Little Heath Primary School
Welcome to Year 6
This week, we will continue our topic on ‘Extreme Weather’ with our English writing, geography and art still all being linked together (maths and reading comprehension will continue to be separate and will be under the daily timetable as before). I would like you to add to your project that you started last week.
This week, start by viewing the following slides on the water cycle and the distribution of water around the world:
Extreme Earth Geography Slide 2
As before with our previous topics, you can present your project how you wish, typing or writing by hand (remember, that is the ‘English’ part of the work so needs to be completed as such) and including pictures, drawings and maps. You may choose to produce/include posters, non-chronological reports, PowerPoint/Prezi presentations, 3d models, newspaper reports (about drought/flooding etc) or a diary entry about someone living through severe droughts or flooding just to give a few examples.
It would also be nice to see some of you present your project in a homemade book (there are some great ideas online about how to do this) and I look forward to seeing you getting creative with this.
As well as the slides above and the link to Espresso below, you should continue to do lots of your own research using others sites (just be careful to check the validity of the information that you might find), in order to complete your project to a good standard!
This week, you may want to include information/headings about the following (You can pick and choose which ones, if any, to use):
Why do some areas get more rain than others?
What is a drought?
Why are droughts so dangerous?
What areas of the world are prone to drought and why?
What are the effects of a drought? (on people and the environment)
What is flooding?
Why is flooding so dangerous?
What areas of the world are prone to flooding and why?
What are the effects of flooding? (on people and the environment)
You may also want to draw and label a diagram about the water cycle showing how it works.
Remember, when writing about any of the above, you need to try to put things into your own words –don’t just copy and paste the answers that you find from an online search.
Some additional useful information can be found on Espresso (search ‘extreme weather’):
https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/login/eha/?service=espresso
Username: student15818
Password: littleheath01
Art
Earlier on this year when we read Kensuke’s Kingdom, we briefly discussed the Japanese artist and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, who produced a very famous painting called The Great Wave of Kanagawa.
The wave that you can see above always reminds me of a tsunami (a huge wave caused by an underwater earthquake or other disturbance). It is actually a print, though we are going to use this print as inspiration for a piece of artwork of our own.
First of all, you will need to choose an extreme weather event that you would like to represent in the Hokusai style. You can choose to create a very similar picture to The Great Wave using a tsunami as a stimulus or you can choose a completely different extreme weather event if you would prefer (think tornado, monsoon, thunderstorm etc).
You will need to choose an image from an online search or book/newspaper/magazine article to then sketch out, which is what you will need to do this week (the colouring will be done next week). Have fun with it. As I have said many times this year, the best piece of advice I can give you for sketching effectively is not to press too hard on the paper! You can make mistakes, rub out and make changes much easier if you don’t, so hold your pencil lightly and make light marks on the page.
Monday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Pages 36-37
Maths:
Complete Day 1 practice (Multiply and divide decimals):
Extension: Complete the following nrich activity: Monday nrich Route Product
https://nrich.maths.org/5632/solution
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Tuesday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 38
Maths:
Watch the following tutorial (click on the link) then complete Day 2 practice (Ratio and scaling problems):
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1rY5Csgd
Extension: Complete the following nrich activity: Tuesday nrich Orange Drink
https://nrich.maths.org/2420/solution
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Wednesday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 39
Maths:
Complete Day 3 practice (Create, describe and predict patterns):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Thursday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 40
Maths:
Complete Day 4 practice (Written multiplication and division):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Friday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 41
Maths:
Complete Day 5 practice (Pythagoras’ theorem):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Science:
We will be continuing with the STEM activities on climate change as these still make many links to extreme weather caused as a result of climate change:
https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/385889/practical-action-climate-change
For the above STEM activities, you will need to follow the links to choose the activities that you wish to complete –I didn’t want to limit to how many/few you do!
Music/Singing Assemblies
Please see below message from our music teacher, Mrs Lawrence:
Hi everyone,
Here are a couple of songs for this week: ‘Into the Unknown’ and ‘High Hopes’. You may well be familiar with one or both of them, in their original versions!
