Little Heath Primary School
Welcome to Year 6
Once again, we will continue with our topic ‘Extreme Weather’ this week (maths and reading comprehension will continue to be separate and will be under the daily timetable as before).
Start this week by viewing the following slides about extreme weather conditions around the world and the factsheet about tornadoes:
Extreme Earth Geography Slide 3
You are going to add to the work that you have done over the last couple of weeks. Once again, you may choose to produce/include diagrams/pictures, 3d models, etc and you may choose to record the information as a non-chronological report, but also write a newspaper report (about extreme weather events/conditions) and/or a diary entry just to give a few examples.
As I mentioned last week, it would be great to see some of you producing homemade books –please send me pictures of any that you put together so I can put them here on these pages to inspire others in the class to do so.
This week, in your presentation/non-chronological report/book, you may want to include information/headings about the following weather conditions (as before, you can pick and choose which ones, if any, to use):
Blizzard, cyclone, flood, hail, hurricane, lightning, tornado, typhoon to name but a few.
For each one I would suggest you include the following details:
- What are they?
- What effects/damage do they cause?
- Where and/or when are they most likely to happen? Why?
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
Our maths over the next few weeks will be different to how we have been doing things. One of the things that many of you said that you were looking forward to about year 6 at the beginning of the year was ‘The Apprentice’ that usually takes place in the summer term. Obviously, unfortunately because of these strange events of recent times, we have not been able to do so this year. Whilst you cannot actually carry out the sales/games/events and therefore cannot make any actual real money for your chosen charities, I still thought it would be a nice opportunity to go through the process of putting together a viable business (ie one that makes a profit). At the end of the few weeks I will judge how successful I believe that your ‘company’ would have been and how much profit I would expect your business idea to have made.
If you are working from home still and are in touch with others from the class, I am happy for you to work in ‘virtual groups’ but if not, or if you would prefer, then I am equally happy for you to do this individually on your own also.
The art will be the completion of your pictures that you started last week. If you are working from home and have watercolour paints then I would suggest that you use these. If not, colouring pencils or watercolour pencils (once again if you have them) could also be used (follow the steps given below just using the different colouring media).
Below is a link to a YouTube clip that gives a tutorial on how to recreate the actual picture of The Great Wave. In this clip, the presenter uses grids to get the proportions correct when copying the original picture. You can use this method to sketch out the picture of the weather event that you chose if you didn't already complete your sketch last week (or you can restart using this technique if you would prefer).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFcycBZTjg
The presenter also gives some tips on how to use watercolours which while she is using these to paint The Great Wave, you could easily adapt to painting your own weather event. There is one thing that I would suggest you do differently to that on the clip and that is to start colouring the sky first. Starting from the furthest point away when colouring in, helps to 'unify' the painting when it is completed. I have included the picture of The Great Wave below again. If you feel that sketching and painting a different weather event is a step too far then you can always choose to use this and the tutorial to complete a reproduction of this first before attempting your own -just remember to paint the sky first!
Please don't forget to send me copies of your finished pictures.
Monday
English:
KS2 CGP Non-Fiction Pages 36-37
This week in maths you will need to use the following PowerPoint: ‘Enterprise Presentation’: Enterprise Presentation
Maths:
I have put together this tutorial to help you with today's work when you get to the relevant slides. You will need to pause it while you read through the PowerPoint: https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1uYv5l7l
Open up the PowerPoint, ‘Enterprise Presentation’ and choose ‘Slideshow From Beginning’. Look at Day 1 slides and stop when you get to Day 2.
Open up the handout when you get to the relevant slide and answer the questions.
Here is the spreadsheet that I created that you can edit/add to: Jacobs Budget
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Tuesday
English:
KS2 CGP Non-Fiction Page 38
Maths:
Open up the PowerPoint, ‘Enterprise Presentation’, go to Slide 7 and choose ‘Slideshow à From Current Slide’. Look at Day 2 slides and stop when you get to Day 3.
Open up and complete handout Step 2 business ideas when you get to the relevant slide.
