Year 6 Home Learning- Week 11P.E.

English Maths Topic/ Science Don’t forget

….

Mon

day

Start your day with Joe

Wicks or

some Just

Dance to get your brain motivated!

In preparation for this week’s learning, listen to the following chapters of Michael Morpurgo’s

Kensuke’s Kingdom. If you have a copy at home, you could read along with it.

Chapter 1-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-

uhyXUtuQ

Chapter 2-https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=BkjAMQW5-6U

Chapter 3-https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=iLsqgs4HFLM

Make sure you understand the key vocabulary in the description box.

Please follow the YouTube link below. You will need something to write on so get

yourself prepared before pressing play!

Listen carefully to Mr Houghton and follow the video, pause the video if you

need a little extra time – no rush!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhHcYVgGe4I

ArtCan you recall five things you learnt about Frida Kahlo from last week?

What was unique about her artwork?

Today you are going to make your own self-portrait inspired by her. Use

iPads to take photograph of self to use as a guide.

Either draw an inner/outer portrait

(with the inner filled with hobbies, emotions, likes,

dislikes) or a traditional self portrait with hobbies/ likes

around the outside.

Meditation Monday!

Make sure you are

sitting in a quiet space.

Try your hardest to keep you

eyes closed for the whole

time and really

concentrate on the ladies voice. If you

do this properly you will really feel relaxed and full of zen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=9A0S54yAgEg

Tues

day

Look at the picture Wild Sea (in the notes section) and compare it with the front-cover of the book. How could we describe the sea when it is like this? What verbs could we use for its movement? How could we describe its appearance? Brainstorm your ideas. Watch part of a video of sailing in stormy conditions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUb6iOoWor4 How these scenes could be described. What would Michael hear? Feel? See? Taste? Smell? Add more ideas to your brainstorm.

Now listen to the first part of chapter 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la9ADONDlgw ONLY UP UNTIL Michael lands and says, ‘All was well.’!

How does Michael Morpurgo describe being in the sea and how does he build tension? Notice the dramatic vocabulary (e.g. terrors, frantically, impenetrable darkness); the repeated phrases; the idea of being alone; his imagination worrying about hidden threats (i.e. sharks) and his false hope and then despair. Add key phrases to your brainstorm.

Write poems on the theme of being alone and lost in the sea. Select and expand key phrases from your brainstorm and add their own words and phrases too. They work to create tension and drama through their choice of language.

Back to Basics!

Conquer Maths Task set x2 Lessons will be released at 8am

Addition and Subtraction of seven digit numbers

Continue as yesterday, focusing particularly on use of

colour.

Kahlo’s artwork is vibrant- what will you use to replicate?

Email us your Frida-inspired portraits for the website!

Wed

nesd

ayy

Listen to more of Chapter 4 to ‘It was too hot to touch’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la9ADONDlgw As you listen, make notes about the island setting. Use the description (in the notes below) to make an annotated map of the island, with quotes around the edges to support your drawing. You can only draw it if you have evidence to back up your viewpoint!

Long Multiplication

Conquer Maths Task set x2 Lessons will be released at 8am

History/Geography Purple Mash Task - All About the Maya

Login to your Purple Mash accounts to find full details about the task. To be completed by Friday please

RiddleWhat

becomes wetter the

more it dries?

Mash Mail me if you think

you know the answer.

Thur

sday

Read On the Island (see resources) an extract from Kensuke’s Kingdom. Imagine you are able to talk to Michael- What things should he do next?

Make notes as you watch the How to Survive on a Desert Island video-you’ll need these later!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRH1J2Vnrw

Remind yourself of our work on modal verbs- using the sheet below. Complete the activity below, choosing an appropriate modal verb to complete sentences.

My Favourite NumberYour challenge:

• How much do you know about your favourite number?

What to do:1. What’s your favourite number? Write it

down in the centre of a piece ofplain paper.

2. Note down at least 20 facts about the number around your number,

creating a poster. Examples you could choose include factors,

multiples, even/odd, square number, sides on a shape etc.

