Year 5 Homework to be handed in Thursday 9th March

Spellings

This weeks focus are words with endings that sound like shus but are spelt -cious. The final two spellings are tricky words that we have covered previously.

  1. spacious

  2. vicious

  3. precious

  4. suspicious

  5. conscious

  6. delicious

  7. gracious

  8. malicious

  9. atrocious

  10. ferocious

  11. awkward

  12. definite

Mrs Mather’s group

  1. looked

  2. children

  3. house

  4. called

  5. animal

  6. clothes

English

Weekly SPAG sheet which has been stuck in their books.

Music

Mrs Maddocks has asked the class to practice our new song ‘Lean on me’ on the clarinets. This is available on Charanga.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in Thursday 2nd March

Reading- PRIORITY

As we have started a new half term, the children’s reading targets have been reset so children can start earning points towards their new targets now and shoot up our solar system.

Spellings

This week, we have been looking at words containing double letters. The first 6 words are the new words we have looked at this week. The last 6 words are other double letter words that we have covered this year.

  1. immediately

  2. suggest

  3. marvellous

  4. necessary

  5. programme

  6. recommend

  7. according

  8. aggressive

  9. appreciate

  10. attached

  11. accommodate

  12. accompany

Mrs Mather’s group

  1. another

  2. around

  3. before

  4. after

  5. each

  6. every

SPAG

Their weekly sheet has been stuck in their homework books for them to complete.

Countdown

To the amazement of the Year 5 staff, majority of the children were unaware of the show ‘Countdown’, in which we have played this week to activate the children’s quick thinking skills . The game also gave us a chance to expand their vocabulary. Your task is to watch one episode of Countdown and play. This could be an opportunity for parents to play alongside the children. The children can write down their games in their homework book and we can share our answers next week.

Year 5 homework for half term

Spelling

This week we have been focusing on words ending in -ant,-ance and -ancy.

  1. distance

  2. defiant

  3. assistant

  4. elegance

  5. vacancy

  6. relevant

  7. tolerance

  8. pregnancy

  9. observant

  10. instance

  11. hesitant

  12. substance

Mrs Mather’s group

their

there

they’re

these

other

oil

Reading

All children have been given reading targets for half term (a post it note in their reading book) for them to challenge themselves with lots of reading over half term.

Maths

Will be on IXL (make sure you are doing lots of jotting to help work out the answer)

H13- Dividing 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers

H24- division word problems- estimating the qoutient(answer)

English

A weekly SPAG worksheet which has been stuck in their homework books.

Science

This week, we have looked at the life cycle of a star and the children have recreated their own life cycle posters from our textbook ‘The Universe’. This life cycle focused on the birth of a star. Your task is to create another life cycle of a star: How a star dies. This can be either created as a poster( one side of A4) and then stuck into your homework books or it can be created as a poster on purple mash. The information sheet has already been stuck in the children’s homework books. Here is some examples of life cycle diagrams for the children to use for their layout.

Lenten Boxes

Children are to make a Lenten box for their chosen Year 1 partner to collect money over lent. Use the ideas sheet to help create your box and bring it in on our first day back.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 9th February

Spellings

This weeks spellings have focused on homophones and other words that are easily confused. The children have written some tips to help them remember the difference between some of the similar words. The first 8 spellings are the spellings we have done this week and the other 4 are homophones we have previously done.

  1. affect

  2. effect

  3. accept

  4. except

  5. advise

  6. advice

  7. practise

  8. practice

  9. stationery

  10. serial

  11. aloud

  12. guest

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • G4- Division facts to 12

  • H2- Dividing 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers using arrays

English

SPAG worksheet. This is already stuck in the children’s books and will include a similar style of questions from last weeks SPAG sheet. A reminder for children to bring in their homework folders before Thursday, so that their work can be marked and handed out.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 2nd February

Spellings

Spellings this week are focusing on a different way the ‘ee’ sound is spelt in particular words. These spellings focus on the sound ‘ei’. The first 9 words are the spellings with the ‘ei’ sound and the other 3 spellings are words we have previously done.