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Wednesday
English:
KS2 CGP Non-Fiction Page 39
Maths:
Open up the PowerPoint, ‘Enterprise Presentation’, go to Slide 20 and choose ‘Slideshow à From Current Slide’. Look at Day 3 slide –there is only this one slide today.
Create a questionnaire that would help you to decide upon which product you will choose to pursue.
For example, if one of your business ideas is to sell sweets, you will need to create a questionnaire asking for people’s favourite types of sweet. This is very important because what might be your favourite type of sweet might not that popular and if you end up buying lots of them that you cannot then sell, you will obviously not make as much profit (or even make a loss!)
If you can get an adult to set-up/log-on to a Google account for you, you will also be able to set up a Google Form that you could use to do this. As we are working remotely, I would strongly suggest this as it will enable anyone with a laptop to complete the form.
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Thursday
English:
KS2 CGP Non-Fiction Page 40
Maths:
Open up the PowerPoint, ‘Enterprise Presentation’, go to Slide 22 and choose ‘Slideshow à From Current Slide’. Look at Day 4 slide –there is only this one slide today.
Present your data in a chart.
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Friday
English:
KS2 CGP Non-Fiction Page 41
Maths:
Open up the PowerPoint, ‘Enterprise Presentation’, go to Slide 24 and choose ‘Slideshow à From Current Slide’. Look at Day 5 slides. Read through the slides, stopping at appropriate points.
Work through handout Step 3 costings.
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Science
As we come to the end of term, I would like you to complete some research about some famous scientists and their ideas that they had/discoveries that they made. This week, I would like you to begin by looking at Stephen Hawking who unfortunately passed away just over 2 years ago.
Open up the PowerPoint Lesson Presentation Stephen Hawking.
Lesson Presentation Stephen Hawking
***Please note: On the first slide there are some instructions for allowing ‘Macros’ –please follow the instructions carefully in order to allow the interactive aspects of the presentation.
Complete the sheets/carry out the inquiries (What Are Black Holes Activity Sheet and Black Hole Inquiries Instructions) when you get to the relevant slides and report on your findings (open up Black Hole Report Activity Sheets and choose the relevant level of activity *, ** or ***).
What Are Black Holes Activity Sheet
Black Hole Inquiries Instructions
Black Hole Report Activity Sheets
EXTENSION: Complete a mini-biography about Stephen Hawking.
Music/Singing Assemblies
Please see this week's message from our music teacher, Mrs Lawrence:
Hi everyone,
I hope you’ve enjoyed the sunshine this week - it’s been incredibly hot, hasn’t it! For those of you who remember Mr Spider, he’s been sunbathing in my garden and now has a beautiful suntan!
We have two songs for this week. If you have time to learn one, please choose whichever you prefer.
Firstly, there is ‘Stand By Me’. You will notice on the lyric video that there are simple chords. Some of you will know that chords are groups of notes which usually make up the accompaniment to a song. They can be played by several different instruments together, like you might hear in a band, or by one instrument, such as a piano or guitar.
If you already know how to play chords on a musical instrument, perhaps you could play along to the song. If you have access to an iPad with the app GarageBand, perhaps you could have a go at playing along with the chords on a virtual guitar or keyboard. I’ve included an instruction sheet, if you’re not sure how to use GarageBand. It also has the lyric sheet with chords.
If you have a musical instrument, real or virtual, at home, maybe you could make up a chord pattern yourself. Have a listen to the sound of the chords. What sounds good to you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agdakp9dis Stand by me – lyrics (and chords)
Secondly, here is one of my favourite songs, the classic ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’. It is from the musical film ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and was originally sung by Judy Garland.
If you are singing this, can you hear where Judy breathes in the song? Can you have a go at singing through each line without breathing until the end? If you need to take an extra breath, that’s just fine. See if you can decide where to breathe and stick to those places. Can you imagine each line is like a rainbow and sing through to the end of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2j77Qe2Y_Y Somewhere Over The Rainbow – lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWTaPkqAoW0 Somewhere Over The Rainbow – instrumental
Have fun with your singing!
