What is your child learning today Year 6

[TinyTroubleMaker]

Based on discussion in another area of the site.. If your child is getting access to a decent amount from their school during lockdown, please can you list briefly what they are covering today, per day. This way other parents whose children are getting little or nothing from their school, may be able to replicate some of it at home. Thank you.

This thread is for Year 6

Coordinates (Maths)
Static electricity (Science)
Identifying Simple and Complex sentences (English)

-Interpreting line graphs and bar charts + Nrich extension problem
-Creating extended sentences building up to writing a poem + extension of adding multi sensory description
-Video reading of next 2 chapters of ‘Stay Where You Are and then Leave’ plus comprehension questions
-5 spellings from Yr 5 and 6 list to learn, showing use of different strategies
-20 mins independent reading
-Geography Map work identifying highest mountain/longest river on each continent plus online identification of 30 most populous countries (data creating a class record speed)
-French vocabulary on the house - rooms and furniture (3 sessions to last all week)
-Teacher online from 9 til 3.30 to answer questions/give advice on work
-TA available on email all day to give advice on technical/Google Classroom probs

• No PE videos today, but links to Cosmic Yoga sessions.

Nothing set.

Apparently we will get a letter.

Nothing was set when the class self isolated before Christmas either.

Do your children go to private schools?

Bump

-Head Teacher Loom Assembly
-Finding sum and difference on bar charts and pictograms + Nrich extension problem
-Planning a diary entry of one of the characters from Edward Hopper's paintings. Focus on using all three tenses and describing emotions. Extension of planning a second entry a week later, after a change of circumstances
-Video reading of next 2 chapters of ‘Stay Where You Are and then Leave’ plus comprehension questions
-5 spellings from Yr 5 and 6 list to learn, showing use of different strategies
-20 mins independent reading
-Geography Map work identifying flags of 30 most populous countries and answering questions about the symbols on some flags
-French vocabulary on the house - rooms and furniture (3 sessions to last all week)
-Teacher online from 9 til 3.30 to answer questions/give advice on work
-TA available on email all day to give advice on technical/Google Classroom probs

• PE video of 20 min exercise, plus links to ball skills videos for a park trip.

From what I can see on google classroom (I don't get involved much, normally at work anyway but off today) she had:

• live y6 assembly this morning. I asked what it was about and she said going over yesterday's work, they showed some examples of really good work submitted yesterday, briefing about today
• maths: area and perimeter
• maths game: "fraction decimal pairs "
• reading (different for different groups so this is for hers) reading a speech made by Greta Thunberg to the UN and answering comprehension questions
• computing: online safety and coding task on Purple Mash (creating a game / quiz about online safety)
• English: they are doing Macbeth and are on some stage of planning/ preparation of a piece of work about the character Lady Macbeth
• PE is in a separate bit of google classroom, but I guess it's a link to some online YouTube video or something
• doesn't seem to be anything creative today but they have a different section of google classroom which opens in the afternoon and usually has stuff that engages the year group in some kind of art of music activity and they can chat to each other in the comments etc. In lockdown one they would have an exercise or extreme reading or muscial challenge for example, and then the staff would make perhaps a montage of the submissions.

that's it. This is an inner London state school.