University of Warwick (Y6)

Welcome to the University of Warwick!

Would you like to end the year completing another Cross-Number to show how much you have learnt in Maths?

Do you want to revisit all of Mrs Whitehouse’s signing videos and try to learn any you have missed?

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Meanwhile I look forward to seeing you all again face to face tomorrow with your

Leavers Pack. Please remember to try and have your library books ready for me to collect.

See you then!

Mr Gilbey

Personal finances - Tuesday 14^th July

Morning everybody. As we enter our last couple of days at Moorcroft Wood I have time to teach you one more life skill… personal finance, or as you might know it, money!

I will not be asking you how much change I would get from something, or how much several things would cost in total.

Today is all about your personal finances as a person and a household. For example how much you get paid versus how much you have to spend on things like food, football tickets or McDonalds!

Please read the attached presentation and if possible, discuss the vocabulary found on slide two with an adult to help your understanding as you go through it.

Then please look at the bank statement activity attachment.

I am aware many of you have, or will soon have your own bank account. In that case you really need to be able to understand the statement you will receive and what it tells you from the account holders name, to how much has been paid in or what has been withdrawn (taken out) of your account.

All the information to answer the questions are on the bank statement so please look carefully and I am sure an adult will be able to check it for you!

Good luck, and I will see you back here tomorrow for our final daily task.

Week Commencing: Monday 13th July 2020

Good morning Year 6 Home Learners, I hope you all had a marvellous weekend, and are looking forward to your last week at Moorcroft Wood.

We will continue the plan from last week where you visit the Oak National Academy ( https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6/ ) for your learning PLUS I will set an additional activity every day.

Today is an Art activity.

Art - Monday 13^th July

In school, we watched the below video showing the Top 10 3D street art.

As you can see, they all successfully use techniques to fool the eye into thinking there is something popping out of the pavement, or there’s a hole in the pavement.

We are going to try to master some basic skills that make these effects possible.

Firstly, watch the below YouTube video, pausing where necessary to create a stairwell going down into the page.

This is particularly difficult so please do not get disheartened if your letter does not jump off the page. The main thing is to give it a go, and practise it again.

You will get better.

Also do not forget the message on Class Dojo, Mrs Hodgetts and I will see you all Thursday with your leavers pack.

Meanwhile I will see you back here tomorrow for another extra activity.

Good deeds - Friday 8^th July

Good morning.

I hope you all enjoyed your aeroplane attempts yesterday. We had a bit of a mixed bag in school, from someone throwing over 7 meters to one going minus 25cms!

Today, as well as the Oak National Academy lessons, I want you to do some good deeds around the house for your adults.

Over the course of the day could you …

• Tidy your room?
• Hang the washing up?
• Make lunch?
• Wash the car?
• Do the washing up?

It’s time to give a little back to the adults that have done so much for you all over the last three months. Please try and enjoy doing your good deeds, have a lovely weekend, and I will see you all back here Monday for our final week of daily tasks!

Paper aeroplane competition - Thursday 8^th July

Good morning.

I hope you are all having a good week.

Today, as well as the Oak National Academy lessons, I want you join those who have returned to school in our “Year 6 2020 Paper Aeroplane Contest”.

Over the course of the day we will…

• Use the internet to research different models of paper aeroplane and what makes a successful paper aeroplane.
• Make a couple of different models and give them a test flight, then alter this design in search of improved distance (follow this link for some suggestions on different models https://www.kidspot.com.au/things-to-do/outdoor-activities/outdoor-play/10-of-the-best-paper-plane-designs/news-story/7f7ac94ddc1c5059f17b25e7c880722e
• Make your final aeroplane design then cover it in your own artwork to make it unique.
• Set up a safe flight zone and launch your aeroplane to see how far it can fly.
• If you have a way of measuring your flight distance, please do, and let me know how far it went.

I hope you have fun with this task and I look forward to seeing some of your attempts.

Time Capsule - Wednesday 7^th July

Good morning.

How did you get on with your self-portrait yesterday? The couple I saw have been very impressive. If you have yet to send it across via Class Dojo, please do.

Today, as well as the Oak National Academy lessons, I want us to think about time capsules.

I am proposing we bury a time capsule somewhere in the Moorcroft Wood forest area with Mr Wishart’s permission, with things related to your time in Year 6.

It has been a very interesting, eventful year with lots happening at both a local and globally level.

Below are just a couple of things that I think we should consider referencing in our time capsule.

• The Coronavirus. How difficult has it been for you? I’m sure in future, children might think it would be brilliant to have three months off school, so we need to highlight, the difficulties in not being able to go out, see friends and family, the general worry for eveyones safety.
• Australian bush fires before that. Remember quite how large an area was on fire at any one time. What could we put in to tell that story?
• Something you experienced in Year 6 for the first time. Was there any changes in uniform?
• Events in Year 6. I know we have missed out on the London trip and Llandudno but we did go to PGL!
• Some sort of notes about our favourite lessons from primary school.

Use the above list as some suggestions to get you started and make your own list about what you would like included in a time capsule and why.

Art - Tuesday 7^th July

Good morning.

Yesterday you should have finished off your Monsterology entry.

If not, please try to get this finished so it can be included in the pack I will be building later this week.

Today, as well as the Oak National Academy lessons, I want you to attempt to draw a self-portrait.

At the end of each Year at Moorcroft Wood you have completed a self-portrait which has gone into your scrap book. Therefore I would like you to try and do one at home for your Year 6 entry.

Attached is two pages to help you. The first page is my attempt this year and on the second page is a template for you to use.

Some steps for you to follow…

• Start with the eyes.

These need to sit above the top line.

Use one finger width for the distance between your eyes.

• Next do the mouth.

This needs to sit in the section above the chin.

• Once you have done these, you can use these features to draw the ears.

Looking in a mirror you can see where the top of your ears line up (might be in line with your eyes) and where the bottom of your ears are in line with (which might be in line with your top lip).

• After that you can attempt the nose. This is the most difficult so pay particular attention to the top tips below. Consider starting with the nostrils and moving up. 
• At this stage DON’T worry if you think it does not look like you. The moment you add hair, trust me, you will be impressed.
• Then finally, draw the outline of your hair, and once you are happy with that add the pencil strokes for the hair.
• The template I have attached has quite a rounded head so please draw your hair line half way between the top of the head and your eyes. Then we can get rid of the top part of the template if needed.

TOP TIPS

• Ideally hold a mirror in one hand and your pencil in the other. Continue to switch your view from mirror to paper, then mirror again. Continue this flicking between both views as often as possible.
• You need to draw what you see in the mirror NOT what you think certain features look like. This will decide if your self-portrait is a success.
• For example, your eyes are not circular so don’t draw them that way. IF you draw what you see, trust me, you will be happy with the final self-portrait.
• Press gently with your pencil. It will be easier to rub out and try again if you only press gently.
• Leave it as black and white for the time being. Once it is finished we can decide if we want to add colour or not.

I know in class everyone is sick of me saying this but it’s true…

DRAW WHAT YOU SEE IN THE MIRROR, NOT WHAT YOU THINK YOU LOOK LIKE.

Give it a go and ask an adult to send me some pictures of what it looks like!

See you back here tomorrow!