I would like to introduce you to them, as sung by Acapop, a professional kids’ pop choir. Their name comes from the words ‘a cappella’ an Italian music term which has come to mean ‘unaccompanied’ – music that is just sung, rather than played by instruments. (It’s original translation means sung ‘in the style of chapel or church music’.) All the percussive sounds and all the background harmonies in these tracks are made by voices alone. No instruments.
What different sounds can you make with your voices? Can any of you have a go at beat boxing? Can you pick out any of the harmonies in the songs?
Here are the original Acapop videos, where you can see the children perform, and the videos with lyrics:
High Hopes (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FFKR_o03Y
High Hopes (lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpdfWN0w-U0
Into The Unknown (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGE378hoFGA
Into The Unknown (lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FFKR_o03Y
Now that many of you are returning to school, I am looking forward to seeing a few more of you in the coming weeks, even though it will only be from a distance.
Best wishes,
Mrs Lawrence
Here are the previous attached letters about our singing assemblies and ideas:
Please click on the links below for previous work:
Week 8, week commencing 1st June
Little Heath Primary School
Welcome to Year 6
This week, we will continue our topic on ‘Extreme Weather’ with our English writing, geography and art still all being linked together (maths and reading comprehension will continue to be separate and will be under the daily timetable as before). I would like you to add to your project that you started last week.
This week, start by viewing the following slides on the water cycle and the distribution of water around the world:
Extreme Earth Geography Slide 2
As before with our previous topics, you can present your project how you wish, typing or writing by hand (remember, that is the ‘English’ part of the work so needs to be completed as such) and including pictures, drawings and maps. You may choose to produce/include posters, non-chronological reports, PowerPoint/Prezi presentations, 3d models, newspaper reports (about drought/flooding etc) or a diary entry about someone living through severe droughts or flooding just to give a few examples.
It would also be nice to see some of you present your project in a homemade book (there are some great ideas online about how to do this) and I look forward to seeing you getting creative with this.
As well as the slides above and the link to Espresso below, you should continue to do lots of your own research using others sites (just be careful to check the validity of the information that you might find), in order to complete your project to a good standard!
This week, you may want to include information/headings about the following (You can pick and choose which ones, if any, to use):
Why do some areas get more rain than others?
What is a drought?
Why are droughts so dangerous?
What areas of the world are prone to drought and why?
What are the effects of a drought? (on people and the environment)
What is flooding?
Why is flooding so dangerous?
What areas of the world are prone to flooding and why?
What are the effects of flooding? (on people and the environment)
You may also want to draw and label a diagram about the water cycle showing how it works.
Remember, when writing about any of the above, you need to try to put things into your own words –don’t just copy and paste the answers that you find from an online search.
Some additional useful information can be found on Espresso (search ‘extreme weather’):
https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/login/eha/?service=espresso
Username: student15818
Password: littleheath01
Art
Earlier on this year when we read Kensuke’s Kingdom, we briefly discussed the Japanese artist and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, who produced a very famous painting called The Great Wave of Kanagawa.
The wave that you can see above always reminds me of a tsunami (a huge wave caused by an underwater earthquake or other disturbance). It is actually a print, though we are going to use this print as inspiration for a piece of artwork of our own.
First of all, you will need to choose an extreme weather event that you would like to represent in the Hokusai style. You can choose to create a very similar picture to The Great Wave using a tsunami as a stimulus or you can choose a completely different extreme weather event if you would prefer (think tornado, monsoon, thunderstorm etc).
You will need to choose an image from an online search or book/newspaper/magazine article to then sketch out, which is what you will need to do this week (the colouring will be done next week). Have fun with it. As I have said many times this year, the best piece of advice I can give you for sketching effectively is not to press too hard on the paper! You can make mistakes, rub out and make changes much easier if you don’t, so hold your pencil lightly and make light marks on the page.
