This week I have found a practical STEM activity for you: making a water wheel.

Water-wheel-investigation

This prompts us to think about where our energy comes from.

How do we produce energy?

How about trying this Solar kettle activity? (You will need some sunshine this one!)

Solar-kettle

Don’t forget the Computing activities  which I posted before. These scratch activities should last you a few weeks.

Monday

Video

Worksheet:  Lesson 1 – Introducing the ratio symbol

Lesson 1 Answers – Introducing the ratio symbol

Tuesday

Video

Worksheet: Lesson 2 – Calculating ratio

Lesson 2 Answers – Calculating ratio

Wednesday

Video

Worksheet: Lesson 3 – Using scale factors

Lesson 3 Answers – Using scale factors

Thursday

Video

Worksheet: Lesson 4 – Ratio and proportion problems

Lesson 4 Answers – Ratio and proportion problems

Friday

How did you find the “pulling it all together” questions last week?

This week, we are back to practising arithmetic skills on Friday:

Arithmetic Paper 3

This week we are continuing with the Game and you will be planning and  writing your own story. The work is all in the booklet and the individual days are marked.

The Game week 2

Monday 29th June  -plan

Tuesday 30th  June – write the first two/three paragraphs.

Wednesday 1st July – finish your story.

Thursday 2nd July – edit story ( this wont take long).

SPAG 

Year 5 English Grammar and Punctuation Test 4

Year 6 English Grammar and Punctuation Test 4

If you are struggling with any aspects of the text, look on espresso as there are lots of videos on all aspects of grammar and punctuation.

Friday 3rd July

Today we have some reading comprehension for you. There are also some questions about vocabulary and SPAG included in these packs.

The-Science-Behind-Trampolines-Guided-Reading-Pack

Walliams – you might like to try this one:

Gliop-at-the-Park-Guided-Reading-Pack

Rivers

Thank you for those of you who sent us  your research about the River Severn. It is great to find out something about your local river; I learnt some new facts from your work. I know some of you have also been on a visit to a river as part of this topic with your family.

This week we are looking at Why Rivers are important/ how they are used. Watch the PowerPoint

Investigating Rivers  – why Rivers are important. 

More information about uses of rivers

Pick 3 of the areas that you are interested in and write some information about how rivers are used; it would be great to use some extra information of your own.

I enclose a sheet that you may want to work on but it may be easier using lined paper.

Investigating Rivers

I expect lots of you are hearing on the news about Black Lives Matter.

UKS2 Black Lives Matter Protests Daily News Story

Racism may be something you want to talk and discuss with your parents.

what is racism

As it is black history month, I thought some of you may like to find out about some famous black people both from the past and from the present.

 Black History Month – celebrating black individuals

Black-History-Month-Famous-Black-Men-and-Women-Information-Posters_

I know some of you are enjoying keeping up to date with your French. I enclose a link about the family . Watch the videos and have a go at the exercises.

En Famille

Over the next 2 weeks our work is based on a Talk for Writing Unit that has been written for Lockdown. It follows  a very similar build up to writing that we do in school: looking at an example and analysing a type of writing; incorporating the grammar work that is needed for the final piece.; practising the sentence structures to embed the patterns; planning the writing; writing the final piece; and editing it 

Read the introduction to the work  booklet and I have put a heading with a date at the top of the page  to show what work is assigned for each day.

The Game week 1 work booklet

Jumanji is a book by Chris Van Allsburg that was written in 1981.  It is the book that the 1995 and 2016 film of Jumanji was based on .If you would like to read Jumanji  the story/ hear it read aloud by Robin Williams, the actor in the 1995 version click the link below. It’s a fabulous recording.

I received some fantastic micro-climate data gathering work this week. Well done!

The first week I put the link to Espresso’s learning path for the learning objectives we had planned for this term. You might still be working on this.

If not, take a look at these BBC bitesize videos and activities:

Life Cycles in Animals and Humans

Hello everyone! This week we are learning about perimeter, area and volume. If you find the last couple of questions on the worksheets tricky, don’t worry. The first half is the core knowledge; the last part can be quite challenging. Mrs Benson noted last week that the last few questions on the miles/kilometre conversions on the second half were very challenging.

Monday 22.6.20

Video

Worksheet:  Area and perimeter

Answers:  Answers – Area and perimeter

Extra worksheet:Year-6-HL-Area-and-Perimeter

Alternative videos and answers for extra worksheets:Year-6-HL-Area-and-Perimeter-Parent-Guidance-and-Answers

Tuesday 23.6.20

Video

Worksheet:  Area of a triangle

Answers: Area of a triangle

Wednesday 24.6.20

Video

Worksheet: Area of a parallelogram

Answers: Area of a parallelogram

Thursday

Video

Worksheet: Volume of a cuboid

Answers:  Volume of a cuboid

Friday

As an alternative to Friday arithmetic I have given you a couple of options for doing some extra practice on perimeter, area and volume. You are NOT expected to do all of these sheets.

Extra practice (area and perimeter):

Year-6–Perimeter-Area-and-Volume- Pulling it all together

Year-6-Volume-of-a-Cuboid_ An investigation and a game

Don’t forget that BBC Bitesize also has a Friday challenge.

Bitesize Daily Book Club:

A Pocketful Of Stars by Aisha Bushby

LO: learn how to investigate a text, compare extracts and to write from a character’s perspective

Lesson link