All home learning will be set here every Friday and will be tested the following Friday.
Spellings
This week’s words to learn are:
ought
dough
cough
drought
sought
bough
Parents: all words are selected from the age-appropriate National Curriculum lists, these are words your child has to know by the end of Year 6. Please encourage them to practise at home during the week, and carry out an occasional test to prepare them for Friday morning. The tests are linked to spelling objectives and learning during the week.
Mental Maths
This week the children will be tested on and mixture of multiplication and division facts.
Project Home Learning
Below are a list of activities your child may wish to complete to prepare them for our new project ‘Frozen Kingdoms’. They can bring any completed work with them to school on the first day back to share with me or the class. Please note: this project home learning is optional.
Use online and other historical resources to find out what happened to the RMS Titanic. Write an account to explain what happened.
Polar animals include polar bears, emperor penguins, Siberian salamanders, Greenland sharks, emerald rockcod, walrus and Arctic terns. Compare two of these species, recording where they are found, their habitats and what they eat.
Research and record the characteristics of each of the following climate zones: polar, temperate, desert, tropical and equatorial. Give examples of places within each climate zone.
TTRockstars
TTRockstars is optional home learning but it is a great way for your child to become confident and fluent in recalling their times tables which will help them greatly as we move onto more complex calculations later on in the year. If you do wish to access it at home, please click the link below:
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
Lexia
If your child is currently on Lexia, they may want to complete some activities at home. This is optional home learning but if you wish to access Lexia, please use the link below.
On Friday after school, please ask your child their score, we’ll send it home on a slip of paper.