  1. receive

  2. deceive

  3. ceiling

  4. receipt

  5. conceit

  6. conceive

  7. seize

  8. protein

  9. caffeine

  10. whistle

  11. breakable

  12. visible

English

SPAG worksheet. Some of the pieces of grammar on the sheet, have not been covered yet this year. We have breifly discussed how we may go about answering these questions without fully learning that piece of grammar, however children are to still attempt each question and we will discuss the answers in class.

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • J1- Square and cube numbers

  • K4- Factor pairs

Year 5 Homework to be handed in 26th January

Spellings

This weeks spellings have been our orange words (tricky words) so these will need practicing over the next week. The first 6 spellings are brand new words that we have learned this week, with the rest being other tricky words that have previously come up in spelling tests.

  1. develop

  2. determined

  3. familiar

  4. definite

  5. awkward

  6. persuade

  7. enough

  8. cough

  9. interrupt

  10. especially

  11. rhythm

  12. curiosity

Reading-PRIORITY

To read for a minimum of 20 minutes at home every day. Children need to make sure to bring their reading book into school every day and also take it home to maximise the amount of reading they can do and to get them quizzing!

English

Will be on IXL;

  • PP2- Capitalisation (Capital Letters)

  • T2- Vocabulary - defining words with prefixes pre-, re-, mis-

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • D9- Multiples

Year 5 Homework to be handed in Thursday 19th January

Spellings

Children to learn these spellings for their weekly spelling test on Wednesday. The children also have a copy of these spellings in their homework books. For practicing at home, the children can look up the meaning of the word and create sentences to help them practice and remember these words.

  1. silence

  2. absence

  3. magnificence

  4. intelligence

  5. obedience

  6. dependence

  7. innocence

  8. patience

  9. confidence

  10. evidence

  11. sentence

  12. experience

Reading- PRIORITY

The children have completed their star reader tests, therefore their ZPD scores may have altered. Some children will have access to more books , in which they will take them home to read for at least 20 minutes a day at home.

English

Will be done on IXL, to practice using punctuation correctly.

OO1- Commas

Maths

Will be done in their homework books. There will be 3 worksheets to complete;

2 x factors sheets

1 x multiples sheets

Year 5 Homework due on Thursday 12th January

Spellings

This weeks focus has been words with double letters. The first 5 words are new words we have learned this week and the other 7 are other double letter words we have done this year. Children are to be tested on these words every Wednesday morning.

  1. embarrass

  2. excellent

  3. exaggerate

  4. especially

  5. interrupt

  6. accompany

  7. according

  8. appreciate

  9. attached

  10. accommodate

  11. aggressive

  12. assessment

English

We have been going over our word classes (noun, adjective, verb, adverb) during retrieval tasks in English. Homework is to complete these IXL tasks to continue with our retrieval.

EE2- Identify nouns

KK6- Identify adverbs

Maths

Will be on IXL. Children are to continue practicing their times tables until we get TTRS back up and running.

D8- Multiplication facts up to 12: find the missing factor.

D2- Multiplication facts for 2,3,4,5,6,8 and 10: find the missing factor,

Year 5 Homework

Reading-PRIORITY

To read a minimum for 20 minutes a day at home every day. The children have been given personal reading targets for their books (post it notes) so they can work towards achieving them.

Maths- catch up

To complete any of the previous two IXL homework’s if you have not done already. The children who haven’t done the previous weeks homework have been notified.

These IXL’s are;

R4- Add and subtract word problems.

R6- Price lists

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 15th December

Reading- PRIORITY

To read for a minimum of 20 minutes a day at home. I will be checking accelerated reading record to see how much the children are reading at home.

Maths

Continuing with our money topic. Will be on IXL;

R4- Add and subtract money amounts- word problems

Christmas Songs

Keep practising these songs as the concert is less than a week away! For silent night, we are only singing the second verse but can the children practice the sign language for the song.

Year 5 Homework- Due Wednesday 10th November

Reading- PRIORITY

To read for a minimum of 20 minutes per day at home.

Maths

Will be online on IXL

DD1- What decimal is illustrated?

DD16- Comparing decimals

English

Will be online on IXL

Q2- Coordinating conjunctions

Q3- Subordinating conjunctions

Assembly practice

To practice this song for our Year 5 assembly. The theme of our assembly will be stewardship of the earth and how we should listen and carry the word of God.

Earth song by Micheal Jackson