Hi everybody and welcome to the first Home Learning tasks for Y5!
I hope you’re all doing well and feeling happy and healthy. During this time away from school, let’s continue to be a great team! With that being said, if you have any questions about home learning, please don’t hesitate email me at: oliwain@spherefederation.org.
Remember, your mental health is just as important as your physical health – exercise when/where you can, talk about what’s on your mind and know that we’re all in this together.
This week’s spellings are:
- interfere
- interchangeable
- international
- supernatural
- superimpose
- autograph
- automatically
- television
- telescopic
- teleport
Children and parents are reminded to practise little but often and test weekly alongside practising a mixture of times tables and related facts (60 x 7 = 420).
Today, we have maths, reading and writing. Each task should take 30-40 minutes and answers (where appropriate) will be ‘live’ tomorrow morning for you to mark your learning with.
Maths – LO: add more than four digits
Reading – LO: explore and evaluate
Today’s reading task is all about the Viking saga: Odin creates the world. Your task is to watch the video clip (link below). Next, read the transcript that goes with it at least two times. After that, answer these questions in your home learning book and complete the activity that follows.
- What did you like about the clip?
- What did you dislike about the clip?
- Is this similar to anything you have read or watched before?
- Are there any words or phrases you liked?
- Are there any words or phrases you didn’t understand? If so, find out what they mean and record them in your home learning book.
- Could Odin have created any of the homes differently? What would you change about them?
Finally, whilst reading the transcript you have two options:
Option A: read the transcript alone and be as expressive as possible – changing voices for the different characters.
Option B: read the transcript with someone else at home being as expressive as possible, too.
Challenge
Whilst reading the transcript, try acting it out as well in the style of a play!
Writing – LO: audience and purpose
Today’s writing task is to write up your newspaper report that we planned in class last week. All children have been given their plan so they should reference this frequently whilst writing.
Structure R2s:
- headline
- paragraphs
- image
- caption
- quote
Grammar R2s:
- passive voice
- formal language
- speech to convey character
- parenthesis
- relative clauses
It’s important that you reread each paragraph after writing it and check it’s followed your plan, makes sense, includes R2s and is spelled correctly. If you need to edit, use your purple pen.
Challenge
Record yourself reading your newspaper as if you’re a real newsreader or perform it to someone else!
Remember, you can email me if you need help with any of the learning by using my email address at the top of this post. Thank you for working so hard – you’ve got this!
Mr Wain