Homework

20 May 2016

This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 25 May.

To be able to use semi-colons in a list.

For many of Year 5, this is a new skill that we’re trying to become more confident with. The children have been given a sentence with a three part list in it. They should expand each part of the list adding description which may need extra commas (particularly if they’re using two adjectives). When re-writing their list with this extra detail, they’ll then need to use semi-colons to separate the parts in the list instead of commas and commas would just make the list confusing.

When I went out for tea, I had starters, mains and desserts.

When I went out for tea, I had delicious, puffy dough balls smothered in garlic butter; sumptuous steak which had been fabulously cooked and had crispy chips on the side; and a mouth-watering, rich chocolate pudding that oozed gooey caramel as you stuck your fork in it – yum!

I want the children to have a go at changing their lists so that they need semi-colons. Think about adding adjectives and using relative pronouns (which, that, when, who), ‘ing words and ‘ed words to add detail after the noun as well as before.

20 May 2016

This week’s whole school homework is creative and is due Wednesday 25 May:

I understand rights and responsibilities.

This half term, our SEAL theme has been Rights and Responsibilities.  We’ve been learning that if we have rights, we also have responsibilities. Children have been considering the following rights and responsibilities.

• I have the right to learn and I have the responsibility for my own learning.
• I have the right to play and I have the responsibility to play fairly.
• I have the right to express an opinion and I have the responsibility to respect the opinions of others.
• I have the right to be safe and I have the responsibility to make safe choices.
• I have the right to be healthy and I have the responsibility to make healthy choices.

Your child is required to show their understanding of rights and responsibilities in a creative way. Ideas could include:

• a story
• a poem
• a song
• a poster
• a letter
• a comic strip
• a script

13 May 2016

The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 18 May.

I can find out about toys from the past. 

Talk to your children about the toys and games you played when you were a child. If possible, they could talk to grandparents as well. How have toys changed? Are there any toys, or variations, that children still use today?

13 May 2016

The homework for this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 18 May.

I can tell someone my address.

In SEAL, we have been learning about safety in the home. We have looked at pictures of rooms in the home and spotted hazards and potential dangers. We discussed how we can be responsible for making our home safer, for example, picking up toys so nobody trips over them. We know what to do in an emergency in our home and know that we can call 999 to contact the police, fire brigade and ambulance in a real emergency. Hopefully, no children will ever need to call the emergency services, but if they do, it is useful (or essential if calling from a mobile) to know their address.

The children know that their address is private information and that they should never tell anyone their address unless in an emergency.

13 May 2016

This week’s homework is creative and is due 18 May 2016.

I can research my favourite musician.

In English, we’ve been learning how to write biographies with a focus on musicians. In class, we have used Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong and The Beatles as inspiration for our writing but next week we’ll choose our own musicians. To do this effectively, your child needs to research facts about their favourite musician (or group) and present them in a creative way. This could be a poster, a mind map, a quiz or a PowerPoint presentation.

Your child may include:

• when their musician was born
• where  their musician was born
• where their musician grew up
• how their musician got into music
• what instruments their musician learnt as a child
• how they became famous

13 May 2016

This week’s creative homework is due on Wednesday 16 May.

To be able to name and describe the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

Next week’s Maths will be all about shape. In Year 5, we need to be able to identify what 3D shape a net will make; identify and measure angles; and say whether a shape is regular or irregular.

Before we can do any of that, we need to be confident naming and describing 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. These are the 2D shapes we should be able to identify and describe:

• triangles (equilateral, isosceles, right-angled, scalene)
• quadrilaterals (kite, rhombus, trapezium, parallelogram)
• pentagon
• hexagon
• heptagon
• octagon
• decagon

We should be able to discuss ‘LADS’:

• Lines – how many, equal lengths, parallels?
• Angles – how many, which type, equal opposites, right-angles?
• Diagonals – how many can we spot by joining vertices?
• Symmetry – does it have any lines of symmetry? Where? How many?

We should also know the following 3D shapes:

• sphere
• cuboid
• cube
• prisms (pentagonal, hexagonal etc…)
• cylinder
• pyramid
• tetrahedron

13 May 2016

This week’s practice makes perfect homework is due on Wednesday 18 May.

To be able to describe the position of a shape, reflect it and translate it. 

These are all of the skills we’ve been learning during Maths this week. We’ve been remembering that we need to go along the x axis then the y axis for co-ordinates and making sure we know the difference between reflection and translation.

06 May 2016

The homework for this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 11 May.

My favourite toy-  Create something wonderful to go on our new ‘toys’ display wall.

We are beginning a new big topic! ‘Toys’ was chosen by the children and I am looking forward to lots of great learning. As we begin our topic, it would be lovely to begin filling our display with some wonderful creative work!

If you want your homework on display, it needs to be possible for me to put it up!

06 May 2016

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect and is due on 11 May.

I can practise using pronouns.

In English, we have been using pronouns in our book review writing. A pronoun is a word or phrase that can be used in the place of a noun. We use pronouns to avoid repetition in a paragraph. Your child has a series of activities to help them practise using pronouns.

06 May 2016

This week’s spellings are all homophones. Homophones are two or more words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things. For example: fair (a place with rides and games) and fare (the cost of public transport).

• grown / groan
• eight / ate
• woman / women
• heard / herd

Your child also needs to find their own pair (not pear!) of homophones which they will be tested on.