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