3. For example, if your favourite number was 32, you could write down

facts like:• It’s a multiple of 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16

• It’s an even number• 32 x 2 = 64• 1 + 31 = 32

4. Try to make sure you have a good range of different types of facts.

5. Be as creative as you can with how you present your work. Why not

help other people in your family to create a poster showing theirfavourite number too?

History/Geography Purple Mash Task - All About the Maya

What did the left eye say to the right eye?

Between us, something

smells!

Frid

ay

Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la9ADONDlgw up to ‘I clambered up to find out what it was.’ How is Michael feeling in these first hours on the island? How is he feeling physically? How is he feeling emotionally?

Look back over your notes from yesterday- today you are going to create a survival guide for Michael! You can choose to present it in anyway you choose but it MUST give Michael advice on how to survive and MUST use the modal verbs you explored yesterday!

Get the whole family involved!

See who wins!

https://wrm-13b48.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Family-

Challenge-Friday-19th.pdf

History/Geography Purple Mash Task - All About the Maya

Don’t worry about failure,

worry about the chances

you miss when you don’t even

try!

NotesTuesday- English

Wednesday- Island DescriptionIsland Setting Descriptions 1

I was woken by a howling, like the howling of a gale through the masts. The howling became a screaming, a fearful crescendo of screeching that died away in its own echoes.

I was on a beach, a broad white sweep of sand, with trees growing thick and lush behind me right down to the beach.

The wide blue sea was as empty as the cloudless sky above.

Then came the howling again from the trees, and the hackles went up on Stella’s neck. She charged up the beach barking and barking, until she was sure she had silenced the last of the echoes. It was a musical, plaintive howling this time, not at all menacing. I thought I recognised it. I had heard howling like it once before on a visit to London Zoo. Gibbons, ‘funky gibbons’, my father had called them. I still don’t know why to this day. But I loved the sound of the word ‘funky’. Perhaps that was why I remembered what they were. ‘It ’s only gibbons,’ I told Stella, ‘just funky gibbons. They won ’t hurt us.’ But I couldn’t be at all sure I was right.

From where I now stood I could see that the forest grew more sparsely up the side of a great hill some way inland, and it occurred to me then that if I could reach the bare rocky outcrop at the summit, I would be able to see further out to sea.

I set off at a run, Stella Artois at my heels, and soon found myself in the cooling shade of the forest. I discovered a narrow track going uphill, in the right direction, I thought. So I followed it, only slowing to a walk when the hill became too steep.

The forest was alive with creatures. Birds cackled and screeched high above me, and always the howling wailed and wafted through the trees, but more distantly now. It wasn’t the sounds of the forest that bothered me, though, it was the eyes. I felt as if I was being watched by a thousand inquisitive eyes

We emerged exhausted from the trees, clambered laboriously up a rocky scree and stood at long last on the peak.

Island Setting Descriptions 2

The sun was blazing down. I had not really felt the burning heat of it until then.

I scanned the horizon. If there was a sail somewhere out there in the haze, I could not see it.

The island looked perhaps two or three miles in length, no more. It was shaped a bit like an elongated peanut, but longer at one end than the other. There was a long swathe of brilliant white beach on both sides of the island, and at the far end another hill, the slopes steeper and more thickly wooded, but not so high as mine. With the exception of these twin peaks the entire island seemed to be covered with forest. So far as I could see there was no sign of any human life.

I remember thinking how wonderful it was, a green jewel of an island framed in white, the sea all about it a silken shimmering blue.

I sat down in the shadow of a great rock.

The gibbons set up a renewed chorus of howling and hooting in the forest, and a flock of raucous birds clattered up out of the canopy of the trees below us and flew off across the island to settle in the trees on the hillside opposite.

I soon discovered that the track down through the trees was bereft of all edible vegetation. I did see fruit of sorts, what looked to me like fruit, anyway. There were coconuts up there too, but the trees were all impossible to climb. Some rose a hundred feet, some two hundred feet from the forest floor – I had never seen such giant trees. At least the intertwining canopy did provide welcome relief from the heat of the day.

