Welcome to Year 6

With

Miss Chard, Miss MacSween and Mrs Gresty

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The Autumn term's context for learning is

Wildlife Connections: Conservation in Action

 

 

English

King Kong by Anthony Browne

This half term we will be studying the text King Kong by Anthony Browne.

King Kong is a giant gorilla, a monster of an ape, who lives on a remote island. The beast falls for a beautiful girl, Ann Darrow, and desperate to have her, he finds himself lured into captivity. He is brought to civilization and put on show, but when he sees Ann, he breaks his heavy chains and begins to wreak havoc on the streets of New York.

 During this unit we will work on several key skills:

• Using a wide range of cohesive devices (adverbs, conjunctions, pronouns and synonyms)
• Describe characters, setting and atmosphere
• Integrate dialogue in narratives to convey character and advance the action 
• Using expanded noun phrases
• Use passive verbs
• Use modal verbs and adverbs to show degrees of possibility
• Use hyphens
• Use relative clauses
• Use brackets, dashes and commas for parenthesis

Click on any of the bullet points above to read more about each key skill.

 

Accelerated Reader:

Renaissance - Log In (renaissance-go.com)

For our class text, we will be reading A Place Called Perfect.

 

Take a read of the synopsis written on Love Reading for Kids below:

Violet hates living in Perfect. Why does everyone have to wear special glasses to stop them going blind? What are the strange noises in the night and why is Mum acting so weird? Then Dad disappears and Violet is determined to uncover the truth with the help of the mysterious Boy. But returning normality to Perfect is a battle they never imagined...

Maths

Over the coming weeks, we will be covering the following topics:

 

Place value: Read, write and order Rounding to degree of accuracy. Use negative numbers across zero. Solve problems 

Algebra: Generate and describe linear number sequences. Express missing number problems algebraically 

Multiplication: Multiply multi-digit numbers by 2 digit numbers using formal long multiplication written method 

Division:  Divide 4 digit number by up to 2 digit using written long division method and show remainders as fractions or appropriate for context 

Fractions:  Common factors to simplify fractions. Compare and order fractions.

Measures: Recognise that shapes don’t always have same area and perimeter. Calculate area of parallelograms and triangles 

 

 

 

Remember, you can also log onto Times Tables Rockstars at any time -  www.ttrockstars.com  to keep up with your times tables fluency.

 

Science

In Science this term, we will be studying 'Living Things and their Habitats'

We will describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics

and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals.

We will work to give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics.

 

Our scientist of the term will be Carl Linnaeus, considered by many, to be the most influential person with regards to classification.

 

 

PE

We will have PE on a Monday this half term. Please make sure that you are wearing your PE kit on this day.

 

 

Reminders:

Weekly five reads signed in reading diaries and be in each Monday

Maths and spelling homework will be set on a Wednesday to be for the following Monday

Spelling test will be on Tuesday

PE day is Monday