Monday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Pages 36-37
Maths:
Complete Day 1 practice (Multiply and divide decimals):
Extension: Complete the following nrich activity: Monday nrich Route Product
https://nrich.maths.org/5632/solution
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Tuesday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 38
Maths:
Watch the following tutorial (click on the link) then complete Day 2 practice (Ratio and scaling problems):
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1rY5Csgd
Extension: Complete the following nrich activity: Tuesday nrich Orange Drink
https://nrich.maths.org/2420/solution
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Wednesday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 39
Maths:
Complete Day 3 practice (Create, describe and predict patterns):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Thursday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 40
Maths:
Complete Day 4 practice (Written multiplication and division):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Friday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 41
Maths:
Complete Day 5 practice (Pythagoras’ theorem):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Science:
We will be continuing with the STEM activities on climate change as these still make many links to extreme weather caused as a result of climate change:
https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/385889/practical-action-climate-change
For the above STEM activities, you will need to follow the links to choose the activities that you wish to complete –I didn’t want to limit to how many/few you do!
Music/Singing Assemblies
Please see below message from our music teacher, Mrs Lawrence:
Hi everyone,
Here are a couple of songs for this week: ‘Into the Unknown’ and ‘High Hopes’. You may well be familiar with one or both of them, in their original versions!
I would like to introduce you to them, as sung by Acapop, a professional kids’ pop choir. Their name comes from the words ‘a cappella’ an Italian music term which has come to mean ‘unaccompanied’ – music that is just sung, rather than played by instruments. (It’s original translation means sung ‘in the style of chapel or church music’.) All the percussive sounds and all the background harmonies in these tracks are made by voices alone. No instruments.
What different sounds can you make with your voices? Can any of you have a go at beat boxing? Can you pick out any of the harmonies in the songs?
Here are the original Acapop videos, where you can see the children perform, and the videos with lyrics:
High Hopes (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FFKR_o03Y
High Hopes (lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpdfWN0w-U0
Into The Unknown (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGE378hoFGA
Into The Unknown (lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FFKR_o03Y
Now that many of you are returning to school, I am looking forward to seeing a few more of you in the coming weeks, even though it will only be from a distance.
Best wishes,
Mrs Lawrence
Here are the previous attached letters about our singing assemblies and ideas:
Please click on the links below for previous work:
Week 8, week commencing 1st June
Little Heath Primary School
Welcome to Year 6
This week, we will continue our topic on ‘Extreme Weather’ with our English writing, geography and art still all being linked together (maths and reading comprehension will continue to be separate and will be under the daily timetable as before). I would like you to add to your project that you started last week.
This week, start by viewing the following slides on the water cycle and the distribution of water around the world:
Extreme Earth Geography Slide 2
As before with our previous topics, you can present your project how you wish, typing or writing by hand (remember, that is the ‘English’ part of the work so needs to be completed as such) and including pictures, drawings and maps. You may choose to produce/include posters, non-chronological reports, PowerPoint/Prezi presentations, 3d models, newspaper reports (about drought/flooding etc) or a diary entry about someone living through severe droughts or flooding just to give a few examples.
It would also be nice to see some of you present your project in a homemade book (there are some great ideas online about how to do this) and I look forward to seeing you getting creative with this.
As well as the slides above and the link to Espresso below, you should continue to do lots of your own research using others sites (just be careful to check the validity of the information that you might find), in order to complete your project to a good standard!
This week, you may want to include information/headings about the following (You can pick and choose which ones, if any, to use):
Why do some areas get more rain than others?
What is a drought?
Why are droughts so dangerous?
What areas of the world are prone to drought and why?
What are the effects of a drought? (on people and the environment)
What is flooding?
Why is flooding so dangerous?
What areas of the world are prone to flooding and why?
What are the effects of flooding? (on people and the environment)
You may also want to draw and label a diagram about the water cycle showing how it works.
Remember, when writing about any of the above, you need to try to put things into your own words –don’t just copy and paste the answers that you find from an online search.
Some additional useful information can be found on Espresso (search ‘extreme weather’):
https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/login/eha/?service=espresso
Username: student15818
Password: littleheath01
Art
Earlier on this year when we read Kensuke’s Kingdom, we briefly discussed the Japanese artist and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, who produced a very famous painting called The Great Wave of Kanagawa.
The wave that you can see above always reminds me of a tsunami (a huge wave caused by an underwater earthquake or other disturbance). It is actually a print, though we are going to use this print as inspiration for a piece of artwork of our own.
