Y5 Homework

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/.

c:

incandescent

isosceles

miscellaneous

muscle

obscene

resuscitate

scenario

scene

scent

scissors

 

Spellings

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

 

The suffix – ation

The suffix ation is added to verbs to form nouns.

information

adoration

frustration

levitation

admiration

preparation

elation

rotation

formation

restoration

 

Project

Next week we are doing a special one week project for world book week.

Our author for world book week is Anthony Horowitz who has written some great age appropriate books for year five, such as Stormbreaker.

Can you research and create a poster about Anthony Horowitz. Including some key information such as; age, family, hobbies and any interesting information you can find out e.g. when did he start writing? What was his first book? How long did it take for him to write any of his books?

 

Maths

 

Your child has a maths task stuck in their homework book with a squared sheet of paper to complete the task on.

 

A shape has an area of 15cm, what size could its length and width be?

Draw and write down the length and widths the rectangle or square could be.

Remember area = width x length.

 

 

A shape has an area of 20cm, what size could its length and width be?

Draw and write down the possible shapes and length and widths it could be. The shapes can be regular or irregular.

Remember area = width x length.

Spellings

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

Root words:

All words are made from a root word, suffixes and prefixes.

This week we are focusing on the root word able.

 

comfortable    

table      

disable     

unable     

breakable

available

adaptable

disabling

enable

enabling

 

Spellings

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

Root words:

All words are made from a root word, suffixes and prefixes.

This week we are focusing on the root word auto.

Automobile

Automatic

Autopilot

Autocrat

Autocratic

Autobiography

Autograph

Unautomated

Semiautomatic

Autonomous

 

 

 

Literacy

Write a persuasive letter to Mr Kerin or Mrs Knight about homework. You can argue for having more homework or no homework.

Success criteria:

Introduction – introduce argument and explain why you’re writing (don’t state your reasons yet).

2nd paragraph – first reason for/against with evidence to support.

3rd paragraph – second reason for/against with evidence to support.

Conclusion – summarise your argument.

 

Features:

Emotive/persuasive language (devastating, harmful), logical connectives (furthermore, in addition), modal verbs (should, must), adverbs of possibility (surely, possibly).

 

Maths

Next week we will be looking at measure. Can you think of everyday things that would be measured using these units of measure: metres, centimetres, millimetres, litres, pints, kilograms, grams.

Present your information in a table

Object	Unit of measure	Estimate and actual size
Length of book	cm	20cm = 30cm
Cup of tea	ml

 

Challenge:

Estimate the size of your object. Some things you may not be able to actually measure.

 

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/.

a:

artistically

logically

musically

romantically,

specifically

identically

organically

vertically

tactically

basically

 

Literacy: Your child will have one of these two literacy activities in their homework book.

There are many different ways to extend a sentence. One of these ways is to add a conjunction.

Can you use these conjunctions in a sentence? One conjunction per sentence

although, before, while, when and if.

Remember  some conjunctions can join two main clauses/sentences together to form a compound sentence, no comma is needed (For And  Nor  But Or Yet So) but any other conjunction makes it a complex sentence.

Example: John was very tired, although he had stayed in bed all day.

 

Spellings

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

im: Before a root word starting with m or p, in– becomes im-.

imprecise

immature

immortal

immovable

impatient

imperfect

impolite

important

impossible

impractical

 

Literacy: Your child will have one of these two literacy activities in their homework book.

Sometimes we need commas in a sentence, not because it has a  pause but because it helps the sentence to make sense. This is known as clarifying meaning or preventing ambiguity.

For example: Most of the time travellers worry about their luggage.

If we add commas the sentences’ meaning completely changes.

Most of the time, travellers worry about their luggage.

Or

She finds inspiration in cooking her family and her dog,

She finds inspiration in cooking, her family and her dog.

Can you write three sentences using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.

 

 

Maths:

This week in maths we have learnt about co-ordinates. Your child will have a co-ordinates activity sheet in their homework books.

 

Spellings

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

Words containing the letter-string ough.

 

though

although

dough

through

breakthrough

plough

sought

roughest

doughnuts

thoughtless

 

Spellings

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

Before a root word starting with l, in– becomes il

 

illegal

illegible

illiterate

illogical

illegitimate

illness

illuminate

illusion

illustrate

illustrator

 

Maths:

We are going to be learning about time next week. In preparation for this we would like to see what you know about time. If you are unable to answer a question, please record that you were unable to do this without help. This isn’t a test, it is just for us to know where your gaps in knowledge are for our learning next week. Please be honest.

 

Literacy: This week there are two different literacy activities. Everyone has their specific sheet stuck in their literacy book.

This week we are looking at degrees of possibility using adverbs (e.g.perhaps, surely, certainly, definitely, possibly) and modal verbs (e.g. might, should, will, must, couldn’t, could, may).

 

Can you choose 2 adverbs and 2 modal verbs and use them in a sentence (four sentences altogether).

 

Challenge (optional): Write a sentence using brackets or dashes.

 

Literacy:

This week we are looking at the difference between ‘a’ and ‘an’ and how to use them accurately within a sentence.

For example:   An elephant stormed across the savanna.

                       There was a mouse who was on top of a wall.
Can you write two sentences using ‘a’ and two sentences using ‘an’.