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Monday 20th April

Posted: Apr 20, 2020 by: Martin Clayton (MClayton) on: Class 6

Good Morning Year 6 and welcome back to home learning.

Put the chocolate away and have a hunt for your maths book and pencil.

The first thing that I want you to do is go on www.chesskid.com and register an account. I know that some of you love playing chess, but even if you don't, this is a superb website as it teaches you chess! There was an article in the Sunday papers yesterday, that Mrs J spotted - with her eagle eyes - ChessKid is offering a million free places and there are competitions to enter - so what have you got to lose. Chess is now, officially, part of the school day.

Reading. I read a fantastic book in the last two weeks, called Augustown, by Kei Millar, based in Jamaica. It's not appropriate for your age unfortunately, but I'd recommend it to all of your parents. I'm now reading Vermilion Drift, by William Kent Krueger. Today, I'd like you to get back into the reading (hopefully you never stopped) and I'd like to get some photos of you reading in strange places. 30 mins at least!

Maths is a nice Geometry Review 3 - to get you back into the swing of things.

I have set Mathletics to start up again from this morning. I am checking into who is doing this...

PE - the usual Joe Wicks at 9am and try to get back into the press-up/sit-up regime. Can you still do 10 of each? I'm up to 35 now.

Topic: this is an ongoing piece of work, but I'd like you to select a country in the Americas and begin researching it. Today, I'd like you to find the capital city, the largest city (these could be two different places), the language, the religion and the currency used. Write these down. Try to think about your selection... are there any countries that you know nothing about? Have you heard of Belize? Where is Tegucigalpa the capital of? Which country uses Bolivianos as currency? What about the Gourde? Where do they speak Dutch?

Did you know that a slice of pie is $2.50 in Jamaica and $3 in the Bahamas?
These are the pie rates of the Caribbean!

Sorry!

Anyway... Caitie and Alex have both been washing cars to help out at home - I hope you've all been getting involved. There are still some of you I've not heard from, I'll be giving you a phone call this week, so get in touch and let me know that all is well.

I've ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon... I'll let you know...

Have a great day.

Mr C

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