Hello Team Six, WEEK 9 – Welcome back to the children still completing our home learning packs and good luck to those of you who are attending Kingsley today! Here we go…FACT OF THE DAY1. Elastic bands last longer when refrigerated… really?2. If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the colour you'll see is called "eigengrau." Research Questions – reply to Miss Mac and or Miss Connolly on Reading Plus with your answer.1. What collective noun is used to describe a group of monkeys?2. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it? Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

Maths1. TTRockstars 2. Daily White Rose Maths https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ 3. Daily BBC Bitesize daily maths lessons https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-and-p7-lessons/1 4. Complete the following arithmetic questions.

Q1. 0.9 ÷ 100 =

Q2.

 

Q3.  

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Q5. 15% of 250 =

Q6. 6 − 5.738 =

Q7. 12.05 ÷ 100 =

Q8. 0.06 × 7 =

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Q10. 62 + 10 =

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Now try these application questions. Remember to rad the question carefully and slowly. Highlight key words. THINK- what do I ALREADY know that will help me?

Q1. Here are five number cards. 

 

Use four of the cards to complete these calculations. 

 1 mark

Q2. Liam makes a sequence of numbers starting with 300

He subtracts 125 each time.

Write the next two numbers in Liam’s sequence. 

300 175 50      2 marks

Q3. This table shows when flights take off at an airport. 

Flight number Destination Take-off time

AX40 Paris 13:35BH253 Berlin 14:05CG008 Rome 15:25DP369 Paris 15:40EZ44 Lisbon 16:15FJ994 Dublin 17:25

How many flights take off between 3pm and 5pm?

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 1 mark

How much later does the second flight to Paris take off than the first?

 1 mark

The flight to Dublin takes 50 minutes.

What time does it arrive in Dublin?

 1 mark

Q4. 

Calculate  of £15

 1 mark

Q5. Write in what the missing numbers could be. 

 1 mark

Q6. Look at these numbers written in Roman numerals.

One is not written correctly.

Put a cross (✘) on it.

MMCM       MCMM       MMMC       MMCC      MCCC

1 mark

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Q7. Complete these fractions to make each equivalent to   

   1 mark

Q8. Here are diagrams of some 3-D shapes.

Tick each shape that has the same number of faces as vertices. 

Cube

Square-based pyramid

Triangular prism

Triangular-based pyramid

2 marks

Writing – The Trench

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Story starter! Marie stepped out into the barren wasteland that was once her front garden. She remembered before this terrible war had started when she used to play out here with her older sister, swinging from the rope-swing they had hung from her favourite tree. They would dance and play for hours in their beautiful garden; a safe place where Marie felt blissfully happy.Things had changed. The war had brought great sorrow and pain. She was alone.Marie stood there in the trench that had once been her safe place. It didn’t feel safe any longer. Once filled with birdsong and the sweet scent of her mama’s roses, it was now a smouldering hell: a painful assault on her senses.Peering through the swirling fog of death she could make out the hazy shapes of broken things. Everything in the world seemed broken. Her favourite tree that she used to climb was now a blackened stump: a monument in remembrance of the death of nature. Her eyes were appalled at the chaos and destruction that lay all around her. She could feel the fog beginning to sting her skin, the distant pounding of the guns serenading her in this moment of utter despair and sadness.She gazed around once again…What will Marie do, see, smell, and hear next? Can you write a DIARY entry to explain what she does next? Will she find something? Meet someone? Hear something? KEY: What a GREAT sentence! Great use of punctuations and sensational vocabulary.

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Question time!What is war? What causes war? What is the relationship between war and nature? Can war ever be justifiable? Will there ever be world peace?How do you think Marie is feeling? What will she see as she looks around?

Sentence challenge!Can you extend a sentence by adding a subordinate clause?Can you separate the clauses using a comma?Can you use one of the following conjunctions to link your clauses: but, or, yet, so?e.g. Marie had once been blissfully happy in this place, but now there was nothing here but painful memories.The sun was shining,The trench was empty,Marie felt cold,

Sick sentences!These sentences are sick and need your help to get better!It was smokey. Marie stood in the trench. She held the mask to her face.

Perfect picture!Imagine you are wearing the gas mask, standing in the trench. Can you draw what you see in front of you?

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Year 6 Statutory Spellings:

Science -

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I know, it’s not exactly an experiment, but illusions are still cool.Illusions are images that use your EYES to confuse your BRAINTake a look at this grid:

Did you notice the small greyish dots between the black boxes. They are not part of the drawing – they were put there by your brain! Scientists call this “visual vibration.” Basically it means that when you see patterns of black and white, your eye sometimes confuses the two and blends them into patterns of grey that you see here. You are seeing something that is not really there!

Whoa! Is that image spinning? Nope, not even a little bit. In fact, if you look away, it will seem to stop spinning. It’s all in your brain…. The repeated patterns and lines trick your brain into thinking that there is movement as it tries to make sense of the image. Pretty cool, huh? 

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This elephant is missing a leg…or is it? The artist confuses hisviewer by changing they way our brain is used to seeing things.It seems the more you look at the elephant, the more confusing it gets.

Want to see the gears move?Look at the dot and then move

your head towards the screen and away from it.

