Y5 Homework

Homework due Wednesday 20.5.15

Your homework this weekend is to write a diary entry for Saturday and Sunday. Use the diary example to help you reach your standard.

Success Criteria

• Describe what you did at the weekend
• Describe your feelings
• High quality adjectives and adverbs
• Similes and Metaphors
• Paragraphs
• Chronological order
• Time connectives- e.g After a while, a few moments later
• Connectives- e.g nevertheless, despite, moreover, furthermore
• Variety of sentences- simple, compound, complex

This week in maths we have been measuring and drawing angles accurately using a protractor.

If you don’t have a protractor at home to practise with, there are lots of online games which can be used instead.

http://www.mathplayground.com/measuringangles.html

We have also been looking at finding missing angles on a straight line (180 degrees) and a whole turn (360 degrees). You can try some of these questions at home:

Homework due in Thursday 7^th May 2015

Your homework this week is to research a modern day cruise ship. Choose one from the three below:

• Royal Caribbean Allure of the Seas
• Cunard Queen Mary 2
• P&O Britannia Ship

We would like you to present your research as an A4 leaflet (can be folded) to give information about the ship. You can use some of the features from your non-chronological report.

These are the subheadings we would like you to look at:

• General information about the size of the ship, top speed, how many passengers it can hold, crew on board, captain etc
• Entertainment on board the ship- swimming pools, restaurants etc
• The places the ship visits around the world
• The different rooms

Success Criteria

• Paragraphs and subheadings
• Pictures
• Clear information
• Facts and Statistics
• Persuasive language
• High level adjectives
• Ly,ed,ing sentence starters
• High level connectives

Year 5 homework this week is not due in until Thursday 23rd April.

Homework due 23.4.15

For your homework this week you will need to make a presentation about the Titanic. Everyone will be presenting their homework in project lessons on with Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.

You can either create a powerpoint presentation or write a speech. It is a speaking and listening activity where you are expected to talk through your presentation. This is your opportunity to share your knowledge and understanding of the Titanic as well as learn from others.

These are the questions you should aim to answer in your presentation:

• When and where did the Titanic sink?
• How did the Titanic sink?
• Roughly how many people died?
• Where did the Titanic depart from and where was it heading?
• What was life on board the Titanic like for the different classes?
• How were the classes treated differently?
• What flaws in the design and construction of the Titanic may have contributed towards the Titanic sinking?

Spellings:

Group A: available, vegetable, adorable, capable, irritable, believable, excitable, breakable

Group B: available, vegetable, adorable, table, likeable, excitable, capable

Year 5 homework this week is a writing activity. It involves looking at connectives and then writing a character description of Dobby from Harry Potter

The homework has been differeniated so choose a group of connectives which best suits your ability and write sentences using them connectives:

1)  Connectives: and, because, so                                                                                              2)  Connectives: meanwhile, although, whereas

Homework due 4.3.15

Ready… Steady… Read!

Next week is World Book Week! To celebrate this, your homework is to read a chapter of your favourite book and either:

• Recreate it as a comic book strip
• Write a book review for it

If you chose to write a comic book strip, you can either use the template provided or draw your own one.

Success Criteria for a comic book strip

• Clear, colourful pictures
• A short one sentence caption for each box
• Speech bubbles (if needed) for the characters
• Correct sequence of events- as told in the book/chapter

If you would like to write a book review, this can be presented in your neatest handwriting in your homework book or typed up.

The information/questions you may want to include in your book review:

• Title of the book
• Author of the book
• Who the book is aimed at?
• Brief explanation about what happens in the book
• Why do you like it?
• What is your favourite character/part of the story? Why?
• Would you recommend it to other people to read? Why?
• Star Rating

Success Criteria for a book review

• Use subheadings to clearly display your information
• Give lots of detail explaining your opinion and why
• Use quotes from the book
• Use high quality adjectives to describe the book (not ‘good’ or ‘bad’)

Spellings

Group A:

brilliant

radiant

reluctant

observant

unobservant

pleasant

descendant

restaurant

Group B:

brilliant

radiant

constant

distant

elegant

fragrant

important

restaurant

This week year 5 have been set 3 pieces of homework. This includes spellings (see list below), a handwriting sheet and each maths group has been set their own homework as well.