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

Sorry for the delay in the year 5 homework being posted, we had some technical difficulties with our laptops on Friday.

 

Spellings

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

 

Use of the hyphen

Hyphens can be used to join a prefix to a root word, especially if the prefix ends in a vowel letter and the root word also begins with one. Compounds with these prefixes are sometimes (but not always) hyphenated to avoid doubling a vowel or tripling a consonant, and sometimes even to prevent initial misreading or mispronunciation.

1. To avoid doubling a vowel: anti-administration (but cooperation)
2. To avoid tripling a consonant: shell-like
3. To prevent initial reading or mispronunciation: re-cover vs. recover (I will re-cover the sofa when I recover from the flu.)

 

co-ordinate

re-enter

co-operate

co-own

all-inclusive

cross-reference

re-order

re-cover

shell-like

 

Spellings

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

 

Auto– means ‘self’ or ‘own’.

 

autograph

autobiography

automatic

autopilot

autobiographies

automobile

autoconfirm

autocomplete

automatically

autographed

 

Project:

Next week we are starting our tree project all about the Oak tree. As part of this our year five christmas tree will be arriving and we need you to design a decoration for it. This can be 2D or 3D.

Success Criteria:

-Colourful

-Bright

-Neat presentation and high quality.

-It can’t be bigger than 10cm by 10cm.

-It must have the year group colour (purple) somewhere on it.

-It may represent being an individual.

 

Literacy:

This week we are focusing on fronted adverbials of time, place and manner.

Can you create two sentences for each type of adverbial.

Success Criteria:

-Make sure your sentences makes sense with full punctuation e.g. full stops, capital letters and commas.

-Remember your adverbial clause needs to be at the start of your sentence.

 

Ex: adverb of time (when) = As the evening drew closer, I ran home whilst the owls hooted in the night sky.

Ex: adverb of place (where you are) = As I approached the mysterious, murky village, I noticed a peculiar sign.

Ex: adverb of manner (how you do something)= Silent and fearful, he crept through the abandoned, rotten building.

Here is the homework for this week –

Given on Friday 27th November and due in on Wednesday 2nd December.

Year4Homework27thNovember