Quarry Mount Primary School

Monday 17^th May 2020

Activity 1

Reading – Read a book from Oxford Reading Buddy and complete the quiz after reading. If you do not have your login details, please email me and I’ll send you it.

Activity 2

Writing – Write a persuasive letter.

Before Christmas, you wrote a persuasive letter to Mrs Pettman, persuading her to let year 6 go on a trip. Have a go at writing another persuasive letter. This time, write a persuasive letter to me, Miss Webster. Your letter could be persuading me to let year 6 have a class pet, let you come into school in non-uniform, to play sport every day, to watch your favourite film or to have a party. It’s up to you! Your letter must have:

• A greeting to the recipient
• An opening sentence that hooks the reader and explains why you are writing
• Organised into paragraphs, each paragraph having it’s own point
• Each point has arguments to support it
• A conclusion that summarises the main points of the letter and reiterates the opinion.

Activity 3

Maths – Complete the Year 6 Maths activity mat 3 saved in a document below. Answers are included at the back – only look at these to check your completed work.

Activity 4

Music – See document below for activity 1.

Wednesday 20^th May 2020

Activity 1

Reading – Read independently for 20 minutes. Write a summary of the text.

Activity 2

Writing – Write a persuasive letter.

Before school closed, we were reading the book ‘Holes’. Write a letter as if you are the character Stanley. Write a letter to persuade the warden that you should go home. Include all the skills from Monday’s letter. You could tell the warden that you’re innocent, that you’ve learnt your lesson and have become a better person, that you don’t belong at Camp Green Lake and any other persuasive points you can think of.

Activity 3

Maths – Complete the arithmetic calculations

1. 407 x 1 =
2. _____ = 48 x 36
3. 486 ÷ 3 =
4. 100 x 638 =
5. 5 – 1.15 =
6. 1320 ÷ 12 =

Activity 4

Music – See document below for activity 2.

Friday 22^nd May 2020

Activity 1

Reading – Go to https://www.pobble365.com/the-invisible-man

Read the story starter and then answer the questions under ‘Question Time’ in your book.

Activity 2

Writing – Have a go at writing your own persuasive letter. You can choose to write it to whoever you like. It might be to your friend or relative. It could be from a character of a story e.g. the wolf writing to Little Red Riding Hood to persuade her to come back to the forest. It could be a letter to the Prime Minister or the Queen! It’s up to you! Remember to use all the skills.

Activity 3

Maths –

Activity 4

Music – See document below for activity 3.

Monday 11^th May 2020

Activity 1

Reading – Read a book from Oxford Reading Buddy and complete the quiz after reading. If you do not have your login details, please email me and I’ll send you it.

Activity 2

Writing – Write a character description.

• Decsribe the character’s appearance
• Describe the character’s actions, thoughts & feelings
• Describe the character’s personality
• Describe how the character speaks
• Describe how the character moves

Activity 3

Maths – Complete the Year 6 Maths activity mat 2 saved in a document below. Answers are included at the back – only look at these to check your completed work.

Activity 4

PSHE –

Look at the Powerpoint ‘Introduction to First Aid and Getting Help’

Look at slide 9 and 10 If you were the first Aider in these situations what hazards (dangers) would you need to be aware of? Discuss with someone in your family.

Use the worksheets provided to circle the hazards and explain to someone in your home why it could be a danger to you as the first aider.

Wednesday 13^th May 2020

Activity 1

Reading – Read independently for 20 minutes. What is your point of view on the main character? Do you like/dislike them? What do you admire/dislike about them? What are your thought on the character’s actions in the story? Would you like to be their friend?

Activity 2

Writing – Read your character description from Monday. Make some edits to improve your writing. You could include different synonyms for the character (Mr. Twit, the man, brute etc) and include fronted adverbials on manner (Suddenly, Frantically, Without warning, As fast as he could, etc.)

