St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolHome Learning Thursday 4th February 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 10:40am
Year 5 Home Learning Thursday 4th February 2021
Good morning Year 5, well done for writing such excellent stories. I have enjoyed reading them all. There are definitely some great young authors in Year 5. One day, you might be as famous as Roald Dahl or Katherine Rundell! I have included a PowerPoint presentation for you today (documents below) to explain a little bit more about ‘Express Yourself’ for Children’s Mental Health Week because tomorrow, in school and at home we are going to ‘Dress to Express’. It’s a chance for you to dress up in the clothes that show who you are. It might be clothes that show your interests (football/dancing/horse-riding/martial arts) or colours that show your personality (yellow/red/blue/green/black/pink). The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and feel good.
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 book 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: Use the book you are reading at the moment. Draw a diagram of something mentioned in your book and label it. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix- ent. Please learn these spellings for Monday (08.02.21). 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 on your handwriting at the same time.
patient obedient turbulent different incompetent
absent innocent excellent evident complacent
intelligent confident magnificent emergent lenient
English
Today you are going to edit your story. We have done this in school before so you will be familiar with the process.
Get a different coloured pen or pencil (in school we use purple).
Read through your work and correct any spelling, punctuation or grammar mistakes you come across. Have a dictionary ready to help you here.
Change any sentences that don’t make sense or you have repeated.
Add any better vocabulary, information or sentences that would improve your story. A thesaurus will help you here.
Read through it again to make sure it is the best it can be.
Re-write your story in your best handwriting or you might want to type it up. If you want to, you could illustrate it as well.
The date and title are:
Thursday 4th February 2021
Can I edit my story by correcting errors and adding improvements?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the game – Guardians Defenders of Mathematica
https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/guardians-mathematica
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Multiply by 10, 100 and 1000.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
04.02.21
Can I multiply by 10, 100 and 1000?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Presents
Gurmit paid £21 for five presents.
For A and B, he paid a total of £6.
For B and C, he paid a total of £10.
For C and D, he paid a total of £7.
For D and E, he paid a total of £9.
How much did Gurmit pay for each present?
Focus:
Solve a given problem by organising information.
Explain methods and reasoning.
Make five numbers – Answers:
For example:
a. 12, 39, 45, 60, 78.
b. 7, 42, 63, 98, 105.
c. 5, 23, 67, 89, 401.
There are other solutions.
History
Click on the link below for your next lesson – What jobs did the Shang people do? Watch the clip and do the little activity.
Read through - Which job might you have done during the Shang Dynasty?
Decide on a job for yourself.
Write a short paragraph to say, why you would have done that job and what you had to do. Also, think about how you would have felt doing the job.
Draw a picture of yourself doing the work.
The date and title are:
Thursday 4th February 2021
Can I describe what it was like for workers during the Shang Dynasty?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z39j2hv/articles/zx8dcj6
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Music
Click on this link for your Music lesson:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/improvising-in-a-samba-style-70tp4t
Here are some activities linked to Children’s Mental Health Week - ‘Express Yourself’.
Watch this short video by Classical MPR with your group and discuss the different ways in which music can change how we feel and express ourselves: https://bit.ly/2GjLRMW
Research shows that people feel more positive after singing to music, than they do just listening to music.
Try this activity:
choose a song from the list below (or one of your own), learn the words and sing it together (some children might prefer to join in by clapping, clicking their fingers, using percussion instruments, miming or dancing).
Have a go using these songs: ‘If you want to sing out, sing out’ by Cat Stevens https://bit.ly/3iesKBg ‘Express yourself’ by Labrinth https://bit.ly/3kSm8tS
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Fractions.
Spelling Challenge: The suffix -ence. These - ence words are slightly different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Finally, let's light a candle and say a prayer for Captain Sir Tom Moore who passed away on Tuesday. What an inspirational man! Have a look at the picture of him and think about the question that goes with it (documents below).
Take care and look after yourselves.
Miss Gravili