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 9, week commencing 8th June
Little Heath Primary School
Welcome to Year 6
Once again, we will continue with our topic ‘Extreme Weather’ this week (maths and reading comprehension will continue to be separate and will be under the daily timetable as before).
Start this week by viewing the following slides about extreme weather conditions around the world and the factsheet about tornadoes:
Extreme Earth Geography Slide 3
You are going to add to the work that you have done over the last couple of weeks. Once again, you may choose to produce/include diagrams/pictures, 3d models, etc and you may choose to record the information as a non-chronological report, but also write a newspaper report (about extreme weather events/conditions) and/or a diary entry just to give a few examples.
As I mentioned last week, it would be great to see some of you producing homemade books –please send me pictures of any that you put together so I can put them here on these pages to inspire others in the class to do so.
This week, in your presentation/non-chronological report/book, you may want to include information/headings about the following weather conditions (as before, you can pick and choose which ones, if any, to use):
Blizzard, cyclone, flood, hail, hurricane, lightning, tornado, typhoon to name but a few.
For each one I would suggest you include the following details:
- What are they?
- What effects/damage do they cause?
- Where and/or when are they most likely to happen? Why?
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
Our maths over the next few weeks will be different to how we have been doing things. One of the things that many of you said that you were looking forward to about year 6 at the beginning of the year was ‘The Apprentice’ that usually takes place in the summer term. Obviously, unfortunately because of these strange events of recent times, we have not been able to do so this year. Whilst you cannot actually carry out the sales/games/events and therefore cannot make any actual real money for your chosen charities, I still thought it would be a nice opportunity to go through the process of putting together a viable business (ie one that makes a profit). At the end of the few weeks I will judge how successful I believe that your ‘company’ would have been and how much profit I would expect your business idea to have made.
If you are working from home still and are in touch with others from the class, I am happy for you to work in ‘virtual groups’ but if not, or if you would prefer, then I am equally happy for you to do this individually on your own also.
The art will be the completion of your pictures that you started last week. If you are working from home and have watercolour paints then I would suggest that you use these. If not, colouring pencils or watercolour pencils (once again if you have them) could also be used (follow the steps given below just using the different colouring media).
Below is a link to a YouTube clip that gives a tutorial on how to recreate the actual picture of The Great Wave. In this clip, the presenter uses grids to get the proportions correct when copying the original picture. You can use this method to sketch out the picture of the weather event that you chose if you didn't already complete your sketch last week (or you can restart using this technique if you would prefer).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFcycBZTjg
The presenter also gives some tips on how to use watercolours which while she is using these to paint The Great Wave, you could easily adapt to painting your own weather event. There is one thing that I would suggest you do differently to that on the clip and that is to start colouring the sky first. Starting from the furthest point away when colouring in, helps to 'unify' the painting when it is completed. I have included the picture of The Great Wave below again. If you feel that sketching and painting a different weather event is a step too far then you can always choose to use this and the tutorial to complete a reproduction of this first before attempting your own -just remember to paint the sky first!
Please don't forget to send me copies of your finished pictures.
Monday
English:
KS2 CGP Non-Fiction Pages 36-37
This week in maths you will need to use the following PowerPoint: ‘Enterprise Presentation’: Enterprise Presentation
Maths:
I have put together this tutorial to help you with today's work when you get to the relevant slides. You will need to pause it while you read through the PowerPoint: https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1uYv5l7l
Open up the PowerPoint, ‘Enterprise Presentation’ and choose ‘Slideshow From Beginning’. Look at Day 1 slides and stop when you get to Day 2.
Open up the handout when you get to the relevant slide and answer the questions.
Here is the spreadsheet that I created that you can edit/add to: Jacobs Budget
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Tuesday
English:
KS2 CGP Non-Fiction Page 38
Maths:
Open up the PowerPoint, ‘Enterprise Presentation’, go to Slide 7 and choose ‘Slideshow à From Current Slide’. Look at Day 2 slides and stop when you get to Day 3.
Open up and complete handout Step 2 business ideas when you get to the relevant slide.