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This uses visual vibrations to create a cool effect. Try moving your head close to, and then away from the screen. The fuzzy dots appear to move.

This simple line drawing is titled, “Mother, Father, and daughter” (Fisher, 1968) because it contains the faces of all three people in the title. How many faces can you find?

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Look at the dots in the centre. Which one is bigger? Like many similar illusions, the dots are the same size…really! It can be hard to tell because your eye uses the other dots to make a comparison.

Check out the spiral…except it is not a spiral, just circles.Don’t believe me? Use your finger to follow the fake spiral.The tilt of the boxes fools your brain into believing it is a spiral.

Hey, this is weird. It looks as though it’s moving, but it’s not. The shapes confuse the eye (really the brain) into believing that they are moving.

Reading

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1. Reading Plus – thank you to those who have been GREAT!

2. VISIT www.theickabog.com/read-the-story/ J.K. Rowling is releasing chapters EVERYDAY until the 10th July of her NEW book which she wrote 10 years ago. It is absolutely FREE. The different colours represent the different days the chapters were released. Enjoy!

3. Complete comprehension below – then complete the following questions.

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GrannieI stayed with her when I was six then wentTo live elsewhere when I was eight years old.For ages I remembered her faint scentOf lavender, the way she’d never scoldNo matter what I’d done, and most of allThe way her smile seemed, somehow, to enfoldMy whole world like a warm, protective shawl.

I knew that I was safe when she was near,She was so tall, so wide, so large, she wouldStand mountainous between me and my fear,Yet oh, so gentle, and she understoodEvery hope and dream I ever had.She praised me lavishly when I was good,But never punished me when I was bad.

Years later war broke out and I becameA soldier and was wounded while in France.Back home in hospital, still very lame,I realised suddenly that circumstanceHad brought me close to that small town where sheWas living still. And so I seized the chanceTo write and ask if she could visit me.

She came. And I still vividly recallThe shock that I received when she appearedThat dark cold day. Huge grannie was so small!A tiny, frail, old lady. It was weird.She hobbled through the ward to where I layAnd drew quite close and, hesitating, peered.And then she smiled: and love lit up the day.

1.      Find and copy one word from the first verse that shows that the poet’s grannie made him feel safe when he was a boy.

____________________________________1 mark

2.      How did the poet’s grannie react when he behaved badly?

_____________________________________________________1 mark

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3.      The poet describes his grannie as standing mountainous between me and my fear. This makes her sound big and powerful.

What other impressions do you get of his grannie in the same verse?

Give two impressions.

1. __________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________2 marks

4.      What was one effect of the poet getting injured in the war?

_____________________________________________________1 mark

5.      Look at the verse beginning: Years later…

Find and copy a group of words that means the same as ‘took the opportunity’.

_____________________________________________________1 mark

6.      What does the poet ask his grannie to do?

_____________________________________________________1 mark

7.      She came. And I still vividly recall…

What do the words vividly recall mean?

_____________________________________________________2 marks

8.      Explain what the poet finds weird about his grannie in the last verse.

____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________2 marks

9.      She hobbled through the ward to where I lay

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And drew quite close and, hesitating, peered.

Why does she hesitate?

_____________________________________________________1 mark

10.    What is one thing that did not change about the grannie as she got older?

_____________________________________________________1 mark

11.    Look at the last verse, beginning: She came.

Find and copy a group of words that shows that his grannie makes a difference to the poet during her visit.

_____________________________________________________1 mark

12.    The experience in the last line could best be described as… 

  Tick one.

amusing.

shocking.

puzzling.

comforting.

1 mark

13.    Number the following sentences from 1-5 to show the order in which they happen in the poem.

The first one has been done for you. 

The poet arrives in France.

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The poet lives with his grannie.

The poet is injured.

The poet’s grannie visits him.

The poet writes to his grannie.

1 mark

14.    The poet describes different stages of his life.

Tick the two verses that are mainly about the poet’s adult life. 

Verse 1   Verse 2

         

Verse 3   Verse 4

1 mark

P.E 1. P.E. with Joe Wicks – ONLY AVAILABLE Monday, Wednesday and Saturday next week due to Joe taking some time off. If you want more, go onto his YouTube channel and search for another activity. 2. Challenge: Cristiano Ronaldo has set a challenge for everyone to get involved with and try at home. In 45 seconds, he completed 142 toe touch crunches – OUCH! Have a go and see if you can get close to his total. https://youtu.be/iPJPvCKLu_k

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Wellbeing Task – Memories.Although our time was cut short together in Year 6, write a list of happy memories you have from your time in Year 6. They can be in class, out on the yard, a lesson, P.E… ANYTHING.Miss Mac’s Memories – example.

1. Chester Zoo – what an incredible day that was. Great fun to see the animals but just so lovely to see my class smiling the entire day!

2. When Nina told Miss Mac she could see her grey hairs! Miss Connolly’s Memories – example.

1. The many times Miss Connolly almost fell off her chair. 2. Chester Zoo- being attacked by the ducks whilst eating our lunch.

Whole School Task Week 10 - Joe Wicks workoutI’m sure you have already but why not try one of Joe Wicks workout videos. If you like them there are loads on YouTube. https://youtu.be/MXb1nU9T4ZQ

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