This week, we are beginning a new  unit of work called  ‘ The Ultimate Guide to Unicorns and Flying Horses’

You will again find a copy of the booklet in the list of this week’s resources.

This unit has a mix of writing tasks to complete over the next two weeks or so.

On Monday, please begin this unit by reading the introduction by Pie and also the poem called ‘Frost Unicorn’ on pg 2 and 3 of the booklet

Monday (18/1/21) : Activity 1  –  Match the vocabulary to its definition

                                Activity 2  –  Draw a Frost Unicorn

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Tuesday (19/1/21) : Activity3  –  Where do unicorns live?

                                  Activity 4  – Unicorn’s New Year Wishes

Wednesday (20/1/21) :  Activity5  –  Six things a unicorn can do

                                       Activity 6 -     Magpie useful words and openers

 Thursday (21/1/21)-: Activity 7  –   Spot the underlying pattern

                                    Activity 8-      What additional paragraphs to include

Friday (22/1/21) :     Activity 9   –   Sort the structure

                                  Activity 10 -    Let’s look at the toolkit

  By the end of this week ,you should be at the end of page 13 of this booklet

Please access Oak Academy website for the reading lessons this week. (Oak Academy/year 6 English)

   The text we’re going to use is called ‘Greenling’ by Levi Pinfold

Monday: Can I engage with the text?

Tuesday: Can I analyse the character?

Wednesday: Can I analyse the text?

Thursday: Can I analyse the themes?

Friday:  Can I develop reading for pleasure through discussion of favourite characters?

Please access Oak Academy website for these lessons ( just search oak academy year 6  English Grammar, then T3: punctuation level objectives)

Monday: Can I explore the function of apostrophes?

Tuesday:  Can I explore subject/ verb /object?

Wednesday: Can I develop a rich understanding of words associated with working hard?  

Thursday: Can I explore the functions of a colon?

Friday: Can I develop knowledge of the function of a colon?

HISTORY/ART & DESIGN

Continuing with our link to the Victorians, this week (and next), we’re going to explore the life and work of  William Morris whose designs are still printed today.

This week, you need to follow the PowerPoint (see resources) and also complete Activity 1 (again, listed in resources)

PE - Street Dance

The unit of work that we were meant to be covering in school this ½ term was Street Dance. We are hoping that this dance, combined with the ‘foot shake dance’ that we’ve been learning too, will be the dance that we perform at the opening ceremony for Sports Week in the summer term. We would like you to spend some time over the coming weeks trying to perfect this dance along with Sheena and the Premier Sport coaches. Follow the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQytrYXTko 

This week, you will continue with the  unit of work  ‘The Gadget Workbook’

You will again find a copy of the booklet in the list of this week’s resources.

Please note, you WILL NOT be doing ACTIVITY 12

Monday (11/1/21) : Activity 6 – New Ideas

                                Activity 7 – Drawing your gadget

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Tuesday (12/1/21) : Activity 8 – Planning

                                   Activity 9 – Talk your plan through

Wednesday (13/1/21) :  Activity 10 – Time to write your advert/persuasion

Thursday (14/1/21)-: Activity 11 – Re-write, polish and improve your piece of writing from yesterday

                                                          (basically, what we refer to as editing and redrafting)

Friday (15/1/21) :  Activity 13 – Turn your writing in to a radio advert  

                                                 We’d love to hear some of these – perhaps you could share them with us!

                                     ON DANGEROUS GROUND

We’ve decided to alter the Reading Comprehension work this week so that the work set is something you’re all more familiar with and we know, from making our phone calls, that perhaps some of the teachers on the videos are quite tricky to follow.

So, this week, we’ve set you a range of different texts from a past paper so that you can keep practising the skills we’ve been working on in school. The reading booklet, question answer booklet and marking scheme are listed in the resources. THERE IS NO EXPECTATION THAT YOU HAVE TO PRINT THEM OUT. We are quite happy for answers to be done on paper.

Remember to think about:

• Read the text through to start with, just to get an understanding of it
• Short, sharp answers for 1 mark questions
• If it asks for word or phrase, make sure that’s all you give
• Remember, if you’re struggling to make sense of something, such as a specific word, can you read around where the word is to help work out the meaning?
• If it asks you to refer to the text, make sure you quote from the text in your answer
• Basically, think about how we’ve been taking texts apart on a Monday and that’s what you’re doing this week.

We have also included the mark scheme – you just need pages 8 – 28 to check how you’re doing. You DO NOT need to do these in test conditions/in a set amount of minutes; it’s about being able to reading for understanding, a really important life- skill.

Monday – Volcanoes (pg 4 and 5 of reading booklet/ Q 1 – 8 in the answer booklet)

Tuesday –  Disaster Strikes (pg 6 and 7 of reading booklet/ Q9-15 in the answer booklet)

Wednesday: - Pompeii Today (pg 8 and 9 of the reading booklet/ Q 16-24 in the answer booklet)

Thursday: - The Advertisements (pg 10 and 11/ Q 25-28)

Friday:  -  About the whole booklet (Q 29,30,31

WEEKLY SPELLINGS

In the resources for the week, you will find a list of the words to learn. The list is split in to Allies and Axis, so please just remember to follow the correct list. Please try to spend a few minutes, regularly each day, to practise some of the words from your list so that by the end of the week you’ve had a go at all of them ( write the words down, spell them out loud and practise applying them in to sentences).