Home Learning Algeria Class
Week 5 of Home Learning - give yourselves a pat on the back and a round of applause, everyone! Keep safe, keep smiling and keep sending in all your brilliant work :)
Contact:
Please use this email address to contact me to ask questions or send in work or give me information that you think I might need.
I will try to respond to all queries as soon as possible.
| Daily Home Learning Activities | Weekly Home Learning Activities |
| Maths | Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling x 2 |
| Writing | Reading Response Activity |
| Reading For Pleasure | Curriculum Challenge! |
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I am recommending daily home learning for Y6 pupils using one of these three schemes of work:
I will continue to set weekly learning activities from the Ferring Y6 Curriculum objectives for the Summer Term and these can be found on this page and on the separate English and Maths pages accessed by clicking on the Algeria Maths and Algeria English page links below.
The Oak National Academy schedule consists of a daily video lesson on English, Maths and a foundation subject with follow up activities that can be completed online. This is an excellent resource and offers a straightforward and streamlined curriculum ideal for busy parents.
The BBC Bitesize home learning schedule also provides daily lessons in English, Maths and foundation subjects supported by videos and follow-up activities that can be downloaded/printed to be completed at home. This is also an excellent resource.
I strongly recommend selecting and following just one of these options consistently over the week to ensure a coherent learning progression. Please do send in any work - or upload onto Tapestry - whatever programme of home learning you choose. I will feedback on all work you send in, no matter what it is! :)
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Scheme of daily home learning following Ferring Y6 Curriculum found on this and the linked English and Maths pages.
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Click here for link to the scheme of daily home learning work from BBC Bitesize.
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All classes are now using Tapestry Learning Journals to keep a record of all your brilliant home learning achievements. Parent should have log in details to your journal to upload photos, documents and videos of your activities across the curriculum. I will use the comment boxes to feedback on how you are doing. Look out for special projects and activities set on Tapestry: see below for details of the May Reading Challenge! :) Contact me or the school office if you do not have a Tapestry log in. |
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| Click here to find Algeria Maths Activities for this week. | Click here to find Algeria English Activities for this week. |
CURRICULUM CHALLENGE!
4th May - 22nd May 2020 - Science/History/English
This week (and until the end of term), I would like you to find out about Charles Darwin and his revolutionary scientific theories about Evolution and Natural Selection. There are 2 parts to this project:
- Research Task - Use the videos, documents and powerpoint to research his life and work and learn about his massive contribution to modern biology.
- Response Activity - Decide how you are going to present what you have found out from the options below:
- Information Poster about Darwin and his theories
- Biography of Charles Darwin - document, powerpoint, or video format
- Timeline of major events of Darwin's life and scientific work
- Fictional Diary entries written in character as Charles Darwin (or a close friend/relative)
- Practical Science investigations (see file list) - photos and written results/conclusions
- Poem about Darwin and his discoveries
- Fictional Letter from Darwin to a scientific colleague
- Fictional interview with Darwin about his life and work
- Anything else you can think of that you'd like to have a go at!
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| Charles Darwin | Charles Darwin & Natural Selection Video | Charles Darwin & Natural Selection Song Horrible Histories |
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| Charles Darwin Biography Bronze.ppt | Download |
| Charles Darwin Biography Gold.docx | Download |
| Charles Darwin Silver.pptx | Download |
| Natural Selection Peppered Moths Investigation.pdf | Download |
| Natural selection-beak shapes investigation.pdf | Download |
| Peppered Moth Case Study.docx | Download |
| peppered moth.ppt | Download |
Wow! Ilana has already completed her Charles Darwin Curriculum Challenge . . . and it's great! Congratulations Science Star! :D
PE ACTIVITIES AT HOME
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Ferring CE Primary School is one of 250 schools in Sussex competing in the Virtual Sussex School Games which began last week with a series of hockey challenges to do at home! We came 15th out of 250! Congratulations to all who have already signed up to take part! Not registered to compete but would like to? Click here for details of how to register and what this week's sports challenges are.
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MUSIC AT HOME
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PopUK have started to release 'A Song a Day' for kids learning at home. These fun songs are in a range of pop styles and include dance moves - ideal if you prefer dancing to sport as a way of keeping fit. Also perfect if you love to sing :) Anyone else miss singing assemblies? I do! I'll be bopping (badly) and singing (loudly) into my hair brush around my front room to these grooves ;) Click on the song links below to go straight to the videos. West Sussex Music and Sing Up have also released a new song by Emily Barden. Click the link for 'Wiggle Jiggle' for a dance moves tutorial, song and backing tracks. You can post any videos of your own singing/dancing splendour on Tapestry - Go on! Get your funk on, Algeria Class! :D |
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| Wiggle Jiggle Song | PopUK: Stronger | PopUK: The Sun Comes Up | PopUK: Lend A Hand | PopUK: Big Crazy World |
ART/GEOGRAPHY
Last week's Art and Geography project is still open to those who would like to have a go at it:
- A map of your own fantasy land
- A landscape drawing/painting based on a place in your own fantasy land
You can choose which you would prefer to do. You can, if you wish and have time, have a go at both!