When the beach petered out, we had to strike off into the forest itself. Here too I found a narrow track to follow. The forest became impenetrable at this point, dark and menacing. There was no howling any more, but something infinitely more sinister: the shiver of leaves, the cracking of twigs, sudden surreptitious rustlings, and they were near me, all around me. I knew, I was quite sure now, that eyes were watching us. The rustlings came ever closer, ever more threatening.

This end of the island appeared to be littered with massive boulders that lay like tumbled cliffs

Island Setting Descriptions 3

The seawater in the rockpools was so cool, so tempting. I tasted it, but it was salty and brackish.

This place was so much bigger than it had seemed from high up on the hill that morning.

I thought of going into the forest a little way to sleep on ground under the trees – I could make a nest of soft dead leaves, the jungle floor was thick with them.

The howling had started up again far away in the forest, a last mellifluous evensong, a chanting that went on and on until darkness covered the island. Insects (that is what I presumed they were anyway) whirred and whined from the forest. There was hollow tapping, like a frantic woodpecker. There was scraping, scratching, and a grunting grating noise that sounded like frogs. The whole orchestra of the jungle was tuning up.

But it wasn’t the sounds that frightened me, it was those phantom eyes. I wanted to be as far as possible from those eyes.

I found a small cave at one end of the beach with a dry sandy floor. I lay down and tried to sleep.

The jungle droned and cackled and croaked, and all night long the mosquitoes were at me too. They whined in my ears and drove me mad. I held my hands over my ears to shut out the sound of them.

I decided I would explore further along the beach, right to the end if I could, just so long as I could keep my cave in view all the time. There were shells here, millions of them, golden and pink thrown up in long lines all along the beach.

Before long I came across what seemed at some distance away like a flat wedge of rock protruding only very slightly from the sand. Stella was scrabbling excitedly at the edge of it. It turned out not to be a rock at all, but a long sheet of rusted metal - clearly all that was left of the side of a ship's hull, now sunk deep in the sand.

Thursday- On the Island description

On the Island

I sat up. I was on a beach, a broad white sweep of sand, with trees growing thick and lush behind me right down to the beach.

Then I saw Stella prancing about in the shallows. I called her and she came bounding up out of the sea to greet me, her tail circling wildly. When all the leaping and licking and hugging were done, I struggled to my feet. I was weak all over.

I looked all about me. The wide blue sea was as empty as the cloudless sky above. No Peggy Sue. No boat. Nothing. No one.

Thursday- modal verbs

Modal Verbs – Reminder

Modal verbs can show how possible or certain something might be.They can express certainty, ability or obligation.

Certainty Obligation Abilitymightwould

willshallmay

oughtshouldmust

cancould

Modal verbs are placed before the verb they are modifying.I think he might feel lonely.He knew he should find shelter.He will panic if he cannot find food.He could try to fish.I might look for water first.

Modal Verbs Activity 1Modal verbs express certainty, ability or obligation. Add a modal verb to each sentence so that it makes sense. WARNING! You may not use the same modal verb twice!

1. The sun _________ cause your skin to burn.

2. Definitely, some water _____________ be found.

3. It’s impossible he _____ survive long without water.

4. Perhaps he _____________ to signal for help.

5. The forest _____________ provide him with food.

6. Possibly he ____________ shelter in the shade.

7. Perhaps he _________ rest before he explores.

8. At night, he ________ find it hard to sleep.

9. Potentially, he ______ be on this island for a long time.

Friday- Advice for Michael- example

You are probably feeling frightened now. This is a scary place to be. You must try to stay calm. You could count to three before you do anything and concentrate on your breathing.

Certainly, you will feel exhausted. You must have had a hard time in the sea and you may still feel worn out from that. The first thing that you must do is find some shelter. That ought to give you a place where you can rest and recover.

After you have found shelter, you definitely should look for water. This could be from a stream. You must not drink the sea-water. You ought to make finding water your first task.

After you have found water, you can look for food. You will probably find it in the forest. You might be able to eat the coconuts if you can find a way to open them.

You might be feeling over-excited at times. Be careful. You ought not to take any risks. You can do this Michael. Do not lose hope!