Home Learning Tuesday 19th January 2021

Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 11:59am

Year 5 Home Learning Tuesday 19^th January 2021

Good morning Year 5, I hope you are all well today. I’ve seen some great work on Seesaw, thank you so much for sharing it. I know you are all working hard and trying your best so I am a very proud teacher at the moment.

We have finished our work on Cloud Tea Monkeys and we will be starting our new book Mysterious Traveller which is also by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham. In Maths, we have finished statistics and will now be learning fractions.

Remember to look on CBBC for any programmes that interest you or BBC Bitesize if you want to do any extra learning. Our website has got lots of links to some really interesting webpages. If you go to - Parents then Home Learning Resources.

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: Find a non-fiction (fact) book to read. Write down eight facts you have learnt whilst reading. You could draw a mini picture to go with your facts. Please do this in your exercise book with today’s date.

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

Our new short novel is Mysterious Traveller by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham. This book is set in another faraway place based on an African country called Mali. Look at the map of the continent of Africa (documents below). Africa contains 54 countries; Mali is in the North West.

Read the Blurb and the Authors’ Note at the back (documents below).

You will be reading the opening few pages of Mysterious Traveller. The book begins at an exciting moment of the story (even though it is also acting as an introduction). What do we call this feature built in exciting or scary stories? Tension.

Tension is built through the language used but also through setting up mysteries and making the reader ask questions about characters or events.

Read the opening section of Mysterious Traveller (documents below).

Write down all the questions you can think of that the passage raises (approx. 10).

List the words that the authors’ use to make this passage an exciting opening and to make you want to read on (desperately fast, hunted, chased, etc.). The heading for your list is:

Words That Build Excitement and Tension:

Extension (optional): Are there any phrases or sentences from the text that you could write in your exercise book that show examples of strong descriptive words/phrases?

The date and title are:

Tuesday 19^th January 2021

Can I identify how texts build tension and ask questions about my reading?

Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.

Maths

For your mental starter play Who Wants to Be a Hundredaire?

http://www.math-play.com/Place-Value-Millionaire/place-value-millionaire-game_html5.html

Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – What is a fraction?

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:

19.01.21

Do I understand what a fraction is?

https://vimeo.com/498327271

Problem Solving Extension (optional):

Coins on the Table

Anna put some 10p coins on the table. One half of them were tails up. Anna turned over two of the coins, and then one third of them were tails up. How many coins did Anna put on the table?

Focus:

Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.

Understand simple fractions.

Explain methods and reasoning.

Games Skills - Battleships.

Watch the clips below and follow the instructions on the cards.

https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Battleships%20.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltZDzlEeP_4&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=4&t=0s

Gymnastic Skills – Jumping Dice.

https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Jumping%20Dice.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufTx2tiT_VQ&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=25&t=0s

Computing