This week, we have a lot of information about our current topic of What's in the News. We are encouraging you read as much non-fiction as you can find - newspapers, magazines, flyers, leaflets etc. Also, you are allowed to watch TV for your homework!! (Just the news reports before you get too excited!!)
Here are some super sites to whet your appetite for this topic...
http://thenewspaper.org.uk/ Click on this link to explore the website based on a newspaper. This is also very similar to another site http://www.firstnews.co.uk/ which we have used before. Try comparing it with some of the tabloid and broad sheet newspaper which you might find in the local newsagents, Which type of paper gives you the best range of news? Any articles which you can bring into school for our ‘Newsstand’ will be gratefully appreciated!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/ Newsround’s site
http://www.channel4.com/apps26/learning/microsites/E/essentials/geography/units/news_bi.shtml Try printing off some of the worksheets to do at home from this Channel 4 website.
When you have found all of these items of news, a great challenge is to locate all the places on a map of the UK. You could even try to locate them on a map of the world! Could you give the co-ordinates to your friends and ask them to locate the place? Maybe they could then match the story up with the map references!
http://maps.google.co.uk/ Can you find our school using the Google Maps site? For some real aerial photos, why not try Google Earth! You will have to ask your parents if you can download the program onto your machine, but the results are fantastic! Warrington is still a bit hazy, but if you have a look around London, the detail is remarkable! Go on – I was on it for an hour without realising!
http://www.googleearthcoolplaces.com/ This mini-site, has gathered all of the ‘cool-places’ that can be seen using Google Earth. Some of the aerial photos are amazing. Do you know how they get all of the photographs up to date so quickly?
http://del.icio.us/primaryteacheruk lots of links for all areas of the curriculum
Times Tables Awards
You have been working really hard on learning your times tables over the last couple of months, so we have decided to reward you for all of your hard work, and to give you a real incentive to keep practicing them - you can have the opportunity to earn Gold, Silver and Bronze awards for your knowledge of times tables and the division facts for them.
The criteria for awarding them is displayed in your classrooms, but I have included the awards here for you to have a look at when you get home. Remember that you can use all of the website and games in this and previous blogs to help. Good Luck!
Bronze 3
Know by heart multiplication facts for 2x, 5x, 10x, by counting in steps
Silver 3
To be able to rapidly recall the multiplication facts for 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10x tables
Gold 3
To be able to rapidly recall the multiplication facts and related division facts for 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10x tables
Bronze 4
Know by heart multiplication facts and related division facts for 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x tables
Silver 4
Know by heart multiplication facts and related division facts for 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x tables
Gold 4
Know by heart multiplication facts and related division facts for all tables up to 10 x 10
Bronze 5
Know by heart multiplication facts and related division facts for 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x tables
Silver 5
Know by heart multiplication facts and related division facts for all tables up to 12 x 12
Gold 5
Use known multiplication facts to multiply a 2-digit number to a single digit number
Bronze 6
Know by heart multiplication facts and related division facts for all tables up to 12 x 12
Silver 6
Use known multiplication facts to multiply a 2 digit multiple of 10 with another 2-digit multiple of 10
Gold 6
Use known multiplication facts to multiply a 2-digit number with a single digit number
Use known multiplication facts to multiply a 2-digit number with a single digit number
Science revision – Year 6
Week Four objectives
Monday
To know that there are several life processes common to all living things
To know that there are some specific life processes common to many living things and some which are specific to certain living things
Tuesday
To know how familiar animals and plants can be identified using keys
To know the different living things can have similar features or characteristics and that these may be grouped together
Wednesday
To know the correct names for the parts of a flower
To understand that reproduction involves pollination, producing seeds and dispersing them.
To describe the life cycle of a flowering plant
Thursday
To know that the plant needs certain conditions for it to grow healthily
To know that a plant will die if these conditions are not met
To know that plants make their own food
Friday
To investigate some of the factors which affect plant growth
This week, I have included some websites to help you with your revision. Even the CGP books can get a bit repetitive after a while!
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/
http://sciencelessons.digitalbrain.com/digitalbrain/web/subjects/1.%20primary/ks2sci/su2/mod3/?verb=view looking at green plants and the functions of their different parts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/interdependence.shtml
http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/assets/Flash%20Studio/cfsscience/LifeCycle/lcycles5b.html Label the different parts of a plant and its flower.
http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/assets/Flash%20Studio/cfsscience/food%20chains/foodchains.html food chains
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/science/science2c.htm scroll down and click on any of the links to find out information about flowering plants.
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase2delivery/Wales/Science/Keystage2/Lifeprocessesan/Lifecycles/Introduction/default.htm
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/ A great site for revision all about plants. It is an American site, but the ideas still stand well.
Literacy revision – Year 6
Week four objectives
Monday
To understand the terms simile and metaphor and know the difference between them
To use similes and metaphors in writing
To understand the term personification
Tuesday
To understand the terms alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia
To write examples of alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia
Wednesday
To recognise that poetry comes in many forms
To know that not all poetry has to rhyme
To be aware that some poetry, eg HAIKU has to follow a strict form
Thursday
To recognise that poetry comes in many forms
To know that not all poetry has to rhyme
To know what is meant by narrative poetry
To know that some poetry is humourous
Friday
To be able to spell words containing ‘soft’ c and g
To know the rules for which vowels will soften the c and g
Numeracy revision – Year 6
Week four objectives
Monday
To use multiplication facts to help recall division facts
To use different mental methods to divide whole numbers and simple decimal numbers
To use a suitable written method for dividing whole and decimal numbers by one and two digit numbers
Tuesday
To multiply and divide whole and decimal numbers by 10, 100 or 1000
To multiple multiples of 10, 100 or 1000 by a single digit number
To multiply and divide multiples of 10, 100 or 1000 by other multiples of 10, 100 or 1000
Wednesday
To know the relationship between metric units of length, mass and capacity
To use the relationship between metric units to convert a measure from one unit to another
To know the approximate metric equivalents of imperial units still in everyday use (miles – kilometres)
Thursday
To suggest suitable units to estimate and measure quantities of length, mass or capacity
To suggest suitable measuring equipment
To read scales on measuring equipment to the nearest division
Friday
To choose the correct operation to solve problems including length, mass and capacity
To record solutions to problems using numbers, units and signs
To explain in words the method used to solve a problem
http://www.sgfl.org.uk/games/games/maths/multiplicationstation
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/3_num_multiply/eng/Introduction/default.htm
http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/long_multiplication/long%20multiplication.swf
http://www.sums.co.uk/playground/c6a/playground.htm
http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/short_multiplication/3x1contents.swf
http://www.subtangent.com/maths/countdown.php Manipulate the numbers and you too could be Carol Vorderman in this Countdown numbers game.
http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/multiples/intro.htm Shoot the multiples of the number you have chosen.
http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/tables_backwards/Disappearing%20tables.swf
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/504/multiplicationpuzzle.swf Remember the Sudoku puzzle we played in class? This is the times tables version!
http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/tables_backwards/tables%20speed.swf Speed test yourself on your times tables. Choose the FAST option – the slow is not quick enough for 5/6!s
Diary
Just a reminder that on Tuesday at 6.00pm, there is a meeting in the school hall for the parents of the children in Year 5 who are making their Reconciliation in the next few weeks. Mr Barker and myself will be there to lead the discussion and to answer any questions you may have. If you are unable to attend, please inform any member of the Year 5/6 team.
Have a good week!
Year 5/6 team
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