Hello!
Below is the home learning for those children who are working from home at the moment.
We are continuing with our daily loom videos and you can watch all of the videos daily. They will be uploaded to the webpage by 9.30am each day. If you want to watch a video back from last week to help you recap previous learning, click on the links below.
Remember you can call the school office for a paper pack of all the work if you prefer. Complete your work in the Home learning book you were given over lockdown.
If you require another one, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Send in your work to year6homework@sandylands.lancs.sch.uk
Find out what you are doing today on our Welcome loom video are below – this will run through your timetable for the day
Friday
Monday – https://www.loom.com/embed/f70faa6e1d104bf8931de14bc28bf668
Tuesday – https://www.loom.com/embed/f89a254d6cb94131927b3309cdce7f57
Wednesday –https://www.loom.com/embed/7129dc95de684bdc9e00f9e7534f99e5
Thursday – https://www.loom.com/embed/3416d362aacf413284093ac2d5bce197
English
Need to recap last week? Last week’s Loom videos are below – click on the link
Monday – https://www.loom.com/share/2994486efa8d4bec91667fe0ba2bb546
Tuesday – https://www.loom.com/share/8fb740546a454145a6ee910153b62716
Wednesday – https://www.loom.com/share/34aae83e8ce749d3b798ec327e511df3
Thursday – https://www.loom.com/share/3b97c5f7fe2b48eabc0487dacb51d543
Friday – https://www.loom.com/share/b93dddbae5644d4a89f007c3c1f7ba09
This week’s English Loom videos are below
Friday
Monday – https://www.loom.com/share/54b4fae5eef84bd49c78b035b6fb83ab
Tuesday – https://www.loom.com/share/bae24d865f354f7e9e01ab7c073f2f72
Wednesday – https://www.loom.com/embed/cdcd068fbd8849a2a8b9f91fef394aff
Thursday – https://www.loom.com/embed/271f0b701d654844b796fd28d4a357b4
You will find the activities for this week’s English below
English plan below – click on the link
English plan_earthlings_1feb21_pupil-friendly
Bootleg
Friday
Monday – https://www.loom.com/share/a261b7e47a364823ae79473c53cd4cb7
Tuesday – https://www.loom.com/embed/db7b076bd854462f9ba7169c75c08778
Wednesday – https://www.loom.com/embed/81c44bcb2c564bb19b17200f24fd364a
Thursday – https://www.loom.com/embed/334f57f15fe347858f390fc9b2b54c35
Writing resources
Monday
Click on the link to access the resources you need for Activity 1 on the plan.
NonFiction Text Type Matching Cards
Tuesday
Click on the link to access the text you will need to read to complete Activity 2 on the plan.
Dr Xargle Earthlets_Hounds_Tiggers
Friday
Click on the link to access the resources you need for Activity 5 on the plan.
Spelling and Grammar Resources
Spelling unit 10
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Spelling-unit-10.pdf
Guided Reading resources
Click on the links to access the texts you need for answer the questions on the Reading plan.
Maths
Need to recap last week? Last week’s Loom videos are below – click on the link
Monday – https://www.loom.com/share/98a1400ccb24448cb90d1a97cfa9a52d
Tuesday – https://www.loom.com/share/0456123f887441cd8b7fcbd26ab4590f
Wednesday – https://www.loom.com/share/6fdf98b1d6044ef7a035bb058a094f85
Thursday – https://www.loom.com/share/077868c9123d41a18c3a7d06fa5fcda0
Friday – https://www.loom.com/share/cd822ed42e504e5e9d64414c8a17ae62
This week’s Maths Loom videos are below
Friday
Monday – https://www.loom.com/embed/4deb3cd4c2684c54a619f563a0a9c19b
Tuesday – https://www.loom.com/embed/ceacaef52d1a4ad38e06853f001c37d4
Wednesday – https://www.loom.com/embed/ad81698855474da09ea2598343b900a6
Thursday – https://www.loom.com/embed/c3640f4e6ca64f0cadfb0ca20ea5c5fc
The Maths activities are below (click on the link) and the resources are underneath for each day.
