Great Wakering Primary SchoolYear 6 Home Learning

Date 20.4.20English L.O: To infer and locate information within a text.

Activity: Read the extract from Hunger Games. Make a graffiti wall (mind map) of the literal information and prior knowledge you have.

Complete the questions (the answers are on the 2nd page so you can check if you are correct).

Phonics/Grammar/Spelling

L.O: Quick Five/To understand the ‘ous’ spelling ruleActivity:

● Complete the quick five questions.● Revise the next six words on the year 5/6 spellings list.● Complete some or all of the questions on adding the ‘ous’

suffixMaths L.O: To identify the properties of 2D shapes

Activity:Complete the Mental Arithmetic Practice QuestionsComplete the Reasoning Practice QuestionsComplete some or all of the table on the properties of 2D shapes

Wider Curriculum

L.O: To identify the symbols used in an ordnance survey Activity:

Match the ordnance survey symbols with their corresponding name. You can either print them out or draw them in your exercise book.You may need to search for them online.

Complete this quiz to test your new knowledge https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/map-quizzes/map-symbols

Other Daily Activities:10 minutes readingGet moving - Youtube – Cosmic Kids Yoga (Harry Potter etc…)Take part in the Joe Wicks workout on YouTube at 9am

Useful Websites:BBC Bitesize - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn (Google: BBC bitesize KS2)Khan Academy – www.khanacademy.org (5th grade = Year 6) (Science, Maths)(There is also a Khan Academy Kids App)Scholastic – www.scholastic.com/learnathome (5th grade = Year 6)www.topmarks.co.uk – (Maths & GPS games)

The Hunger Games Sixty seconds. That’s how long we’re required to stand on our metal circles before the sound of a gong releases us. Step off before the minute is up, and land mines blow your legs off. Sixty seconds to take in the ring of tributes all equidistant from the Cornucopia,

a giant golden horn shaped like a cone with a curved tail, the mouth of which is at least twenty feet high, spilling

over with the things that will give us life here in the

arena. Food, containers of water, weapons, medicine,

garments, fire starters.

1. Find and copy the word that tells you that the tributes must stand on their

metal circles for sixty seconds.

2. The word ‘equidistant’ is closest in meaning to.... (Circle one).

Different distances same distance in the middle far away

3. How might the tributes be feeling as they wait on their metal circles? Why?

4. What do you think will happen to the tributes when the gong goes off?

The Hunger Games Answers

1. Find and copy the word that tells you that the tributes must

stand on their metal circles for sixty seconds.

required

2. The word ‘equidistant’ is closest in meaning to.... (Circle one).

different distances same distance in the middle far away

3. How might the tributes be feeling as they wait on their metal circles? Why?

Accept any suitable emotion with justification from the text, e.g

• terrified because of the danger that surrounds them.

• determined to get some of the supplies that will give them life. 4. What do you think will happen to the tributes when the gong goes off?

Accept any sensible prediction with justification from the text, e.g

• someone might step off early and lose their legs;

• they will run to the Cornucopia to get the food and weapons, etc;

• they might fight with each other to get the best things from the Cornucopia.

Mini SPAG test 1

1. Circle all the adverbs in the sentence below.

Open the drawers carefully and quietly when using the filing cabinet. 1 mark

2. Tick one word to complete the sentence below.

Michael and Kate read their books ______________ they ate their sandwiches.

while

which

between

during 1 mark

3. Draw lines to match each sentence with the most likely final punctuation.

Look out ?

How are you doing .

January is the first month of the year ! 1 mark

4. Circle the word that describes how William played on the field.

William played badly on the field. 1 mark

5. Look at this sentence:

The shopping list said he should buy bread, butter, jam and tea.

a) What is the name of the punctuation mark that is used after the words ‘bread’ and ‘butter’?

.............................................................. 1 mark

b) Why is this punctuation mark needed in the sentence above? Tick one.

to mark the start of a new clause

to show that a word is missing

to separate the items in a list

to take the place of brackets 1 mark

Total marks (out of 6) = .

Which rule does ‘nervous’ follow?Change the to an ‘i’ and add ousTake off the ‘e’ and add ousJust add ous

When changing danger into dangerous, which rule does it follow?Change the to an ‘i’ and add ousTake off the ‘e’ and add ousJust add ous

List 2 words for each rule:Change the to an ‘i’ and add ousTake off the ‘e’ and add ousJust add ous

Use the words in a sentence

Arithmetic

Q1. 

= 6,000 + 90

1 mark

Q2.9 × 41 =

 1 mark

Q3.5.87 + 3.123 =

 1 mark

Q4. 

= 87 − 651 mark

Q5.180 ÷ 3 =

 

Reasoning

Q1.What number is 1,000 less than 9,072?

 1 mark

Q2.In this grid, there are four multiplications.

Write the three missing numbers.

 1 mark

Q3.The numbers in this sequence increase by 45 each time.

Write the missing numbers.

 2 marks

Q4.

Order the numbers starting with the largest.Match each number with its order.

 

LO: To identify properties of 2D shapes

Shape: Name How How Describe Draw an

of shape:

many

edges?

many vertices?

the angles!

irregular version!

Symbol Name

Sch

Which symbol do you think is best? Why?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Which symbol would you improve? Why?

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Design a symbol for a:Rugby Stadium Library

Cinema Play Park