Homeworks from Mr Baker

Here is a reminder that when I set a homework, I try to make copies available on the blog so they can be printed off at home if the one given in school gets lost or damaged (this may not always be possble if the file is too large).
For this week, most of my maths set will have questions about place value to answer. Here is the link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ckTytNufyg_A7rrvY0E7Lloktpsu66fqVBclel9NsdE/edit?hl=en_US
My English homework - drafting the build up section of te Mr Man story can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e5umUddJ_8SVGJNeryEQAESzpwYAG5T3NoD_rP7e_f4/edit?hl=en_US
The Science homework asks you to look around shops to find plant food. All you need to do is name three with a description of what they can do for the plant and the main ingredients (perhaps the top three).
Here is the link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11auv8sAVyNZyKEWls7kLGcJmU9er5P3e6_Wt33vjKaU/edit?hl=en_US.

Good luck.

Mr Baker

Daily Websites

As the Alton Castle residential trip has now taken place, we can settle down to the normal but important task of learning and developing our skills.
There are some excellent websites that we encourage children to use all year. here are a few of them:
This American website is a super resource for practising number skills such as multiplication tables.
http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/index.html
Knowing and understanding mathematical vocabulary is essential and this site is one of the best on line maths dictionaries around.
http://amathsdictionaryforkids.com/dictionary.html
At the moment we are looking at interdependence and adaptation in science and this site is quite a good one to explore.
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/pondexplorer/pondexplorer.html
For general leaning, you can't go far wrong with the BBC. Here is a website that can get you started.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/
 The year Six Inspire workshops will be upon us soon. More sites and advice will be shared at that point.

Alton Castle

Last week, Year Six had their traditional residential trip to Alton Castle.
Unusually we were sharing the castle with another school, a local rural school called Faber with only about seventy children in total compared to the over four hundred we have.
As always, out children were a credit to themselves and their families in the way they conducted themselves in all the activities and the more prayerful aspects of the trip.
There will be more detail shared in our up and coming assembly.

Nets of a huge range of 3D shapes

Print off a net to make of anything from a cube to a decahedron - IF YOU'RE BRAVE ENOUGH!http://www.senteacher.org/wk/3dshape.php

Nets Revision - Maths

Try to make the following cubes from this sites nets - which create cubes and which do not. This will really help with your revision. (You can use the printable square paper from the blog).

Also ask yourself how may vertices does a cube have and any other properties of 3D shapes - use your SATs revision books to help.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/activitydetail.aspx?ID=84

Year 6 Maths - homework activities

Remember Mr Kelly's class must go through all of their 2007 papers and use revision books to assist their understanding.

Mr Baker's Homeworks WB 28.2.11

A short week this week so there are only two homeworks.
Maths - Ratio problems (easy as long as you read the questions carefully).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rK17183HZ7fcaPxczg5ExE7SlAthq1qtTzTutdZ3en4/edit?hl=en
English - planning an explanation. Our lessons have shown that unless we plan well and do the right things in each section, we will not be able to come up with a really good L5 explanation. The revision sheet referred to should have been taken home after the SATs Inspire workshop.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-j7N2fTzLl37aJoDEeE-knxbRcf7zF1gthamk5hQleU/edit?hl=en