Wednesday 1 April work for Year 6
I so very much want to play a joke on you but I don’t dare as I don’t want it to backfire. So, share with me any jokes you play on your family!
Maths:
In my house, there are 30 different cans of tinned food. in the kitchen cupboards These can be grouped as follows:
Soup 5 cans
Baked beans 7 cans
Canned sweetcorn 3 cans
Spam (!) 1 can
Tinned fruit 6 cans
Spaghetti hoops (my husband is a baby) 4 cans
Mushy peas (look, I'm from the North, alright?) 4 cans
Show my range of canned goods in a carefully measured pie chart!
English:
The start of our science fiction text. I know some people have said they ‘don’t like science fiction!’… I’m afraid it is a genre we have to study and need to remain open minded about what science fiction actually is.
Below is the first page from our book, The Watertower.
Pupils to sketch what they think the water tower looks like based on the text. Label the different aspects that they have drawn. Does what they have drawn remind them of anything else?
Then, after you have done your labelled sketch, watch the following video on youtube (copy and paste the link below into your search engine)…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYQOWJ_Zz-o
From the youtube clip, AND the first page of the book, above, take on the role of a newspaper editor. Today, I want you to plan THREE dramatic newspaper headlines about the goings on in the town of Preston (which is in Australia, not the one in Lancashire where I was born!!). Something strange has been happening there. Locals have started panicking. People have been disappearing. People have been behaving very oddly, very oddly indeed. For a bonus point, you could also write the orientation for each of your headlines. Remember the orientation is that short, opening paragraph (maybe one or two sentences) that summarizes the newspaper article and comes at the start of the article, beneath the headline.
You will need these headlines for some work after Easter so don’t lose them!
OK! How can anyone say they don’t like sci fi now!?!