03 May 2013
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 08 May 2013:
I know about push and pull forces.
We’ve finished with our mini-topic for science. We thought it would be good to see what children know about push and pull forces.
Some ideas:
- a poem
- a poster
- some facts
- do an investigation
- research using ICT
- photos
- or your own idea
03 May 2013
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 08 May.
I can rotate shapes using the correct mathematical vocabulary.
The children all have a sheet in their books which they need to rotate according to the instructions. The vocabulary they need to use and understand is in the following table.
| How the shape is being rotated. | Quarter turn | One right angle turn | 90 degree turn | |
| Half turn | Two right angle turns | 180 degree turn | ||
| Three quarter turn | Three right angle turns | 270 degree turn | ||
| Full turn | Four right angle turns | 360 degree turn | ||
| The direction it is being rotated. | Clockwise | Anti-clockwise | ||
03 May 2013
The homework this week is Creative and is due in on Wednesday 08 May.
I can create a persuasive poster that encourages children to eat healthily.
This week sees the start of our Big Topic, ‘Food, glorious food!’ We’re also learning about writing persuasively in literacy. This is a great opportunity for you to put your persuasive writing skills to the test and use them to persuade children to eat healthily. Here are the R2s (remember to) for writing persuasively:
- emotive language
- connectives (usually adding or reason and result – ask your child, they’ll know what they are!)
- exaggeration
- rhetorical question
- addressing the reader (using words like you)
03 May 2013
We are revisiting one of our key spelling rules this week. The spellings are all words where you have to drop the y for an i. The first six words all drop the y for an i when they are changed into plurals. The final four words drop the y for an i when changing the word into an adverb.
|
1. |
city |
cities |
|
2. |
penny |
pennies |
|
3. |
party |
parties |
|
4. |
story |
stories |
|
5. |
butterfly |
butterflies |
|
6. |
family |
families |
|
7. |
angry |
angrily |
|
8. |
clumsy |
clumsily |
|
9. |
merry |
merrily |
|
10. |
naughty |
naughtily |
03 May 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 10 May 2013.
Zebras
These are words that end in ‘ck’.
- shock
- stuck
- trick
- track
- back
- lick
- click
- pick
- lock
- flick
Tigers/ Lions
These are words with ‘tch’ to make the ‘ch’ sound.
- catch
- watch
- patch
- witch
- stretch
- match
- kitchen
- stitch
- snatch
- switch
03 May 2013
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Your child will have one of two sheets about length. It’s due in on Wednesday 08 May 2013.
03 May 2013
There will be no new words to learn this week. Instead, there will be SATs style spelling tests of words that the children are unfamiliar with.
I suggest children spend time each night looking through old spelling lists and trying to remember rules, especially:
- drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ eg hope / hoping, accommodate / accommodating
- drop the ‘y’ for ‘i’ eg happy / happiness, fury / furious
- double up for short vowel sounds eg diner / dinner, coma / comma
Spelling tests will be given at several points in the week.
03 May 2013
Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 08 May 2013.
I can invent and make a page of a study book to show people how to… (you need to fill in your own idea here!)
Think of the following:
- How the page should look so it looks like a study book or important bits book.
- How you are going to make it creative and interesting to read.
- What information will you include to help your reader learn about your chosen subject?
- What tips will you give to your reader?
03 May 2013
The familiar set of letters this week are going to be ice that are pronounced differently depending on which word they feature in (eg police, nice).
| LO: words that contain ice |
| practice (the noun, not the verb, to practise) |
| notice |
| police |
| nice |
| twice |
| dice |
| apprentice |
| mice |
Encourage your child to think about the different sounds they hear when they say the words, and encourage them to think of others, too.
It’s not all about the SATs!
Year Six took a well deserved morning off revision and produced these astonishingly good abstract representations of Flamingoland. I have to say, their artwork is awesome.
