Year 6JT: Blog items
18th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 18 🤔
Date: 18th Jun 2020 @ 7:26am
Good Morning once again Ravensbury!
Time really is flying. We are over half way through our wild month enjoying our time learning about and enjoying nature.
Today’s challenge is about sticks! Your challenge is to find a stick. What can you pretend your stick is? Will it be a wand? Can you turn it into a pencil and write in the mud with it? Let your imagination GO WILD!
Have a fun filled day
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
Here are more photos from one of our wonderful wildlife wardens who spent the day yesterday chasing rainbows. Thank you for taking part again and making us smile
Date: 17th Jun 2020 @ 2:55pm
Storytime with Kate Milner
As part of Refugee Week this week:
We are very excited to announce that children’s author Kate Milner is doing a special reading of her award winning book My Name Is Not Refugee just for Manchester Libraries! This powerful story details the journey of a little boy with his mother to seek refuge in another country. Kate offers us an insight into her story and illustrations and explains the journey of refugees very well to young readers.
This is a must watch!
Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives YouTube page
on Thursday 18 June at 11am.
Date: 17th Jun 2020 @ 8:55am
Hi everyone,
I hope you are keeping busy and enjoying the thunderstorms! I love listening to the rain- as long as I am nice and dry inside (preferably curled up with a brew and a good book!) How about you? What have you been up to? I know Haya has been making lovely Nutella cookies, Oliwia has been enjoying reading David Walliams and Muneeba has been getting creative with the front covers of her books for high school! Drop us a line and tell us what you are doing these rainy days!
Y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Today’s learning is on the padlet I hope the thunderstorms are giving you good inspiration for reading and writing spooky stories- why is there always a thunderstorm in a spooky story?
https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
Have a good day everyone!
17th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 17 🌈
Date: 17th Jun 2020 @ 7:45am
Hope today will be a Wild Wednesday Ravensbury! I bet the ducks enjoyed yesterday’s weather. It was tremendous to watch!
Today’s challenge is to see if you can race to find the colours of the rainbow before you get wet in the rain! Maybe you’ll find an orange flower and green grass? These are the colours you are looking for and remember to send in your photos:
violet indigo blue green yellow orange red
If you see a rainbow send in a photo too.
Have a Wonderful Wednesday
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
Yesterday I discovered that a squirrel’s front teeth never stop growing. Squirrels must gnaw to keep their teeth at the right length. What did you find out?
I also hear this beautiful birdsong every night at tea time. Does anyone know what bird is singing?
Date: 16th Jun 2020 @ 9:11am
Good morning everyone,
this week is Refugee week 15th -20th June and as we have enjoyed reading The Boy at the Back of the Class with Miss Thornton, I thought it might be nice to take part. Click the link below for some activities.
https://manclibraries.blog/2020/06/11/refugee-week-15-20th-june-2020/
As always today's learning is on padlet:
https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
I have also spotted that Sir David Attenborough is on BBC Bitesize this morning (Tues 16th June)teaching geography and again on Thursday 18th June. Arguably the best geography teacher in the world!
If you've ever fancied having Sir David Attenborough as your geography teacher, then we have some very good news!
The presenter of Blue Planet and Planet Earth - and general all-round great person - is going to front a geography lesson for BBC Bitesize.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/53048939
He is looking at Continents, the world and maps and on Thursday: Oceans. Just what my daughters have been looking at this week in their home learning. I think they may like having a different teacher for a change.
Hope you enjoy too!
16th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 16 💻🦢🐾🕷🦆
Date: 16th Jun 2020 @ 7:41am
16th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 16
Happy Tuesday Ravensbury!
I hope you are well and you managed to get out yesterday before the thunderstorms. It’s a bit cooler today but hopefully we’ll have some sunshine later.
You can see my butterfly buffet challenge at the bottom. The butterflies didn’t come but there were a couple of visitors and this morning half of the peach I put out had gone! I wonder who enjoyed it. What do you think?
Today your challenge is to go outside, find some wildlife and then google facts about them. What’s the most interesting fact you can find? Write down your answers and send a photo or send a short video in telling us what you’ve discovered about our wild friends outside.
Have a terrific Tuesday
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
Here are a couple of visitors to my garden. Someone has half a peach tucked away for a treat later!
Date: 15th Jun 2020 @ 12:00pm
Have a look at the text we have been looking at in school to help us create our spooky stories!