Activity 3

Maths – Complete the arithmetic calculations

1. 827 ÷ 1 =
2. ____ = 462 – 284
3. 144 ÷ 9 =
4. 27 x 36 =
5. 384.48 + 85.47 =
6. 1.08 x 10 =

Activity 4

PSHE –

Role play an emergency telephone call with someone in your family. One person be the caller the other person be the emergency service operator. Remember you will need to say which emergency service you require fire police ambulance? your name, where you are, what has happened, how many people are hurt.

You could video this and send it to your teacher.

Fill in the ‘Help at home’ sheet and keep it safe in your home.

Friday 15^th May 2020

Activity 1

Reading – Go to https://www.pobble365.com/the-mad-hatter

Answer the questions under ‘Question Time’ in your book.

Activity 2

Writing – Now write some dialogue to develop your character of Mr. Twit further. Dialogue can be really useful when describing characters. The way that somebody talks and the words they use can tell you a lot about their character. Write some dialogue between Mr. Twit and Mrs. Twit. Think carefully about the way each character speaks and use the dialogue to describe their personalities. Remember to include the correct speech punctuation.

Activity 3

Maths –

Problem Solving: What is the difference between people who liked cats the most and dogs the most?

Reasoning:

                457        924            406

Which is the odd one out? Explain your reasoning.

Activity 4

PSHE –

Watch the you tube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwfBGkBXkFA St. Johns

Ambulance video ‘How to make a sling.’

Now have a go at putting a sling on someone in your family! You probably won’t have a triangular piece of material but you could fold a scarf or piece of square material in half to make a triangle and use this.

Send your teacher a photo of your work!

Monday 4^th May 2020

Activity 1

Reading – Read a book from Oxford Reading Buddy and complete the quiz after reading. If you do not have your login details, please email me and I’ll send you it.

Activity 2

Writing – Before Christmas you wrote some instructions on how to make tzatziki. Can you write some instructions on how to make your favourite meal? Or you could write some instructions on how to play your favourite game. Don’t forget to include: A title, an opening sentence/paragraph, a clear list of equipment, subheadings, imperative (bossy) verbs and bullet points or numbers for each step. You could even draw a labelled picture to go with your instructions.

Activity 3

Maths – Complete the Year 6 Maths activity mat saved in a document below. Answers are included at the back – only look at these to check your completed work.

Wednesday 6^th May 2020

Activity 1

Reading – Listen to one of Miss Webster’s videos reading a chapter of Holes and complete the corresponding comprehension questions in your book.

Activity 2

Writing – Can you create a text map of your instructions you wrote on Monday? You could make actions to go with them. I’d love to see your text maps or a video of you acting it out.

Activity 3

Maths – Complete the arithmetic calculations

1. 1024 – 100 =
2. 68 X 7 =
3. 2.6 + 0.5 =
4. 15 X 5 =
5. _____ = 4792 + 836

MAKE CORNFLOUR SLIME ( learn about liquids and solids) You will need: a large bowl, 200ml water, 200-300g cornflour, food colouring, aprons and table cover Method:
1.Put the cornflour into a bowl.
2. Pour in the water mixing slowly
3. Add a few drops of food colouring (if you have it)
4. Put your hands in and experiment with it- squeeze, punch, slap it Is the cornflour a liquid or solid? How is it different to water? What happens as you add the water ? How does the slime feel to touch ? Is it a solid or liquid?
Perhaps you could write up your results and your findings and send it to me. The science bit- Cornflour is made up of lots of tiny (<0.01mm) starch particles, these are very attracted to water so the water gets in amongst them very quickly. The water acts as a lubricant, so when you move it slowly the particles have time to move past each other and they can flow like a liquid. However if you apply a rapid force it causes the particles to move slightly causing the particles that are almost touching to jam together and the water that was between them moves sideways slightly into the gaps. Now instead of having lots of lubricated individual particles you have a solid structure of lumps touching each other which can't flow.

