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P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
Literacy and English
• Reading - Sir Alexander Fleming Comprehension and Questions (see worksheets).
• *Assignment - Writing - Winter Senses poem.
Write a Winter poem, no more than 12 lines long, and try to include the 5 senses and some
similes or metaphors. Read the winter poems below in this pack and use the simile sheet to
create your own winter poem. Use your experiences over the Christmas holidays to describe
what Winter is like for you. Your spelling words might help too.
Don’t forget to use the 5 senses, touch, feel, taste, smell and hear in your descriptions.
This can be submitted privately on Teams through the Assignment option.
• Spelling Winter words
Ask someone to pre-test you or try look, say, cover, write and check to create your own list of
spelling words. Choose 1 of the activities to practise these words.
• Punctuation/Grammar
Complete the ‘Speech Marks Revision worksheet’. Re-watch this video to give you a
reminder of the rules for speech marks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-YFmLctwDY
• Listening/Talking Interview family members to hear their New Year Goals with reasons. Then discuss three of
your own – one for school learning, one or home and one for the community. Complete the
‘New Year Goals’ sheet in the pack.
Numeracy and Maths
• Short division method Watch this video https://clickv.ie/w/tzdp as a reminder on how to do the ‘Bus stop’ short
division method. Watch the video to jog your memory and then give the ‘Short Division
Questions’ sheet a go. Remember to use your knowledge of the Times Tables to help you.
You may need to click on ‘Sign in to watch’ and put in your Teams details (password and
username@ea.edin.sch.uk) but should have access if you are already signed into Teams. Challenge: Click the resources section on the right of the video for more questions! Choose
either ‘Short Division by One Digit.pdf’ or the ‘Blake Education Additional Resources.pdf.
Assignment: There is a division multiple choice quiz under Assignments on Teams.
• NRich problem solving - Sweets In A Box – see sheet
For this problem you will need to draw out the sweet box. The box must hold 36 sweets. Use
your knowledge of arrays to help. Complete steps 1 and 2. If you want an extra challenge
continue onto steps 3, 4 and 5. Remember drawing it out or using lego pieces will help you.
• Create a loop card game using multiplication and division – A loop card game is a bit like dominoes. Each question needs to have
an answer but not on the card. Use the attached sheet template in this
pack to create your own game. You can play alone as a matching
game or with someone in your household. There is also an electronic
version of this that covers lots of maths topics, you can play here:
Loop Cards - 5-11 year olds - Topmarks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-YFmLctwDYhttps://clickv.ie/w/tzdphttps://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=loopcardsv6
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• Hit the Button Times tables practice https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
• ‘Division Word Problems’ sheet
We have been practising solving these types of word problems. Use your division knowledge!
Remember, sometimes it helps to draw a picture to understand what the question is asking.
Additional Curricular Areas
• Health and Wellbeing
Positive Affirmations can help us build resilience and belief in ourselves. Read the ‘I am
Amazing’ podcast script and try using the affirmation. This will also be available to listen to
on Teams. Can you think of a time where you did something amazing? There are lots of
things that make you amazing… drawing, cooking, building Lego, completing a gaming
level, helping others or caring for your pets. You could ask your families or message a friend.
Keep a record of the things you do that are amazing to reflect on and review when making
your positive affirmations.
• STEM -Design and create a Bird Feeder
You may want to look at the websites signposted below and even register with the RSPB to
carry out a bird survey!
• Expressive Arts: Winter Landscape Follow the instructions on this video - https://youtu.be/-
mlCKqWj7zg or use the step by step handout to complete your
art work. All you need is a piece of A4 paper, a ruler, a black
marker, a pencil and an eraser. Snowflakes can be added by
using Tippex or white paint but these are not essential.
• Social Studies: Victorian topic Research
Choose a Victorian topic which interests you to research and create a fact file, poster or
leaflet to show what you have found out. Here are some topics you might like to choose
from: Jobs, Diseases, Crime and Punishment, Child labour, Politics and reform, Food and
Drink, Toys, Pets.
• Social Studies: The Weekly Quiz (in this pack)- We will share the answers the following week
for you to mark and keep a note of your scores.
• French - Getting started on Quizlet and revision
1. Sign up to www.Quizlet.com - a free educational website where you can use and create
virtual flashcards. If you have your own account you can play games and your scores will
be saved. We have used Quizlet in the classroom, so you will recognise it.
