We have started reading a story called Rain Player this week. Linking with our topic about the Maya Civilisation, the story is about Pik – a talented Pot-a-Tok player – who must play the Rain God, Chac, at the ball game in order to save his people from a terrible drought. We have explored the subjunctive mood by imagining what we would do, if we were an influential person in society. In addition to this, we created posters to recruit flexible, capable and unshakeable players to join our Pok-a-Tok teams to defeat the deity.
In science, we looked at the different components of blood. By using different items to represent each component, the children ‘made’ blood. We used yellow water to represent the plasma, cheerios and red food colouring as the red blood cells; marshmallows for the white blood cells and cotton wool to represent platelets. The children also discussed the role that each component plays.
In maths this week, we have been practising some problem solving. Starting firstly with problems which involve starting at the end and working backwards, using the inverse to solve. Although a little tricky to start, we managed to get the hang of it. We also worked on sudoku and then tried applying some of the techniques to some SATs word problems.
In Music, we have been learning about the blues and from next week we will be starting to play Jonny be Good on the ukelele.
Homework:
Spelling x 10 sentences
Grammar quiz – Google classroom
Maths – Google classroom
Reading x 3
Have a great weekend.
The Year 6 Team