Date: 15th Jun 2020 @ 9:45am
Hi everyone,
hope you are all keeping well. How lovely to have the sunshine back-perfect weather to try some of the challenges set by Mrs Ganner in 30 days WILD CHALLENGE. Did anybody try Friday's challenge and hug a tree? Might sound a little strange but if you've never tried it... give it a go! Today's challenge is to leave out some sugar solution to feed and attract a butterfly. I would love to see some butterflies in my garden so am going to give this a whirl too!
As always today's learning is on padlet:
https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
I am going to try and get my cheeky twins to do their home learning quickly this morning so we can go for a little walk in the sunshine and who knows maybe hug a tree or two! Have a lovely day everyone!
15th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 15 🦋
Date: 15th Jun 2020 @ 8:32am
Good morning Ravensbury!
Welcome to week 3 of our Summer Term and the beginning of our third week going wild. Did you manage to find something wild over the weekend?
I went to our local woods with my family and I hugged a tree. It made me smile, as you can see in the photo. Send in your photos if anything you got up to over the weekend.
Today we are going to help our fluttery friends by giving them a treat. See what visits your garden when you put out a sugary buffet for the wildlife. I'm hoping I get some butterflies.
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
Thank you to the lovely children in these photos for completing the hug-a-tree challenge. Think there was some hug-my-family too! Plus take a look at some of our children in school, enjoying going wild at break time. Great big smiles from everyone.
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 16
Date: 12th Jun 2020 @ 1:44pm
Good afternoon again. I have had a very quick reply from Heer saying she would like to go to the front of the house so that is what we will do.
The front door is warped slightly due to the years of hard rain lashing down upon it. Huge, rhododendron bushes scale the walls either side of the door framing it with its vigorous growth. A tarnished door knocker shaped like a howling wolf sits in the middle of the door. You scan the rest of the frame and see a doorbell half-hidden by years of dirt to the left.
Do you:
Use the door knocker
Ring the doorbell
What will it be next?
Good Luck Everyone...
Story Adventure House on Haunted Hill Part 15
Date: 12th Jun 2020 @ 12:39pm
Good afternoon year 6. We are at the next part of our spooky adventure and Maddison has requested we look at the mirror. So that is what we will do next...
You warily walk towards the mirror noting as you get closer the sheer size of it. It has to be the largest mirror you’ve ever seen, twice your height and four times your width at least.
The ornate golden frame looks chipped and worn and you wipe the surface with your hand removing dust and cobwebs. Your reflection looks back at you eerily, then smiles.
Your reflection’s hand snakes out and pulls you closer to the mirror. You try to resist but your opposite is much stronger. It pulls you into the frame and you feel a sucking sensation as you are pulled into the mirror itself. A sudden snap cracks and then you are face to face with your reflection once more, only this time you have switched places.
You try to grab the mirror creature but your hand smacks solidly against the glass, you are trapped inside the mirror!
Your reflection smiles, waves and strolls away. You are stuck, forever!
Oh dear that sounds terrible!! Let's return to the front of the house and start again.
Should we ...
Continue to the front of the house
or
Go round the back?
Date: 12th Jun 2020 @ 9:43am
Happy Friday everyone,
Congratulations to Miss Kenwell’s class for winning the TTRockstar’s Tournament this week! Maybe next time Miss Thornton's class
You can find all today's learning at:
https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
Have a lovely weekend! Keep in touch and let us know what you have been up to. You can drop a comment on padlet or email us at :
Y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
12th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 12 🌳
Date: 12th Jun 2020 @ 8:14am
Hello again!
I wonder who will go wild today to find their nearest tree. Will there be a mass of Y5 wildlife wardens invading Clayton green spaces to hug a tree or will it be Year 2 that aces this challenge? I look forward to finding out.
I’m going to look for a really old tree. Make up your own challenges over the weekend and discover what is outside your door then send the photos in to me.
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
More EYFS ‘Wonderful Wildlife Wardens’ sent in some stunning photos of the wildlife they’d discovered in their gardens over the past couple of days. Did you know there was a big hotel open near you?
Date: 11th Jun 2020 @ 10:14am
Good morning Year 6,
It was so lovely to hear from some of you on padlet yesterday- some people said hi, some said they like the work and somebody felt the Fluent in 5 was a little bit easy -thanks for getting in touch. I have set up a Maths challenge tab (slide right) for some maths problems, shape investigations and challenge mat for those of you who would like something harder.
You can find all today's learning at:
https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
I hvae also added a spag task although you can still practise GPS (grammar, punctuation and spelling) on Spag.com
Mrs Mcaffer has added some new art challenges to the school blog and I have added them to padlet also. Why not try some art this afternoon especially if it rains later!
Oliwia -thank you for the wonderful pictures you sent in -it is so lovely to see your smiling face- keep up the good work!
