This week we have two recorded video lessons. There are lots of science words to learn, diagrams and a little practical demonstration – only do these practicals if you have permission from your parents.

I would leave a gap of a day (or at least a few hours) between these video lessons to allow your brain to absorb the new knowledge. The recap at the beginning of the second lesson will have more benefit that way.

What do particles in pure substances and mixtures look like?

In this lesson, we are going to look at the differences in the particles of pure and impure substances. We will use water and gold as examples. You will need a pencil, a piece of paper and a ruler. Click here for video

What happens to particles during dissolving?

In this lesson, we will learn what happens to particles during dissolving. We will investigate what happens when we mix water with salt, sugar and sand. For this lesson you will need a pencil and a piece of paper. If you would like to take part in the practical you will also need a glass of water and some sugar and salt. If you do not have these things then you can still take part in the lesson by watching the teacher’s demonstration.

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MONDAY

LO: to develop a rich understanding of words associated with houses

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In this lesson, we will introduce new vocabulary, identify word pairs and synonyms and apply the vocabulary in sentences. As usual, this will be useful build up for later writing, so keep your notes safe and have ready for future lessons.

TUESDAY

To plan a narrative scene: First part of final scene

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In this lesson, you will edit a short paragraph to correct mistakes before analysing the final narrative scene in detail. Your task in the lesson today is to plan the first part of the final narrative outcome.

Your narrative writing will be developed with Mrs Benson later in the week – keep your plan safe and watch out for her posts…

Key worker children – remember to bring in your notes if you are at home with your parents Monday or Tuesday, but are coming when they go to work later in the week.

This week we are continuing to practise and apply knowledge of /ee/ sound spelt ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ This video lesson includes a test. The focus is choosing whether we use “ie” or “ei”.

conceive

protein

mischievous

perceive

lenient

seize

caffeine

belief

retrieve

conceit

You might have spotted that some of these words were in our “ei” list from last week.

Wednesday 27th January

Today we are starting on our final scene of The Golden Compass. In this lesson, we will  begin to analyse this scene, with a focus on a new character- Mrs Coulter . We will then generate vocabulary to describe her character.

IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING TO GET VDEO AS WE ARE IN SCHOOL, GO STRAIGHT TO OAK ACADEMY YEAR 6 ENGLISH GOLDEN COMPASS LESSON 21

lesson 21 to generate vocabulary 

This lesson is not very long and you may wish to tackle the comprehension on The Holocaust – see separate post. This is a sensitive topic and maybe something you would like to discuss with an adult. The children in school will be reading the comprehension on Wednesday with me,  and answering questions on it on Thursday independently. .

The Holocaust-differentiated-reading-comprehension UKS2

Thursday 28th January

In this lesson, you will revise and  define key word classes. You will then review your  knowledge of personal and possessive pronouns and then edit a short paragraph using pronouns to avoid repetition. Remember when writing it is important to use the person’s name before using a pronoun so people know who you are referring to!

lesson 23 personal and possessive pronouns

Friday 29th January

In today’s lesson we will revise rules of speech including speech punctuation. We will then write speech sentences for this final scene of the unit. Although this is not mentioned in the video, It is important to remember that every new speaker starts a new paragraph. This new paragraph may be the sentence that includes the new speaker and speech  or where the speaker starts speaking if this is the beginning of the sentence eg

Leaning forward, Mrs Coulter looked menacingly at Lyra and asked, “Why don’t you remove your bag?”

“I like wearing it,” replied Lyra clutching on tight to the aletheometer, terrified that Mrs Coulter may snatch it off her.

lesson 24 to practise speech punctuation and sentences.

The 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day when we  remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi Persecution and other genocides that followed. We touched on the persecution of the Jews and other groups of people in our topic The Battle of Britain.

Today in school,  I will sharing this assembly with my class. This is a sensitive topic and maybe something you would like to watch and discuss with your parents.

Holocaust Rememberance Day  Presentation

Our English lesson  is quite short today and you may wish to do this comprehension on The Holocaust. Most of you will be able to tackle the 2 star level. Rowling and Walliams, you could tackle 3 star. Again, this is something you may wish to talk about with your parents as you may find it upsetting . It is, however,  important that we never forget this terrible genocide.

Children in school on Wednesday will be reading the comprehension  and doing the follow up on Thursday.

The holocaust-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activityUKS2

I hope you are all enjoying our topic on the Mediterranean. If you have not started, it yet go back through the website and find the lessons. Our lesson last week was looking at patterns in the climate of Mediterranean countries. Rocco observed that the temperatures were lower than he expected as he had been to Turkey in the summer when it was much hotter than 25 degrees . The temperatures given were an average of the day and night temperature.

Research a Mediterranean country

Over the next 3 weeks until the end of this  half term, I would like you to research a Mediterranean country and present your finished project to me . This work gives you some flexibility- some learners would prefer to do it every day for a week and others would prefer to do it over 3 separate weeks. The details and expectations for your  project are in the word document below.

Research about a Mediterranean country