Year Six Weekly Learning Overview Topic: South America and the Maya Civilisation
English:
Explanation:
Children to read, listen to explanations and recognize the features.
To set targets set for reading and writing.
To present an explanation to the class.
To check understanding of class book ( Chapter
1).
Things to do at home:
To check targets set for writing and reading.
Holiday homework including reading and
writing.
Shared Text :
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Mathematics:
New target.
Convert decimals to fractions
using thousandths, hundredths
and tenths and vice versa.
Mentally add decimal numbers.
Things to do at home:
Active Learn: Bug zapper
Holiday homework.
Week Beginning: Tues 10th January 2017
PSHE & Citizenship
Target reviewing.
Science:
To learn about how the digestive and the cardiovascular system,
work.
Things to do at home:
Check your child’s food, exercise and sleep/rest diary.
Spellings :
Use of interesting vocabulary : convenience, assistance, vehi-
cle, motor, solemn, apparently, attachment, orphan, explanation, cardiovascular.
Topic:
Learn about where and when the Mayas lived in
the world.
To find the present day locations and compare
to the past.
Label the continents of North and South America.
Things to do at home:
Project to build a Maya pyramid from recycled
materials ( three week project).
ICT: PowerPoint Presentation
Select appropriate software for
the task/audience .
Plan structure and layout of
presentation
Things to do at home:
To discuss the new vocabulary and ask the child to think up a
complex sentence containing the word.
Use online thesaurus or a thesaurus to determine meaning of new
vocabulary. Encourage to write in a sentence using their new
Writing Target.
Reminders / Events: Week beginning 12th February is Assessment Week. Parent Teacher Meeting on 21st February.