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Homework 17.5.17 (to be handed in 23.5.17)

Spellings

Revise your spellings for the week and make sure you can spell them ready for our class challenge. Can you create a ‘word search’ and hide your spellings from your family and friends or even your teacher?

cautious                                                               infectious                                            atrocious

cautiously                                                            nutritional                                           spacious

luscious                                                                fictitious                                               nutrition

nutritious

Writing

We have looked at the ‘past perfect’ tense this week in grammar. We use the past perfect when we are talking about an event which has been completed before something else happened.

Eg:          I finished cooking the dinner. Then my guests arrived.

becomes

I had just finished cooking the dinner when my guests arrived.

It uses the past tense of ‘to have’ (had).

Can you convert these sentences into the perfect past? The sentences must make sense, so say them before you write them.

Jan finished her dinner. Then she sat down to watch TV.

I turned off the lights. Then I went to bed.                                                                                                           Our class got off the bus. Then we walked into the museum

Maths

We have applied our growing knowledge of angles to properties of tirangles this week. Use your reasoning skills to answer 2 of the following 3 questions. You pick which 2 questions to tackle.

  1.         Look at this diagram.

Calculate the size of angle x and angle y.

2.  Triangle ABC is isosceles and has a perimeter of 20 cm.

Calculate the length of the side BC.

Sides AB and AC are each twice as long as BC.

3. A triangle has 2 angles measuring a total of 130 degrees. Each of these 2 angles measures the same. What type of triangle is it? What are the measures of all 3 angles?

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Homework 11.5.17

10.5.17 (to be handed in 15.5.17)

Spellings

Revise your spellings for the week and make sure you can spell them ready for our class challenge. Try to use these words in your writing and conversations over the week!

anxious

anxiety

malice

malicious

precious

consciousness

delicious

suspicious

ambition

ambitious

Writing

We have recapped the use of commas to separate independent clauses and fronted adverbials this week to improve our ‘flashback’ writing.

Eg,

James was feeling extremely tired, so he went to afternoon power nap.

Cautiously, the fox glided past the farmer’s window in pursuit of the delicious hen.

Storytellers often use flashbacks in their narrative. It is a way of telling the reader more about a particular character. It can also be used to communicate important information about the narrative to the reader or viewer. Writing a flashback often starts in the present before ‘flashing’ back to the past and finally returning to the present.

Using no more than 150 words, can you write a short flashback narrative of a situation where you have had a flashback. It may have been when you were running late for school or visiting a place you have not been to in a while. It could even be a made up situation.

Eg Eating my slightly burnt toast as I ran down the driveway, my mind travelled back to the last time I was late for school. It was a Thursday morning, and we had a school trip planned. The bus was to depart at 9am prompt with the teacher explicably stating that if you were late: you didn’t do go. Everything you could imagine went wrong that morning…

Maths

We have learned about Angles during maths this week. We have learned about different types of angles and rules that apply to them. Can you come up with a memory hook page or poster that will help you, and others, learn and or remember key information about angles.

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Y5 Homework 3.5.17

Y5 Homework

3.5.17 (to be handed in .5.17)

Spellings

Revise your spellings for the week and make sure you can spell them ready for our class challenge. Try to use these words in your writing and conversations over the week!

 

nearby

secondly

thirdly

fourthly

vice

vicious

grace

gracious

space

spacious

Writing

Next week we are beginning a new unit of writing.  We are trying to improve our writing by using adventurous vocabulary.  To help with your writing, use your homework time to generate some tier 2 words.  Tier 2 words help you to develop your descriptions and show a more mature choice of vocabulary.  e.g. Instead of ‘The painting is good’, you could say ‘The painting is a masterpiece’.

Can you generate at least 10 tier 2 words to describe this image?

Cold, snowy, icy, frosty and white are all banned!

 

Maths

Choose one task which reflects how you’ve got on in class.

 

1) 450 people run a marathon.  10% are children.  How many are children?  How many must be adults?

 

2) Mr Jenks earns £2800 per month. He spends 20% of his money on his mortgage and 30% of his money on his food and hobbies. What percentage of his salary does he spend and how much money does he have left?

 

3)

 

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