Year 5 Homework

22 April 2016

Posted on Thursday 21 April 2016 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s Creative homework has been chosen by the children following our topic lesson on Tuesday and is due on Wednesday 27 April.

To explore the technology of optical toys.

On Tuesday, we looked at how films came to be invented way back in the 1800s. It all started with optical toys which are based on the idea that if we look at a lot of images very quickly that change very gradually and it looks like the picture is moving.

There are a number of different types of toys and the children have brought some instructions home with them but there’ll be many different varieties and ways of changing them to make them their own. You might decide to design your own optical toy; write a set of instructions for how to make one; make one yourself; tell us all about optical toys; or even write a diary entry as though you’re a child from 1824 who’s just received a thaumotrope for their birthday.

We’re really looking forward to Wednesday’s homework review to see what everybody comes up with.

24 March 2016

Posted on Wednesday 23 March 2016 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s Talk Time homework is due on Tuesday 29 March.

To be able to tell my Fighting Fantasy story confidently.

After lots of work in class on writing narratives, Y5 will be writing their own short story on Tuesday next week. In order to be confident with our stories and to enable us to write a well-thought-through tale, the children have brought their story plans home.

Ask them what the story is about. Question any gaps you think there might in their tale and look out for ideas that are too complicated and might sound muddled. Can they tell you their story orally, remembering key events and some details?

As always, the children are asked to write notes demonstrating what has been discussed. These notes could point out main story events, effective adjectives, verbs or phrases that they’ve used at home and don’t want to forget, or they could detail feedback they’ve had on their story from people at home.

We’ll write our stories on Tuesday so this homework is due on Tuesday 29 March, one day earlier than is usually the case.

24 March 2016

Posted on Wednesday 23 March 2016 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 30 March.

To be able to solve maths problems.

The children have got a selection of Maths problems to read, understand and solve in a given context. They need to think about what question they are actually answering and, sometimes, interpret correctly what remainders mean when dividing. This is work that has recently been learnt in class so they should be able to work independently.

Any working out can be completed in homework books and, for each question, a full sentence should be written to communicate their answer.

If you’re wanting to support your child in their work, check out our calculations videos to see how we do our working out in class.

 

18 March 2016

Posted on Friday 18 March 2016 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s Talk Time homework will be discussed on Wednesday 23 March.

To be able to see things from other people’s point of view.

This links to our SEAL statement for the week and is an essential skill for life. Over dinner, discuss when we might have a different opinion to somebody else; why somebody else’s opinion might be different; whether it’s OK for our opinions to differ; and what we can do to get along with each other and accept/respect our differences.

18 March 2016

Posted on Friday 18 March 2016 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s creative homework is due on Wednesday 23 March.

To be able to use speech punctuation.

Using the tips provided, the children need to show that they are able to punctuate speech accurately or create an activity or example that would help others to punctuate speech accurately. There are lots of ways you could do this:

  • Write a story (or section of) that includes dialogue
  • Create a top tips sheet that would teach someone how to use them
  • Make a game that would help us to practise.
  • Write a section of text with punctuation missing to be corrected (but have an answer sheet ready).

11 March 2016

Posted on Friday 11 March 2016 by Mr Roundtree

One of this week’s homework is Talk Time.

Is it OK to take a life?

Children need to think about this moral question from a wide-range of viewpoints. It’s pretty deep for a Y5 class! In class, we’ll have a debate but they must be prepared to debate for and against this question. They must make notes to help when debating.

11 March 2016

Posted on Friday 11 March 2016 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 16 March.

Each child has been assigned three task on Mathletics to be completed at home. They link to the subtraction and addition we’ve been working on for the last week so all of the children should be confident with their working out.

If you cannot access the activities for any reason, let me know on Monday so that the homework can be completed by Wednesday. Thank you.

 

04 March 2016

Posted on Thursday 03 March 2016 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 09 March.

I can suggest ways of becoming or remaining calm.

As part of our ‘Getting On’ SEAL theme, we’ll look at different ways to keep calm in a range of situations. Discuss how we feel in difficult situations and note down some things you can do to become calm again.

26 February 2016

Posted on Thursday 25 February 2016 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s Creative homework is due on Wednesday 02 March.

To be able to work with money.

We don’t often get creative with Maths but that’s our challenge for this homework. Next week’s Maths will be all about money so think about how you can work with money for your homework. There are all sorts of things you could do for this:

  • Take photos of you using money in real life.
  • Create your own shop at home and be the till master.
  • Create a quiz or challenge for others to try in class.
  • Write word problems that require you to understand money.
  • Think about all of the situations where you’re required to use money.

The more creative the better and I look forward to seeing what comes in as Year 5’s homework is always great fun to look at.

26 February 2016

Posted on Thursday 25 February 2016 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 02 March.

To be able to learn a poem by heart.

We started learning ‘Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth in our English lesson this week. Most of us could recite the first verse by the end of the lesson. We challenged each other to see who could recite the most and Emre impressed us all by remembering all of the first two verses!

See how much you can learn at home and we’ll have another ‘poem-off’ on Wednesday.