Year 6 Remote Learning for Wednesday 13th January 2021 Answers to today's warm-up are at the end of the slides.
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Year 6 Remote Learning for Wednesday 13th January 2021
Warm-up your brains - multiply by 10, 100 and 1000
Remember, use mental strategies as much as possible.
Answers
to today’s
warm-up
are at the
end of the
slides.
Reading
Remember you should be reading, either
independently or aloud with someone, for 30
minutes every day.
You should try to find a calm, quiet spot
where you can concentrate and try “lose
yourself” in your book.
TOP TIP! Pause regularly to reflect on what
you have just read.
• Try to summarise what’s happened in your
own words. If you’re not sure, read again.
• Do you need to find out what any new
words mean?
• Think! What questions do you think your
teacher might ask you? Try to answer them.
By Roald Dahl
Spelling & Vocabulary
Today, we're going to continue to learn how to spell words that contain the
suffixes –ence or –ance.
1. First, you should read each word carefully and then sort them into two columns:
Word
-ence -ance existence
relevance
excellence
hindrance
nuisance
difference
Next, you should look carefully at each word and think about other related words that come from the same root
word. Then, you should write your own sentences with these related words in.
For example, the word existence comes from the root "exist". Another word that comes from this root is existent.
You could add the prefix "non-" which means "not" to make it "non-existent" and put it in a sentence such as, "During
the Stone Age, electricity was non-existent as it was not invented until much later."
You could take the root of "difference" which is "differ" and then and the suffix "-ent" to make the word
"different" and then put it into a sentence, "Neanderthals were different in many ways to Homo Sapiens."
Handwriting Keep practising your handwriting, making sure your joined writing is
neat and even. Remember not to take your pen away from the page
until you've finished writing the word.
Today, put these words in to sentences that have relative
clauses (using a relative pronoun: who, whose, which, that).
Here’s mine: The grumpy girl, who was always a
nuisance in football, stormed off the pitch with the ball
clutched tightly in her arms.
Remember to check your spellings!
Where are you on the
Handwriting Road? Writing at speed,
neatly and
legibly joined
Building stamina
and speed (whilst
Slow and careful, maintaining writing
that is neat and
neatly and legible)
precisely joined
English
Please see separate slides.
Maths Click on this link for the answers to yesterday’s problems: Understanding thousandths: https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Y5- Spring-Block-3-ANS4-Understand-thousandths-2019.pdf Solving division problems: https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Y6- Spring-Block-1-ANS6-Division-to-solve-problems-2019.pdf Green Pen! Mark your work from yesterday. Remember, learning from your own mistakes is one of the best ways to learn. Therefore, you need to look carefully at any mistakes you have made, work out where you have gone wrong and make sure you know how to do it correctly next time!
Maths
Your focus for this week is Decimals.
Today, you will be multiplying decimals by integers.
Here is the link to introduce the session: https://vimeo.com/490690764
Remember to press pause when asked, to give yourself time to think
and work out the answer. Have a pencil and paper handy to make
jottings and calculate.
Now think carefully
about this:
Maths Decimals.
https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Y6-
Here is the link to the worksheet: Spring-Block-1-WO4-Multiply-decimals-by-integers-2019.pdf
Want more challenge? Make sure you are totally confident then move on decimals as fractions:
https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Y6-Spring-Block-
1-WO7-Decimals-as-fractions-2019.pdf
Here is the introductory video link that explains how to approach them:
https://vimeo.com/490693175
Topic - Science
Today, we go back
further in time, before
Neanderthals and
Homo Sapiens.
Watch this video first to find
about some of our earliest
ancestors:
TRILOGY OF LIFE - Walking with Beasts -
"Australopithecus afarensis" - YouTube
Then continue learning about
them here:
Prehistoric beasts under attack - BBC -
Who is YouTube
Lucy? When you have watched the videos, try
sharing your thoughts and learning with
Why is she someone at home.
important?
Then, find out about Lucy on the next
few slides and answer the questions
that follow.
Topic - Science Human-Like Hominids 3.6 to 1.8 million BCE About 3 million years ago, the earth was populated with deer, giraffes, hyenas, cattle, sheep, goats, antelope, gazelles, horses, elephants, rhinoceroses, camels, ground squirrels, beavers, cave lions, ants, termites, porpoises, whales, dogs with huge teeth, and sabre-toothed cats! Giant sharks, about 42 feet long, were plentiful. There were all kinds of birds and plants and fish, similar to birds, plants and fish today. (Dinosaurs, died out about 65 million years ago. They were long gone.) About this same time in history, around 3 million years ago, the higher primates, including apes and early man, first appeared. There was a difference between apes and man. Human-like hominids could stand upright. Apes could not. Their hands were different, too. Ape hands were made for climbing and clinging. Early man's hands were jointed differently, which allowed them to not only use tools, but to make tools. No one knows if these very early human-like people actually made tools, but remains of polished bones have been found in South Africa, which suggests they might have made simple digging tools from bone! Their diet was mostly vegetarian, along with some meat, probably obtained by scavenging. You might wonder how we know anything about hominids who lived over 3 million years ago! How do we know they even existed? Lucy told us!
Topic - Science
In 1974, a skeleton was found in
Ethiopia, Africa by Professor Donald
Johanson. The bones were those of
young female, approximately 20 years
old when she died. Scientists named
this "young lady" Lucy, after the
Beatles song 'Lucy in the sky with
diamonds' which was playing on the
radio at the time of the discovery.
About 3 million years ago, when Lucy was alive, she was rather short,
about 4 feet tall, and probably weighed about 50 pounds. Like a
chimpanzee, her brain was about the size of an orange, she had dangly
arms and a round belly. Her bones showed she probably walked upright,
although she still had the ability to climb trees easily. There were no
signs of broken bones or teeth marks that might show why she died.
Scientists suspect that she probably fell into a lake or river and drowned.
Scientists are like detectives. They can tell a great deal from a skeleton,
whether it's a year old, or 3 million years old!Topic - Science
1) When did the apes and early man first appear?
2) What were the differences between apes and man?
3) What evidence is there that early man used tools?
4) What was the diet of early man like?
5) What were found in Ethiopia in 1974?
6) Who made the discovery?
7) Why did they call her 'Lucy'?
8) How old do scientists believe Lucy was when she died?
9) What do scientists think Lucy was like when she was alive?
10) What similarities were there between Lucy and a chimpanzee?
11) How do the scientists think Lucy died?Answers to today’s warm-up – multiplying by 10, 100, 1000
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