Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Good morning Year 6 – we hope you are all well.
Looking forward to seeing you on Zoom at 9:05am.
Warm up challenge (15 minutes)
Reading (40 minutes)
Have a think back to this morning’s Zoom and the work we completed on the forest.
What objects might you find in the forest?
Imagine that Puck is sat in the middle of the forest trying to decide whether he should remove the spell from Lysander, Demetrius and Titania. What advice might the forest give him? (Try to think of both sides).
Put yourself in Puck’s shoes and imagine that you are trying to make this decision. Think about everything we have learnt so far including:
- Punishments are quite strict
- Titania has a bit of a temper
- Demetrius and Lysander are nobel gentlemen
What would you do if you were Puck?
You can write in 1st or 3rd person.
Things to include:
- At least 3 different reasons with explanations
- Lots of detail.
Here is an example of how you could start:
I just don’t know what to do. If I remove the spell from Titania’s eyes she might be incredibly angry that I made her fall in love with a donkey! What if she banishes me from the forest? What if I never get to see my fairy friends again? On the other hand, if I don’t remove the spell, Oberon (my master) will lose his love forever! I wouldn’t be able to tolerate him being sad.
Writing (1 hour)
Today, we are going to be planning a balanced argument of our own based on the question:
Should Puck remove the love potion?
We will start the session together on Zoom at 10am, where we can look at both points of view.
https://zoom.us/j/98957130419?pwd=WFJhelkxcjhVSjdlU0RxTFREaEoxUT09
Meeting ID: 989 5713 0419
Passcode: vVC0fq
When you have finished on the Zoom, I want you to plan your balanced argument.
Things to think about:
How are you going to introduce your argument?
- Make sure it is 3rd person
- Are you going to include facts?
- Don’t include your opinion
What are your main points going to be?
- Have you got the same amount of for and against?
- How many paragraphs will you have?
- How will you order your paragraphs?
How are you going to end your balanced argument?
- Will you include your opinion?
Maths (45 minutes)
Starter challenge:
Here are today’s 5 in 5 questions:
1) 34 x 21 =
2) 784 divided by 9 =
3) 3 1/4 + 1 1/4
4) 1/3 of ________ = 21
5) 
=
Main activity:
Today we are going to look at coordinates in all 4 quadrants which looks like this:
What do you notice?
How is it different from what you saw yesterday and Monday?
In 4 quadrants we have the following grids:
Grid 1 – a positive x axis and a positive y axis
Grid 2 – a negative x axis and a positive y axis
Grid 3 – a negative x axis and a negative y axis
Grid 4 – a positive x axis and a negative y axis
Look at the diagram below to see which is which:
For sections 3 and 4, we follow exactly the same rules but this time we go along the corridor and down the stairs.
Let’s look at an example:
The dot is plotted at 3 along the x axis and – 4 down the y axis.
So the coordinates are:
(3,-4)
Let’s have a look at another one:
The dot is plotted at -7 along the x axis and – 5 along the y axis.
(-7, -5)
Now you try:
Science (1 hour 30 minutes)
Today’s question is:
How do we classify animals?
Task 1:
Have a look at the following words and definitions. Can you match the correct word to the correct definition?
| Vocabulary | Definition |
| Mollusc | A living thing which has a backbone (spine). |
| Arthropod | The smallest part of a living thing which can function independently. |
| Vertebrate | A living thing which is not a plant or an animal and gets its nutrients from other organisms. |
| Fungus | The ability to regulate their own body temperature. |
| Cell | Soft-bodied invertebrate which mostly live in water. They sometimes have a shell. |
| Centipede | Sorting things into sets or classes which have features in common. |
| Classification. | An arthropod with a segmented body and one pair of legs per segment. All are carnivores. |
| Warm-bloodied | An invertebrate with a jointed exoskeleton. |
Feel free to use the internet to help you.
Read the following information about Carl Linnaeus:
Carl Linnaeus
The Man Who Named Nature
Carl Linnaeus (Lin-ay-us) was born in 1707 in Sweden. As a boy, he was very interested in the natural world, especially botany, which is the study of plants. His father, Nils, taught Carl about botany, religion and how to speak Latin. Carl soon picked up his father’s love of botany; he began growing his own plants in his family’s garden and searching for new plants.
When Carl was older, he wanted to go to university. His teachers ignored his immense interest in botany. Botany was not seen as a ‘proper’ subject, so he was not allowed to study it. Fortunately, one of his teachers recognised Carl’s talents and advised that he aimed for a career in medicine.
