T3 Wk6 Year 6 Learning Support Activities

Literacy – Reading, Grammar & Vocabulary Tasks

Reading

Read and answer the questions on the comprehension passages – Sydney Harbour Bridge

Grammar

Complete the grammar worksheet – Antonyms (Remember: antonyms are words that have opposite meanings for example: hot – cold)

Fallen Leaves is a poem, the activities you must complete are all linked to figurative language that we have covered over the years. Read the instructions and have a go at completing the questions. (I look forward to seeing the results to this activity please send me a photo through TEAMS or post.)

Vocabulary

To finish off the Literacy activities for the week is a game of Boggle. Have fun making different words using the letters.

Writing – complete the Year 6 writing task this week from the Year 6 pack available on TEAMS.

Mathematics

This week you are going to apply your knowledge of 3D objects to match, name and draw the 3D and their nets. I have included a little treasure hunt for you to see how many 3D objects you can find around your house. (I would like to see your answers to the clues and attempts at drawing the 3D objects and net, send them through to me via TEAMS post or Seesaw).

Science, History, Creative Arts & PDHPE

You can still do the other activities in your Year 6 pack such Creative Arts, History, Science etc.

Try your best while working at home or school.

Mrs Wasley

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is located in Sydney, Australia. It connects Sydney’s central business district to the north shore of Sydney Harbour.

The arch span of the Sydney Harbour Bridge is 503 metres. The top of the arch is 134 metres above sea level. The clearance for shipping is 49 metres.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge contains more than six million hand-driven, Australian-made rivets (steel bolts that hold plates of metal together).

A pair of concrete pylons (faced with granite) stands at each end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. These pylons are 89 metres high.

The area of the steelwork on the Sydney Harbour Bridge is some 485 000 m2 – approximately the same area as sixty football fields!

The Sydney Harbour Bridge contains eight lanes for vehicle traffic, two railway tracks, a bike path for cyclists and a footpath for pedestrians.

SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE

When the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened, it cost six pence for a car to cross and three pence for a horse and rider. Today, the toll amount varies according to the time of day.

Over 3000 workers were employed to construct the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Due to the dangerous nature of the project, 16 men lost their lives.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge requires regular maintenance, including painting. Every coat requires 30 000 L of paint!

Work commenced on the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 28 July 1923. The project took almost nine years to complete. The bridge opened on 19 March 1932.

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10 Fascinating Facts About the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Questions1. What is a road toll?

2. Why would they put a road toll on the Sydney Harbour Bridge?

3. Research to find out how much the Sydney Harbour Bridge toll would cost at• 9:00 am $

• 11:00 am $

• 5:30 pm $

• 9:00 pm $

4. Using an online maps website, find out how long would it take to drive between the following places around Sydney using the Sydney Harbour Bridge at 1 pm.

• Bondi Beach to Taronga Zoo

• Manly to Darlinghurst

• Hyde Park to Blues Point Reserve

• Whale Beach to the Sydney Opera House

• The Rocks to Huntleys Cove

• Centennial Park to Northbridge

5. Research and list alternate ways you can get from one side of Sydney Harbour to the other without using the Sydney Harbour Bridge. See how many you can come up with.

COMPREHENSION

10 Fascinating Facts About the Sydney Harbour Bridge – Worksheet

Name: Date:

Antonyms Are Opposite! – Worksheet

Name: ___________________________________________________________ Date: ____________________________________

VOCABULARY

Antonyms Are Opposite!

Read each group of words and circle the words that are antonyms.

1. cold funny warm colourful

2. slow blue furry fast

3. shiny best worst purple

4. smooth clever always never

5. before green window after

6. grin stripe phone frown

7. funny game serious fast

8. give never foot take

9. share yell cat whisper

10. clean simple easy hard

11. wet bird good dry

12. open face close down

13. door out enemy friend

14. large smart small car

15. smile dark same light

Name: ______________________ Date: _________________

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Falling Leaves

Graceful as a dancer,

Twirling through the sky.

Turning, tumbling, twisting,

Gently floating by.

Silent as a church mouse,

Gliding on the breeze.

Falling, floating, flying,

Drifting through the trees.

Falling like a parachute,

To sleep upon the eaves.

Waiting, watching, whispering,

The ever-falling leaves.

Name: ______________________ Date: _________________

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Interpreting Figurative Language

Figurative language does not have an everyday, literal meaning.

It is used by writers to make a comparison, or for dramatic effect.

Some examples of figurative language are:

Alliteration – the repetition of the same sound at the start of a word.

Simile – uses ‘like’ or ‘as’ to compare one object to another.

Personification – giving non-living things human characteristics.

1. Read the poem about falling leaves.

Using pencils and a ruler:

a) Underline examples of alliteration in red.

b) Underline examples of similes in green.

c) Underline examples of personification in blue.

2. Write these examples into the correct column of the table below.

Alliteration Simile Personification

Name: ______________________ Date: _________________

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Interpreting Figurative Language

3. Add one more appropriate word to these alliterations.

a) Turning, tumbling, twisting, ____________________

b) Falling, floating, flying, ____________________

c) Waiting, watching, whispering, ____________________

4. Make up your own alliteration about falling leaves.

________________________________________________________

5. Finish these similes using different words from the poem.

a) Graceful as a ____________________

b) Silent as a ____________________

c) Falling like a ____________________

6. Make up your own simile about falling leaves.

________________________________________________________

7. Waiting, watching, whispering. This is personification.

Make a list of some of the other human characteristics you could

give to falling leaves. Share your list with your classmates.

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Match the NetsCan you match the correct net with the 3D shape?

Net Shape

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A B C D E F

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4. 5. 6.

Draw the 3D Shape and Net

Read the clues. Write the name of the 3D shape that is described. Draw the 3D shape in the box on the left and the net for this 3D shape in the box on the right.

1. I have a curved surface. I have two circular flat faces. I have two edges. Answer_______________________

Draw Shape

Net

2. I have 6 square faces. I have 12 edges. I have 8 vertices. Answer ____________________________

Draw Shape

Net

3. I have one flat face and one curved surface. My flat face is circular. My curved surface makes a sharp point. Answer________________________

Draw Shape

Net

4. I have 6 flat rectangular faces. I have 12 edges. I have 8 vertices. Answer_______________________

Draw Shape

Net