year 6 home learning 4th may

Year 6 home learning 4/5/20

Hello Year 6, 

We have now finished our Charles Darwin topic and are moving onto Frozen Kingdom this week. It's been great to read your emails about what you've been up to and it's lovely to see the photos of your home learning - take a look at some of the pictures on the photo blog I have done of the home learning from last week! :)

Maths
TASK: Continue to complete 1 page each day in your CGP mental maths book. Remember there are the 'Time Yourself Tests' at the back of the book.
TASK: Watch the online My Rising Stars videos on the following objectives and complete the quizzes (you will need a pencil and paper for your workings). a) rounding 
b) negative numbers c) place value of decimal numbers 
TASK: Complete fluent in five and rapid reasoning weeks 26. This task requires a document that you will find on the school website - PUPILS SECTION- Year 6 Summer learning.

English - Reading
TASK: Please continue to read daily either with your own books or on www.getepic.com - ask your parents to email me if you would like access to GetEpic outside of school hours too.
TASK: Complete the Year 6 Inference Iggy revision booklet. This gives you handy revision notes on how to answer inference questions and allows you to practise SATs questions based on inference reading objectives. This task requires a document that you will find on the school website - PUPILS SECTION- Year 6 Summer learning. 
English - Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
TASK: Please choose 2 pages to complete each day from your CGP grammar book.
TASK:Complete the nouns and adjectives game: http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L6186/L6186/index.html
English - Creative Writing
TASK 1: Instead of Pobble this week, we are going to do something slightly different linked to our topic!
Look at the range of weird and wonderful images of icebergs and ice formations below. Compose 6 research questions, such as: How do icebergs form? Where do they go? Are icebergs dangerous? Think of words to describe them and make an iceberg vocabulary list.
TASK 2: Research using books or the internet to answer your questions. Create a blog or poster with the answers to display your research. Check out the meaning of specialist vocabulary such as ice shelf, calve, glacier, melt ponds and growlers and include definitions in your blog. List any interesting iceberg facts you discover during your reading - maybe you could include a 'Did You Know?' box.

Please turn the page to see the suggested topic work

Topic
TASK 1: Read a range of factual accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15th April 1912. Use the information to put together a timeline of events that led to the disaster. Write sentences to describe each point on the timeline. The below information should help you :) 

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Topic continued
TASK 2: Use globes, atlases and online research to find and name both polar regions and other significant geographical features of the world. Make a simplified global map showing the locations of these features. Add a key for information. Identify and record the longitude and latitude of both polar regions, specifically the geographic North Pole and South Pole.
Note: Before adding detail, you could trace the basic outlines and positions of countries and continents. You could add detail and labels using existing maps as a guide and reference.

Turn the page for PSHE activities

PSHE: This week we are looking at how to take care of our mental health. Our thoughts, actions and feelings are all connected. Have a look at the below scenario:

﻿Thoughts: Someone posts a picture of themselves in their new outfit on Instagram. They get sent some mean posts about the picture with people making fun of them. They think, ‘I hate who I am’. 
Feelings: This gives them sad and angry feelings about themselves. ‘They feel stupid and embarrassed’. 
Actions: They stop socialising with others at school. This leads them to think… ’Nobody likes me’ and the cycle continues… 

TASK1: Can you come up with other scenarios like the one above for Thoughts, Feelings, Actions? 

It is important to remember that challenges are a normal part of life, and that having some anger, stress, anxiety and sadness is not unusual at certain times. But if there is an overwhelming amount of these things, they can tip the person’s mental health too far out of balance, and into a problem. 
If we can spot the clues in ourselves (or others), we can try to stop a cycle like this from happening and get ourselves back into balance. Calm me time and taking some time to do something fun helps our brains learn to do this. This helps us to be aware of what we are feeling and thinking, and put in a pause so we can think about situations more clearly. 

Think about what clues or signs you might notice in yourself or might be noticed by your friends or family members that suggests you might need some help? e.g. being withdrawn, angrier or moodier than usual etc. 

TASK 2: Look back at the scenarios from TASK 1. Can you come up with suggestions that could ‘break the cycle’ at different points and help the person’s mental health get back into balance. e.g. talking to someone about the posts, stopping negative self-talk, spending time with a person who does value them, doing a ‘calm me exercise’, spending time playing outside, playing sport or exercising. 

﻿Remember to continue to exercise regularly and make time for you to relax and have some fun doing what makes you happy!

Keep up the great learning Year 6!

Miss Miah :)

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