Friday 8^th May 2020

Activity 1

Reading – Go to https://www.pobble365.com/thank-you/

Answer the questions under ‘Question Time’ in your book.

Activity 2

Writing – Go back and edit your instructions. Check your spellings using a dictionary (or google), find better synonyms for words using a thesaurus (you can also do this on google), add extra information or detail e.g. adjectives, conjunctions, adverbs of time etc. You could copy this out again in your neatest handwriting – or type it up on the computer.

Activity 3

Maths –

Problem Solving: Write the three missing digits to make this addition correct.

Reasoning:

15 × 6.1 = 91.5

Prove it!

Activity 4

VE Day activity: Create a medal for a British soldier who served in the Second World War.

Your medal can be any shape or size but must include:

• The years of the war (1939 – 45)
• The colours of the allies
• A symbol to signify the war and the soldier’s sacrifice and victory

MAKE YOUR OWN SUNDIAL

You will need; a pencil, some plasticine/playdough or blue tack and some pebbles

What to do:

Find a sunny place to set up your sundial - somewhere that will get sunlight to it all day, and start early in the day if possible.

1. Place a big glob of plasticine on the ground and stick a pencil in it so it stands firmly and vertically.
2. Every hour on the hour (maybe set an alarm to help), go back to your sundial and place a stone where the tip of the pencil's shadow touches the ground. You can write the number of the hour on your stone or marker if you wish.
3. That's it - you've made a sundial! Now on following days you can simply look at the pencil's shadow and tell the time by which stone it's pointing at or between!

Send your photos for us to see!

The science bit-Every day the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West due to the spin of our planet, the Earth. Because Earth always spins at the same speed it makes it appear that the Sun travels across the sky at the same speed, and is always at its highest point in the sky at midday. This regular motion means that the shadows created by the Sun always point in the same direction at the same time every day* so we can use this to tell the time! *Due to the Earth having a little bit of angular tilt they do vary a little with the seasons. Did you know that the Earth's tilt also causes the seasons in the first place?

http://smallscience.club/experiments/pencil-sundial/

Monday 27^th April 2020
We are artists!

Activity 1

Reading – Read independently for 20 minutes. Choose a descriptive paragraph and draw a picture to match it.

Activity 2

Writing – Write a setting description for this painting, ‘Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gogh.

Activity 3

Maths – Have a go at some geometric art:

Wednesday 29^th April 2020
We are explorers in space!

Activity 1

Reading – Read ‘Tim Peake’ and answer the comprehension questions. Only look at the answers after you have completed all the questions. No cheating!
*See document below for the comprehension.  

Activity 2

Writing – Imagine that you have travelled into space, just like Tim Peake. Write a diary extract telling your family about where you have been and what you have seen.

Activity 3

Maths – Play Four planets: 

Friday 1^st May 2020
We are inventors!

Activity 1

Reading – Go to https://www.pobble365.com/a-new-way-to-travel

Answer the questions under ‘Question Time’.

Activity 2

Writing – Research a famous inventor and write a fact file about them.

You could research: The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell or one of your own choice.

Activity 3

Maths – Invent your own board game and make a dice.

Here's some examples:

Monday 20^th April 2020

Activity 1

Reading – Read independently for 20 minutes. After reading, write five questions to interview one of the characters in the story. Try to make the questions open ended e.g. How do you feel about…? What do you think would happen if…? How do you know…?

Activity 2

Writing – Search for an image of a setting for a story ( a spooky house, a fantasy world, a secret garden etc). Then write a plan to describe the setting. Your plan should include ideas on: what you can see, what you can hear, what you can smell.

Activity 3

Maths – Play ‘factor lines’ on https://nrich.maths.org/1138
 Here's an example of one factor line:

6 is a multiple of 2, 7 is a factor of 21, 8 is a multiple of 1 and 9 is a multiple of 3.  
 