Week Commencing: Monday 6th July 2020

Good morning Year 6 Home Learners, I hope you all had a marvellous weekend, even if you are a Wolves supporter!

The plan for this week is going to be a little different from the last couple of weeks.

I will continue asking you to visit the Oak National Academy Year 6 page and work through some of the lessons for this week (Monday 6^th July).

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6/

HOWEVER like previous week I will also be setting a daily lesson on top of the Oak National Academy lessons. But it will not always be a daily English task.

For example, today will be an English task, tomorrow an art task etc.

So continue visiting this class page to compliment your choice of Oak National Academy lessons.

English - Monday 6^th July

In school, we need one more lesson to finish our Monsterology lesson.

Therefore please complete the below steps if they have not already been finished…

• Finish writing your entry up for our Monsterology Book.
• Draw your monster on the template provided last week (see the relevant entries below if you need the template again).
• If that has been completed why not start designing a front page for our Monsterology.

Think about what draws you to a book in the library. Is it attractive when a front page is full of words? Do you like a nice big image on the front to draw you in? Could we alter the Moorcroft Wood badge so it is tied into the school but also makes reference to it being a Monsterology? Could the title be something like “Moorcroft Wood’s 2020 Monsterology”? Is this our chance to practise some nice impactful bubble letters maybe?

Have a play and send me your final ideas and I will pick one to be the front cover when I bind all our entries into a book.

IF YOU HAVE COMPLETED ALL OF THE ABOVE…

Why not have an attempt at a new comprehension text and questions, as these skills need to be practised regularly or we will forget them.

Dig out your comprehension book and complete a comprehension text.

Remember our rules for answering questions about a text…

• Read read read again.
• Underline key information.
• Read the question carefully.
• Don’t be afraid to move on.

Other Work Suggestions

Daily Exercise

Don’t forget to try and do a piece of exercise every day.

Below are some suggestions, or you could just have a good run around the garden if you prefer.

If the Joe Wicks workout noted on the Oak National Academy isn’t for you, why not try one of the other workouts…

Cosmic Yoga workouts

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

Cosmic Yoga “Dance Party” workout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

BBC Super Movers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

Makaton with Mrs Whitehouse

Learn today’s new Makaton sign with Mrs Whitehouse by following this link…

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Have a good day and see you back tomorrow for our Art task.

English - Friday 3^rd July

Good morning everyone, happy Friday.

As we have done over the last couple of days, we are going to finish off our Monsterology entry, before we start looking at a new project next week.

Below is a reminder of the steps we need to have gone through

• Finish writing the first draft of our Monsterology entry.

• Complete first edit. 

• Start writing your entry up for our Monsterology Book.

In class when writing up our best work, we have started using guidelines that sit behind plain paper attached with paperclips or blu tac. This results in you being able to see lines to write on, but then when you remove the guidelines from behind the plain paper it looks like you have written straight without any lines. Please try this as it will make the final written piece look amazing.

If you try and struggle, do not worry, just write it up on any paper you have.

IF YOU HAVE COMPLETD YOUR MONSTEROLOGY TEXT…

Please dig out your comprehension book and complete a comprehension text.

Remember our rules for answering questions about a text…

• Read read read again.
• Underline key information.
• Read the question carefully.
• Don’t be afraid to move on.

Thank you all, have a great weekend, and stay safe!

English - Thursday 2^nd July

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all having a good week 

As we talked about yesterday, we are going to take another day to finish our monsterology.

In case some of you have missed a couple of days I have listed the steps you need to complete again from yesterday.

• Finish writing the first draft of our Monsterology entry.

• Complete first edit. 

• Start writing your entry up for our Monsterology Book.

In class when writing up our best work, we have started using guidelines that sit behind plain paper attached with paperclips or blu tac. This results in you being able to see lines to write on, but then when you remove the guidelines from behind the plain paper it looks like you have written straight without any lines. Please try this as it will make the final written piece look amazing.

If you try and struggle, do not worry, just write it up on any paper you have.

I have again attached a template for you to draw your monster a final time to go in the booklet.

English - Wednesday 1^st July

Good morning everyone.

Today we are continuing our monsterology entry.

I am conscious we might all be at different stages therefore please see the below actions and work through then in this order….

• Finish writing the first draft of our monsterology entry.

Please remember each section needs to contain all the elements from the Information Text Tool Kit.

• Complete first edit.

Once you have written the entire entry, it’s time to up level our work.

Make sure you read what you have written NOT what you think you have written and make sure it makes sense.

Can you up level any of your vocabulary (for example can you change the word “lives” to “inhabits”).

• Start writing your entry up for our Monsterology Book.

In class when writing up our best work, we have started using guidelines that sit behind plain paper attached with paperclips or blu tac. This results in you being able to see lines to write on, but then when you remove the guidelines from behind the plain paper it looks like you have written straight without any lines. Please try this as it will make the final written piece look amazing.

If you try and struggle, do not worry, just write it up on any paper you have.

I have also attached a template for you to draw your monster a final time to go in the booklet. It also have a plaque on it for you to write your monsters name.

Please work through these, but do not rush we have as many days as we need to finish this piece off.

English - Tuesday 30^th June

Good morning everyone.

We are going to take one more day to finish writing the first draft of our Monsterology.

Many in class will use this to lesson to write the opening hook – quite possibility the most important section, as this will hopefully interest the reader and make sure they read on.

One way of ensuring this happens is to include an interesting fact about your monster… let your imagination go. You could maybe include a question of the reader?

Some in my bubble also are looking to include a quote from a professional, much like the one from Doctor Patrick Thurston – world renowned monsterologist from Bristol University – in the model text.

Again, please let your imagination go and invent a name, a university of study, and of course what they would say about your creature. Don’t forget this can go into any section you like!

The remaining steps to comeplte this week are to finish off writing a first draft, then go through an editing stage and finally writing it up on a template so I can bind everyone’s into an official “Book of Monsters”.

So today, we need to complete another section or two.

In class we have competed the appearance and the diet section, leaving today to look at the habitat and possibility the opening section to hook the reader.

Before you start writing, please use this opportunity to re-read what you have written so far, catching any simple mistakes you might have made. This might be missing words or punctuation, or an adjective you think you could up level.

Don’t forget the elements that need including in EVERY section from the Information Text tool kit …

• Hook your reader.
• Use technical specific vocabulary
• Sound like an expert
• Interest your reader
• Organise your ideas
• Use topic sentences rather than subheading
• Use evidence.

Good luck!

Week Commencing: Monday 29th June 2020

Good morning Year 6 Home Learners, I hope you all had a great weekend.

The plan for this week is to continue along the same lines as last week… I will be setting daily English lessons for you to complete, whilst for all other lessons I will continue asking you to visit the Oak National Academy Year 6 page and work through some of the lessons for this week (Monday 29^th June).

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6/

English - Monday 29^th June

We are going to complete our Monsterology this week!

I’m really looking forward to this because what I have read so far is really good!

The remaining steps to complete this week are to finish off writing a first draft, then go through an editing stage and finally writing it up on a template so I can bind everyone’s into an official “Book of Monsters”.

So today, we need to complete another section or two.

In class we have competed the appearance and the diet section, leaving today to look at the habitat and possibility the opening section to hook the reader.

Before you start writing, please use this opportunity to re-read what you have written so far, catching any simple mistakes you might have made. This might be missing words or punctuation, or an adjective you think you could up level.

Then please remind yourself of the Information Text tool kit detailing everything each section needs to include…

• Hook your reader.
• Use technical specific vocabulary
• Sound like an expert
• Interest your reader
• Organise your ideas
• Use topic sentences rather than subheading
• Use evidence.

Then you will be ready to write another section or two.

Other Work Suggestions

Daily Exercise

Don’t forget to try and do a piece of exercise every day.

Below are some suggestions, or you could just have a good run around the garden if you prefer.

If the Joe Wicks workout noted on the Oak National Academy isn’t for you, why not try one of the other workouts…

Cosmic Yoga workouts

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

Cosmic Yoga “Dance Party” workout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

BBC Super Movers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

Makaton with Mrs Whitehouse

Learn today’s new Makaton sign with Mrs Whitehouse by following this link…

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Have fun and see you back here tomorrow for Tuesday's English tasks.

Week Commencing: Monday 22nd June 2020

English – Friday 26^th June

Good morning everyone… Happy Friday!

Today we are going to continue writing our Monsterology.

Yesterday you should have written a section or two, so today you can pick another one or two to write.

Remember each section needs to contain all the elements of an information text found below…

• Hook your reader.
• Use technical specific vocabulary
• Sound like an expert
• Interest your reader
• Organise your ideas
• Use topic sentences rather than subheading
• Use evidence.

In my bubble at school, yesterday we wrote about our monster’s appearance, today we are going to look at their habitat.

We have made a really good start, I cannot wait to start putting these all together to make our own Monsterology!

Good luck, give two or three categories a go and then you can look forward to an amazing weekend.

English – Thursday 24^th June

Good news… we have done the ground work, we have looked at what information text need to include… Now it is time to write our Monsterology entry!

BEFORE WE START WRITING…

I think it might be worthwhile revisiting the feature that our information text needs to include on page 7. These are…

• Hook your reader.
• Use technical specific vocabulary
• Sound like an expert
• Interest your reader
• Organise your ideas
• Use topic sentences rather than subheading
• Use evidence.

Once you have reminder yourselves of what these features mean, pick one of the boxes from page 14 and attempt to write it.

Some top tips…

• It does not matter what order you write these boxes so pick one you feel most confident with.
• PLEASE refer back to your booklets, we have done all the hard work, so it would be a shame to not use some of your topic sentences, or vocabulary you have thought of.
• Once we have written all the part I will distribute a template so we can write it up and combine everyone’s own monster to create a Moorcroft Wood Year 6 Monsterology.

Good luck, give two or three categories a go and I will see you back here tomorrow for Friday’s tasks.

Week Commencing: Monday 22nd June 2020

English – Wednesday 24^th June

I hope you enjoyed tweaking your monster subheadings and sketching your monster yesterday.

Today we are going to start preparing all the information you have thought about for your monster, ready to start writing our monsterology entry on Thursday.

Therefore please have a look at the planning grid on page 14 of your Talk for Writing booklet.

As it mentions, when it comes to writing your Monsterology entry you can put the different structures of the text in whatever order you like but today all you need to do is list all the information about your monster in the right category. Most of this is found on page 12 of the booklet. One of the key tools we discussed earlier in the module is using professional vocabulary, therefore please include this into the planning document as you complete it.

Finally, if you are like my group at school, feel free to take a bit of time to finish your sketch of your monster as well, which we will transfer to the final document once we have it written.

Good luck, and see you back here tomorrow for Thursday’s tasks.

Week Commencing: Monday 22nd June 2020

English - Tuesday 23^rd June

I hope you enjoyed learning about Isaac Newton yesterday. He was quite the man and you will learn more about the man and his theories as you go through secondary school.

Today we will be returning to our Monsterology unit.

• Activity 6 – New ideas

Firstly I want everyone to revisit their subheadings from Friday.

Have a read and think if you want to add anything else.

I also want you to think about including some ‘professional vocabulary’ as per the Infromation Text Tool Kit. Some examples we came up with in class were whether the monster was a carnivore, herbivore or an omnivore? Instead of the word eats could you use digests? What kind of climate do they live in? If you need inspiration, why not read the model text at the start of the booklet again.

• Activity 7 – Draw Your Monster

And now the part I know a lot of you have been looking forward to… time to see how you imagine your monster.

I am sure you already have some idea of what your monster looks like but some ideas below for you to consider.

If they eat meat, it means they would have sharp teeth.

If they live in a cold climate, they could possibility have long fur.

If you can send me a picture of your sketches over Class Dojo it would mean I could show them to those pupils in school.

Have a great day!

Week Commencing: Monday 22nd June 2020

Good morning Year 6 Home Learners, I hope you all had a great weekend.

The plan for this week is the same as last week. I will be setting daily English lessons for you to complete the same tasks as we are doing in class.

For all other lessons I will continue asking you to visit the Oak National Academy Year 6 page and work through some of the lessons for this week (Monday 22^nd June).

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6/

English - Monday 22^nd June

We are going to have a day off from our Monsterology topic of last week.

Instead todays we are going to answer questions about a text.

In Science we have been looking at how light allows us to see colour, and one of the Scientists and Mathematicians behind this was the world famous Isaac Newton.

Therefore please read the attached fact sheet about the man and his achievement’s and answer the questions attached.

It has been a little while since we have completed a comprehension so let’s have a very quick recap on our rules for Comprehensions…

• Read read read the text.
• Be careful to answer what the question is actually asking you.
• Underline key information in the text.
• Don’t be afraid to move on from a question and come back to it at the end.

Other Work Suggestions

Daily Exercise

This week is the National School Sports Week.

Therefore I think we should all get back to doing a piece of exercise every day.

Below are some suggestions, or you could just have a good run around the garden if you prefer.

If the Joe Wicks workout noted on the Oak National Academy isn’t for you, why not try one of the other workouts…

Cosmic Yoga workouts

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

Cosmic Yoga “Dance Party” workout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

BBC Super Movers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

Makaton with Mrs Whitehouse

Learn today’s new Makaton sign with Mrs Whitehouse by following this link…

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Have fun and see you back here tomorrow for Tuesday's English tasks.

Friday 19^th June

Happy Friday to everyone.

Did you manage to watch the Oak National Academy assembly yesterday hosted by Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton? If you did not, it will remain on the web site, so please find 20 minutes to watch it and consider the importance of kindness. Once you have watched it, I have challenging all those in school to do a kind deed every day. Why not you try the same?

This could be from helping out in the kitchen to something as little as asking your adults how their day was.

Put a smile on someone else’s face, and you never know, it might make you feel good as well!

English Talk For Writing – Monsters

Day 5

Activity 6 – New Ideas

Now that we have looked at the features, structure and language of an information text, we get to look at the fun bit… thinking about our monsters. You may already have some ideas so now it’s time to get these down on paper so please look at page 12 and add some notes to the subheadings. On page 11 there are some images of other monsters for inspiration, if you need any! Who can come up with the most imaginative elements of their monster? I’ll wait and see!

Please also use some time today to finish off any of the first five activities in the booklet so you have all the skills ready for when we start writing own monsterology next week.

Have a great weekend, and remember “be kind”!

Thursday 18^th June

Good morning to all you Y6 Home Learners out there.

Please see below today’s English tasks AND a special assembly being put on by Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Kate herself on the Oak National Academy.

English Talk For Writing – Monsters

Day 4

Activity 5 – Topic Sentences

As you may have noticed when reading the model text on swamp monsters at the start of this module, it used topic sentences instead of sub-headings. This is a lovely way of making your information text more enjoyable to read and allows you to add more detail than you would in a simple sub-heading. Therefore please read page 9 and 10 in your Talk for Writing text and attempt to write some topic sentences for the suggestions found on page 10.

If you can complete this, and all the previous tasks, it will put us all in a position to start thinking about our specific monster in Friday’s lesson! So if you have missed any of the previous days, please spend some time today going back and filling in the blanks, ready for us to start creating our monsters on Friday.

Oak National Academy Assembly

Duchess of Cambridge (future Queen of England!) - Kindness assembly

During your time on the Oak National Academy web page have come across, and watched, any of their assemblies?

Well tomorrow the Duchess of Cambridge – Kate Middleton, or THE FUTURE QUEEN as I like to call her, will be talking about the need for us all to show each other kindness.

Therefore please go on the below link for 11.00am Thursday and join everyone in class in listening to Princess Kate put in a surprise call to some students in England and hear what they have to say about kindness.

Wednesday 17^th June

Happy Wednesday to all the Home Learners out there.

Please see below for Wednesday’s English tasks.

As stated on previous updates please visit the Oak National Academy Year 6 page for all OTHER lesson https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6/

English Talk For Writing – Monsters

Day 3

Firstly, did you manage to use any of the new vocabulary learnt during Monday’s English daily tasks? Why not try and use a different word today.

Today, we will be looking at Activity 4 on page 8 of your Talk For Writing booklet.

Activity 4 - Formality

Today we will look at the type of language you should use when writing an information text.

We are not writing to a friend, or trying to make someone laugh, we are trying to share knowledge. Therefore we need to write in a formal manner (definitely no contracted words!)

Please read page 8 and their explanation of formality and look at the two example sentences. Would you say they are written in a formal or informal style? Why do you think that?

Then have a look at the final five sentences. Decide whether they are written in a formal or informal style and can you then re-write them so they are in the other manner. For example can you change the formal sentences into an informal style and the informal ones into a formal style?

Give it a go and let me know via Class Dojo how you get on.

Tuesday 16^th June

Happy Tuesday to all the Year 6 Home Learners.

I hope you had an enjoyable start to the week yesterday.

As stated on yesterday’s update please visit the Oak National Academy Year 6 page for all lesson apart from English, with your new English task detailed below

English Talk For Writing – Monsters

Day 2

After being introduced to the term “faction” yesterday (a non-fiction text with a little bit of fiction mixed in) we read a model text and ensured we understood some of the vocabulary used.

Can you find a way of using any of these words today? I know I was transfixed by some of the work my bubble did yesterday (did you see what I did there)!

Today, we will look at Activity 2 and 3 on page 6 and 7 of your Talk For Writing booklet.

Activity 2

I would like you to spend some time looking at the proposed structure of an information text, which we will follow when we come to write our own Monsterology entry.

This should demonstrate that by organising our writing in a clear order, it makes it easier for someone to read!

Activity 3

On page 7 you will see a toolkit – a collection of tips and tricks used by the author when writing an information text.

I would like you to colour code each of the 6 tools used, then highlight in the model text where that tool was used.

For example, if you use red for “hook your reader”, when you think that has been used in the text, highlight that text in the red pencil.

Year 6 Leavers Task – Rewriting song lyrics.

Have you attempted rewriting the lyrics of Blinding Light by The Weekend (see yesterday’s update for more detail)?

If not, please have a go.

If you have, don’t forget to send me your revised lyrics over Class Dojo.

I will share what we have come up with in school tomorrow,

Any problems, please let me know via Class Dojo or the school’s Facebook page.

Week Commencing: Monday 15^th June 2020

Good morning Year 6 Home Learners, I hope you all had a great weekend.

Thank you to all those who took the time to dial into Thursday’s Year 6 Zoom call, I hope you enjoyed seeing everyone in spite of the poor sound quality. I am looking at doing another one tied into this week’s work so please watch this space.

As we spoke about on the conference call, I thought it would be nice to get everyone, both Home Learner and those who have returned to school, working on the same challenge in English.

I am also talking about the Year 6 tradition of rewriting lyrics to a popular song so keep reading below for this also.

Therefore to summarise, for English I will be setting Daily Tasks on this page like before, whilst for other subjects I will continue asking you to visit the Oak National Academy Year 6 page and work through some of the lessons for this week (Monday 15^th June).

English - Monday 15^th June

Both at home and in class we will work through the next Talk For Writing module, this one called Monsters.

If possible please print off the below attachment as it will make the work over the coming week a little easier. Alternatively, you can read the booklet on your device, or there will be spare copies printed off and left at the school reception should it be easier to pick one up.

Today please read the introduction pages and the Swamp Monsters text on page 4. There is also a link on page 3 where the author of this unit (James Walker) reads the passage, so ideally I would like you to read the passage yourself, then follow the link and hear it read to you. After this please complete Activity 1 which addresses some vocabulary that you may not be familiar with. Complete the matching activity and then show true understanding of the words by using them in some sentences of your own (remembering capital letters and full stops where necessary).

Come back tomorrow for Tuesday’s English activities.

Year 6 Leavers Task – Rewriting song lyrics.

As discussed on Thursday’s call, one tradition Year 6s follow is picking a popular song and rewrite the lyrics to talk about leaving Moorcroft Wood and the things they will miss. Whilst I do not know if there will be a Leavers Assembly for us to perform this at, I still think it would be a nice thing for everyone to look at (I know those who have returned to school are enjoying having a go).

So the song I have chosen is The Weekend’s Blinding Lights

Please have a listen to the below video and see if you can come up with any new words that fit the melody.

Equally, below are the original lyrics for you to write over if it helps.

REMEMBER…

You do not have to replace a word for a word.

It is more important that the new lyrics fit the melody.

Please focus on trying to get a really strong chorus (the lines in bold) first, then worry about the verses.

Have a go, and let me know any lyric suggestions you come up with.

Year 6 Zoom conference call - Thursday 11th June 12.30

Please see attached a letter providing all the details necessary for this Thursday's Year 6 Zoom conference call.

As it states, any issues or questions, please let me know via Class Dojo or the school Facebook page.

Hope to see you all then,

Mr Gilbey

Week Commencing: Monday 8^th June 2020

Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend despite the horrible weather.

As well as the home learning detail found below, please keep an eye on Class Dojo this week as I will be organising a conference call through Zoom where we can all see each other and discuss something for the end of the school year I am planning.

Home Learning

For those of you continuing your learning at home this week, I am asking you again to visit the Oak National Academy Year 6 page and work through some of the lessons for this week (Monday 8^th June).

PLEASE DO NOT FORGET…

• For every day there is an English lesson, a Maths lesson, a PSHE lesson and some fitness.

You can go through the different days by selecting a day on the right of the header stating “Week 7, 8^th June”

• As well as the core lesson on Maths and English, visit the purple Activity Club link at the top of the page where you will find Art Club, Bite Back 2030 Club and Votes For School debates.
• You can also scroll down the Year 6 page as you also have access to previous week’s lessons through Oak National Academy which you may prefer. For example you may choose to do an earlier week’s Maths topic than the one detailed for this week.

For more information on this Oak National Academy please see last week’s Daily Tasks update below. Equally, if you require any additional support or resources please do not hesitate to get in touch via Class Dojo and I will get back to you at the end of each school day.

Other Work Suggestions

Daily Exercise

If the Joe Wicks workout noted on the Oak National Academy isn’t for you, why not try one of the other workouts…

Cosmic Yoga workouts

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

Cosmic Yoga “Dance Party” workout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

BBC Super Movers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

Makaton with Mrs Whitehouse

Learn today’s new Makaton sign with Mrs Whitehouse by following this link…

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Since we finished for half term, more chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone have been added online. Therefore why not settle down, remember where you heard up to, and continue having this amazing novel read to you by some fantastic special guests

Chapter 1 – The Boy Who Lived

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-boy-who-lived

Chapter 2 - The Vanishing Glass

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-vanishing-glass

Chapter 3 - The Letters From No One

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-letters-from-no-one

Chapter 4 – The Keeper of the Keys

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-keeper-of-the-keys

Chapter 5 – Diagon Alley

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-diagon-alley

Chapter 6 – The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-journey-from-platform-nine-and-three-quarters

Chapter 7 – The Sorting Hat

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-sorting-hat

Chapter 8 – The Potions Master

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-potions-master

Week Commencing: Monday 1^st June 2020

Good morning everyone and welcome back!

I hope you all had a great half term and took advantage of the lovely weather however you could!

Those of you who chose to attempt the half term project on African Art detailed below, please ask an adult to send me some images of it on Class Dojo so I can see what tremendous work has been produced. If you have started but still need to finish it, why not find some time this week to get this done.

Whilst I will be returning to school this week, it will mean that home learning will be changing for those of you who remain at home.

Each Monday I will be using this space to direct you to the Oak National Academy for your home learning.

Oak National Academy is a new collection of high-quality lessons and online resources. Backed by the Government, it has been created in response to the coronavirus lockdown.

Their online classrooms offer free access to great teachers, delivering video lessons, quizzes and worksheets covering a range of subjects.

Each Oak National Academy lesson will be an hour long. There will be elements such as a quiz, a video explanation from the teacher, and a worksheet.

Rest assured each lesson has been created by a subject expert in a careful plan, where knowledge is built upon through small steps

The site has not only some amazing Maths, English and Topic lessons, but also some fantastic Activity Clubs providing lots of interesting activities as well. These include…

Art Club where you can learn about origami, patterns, textures and much much more.

Bite Back 2030 Club where we you can join Jack for a ‘cook-a-long’ to create affordable, tasty and healthy home-school lunches ranging from Crispy Chicken Goujons to stir-fried noodles to cheese and sweetcorn pancakes.

Votes 4 Schools Debate Club which provide a hot topic question for you to read about and then consider which side you support. You could even have a debate about this topic with someone in your family or a friend over social media and see if either of you could change the mind of the other.

Please be careful when looking through these clubs that you select only ones labelled Primary as Oak National Academy are also producing lessons for Secondary school pupils.

So from today, please have a look at the Oak National Academy Year 6 schedule on the below link, and start working through some of the lessons for this week (Monday 1^st June) and the purple Activity Club link at the top of the page.

However, if you scroll down that page you also have access to previous week’s lessons through Oak National Academy which you may prefer. For example you may choose to do Week commencing 18^th May Maths coordinates work from rather than this week’s Fractions work.

If you require any additional support or resources please do not hesitate to get in touch via Class Dojo and I will get back to you at the end of each school day.

Other Work Suggestions

Daily Exercise

If the Joe Wicks workout noted on the Oak National Academy isn’t for you, why not try one of the other workouts…

Cosmic Yoga workouts

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

Cosmic Yoga “Dance Party” workout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

BBC Super Movers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

Makaton with Mrs Whitehouse

Learn today’s new Makaton sign with Mrs Whitehouse by following this link…

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Since we finished for half term, more chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone have been added online. Therefore why not settle down, remember where you heard up to, and continue having this amazing novel read to you by some fantastic special guests

Chapter 1 – The Boy Who Lived

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-boy-who-lived

Chapter 2 - The Vanishing Glass

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-vanishing-glass

Chapter 3 - The Letters From No One

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-letters-from-no-one

Chapter 4 – The Keeper of the Keys

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-keeper-of-the-keys

Chapter 5 – Diagon Alley

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-diagon-alley

Chapter 6 – The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-journey-from-platform-nine-and-three-quarters

Chapter 7 – The Sorting Hat

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-sorting-hat

Chapter 8 – The Potions Master

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-potions-master

Year 6 Half Term Project - Friday 22nd May

As I mentioned on today’s daily tasks, next week is half term. Because of this, I will not be setting daily tasks over the next week.

When we return from this half term break, we will be looking at art from Africa. This will cover a large variety of different forms of art from African face masks, African sculptures, decorating fabrics with a wide selection of vibrant colours, creating jewellery and even African music.

Therefore over the next week, should you wish to start this by complete your very own piece of African art, I would love to see it upon our return.

This project could be a drawn and coloured Africa face mask, a painting of an African sunset or one of the Big Five, a musical performance in the style of traditional African music or you could create your own African bracelet. There really is something for everyone in this project.

As ever, the more creative the better. So have a look, and give it a go!

Mr Gilbey

Friday 22nd May 2020

Good morning everyone, happy Friday!

As mentioned yesterday, next week is Half Term so today is the last daily tasks for a while.

So have fun with them.

Also by popular demand, I will be setting a project for you to consider completing over half term next week should you wish. Pop back here any time after 4pm this afternoon to discover what it will be about.

Daily Maths Puzzle

I hope you have all enjoyed these little starters over the lockdown period.

As I said yesterday, I have loved the Cross-Numbers and I think they are a fantastic way of keeping your four rules nice and fresh.

Therefore what better way of finishing the week than with one last one.

English

Information Poster

You have all done an amazing job to survive this lockdown due to the Coronavirus!

In the future, children will learn about these couple of months in History and will be amazed at how we have all lived our lives with no contact with the outside world and faced the challenges we have had to face.

So what better way of ending this half term than using this experience to create a ‘How To’ Poster’.

So using everything you have found beneficial, or fun, or that broke the days up, let’s create a How To Survive the Lockdown poster. Would you recommend learning a new skill? Starting the day with a positive thought? Getting your sweat on everyday?

Below is an example of a ‘How To’ poster for to take some inspiration from…

This poster includes…

• An impactful title so everyone knows what it’s about.
• Pictures of each step (in this case I would like to see a picture for each activity suggestion)
• Possibly a nice border to increase its impact.

Please ask an adult to send me a picture of your final poster so I can include on our daily Facebook post.

Maths.

Problem Solving

It’s Problem Solving Friday!

Please see attached 7 questions for you to solve.

