Year 6 – 06/12/19

This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 17th December) is as follows:

RE Please learn all song words for Tuesday’s Advent Service. Words and links can be found on previous blog post.
Spellings Doubling the consonant when adding a suffix – “short vowel, one consonant, double it, add suffix”:

begging

digging

dragging

dropping

hoping

hopping

moping

mopping

planning

running

stopping

taping

tapping

wagging

wrapping

writing

Maths

Times tables

(online) Mathletics tasks – simplifying fractions

 

Continue to revise all times tables.

Reading Daily reading and recording in Reading Records.

 

How to complete your reading record

As you’re reading, take notice of the language used then. When you’ve finished reading, choose an aspect of language that you really liked, write it into your reading record, and then explain why you found it effective.

Things you might comment on:

·         Effective use of personification;

·         An effective metaphor;

·         An example of ‘show don’t tell’ ;

·         Good use of the semi-colon;

·         Hyphenation;

·         Direct speech that develops the characterisation;

·         Formal language;

·         A new word whose meaning you worked out from the context.

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