That's all for now! keep in touch and let us know what you have been up to. You can drop a comment on padlet or email us at :
Y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
11th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 11 🐚🍀
Date: 11th Jun 2020 @ 7:47am
Good morning Ravensbury!
If you’re wild enough to accept the challenge then here is what you can do today.
Channel your inner Captain Jack Sparrow or Captain Pugwash (ask your parents and grandparents who this is) to find a hoard of treasure on your latest walk on the wild side. Collect anything you find and keep it in a treasure box. Remember to wash your hands when you come home.
Bonus joke of the day:
Why are pirates called pirates?
Because they arrrrrrrrr
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
More ‘Wonderful Wildlife Wardens’ have been spending time in nature and discovering new and interesting things around them. Aisha sent this beautiful blue sky photo in from our blue challenge yesterday and we have some young explorers that are fascinated by their upclose encounters with minibeasts.
Date: 10th Jun 2020 @ 9:39am
Good Morning Year 6,
how are you all keeping? We are really missing you all! It feels even stranger now knowing that some of you are back in school with Miss Kenwell and Miss Thornton. They are logging on to the padlet page too and completing activities and I can see that Miss Thornton's class are putting up a fight in the TTrockstars battle- who will the winners be? You have 2 more days of the challenge left! Lots more of Miss Thornton's class are taking part and in Miss Kenwell's class yesterday Elijah overtook the high scorer... Arion! Well done!
Thanks to Michael and Heer who commented on the padlet page -it was wonderful to hear from you guys. Remember you can post a comment, ask or answer a question, or just say hi underneath the activities- we would love to hear from you!
Today's learning as always is on our Padlet Page -
https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
As well as your Maths and English today why not choose a CC task to complete today or perhaps an art challenge- we loved seeing Malachi's picture.
Remember you can email your learning for us to see at:
y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
10th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 10 🦋💧
Date: 10th Jun 2020 @ 9:16am
Hello Wild Things!
Today is all about being blue. NOT feeling blue (that means feeling sad) but looking for blue in the wild. Can you take photos or draw all of the blue things you see outdoors today?
Enjoy your wonders of the wild outdoors today
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
Our latest ‘Wonderful Wildlife Wardens’ have sent in photos of themselves throwing their litter away, bird spotting and using their art skills to create very realistic representations of wildlife. I’m really impressed with what they are discovering in their wild outdoors. Thank you for joining in.
By the way – so far The Foundation Stage are wildest of our school (FIST PUMPS AIR!) They’re wilder than KS2 who are wilder than KS1.
Challenge on for those of you who haven’t sent in photos yet…
Link to Story Adventure House on Haunted Hill
Date: 9th Jun 2020 @ 11:30am
Clink on this link to go to our story adventure...
https://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishC6.htm#adventure
Date: 9th Jun 2020 @ 9:45am
Good morning Year 6,
hope you are all keeping well and busy. I really like Miss Ganner's Go Wild activities for June - especially today's litter picking challenge which fits really well with our CC topic this term.
Today's learning as always is on our Padlet Page - https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
Well done to those of you who are completing tasks on Education City - I have added some Long Multiplication games for you to practise this week alongside the TTrockstars battle of the classes!
If you are looking for extra activities to keep you busy (as well as completing the work on the Padlet Page!), have a look at these websites:
Spag - https://spag.com
Education City - https://go.educationcity.com/
Oak Academy - https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6#subjects
TTRockstars - https://ttrockstars.com/
BBC Bitesize - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
There are also lots of other ideas for subjects across the curriculum on padlet- if you slide the bottom bar across you will see Connected Curriculum tasks, Art challenges, well- being activities and even music! So why not try something new today!
As ever please feel free to send in any activities you try- we love to see them. You can contact us by email : y6learning@ravensbury.manchester.ravensbury.sch.uk
9th June 30 Days Wild - Challenge 9 🗑
Date: 9th Jun 2020 @ 8:33am
9th June 30 Days Wild - Challenge 9
Good morning,
Today sees a challenge that we should do every day. Litter is a big problem for wildlife. It can hurt them and so I’d like to see if you can pick up litter to make your area tidy and safe for the animals that live close to us.
- DO NOT pick up anything that could hurt you.
- ALWAYS do this activity with an adult.
- WEAR protective gloves if you have any.
- USE a litter picker if you can.
Send me your litter picking photos in to:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a great day
From Mrs Ganner
Daily Update:
We’ve had some amazing photos in from children in the Foundation Stage. Look at how happy they are looking after the wildlife they have found. They are being really careful too. Read what they say about their learning:
‘We have been out in the parks and garden looking for wild life. We saw some ducks with babies and a spider in the garden. We also have 3 snails which we look after and feed them every day.’
