St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolHome Learning Thursday 21st January 2021
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 12:01pm
Year 5 Home Learning Thursday 21st January 2021
Good morning Year 5, well done for working so hard. Each day I am seeing more and more fantastic work posted on Seesaw. Thank you again to all those who are helping with your learning. As a thank you to someone in your family, you could surprise them with a random act of kindness. This could be, drawing them a picture or making them a card or even bringing them a treat like a biscuit or a cup of tea (always ask another adult or older sibling to help you with the boiling water!) Make someone smile today! If you want to make me smile today, try your hardest to do your Home Learning as though you were in school. Best handwriting, presentation and effort please.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction text then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Design a poster for the book you have read to persuade other people to read your story/fact book. Please do this in your exercise book with today’s date. If you want to draw and write on plain paper, you could trim it down and stick it in your book.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix-ancy. Please learn these spellings for Friday (22.01.21). If you don’t know what a word means ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus your handwriting at the same time.
infancy pregnancy extravagancy significancy absorbancy
truancy expectancy redundancy vibrancy buoyancy
reluctancy elegancy flamboyancy occupancy accountancy
English
In our story, when Issa lost his sight, he was still able to navigate using Mariama’s vivid descriptions and his own memories of what the place was like.
Mysterious Traveller (and Cloud Tea Monkeys) has beautiful illustrations but even without them the reader builds strong images of the setting and characters though the language used.
Re-read the paragraph where sunrise is described (find it in Tuesday’s documents Mysterious Traveller 1 on page 3). What do you notice about the language used? Note down in your exercise book the powerful language and similes you can find in the text. Why doesn’t the writer just say, ‘The sun rose’? Simile= when you describe something as or like something else. For example, as brave as a lion, or fast like a Cheetah. The sub-heading for this list is: Powerful Language and Similes in the Text
When you do this, think about and include in your list all the ways that writers build images (impactful adjectives and adverbs, powerful noun phrases, similes and metaphor, describing small details, including different senses, etc.).
Now read pages 17, 19 and 20 (documents below) slowly, see if you can spot words and phrases which build vivid images. List them under this sub-heading: Words and Phrases which Build Vivid Images. For example, similes to describe the strangers, ‘evening shadows’ to show time passing, details such as scars, giving the strangers temporary names like Scarface.
Select examples from your second list (Words and Phrases which Build Vivid Images) to record on the imagery worksheet. You will find this in the documents below.
Harder: You could colour-code your imagery examples, e.g. red for simile, green for powerful adjective/verb, purple for small detail, etc.
Please write your lists and stick your worksheet (will need trimming down) into your exercise book.
The date and title are:
Thursday 21st January 2021
Can I identify examples of powerful language, similes and imagery in my reading?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play – Daily 10 and select level 5, multiplication and mixed times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Equivalent fractions (Y5).
These lessons start by recapping prior learning then move onto Year 5 objectives. The work will get more challenging as we progress.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
21.01.21
Do I understand what an equivalent fraction is?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Money bags
Ram divided 15 pennies among four small bags.
He could then pay any sum of money from 1p to
15p, without opening any bag.
How many pennies did Ram put in each bag?
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Explain methods and reasoning.
Three Digits – Answers:
You can make six different numbers.
In order, the numbers are:
799, 889, 898, 979, 988, 997.
History
Follow the link below, scroll down to lesson three – How did the Shang army win battles? Watch the clip and do the short activity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z39j2hv
Whilst watching the clip take notes about the Shang army and the different types of warriors. Write these notes neatly in your exercise book. Illustrate your notes with pictures of some of the warriors.
The date and title are:
Thursday 21st January 2021
Can I take notes about the Shang army?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Timetables and Line Graphs.
Spelling Challenge: The suffix -ance. This is slightly different from our test spellings…the suffix – ancy, but still worth working on.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili