Hello Year 5!
We hope you have all had a great Easter and that you are all staying safe. We are missing you all lots!
Parents please note that from Monday 20th April BBC Bitesize and BBC iPlayer will be launching daily home learning lessons across a range of subjects. Please take time to check it out with your child!
Pupils here are your home learning tasks for this week. Just try your best with it all and take your time with it.
Good luck and enjoy it!
Reading:
1: Continue to read for 20 minutes every day. Please make sure you are choosing an age appropriate book! Here are some links for books you can read online – please check them out as they have lots of AMAZING e-books!
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/free-ebooks/
2: Reading work on Sumdog.
3:Reading Comprehension task:
Please complete the following task linked to the book we were studying in class:
Q1: Last term as you know we were reading The Boy In The Tower by Polly Ho-Yen.
Where Monsters Lie is the second book by Polly Ho-Yen.
What similarities and differences can you see between the two front covers?
Q2: What similarities and differences can you find between the two books from reading the blurbs:
Boy in the Tower blurb
When they first arrived, they came quietly and stealthily, as if they tip-toed into the world when we were all looking the other way.
Ade loves living at the top of a tower block. From his window, he feels like he can see the whole world stretching out beneath him.
But one day, other tower blocks start falling down around him. Strange, menacing plants begin to appear and no one knows where they came from.
Now their tower isn’t safe any more. Ade and his mum are trapped and there’s no way out.
Where Monsters Lie blurb
The children of Mivtown have grown up hearing the legend of the monsters of the loch. But it’s only a story – a warning to stay away from the water.
Then strange things start happening. Effie’s rabbit Buster escapes from a locked hutch, her mum disappears and slugs start to infect her home.
Along with her best friend, Finn, Effie begins to hunt for clues to solve the mysteries of Mivtown. Could this all be connected to the legend? Is it really just a story or is there something lurking in those deep-dark waters?
Complete the following table to show the similarities and differences:
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Maths:
Task 1: 20 minutes of times tables work every day. Use TT Rockstars to help you practise.
Task 2: Arithmetic task and times tables task on Sumdog.
Task 3: There are 2 activities set on My Maths to complete. Use your log in details to get onto the website.
Task 4: Complete the Maths investigation involving measures, converting measures and problem solving –
*Solutions are included
Writing:
Your writing home learning this week uses the Natural History Museum’s Dino Directory website:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory.html
You have 5 lessons to complete over the course of the week and each lesson should take you around 30 minutes. Complete the activities in order. Each lesson has a simple explanation and examples to get you started.
Parents you can help your child by:
- Reading the extracts aloud with your child
- Collecting interesting words and phrases on paper / post-its as they read
- Talking to your children about their ideas before they write
- Adapting any of the resources and materials as you feel necessary to support your child’s needs
Monday:
Lesson 1 –Response to Reading
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/triceratops.html
Read the Triceratops entry in the Dino Directory. Use the links in the article to help clarify vocabulary, for example click on ‘Late Cretaceous’.
As you read make notes:
–Do you have any questions?
–Is there any vocabulary you don’t understand?
–Have you read a text like this before?
Read the text again and then answer the following questions:
Q1: What does ‘herbivorous’ mean?
Q2: How do we know that male Triceratops used to fight each other?
Q3: What are the advantages of prey animals moving in herds? Give two advantages from the text.
Q4: The text tells us that Triceratops remains “are usually found individually, suggesting they may have spent much of their lives alone.” Choose one word from the three below to complete the sentence:
This suggests that Triceratops were ___________ creatures
Communal solitary friendly
Tuesday: Lesson 2 Vocabulary focus
Now read the Tyrannosaurus and Diplodocus entries in the Dino Directory:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/tyrannosaurus.html
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/diplodocus.html
All of the entries feature useful words that we would be able to use in our own dinosaur entry.
Choose your 5 favourite words from the website or use the examples below to create vocabulary cards like the ones we use in guided reading. Here’s an example:
Possible vocabulary you could use: reputation fossilised encounter relatives vertebrae striking fearsome specimen
Wednesday Lesson 3: Exploring the Writing
Read your favourite entry in the Dino Directory.
The purpose of the writing is to inform.
The author wants the reader to learn specific details about the dinosaur and to maintain the reader’s interest.
How has the author achieved this?
Task: Collect your favourite examples of vocabulary, grammar and punctuation ingredients that the writer has used.
Thursday: Lesson 4 –Grammar Practice and Play
Read the following extract and afterwards complete the tasks below:
With its 3 horns, a parrot-like beak and a large frill that could reach nearly 1 metre (3 feet) across, the Triceratops’ skull is one of the largest and most striking of any land animal.
