Hi everyone
There appears to be a problem with the link for today’s music session – try this one, which worked for me this morning.
https://collins.co.uk/pages/support-learning-at-home#Primary
Home-learning – music
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Home-learning – guided reading
Hi everybody,
There appears to be an intermittent problem with the Bookscool website, which is frustrating as I know you need to access this to read Skellig online. We don’t know how long this website will be down for, so in the meantime, please use your reading session to focus on your home reading instead. Choose a selection of questions from the Guided Reading question cards and write them and the answers in your home-learning books. Please give detailed answers and reference the text where appropriate.
Guided reading question cards fiction
Guided reading question cards non-fiction
Thank you!
Pelhamory has arrived!
Good news! My home copy of The Pants Project by Cat Clarke has arrived, and this afternoon I have been learning new editing skills. I’ve had to dig deep and use a growth mindset, because it’s definitely proved to be challenging, but now it’s done, I’m pleased with the results. So, here are the next instalments, chapter 31 (parts 1 and 2). They follow on from Ms. Moores’ reading, which can be found here, on the Year 6 Home-Learning page. Make sure you listen to the top bar first, otherwise you’ll be listening to the story backwards, in chunks… Enjoy!
House points
In the interests of keeping Pelham’s spirit of competition strong, I have decided that, from today, I will award house points to children who engage with their learning through the blog. I intend to publish house points at the end of every week and keep a running total.
The house with the most house points by the time we return to school will get a special prize at our end of year party!
Letters from our pen pals
The one above is for Marcos and Ziyad, the one below is for Saif and Preston
Assyrah, this is for you…
Did you know…?
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own a single guinea pig.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary – it is the fear of long words!
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
One of the ingredients needed to make dynamite is peanuts.
Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones (apparently).
I’d love to know what interesting facts you know – Ospreys have posted some sneeze facts over on their blog, some of which are toe-curlingly revolting! Why don’t you swing by and take a look…?
‘Desert Island Discs’ challenge
This project comes courtesy of Sam and Ethan (who typed up these instructions) – thank you SO much boys. It is something that you could do with people in your house, as well as family and friends who you are not able to visit at the moment.
Note – a disc a is song played on a piece of plastic 🙂
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What you need:
- An interviewer;
- Someone who is interviewed.
Optional – you can record your interview on a smart phone and look back on it. Nice.
How it works:
It’s simple – the person being interviewed is invited to choose eight songs, a book and a luxury to take with them as they’re castaway on a mythical desert island. They’re given the complete works of Shakespeare and a religious book (Koran or bible etc.). Desert Island discs is played on BBC radio 4 most weeks and has been going for about 100 years!!
Questions the interviewer could ask, but you can ask any! This challenge tests your interview and answering skills:
- What are your eight favourite songs?
- Which one and only song’s your absolute favourite, if you had to choose one?
- What one and only book would you take to your desert Island?
- What luxury item would you take to your desert island? You can’t use it to escape or communicate with.
- Tell me about your family and friends?
- Who is the biggest influence in your life? Why?
- What was a good time in your life and why?
- What was a tough time and why?
- What are you most proud of?
- If you could go back in time where would you go and why?
- What would you do with £1,000,000.00?
- Any other questions you can think of!
Some examples of previous interviews:
Daniel Radcliffe (AKA Harry Potter) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gc48 Jamie Oliver (famous chef) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009489f
Tom Hanks (famous actor) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079m78n
House points
So, first of all, I have a confession to make… I have totally appropriated this idea from Mr. Burns…
To reward you guys for both your great effort in home-learning and your engagement with this blog, I am thinking of creating a virtual house points chart that I will share with you on a weekly basis. Perhaps the winner can have a special treat at our end of Year 6 party, whenever that may be…
What do you think?
Hello again!
Hello there everyone! Whilst I am busy thinking about more posts to put on the blog, I thought you might enjoy trying to solve these pictorial clues: each number has images that represent a street or area or place in London. Some of them are quite tricky, so it might mean that you need to share your ideas, either with each other or people at home. Lots of the teachers and TAs at Pelham had a go working out the answers over the weekend, sharing their ideas, which I found particularly useful for the more cryptic clues. I look forward to seeing your suggestions.
Mrs. Watson xo