Activity 4

History – Choose your favourite history topic that you have done so far in school. Here is a list of what you will have covered in class:

Stephen Lawrence
Ancient Greeks Greek
Roman mythology and its impact on modern literature

Choose the topic you know most about and create a poster that includes all of the information you already know.

Wednesday 22^nd April 2020

Activity 1

Reading – read independently for 20 mins. Write answers to your questions you prepared on Monday. You must answer the questions as if you are the character in the story.

Activity 2

Writing – Add more detail to your setting description plan. Think of some figurative language that you could add to describe your setting. This could include:

A simile (as fast as a cheetah)

Personification (the grass tickled my feet)

Alliteration (pretty purple pansies)

Onomatopoeia (Crash! Splash! Boom!)

Activity 3

Maths – Practice your times tables in your exercise book or online (hit the button/daily 10).

Log on to Timestable Rockstars – can you beat your high score?

Activity 4

History - Now it’s time to do your research. There might be some things that you may have forgotten, or things that you might want to find out more about. This is where you will do your research. Here are some useful websites to help you with your research: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids/ https://www.historyforkids.net/ https://www.history.org.uk/primary/resource/3620/primary-topic-websites https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/category/discover/history/ Remember to write down any information you find out! You don’t want to forget all of the brilliant research you are doing. Try and find at least 3 new facts about the topic you have chosen that you didn’t learn in class.

Friday 24^th April 2020

Activity 1

Reading – read independently for 20 mins. After reading, write your own ‘I wonder’ questions.

Activity 2

Writing – Using your plan, write a setting description. Remember to use your neatest joined up handwriting.

Activity 3

Maths – Make a poster to explain how you would find the common factors for 48 and 75. Include factor pairs and common factors.

Activity 4

History - Now it’s time to present your research. It can be done in any way you choose. Here are some ideas: Powerpoint presentation Poster Non-chronologial Report Create a timeline Create a board game that includes the information Write a poem Create a scrap book You can also access this website for many other interesting ways to present your information! https://minds-in-bloom.com/72-creative-ways-for-students-to-show/

You can be as creative as you like and remember to have fun with it!

Monday

Activity 1

Reading – Before reading your book, make a prediction about what the story could be about by looking at the front cover. Then read independently for 20 minutes.

Activity 2

Writing – Now write the next section of your explanation. It could be about how to find fresh water or food in your chosen habitat. Remember to include time conjunctions (Before, first, then, finally).

Activity 3

Maths – Play the card game ‘nifty 50’.

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/nancy-jang/2017/3-Quick-Math-Games-With-Playing-Cards/

Activity 4

Science – Classifying living things. Choose an animal from one of the animal groups and create a poster explaining the characteristics of that animal.

Activity 5

PE -

Find a ‘Just Dance’ clip on YouTube and copy it. Ensure you choose a song that is age appropriate.

Wednesday

Activity 1

Reading – read independently for 20 mins. Stop half way through your book and write a prediction about how you think the story will end.

Activity 2

Writing – Now write the next section of your explanation. It could be about dangerous animals that live in your chosen habitat. How have those animals adapted to their habitat? How would you survive an attack? Remember to include casual conjunctions and brackets for parenthesis.

Activity 3

Maths – Practice your times tables in your exercise book or online (hit the button/daily 10).

Log on to Timestable Rockstars – can you beat your high score?

Activity 4

Topic – Art: Research artists that are famous for painting flowers (Van Gogh, Monet). Could you copy one of their paintings of flowers?

Activity 5

PE -

Complete a workout with Joe Wicks.

Friday

Activity 1

Reading – read independently for 20 mins.

Write a summary of the story in less than 30 words.

Activity 2

Writing – Write a conclusion to your explanation.

Activity 3

Maths – Watch this YouTube video on finding percentages of amounts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QKc5bZPLv0

Now practice finding percentages of amounts in your maths book.

Activity 4

Topic – Geography: Draw your own habitat map using 4 and 6 figured grid references, symbols and key.

Activity 5

PSHE – Design a poster about what it takes to be a good team.