First Tower Home Learning

Year Group: 6

Week beginning: 20.4.20

English (select a challenge)

Maths (select a challenge)

Science History/ Geography

R.E. Other e.g. Art, Music, P.E.

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Reading: LI: To understand the style of online news articles. This week, you are going to plan an online article.

Re-read the eBook Amazing Inventions.

LI: To build and describe linear sequences.

Sequences which increase or

decrease by the same amount are called linear

sequences, for example, 2, 4, 6, 8 is an increase of 2.

Have a go at building these

sequences:

Start at 2, the rule is + 4. Start at 15, the rule is - 3.

Can you work out the

missing numbers in this sequence?

1, 5, 9, , , 21, 25.

Have a go at the task below.

PE:

LI: To increase my heart rate.

Take part in the fitness

exercises led by Joe Wicks daily. You can do this with all members of

your family.

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach

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French: LI: To learn the parts of

the body in French.

Using the information from last week, draw a creature of your own and label the parts of the body in French.

Write the number also e.g.

quatre pieds = 4 feet

Writing: LI: To note and develop initial ideas. You are going to write an online news article for the children’s website, ‘KidsNews’, about one of the inventions in the eBook. Look at the example

below. Who might the

audience be? The purpose

of the article is to inform

them. Can you find the key

features of the text? (e.g.

sentence paragraphs, a

catchy title, an introductory

sentence, etc.). These

features will be your

success criteria for the

writing you will do today.

Choose an invention and create a plan to help you write an online news article using a catchy title (e.g. ‘Bright spark!’), an introductory sentence and headings for each paragraph. See the example below if you need it.

Spelling: Find words in the eBook you are not sure how to spell and make a glossary for your own eBook page. Write the meaning of the words.

Handwriting: Use varying fonts for your glossary.

Tues

day

Reading: LI: To retrieve and record information from non-fiction. Do some research on your chosen invention and inventor for the eBook pages you are going to create.

LI: To identify missing terms.

What do you think the two missing terms are?

3, , , 18

Watch the video recorded by

Mr Pallot at the following

link.

https://expl.ai/RVPTHWV

What would you do for this

sequence? Have a go at

Inheritance and evolution topic

LI: To recognise that living things produce offspring of the same

kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their

parents in the context of inheritance. I can explain the scientific

concept of inheritance.

Music:

LI: To listen to music with attention to detail.

Make comparisons

between ‘Happy’ and your favourite song.

What instruments are

used in each? What is the tempo like?

Are there any vocals? What genres are they?

Writing: LI: To note and develop initial ideas.

Make a list of fact files

on your chosen

invention or inventor to

add as pop-ups on your

page. You can write

them as short

paragraphs ready to add

to your page. Remember

to include interesting

facts, dates, data and

play on words such as

alliteration or puns to

keep the interest of the

readers.

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following Mr Pallot’s

method.

11, , , , 39.

What do you think the rules

are for these sequences?

1, 3, 6, 10, 15

10, 8, 4, -2, -10

Create your own sequences and test your parents or

older siblings. Can they guess the pattern?

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Can you find real-life examples of sequences e.g.

how often the Commonwealth Games take

place.

Use the internet or a dictionary to find out the meaning of these

words: (Cells, Chromosomes,

inheritance, variation, DNA and Genes).

What causes variation

in species? Use the inherited

characteristic cards below to sort them

into 2 groups. Things which can be inherited

from parents and things which can’t. Write these down if

you can’t print them. We’ll tell you the

answers next week.

Spelling: Look back at your glossary. Ask someone to test you on the spellings, begin to practise the ones you don’t know.

Handwriting: Use varying sized fonts for your eBook page, practice writing neatly in capital letters or bubble writing. Make a name label for yourself using bubble writing.

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Reading: Re-read your plan and notes from yesterday.

LI: To find pairs of numbers

that satisfy an equation with

two unknown variables.

Remind yourself about how

to use algebraic formulas.

LI: To identify what I

already know about World

War 2.

In your book, create a

mind-map of everything you know about World

Writing: LI: To write using further organisational and presentational devices to

structure text and to guide the reader. Edit your plan and notes, think of 2 passive sentences you could use such as: The invention was discovered by... Which of the vocabulary from your glossary could you include on the eBook page? You are now ready to write your eBook page in your exercise book or on plain paper. Really focus on making the writing interesting for your target audience: children. Edit and improve your work by reading it to a family member. Does it make sense? Can you improve it further with the use of a dictionary or thesaurus? You can use some time tomorrow to complete your task.

Work out the value of each

letter.

A + 7 = 13

25 - G = 19

4M = 24

S ÷ 6 = 5

42/k = 6

What do you think the blank

box would be here?

7 x 3 = 25 -

What about:

12 = yz

Remember to multiply when

you see examples like this.

So, this means 12 = y x z

Have a go at the tasks below.

War 2, including the

Occupation.

