Year 6 – Tuesday 12th May learning

Good morning, Year 6. I hope your weeks have got off to a good start.

Yesterday, Jack sent me his tropical island art. Thank you so much for sharing it Jack.

I intended to post this on yesterday’s blog, but here are the leaderboards for last week’s online learning:

Readtheory: 1st Matthew A , 2nd Liam, 3rd Jack

Prodigy: 1st Matthew A, 2nd Elysia, 3rd Jude

Duolingo: 1st Alex, 2nd William, 3rd Louise

It’s great to see some different names up there this week. Well done!

Here’s Tuesday’s learning:

12/05/20
Subject Activity
Prayer Visit https://www.loyolapress.com/3-minute-retreats-daily-online-prayer/ and click on ‘Start your retreat’ for a short daily reflection.
Miss Pringle’s Home Olympic Challenge Here is Miss Pringle’s challenge for today.
Handwriting Copy these sentences containing this week’s spellings 1-5 into your handwriting book:

1.                If possible, submit the assignment by Friday afternoon.

2.                “What horrible weather!” cried Connor as he stepped out into the rain.

3.                The restaurant was terrible; I’m never going back there.

4.                The sun was barely visible because of the large clouds in the sky.

5.                After the exam, I felt an incredible sense of relief.

Reading 15 minutes of https://readtheory.org/
English Click here to open today’s English activities.

Find the accompanying powerpoint here.

Times Tables http://timestables.me.uk/
Maths WALT explore interior angles of a triangle and understand that the angles will add up to 180 degrees.

This is today’s video:

Here are the accompanying questions and answers.

Art WALT use different shading techniques.

Click the link here to learn different shading techniques which will really enhance your drawing skills.

Music This week, learn about Jean Sibelius’s epic piece Finlandia, then learn to sing its beautiful melody. Members of the BBC Singers will teach you the tune line by line and then sing with you in a virtual choir performance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/watch-this-do-this-weekly-activities/zjy3382