First of all, you will need to choose an extreme weather event that you would like to represent in the Hokusai style. You can choose to create a very similar picture to The Great Wave using a tsunami as a stimulus or you can choose a completely different extreme weather event if you would prefer (think tornado, monsoon, thunderstorm etc).
You will need to choose an image from an online search or book/newspaper/magazine article to then sketch out, which is what you will need to do this week (the colouring will be done next week). Have fun with it. As I have said many times this year, the best piece of advice I can give you for sketching effectively is not to press too hard on the paper! You can make mistakes, rub out and make changes much easier if you don’t, so hold your pencil lightly and make light marks on the page.
Monday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Pages 36-37
Maths:
Complete Day 1 practice (Multiply and divide decimals):
Extension: Complete the following nrich activity: Monday nrich Route Product
https://nrich.maths.org/5632/solution
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Tuesday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 38
Maths:
Watch the following tutorial (click on the link) then complete Day 2 practice (Ratio and scaling problems):
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1rY5Csgd
Extension: Complete the following nrich activity: Tuesday nrich Orange Drink
https://nrich.maths.org/2420/solution
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Wednesday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 39
Maths:
Complete Day 3 practice (Create, describe and predict patterns):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Thursday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 40
Maths:
Complete Day 4 practice (Written multiplication and division):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Friday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 41
Maths:
Complete Day 5 practice (Pythagoras’ theorem):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Science:
We will be continuing with the STEM activities on climate change as these still make many links to extreme weather caused as a result of climate change:
https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/385889/practical-action-climate-change
For the above STEM activities, you will need to follow the links to choose the activities that you wish to complete –I didn’t want to limit to how many/few you do!
Music/Singing Assemblies
Please see below message from our music teacher, Mrs Lawrence:
Hi everyone,
Here are a couple of songs for this week: ‘Into the Unknown’ and ‘High Hopes’. You may well be familiar with one or both of them, in their original versions!
I would like to introduce you to them, as sung by Acapop, a professional kids’ pop choir. Their name comes from the words ‘a cappella’ an Italian music term which has come to mean ‘unaccompanied’ – music that is just sung, rather than played by instruments. (It’s original translation means sung ‘in the style of chapel or church music’.) All the percussive sounds and all the background harmonies in these tracks are made by voices alone. No instruments.
What different sounds can you make with your voices? Can any of you have a go at beat boxing? Can you pick out any of the harmonies in the songs?
Here are the original Acapop videos, where you can see the children perform, and the videos with lyrics:
High Hopes (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FFKR_o03Y
High Hopes (lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpdfWN0w-U0
Into The Unknown (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGE378hoFGA
Into The Unknown (lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FFKR_o03Y
Now that many of you are returning to school, I am looking forward to seeing a few more of you in the coming weeks, even though it will only be from a distance.
Best wishes,
Mrs Lawrence
Here are the previous attached letters about our singing assemblies and ideas:
Please click on the links below for previous work:
Week 8, week commencing 1st June
Little Heath Primary School
Welcome to Year 6
This week, we will continue our topic on ‘Extreme Weather’ with our English writing, geography and art still all being linked together (maths and reading comprehension will continue to be separate and will be under the daily timetable as before). I would like you to add to your project that you started last week.
This week, start by viewing the following slides on the water cycle and the distribution of water around the world:
Extreme Earth Geography Slide 2
As before with our previous topics, you can present your project how you wish, typing or writing by hand (remember, that is the ‘English’ part of the work so needs to be completed as such) and including pictures, drawings and maps. You may choose to produce/include posters, non-chronological reports, PowerPoint/Prezi presentations, 3d models, newspaper reports (about drought/flooding etc) or a diary entry about someone living through severe droughts or flooding just to give a few examples.
It would also be nice to see some of you present your project in a homemade book (there are some great ideas online about how to do this) and I look forward to seeing you getting creative with this.
As well as the slides above and the link to Espresso below, you should continue to do lots of your own research using others sites (just be careful to check the validity of the information that you might find), in order to complete your project to a good standard!
