Year 6,
Phew! Where has that week gone? I don’t know about you but
this week in particular has flown by. In maths you have been learning about
scale drawing, scale factors and solving ratio and proportion problems. In
English, you began reading ‘Paradise Sands’ and wrote your own descriptive paragraphs
and openers. In science, you investigated how light travels in straight lines
and how it can be reflected – creating periscopes to demonstrate this
(photographs below). In Spanish, you began your new topic of shopping and in
PSHE you considered how to achieve your own goals, and how the plight of others
makes you feel, alongside what you can do to help.
This week you also received back your SATs papers from
before Christmas (remember I kept a handful back). I did this so that you can
go through them with your adults if they wish to. You can see what you are
doing well, and what you may want to work on some more.
Next week, in English, we will continue to study Paradise Sands,
also recapping relative clauses in the process. In maths, we will begin to understand
algebra (it’s not as scary as it sounds!) In science, you will investigate refraction
and we will hopefully complete our
geography unit by conducting the local fieldwork we discussed this week, and
then creating reports on this using the Chromebooks.
Home Learning Pages
Maths (blue book) pg20+21
Grammar pg46+47
Today I also set your half term project – please see below.
Half term project – Masters of Maths
This half term, your project is to create a game
for your classmates to play which covers areas of maths that we have learnt
about in class. This game could be a quiz (paper based), or could be a board
game (or a more creative idea if you have one).
You can focus on one topic or a range of maths
which we have covered, such as: place value, addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division, shape, fractions, area, perimeter, coordinates, ratio,
proportion, or decimals and percentages as you covered them in Year 5.
Please ensure that you bring your game to school
by Monday 9th February as we will be playing
them sometime that week.
You should be:
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Reading 5 times a week and completing a reading journal activity once a week
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Practising spellings each week between the pre-test and test; writing spellings
at least 5 times and writing 10 of them into sentences (ensure that these are
high quality and make sense) in your Home Learning Journal (set on Monday and
completed for Friday)
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Completing the piece of English and piece of Maths set each week (set on Wednesday
and completed for Monday)
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Practising maths on Sumdog
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Cresswell 😊