These get progressively harder so I appreciate the first couple will not be challenging, but you will be challenged more as you work through them.

Some you may even think are impossible. For these, I would suggest you take your time, read the question again and think about what you do know. There are ways of working them all out, I promise!

Times Table Rock Stars

With only 7 problem solving questions to answer above, please find some time today to practise your times tables on Rock Stars.

It is essential you become as fluent as possible on these to help you on pretty much all questions in Maths, but just times table quizzes.

Music on a Friday

Who can play a musical instrument?

Answer…. Everyone can!

Clapping your hands, stamping your feet, tapping a pencil on your table. This is you creating music!

To prove the point, please watch the below video of a group of people creating a lovely piece of music with just the use of junk (I know the lyrics are in a foreign language but don’t worry about that).

Why don’t you try and join in? Turn something around the house into a music instrument with the use of just a pencil/pen/spoon. – please avoid anything electrical, or valuable, as Mr Gilbey is not liable for any damages!

You could then go a step further, and play a chart song and see if anyone can recognise it (football chants will be accepted).

I am happy to try and guess your song if you can get an adult to record it and send it to me on Class Dojo.

Extra bonus points for…

• The most unusual thing turning into an instrument.
• The best recreation of a song for me to guess.

For both I will need pictures or a video sent on Class Dojo!

Exercise

Cosmic Yoga workouts?

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

Cosmic Yoga “Dance Party” workout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

Joe Wicks…

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

BBC Super Movers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

Either way, make sure at some point today you get your sweat on!

Other Work Suggestions

Learn today’s new Makaton sign with Mrs Whitehouse by following this link…

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Do you want to sketch another Disney character? If so scroll down to last Friday’s daily task for the link and send me an image of what you produce.

Did you get a chance to listen to the third chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone? If not, why not find some time to listen to it today. Why not listen to the first three chapters all again. They can all be found on the below link.

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-letters-from-no-one

Thursday 21st May 2020

Good morning everyone, hope you are enjoying your week.

With next week being Half Term we only have today and tomorrow left on the daily tasks. So let’s attack them!

Ever wonder what makes an amazing computer game? What makes a computer game character fun to play? Carry on reading to find out!

Daily Maths Puzzle

A massive well done to those who answered yesterday’s puzzles. They were tricky so let’s go through the rules for each row.

Green row – the rule was (top left + bottom number) – top right.

Resulting in missing number being 8

Orange row – the rule was (top right x bottom number) – top left.

Resulting in missing number being 14

Blue row – the rule was (top right + top left number) x bottom number.

Resulting in missing number being 10.

Super well done to those that persevered and got the right answers!

Today’s puzzle…

I really enjoyed the Cross-Number puzzle from a couple of days ago so I think we should do another one.

But I have raised the difficulty today. Now a clue might refer to the answer of another clue and more things are included (like days in a month). Please just take care on completing the correct operation and don’t forget ‘when it’s bigger on the floor…’ for the necessary subtractions.

English

Task 1 – Fiction story writing

Well done to you all for attempting to write your portal story. If you are yet to finish it, please try and get it done today.

If you have finished it, we are going to go through the editing process to take a good piece of writing and make it a super piece of writing!

Read your story through again with fresh eye and consider…

• Have you missed any capital letters or full stops?
• Can you improve your choice of verbs?
• Have you got a noun phrase with only one adjective? If so, can you add another?
• Could you add an additional parenthesis to improve the description

Task 2 – Comprehension

English Comprehension Book TWO – PLEASE NOTE THIS IS BOOK TWO TODAY!!!!

Pig Heart Boy - (page 4 and 5).

As we have been focused on writing a fictional portal story, I thought why not complete a comphrension on a fiction text.

Please remember the good habits we were in whilst at school...

• Read the text at least twice before answering the questions.
• Be sure to read the questions carefully.
• Underline key information in the text.
• Take time to read the introduction in the boxes at the top of the pages, these give some great context to the text you are reading.

Maths.

Decimals as Fraction

Last week you all showed me how amazing you are at fractions, including how to add, subtract, multiply and divide them!

However sometime we have decimals that need turning into fractions.

Remember there are set decimals that if you recognise their equivalent fraction it will be easy…

          0.25=1/4

          0.5=1/2

          0.75=3/4

0.1= 1/10 therefore 0.3=3/10

          0.01=1/100 therefore 0.06=6/100

          So 0.36= 36/100

Please work through the below BBC Bitesize website watching the videos and completing the activities which I have downloaded already for you below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z67r92p

This will then allow us in future lessons to add percentages to the mix so we can move between decimals, fractions and percentages!

Computing

What Makes a Good Video Game?

An interesting storyline? A fun main character?

Read the below web page, watch the videos and complete the “Create a Video Game Character” for a game of your own

(Just remember a blue hedgehog has already been taken).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6n7xyc

After that, use your coding skills to learn about code cracking in World World II with the below activity from Barefoot…

https://barefootgames.org/codecracking

Then when we return to school we will programme our own game on Scratch!

Exercise

Cosmic Yoga workouts?

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

Cosmic Yoga “Dance Party” workout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

Joe Wicks…

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

BBC Super Movers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

Either way, make sure at some point today you get your sweat on!

Other Work Suggestions

Learn today’s new Makaton sign with Mrs Whitehouse by following this link…

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Do you want to sketch another Disney character? If so scroll down to last Friday’s daily task for the link and send me an image of what you produce.

Times Table Rock Stars - Please find some time today to practise your times tables on Rock Stars. It is essential you become as fluent as possible on these to help with all other areas of Maths.

Did you get a chance to listen to the third chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone? If not, why not find some time to listen to it today. Why not listen to the first three chapters all again. They can all be found on the below link.

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-letters-from-no-one

Wednesday 20th May 2020

Good morning everyone, how did you get with the unsolvable puzzle yesterday? Saw lots of pictures of you completing the daily tasks in the sunshine… you lucky lot.

Daily Maths Puzzle

A massive well done to Lewis and Kyah for answering what I thought was the unsolvable puzzle yesterday before the lunch time clue.

For each number, it was counting the number of circles in it. For example 6 has one circle, 8 has two circles and 999 has three circles.

Using this knowledge you would have calculated the number 816982 equalled 6.

Today’s puzzle…

I’ve been a little cheeky here, today is three puzzles in one.

All circles in the same colour use the three numbers around the outside to equal the number in the middle.

Can you find the rule for each row and apply it to find the missing numbers?

Let me work through the red circles for you.

Through a matter of trial and error, I discovered for these circles the rule is you subtract the bottom number (1) from the top right number (5) and then multiply the answer by the top left number (4) which gets you the middle number of 16. After checking the other completed circles I have confirmed that is the correct rule.

By then applying this to the second circle, I find the middle number should be (5-4)x6=6.

Now you find the rule for the other three rows!

My top tip is you may find a rule that gets you to the middle number but check it works on all the other circles on that row. If it doesn’t work for them all, you will need to find another rule that does!

English – Fiction story writing

Activity 10 – Writing Your Own Story – pages 16.

Today we are going to use all our hard work over the last week to write our portal story.

So far you have:

• Detailed some personal experiences you could use
• Brainstormed what could be behind the door
• Designed the mystery door
• Created a main character
• Developed two plans for you to choose the best bits from.

