Year 6
YEAR SIX
Mrs Houghton, Mrs Howell, Miss Waring and Mrs Bastide are really looking forward to a fantastic year with you all. You were superstars on Friday - check out what you can be finding out about from home ...
YEAR SIX AUTUMN 1 – ENDANGERED ANIMALS
In year 6 this half term we will be studying ‘ENDANGERED ANIMALS.’ Our class text is ‘Can we save the tiger?’ by Martin Jenkins but we will also study excerpts from Kipling’s, ‘The Jungle Book,’ and ‘Lord of the Forest,’ by Caroline Pitcher and Jackie Morris
These texts provide an exciting stimulus for all types of writing and the more knowledge you acquire the more your vocabulary choices for writing expand. So be an active learner and get a head start by finding out which animals are at risk of extinction – why they are critically endangered – and what we can do to help. You have multiple resources at your fingertips when you search wisely using the internet.
TOP TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE LEARNING IN SIX!
Tier 3 vocabulary
This refers to the technical terms you may wish to discuss with each other regarding this topic. Homework tasks will often be based around such challenging vocabulary and an understanding of these terms will equip you as well as a pen will lessons!
poacher extinction harvested
sufficient resources human action
generations conservation
panther tigris
David Attenborough’s, ‘PLANET EARTH,’ is a must see and we will be studying clips from his masterpiece.
TOP TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE LEARNING IN SIX!
Quick recall of your multiplication tables is essential as are ...
- regular reading
- neat handwriting
- and spelling practice
This week we will be sending out a list of websites and apps which are incredibly helpful - stick it to your fridge; independent learners will be consistently rewarded !