Marpool Primary School

Homework

This page will be for the Teachers to put work sheets and other helpful information online. This will give the children the ability  to download  this information, print it out to complete, or in the case of word documents, complete on the home PC and Email back to the Teacher for marking (if needed).

You can E-mail your homework to jbennington@ymail.com

6B Homework

Set: Friday 1^st May             Hand in: Wednesday 6^th May

Literacy

A simile compares one thing with another using ‘as’ or ‘like’, for example, “Her hair was curly like lamb’s wool” or “He was as fat as a lumpy dumpling”

A metaphor says that one thing is something else o, for example, “His hair is a tangle of barbed wire” or “The bony fingers of the tree”

For Literacy this week, please write 5 similes and 5 metaphors. You can make them as interesting and exciting as you like – be imaginative! You can use the following words to help you:

Branches, wind, sun, moon, snow, daffodils.

Feeling confident? Try to extend your work into full sentences, e.g. The bony fingers of the tree scratched the window pane.

Numeracy

Please write all the factors for the following numbers:

24, 28, 36, 40, 64 and 85.

Feeling confident? Pick four even numbers over 100 and find their factors!

Year 6 Science

Read through pages 42, 64 and 87. These pages are words you need to know. Please make sure that you know what they mean. You might like to test yourself on these.