Linnaeus wrote up some of his thoughts about botany and one of his medical professors read what he had written. He recognised that Linnaeus knew more about botany than the lecturers! Aged just 23, he became a botany lecturer at University.
In Carl’s day, the plants and animals had long scientific names in Latin. It was hard to keep track of everything because they were difficult to remember. Carl helped to develop a new classification system of plants and animals. This was called the ‘binomial system’, where the group (genus) of a plant or animal is named followed by a specific species type. For example, humans are homo sapiens; a house cat would be felis catus. During his career, Linnaeus named about 13,000 living things and classified them into suitable categories such as mammals, birds, amphibians, insects etc. This system could be used across the whole world. About 1.5 million species have a binomial name today – scientists are still working on the rest!
Remember that animals are first divided into 2 groups – vertebrates and invertebrates.
Have a look at this and see if you can work out the difference.
A vertebrate is an animal with a backbone and an invertebrate is an animal without.
Have a look at the following vocabulary:
| Vocabulary | Definition |
| arthropod | An invertebrate with a jointed exoskeleton. Can be subdivided into: insects, spiders (arachnids), crustaceans, centipedes and millipedes. |
| insect | Arthropod with 6 legs, 3 parts to the body (head, thorax and abdomen), antennae and often has wings. E.g. bee, butterfly, beetle and ant. |
| spider (arachnid) | Arthropod with 8 legs and 2 parts to the body (head and abdomen). E.g. Tarantula, scorpion, tick, mite. |
| centipede | Arthropod with a segmented body and one pair of legs per segment. All are carnivores. |
| millipede | Arthropod with a segmented body and two pairs of legs per segment. All are herbivores. |
| crustacean | Arthropod with 10 or more legs and gills to breaths in water. E.g. crab, prawn, lobster, woodlouse. |
| worm | Soft-bodied in vertebrate with a long, slender, limbless body. Moves by crawling or burrowing. |
| mollusc | Soft-bodied invertebrate, which mostly lives in water. Sometimes have a shell. Include snails, slugs, octopuses, squid and clams. |
Watch the following clips to understand the classification of animals.
https://m.youtube.com/watch/v=mRidGna-V4E
Watch this clip to understand more about arthropods
Read the following information:
The Classification of the Animal Kingdom
The Animal Kingdom can be divided into two major groups: the vertebrates (animals with a spine and internal skeleton) and invertebrates (animals without a spine and internal skeleton). The word vertebrate comes from the names of the individual bones (vertebrae) which stack up on top of each other to make the column which we call the spine (or, confusingly, the backbone).
Sometimes, animals are classified as either cold-blooded or warm-blooded. However, these terms are misleading as they don’t really refer to the temperature of the animals’ blood. Instead, cold-blooded means that the animal is unable to regulate its own internal body temperature; so its blood temperature will rise and fall corresponding to changes in the environment. Conversely, warm-blooded animals can control their internal body temperature; this means that it remains constant (for humans this is about 37°C) despite changes in environmental temperature.
Vertebrates
Vertebrates can be subdivided further into 5 classes: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Each class has a set of features which are characteristic to all other animals in the same class. For instance, all fish have scales, fins and gills (with which they can breathe in water) and most fish lay eggs.
Amphibians have smooth, moist skin and live part of their lives on land and part in water. However, they rely on water to breed and lay eggs as their young (e.g. tadpoles) use gills to breathe in water. Reptiles have dry, scaly skin and lay eggs that have tough, leathery shells. Birds have feathers, wings and a beak and lay eggs with a hard, brittle shell. Finally, mammals have hair or fur, give birth to live young and care for their babies (including feeding with their own milk).
Invertebrates
Invertebrates can also be subdivided into smaller groups. Many are arthropods (which literally means ‘jointed legs’). These all have exoskeletons with flexible limbs – a bit like a suit of armour! Arthropods can then be subdivided into 5 smaller groups:
a.Insects (such as dragonflies, wasps, moths, ladybirds) all have six legs, three parts to the body (a head, thorax and abdomen) and antennae to help them to sense the world around them. Many also have wings. Interestingly, one group of insect (beetles) contains more species than there are all other species in the animal world added together!
b.Arachnids, which include all spiders and scorpions, have eight legs and two parts to the body (a head and abdomen). This group also includes ticks and mites which are usually parasitic (this means they feed off other living organisms, often by biting through the skin with specially-adapted mouthparts (to suck up their host’s blood).
c.Crustaceans include crabs, lobsters, shrimps and krill, all of which are aquatic (live in water). They have ten or more legs and sometimes a pair of these are specially-adapted (as claws or pincers, for instance) for feeding or defending themselves. Woodlice are an interesting example of this group; they are the only totally terrestrial (land-based) crustacean but – as they breathe using gills – are restricted to habitats where the atmosphere remains moist, such as under rotting logs.
d.Millipedes have long segmented bodies which are round in cross-section. They have two pairs of legs per segment and are all herbivores.
e.Centipedes also have long segmented bodies but they are flattened in cross-section. They have only one pair of legs per segment and they are all carnivores – in fact, they are nimble and vicious hunters!
There are many other invertebrate animals that are not arthropods, such as jellyfish, starfish, sea anemones and corals (yes, a coral is an animal!). Two major groups worth considering are molluscs and worms. Molluscs (which include snails, slugs, octopuses, squids and clams) all have soft bodies, live in water and sometimes have a shell. Worms have long, soft, slender, limbless bodies and move by crawling or burrowing. Some – like the earthworm you find in your garden – are segmented.
Now answer the following questions using evidence from the text:
1.Why do you think the text uses confusingly when explaining that the alternative word for the spine is the backbone?
2.Why is the term cold-blooded misleading?
3.What are the 5 classes of vertebrates?
4.How would you prove scientifically that a newly-discovered animal was a bird?
5.What do all arthropods have in common?
6.How could you tell if a given invertebrate was an insect?
7.What is unique about woodlice as crustaceans?
8.How would you distinguish between centipedes and millipedes?
Spanish (30 minutes)
Hola clase
Hoy, seguiremos aprendiendo sobre comida
Today we will continue looking at food.
Look at the fruit and vegetables in the PowerPoint below:
T-T-6076-Spanish-Fruits-Powerpoint
Task 1:
Complete the sheet below looking at which foods you like (me gusta) and dislike (no me gusta).
T2-L-553-Foods-I-Like-and-Dislike-Activity-Sheet-Spanish_ver_2
Task 2:
Write the ingredients that you might find in a fruit salad.
TT Rockstars
Keep going with this week’s competiton!
Story Time
Enjoy the next chapter of our book.
Well done for another fantastic day of learning Year 6!
Have a lovely evening and we shall see you tomorrow!
Miss Kinsella and Mrs Maruzza.
I think that Puck will take the potion out but if he does their will be consequences . Also if he doesn’t take the potion out then Oboron and Hermia have lost their love of their life and they will be very lonely
Great Sadia! What do you think the consequences for him would be?
he will either get kill or banished
magic lipstick
turtle key chain
teddy bear
books
pens
turtles
pack of cards
biscuits
tea bags
milk
hot water
a tea mug
hydro flask
picture
maths questions
paper
pen
shopping list
jacket
map
Great list Evie!
If I was Puck I would remove the potion from all of them and find another potion that will be permernant and make it so I put it on Lysander and he falls in love with the persons name I say which would be Hermia and do the same with Demetrius .
Great Evie! Do you think Puck will face any consequences?
What miss has in her handbag
350 carrot gold necklace
A see-through phone
A rope made of water
A 300 carrot Apple watch
A pure silver fridge
A TV
A bag of art supplies
Gold roses
A cake
A bottle of Coke
Great list Gracie!
Her hand bag has 20 different items that ill tell you
1. the Black PEARL
2. a CAN OF …….. PEPSI!
3.The Death Star
4. the Monalisa
5. Sega console
6. Iphone 1,000,000
7. seven 0
8. The infinity gauntlet
9. 18000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 SUBSICRIBERS
10. LINGS PRIMARY SCHOOL BLOG YEAR 6
11. Netflix
12 sub-machein gun
13. YouTube
14. TikTok
15. instagram
16. fortnite
17. a bus
18. one of NASA’s rockets
19. the moon
20. TIME MACHIENE
Dan, what a list! Fantastic.
Hello 👋
1. Sticky shoes for walking on walls 👟
2. Secret perfumes
3. Note book for who’s late 📖
4. Laser pen 🖊
5. Lunch 🥗
6. Time table for secret work
7. Books to tell you how to solve codes
8. Mini money pouch 💵
9. Secret tea mug ☕️
10. Binoculars to see through walls
11. Realistic mask
12. Secret lipstick that shoots bullets 💄
13. Pencil case ✏️
14. Folders for who naughty
15. Back up planning
16. Hair bubble to sling berry’s of the tree 🌲
17. Mini machine the makes things big to small so for that mini cars so miss kinsella just makes the car big and drives 🚙
18. Slime
19. Putty
20. Verde💚 & Azul💙
Fantastic list Tanisa!
Maths:
1) 34 x 21 =714
2) 784 divided by 9 =87.11111111111111
3) 3 1/4 + 1 1/4 = 4.5
4) 1/3 of ____7____ = 21
5) =81
Well done Zain. Can you check question 4 and write your answer for question 3 as a fraction please.
Maths
A=1,1
B=-8,6
C=-3,-9
D=9,8
E=7,9
F=7,3
G=-4,6
H=-5,-5
I=-10,9
J=9,-6
K=-2,-9
L=3,8
M=-3,1
N=-9,-9
O=2,-2
P=you forgot the P
Q=3,-7
Well done Sadia. P is there, it is just slightly hidden – it is in quadrant 3.
Have a look at your answers for questions b, c, e and g please.
5 in 5
1.= 714
2.= 87.1
3.= 4 2/4
4.=14
5.= 81
Well done Dan. Check question 4 please.
A wand to hurry time up for her to finish work and for us to go home .
An aeroplane in your bag so you can take us all on adventures
Scissors
Paints
Pens
Chewing gum
Purse
Glasses
Bottle of water
I think the forest wants him to remove the spell because he feels guilty they want him to feel okay.²
I like this idea Mason.
Some interesting ideas Mason. I like the wand idea!
64
83
4 2/8
918
Are these the 5 in 5 Mason?
phone,makeup,purse,money sweets drink book pen shoes fluff hair brush toy mirror credit card photo earrings tissue glue celetape glasses
Some interesting items for my handbag Declan!
Not sure how to do the axis tryed on a bit of paper and pen but I’m confused
Think back to the work that we completed yesterday and on Monday. We are following the same rule – along the corridor and up the stairs but today you might need to go down the stairs aswell. Give it a go and let us know if you need any more help.
I got 4 right with putting things together. I then checked online to see what they all ment. Ididnt no snails oysters have things in common
Well done Mason. What do oysters and snails have in common?
there different to others 2)most are warm blooded 3)mammals birds reptiles amphimbals bony fishes 4)it has a small beak feathers and wings 5)most have joint limbs and ventral nervous system 6)? 7)? 8)see the difference between them
Well done Declan. Can you find 1 way that a woodlouse is different to all other crustaceans?
5 in 5 !
1.= 714
2.= 87.1
3.= 4 2/4
4.=14
5.= 81
i wouldnt because it might be againstthere rights to make them fall in love with a flowerand put in there eyes
I agree. Do you think Puck will face any consequences?
it will be against there rights and might end up getting killed because they werent aloud to date eachother and puck is forcing them
writing
I think Puk should remove the spell so everything could go back too normal and then there will be less arguments and they too their own paths in live and go too normal but if he doesn’t more fights are gonna happen.
Great Alex, well done!
Maths
A. 1/1
B. -8/5
C. -3 / 7
D. 9/8
E. -9/7
F. 7/3
G. -4 /6
H. -5 / -5
I. -10/9
K. -2 /-8
L. 3/8
O. 2/-2
M. -3/ 1
N. -9/-9
Well done Alex! Check C,E and N.
a never-ending cup of tea
a multiplying grid
David Attenborough
Turtle tank with 2 naughty turtles
Harry potter book
Laser in the disguise of a pen
Great Aamirat, well done! The first is a definite must!
What should I do if I remove the spell Helena will fall depressed and Hermia will never love Lysander again If I don’t remove the spell my queen will still be deeply in love with a donkey but also if I don’t remove the spell Helena will fall in love with Demetrius and they can get married and then Lysander and Hermia I can reuse the spell on them.
Well done Aamirat!
1,1
-8,5
-9,-3
9,8
7,-9
7,3
-4,6
-5,-5
-10,9
9,-6
-2,-8
3,8
-3,1
-10,-9
2,-2
-1,1
3,-7
Fantastic – all correct!
714
87 R1
4 2/4
81
Well done Aamirat. Did you have an answer for question 4?