COVID-19 School Closure Suggested Weekly Activities Year Group: Six Week beginning: 20/04/2020 Ongoing activities: Possible daily timetable: 9:00 – 9:30am Joe Wick PE Sessions (Available at You Tube. Just search: Joe Wick PE) 9:30 – 10:30am Activity Period 1 10:30 – 11:00am Timetables Rockstars (You should know your child’s login details) 11:00 – 12:00 Independent Reading (This could be the year group story book; a story book of your choice; comic; appropriate website of interest) 12:00 – 12:45 Lunch 12:45 – 13:45 Activity Period 2 13:45 – 14:45 Bake cakes/Do some gardening/Play board games or cards together (Anything that involves FUN/following instructions/taking turns) 14:45 – 15:45 While we are allowed to: Go for a family walk. (You could attempt to identify different trees; plants or birds) Reading: Try to read independently for at least 30 minutes per day. This can be the book that would have been in focus for the year group (if you have access to it – see below) or any appropriate material (including comics and websites) if not. Extension activities should they be required: - Select something from our Home Learning Ideas Pack sent at the beginning of the closure period. - Login to Education City and explore the learning available for your child’s year group THIS WEEK’S LEARNING : Subjects in focus: English, Maths, Science, ICT, Art English Book that would have been in focus at school: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.
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COVID-19 School ClosureSuggested Weekly Activities
Year Group: SixWeek beginning: 20/04/2020
Ongoing activities:Possible daily timetable:
9:00 – 9:30am Joe Wick PE Sessions(Available at You Tube. Just search: Joe Wick PE)
9:30 – 10:30am Activity Period 110:30 – 11:00am Timetables Rockstars
(You should know your child’s login details)11:00 – 12:00 Independent Reading
(This could be the year group story book; a story book of your choice; comic; appropriate website of interest)
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch12:45 – 13:45 Activity Period 2
13:45 – 14:45 Bake cakes/Do some gardening/Play board games or cards together(Anything that involves FUN/following instructions/taking turns)
14:45 – 15:45 While we are allowed to:Go for a family walk. (You could attempt to identify different trees; plants or birds)
Reading:Try to read independently for at least 30 minutes per day. This can be the book that would have been in focus for the year group (if you have access to it – see below) or any appropriate material (including comics and websites) if not.
Extension activities should they be required:- Select something from our Home Learning Ideas Pack sent at the beginning of the closure
period.- Login to Education City and explore the learning available for your child’s year group
THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
Subjects in focus: English, Maths, Science, ICT, Art
EnglishBook that would have been in focus at school: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.
At the time that this document was created, the link below is to Neil Gaiman reading The Graveyard Book chapter one and links to following chapters can be found from here too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jp6n1xLnvoShould the link no longer work, google search for it on youtube.
Step 1: Look up the meaning of each word.Step 2: Learn how to spell them.Step 3: Write a sentence that includes each word. Challenge: Can you write a sentence that includes more than one word..?
ENGLISH:Intended learning outcome: To write a character description of Darth Vader, drawing on character descriptions of The Man Jack (image two) from The Graveyard Book; the monster in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (image 3); and various characters in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Related skills covered in school New skills that should be focussed on- Variety of sentence openers (-ing, -ly,
similes, conjunctions)- Mix of sentence lengths- Description of all the senses
- Expanded noun phrases- Types of noun- Pronouns- Ellipsis for suspense
Task:
Imagine you are an author who is writing an opening of a new Star Wars story. Your task is to write a character description of Darth Vader based on the image above. You should try to get across his character by describing appearance but also by describing movement and the mood and atmosphere of the background scenery.
The process should be structured over a few days like this:Session 1 – Plan what will be written.Session 2 – ‘First draft’ the writing (try to include as many of the key features as possible).Session 3/4 – Re-read and edit your first draft. Use the checklist below to ensure that it is the best version it can be.
Try your best to include:
To use this checklist, get your child to go through their work and identify where they have included certain features in their writing. They could highlight examples and explain why they have included them. The adult would then also go through the work and tick off what they can see. If there is anything that is missing or could be improved, go back to the work and try to add it in or edit what is already there. In our learning at school the children would normally spend time writing a draft which they would then go through to improve which could include substantial changes. Don’t expect your first effort to be your best effort.
MATHSIntended learning outcome: To use an appropriate written method for addition.
See the LJS progression in calculation document (available at: https://www.lymingtonjuniorschool.org/our-curriculum/#Mathematics-and-Times-Tables-at-LJS) for additional guidance as required.
Warm up:Visit https://corbettmathsprimary.com/5-a-day/ and select a daily challenge. TIP: Start at ‘Bronze’ and work up from there if required.
Extension – Possible answers provided for this problem. Blank them out if you do not want your child to see them.
SCIENCEIntended learning outcome: Electricity
Introduction: We are learning about electrical circuits- both series and parallel.
Task: Complete these sheets testing your memory of what you learnt in Year 4 Electricity. Can you draw a Circuit? Complete definition sheets. Can you draw the correct electric symbol for these.
Design and TechnologyIntended learning outcome:
Introduction:
ICTTopic in focus: Scratch – programming
Introduction:Visit the scratch website (https://scratch.mit.edu/), read the information for parents section. If your child is new to scratch, start by using this tutorial: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted
If your child has used scratch before, get them to choose one of the other ideas you can explore at https://scratch.mit.edu/ideas
ArtTopic in focus: Express Yourself
Introduction: We are thinking about ourselves and self-portraits and words that best describe our personality.