The horns could have been used to fend off attacks from Tyrannosaurus. A partial Triceratops’ fossil collected in 1997 has a horn that was bitten off, with bite marks that match Tyrannosaurus. The fossil shows that the horn healed after being bitten, so at least some Triceratops survived these encounters.
Puncture marks on fossil frills show that male Triceratops also used their horns to fight each other, probably to impress females.
Explain:
Q1: Why does the author use brackets in this extract?
Q2: Why does the author use the words ‘of any land animal’ rather than ‘of any dinosaur’?
Change:
1: Select synonyms for the underlined words.
Create:
Imagine that you have unearthed a new dinosaur species. Imitate the author’s style by writing a short entry for Dino Directory about your discovery. Don’t forget to include yourself in the ‘named by’ section of the taxonomic details!
Friday: Lesson 5 –Writing Challenges
Using what you have learnt so far, choose one of the following three challenges to complete:
1)Imagine that a Mythical Beasts Directory is being created. Write an entry for a mythical beast of your choice (or your own creation) in the style of the Dino Directory.
2)Using the information from the Dino Directory, create a top three ‘most deadly dinosaurs’ page, justifying the reasons for your ranking with evidence from the website and other sources.
3)Imagine that you have travelled in time and encounter one of these incredible creatures! Write an account of your meeting with a dinosaur. This could be expanded into a full story.
Spellings:
Task 1: We have set you some spelling work on Sumdog.
Task 2: What new words from the table can you make using these suffixes? Remember some won’t make correct words and use the correct rules.
-ing -er -en -ed
| corner
fasten awake forget begin garden prefer |
swim
run walk get forgive limit |
Science
Family Science Activity
Fizzy Bottle Rockets – click on the links below to view a video and download the information sheet.
https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/fizzy-bottle-rockets
https://www.rigb.org/docs/fizzybottlerockets_infosheet_v2_0.pdf
Questions to ask children:
When tablet is put in glass of water: What do you think is in the bubbles?
Where do you think the bubbles are coming from?
What do you think would happen if we used more than one tablet? Why?
What do you think would happen if we used warm water? Why?
Before making rocket:
What do you think will happen if we put some tablets and water in this bottle and close the lid? Why?
What things could we change to make the rocket go higher?
Going further:
Experiment with different sizes of bottle and different combinations of water and tablets to find out what combination gives you the highest flying rocket.
Does it matter how many tablets you use?
What about if you break the tablets into smaller pieces?
How does the temperature of the water affect things?
Watch a flame powered bottle rocket: http://bit.ly/FlamingBottleRockets
Learn more about propulsion by building a balloon powered car: http://bit.ly/ BalloonCars
Science Growing Project
Bored of being in your garden? Now it’s spring time, why not undertake a home growing project!
How about a competition with a group of friends? You could take photos to record your progress and collect data by measuring what grows. Create a friends leader board.
Compare flowers and vegetables/fruit – which grow the quickest? Tallest? If you are growing vegetables or fruit – can you design a dish to make from the produce you will grow over the next few weeks?
Email photos to the school office and these will be posted photos on your year group blog or email a.stapley@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk (Miss Stapley) and she will post them on the curriculum blog.
Good luck!
Topic work linked to our Ancient Egypt topic
You have 2 weeks to complete the following task
Pretend you are Howard Carter discovering the tomb of Tutankhamen.
You can report your findings in a form of your choice. A few ideas are: in a PowerPoint, writing a newspaper article, through drawings, comic strips or through drama (you could film it).
Include something about:
- Howard Carter
- Carter’s feelings regarding the discovery of the tomb
- Tutankhamen the pharaoh
- The finds within the tomb
- The reaction from the rest of the world
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/news/index.htm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zg87xnb/articles/zvmkhbk
https://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_egypt/king_tuts_tomb.php
Coding
On Hour of Code begin the Keep on Dancing section to continue your coding.
https://studio.code.org/s/dance-extras-2019/stage/1/puzzle/1
Music
After seeing lots of online songs about events at the moment, your task is to write a short song to a tune of your choice. It can be about being at home/ isolation/ the NHS heroes, etc. If you wanted, you could film it and share with your friends.
And…
Delia Derbyshire and Doctor Who
Go to the website below and watch Segun Akinola’s video about Delia Derbyshire.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-delia-derbyshire-doctor-who-theme/zfh792p
Why was she a musical trailblazer?
Can you use everyday objects to recreate the Doctor Who theme tune?
Challenge-can you play around with your sounds and find a way to record them?
Have a great week!
Year 5 team