2. Search ‘www.quizlet.com/TowerbankFrench’
3. Explore the vocabulary sets in TowerbankFrench. Choose one, look through the flashcards
and try out the matching game or other games. (Numbers, colours, animals, foods…)
4. Make sure you have the flashcards on ‘Full screen’ to hear the French words.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-buttonhttps://youtu.be/-mlCKqWj7zghttps://youtu.be/-mlCKqWj7zghttp://www.quizlet.com/
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Supporting Learning Ideas - Signpost of the Week:
➢ https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/cute-bird-feeder-ideas/ ➢ Big Garden Birdwatch | Join the fun - The RSPB ➢ Bird Photographer of the Year - International wildlife photography competition (birdpoty.com)
Design and Create a Bird Feeder
https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/cute-bird-feeder-ideas/https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/?sourcecode=BWMITH0230&&channel=paidsearch&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BGBW+-+Birdwatch21+-++Phase+1-Birdwatch21+-+Exact&utm_term=rspb+big+garden+birdwatch+2021&utm_content=Birdwatch21%20-%20Exacthttps://www.birdpoty.com/
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
NRich Problem Solving - Sweets in a Box Age 7 to 11
A sweet manufacturer has decided to design some gift boxes for a new kind of sweet.
Each box is to contain 36 sweets placed in lines in a single layer in a geometric shape without gaps or fillers.
1. How many different shaped boxes can you design?
2. The sweets come in 4 colours, 9 of each colour. Arrange the sweets so that
no sweets of the same colour are adjacent to (that is 'next to') each other in any direction. In the picture below, none of the squares marked x can have a
red sweet in them. Arrange (draw) the sweets into the sweet box you have
drawn.
3. Now try making boxes of 36 sweets in 2, 3 or 4 layers.
4. Can you arrange the sweets, 9 each of 4 colours, so that none of the same colour are on top of each other as well as not adjacent to each other in any
direction? See if you can invent a good way of showing your arrangement.
5. Try different numbers of sweets such as 24 or 60 in each box.
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
Winter Spelling
List A List B My Words
brisk glistening
chilly hibernating
freezing whiteout
sledge crystalise
sniffle icicle
shivering sparkling
frosty blustery
melting blizzard
wintery sprinkling
white thawing
Acrostic Poem
Create an ACROSTIC
poem for 3 of your
spelling words.
Rainbow Words.
Rainbow write your
spelling words. Each
letter gets a different
colour.
Picture Words
Choose 4 words to
illustrate to show the
meaning.
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Speech Marks Revision Name:
George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Look at the passage below and work out what each character is saying.
1. Highlight the different speakers in different colours
2. Now rewrite the speech correctly on the other side of the page/
Use your Success Criteria!
You’re late she snapped. I don’t think I am, Grandma replied George. Don’t
interrupt me in the middle of a sentence! she shouted. But you’d finished
your sentence, Grandma replied George. There you go again! she cried.
Always interrupting and arguing. You really are a tiresome little boy. What’s
the time? It’s exactly eleven o’clock, Grandma said George. You’re lying as
usual. Stop talking so much and give me my medicine. Shake the bottle first.
Then pour it into the spoon and make sure it’s a whole spoonful snarled
Grandma. Are you going to gulp it all down in one go? George asked her.
Or will you sip it? What I do is none of your business the old woman said. Fill
the spoon.
Success Criteria: Did I meet the
Success Criteria?
Put “ ” around what words the speaker says.
A new speech sentence starts with a capital letter
(even if it is the middle of another sentence).
Separate what was said from speaker with a comma
unless there is already a ? or an !
Start a new paragraph if a sentence has a new
speaker saying something.
Challenge:
Start a new paragraph if the narrative/story continues
after speech.
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
Listening and Talking New Year Goals Name:
At the start of the new year, it is a good time to reflect on how last year was,
and what you would like to focus on this year.
Your task is to interview three people in your family: this could be people in
your home, or a relative over the phone. Talk to them about what their
hopes are for 2021 and what they would like to do differently this year and
note their goals on this sheet. Then, think about yourself and share what you
would like to improve in your learning in school, something for you to improve
on at home and what you could resolve to do in the community.
Name of
family
member
Goal
You
School
Home
Community
When you have finished, you might want to try the cut and stick New Year
Flap Activity in the pack to bring into the class when we return to school to
display.
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P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
Short Division Questions
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
Division Word Problems
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
Reading Comprehension: Sir Alexander Fleming
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
Weekly Quiz:
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
Create a loop card game template
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
P6 Towerbank Learning@Home - Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
EXTRA – JUST FOR FUN!
Did you know these facts about January?
What else do you know about January or can you find out about January?
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