Year 6 Homework: Summer Week 3

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1 Year 6 : Summer Week 3

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3 English Should: The Sun is our narrator for this story adapted from Aesop s Fables: The peacock is the most royal of birds or so he thinks. When I shine down with my bright rays, he loves to open up his feathers to show off all his wonderful colours. How he gleams with emerald, gold, purple, and azure! He even considers himself a worthy rival to me. But he was not always so bright and beautiful. Once, long ago, he was just an ordinary, dusty sort of farmyard bird. This bothered him, for in his heart he longed for greatness. His life abruptly changed when, one day, as he was pecking grass by the lake, he met the goddess Juno. He knew that his chance for transformation had come. Divine Juno, lovely goddess, he said. Why are my feathers so plain and ordinary? I want to be beautiful. I long for everyone to admire me. In fact, I want to be the most indisputably magnificent bird in the world. You are a goddess. You can do this for me in an instant. If you work your will, even the emperor will admire and envy me. I pray, dear goddess make me magnificent. Juno looked at the dull and ordinary bird and thought: How vain and pretentious he is! I will give him what he wants, but I will teach him a lesson. When the peacock next saw his reflection in the water, he realised that she had granted his wish for he was beautiful beyond his dreams. His feathered tail was more magnificent than the tapestry that hung behind the emperor s throne. The other birds gathered round to admire him and how he strutted up and down like a king, patronising all the scruffy farmyard birds. The other birds were not gazing at him as he thought they should. They were staring up into the sky and, as he too looked up, he saw the powerful, kingly eagle span out his wings and soar high into the heavens. Who could doubt that the eagle was the most royal of all the birds? Pah, said the peacock, I will fly even higher. He tried but his decorative wings were too heavy. Yes, he looked wonderful, but the sly goddess had made him pay a price for his beauty he could no longer fly. Hmmm, I thought, as I looked down. That peacock is all show. There s an important lesson here. It s not only feathers that make fine birds. Oh yes, there is a good moral in this tale: Don t harm your strength and your health for the sake of beauty.

4 English Should: 1 Which words and phrases tell us about the character of the peacock throughout the story? Can you explain what they tell you about the peacock? 2 How does the author describe the farmyard birds? bright and beautiful plain and ordinary ordinary and dusty powerful and kingly 3 What simile is used to describe how the peacock moves when he knows that the other birds were watching him? 4 What does the phrase the other birds were not gazing at him tell you about the way the peacock feels about himself?

5 English Should: Read the following text, deciding where the punctuation for speech is needed: Some time after that, a serving-woman came into the feast hall where King Halfdan was. She carried a little white bundle in her arms. My lord, she said. A little son is just born to you. Ha, cried the King and he jumped up from the high seat and hastened forward. Show him to me, he shouted with joy in his voice. The serving-woman turned back the cloth on her bundle and there was a tiny baby. The king looked at it carefully. He called for his soldiers, Ivar and Thorstein, to stand as witnesses. Then, he lifted the baby in his arms, while the old serving-woman brought a silver bowl of water. The king dipped his hand into it and sprinkled the baby saying, I own this baby for my son. He shall be called Harald. The Queen smiled as she remembered her dream and how the Gods had blessed her with a son.

6 English Could: Can you match the independent clauses and link them using a colon or a semi-colon? David went to karate class after school In the classroom the noise level had risen The Christmas show was extremely popular The animals boarded the ark over 100 parents bought tickets to watch. they got shelter from the flood. Deepak enjoyed after school gardening club. the excitement of the fire alarm had wound up the class.

7 English Could: Read this historical story carefully. Find all the verbs. Then decide if they are consistent throughout. Make changes if you need to. The Final Journey of Ibn Battuta I take a caravan and we reached Taghaza, which was not a pretty village. People dug in the sand for slabs of salt. A camel carries two slabs of salt, which were cut into pieces so merchants can sell the salt. We stayed in a house in Taghaza for ten unhappy days; it was built entirely of salt, except for the camel skin roof. The water does not taste good. We cross 500 miles of desert where usually only one water place existed. Thankfully, it has rained that year.

8 Spelling Year 6 Please practice the spellings from that were given in the Easter pack.

9 Maths Investigation Must:

10 Maths Investigation Should: A school manager orders 12 boxes of coloured paper. Each box contains 5 reams, with each ream containing 500 sheets of paper. How many sheets of paper are ordered? A squad of 20 footballers are each given 3 new pairs of boots. Each pair has 16 studs. How many studs are there altogether? For a party, 3 boxes of biscuits are purchased. Each box contains 14 packs of biscuits. Each pack contains packets of 22 biscuits. How many biscuits are purchased? Marbles are sold in bags of 25. A shop has 16 bags. How many marbles are there altogether? Kieran needs to run 2500 metres. In the first ten minutes, he runs 639 metres and in the second ten minutes, he runs 794 metres. How much further does he still need to run? A crisp factory needs to make 8375 bags an hour. If a machine breaks down and the factory only makes 3233 bags in one hour, how many bags does it need to make in the next hour to catch up? A study of 900 people found that 687 were right-handed, 174 were left-handed and the rest were ambidextrous (could use either hand). How many people were ambidextrous? The cinema has 700 seats. 113 adults and 276 children come to see a film. How many empty seats are there?

11 Maths Investigation Could:

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13 Arithmetic This week your test will be based upon a range of the operations we have looked at over the last term and half. There will be 36 questions and you will be given 25 minutes to answer them. Topics we have covered: long division percentage of amounts adding, subtracting, multiplying & dividing fractions order of operations adding & subtracting decimals Set yourself the challenge of practicing some of these to help.

This problem was created by students at Western Oregon University in the spring of 2002

This problem was created by students at Western Oregon University in the spring of 2002 Black Ordering Mixed Numbers Improper Fractions Unit 4 Number Patterns and Fractions Once you feel comfortable with today s lesson topic, the following problems can help you get better at confronting problems