Maths plan for this week below – click on the link
Maths resources for the week
Monday Lesson 1
MNP_Describing a Pattern
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MNP_Describing-a-Pattern.pdf
MNP_Describing a Pattern 2
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MNP_Describing-a-Pattern-2.pdf
Find-a-rule-one-step
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Find-a-rule-one-step.pdf
Need the answers? Click below!
https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Find-a-rule-one-step_ANSWERS.pdf
Tuesday Lesson 2
MNP_Describing a Pattern 3
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MNP_Describing-a-Pattern-3.pdf
MNP_Describing a Pattern 4
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MNP_Describing-a-Pattern-4.pdf
Find-a-rule-two-step
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Find-a-rule-two-step.pdf
Need the answers? Click below!
https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Find-a-rule-two-step_ANSWERS.pdf
Wednesday Lesson 3
Forming-expressions
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Forming-expressions.pdf
Need the answers? Click below!
https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Forming-expressions_ANSWERS.pdf
MNP_Algebraic Expressions
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MNP_Algebraic-Expressions.pdf
Thursday Lesson 4
Substitution
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Substitution.pdf
Need the answers? Click below!
https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Substitution_ANSWERS.pdf
Friday Lesson 5
Arithmetic_2015
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Arithmetic_2015.pdf
Need the answers? Click below!
Arithmetic_2015_ANSWERS for parents
Science
Living Things and Their Habitats
Learning Objective: Understand how micro-organisms can be divided into groups, according to common observable characteristics.
Key question: What makes yeast grow?
Key Vocabulary Classification, organism, micro-organism, unicellular organism, multicellular organism, nucleus, bacteria.
Learning Activities
1. Carry out the experiment to answer the question, what makes yeast grow?
2. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Research how this happened and why it was such an important discovery.
3. The Ancient Egyptians discovered that yeast could make bread rise. But how does this happen? Use your findings from the yeast experiment to help you answer this question.
Resources/website links
You will need the PowerPoint on micro-organisms (click the link below) and the equipment for the science experiment: 4 zip-lock bags, dried yeast, salt, sugar, water.
Classification sorting games can be found here:
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/revision/Science/living/keys.html
Music
BBC Ten Pieces Musical Menu: Rhythm
Click on the link below and watch the video
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/ten-pieces-musical-menu/zmypxbk
Key Vocabulary Rhythm, pulse, beat,
Learning Activity
Watch the three clips and join in with the activities:
Warm Up
Learn about rhythm and pulse
Listen to Connect It by Anna Meredith, a piece that uses rhythm, voices and body percussion and complete the worksheet.
Challenge: Learn the Anna Meredith piece and join in with the body percussion and movement.
Resources
Rhythm Worksheet
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https://www.sandylands.lancs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Rhythm_Worksheet.pdf
Art
Seascapes
Learning objective Research Katsushika Hokusai and one of his most famous art works (Under the Wave off Kanagawa or The Great Wave). Describe the media used by Hokusai.
Key Vocabulary Line, curve, brush stroke, medium, shading, thick, soft, stroke, blend.
Learning Activity
Follow the tutorial (*click the link below) to create your own version of The Great Wave, using whichever medium you prefer. If you choose pencil, try to incorporate some of
the pencil shading techniques that you learned recently.
You may choose to add colour with paint, crayon or pencil. How can you show movement in your artwork?
History
The Vikings
Learning Objective: Understand how the Vikings gained their reputation. Understand that different historical sources can give different viewpoints.
Key question: Why have the Vikings gained such a bad reputation?
Key Vocabulary Raider, invader, settler, trader, Anglo-Saxon, monk, monastery, account, bias.
Learning Activities
Use the links below to access resources to help you with the activities below
What the Vikings were really like
Read the account of the Viking raid on Lindisfarne. Highlight the parts that paint the Vikings in a bad light. From whose perspective is this account written?
Now read the two accounts written in AD 825.Highlight any key words that give you a clue as to who wrote the account.
Write a 150-character tweet to answer today’s key question: why have the Vikings gained such a bad reputation?
Use the link below to give you some extra information about the Vikings
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/viking/who.html
R.E
Buddhism
Key Question
What should we do to ‘live right’?
Key Vocabulary The Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eight-Fold Path, wisdom, morality, meditation.
Learning Activity
Research the Four Noble Truths and The Nobel Eight-Fold Path.
Do you agree with the Eight-Fold Path? Could you add anything to the list to guide other people in how to ‘live right’?
Write own your own ideas about what it means to ‘live right’.
Use the link below to give you some extra information about Buddism
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/religion/buddhism/
P.E.
Along with Joe Wicks, we would like you to try something a bit different for PE this week. Search for Joe Wicks’ official YouTube channel.
Key Vocabulary Exercise, wellbeing, health body and mind.
Learning Activity
Try the Youth Sport Trust After School Club. It is a 30-minute online club on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5pm for all children and young people where you can do some sport, develop skills
and have fun. Let us know how you get on.
Click on the link below to access the club
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/AfterSchoolSportClub
P4C
Mindfulness Daily Five-Minute Activity
Counting breaths. Focus on your breathing by counting the number of ‘in’ breaths and ‘out’ breaths.
“I am breathing in 1, I am breathing out 1, I am breathing in 2, I am breathing out 2…”. Continue until you reach number 10.
