Year 6

Summer 1 Topic –

A Blank Canvas Home Learning Pack – Thursday 23rd April

Thursday: Guided Reading: Comprehension about the planet Mars.

Maths: 5-a-day/mix-a-day

L.O: To calculate time intervals Please complete the time sheet–it is space themed! Remember, there are 60

minutes in 1 hour and 24 hours in one day.

English: Grammar Challenge L.O: To write a guide for how to look after a Miptor.

Using your planning from the last few days, you are going to create half of your ‘How to look after a Miptor’ Guide today. You may choose to do this on

paper/fold it into a leaflet or create it on a Powerpoint/Word document. Today we would like you to complete the following sections of your guide:

•Title/Introduction to the Miptor Training and exercise

•Eating •Sleeping and habitat

Don’t forget pictures and illustrations! Please see the checklist attached.

RE: Our RE this half term will be about different religious creation stories. Here is today’s learning objective:

L.O: To retell the Judeo-Christian story of creation.

Please read through the PowerPoint and choose one of the tasks to complete:

1) Create a PowerPoint to retell the story. 2) Create a storyboard to retell the story.

3) Create a presentation to teach others the story.

PE: L.O: To practise netball techniques.

Choose 2 of the activities from the Netball Activity sheet and try them out at home

Maths 5-a-day/Mix-a-day:

L.O: To calculate time intervals

English Grammar Challenge:

1. Which of these sentences is grammatically correct? a) Liam was the bestest dancer out of him and his brother. b) Liam was a much better dancer than his brother. c) Liam was bestest at dancing than his brother. d) Liam was much better at dancing than his brother.

2. Identify both of the modal verbs in these sentences: Everyone could see Nathan as he appeared over the horizon. If he kept sprinting,

he might win the race.

3. Where should the semi-colon go in the sentence? Every year, Cory goes on holiday to Whitby it often rains while he’s there.

4. Place commas around the relative clause in this sentence: Sarah’s dishwasher which she had owned for almost ten years had started to leak

water.

L.O: To write a guide for how to look after a Miptor.

Please begin by deciding how you are going to present your

information guide. Today’s sections include:

•Title/Introduction to the Miptor

•Training and exercise

•Eating

•Sleeping and habitat

Don’t forget pictures and illustrations! Please see the checklist

for features to include.

Non-Chronological Report Checklist

Have you included? Tick

Heading

Subheadings

Present tense

Hyphens

Semi-colons to join 2 main clauses

Colons to join 2 main clauses

Questions ?

Exclamation marks !

Correct Y5/6 spellings using the word mat (next page)

Adventurous adjectives and description

A range of fronted adverbials

Parenthesis () - - ,,

Relative clauses

Modal verbs

Co-ordinating/subordinating conjunctions

Bullet point list

Commas in a list

Drawings/Pictures

R.E L.O: To retell the Judeo-Christian story of creation.

P.E L.O: To practise Netball techniques.