Spelling: Write out your glossary words in your eBook in bold to show that they can be found in the glossary.

Handwriting: Present your eBook page using a variety of fonts and font sizes. Make sure sub-headings are clear.

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Reading: LI: To evaluate and edit my writing. Re-read your eBook page after looking at the Success Criteria again. Are you happy with your article? Could it be improved? Remember the Big Question. What is the best invention? Is there a right or wrong answer? Could you change someone else’s mind? How can you back up your opinions?

LI: To understand and calculate the mean.

Jane, Callum and Emma

each won some sweets at the school fair.

Jane won 10 sweets, Callum won 7 sweets and Emma

won 4 sweets. Their mum insists that they

share the sweets equally amongst themselves.

How many sweets did each child get?

What about for this one?

The next year the children

were more successful at the fair.

Jane won 20 sweets, Callum won 10 sweets and Emma

won 9. Again, their mum insisted

that they shared them equally.

How many sweets did each child get?

The mean is the average of the numbers. You can work

RE: LI: To consider how a person's motivation

affects whether their actions are considered

to be good or bad.

This term's key question is-

Does belief in Akhirah (life after death) help Muslims lead better

lives?

Read the explanation of Akhirah below.

Copy this question

into your books and write you initial response to it.

I think it does

because...

On the other hand, I think it doesn't

because...

In conclusion I think....

PSHE:

LI: To learn how to maintain physical,

mental and emotional health and wellbeing.

Make a well-being jar. Cut up pieces of paper

and write ideas for people to do to cheer themselves up. Write kind phrases or jobs

which you will help to do around the home. Put them in a jar and

label it with sharpies or by putting a paper label around it. Make sure it

is beautifully decorated. Put lovely music on while you do it and

practise your Calm Me breathing.

Writing: LI: To evaluate and edit my writing. How can you convince someone that you are right using written words? Which phrases are powerful and persuasive in your writing? Is there one invention which is better than all the others or are there a few which are equally useful? This might depend on which category (e.g. life-

saving, labour-saving) is our focus. Are there any important

inventions not covered by

the eBook? Use today to complete a

final published draft of your

page.

out the mean by adding everything together e.g.

sweets, by the number of people. So, 39 divided by 3.

Have a go at calculating the mean of something you are

interested in e.g. The number of goals scored by

four players on your favourite team.

For example, for Chelsea, Abraham has scored 15, Batshuayi has score 6,

Giroud has scored 2 and Zouma has scored 1. This is a total of 24. There are four of

them, so you would do 24 divided by 4. The average

would be 6 goals.

Spelling: Use a dictionary or spell checker to double check spellings.

Handwriting: Use presentation quality handwriting.

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Reading: Comprehension revision task LI: To answer questions

about the author’s intention and language choices. Complete the Friend or Foe comprehension from below. You can write the answers in your workbook or print the sheet out if you are able to.

LI: To apply understanding of the mean.

Look at this question.

4cm is the mean

measurement. If 4 out of the 5 measurements are 4cm, 5cm, 7cm and 3cm, what is the missing measurement?

Think about the mean.

We know the mean is 4cm. If

you multiply this by the

Art: LI: To improve mastery

of drawing.

Draw a portrait of each member of your family using cubism. How are

you alike/different?

Writing: Make sure you write your answers in full and complete sentences, with the correct

punctuation and conjunctions to extend please.

number of measurements, it will give you 20cm. If you

add the individual measurements, at present,

they equal 19cm. So, we know that the missing measurement is 1cm

because 20cm – 19cm = 1cm.

Have a go at the tasks below.

Spelling: Test yourself on your glossary words. Did you do better than last week?

Handwriting: Concentrate on the correct spacing between words, keep them even.

Additional activities that can

be completed online this

week:

Read some of the Active Learn books that you have

been allocated. Remember to click on the

icons.

Access your Prodigy account and have a go at some of the

Maths challenges.

Spelling

Literacy

Science

RE

Akhirah

Akhirah means life after death. It is the place that Muslims believe they will enter after they pass away in this life.

To believe in the Akhirah is very important in Islam. It is one of the Pillars of Iman (belief).

Muslims believe that their life in this world is not for ever. After this life ends, they believe that they enter another place - the Akhirah. The next life -

the Akhirah is forever - so that is why they have to do lots of good deeds as a Muslim to be able to go to Jannah (Paradise) in the Akhirah.

If Muslims do a lot of bad deeds in this life, then they believe that they will go to Hell-fire.

They believe that this life is meant to be a preparation for the Akhirah. On the Day of Judgement, they think that they will be tested to see if they can

enter Jannah. Good deeds and bad deeds will be scaled to see which ones they have more of.

To make sure that they have prepared for the Akhirah and be rewarded by Allah, The Merciful and The Kind, they need to do all that Allah says that

they should do and give up all bad habits and wrong actions. They can do this if they follow the guidance given to Muhammad (peace be upon him) by Allah

- like the Qur'an and Sunnah.

Maths

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