Year Six Learning from Home Summer 2 Week 1 1 Year Six Learning from Home – Weekly Overview Each week, the Learning from Home activities will include: Daily English, Maths, Physical Activity and Reading for Pleasure At least three Foundation Subject activities A weekly Art/DT activity Spelling focus – set on Spelling Shed Week 1 Learning from Home Overview Monday Suggested when Subject Focus time of day complete AM English Reading Comprehension – Newspaper Article AM Maths Arithmetic and Problem Solving (Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000) PM Immersion Immersion into ‘Man Who Walked Between the Two Towers’ Your choice Reading Reading for Pleasure Your choice Physical Activity PE with Joe Wicks Tuesday Suggested when Subject Focus time of day complete AM English Tense AM Maths Arithmetic and Problem Solving (Multiplying decimals by integers) PM Computing Phishing Your choice Reading Reading for Pleasure Can you complete any of the 60 second challenges? Your choice Physical Activity https://www.youthsporttrust.org/60-second-physical-activity-challenges Wednesday Suggested when Subject Focus time of day complete Research – Philippe Petit AM English (The Man Who Walked Between the Two Towers) AM Maths Arithmetic and Problem Solving (Divide decimals by integers) PM PSHE Article of the Week: Article 28 Your choice Reading Reading for Pleasure Your choice Physical Activity Daily mile Thursday Suggested when Subject Focus time of day complete AM English Text Analyse – Newspaper Article AM Maths Arithmetic and Problem Solving (Decimals as fractions) PM Science Light - Periscope Your choice Reading Reading for Pleasure Your choice Physical Activity Cosmic Kids Yoga – you choose a video and join in and relax Friday Suggested when Subject Focus time of day complete AM English Planning – Newspaper Article AM Maths Arithmetic and Review of Learning (Fractions) PM Art Sketching characters using technology Your choice Reading Reading for Pleasure Your choice Physical Activity Sibling or family game of something (football, tennis, relay etc) *Video Tutorials Video tutorials published by White Rose Maths will be available each day – the link for session tutorials will be included as part of the daily activities in this pack Additional resources: TT Rockstars, My Maths, Prodigy, ReadTheory, Spelling Shed* 2 Year Six Summer 2 Spellings Please continue to use Spelling Shed to practise your spellings. Assignments will be available on Spelling Shed each Monday and will include the 5 words for that week (see table below). Week 6 will be a selection of 5 words from the below table and Week 7 will be all 20 spellings. If you can, ask an adult to test you on these words at the end of each week. Week Words to practise Test all Summer 1 Words Week 1 Summer 1 Word search nuisance occupy Week 2 parliament physical privilege pronunciation rhyme Week 3 sacrifice signature stomach sincerely disastrous Week 4 system temperature twelfth vegetable yacht Week 5 familiarity dependence vehicle 3 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 Reading Comprehension – Newspaper Article ‘Pickles Saves the World Cup’ (1/3) In English over the next two weeks we will be analysing, planning and writing newspaper articles based on our new bookshelf book ‘The Man Who Walked Between the Two Towers’. For Reading Comprehension today, we would like to look read the newspaper article (on the next two pages) and then answer the questions below. 1. What is the name of the World Cup Trophy? 2. What does F.A. stand for? 3. What was the real name of the man that was arrested? 4. How much was the reward for finding the trophy? 5. Before 1966, which round had England never been past? 6. Why were guards hired to protect the trophy at all times? 7. How did the police trick the thief? 8. What is the nickname of the England Football Team? 9. Who won the World Cup in 1962? 10. Explain how the three subheadings are similar. How do they engage the reader? (The first five questions are retrieval focus questions, the others are a mix of inference, summarising and explaining) Vocabulary based questions: 1. Find and copy the word which means the same as ‘demand money in return for setting someone or something free’. 2. ‘Mr. Corbett unravelled the newspaper and was stunned to find the gleaming trophy.’ Can you think of two synonyms for the word ‘stunned’? 