Designed for parents teachers & home educators to use with children this sixth volume in the Core Knowledge UK series presents the specific & shared knowledge that should be at the core of a challenging Year 6 education preparing the student for the transition to secondary school & for a lifetime of learning to come Familiar & favourite poems
- old & new from William Blake & Rudyard Kipling to T S Eliot & Roald Dahl Literature from around the world
- Don Quixote from Spain & The Samurai's Daughter from Japan as well as extracts from great classics of literature like Oliver Twist The Secret Garden & Le Morte d' Arthur Learning about language
- learn the basic building blocks of language & literature including figurative language imagery & metaphor; parts of speech punctuation & grammar; together with the ever-popular explanations of proverbial phrases & sayings Geography
- learn about map projections & time zones explore the geography of several regions of the UK & travel through the American continent from Canada to the Amazonian rainforest History
- learn about British history from the Industrial Revolution to the death of Queen Victoria & about the American Civil War that abolished slavery in the USA Visual arts
- become familiar with some of the greatest art ever created by Renaissance masters Raphael Leonardo da Vinci & Michelangelo Music
- understand the basics of reading & appreciating music as well as the lives of great composers together with an introduction to spirituals & a collection of songs for Year 6 children to sing Mathematics
- improve your mastery of arithmetic with long division negative numbers & decimal multiplication ratios scales & lowest common denominators before diving further into geometry functions & transformations Science
- learn about the elements organisms species cells & reproduction as well as the lives of great scientists








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Presents an update that has to be used in conjunction with the original book What Zoos Can Do published in May 2011 ...

This volume is a detailed & sensitive guide to male puberty It tackles key subjects from the physical changes that occur at this time to the emotional upheaval this can cause ...

WHATS MISSING? is a game of imagination & art in which you have to draw so that your friends can guess a picture But instead of drawing the actual picture you will draw everything around it you will try to place it in its environment to contextualize to associate to an idea or a concept! If you want to win being smart is more important than being a good artist This game is interactive creative dynamic & brings emotions ...

A comic visual exploration of opposites from prize-winning internationally best-selling picture book maker Oliver Jeffers In this 4th title in the series the Hueys explore the concept of opposites in their characteristically quirky way Starting out with some easy ones like up' & down' they move on to ever more wildy imaginative examples guaranteed to raise a smile! Packed full of visual humour this book will be enjoyed by children & adults alike ...

HOW TO START A FEMINIST REVOLUTION 1 Call out anything that is unfair on one gender 2 Don't call out the same thing twice (so you can sleep & breathe) 3 Always try to keep it funny 4 Don't let anything slide Even when you start to break Lottie's determined to change the world with her Vagilante vlog Shame the trolls have other ideas ...

Embark on a journey of discovery in this gorgeous & captivating pop-up book full of beautiful intricate scenes that unfold with the turn of each page Raise your eyes to discover eagles swooping to catch their prey in a rainforest black bears prowling in a mountain kingdom & a comet shooting across the sky What other wonders are waiting to be uncovered? Compelling facts are told by the expert author & contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica & winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize Clive Gifford With stunning illustrations & innovative paper engineering What's Above? is the perfect non-fiction pop-up book for children who loved Above & Below & Under the Ocean Perfect for children aged 5 years & up What's Above? combines beautiful illustrations & fun facts to get them interested in our diverse & fascinating world Praise for What's Below?'A thoughtful feat of paper engineering' The Guardian Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of books for children & adults including the astonishing Dead or Alive the creepy Book of Bad Things & the brain mangling Think Again & Eye Benders He is passionate that books should entertain inform & amaze whenever possible A contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica Clive's books have won School Library Association PBS Smithsonian & Times Educational Supplement as well as the prestigious Royal Society Young People's Book Prize Kate Mc Lelland grew up in the North East of England before moving to London to gain a BA Hons in Theatre Design After completing her degree in London she moved to Edinburgh where she recently gained an MFA in Illustration with Distinction at Edinburgh College of Art She received highly commended in the Mac Millan Prize & in recent years was nominated for a D&AD Illustration award & a Penguin Design Award ...

This is a fantastic new science book explaining chemistry in an informal fun & informative way Written in a conversational style this book offers children an approachable source of information on key subjects such as the periodic table atom structure & radiation Chemistry is brought home to the reader as the book describes the chemistry of everyday life
- from the chemical processes that break down food while eating to the atmosphere Complicated topics are kept fun with a variety of devices including comic strips fact boxes & 'nerdy notes'
- post-it notes with handy mnemonics written on them Simple fun experiments give children working examples to learn from

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Thanksgiving comedy focusing on four families from different backgrounds living in Los Angeles Ronald (Dennis Haysbert) works for a conservative governor as a spin doctor & heads the Williams a seemingly picture-perfect American family Anthony Avila (Douglas Spain) is determined to have his whole family together for a traditional dinner even though his father has left his mother Elizabeth (Mercedes Ruehl) who has also started seeing someone else Ruth (Lainie Kazan) & Herb (Maury Chaykin) Seelig are struggling to cope with the fact that their daughter Rachel (Kyra Sedgwick) is a lesbian Finally Trinh Nguyen (Joan Chen) has made America her home but feels like she&s losing her kids The families all contend with similar household issues as they prepare for the onslaught of family & friends ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Quirky observational comedy drama from Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) leads a dull life in desolate backwater Endora Iowa looking after his overweight mother & his mentally unstable brother (Leonardo Di Caprio) When a mysterious girl moves to town with her grandparents Gilbert&s life begins to change ...