Year Six Weekly Learning Overview Topic: South America and the Maya Civilisation
English:
To read Journey to the River Sea
( Chapters 11 to 14).
Story Map for the story so far.
Mark comprehensions completed for
homework.
Revise antonyms and synomyns.
To write an opening of a story.
Things to do at home:
To ensure child reads each night.
Ask questions about the setting,
character, plot, dislikes/likes etc.
Shared Text :
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Science:
Children to group plants into groups.
Know that a scientist established the binomial system of describing living things .
learn the seven groupings
Things to do at home:
Explanation on how plants and animals
are sorted ( three week project).
Science bug—Classification key
Topic:
How did the Maya Empire dissolve.
Use and index and contents pages in an atlas.
To recall major cities in South America plus
other geographical features.
Week Beginning: Sun 19th March 2017
PSHE & Citizenship
What is bullying?
Mathematics Revision
Calculate and interpret the mean as an average
Read and interpret a range of tables, graphs, pictograms
and bar charts and answer questions relating to data displayed in these
Interpret and construct pie charts and use these to solve
problems
Things to do at home:
Abacus — Robot Revenge
ICT:
Organise, refine and present information for a specific audience.
Design and create a PowerPoint
to explain about the classification
of living things.
Spellings :
germ, immunisation, bacteria, vaccine, hindrance, kingdom,
classify, reptiles, mammals, micro-organism, vertebrates,
invertebrates.
Things to do at home:
Use online thesaurus or a thesaurus to determine meaning
of new vocabulary. Encourage to write in a sentence using
their new Writing Target.
Things to do at home:
To quiz your child on the rivers and mountain
Reminders / Events: French Examination this week. Year 5 and 6 Production March 22nd 2017 at 11:20.