Year 5 Home Practice 19th March 2021

Date: 17th Mar 2021 @ 4:47pm

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 19^th March 2021

Home Practice is back! Every Friday I will post your Home Practice tasks for the week on our class blog (school website). It will always be reading, spelling and some Sumdog challenges. Please work hard to complete your home practice, it really makes a difference and helps to reinforce what has been learnt at school.

A good end to our second week back together Year 5. Let’s keep working hard and following the Golden Rules, all the time! In Maths, we have learnt about negative numbers, Roman numerals and decimals. The children have finished Deathwood Letters and we are moving on to our new novel, Room 13 by Robert Swindells. We are also looking at short stories in English and the children have already written some of their own spooky stories, which were very scary! In Science, we made rockets out of paper and launched them with straws. We measured how far they flew and thought about the forces at work. Our new topic in Geography is – North America. We have learnt about the countries and the different climates of this interesting continent. We had a great discussion in RE about the ‘cost of giving’ and young carers in society. It was great to see you in red today, wearing red noses and telling fabulous jokes! Well done Year 5.

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. 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, look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find more information.

Y5 book changing day is Friday. Although, some children may change books at different times, so always bring your book bag into school every day. Remember to sign when you have finished a book, it makes it much easier to issue new books.

I am introducing a ‘Reading Journal’ for the children. They are familiar with this from previous year groups. At the front of the journal, there are activities for the children to do using their current book or one they have just finished. They may choose an activity, complete it in their journal (best presentation and handwriting!) and colour/highlight the square to show they have done it. The children must complete one activity per week.

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on decimals and times tables practice. We will have a mixed times tables test every Monday.

Spelling

The Sumdog spelling challenge is focused on compound words (different from the spelling test words below).

Please learn these spellings for next Friday (26.3.21): If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult.

We are investigating ‘wh’ words.

wheeze         wharf           whinge           whippet            wheat                 

whinny          whelk            whimper        whiskers           whistle        

white            whacked        whisper         whiff                which         

Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)

This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on adverbs.

Have a lovely weekend, Miss Gravili.