Mr Applegate

Maths

Let’s continue this week with Wednesday’s Success in 7: Success in 7 week 2

When you’re finished, remember to check your answers before marking – it is really important you continue to practise your estimation skills too!

Here are today’s answers: 3. Wednesday answers Success in Seven

Today, we would like you to use Summer Term Week 2 Lesson 3 – Problem Solving. Watch the video and pause it if to have a think about each solution before you are shown. Try your best and remember, they are not meant to be easy – they are challenging questions but today’s video will help you with each question that is on the sheet. 

Here is the website: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/

Here’s what today’s activity looks like:

Miss Goddard’s extra challenge can be found if you click here.

English

We are continuing with our focus on the story of Bibo, the robot with a 10,000 year warranty (this means it is guaranteed to work for 10,000 years). Yesterday, we focused on a happy part of his life when he had purpose and took great joy from his job of serving ice-cream to the children. Today, we need to contrast that positive writing with one of sadness and loneliness. A long, long time after he was manufactured, we see Bibo with no purpose as there is no-one in the town anymore and no children to make happy.

Follow the PowerPoint to find out what we are looking for in today’s writing.

Art

Today, we will continue our art lesson which we started last Monday. Do you remember the work of Eric Joyner? He was the artist who created wonderful paintings with two of his favourite subjects: robots and doughnuts.

In this lesson, you need to decide on the setting of your picture. Where will your robot be? In a town? In the countryside? At a park? On the beach? You will also need to think how you will incorporate doughnuts into your picture. Will the robots be eating doughnuts, selling doughnuts, climbing doughnuts, throwing doughnuts or even driving doughnuts? Let you imagination run wild.

Follow the PowerPoint below to get some ideas before you make a start on your sketch. Remember, you chose your type of robots and practised drawing them last week. You will need these for today’s lesson.  

Next week, we will be adding colour to complete our picture.

Ongoing Daily Activities

As well as the learning tasks we upload each day, there are a few ‘extras’ that you could have a go at, if you get time.

TTRockstars – Play 5 garage games + 5 studio games. Mrs Chapman will be online at 11am today in the Year 6 Arena area provided the website is running properly. Her TT Rockstar name is Zander Madden and will play games in the Wembley Stadium area.
Reading – Read for at least 20 minutes every day. Remember you all have logins for the Scholastic reading site.
Weekly spellings – Practise these everyday in your spelling booklets – you can find this week’s set here: Week 2 – Main Spelling List        Week 2 – Less Tricky Spelling List

Daily physical activity which you enjoy. Challenge yourself! Remember Joe Wicks is still there to keep us moving.

Competition Reminder – closing date 4th May

Jae Malone, the author of ‘Silver Linings’ unfortunately could not visit us last month because of the Covid situation. However, she is incredibly keen to make sure we keep our imaginations fired and let our love of writing stories grow. Therefore, she has sent some fun ideas on how to create short stories. With these writing prompts you may be able to come up with a brand new story idea that no one else has ever thought of. You don’t have to write stories down, you may picture them in your mind or be a storyteller to members of your family.

 Grid – Haunting things                           Grid One – People and Creatures                              Seaside Columns

As well as these fun story creating ideas, she has set us an exciting challenge. If you would like to win a signed set of Jae Malone’s trilogy, then why not enter her creative writing competition?

All you have to do is send your completed Indiana story from last term. If you have already sent us uploaded photos of your completed story or sent it as a Word document, then all you have to do is ask us to submit it to Jae’s competition. If you didn’t send us your completed story, you have until 4th May to complete your story and send it to us. Remember to use the year6@stmarksce.org.uk address for your entries.

Bye for now!

Use the link below to reveal today’s clue: 

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English

In English today, we will be beginning our planning for our pirate adventure story. We have a story starter and a planning sheet for you to complete. We will use this to guide our writing today. If you don’t have access to a printer, you can write your plan directly onto a sheet of paper.  The pdf flipchart below breaks our planning down into steps so you can work through this today as you complete your plan.

Remember this is your story, so feel free to add in any extra details that you like. You may also change your ideas after you plan it and that is fine too. Planning is basically an opportunity to try and test out ideas. The important thing is to make sure you have an exciting part and then a good ending. We are really looking forward to reading them after you have written them tomorrow.  Talking about your story once you have planned it is another way to plan a successful story. Try telling it to members of your family using story telling language: first, next, suddenly, out of the blue…

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Useful resources:

Story Planning Map

pirate word mat

Maths

Today in maths, we are going to be continuing our work on measurement, exploring the four operations with length. This involves using what we know about adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing to help us solve problems involving length.

As with the other maths lessons shared, there is a video to help explore this concept, as well as an activity sheet to complete. You can then check your answers using the answer sheet provided. Please click on the first link below to access the White Rose page, before completing ‘Lesson 3’ in ‘Summer Term – Week 2’. Please email us if you have any questions regarding this. Good luck!

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Year 2 – Summer Week 2- Lesson 3 Worksheet

Year 2 – Summer Week 2- Lesson 3 Answer sheet

Please find the additional maths challenge here if you have completed today’s maths and want to challenge yourself further.

Topic

Today’s extra activity is about the pollination of flowers and shows how flowers reproduce. There is a short piece of reading and then you can stick and sort the pictures into the correct order. You could also draw your own pictures if you’re feeling creative or if you can’t print it out. 

Plant_Reproduction

Daily Time Fillers

Here are some additional activities for you to have a go at each day if you choose to. Please feel free to do as much or as little of these as you wish. We have added a handwriting booklet that you could work through very gradually, not in one go. You can either print the booklet, or do this onto paper of your own at home. We look forward to seeing how amazing your handwriting will be when we see your work. The Common Exception Words should also be learnt gradually, by selecting 2 or 3 words a week that you should aim to learn along side your weekly spellings.

• 20 minutes of reading either a school book or a home book.
• Practice your 2,5 and 10 times tables using TTRockstars, or a different method.
• Practice your weekly spellings which will be provided below, and the Year 2 Common Exception Words.

Common Exception Words

The-Entire-Alphabet

Tuesday Weekly Spellings Update

Bye for now!