today and become more confident in multiplying fractions. You might want to begin by watching this video here. After watching this video, you should be ready to have a go at the questions for today here. Please complete section 1. 

Maths should take you about 1 hour.

Electricity

K.L. What happens when we add more cells or more outputs to a circuit?

Today we are going to do a virtual investigation. I want you to think about what happens to a circuit if we keep the same amount of batteries but keep adding more bulbs.

Start by planning your investigation using this sheet here. 

Once you have planned out your investigation - I would like you to use this website here to have a go at building different circuits. Pay close attention to what happens when you add more bulbs to the circuit.

If you are completed, have a play around on the online circuit builder to find out:

What happens if we change from 1.5 v battery to a 3 v battery?

What happens if we add in a buzzer?

What happens if we add in 2 or 3 buzzers?

Can you make a circuit work with a bulb, buzzer and motor or not and why?

Theme should take you around 1 hour.

Online Learning Platform

TodayI have set you a non-fiction book on Bug Club called Reptiles:

Please spend 30 minutes reading this book and learning all about the fascinating creatures that roam our planet!

(Don't forget to keep competing in our Home Learning Spelling Showdown too!)