Year Six Road Sense Lesson at 1:15pm today. This lesson is being led by Lancashire Fire. The link to the lesson is below and you will need to use Teams to access it. 

Maths

Today we are looking at adding mixed number fractions. This links in with the work on factors and common denominators from this week.

There will be a Teams meeting at 9:30am.

There is a task below to tackle with some answers so you can mark your work afterwards.

You then need to complete the lesson on the LBQ site.  The code for the lesson is: szfm

English

Today we will be learning to retrieve from the text and infer character thoughts and feelings. Our lesson will be on Teams at 11:15am. We will look at extracts that include description about some planets and then focus on the character of Gedanken, creating a role on the wall for her.  

The extracts for the lesson are available in a separate powerpoint so you can access them separately. 

Reading

Our Reading tasks this week are linked to our new Science topic: Earth & Space. 

Reading and completing these tasks will help give you some background knowledge about the topic.

Today you need to complete the second of three tasks on the LBQ site.  The focus today is retrieval so remember to read the text carefully before answering the questions, as the answers will be in the text. The code for the lesson is: szfm

Science

The Solar System

1. Watch this super online simulation of the Solar System and investigate the site carefully

https://www.solarsystemscope.com/

2. Complete the LBQ task, 'Our Solar System'.

Code: szfm

3. Make a relative distance model of the Solar System.

You will need:

-a strip of paper 4.5m long

-a photocopy of the planets sheet (below)

-a NASA planet scale of distances sheet (below)

-scissors

-glue

-a tape measure