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Homework 5.7.17 (to be handed in 11.7.17)

5.7.17 (ready for Tuesday 11.7.17)

Spellings

Revise your spellings for the week and aim to use them in your discussions and writing throughout the week. Remember the suffix we are focusing on.

station             rotation                       vacation           relation            variation          operation        

allegation         excavation       humiliation      suffocation      

 

Don’t forget, we will also be testing you on the next 12 spellings from the Year 5 list we sent home. It is important you bring in your homework book so we can see the progress you have made with these spellings.

cemetery         disastrous        identity            individual         physical            sincerely

Interfere          prejudice         soldier             interrupt          privilege           stomach

Maths

Last week, we looked at roman numerals. By the end of year 5, children are expected to be able to read roman numerals up to 1000 (M). We learned that roman numerals involve adding numbers (eg V1 is 5 + 1 = 6) and subtracting numbers (X1X is 10 + 10 – 1 = 19). In next week’s math quiz, we will be writing some roman numerals on the board for you to read and write.

Reading

Reading Stamina is an area which, as a school, we have been focusing on heavily this year. For reading this week, you are to sit and read your own book for a minimum of 20 – 30 minutes without any breaks. For you to be able to enjoy your book and really get enthralled in it, you should find a quiet space where you will not be disturbed.

Enjoy!

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Homework 28.6.17

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28.6.17 (ready for 5.7.17)

Spellings

Revise your spellings for the week and aim to use them in your discussions and writing throughout the week. We are really pushing for improvements over the last few weeks of term.

flamboyant                  flamboyance                disturb             disturbance                  irrelevant

irrelevance                   inherit              inheritance                  reassure                       reassurance    

Strategies

Focus on the ending of these words. They have similar endings to our spellings from last week.

(Remember ance, ant and ancy are often used after a consonant.)

Don’t forget, we will also be testing you on the next 12 spellings from the Year 5 list we sent home.

awkward           desperate               government             bargain              determined      guarantee

bruise              develop                        harass              category          dictionary        hindrance

Maths

By the end of Year 5, children are expected interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through 0. Therefore, next week’s mental math test will involve adding and subtracting up to two 2 digit numbers mentally though 0.

Eg 14 – 17 = -3

 

Reading

Summarising the main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph is an essential Year 5 Skill. Using no more than 50 words, summarise the main points from the latest chapter of your book ready to read to the class next week if selected. Remember, when we summarise we are focusing on the essential information from the text.

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Homework 21.6.17

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21.6.17 (ready for 28.6.17)

Spellings

Revise your spellings for the week and make sure you can spell them ready for our class challenge.

tolerant            tolerance         fragrant            fragrance         relevant          

relevance         ignorant           ignorance         deodorant        consonant       

Strategies

Focus on the ending of these words. They have similar endings to our spellings from last week.

(Remember ance, ant and ancy are often used after a consonant.)

Don’t forget, we will also be testing you on the next 12 spellings from the Year 5 list we sent home.

Appreciate           correspond         familiar                 attached              criticise                 foreign

Available              curiosity               forty                      average                definite                 frequently

 

Maths

Prime numbers are numbers which can only be divided by themselves and 1. By the end of year 5, children are expected to be able to recall prime numbers up to 19. We think you can do better. Therefore, revise your prime numbers up to 30 ready for a quick quiz next week.

Reading

Your reading challenge this week also includes applying your perspective drawing from this term. Choose a scene described in your book and try to recreate the scene using one-point perspective. Try to include the key information which is shown and described by the author.

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Y5 Homework

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14.6.17 (ready for 21.6.17)

Spellings

Revise your spellings for the week and make sure you can spell them ready for our class challenge.

truant                          truancy                        infant                           infancy                        

reliant                          servant                        elegant                        elegance

radiant                         radiance                      

Strategies

Focus on the ending of these words. They have similar endings.

(Remember ance, ant and ancy can often be added to the same root word)

Don’t forget, we will also be testing you on the next 12 spellings from the Year 5 list we sent home.

Especially                     aggressive                    conscience                   exaggerate                  

Amateur                      conscious                     excellent                      ancient

Controversy                 existence                     apparent                      convenience

 

Maths

We will be focusing on adding single digits to 2 digit numbers in our mental math test next week.

Eg 72 + 9.

You will only be given 5 seconds to answer these questions, so make sure you practise some this week timing yourself.

 

Reading

Think of three characteristics of one of your main characters in your current reading book. How do these compare to your own?

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Y5 Homework 7.6.17

Homework is changing!  We are now using homework generally to develop spelling, mental maths and reading stamina.

We expect you to practise the skills and make sure your books are in school every Wednesday so you can complete your spelling test in them.  This can help you see at home how well you are doing back in class.

 

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Sporting Opportunity

Please see the basketball opportunity provided on the link below.

Deans Sport and Leisure are offering weekly basketball sessions.

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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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Y5 Homework 26.4.17

Y5 Homework

26.4.17 (to be handed in 2.5.17)

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!

 

certainly

definitely

possibly

perhaps

probably

frequently

often

occasionally

rarely

always

 

Reading

Due to Bikeability this week, we are only sending one activity home because all of the children have completed their learning at different times over the week and are at different points.

In our reading, we have been looking at justifying our opinions using evidence from books.  We have used images and text to do this.  A good answer has 3 aspects and we use Point, Evidence, Explain to remember these.

Choose one character from this image and explain how you think they are feeling. Remember the 3 key points.

 

e.g. I think that the child at the front is feeling quite nervous about speaking in front of the class.  I think this because she is clutching her arm behind her back.  This makes me feel that she is almost trying to ‘hug’ herself to ensure that she feels more secure when speaking to an audience.

 

Underline the 3 aspects to your answer to check you have each point.

 

 

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