Read through everything you have done and using your plan from yesterday start writing your portal story.

Have a go and remember to have fun writing it because if you do, I will have fun reading it!

PLEASE NOTE should you have missed a day of daily tasks, I would recommend you go back and complete the missing steps of this English project. This will make completing the story a lot easier. Please just scroll down the daily tasks below to find the parts you have missed.

Maths.

Data Handling – Line charts and pie charts

Maths Workout Year 6 – page 38, 39 and 40

Today we are going to use our learning on line charts to answer the pages in our Maths Workout booklet on using data.

Some of these questions will need us to calculate the average.

Averages are useful because they summarise a large amount of data into a single figure, a middle point. The type of average we use is the “mean” which is calculated by adding up all the numbers and then dividing by how many numbers there are.

For example what is the mean average of 2, 7 and 9?

You would add 2+7+9=18

Then we would divide this answer by three as we added three numbers: 18 divided by 3 = 6.

Be careful on page 39 question 1  - it is a frequency chart, so rather than list the 30 pupils shoe sizes individually they have grouped them, for example there  are two pupils with size three feet so you would need to add two 3s etc then divide by 30.

You will also NOT be able to answer question 2 on page 40 so please ignore.

Times Table Rock Stars

Please find some time today to practise your times tables on Rock Stars.

It is essential you become as fluent as possible on these to help with all other areas of Maths.

Building a Wellbeing Box

It is our final day preparing our Wellbeing Box.

Today I thought it would be nice to write a message for someone else’s Box.  Choose a friend from class and write them a message, this could be a little story about them, or why they are such a valued friend. Then keep these safe and when we get back to school we can hand them out to our friend to put in their boxes.

No wellbeing box is complete without snacks! I want to know what is your perfect snack, and I am going to be generous you can have one packet of crisps and one chocolate bar.  What about your favourite drink, would you like a can of Vimto? A Fruit Shoot?

Write these three snacks down and put this in your box. If you are lucky enough to have any of these snacks on your cupboard, you could put them in there now!

In the meantime, let’s finish decorating your box. I have seen people painting it, covering it in paper, please let your imagination go. You could cover the box in strips of fabric or unwanted posters. Just remember if you are going to cover your box, be sure cover the lid separately so it can still open and close.

Enjoy Being Read To.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Did you get a chance to listen to the third chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone yesterday? If not, why not find some time to listen to it today

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-letters-from-no-one

And of course, don’t forget there is still David Walliams reading chapters of his book Bad Dad if you want to settle down and be read to, but Potter is not your thing.

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

Exercise

Cosmic Yoga workouts?

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

Cosmic Yoga “Dance Party” workout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

Joe Wicks…

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

BBC Super Movers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

Either way, make sure at some point today you get your sweat on!

Other Work Suggestions

Learn today’s new Makaton sign with Mrs Whitehouse by following this link…

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Do you want to sketch another Disney character? If so scroll down to last Friday’s daily task for the link and send me an image of what you produce.

Tuesday 19th May 2020

Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a good time attempting yesterday’s challenges involving the Four Rule Cross Word and the work with Premier League Primary Stars. More of the same for today!

Daily Maths Puzzle

Firstly, let’s discuss yesterday’s puzzle. I loved it, but these daily tasks aren’t for me. So let me know via Class Dojo if you enjoyed it or not.

Today’s puzzle…

I will not apologise for this but this is the HARDEST puzzle I have set during this lockdown.

I wanted to give you a clue but Mrs Gilbey said no… so let’s compromise.

I will give you until midday to work it out.

Anyone who can do this will seriously impresses me!

Then at 12.00 I will drop a clue on Class Dojo

If 66 = 2, 999 = 3, 8=2, 0=1, 9696=4, 8123=2, 98=3 and 88=4,

then what does 816982 equal?

English – Fiction story writing

After thinking about our main character yesterday, today we are going to start planning a portal story following a clear structure.

Activity 9 – Planning a Portal Story – pages 14 and 15.

Please read page 14 and 15 of the booklet which clearly sets out the five parts of a portal story and provides you two different story plans as examples.

The five parts of a portal story are…

• Main character (MC) finds magical portal and enters a new world.
• Describes new world.
• MC explores this new world and encounters a problem.
• MC has to escape and return through the portal.
• MC cannot find portal again.

Your task today is to plan a couple of different portal stories following the same 5 stage structure.

By planning two different stories it allows you to develop more ideas for you to choose from when writing your final piece.

Remember to use the story ideas and top tips found in the booklet to help along the way.

PLEASE NOTE should you have missed a day of daily tasks, I would recommend you go back and complete the missing steps of this English project. This will make completing the story a lot easier. Please just scroll down the daily tasks below to find the parts you have missed.

Maths.

Data Handling – Line charts

After looking at bar charts yesterday, today we are going to look at line graphs.

Line charts are used when tracking a change in something over a period of time, for example how far a car travels or how much a flower grows per day or how many ice creams are sold per day of a week.

The key to reading line graphs is knowing what each axis is measuring, and the scale they are jumping up in. Please take your time reading these before answering the questions.

If after reading the above you are uncertain or want some extra guidance, please read the below presentation on reading and interpreting line charts.

Then after that, please attempt the attached questions from Classroom Secrets.

Building a Wellbeing Box Continued

I hope you all started building your mood-boosting box yesterday with positive messages (if not, please scroll down to yesterday’s daily tasks for the details).

Today we are going to think about objects that make you feel happy or relaxed. For example this could be a favourite book, a small cuddly toy, colouring pencils and a pen, a funny photo of a friend or a pet, or a fidget spinner (remember those). It really could be anything, on ONE condition… it must be able to fit in your box.

Therefore today I want you to make a list of things that make you feel happy or relaxed.  If you have any of these at home, perhaps put them in the box now?

In the meantime, you can continue decorating your box. This could either be with pens or pencil drawings straight on the box, or you could cover the box in paper first, then draw onto it. But either way, this is your box, so decorate it however you wish.

Enjoy Being Read To.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Did you get a chance to listen to the third chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone yesterday? If not, why not find some time to listen to it today

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-letters-from-no-one

And of course, don’t forget there is still David Walliams reading chapters of his book Bad Dad if you want to settle down and be read to, but Potter is not your thing.

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

Exercise

What exercises ae people enjoying at the moment?

Cosmic Yoga workouts?

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

Cosmic Yoga “Dance Party” workout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

Or stick with Joe Wicks…

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Or maybe BBC Super Movers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

Either way, make sure at some point today you get your sweat on!

Other Work Suggestions

Learn today’s new Makaton sign with Mrs Whitehouse by following this link…

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Please find some time to visit Times Table Rock Stars and continue to work on your times table fluency. Practise, practise, practise!

Do you want to sketch another Disney character? If so scroll down to last Friday’s daily task for the link and send me an image of what you produce.

Monday 18th May 2020

Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a tremendous weekend.

Today we will start thinking about our own portal story, use the Premier League to look at data handling, create something to help us when we are feeling a little down and we also have another chapter of Harry Potter to listen to!

Daily Maths Puzzle

Firstly the answer to Friday’s puzzle where you had to work out what numbers the pieces of fruit stood for.

