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Hello Team Six, Yep, week four already! Remember if you have any questions just ask on Reading Plus and Miss Mac and Miss Connolly will reply when they can.FACT OF THE DAY

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper position of the hands on the keyboard).

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Research Questions – reply to Miss Mac and or Miss Connolly on Reading Plus with your answer.1. If I am facing North and I turn clockwise through 540 degrees. Which direction am I facing?2. What does the word collimate mean?Maths

1. TTRockstars 2. White Rose Maths https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ THIS IS REALLY GOOD WE HAVE CHECKED!

3. BBC Bitesize daily maths lessons https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-and-p7-lessons/1 THIS IS REALLY GOOD WE HAVE CHECKED!

Complete the following

Why not try a simple game with your brother/sister adult?

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Kingsley Home Learning Week 4

Complete the following

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= 8,275 + 82

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Q3.25.34 × 10 =

Q4.0.9 ÷ 100 =

Q5.9 − 1.9 =

Q6.

Q7.7,064 − 502 =

Q8.56.38 + 24.7 =

Q1. Tick the numbers that are common factors of both 12 and 18

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Q2. The children at Farmfield School are collecting money for charity.Their target is to collect £360So far they have collected £57.73

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How much more money do they need to reach their target? £__________

Q3. Remember for 2 marks, you must show your working out.6 pencils cost £1.68

3 pencils and 1 rubber cost £1.09

What is the cost of 1 rubber?

WritingWeek Four Writing task – Please use the exercise book, if not a piece of paper from a book/pad.

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Title- Week Four Writing Task – Professor Plum

Question time!

Who is Professor Plum? What potion is he making? Has the Professor chosen to lock himself away? Why hasn’t he had any sleep? What might the vessels and books on the table contain? If you could make any magic potion, what would you make? What do you think the Professor keeps in his pockets?

Perfect picture!Imagine you have the power and ingredients to make any magic potion. Can you draw and describe your creation?

Sick sentences!These sentences are ‘sick’ and need help to get better. Can you help? Remember your Year 6 grammar – adverbial phrases, prepositional phrases, similes, personification, metaphors.

He flicked the flask. It had a red liquid inside. It bubbled. The room was smoky.

Sentence challenge!What sounds might you hear in Professor Plum’s laboratory?Can you use your senses to describe what it would be like to be in there?

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Writing Challenge – What happens next? Continue the story.Professor Plum had been locked away in his laboratory for days now, barely even stopping to eat or drink.He rested his left arm on the dusty pile of books scattered across his desk, and with his right hand he gently flicked the conical flask in front of him. The red and orange liquid inside coughed and spluttered as heat from the Bunsen burner excited it from below.Professor Plum wiped his weary eyes; only the excitement of finally finishing the potion kept him awake. Just a few more hours, then it would be ready…

Year 6 Statutory Spellings:Here is something a bit different but equally a tricky. Silent letters – they are there you just cannot hear them. They will trick you.

Can you write a short paragraph (which makes sense) using the above words once?

You can add other words to help make your writing make sense. Be creative!

Science What happens to different liquids once they

are frozen?Aim: To freeze difference liquids and see what happens to themEquipment: Something to freeze liquids in (ice cube tray or plastic cup) Something fizzy – lemonade Food colouring A kettle

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Access to a water supply – a tap!Method:1. In cup one fill cup halfway with BOILED water – an adult MUST do this part with you. Place cup in the freezer.2. In a second cup, add cold water straight from the tap. Place cup 2 into the freezer.3. In the third cup, add some fizzy liquid – lemonade. Place cup 3 into the freezer.4. In the fourth cup, add cold water from the tap and then add food colouring (stir until all water is now the same colour). Place cup into the freezer.5. Allow water time to freeze. Once you are happy, remove cups and take ice out of each cup. What do you notice?

Cup 1- boiled water

Cup 2 – tap water

Cup 3 - fizzy Cup 4 – food colouring

Either write or draw what you can see.

Write why do you think this happened?

Once completed, watch this video. https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/33254/intriguing-iceTake a photo of your investigation and post it on Twitter and tag us! @Year6Kingsley

Reading1. Reading Plus 2. Again why not snuggle up with a good old-fashion book and read a chapter a day. You could even write a quick review on Reading Plus of your daily reading and send it to us – we would LOVE to read them!3. Complete comprehension below – there are four pages so read them all!

Weird but wonderful...

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The Octopus

An amazing bodyOctopuses are boneless animals and because of this, their bodies are extremely flexible, allowing them to squeeze through small spaces. To swim, an octopus squirts jets of water through a tube called a siphon. The force of these jets is powerful enough to move the octopus quickly through the water. The octopus travels backwards with its eight tentacles trailing behind it. These tentacles have suction cups, or suckers, with sensors that enable them to ‘taste’ whatever they touch.

