Year 6– Home Learning Challenges Spring Term 2 – The Blue Planet

The children should complete a weekly English or Maths activity and a Topic activity as stated.

Reading, Spelling and Mental Maths should be practiced throughout the week.

Not all Home Learning will be formally marked however, there will be opportunities for sharing and celebrating.

All home learning is due on Friday.

Reading
Read aloud to others and discuss the text
Ensure your child is reading both independently and aloud
Practice asking and answering questions, referring to the text / Spelling / Mental Maths
Practice applying the four operations consistently (x + - ÷)
Use these operations within problems
Hand in on: / English / Maths / Topic – choose one of the two topic tasks to complete each week
23/02/18 / Physical Activity and Wellbeing:Research and design a poster which explains the importance of staying hydrated
Creativity:Research the artist Hokusai and recreate one of his paintings.
02/03/18 / Our World / Topic:
Create a comic strip of the water cycle with the water droplet being the main character.
Science & Technology:Use a 2L bottle, with the top cut off, to make a rain gauge. Produce a table in which to record your results. We need to see evidence of you starting this.
09/03/18 / Our World / Topic: Design a rainmaker using small pebbles or seeds and decorate using river theme.
Science & Technology:
Pretend that you are an explorer. You have just discovered the source of a new river? Write a letter home to your family about your discovery. Where is the source? What is the source – spring or lake? What will you name the river?
16/03/18 / Our World / Topic: Create your own river quiz including at least 5 questions. You need to have the answers with you to check wh
Physical Activity and Wellbeing: Create a fact-file about the health benefits of eating fish.
23/03/18 / Creativity:Make a working model of a boat which is able to float.
Creativity:Make a model of a bridge to cross a
Awe and wonder activities /
  • What would happen if all roads were replaced with rivers?
  • Imagine that you are living in a time before running water. What would you have to do differently every day?
  • Write a poem about finding a hidden village at the source of a river.