December 2015

Dear parents,

The next school holiday is approaching! Here is a list of book recommendations. This may provide you with a few stocking filler ideas or just a productive way to keep them occupied! We hope you find it useful.

The year 5 team.

Book list:

-Harry the Poisonous Centipede

• Thief!

• Noah Barleywater Runs Away

• Spy Dog

• How to Train Your Dragon

• Rubbish Town Hero

• The Elephant Road

• Small Change for Stuart

• Fizzlebert Stump

• The Forever Whale

• Fangs ‘

• Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

• The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales

• Flood and Fang

• Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill

• Who Could that be at this Hour?

• You

• The Wrong Side of the Galaxy

• Hamish and the Worldstoppers

• Gangsta Granny

Spellings

Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.

ee:ei. Words with the /i:/. The ‘i before e except after c’ rule applies to words where the sound spelt by ei is /i:/. Exceptions: protein, caffeine, seize (and either and neither if pronounced with an initial /i:/ sound)..

applies

ceiling

conceit

deceive

perceive

receive

receipt

conceited

believe

achieve

Spellings

Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.

Most prefixes are added to the beginning of root words. The prefix in– can mean both ‘not’ and ‘in’/‘into’. In the words given here it means ‘not’.

inaccessible

inaccurate

inactive

inadequate

inarticulate

incapable

incomplete

inconsiderate

inconvenient

incorrect

Maths: This is differentiated so your child should have their individual sheet with their shapes stuck in their homework book.

This week we are looking at symmetry of shapes. Symmetry is: when one half of an object  is a mirror image of the other half and it may be divided by 1 or more lines of symmetry.

Here is some 2D shapes. Can you draw as many lines of symmetry on each shape as possible.

Maths:

This week we are looking at symmetry of shapes. Symmetry is: when one half of an object  is a mirror image of the other half and it may be divided by 1 or more lines of symmetry.

Here is some 2D. Can you draw as many lines of symmetry on each shape as possible.

Maths:

This week we are looking at symmetry of shapes. Symmetry is: when one half of an object  is a mirror image of the other half and it may be divided by 1 or more lines of symmetry.

With these 2D shapes can you draw their reflection along the mirror line.

Literacy:

As it is the winter season we would like the children to create a winter or christmas poem.

You can create it in any form of poem you like. E.g: haiku, acrostic, cinquain, limerick etc.

Here is an example of a few different types of poems to get you thinking.

Haiku (three lines with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second, and five syllables in the third. Describe without saying. E.g. Harry Potter haiku:)

His hair black as night

A lightning scar tells his life

He is a legend.

Limerick (Has five lines. The last words of lines one, two, and five rhyme. The last words of lines three and four rhyme.) Example:

There was an old man from Peru

Who dreamed he was eating his shoe

He awoke in the night

With a terrible fright

To discover it was totally true.

Cinquain (Five lines: Title (noun) – 1 word, Description – 2 words, Action – 3 words, Feeling (phrase) – 4 words, Title (synonym for the title) – 1 word). Example:

Mom

Helpful, caring

Loves to garden

Excitable, likes satisfying people

Teacher

Acrostick:

Elegantly and efficiently shaped

Good to eat

Great fun to find at Easter

Smooth shelled