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Octopuses have the largest brains of any invertebrate (an animal that does not have a backbone). They can learn and invent solutions to problems. Captive octopuses have been observed to play, repeatedly releasing bottles or toys into a circular current in their tanks and then catching them again. Octopuses often escape from their tanks in search of food and sometimes even break into the tanks of other creatures. They have also been known to board fishing boats and open the cargo hold to eat crabs.

The way the octopus’s nervous system is organised means that only part of it is in the brain. The majority of an octopus’s nerve cells are actually in its tentacles. This has some curious results: when an octopus’s tentacle is cut off, it will crawl away on its own. But that’s not all. If this tentacle meets a food item, it will seize it and try to pass it to where the mouth would have been if it was still connected to the body.

Part of body How many What it does Weird but wonderful

Tentacle 8 Catches and chokes prey

The underside of each tentacle is covered in 240 suckers. That means an octopus has a total of 1,920 suckers.

Heart 3 Pumps blood The blood that each heart pumps is blue.

Eye 2 Sees pray and predators, even in low light

The pupils remain horizontal even if the octopus turns on its side or upside down.

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Defence and attackOctopuses have a number of different ways to defend themselves.

They have a well-developed ability to hide. For example, the common octopus is able to camouflage itself by changing its skin to match the colours, patterns and even textures of its surroundings. Predators such as sharks, eels and dolphins swim by without even noticing it.

When an octopus is discovered, it releases a cloud of black ink. This blocks the predator’s view, giving the octopus time to escape. The ink also contains a substance that can reduce the predator’s ability to smell, making the fleeing octopus even harder to track.

If necessary, an octopus can squeeze into tiny cracks and crevices where predators can’t reach it. If all else fails, an octopus can lose a tentacle to escape a predator’s grasp and re-grow it later.

InvertebrateimitatorsAn octopus in a German zoo learned to open jars of shrimps by copying zoo staff. The octopus, named Frida, opened the jars by pressing her whole body onto the lid and grasping the sides with her eight tentacles. She unscrewed the lid by repeatedly twisting her body. It took Frida anything from ten seconds to an hour to get a lid off, depending on how tightly it had been screwed on.

Octopus factsType of animalInvertebrate (no backbone)

DietCarnivore: crabs, crayfish, shellfish

Average lifespan in the wild1 to 3 years

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Largest octopusGiant Pacific Octopus Weighs up to 70kg (close to the weight of an average person) Measures 7.5m from tentacle tip to tentacle tip

Smallest octopusOctopus Wolfi Can be as light as 1g (the weight of 1 raisin) Measures 1.5cm in length

VenomThe tiny Blue-ringed Octopus of Australia is the only octopus that has venom deadly to humans.

Size of a common octopus relative to an average man

Comprehension Questions – there are 3 in total.1. What allows octopuses to be extremely flexible?

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2. 1. Which body part does an octopus use to move through the water?

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2. How does this body part help it to move?

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3. Where is most of an octopus’s nervous system located?

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4. The table on page 2 contains information that is weird but wonderful about octopuses’ tentacles:

Part ofbody

Howmany

What it does Weird but wonderful

Tentacle 8 Catches and chokes prey

The underside of each tentacle is covered in 240 suckers. That means an octopus has a total of 1,920 suckers.

Give two other pieces of information about octopuses’ tentacles that could have been included in this table.

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5. Look at the paragraph beginning: The way the octopus's nervous system...

Give the meaning of the word majority, in the second sentence.

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6. How does releasing black ink help the octopus to escape from predators?Give two ways.

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7. Look at the section headed: Defence and attack.

Octopuses can squeeze into small spaces. How does this protect them?

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8. Octopuses are very determined.

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Give two examples from the text that support this.

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2. _________________________________________________________

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9. What is special about Octopus Wolfi?

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10. Which octopus produces a poison that can kill people?

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11. 1. What creatures do octopuses eat?

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2. What creatures eat octopuses?

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12. Draw a line to match the heading with the information that is provided in each text box of Weird but wonderful... The Octopus.

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13. Look at the section headed: Octopus Facts.Find and copy one word that tells you an octopus eats the flesh of other animals.

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P.E1. P.E. with Joe Wicks - you will need water!2. Challenge: How many star jumps can you do in one minute? Arms have to go above your head. Miss Mac completed 72 star jumps. Miss Connolly completed 61. You could tweet your videos/photos to our Twitter page @Year6Kingsley

Wellbeing TaskWhat is your favourite piece of music? A song, a band?

Go and play it. Sing along. Dance. Lie down and close your eyes – just listen.

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Write down the name of the song or the name of the band. Write 5 reasons why you like that piece of music/band.

Whole School Task Week Four Come up with a list of your five things in your life that you are grateful for accompanied by a small explanation as to why you have chosen each of these things (we did something very similar recently.)

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