This week we have been looking at different to ways to practise tricky spellings like silent letters.
Feel free to use the images to help you to practise at home!
This week we have been looking at different to ways to practise tricky spellings like silent letters.
Feel free to use the images to help you to practise at home!
Year 5 story map is available to practise with at home.
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Homophones and other words that are often confused. You may be able to spell some of these words easily so the challenge is to think about the words that your spellings may be confused with. E.g. aloud (saying something out loud) whereas the word it may be confused with is allowed (permitted).
proceed
principal
prophet
stationary
steal
weary
who’s
descent
complement
advice
As year 5 draws to an end create a poster to reflect on your time in year 5 or what you are looking forward to in year 6.
Things to consider:
Year 5
Year 6
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Homophones and other words that are often confused. You may be able to spell some of these words easily so the challenge is to write down the words that your spellings may be confused with and what the different meanings are. E.g. aloud (saying something out loud) whereas the word it may be confused with is allowed (permitted).
advise
device
license
practice
aisle
allowed
affect
alter
assent
cereal.
Science
This week we have been exploring life cycles. Play the attached game with friends or family to see how much you know.
Create your own game to test knowledge of life cycles – consider different types:
Amphibian, mammal, bird, insect (incomplete metamorphosis), insect (complete metamorphosis).
Maths
We are recapping and extending our knowledge of measure next week. To get your brain thinking about measure again can you solve these word problems and remember how to convert measurements.
Sylvia places her suitcase beside Ellie’s. The weight of both is 49.6 kg.
Work out the weight of Sylvia’s suitcase.
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
The suffix ssion. It is used if the root word ends in ss or mit.
admission
aggression
discussion
expression
mission
possession
profession
progression
depression
Impression
Maths
Last week for homework we practised our time knowledge. Now can you solve these word time problems. A sheet with clocks is stuck in your homework book.
4) Sarah went to see her friend Simone at twenty to two in the afternoon. She played there for one hour. Then it took fifteen minutes to get home. What time did sarah get home at?
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word).
Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/.
W:
wrist
playwrite
wrangle
wrack
wrapper
wreack
wreathe
wreckage
wretched
writhe
Literacy – Book review
Stuck in your homework book is a book review. Can you please write a book review about your favourite book you have read in year five. It can be a book from school or home.
Maths
We are recapping over the next few lessons our place value knowledge. Can you remember how to solve these questions.
3) a) Round 36,550 to the nearest hundred =
4) Roman numerals
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week. The suffix sion. It is used in root words ending in d or se. Exceptions: attend-attention, intend-intention
expansion
extension
comprehension
tension
intentions
suspension
collision
ascension
precision
conclusion
Literacy – Book review
Stuck in your homework book is a book review. Can you please write a book review about your favourite book you have read in year five. It can be a book from school or home.
Maths
We are recapping over the next few lessons our place value knowledge. Can you remember how to solve these questions.
3) Is each of the numbers in bold a unit, ten, hundred and thousands?
4) Roman numerals
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word).
Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/.
u:
guess
baguette
biscuit
circuit
disguise
guillotine
silhouette
rogue
guitar
guile
Literacy:
This week we are learning about complex sentences. Using the forbidden forest can you write a 2 complex sentence for each type e.g.
Subordinate clause: will begin with a subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun and will contain both a subject and a verb.
Ex: After they had finished walking, Harry quickly stared into the mysterious trees.
Embedded clause: within a main clause, usually marked by commas. Information related to the sentence topic is put into the middle of the sentence to give the reader more information and enhance the sentence.
Ex: Harry, as loud as a lion, roared down the misty path.
Relative clause: clauses starting with the relative pronouns who, that, which, whose, where, when.
Ex: The crooked trees, which swayed in the wind, whispered in the night sky.
Maths:
Can you remember how to work out the percentage (%) of something? Here are some word problems, can you try and solve these?