See below for some examples of fantasy land maps and landscapes for inspiration.
Photograph or scan any art work you do and send in to: year6@ferringceschool.co.uk
Examples of fantasy landscapes and maps to help inspire your own.
Fantastic Fantasy Landscapes from Ilana, Amelia, Eleanor, Phoebe and Sammy :) :) :)
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The Ferring School Home Learning web pages now have a dedicated Science area created by Mr Virgoe here with ideas and activities to help you continue to develop your scientific knowledge and skills at home. The current Year 6 Science topic is Evolution and Inheritance. Check out the resources on the Science page for this. Don't forget to send any photos, scans or documents of your work into year6@ferringceschool.co.uk for feedback and celebration. :) |
Check it out! Sammy's Friction & Magnets investigations, Ben's Amazing Beanstalk and Evaporation Experiment, Ilana's Evolution research! Click on the Science logo above to go to our Science page for home Science investigation ideas. Send in photos of your home Science to inspire your class mates! :)
The Book of Hopes - Y6 May Reading Challenge
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Children's author Katherine Rundell has brought together lots of children's authors to create 'The Book of Hopes', an ebook of short stories, poems and ideas for children to read during lockdown. My challenge is to find the book online here and choose a story or poem to record yourself reading aloud. This can be an audio or video presentation which can be uploaded onto Tapestry. It's a voluntary project - meaning you don't have to do it - but I hope you'll give it a go! If you are happy to share your reading with other children, let me know. If not, it will just be shared between you and me, promise. I have opened the challenge by reading the first story 'A Song of Gladness' by Michael Morpurgo - see above :) |
| Click for The Book of Hopes ebook published by the National Literacy Trust | |
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Miss Squires has uploaded a weekly newspaper page onto our Home Learning site. You can read First News here on the website or download a copy. There are activities and quizzes for you to keep your current affairs knowledge fresh and active. Reading First News could be your daily reading for pleasure activity. Check it out! Send in your responses to quizzes and activities on First News for feedback and celebration to year6@ferringceschool.co.uk |
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Ocean Hero is a search engine to use when browsing the internet, like Google, but this browser pledges to help clean the world's oceans of plastic rubbish every time you use it. Ocean Hero works with other eco-organisations to pay people living in some of the poorest regions for plastic waste they have picked from their local shores and taken to a recycling centre. For more information about the Ocean Hero search engine, click on their webpage and on the link to a video explaining how Ocean Hero works. Thank you Chloe for suggesting this as a way we can use home learning to create a cleaner, greener world. |
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| Click here for Ocean Hero Search Engine | Click here for Video About How Ocean Hero works |
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What have you lot been getting up to?
Send in your photos and videos of your exploits, activities and creative experiments - all the things you do (apart from school stuff) that are all part of your home learning adventures. |
Enjoy some Art by . . . can you guess who? :D :D :D
Some of the fantastic work you have sent in - check it out!
Fantasy Land Factual-style and Creative Description Drafts
Check out excellent descriptions and wild and wonderful ideas for fantasy settings.
Massive applause for Finley M, Ben, Chloe, Eleanor, Sienna, Matthew, Tom, Luke, Thomas, Ralph, Stan, Rosie, Summer F, Flynn, Amelia :) :) :)
Science: Adaptation and Zeebos
Maths Investigations
Guided Reading - Character Interviews, Wee Free Men Characters, Fantasy Description Analysis
Fantastic reading responses to Chapter 1 'A Clang Well Done' of Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett: Character Analysis and to analysing how authors create atmosphere in fantasy descriptions.
Great reading and a huge well done to Ilana, Luke, Chloe (sorry it's upside down!), Tom, Ben, Eleanor, Ralph, Sienna, Stan Amelia :) :) :)
Recommended Extras
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| Click here for 9.00 - 9.30am Monday to Friday Work Out | Click here for free stories to listen to from Audible.com | Click here to go to Mind Yeti - Mindfulness for Kids videos |
Previous Home Learning:
To find the Home learning from w/b 27/4/2020 please click HERE
To find the Home Learning from w/b 20/4/2020 please click HERE.
To find the Home Learning from the Easter Holiday please click HERE.
To find the Home Learning from w/b 30/3/2020 please click HERE.
To find the Home Learning from w/b 23/3/2020 please click HERE.