This week, you may want to include information/headings about the following (You can pick and choose which ones, if any, to use):
Why do some areas get more rain than others?
What is a drought?
Why are droughts so dangerous?
What areas of the world are prone to drought and why?
What are the effects of a drought? (on people and the environment)
What is flooding?
Why is flooding so dangerous?
What areas of the world are prone to flooding and why?
What are the effects of flooding? (on people and the environment)
You may also want to draw and label a diagram about the water cycle showing how it works.
Remember, when writing about any of the above, you need to try to put things into your own words –don’t just copy and paste the answers that you find from an online search.
Some additional useful information can be found on Espresso (search ‘extreme weather’):
https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/login/eha/?service=espresso
Username: student15818
Password: littleheath01
Art
Earlier on this year when we read Kensuke’s Kingdom, we briefly discussed the Japanese artist and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, who produced a very famous painting called The Great Wave of Kanagawa.
The wave that you can see above always reminds me of a tsunami (a huge wave caused by an underwater earthquake or other disturbance). It is actually a print, though we are going to use this print as inspiration for a piece of artwork of our own.
First of all, you will need to choose an extreme weather event that you would like to represent in the Hokusai style. You can choose to create a very similar picture to The Great Wave using a tsunami as a stimulus or you can choose a completely different extreme weather event if you would prefer (think tornado, monsoon, thunderstorm etc).
You will need to choose an image from an online search or book/newspaper/magazine article to then sketch out, which is what you will need to do this week (the colouring will be done next week). Have fun with it. As I have said many times this year, the best piece of advice I can give you for sketching effectively is not to press too hard on the paper! You can make mistakes, rub out and make changes much easier if you don’t, so hold your pencil lightly and make light marks on the page.
Monday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Pages 36-37
Maths:
Complete Day 1 practice (Multiply and divide decimals):
Extension: Complete the following nrich activity: Monday nrich Route Product
https://nrich.maths.org/5632/solution
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Tuesday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 38
Maths:
Watch the following tutorial (click on the link) then complete Day 2 practice (Ratio and scaling problems):
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1rY5Csgd
Extension: Complete the following nrich activity: Tuesday nrich Orange Drink
https://nrich.maths.org/2420/solution
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Wednesday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 39
Maths:
Complete Day 3 practice (Create, describe and predict patterns):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Thursday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 40
Maths:
Complete Day 4 practice (Written multiplication and division):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Friday
English:
KS2 CGP Fiction Page 41
Maths:
Complete Day 5 practice (Pythagoras’ theorem):
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Science:
We will be continuing with the STEM activities on climate change as these still make many links to extreme weather caused as a result of climate change:
https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/385889/practical-action-climate-change
For the above STEM activities, you will need to follow the links to choose the activities that you wish to complete –I didn’t want to limit to how many/few you do!
Music/Singing Assemblies
Please see below message from our music teacher, Mrs Lawrence:
Hi everyone,
Here are a couple of songs for this week: ‘Into the Unknown’ and ‘High Hopes’. You may well be familiar with one or both of them, in their original versions!
I would like to introduce you to them, as sung by Acapop, a professional kids’ pop choir. Their name comes from the words ‘a cappella’ an Italian music term which has come to mean ‘unaccompanied’ – music that is just sung, rather than played by instruments. (It’s original translation means sung ‘in the style of chapel or church music’.) All the percussive sounds and all the background harmonies in these tracks are made by voices alone. No instruments.
What different sounds can you make with your voices? Can any of you have a go at beat boxing? Can you pick out any of the harmonies in the songs?
Here are the original Acapop videos, where you can see the children perform, and the videos with lyrics:
High Hopes (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FFKR_o03Y
High Hopes (lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpdfWN0w-U0
Into The Unknown (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGE378hoFGA
Into The Unknown (lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FFKR_o03Y
Now that many of you are returning to school, I am looking forward to seeing a few more of you in the coming weeks, even though it will only be from a distance.
Best wishes,
Mrs Lawrence
Here are the previous attached letters about our singing assemblies and ideas:
Please click on the links below for previous work:
Week 8, week commencing 1st June