‘This is my friend the worm. I have been watering it and feeding it. Worms don't have any legs because they wiggle.’
You really are ‘Wonderful Wildlife Wardens’
Date: 8th Jun 2020 @ 9:43am
Good morning Year 6!
hope you are well. Today is World Ocean Day and we have been looking at climate change in our CC home learning tasks- check out this week's challenge to write a "tweet" about our Big Beautiful World! Perhaps you could write one about an image of our wonderful oceans!
REMEMBER to check out our Padlet Page for today's learning:
https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
We are also continuing our times table challenge on TTRockstars https://ttrockstars.com/ Miss Kenwell's class have taken the lead so far... we will announce the winners on Friday!
Don't forget to keep sending us in pictures and emails to let us know what you have been up to: y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
That's all for today, looking forward to hearing from you!
Mrs Ranyard, Miss Kenwell and Miss Thornton
8th June 30 Days Wild - Challenge 8 🐤🐦🦉🦆
Date: 8th Jun 2020 @ 9:12am
Good morning Ravensbury,
I hope your weekend was wild and wonderful. If you have an photos of you and your family finding wildlife in your garden, on the vale or at the park send your photos in so we can share them on our blog.
It’s the start of our second week going wild at school and we have one of my favourite activities
I love to sit in my garden recording the birds talking to each other first thing in the morning. They have so much to say to each other!
Can you hear the magpie chattering away loudly?
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a great day
From Mrs Ganner
Update:
Watch the video to identify bird song in your garden.
30 Days Wild - Weekend Challenges 🐞🐛🐝🕷
Date: 5th Jun 2020 @ 3:16pm
Well done to Honour and Jola for finding this fabulous centipede! It’s safely back outside now. Well done for ‘Going Wild’!
If any of you want a wild weekend then here are two more challenges:
Challenge 1: How do I know it’s a centipede and not a millipede? CLUE: The answer is NOT to do with the number of legs it has.
Challenge 2: Bugs shouldn’t be living in your house so why not make them a hotel in your garden? Stack wood and tubes and crates to make a bug hotel this weekend. Then watch them set up home in all the nooks and crannies. Bugtastic!
Send your answers to my home learning address:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a brilliant weekend! Keep those eyes peeled for lots of bugs
From Mrs Ganner
Story Adventure House on Haunted Hill Part 14
Date: 5th Jun 2020 @ 10:33am
Good morning year 6. I have been wondering what today's weather will be like! One minute it is sunny and the next it looks like it is about to pour down with rain.
At least the wind isn't howling like in our story adventure...
Yesterday we were back at the front of the house and you had to decide whether to ring the doorbell or use the door knocker.
Well Maddison got in there first and suggested we ring the doorbell so here goes...
You press the doorbell and nothing happens, no sound. You shrug to yourself, what you expected really. The bitter wind whips around the corner and you press the doorbell again. This time you hear a creak and then a low whistle.
Suddenly the floor beneath you gives way and you plummet down a tunnel. Your stomach lurches terribly as you drop like a stone. You glance up and see that there was a trapdoor hidden under the weedy growths surrounding the door.
After a few seconds you slide into a small dark room with a thud. You get up and dust yourself down. With a sickening feeling you search the room for a door, there isn’t one. You try the tunnel you slid down but it is far too slippery. Looks like you are stuck here forever!
Oh no! I was not expecting that!
I love the word 'plummeted' as it gives the impression of quickly falling into the unknown.
Should we see what happens if we use the door knocker instead?
Here goes...
You raise the wolf’s head and let the knocker drop, your hand is shaking slightly and you notice that despite the cold, you are sweating.
A moment passes and then the door swings open, creaking and howling like a wolf.
You peer inside the gloomy hallway and decide that you have come this far, time to enter.
The hallway is dim but the bright moonlight offers enough visibility. Thick cobwebs hang everywhere and the house is cold, really cold. You see a door to your right, a large dusty mirror to your left and a large spiral staircase. Do you:
Open the door
Climb the stairs
Examine the mirror
I think we should either open the door or examine the mirror-what do you think we should do?
Date: 5th Jun 2020 @ 9:30am
Good Morning Year 6!
Find your learning tasks on the Year 6 Padlet Page:
https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
Remember to join in the TTRockstars battle also- Miss Kenwell's class has taken an early lead!
Well done Zarak, Michelle and Hafiz for getting involved so far and Elijah and Arion!