4 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 Reading Comprehension – Newspaper Article ‘Pickles Saves the World Cup’ (2/3) Read the article carefully 5 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 Reading Comprehension – Newspaper Article ‘Pickles Saves the World Cup’ (3/3) 6 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 Maths Arithmetic and Flashback Please choose your own level of challenge. You can mix between the levels if you wish. We would like to complete at least 10 questions, but of course you may do more if you wish! Have a go at the daily flashback: 7 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 White Rose Maths have provided a video tutorial to support you Maths Problem Solving and Reasoning (1/4) in your Learning from Home: Multiply & divide by 10, 100 and 1000 8 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 White Rose Maths have provided a video tutorial to support you Maths Problem Solving and Reasoning (2/4) in your Learning from Home: Multiply & divide by 10, 100 and 1000 9 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 White Rose Maths have provided a video tutorial to support you Maths Problem Solving and Reasoning (3/4) in your Learning from Home: Multiply & divide by 10, 100 and 1000 10 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 White Rose Maths have provided a video tutorial to support you Maths Problem Solving and Reasoning (4/4) in your Learning from Home: Multiply & divide by 10, 100 and 1000 11 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 Immersion – ‘The Man Who Walked Between the Two Towers’ (1/2) Activity 1: Before you watch and listen to the recording of the book please look at the below images taken from the book. Order them in the order you think they could go, then talk through the images – why have you ordered them in that way? What do you think happens first? Why? Activity 2: Now you can watch and listen to the recording of this book on Microsoft Teams (saved in the Class Novel Folder). Once you’ve done this, look at your ordered images – did you have them in the correct order? Do you know this story? It is based on a true story! 12 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 Immersion – ‘The Man Who Walked Between the Two Towers’ (2/2) Activity 3: Using the recording of the book (you can watch and listen as many times as you like!) think about the below questions. Have a go at answer one, two or maybe all of them. Activity 4: Using what you know about the story and Philippe Petit, answer these two questions giving as much detail as you can and supporting your answers with evidence. 1. Should Philippe Petit have walked across the towers? 2. Do you think Philippe Petit was inspirational in what he did – as he found a way to do what he wanted to do, or was he foolish for performing such a dangerous stunt? 13 Year Six Monday 1st June 2020 Reading for Pleasure The next book from our Summer Term bookshelf – The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Now that you are all up and running with Microsoft Teams, we have uploaded recordings of us reading our Class Novel. You will find them in Class Materials Class Novel – Between the Towers. This week, you will find a recording of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers uploaded to Microsoft Teams. As this is a picture book, it will only be one video – but please refer back to it as you will need it throughout Week 1 and Week 2. The Good Thieves chapters are still available on Microsoft Teams – so please keep listening to this if you haven’t finished the novel. Book Review Create a short book review for The Good Thieves or The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers (that could be posted on Amazon or Good Reads) to encourage others to read it. Summarise the plot, explain whether you enjoyed or not, would you recommend it – why/why not? 14 Year Six Tuesday 2nd June 2020 English - SPaG – Tenses (1/4) Tenses The different tenses we are looking at are below with examples Simple Past Simple Present Describes events which happened at a Describes events which happen often specific time, but are now completed I play football. I played football. Past Progressive Present Progressive Describes events which happened in the Describes events which are happening past, over a period of time. right now and haven’t finished yet. Uses the past tense of ‘to be’ (was, were) Uses the present form of ‘to be’ (are, is, plus the main verb with ‘ing’ on the end. am) plus the main verb with ‘ing’ on the end. The Gingerbread Man was running as he was being chased. The mermaid is hiding behind the treasure chest. Past Perfect Present Perfect Describes something that happened before Describes events which started in the past now, and before something else and have continued up until now Uses had before the past participle of the Uses ‘to have’ (has, have) and the past main verb participle of the main verb The chameleon had changed colour The chef has baked lots of loaves. before hiding from its predator. We have eaten all the sweets. Use the above to help you answer the questions below.