Year 6 Mrs O'Mahony

Week Beginning 18th May

Maths and Numeracy

REASONING: have a go at these two reasoning problems.

YOU MUST SHOW YOUR WORKINGS OUT WITH YOUR ANSWER!

Spendthrift

Chocolate bars cost 26p each.  Fruit bars cost 18p each.  Lucy spent exactly £5 on a mixture of chocolate bars and fruit bars.  How many of each bar did she buy? 

A bit fishy

A goldfish costs £1.80.  An angel fish costs £1.40.  Luke paid exactly £20 for some fish.  How many of each kind of fish did he buy?

Further challenge: invent your own kind of problem just like these problems. 

Tip:  first work backwards from an answer when writing your own.

Language, Literacy and Communication

A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables and rhyme.  The third and fourth lines should only have five to seven syllables; they too must rhyme  For example, 

            There was a young girl from Maesteg,
            Who insisted on bathing in egg,

            She slid through the town,
            In a stinky old gown,
           Folk had to cover their nose with a peg.

Reading: Find your favourite examples of limericks and say why you liked them.  What did you notice about the rhythm of limericks?

Writing: Have a go at writing your own limericks?  Can you make them fit the rules?  Can you make your limerick funny?

Oracy: Recite your own limerick with great expression with the aim to make your listeners laugh out loud!

Health and Wellbeing

Physical Challenge

In May we would usually be doing our ‘Daily Mile’ your challenge is to keep up your daily mile each day at home, whether it be a walk outside, around the garden, or going up and down the stairs.  Further Challenge:  Could you increase your mile to 5 km?

Internet Safety

More children are going online in lockdown.  How can we stay safe when we go online?  Can you remember how to be a Google internet legend?  Make a poster to show how children can stay safe online.  Google Be Internet Legends has great advice if you are stuck for ideas.

Expressive Arts

Get Rapping

A rap is a bit like a poem and a song combined.  Can you invent your own rap to describe what you are up to at home?  How you are feeling in lockdown?  Your rap could be funny, sad, angry or all of these!  Start with a beat or music that you like with a strong beat.  Next write the lyrics.  Then experiment with rapping your lyrics over the beat.  You rap should use lots of rhyme and will be in the rhythm to the beat of the music.

Science and Technology

Junk Recycling Project

Global Goals: supporting endangered wildlife

Mission: Can you create a home for bees and insects in your garden using bit of unwanted cardboard and plastic?

Gather the junk or rubbish that will be recycled, such as cardboard, plastic bottles, yoghurt pots, egg boxes, etc.

Research different images of bee hotels and insect homes.  Which types could you easily make with the

junk that you have?  Your bee/insect home doesn’t have to look exactly like the images you have found, you can improvise and swap materials about.

Make your bee/insect house. 

Decorate your bee/insect house.  Give your house/hotel a name. 

Try to take a photo or draw your design.

Be proud of all the wildlife you have helped to live.

Humanities

Report Writing

Choose one of these three subjects to a report.  You should have a title, sub heading, paragraphs, connectives and use your own words.

*Rap music:  can you find out where rap came from, when did rap first appear, how has rap music changed and who are famous rap artists?

*Endangered bumble bees in the UK: find out about different species of bumble bee that are becoming extinct.  What can you share about them?

*Limericks:  where did they come from? Who invented them?  Who is famous for writing limericks? What are the rules for writing limericks?