St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolHome Learning Wednesday 24th February 2021
Date: 14th Feb 2021 @ 5:45pm
Year 5 Home Learning Wednesday 24th February 2021
Good morning Year 5, I hope you are well and doing lots of reading. You could recommend one of your favourite books to a friend. Perhaps, phone them and have a nice chat to see how they are. You might also like to write a list of books you would recommend to someone in Year 5 and we can talk about them when we are all back in school. Not long now! It is Fairtrade Fortnight, so I have included a sheet with activities that will help you learn a little bit more about Fairtrade (documents below). You might also like to visit the website. There are lots of things to do and learn and even a competition if you are interested, https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/choose-the-world-you-want/
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 or one you have just read. Draw a cartoon strip of the main events of the story. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix - ible. Please learn these spellings for Monday’s test (01.03.21). 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.
divisible gullible digestible permissible audible
accessible invincible legible compatible responsible
reversible invisible illegible feasible edible
English
Read through Explanation Features (documents below). This will help you with your writing today so you know what to include when writing an explanation.
New technology often requires instructions for use and explanations of how it works.
Have a look at the Baby Cage pictures (documents below) What do you think when you see these pictures? Find out what a patent is.
Today you will be writing and performing explanations of genuine patented products (in the style of Dragons’ Den pitches).
Have a look at the patent designs (documents below), choose one and write a three-minute presentation (pitch), explaining how the inventions work.
MEDIUM/HARD: Include adverbs for opinion (cleverly, easily, clearly, amazingly, etc.) in addition to cause and contrast. Remember to use brackets if necessary. Include all the key features of an explanation text.
I have included a worksheet (Dragons' Den Worksheet below) to help you with this. Stick it into your exercise book or you can write straight into your book.
On Seesaw, there is an example of a piece of explanation writing that could be used as a pitch. This is what I would like you to do. Then you can read it out and pitch your product, good luck!
The date and title are:
Wednesday 24th February 2021
Can I write an explanation to present (pitch) a patented product?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter do this counting activity 3. I have alson included the answers for activities 1, 2 and 3 for you (documents below). Please spend ten minutes on your Maths Sumdog challenges.
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Common Factors.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
24.02.21
Can I find common factors?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Visualise 2-D shapes.
Explain methods and reasoning.
Shape Puzzle – Answers:
Science
Click on the link below, read and follow the lesson as it progresses. Make sure you watch the video clips as well.
Do the task on slide 6. You may print it out or copy it directly into your exercise book. If you are unsure there is a good example on slide 9 that will help you.
The date and title are:
Wednesday 24th February 2021
Can I compare reversible and irreversible changes?
Exciting and Additional Science Work
This week something very exciting has happened in the world of Space science.
"Touchdown confirmed" - there is a new robot on Mars!
This video is an animation of how scientists planned the landing, not footage of the real thing, but it gives a really good idea of the successful landing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzmd7RouGrM&safe=active
Amazing, isn’t it?!
Perseverance’s mission is to look for signs of life on Mars. Scientists have to model their investigations on Earth because obviously they can’t nip to Mars. They form hypotheses (good guesses) based on what they can learn here.
So, they have researched life forms on Earth that live in extreme habitats. They are called extremophiles. There are extremophiles living in Antarctica, in volcanic ash and lava and deep under the sea where there is total darkness. There is also life in Yellowstone park hot springs and in a river called Rio Tinto in Spain which is very acidic.
If life can exist in these extreme environments on Earth, maybe it can also exist on Mars?
Write the date and title:
Wednesday 24th February 2021
Can I research the possibility that there is life on Mars?
Your first job is to research Extremophiles on Earth and write a paragraph explaining what you have found out.
Now use the ESA kids website to research what scientists think about the Possibility of life on Mars.
Use this link to find out about Perseverance and write a paragraph about its mission. Why do you think it is called Perseverance?
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/mars-2020/en/
Finally, what do you think? Will Perseverance find evidence of life on Mars?
You can use the underlined words/phrases as sub headings.
Well done. Keep an eye on the news for the latest developments 211 million km away!
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
French
Here’s a song to welcome you back to French learning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkJ88ygPY0
Click here and download lesson 5 with audio. http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y5_French/Yr5AutumnFr.php
Today’s lesson starts with a recap of time and moves on to describing what you have for breakfast.
Play the audio clips on slide 2 and see if you can write down the missing word. You can check your spellings on the next slide.
Qu’est-ce que tu manges? What do you eat?
Je mange … I eat Je bois…..I drink. Du, de la and des all mean some. Du is used for masculine nouns, de la for feminine nouns and des for plural nouns.
Work your way through, repeating all the words. Listen to the song on slide 21 and see if you can understand. Then, write the date in French in your book and the learning objective:
Can I read and understand a French text?
Read the text on slide 22 and answer the questions in English. Check your answers afterwards.
Bon travail! A la semaine prochaine!
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Factors and Multiples Within 100.
Spelling Challenge: Homophones (Recap). These words are different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili