1. Learning Map for Year 6: Summer 1 2016
Fly to El Salvador!
Please
encourage
your child to read
each day
SATs Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Revision at
Chronological Reports
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
Discuss the features of chronological report writing, revise punctuation and study past tenses including the perfect form and active/passive voices. Write an article, a sister story and a biography.
Cricket
Information Texts
Exploring information texts for inspiration (‘Dragonology’, ‘The Secrets of Stonehenge’ and ‘The First Drawing’.) and writing information texts about their own mythological creature.
Gymnastics
Science
Computing
Light
Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines.
Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out of reflect light into the eye.
Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes to from light sources to objects and then to our eyes.
Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them.
English
Short Stories – Mystery
Tales of Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Read and analyse a selection of short stories from Tales of Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan. Explore the structure of short stories & the use of modal verbs & dialogue. Write a drama based on one they have heard & then a new story in the Shaun Tan-style. PE
Year 6
Fly to El Salvador!
SATs Revision of all topics.
SATs Paper Practice
Arithmetic Paper Practice
Music
Geography
Art
El Salvador (Human Geography)
Types of settlement and land use
Economic activity – trade links and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.
Year 6 Production Songs RE
Maths
Showing creativity through making paper art sculptures.
Problem Solving and Using a Calculator
Use a calculator to convert fractions to decimals; read recurring displays.
Realise when a calculator has produced a rounding error.
Use a calculator and reasoning skills to aid problem solving.
Begin to use the memory (M+, M- and MR) keys.
Problem Solving and Investigations
Solve logic puzzles.
Work systematically to solve visual puzzles.
Use mathematical reasoning to solve number puzzles.
Find, describe and predict patterns.
Use short division, long division and short multiplication.
Pentecost
What Pentecost is and how the church celebrates Pentecost or Whitsun.
The account of the coming of the Holy Spirit to the early church and how this changed the disciples.
Symbolism associated with the Holy Spirit.
The effects the fruit of the Holy Spirit can have on a person’s life.
How a belief in the power of God affects people’s lives and the community.