20 November 2015
The homework this week is talk time homework / practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 25 November.
How can you learn which way is left and which is right?
In maths this week, we’ve been learning about ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd…) and the left and right positions. Many children (and adults) struggle with remembering their left and right, but there are lots of ways to remember them if it doesn’t come naturally!
If your child cannot remember their left from right after doing the homework, it is not the end of the world! The homework acts as a chance for them to discuss their learning with you and for you to share any ways of remembering their left from right.
20 November 2015
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 25 November.
What makes a healthy person?
It’s Health Week next week so the homework is a chance for children to talk about and show what they know about being healthy.
Keep checking the Class News page next week to see what the children have been learning.
20 November 2015
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect is due on Wednesday 25 November.
I can use homophones correctly in a sentence.
One of the things we’re finding tricky in Year 5 is to recognise which spelling we need when a word is a homophone.
Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings. Write 10 sentences using homophones. There are lots to practise from our spellings last week but everybody needs to practise ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ as we make mistakes with these a lot.
20 November 2015
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 25 November.
Should children play outside or play with technology?
Choose one side of the argument to debate.
Be prepared to have a class debate on this topic. Choose one side of the argument to debate but don’t forget to consider both sides so that you can counter the other team’s points.
Use the sentence openers to organise your ideas and create counter arguments for our debate.
13 November 2015
Practice Makes Perfect is all about multiplication and is due on Wednesday 15 November.
To be able to use column multiplication.
We’ve been sent a very important secret message from the ISS for Tim Peake. It’s our mission to solve this and respond to it. Use your column multiplication skills to decode what they’ve said. There might be some slightly trickier calculations thrown in for you to use what you know in order to crack these too.
13 November 2015
This week’s homework is Talk Time and will be discussed on Wednesday 18 November.
I wonder how astronauts can stay healthy on the ISS?
Tim Peake’s launch is growing ever closer and our learning focus next week is all about being healthy in space. Around the dinner table, in the car, as you walk around the supermarket, discuss how they might stay healthy and don’t forget to write a few sentences so that you remember your ideas for our discussion on Wednesday.
We’re also using Makewaves, a social networking site, to share our work throughout this topic; if you want to upload anything you discuss, log on at home.
13 November 2015
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 18 November.
I can show / tell people what to do if they are being bullied.
It’s anti-bullying week next week (16-20 November). The theme for the week is Make a noise about bullying. Children’s homework should tell others what to do if they are being bullied.
In school, we tell children that the most important thing you can do to STOP bullying is to Start Telling Other People.
The link to the website is below: http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/anti-bullying-week/
06 November 2015 – practice makes perfect homework
As always, Year 5 have a practice makes perfect homework due on Wednesday 11 November.
To show I can improve on my writing target.
Each child has written their writing target into their book and need to show (in any way they choose) that they are aware of what this is and can practise improving on it. You might want to write a paragraph that demonstrates you are considering your target, or you could write individual sentences to help you practise. It’s up to you. Here are the different targets with an example to help.
- To be able to use expanded noun phrases – In front of him stood a long, dark corridor that was full of shadows.
- To be able to use relative clauses – Tim Peake boarded the rocket, which was ready for lift-off, and buckled himself in for a bumpy ride.
- To be able to add detail to openers – Beyond the Milky Way, where the stars shone brightly, a comet flew through space.
- To be able to use a range of openers – ‘ly, ‘ing, conjunction, preposition
06 November 2015 – creative homework
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 11 November.
To show what I know about the Solar System.
We’ve had a fantastic start to our new topic, Mission to Space and this week’s learning has centred around the Solar System.
- How many planets are there?
- What are their names?
- In what order are they from the sun?
- Which is the biggest and which is the smallest?
- What orbits Earth? How long does it take?
- What does Earth orbit? How long does it take?
- How long does it take for the Earth to spin on its axis?
- What else would you find in our Solar System?
- Where is the ISS?
…Just a few questions we’ve been answering through a research-based topic where the children are taking lots of responsibility for their learning. Here are a few suggestions of ways the children could present their learning this week:
- Draw and label a diagram of the Solar System
- Write a story, travelling through the Solar System on a rocket
- Create a model of the Solar System
- Present information about the planets using mathematical facts and figures
As usual, you can use one page in your homework book. For this topic, Year 5 will also be using a website called Makewaves to share the work we’re doing in class with other people taking part in this national project. If you want to upload your homework to your Makewaves site, it will add to your portfolio and we can have a look at it in class.
06 November
We have been learning about shape this week. We have looked in detail at the following four basic shapes and so your child should be able to fill in the following table which can be found in their homework books. Please note that we’re learning that a circle has no sides but has a curved edge.