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Wednesday
English:
KS2 CGP Non-Fiction Page 39
Maths:
Open up the PowerPoint, ‘Enterprise Presentation’, go to Slide 20 and choose ‘Slideshow à From Current Slide’. Look at Day 3 slide –there is only this one slide today.
Create a questionnaire that would help you to decide upon which product you will choose to pursue.
For example, if one of your business ideas is to sell sweets, you will need to create a questionnaire asking for people’s favourite types of sweet. This is very important because what might be your favourite type of sweet might not that popular and if you end up buying lots of them that you cannot then sell, you will obviously not make as much profit (or even make a loss!)
If you can get an adult to set-up/log-on to a Google account for you, you will also be able to set up a Google Form that you could use to do this. As we are working remotely, I would strongly suggest this as it will enable anyone with a laptop to complete the form.
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Thursday
English:
KS2 CGP Non-Fiction Page 40
Maths:
Open up the PowerPoint, ‘Enterprise Presentation’, go to Slide 22 and choose ‘Slideshow à From Current Slide’. Look at Day 4 slide –there is only this one slide today.
Present your data in a chart.
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Friday
English:
KS2 CGP Non-Fiction Page 41
Maths:
Open up the PowerPoint, ‘Enterprise Presentation’, go to Slide 24 and choose ‘Slideshow à From Current Slide’. Look at Day 5 slides. Read through the slides, stopping at appropriate points.
Work through handout Step 3 costings.
Complete the set tasks on Mathletics before using ‘live’ Mathletics/Sumdog.
Science
As we come to the end of term, I would like you to complete some research about some famous scientists and their ideas that they had/discoveries that they made. This week, I would like you to begin by looking at Stephen Hawking who unfortunately passed away just over 2 years ago.
Open up the PowerPoint Lesson Presentation Stephen Hawking.
Lesson Presentation Stephen Hawking
***Please note: On the first slide there are some instructions for allowing ‘Macros’ –please follow the instructions carefully in order to allow the interactive aspects of the presentation.
Complete the sheets/carry out the inquiries (What Are Black Holes Activity Sheet and Black Hole Inquiries Instructions) when you get to the relevant slides and report on your findings (open up Black Hole Report Activity Sheets and choose the relevant level of activity *, ** or ***).
What Are Black Holes Activity Sheet
Black Hole Inquiries Instructions
Black Hole Report Activity Sheets
EXTENSION: Complete a mini-biography about Stephen Hawking.
Music/Singing Assemblies
Please see this week's message from our music teacher, Mrs Lawrence:
Hi everyone,
I hope you’ve enjoyed the sunshine this week - it’s been incredibly hot, hasn’t it! For those of you who remember Mr Spider, he’s been sunbathing in my garden and now has a beautiful suntan!
We have two songs for this week. If you have time to learn one, please choose whichever you prefer.
Firstly, there is ‘Stand By Me’. You will notice on the lyric video that there are simple chords. Some of you will know that chords are groups of notes which usually make up the accompaniment to a song. They can be played by several different instruments together, like you might hear in a band, or by one instrument, such as a piano or guitar.
If you already know how to play chords on a musical instrument, perhaps you could play along to the song. If you have access to an iPad with the app GarageBand, perhaps you could have a go at playing along with the chords on a virtual guitar or keyboard. I’ve included an instruction sheet, if you’re not sure how to use GarageBand. It also has the lyric sheet with chords.
If you have a musical instrument, real or virtual, at home, maybe you could make up a chord pattern yourself. Have a listen to the sound of the chords. What sounds good to you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agdakp9dis Stand by me – lyrics (and chords)
Secondly, here is one of my favourite songs, the classic ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’. It is from the musical film ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and was originally sung by Judy Garland.
If you are singing this, can you hear where Judy breathes in the song? Can you have a go at singing through each line without breathing until the end? If you need to take an extra breath, that’s just fine. See if you can decide where to breathe and stick to those places. Can you imagine each line is like a rainbow and sing through to the end of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2j77Qe2Y_Y Somewhere Over The Rainbow – lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWTaPkqAoW0 Somewhere Over The Rainbow – instrumental
Have fun with your singing!
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 9, week commencing 8th June