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
The suffix tion. It is used if the root words ends in t or te.
injection
intervention
action
hesitation
attraction
affection
option
education
construction
correction
Literacy:
This week we are learning about different sentence types. Using the forbidden forest can you write a complex and a compound sentence
Complex sentence using a relative clause: relative clauses are clauses starting with the relative pronouns who, that, which, whose, where, when.
Ex: The trees, which swayed in the wind, whispered in the night sky.
Compound sentence: uses a conjunction in the middle to join two simple sentences together. Can you use the conjunctions: although, therefore, before, while, after.
Ex: Harry could not bear to look although he knew what was ahead.
Maths:
We have been learning about fractions this week. Stuck in your homework book is a maths activity on improper fractions for you to try and solve.
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word).
Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/.
s:
aisle
island
debris
bourgeois
t:
asthma
rapport
glisten
whistle
jostle
rustle
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
The suffix tion.
completion
operation
situation
relation
imagination
description
ambition
position
fiction
introduction
Geography – Project:
Can you research any further information on the country you have chosen for project. Especially thinking about land use and physical features (e.g. mountains, sea, rainforests, deserts).
Please bring in any information to add to your fact file.
Maths:
Can you create something that explains the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages to help another child who doesn’t understand this.
This could be a: poster, video, information page, blog etc.
This must include key facts e.g 0.5 = ½ = 50% and an explanation why.
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word).
Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/.
L:
should
calf
salmon
yolk
calm
chalk
talk
half
would
m:
Mnemonic
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
The suffix ous. If there is an i sound before the ous ending, it is usually spelt as i.
various
anxious
conscious
gracious
glorious
luxurious
mysterious
suspicious
obvious
furious
Literacy:
Pick any character from a book you know. Can you think 3 similes and 3 metaphors to describe that character.
Challenge: Think of an animal from a book you know. Can you think of 3 ways you could personify that character
Maths
This week we have been looking at cubed and squared. There is a worksheet your child will have stuck in their maths book.
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word).
Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/.
i:
business
k:
knife
knight
knock
knot
knee
knuckle
knowledge
knew
knot
Literacy:
This week we have been looking at character descriptions. Can you write a minimum of one paragraph on a character description about a character from a book you are currently reading. This can be a home reading book on your accelerated reader book. Try and include all the success criteria and think about the features on your writing standard or on your 10 ways to improve a sentence sheet stuck in your homework book.
Success Criteria: similes, metaphors, personification, powerful adjectives, features from your writing standard.
Maths:
This week we have been revising our knowledge of division and multiplication and we still need a little practise to be fully confident with how to do short and long division and multiplication. Any methods you aren’t sure of we will practise next lesson.
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
The suffix ous
A final e must be kept if the phonetic sound of g is to be kept,
courageous
outrageous
advantageous
gorgeous
disadvantageous
erroneous
hideous
righteous
simultaneous
uncourageous
Maths:
This week we have been revising our knowledge of division and multiplication and we still need a little practise to be fully confident with how to do short division and multiplication. Any methods you aren’t sure of we will practise next lesson.
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test. Our new project is Harry Potter so our spellings are on this topic.
Wingardium leviosa
Forbidden forest
Enchanted
Expelliarmus
Professor McGonagall,
Slytherin
Herbology
Dementor
Transfiguration
occlumency
Project:
Our new project next half term is Harry Potter. If it is possible, can you watch and/or read the Harry Potter films/books (the books are better) before our new project begins.
Literacy:
The government are discussing potentially adding an hour on to our school days so school may finish at 4:30pm instead of 3:30pm. Can you write a persuasive letter to explain whether they should or shouldn’t do this.
Success Criteria:
-Remember to include the features of a persuasive text, e.g: rhetorical questions, persuasive language, modal verbs (must, should) adverbs of possibility (possibly, surely), time connectives (firstly).
-Include your 3 musts and writing standard features.
Maths:
Can you please use hit the button to practise your multiplication and division facts. Also, challenge yourself on sumdog selecting challenging questions to complete to improve your mathematical skills.
Hope you all have a fantastic Easter holiday.
Mr kerin