Year 6 Wk4
Friday 1st May
English Activity
Yesterday you watched this animation.
Today, you are going to write your own myth in your purple jotter.
- Your Myth must feature the Hero Twins
- The main setting could be set in the underworld (Xibalba)
- The main characters could face a challenge or several challenges to defeat the gods and return to earth.
- There may or may not be a happy ending – that’s up to you.
Maths Activity - copy the calculations and questions into your jotter:
Two-tenths X 400 =
Five-sixths X 7,200 =
2 and three-quarters X 8,800 =
4 and three-fifths X 2,500 =
0.6 X 300 =
2.25 X 4,200 =
1.) Moses draws a regular pentagon with a perimeter of 40cm. He then draws another pentagon that is 1.75 times as big.
What is the size of one of the sides of the bigger pentagon?
2.) One bag of modelling clay weighs 0.75kg.
How much do 24 bags weigh?
3.) Ryan needs 0.2 metres of ribbon to make one head dress. He is making 90 head dresses for a production.
How much ribbon does Ryan need?
Challenges –
4.) Two-fifths of Coldean’s total pupils is treble what one-fifth of another school’s total pupils is. The other school has 120 pupils.
What is the total number of pupils at Coldean?
5.) Find 5 different ways of making this a correct calculation:
0.___ X ___ = 50
RE Activity
It is 1st May today, otherwise known as May Day. This is a celebration of the start of Spring.
You need to do a bit of research first, then use this to create a short newspaper report about it on Purple Mash (see today’s 2Dos).
Thursday 30th April
English Activity
There are many Mayan Myths that feature the Hero Twins (One Hunahpu and Seven Hunahpu). You are going to write your own. Jot some ideas down today. Write it in your jotter tomorrow.
- Your Myth must feature the Hero Twins
- The main setting could be set in the underworld (Xibalba)
- The main characters could face a challenge or several challenges to defeat the gods and return to earth.
An extension of today’s task is to complete this quiz about the story you have heard.
Maths Activity
Answer these calculations. Remember the generalisation –
To find a fraction of an amount, divide it by the denominator then times it by the numerator.
Two-thirds of 2700 =
Four-sixths of 2700 =
Six-ninths of 2700 =
What did you notice about these calculations? Use the words ‘because’, ‘numerator’ and ‘denominator’ in your explanation:
Answer these calculations. Remember – ‘fraction X amount’ is the same ‘fraction of amount’
1 and one-eighth X 1600 =
2 and two-eighths X 1600 =
4 and four-eighths X 1600 =
Answer these calculations. Use your decimal and fraction equivalents to help you.
0.75 X 2400 =
1.25 X 2400 =
1.75 X 2400 =
What did you notice about these calculations? Use the word ‘because’ in your answer.
1.) Ali had £10,000 saved up. He put three-fifths of the money into the bank and spent the other two-fifths. A month later, he took one-fifth of the money he put into the bank out.
How much money did he take out?
2.) James draws a regular pentagon with a perimeter of 24cm. He then draws another pentagon that is 2.25 times as big.
What is the size of one of the sides of the pentagon?
Challenge
3.) The length of a school day at Coldean Primary School is 6 hours and 30 minutes (when we’re there!) The length of a school day at a boarding school is 2 two-fifths times the amount.
How long is the day at the boarding school? Give your answer in hours and minutes.
An alternative task can be found on MyMaths https://app.mymaths.co.uk/1676-homework/fractions-of-amounts
History Activity
You will find this task in your 2Dos on Purple Mash
Read these sections on the Mayans.
Family Life
Clothes
Homes
Use these as subheadings in your jotter and make notes as you read about the key information.
Wednesday 29th April
Art activity
These are all inspired by me watching the BBC series Primates- all about monkeys
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=primates
Have a look at these websites to see if you can make your own monkey art
http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob
Anthony Browne shows you how to draw Willy the Wimp
http://www.anthonybrownebooks.com/draw-you-own-willy-the-wimp
Save your work so we can share it when we are all back together again….
Keep on drawing and doodling!
If you would like to send in photos of the artwork you have been creating then please email them to office@coldean.brighton-hove.sch.uk and we will add them to our new gallery area (coming soon). Please put subject: "Year 6 Artwork"
Just the image please, no faces! We will caption your name if you include it in the email.
Music activity
Computing activity
We are continuing our learning about databases.
Click here to access the lesson slides.
(You might like to open up Purple Mash in another tab so you can switch between them)
Tuesday 28th April
English Activity
Using adjectives for more descriptive writing. Use this Bitesize link. Learn how to make your writing more descriptive by using adjectives, synonyms and antonyms.
This lesson includes: two videos to help you understand how to use adjectives, synonyms and antonyms and three practise activities.
Maths Activity
Here is a picture of a bar graph that needs to be completed to show the distance of Callum’s long jumps. Here are the results of his jumps:
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Jump 1 = 1.25m Jump 2 = 1.5m Jump 3 = 2.25m Jump 4 = 2.5m Jump 5 = 1.75 |
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Neatly, draw the graph into your jotter with the results of his jumps and then work out the mean.
Challenges
1. Here is an incomplete bar graph for Callum’s throwing attempts of a howler. Whilst working out that his mean throw was 6.3 metres, he lost the data for his fourth throw. Using the information that you have, work out what the distance of his fourth throw was and copy the bar graph into your jotter.
2. Ellis has lost the results of his standing long jumps. He knows his mean was 1.85m, and that jump#1 was 0.48m shorter than jump#4. He also knows that jump#2 and #3 were 0.24m longer than jump#4.
Use this information to work out the data for all his jumps.
An alternative task can be found on MyMaths
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/352-homework/pictograms-and-bar-charts
Geography Activity
The Mayan civilization was not a single country or an empire ruled from a central capital city. Archaeologist have uncovered more than 6000 Maya settlements, including many large cities. The biggest of these, such as Tikal, were home to as many as 100,000 people. These cities were laid out very differently from modern towns with raised palaces, temples and pyramids standing around grand squares linked by raised roads.
Learn about the different types of modern settlements here including a hamlet, a village, a town and a city.
This lesson includes: two videos which describe the different types of settlements and how cities can vary across the world plus two activities to reinforce your knowledge of settlement types.
English Activity
Go on to Bug Club (Active Learn), pick one of your allocated books and read it for 15 minutes. Hopefully, you will enjoy it so much you will want to carry on with it!
Maths Activity
Today you need to present the data you gathered from your PE workout on Friday. You need to do this in the form of a bar chart.
If you have a ruler, make sure you use it to present your table neatly.
Remember - you must label your axis and give the chart a title. You also need to think carefully about the intervals you want the X axis to go up by (5 or 10 will probably be suitable).
Once you have recorded your data on a bar chart, you can work out the mean and draw a horizontal line across to show it. I have created a bar chart below which you can use as a template to work from.
You will be able to use a similar template to record your data for your star jumps, sit-ups and press-ups
Science Activity
What is inheritance? Use this BBC Bitesize link. Watch the video, read the information and complete the fill in the gaps activity at the end. This links to our learning from last term.
Last week's learning
Look at how we got on with last week's learning.