After looking at the number triangle, you should have noticed that the number was always a sum of the two numbers directly above it.

Therefore using this rule, you should have worked out the missing numbers were (left to right)…

1        5        10      10      5        1

If you enjoyed this type of puzzle, why not create your own and see how long it takes your adult to complete!

Now for today’s puzzle…

What do you get if you mix some four rules practise with a cross word?

The below, that’s what!

Take your time, remember to use the correct operation, and be sure to write the answer in the correct direction (is it a down or across clue).

This puzzle is also attached below so you can print it off to work on.

This week we are going to use all the skills that we practised last week to start planning and writing our own portal story.

Activity 8 – Through the eyes of the character – pages 12 and 13.

Firstly this week, you are going to think about a main character for your story. It is the detail of a main character that can make a story so enjoyable to read, so this needs real thought. Work through the questions on page 12 and it will help form this main character for you. Also as it states in the booklet it is easier to write about a character when it is based on someone you know. This does NOT mean you are the main character, but maybe someone from school or from your family.

After you have answered the questions about the main character, write a short piece of descriptive writing about when this character first sees the mystery door.

As you can see from the example in the booklet, this writing does not need to be more than 6 to 7 lines, but I would like it to include…

• Describing the setting through the characters eyes.
• The use of a strong noun phrase (a noun with two adjectives to describe it).
• Include at least 1 adverbial and think about where it is placed.
• Use the pattern of three as we saw in the examples last week.

Maths.

Data Handling

Today we are going to look at data handling.

This is when we use different ways of representing data. One way of representing data that you have practised often at Moorcroft is the bar chart!

To help us with this, we are going to look at bar charts from the context of … the English Premier League.

Hopefully you will enjoy this and it will help to compensate for the lack of football in our lives.

Sport often uses lots of data to analyse performance or distances run so is a great platform for data handling.

Firstly, watch the below video by Rachel Riley of Countdown fame to explain data handling better than I could.

Now try the below quiz.

Some bits to remember before attempting it…

• Horizontal – left to right
• Vertical – bottom to top.
• Always check the scale on the axis. Does it go up in ones? Twos? Tens?

After proving your knowledge on bar charts why not work through the three challenges below (level 1 is the easiest, 3 is the hardest) to practise drawing your own bar charts and reading match reports to find the data for your charts.

Building a Wellbeing Box

This week we are going to create a tool to help us when our mental health needs some attention. We are going to build a mood-boosting box full of positive messages and interesting items.

Hopefully around the home you will have a shoe box (or something of similar size) that over the week we are going to fill with things that make us smile.

Today I want you to think about messages that make you feel good. Do you have any favourite quotes or song lyrics? What kind of things would you say to a friend who is having a bad day? Write these down on small pieces of paper, fold them up and then keep these safe in the box.

Then tomorrow we will look at other things to put in.

In the meantime, if you have some time please feel free to start decorating your box. This could either be with pens or pencil drawings straight on the box, or you could cover the box in paper first, then draw onto it. But either way, this is your box, so decorate it however you wish.

Enjoy Being Read To.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

The third chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is now released and can be heard by following the below link.  

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-letters-from-no-one

This chapter is read by Eddie Redmayne, who you may recognise from playing Newt Scamander in J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts series, which is a series of films set before the Harry Potter series and introduces you to a young Professor Dumbledore.

Also on this page is a link to the first and second chapters so if you missed it last week, or you just want to listen again, you can.

For any of the three chapters, get yourself settled, get comfortable, snacks are optional, and enjoy!

And of course, don’t forget there is still David Walliams reading chapters of his book Bad Dad if you want to settle down and be read to, but Potter is not your thing.

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

Exercise

Has anybody been attempting the Cosmic Yoga workouts?

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

Well if you are, but fancy something different, Jamie has also filmed a “Dance Party” workout which is good fun, has some of the same yoga moves, but set to uplifting music. I really enjoyed it! Give it a go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

Or you can stick with the former footballer Bradley Simmond’s workout…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/52563364

Or stick with Joe Wicks iand his fancy dress Friday …

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Or maybe BBC Super Movers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

Either way, make sure at some point today you get your heart rate up!

Other Work Suggestions

Learn today’s new Makaton sign with Mrs Whitehouse by following this link…

https://www.moorcroftwood.net/signing-with-mrs-whitehouse/

Please find some time to visit Times Table Rock Stars and continue to work on your times table fluency. Practise, practise, practise!

Do you want to sketch another Disney character? If so scroll down to last Friday’s daily task for the link and send me an image of what you produce.

Did you get a chance to look at the different types of lightening and how they are caused from earlier in the week? If not, please finish that this week.

Friday 15th May 2020

Good morning everyone, here is to an amazing Friday.

Today we will complete a Comprehension text, have a go at problem solving in Maths and complete a piece of art using whatever technique you wish. Here we go!

Daily Maths Puzzle

Firstly the answer to yesterday’s puzzle.

Despite what I said, with the insight of Kyah and JC, there was actually three correct solutions.

• A stick can be taken from the first number and added to the answer to make 5 + 4 = 9
• A stick can be moved on the first number to make 0 + 4 = 4
• Take the vertical stick from the ‘add’ sign and use it to turn the first number into an eight so it would read 8 – 4 = 4

Now for today’s puzzle…

Have a look at the below puzzle and see if you can work out how the numbers are calculated. You then use this logic to calculate what each fruit represents.

Top Tip – work from the top row down!

Please message me on Class Dojo if you would like confirmation that your answers are correct.

English – Fiction story writing

Yesterday we analysed the poem “The Door” by Miroslav Holub and saw how the same poem could be interpreted very differently.

Activity 6 – The Snow-Walker’s Son by Catherine Fisher – page 9

Please read the extract found on page 9 and attempt the Comprehension questions.

Don’t forget the basic rules we have in class…

Read the text, read the text again and then, you guessed it, read it a third time. Then look at the questions.

Remember to underline key information in the text.

Take care when reading the question and be sure to answer what it is asking you!

Activity 7 – Grammar and Sentence Work. Page 10-11

1. Pattern of three
2. Semi-colon for independent clauses
3. Adverbs – roving report

Please attempt the above exercises which will help us next week when we start our own writing.

Each exercise has a fantastic example for you to follow, and then you can create your own.

Maths.

Activity 1 - Worded Maths Problems

Let’s have a day off from fractions.

Today we are going to use all our Maths knowledge to answer problem solving questions. These questions will cover all the areas of Maths like co-ordinates, multiples and factors, money, you name it, so hopefully you will enjoy the challenge. Therefore please attempt the questions found on the below link…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zd87xyc

Some top tips…

You might need to think about what the question is asking you and remember what rules we use. Take your time, if you don’t know immediately, it doesn’t mean you can’t work it out after having some thinking time.

The questions get harder as they go along. If you do find one quite tricky, can I suggest you move on and then go back to that question at the end.

You could also consider referring to the Maths Workout book if you need some reminding about what certain vocabulary means.

Activity 2- Mathletics

Today I have removed any allocated exercises on the Mathletics programme allowing you to pick and choose what you would like to do. Having had the week on fractions, you may like to test your understanding of them. Or perhaps you would like to attempt some questions involving co-ordinates?  

Art on Friday