Year 5 Homework- Thursday 9th November

Assembly Practice

All lines to be fully rehearsed by Monday- will be practising without scripts.

Focus on fully remembering our prayer and the lyrics to our song.

Song- ‘Count On Me’ by Bruno Mars

Prayer

Please help our world leaders and ourselves to make the right decisions (Red ties)

To keep our world safe and to make peace amongst each other (Blue ties)

We pray that the wars across the world come to an end. (Red ties)

That our world is kept safe by keeping it clean as we tackle climate change. (Blue ties)

And that us people, your creation, can find more peaceful ways of dealing with our differences. (Red ties)

May we remain hopeful that peace and good fortune will come good and that your faith fills the hearts of the world. (Blue ties)

Spellings

The first 6 spellings are new words that we have learnt this week. The last 4 are other tricky words that we have covered this year.

  1. rhyme

  2. rhythm

  3. symbol

  4. system

  5. forty

  6. curiosity

  7. appreciate

  8. invisible

  9. believable

  10. attached

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • DD2- Model decimals and fractions

  • DD4- Place values in decimal numbers

Music- Clarinets

To practice;

  • Jingle Bells- E G C x 10

  • Dancing in the street- G G G A G x 5

Year 5 Homework for half term

Spellings

  1. fasten

  2. listen

  3. glisten

  4. soften

  5. castle

  6. rustle

  7. hustle

  8. bustle

  9. jostle

  10. whistle

Reading

Lots of time for reading over half term so I am expecting lots of children ready to quiz when we get back. Aim for at least 20 minutes a day.

Assembly practice

Everyone has been given their script and the whole class have had a rundown of what the assembly is out. The key at the top of the script page will indicate what colour tie you are to wear. Please can you bring your coloured tie in when back in school. Tips for helping to practice for assemblies;

  • Highlight your lines in the script.

  • Make a note of who you’re speaking after and the last word of their line.

  • Focus on expression and how you want to say your lines.

IXL

Any child who did not complete last weeks IXL homework then please get this finished over half term. The homework’s were

Maths- A5

English- CC7


Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 6th October

Spellings

This weeks focus is homophones. In order to practice these, children will have to hear the word in context to differentiate it from the homophone pair.

  1. cereal

  2. steal

  3. father

  4. stationery

  5. heard

  6. serial

  7. farther

  8. stationary

  9. herd

  10. steel

English

The children are to complete the grammar sheet in their books which is about using commas to separate clauses. They are then to write 5 of their own sentences which have to include;

  • a main clause and subordinate clause.

  • a comma to seperate the clauses.

Music

G G G A G

To practice ‘Dancing in the street’ with the backing track on to these notes.

Challenge- can you walk up? C D E F G A

Year 5 Homework to be handed in by Thursday 28th September

Spellings

  1. terrible

  2. possible

  3. sensible

  4. visible

  5. legible

  6. edible

  7. reversible

  8. credible

  9. responsible

  10. horrible

English

A worksheet about fronted adverbials has been stuck in their homework books. The children are to re-write the sentences so that the adverbial is at the start of the sentence. The first sentence has already been done by the children.

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • A9- Writing numbers up to one million in words

Music- Due in on Monday 25th September

Will be on Charanga. The children are to go onto rhythm gird and create a rhythm similar to what we practiced on Monday. Go to settings and select 4:4 and do this by using notes E and D only.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 21st September

Spellings

  1. fought

  2. nought

  3. ought

  4. bought

  5. cough

  6. trough

  7. rough

  8. tough

  9. enough

  10. thorough

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • A1- Place value names up to millions

  • A2- value of a digit

DT

Children are to select their own greek myth (cartoon only). This is to be found on YouTube and they need to find the 4 main points of the story for each page of their book. This can be done as a drawn sketch with annotations or just written out.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 14th September

Spellings

This weeks focus has been words with the silent letter b

  1. thumb

  2. numb

  3. crumb

  4. debt

  5. doubt

  6. limb

  7. climb

  8. tomb

  9. comb

  10. subtle

Class Council Speeches

Our leadership assemblies will take place next week, where our roles of responsibility are announced. For anyone who would like to be a class councilor this year and also be apart of the school council, then you are to prepare a speech to tell your classmates why they should vote for you. One boy and one girl will be selected as our class councilors. You can not apply for class councilor if you have already been one in a previous year.

Homework Books

As it is the first week homework handout of the year, the children are to design the front cover of their homework books. You can choose to back these books as it helps protect the condition of them. This is so we do not get these books mixed with our computing books (same size and colour).

History- London preparation- Due Monday 12th September

The children are to write 5 curious questions in their homework book that they would like to find out about the Houses of Parliament or anything else to do with London and their task is to find the answer when we go on Tuesday.

Year 5 Homework 14.7.23

Spellings

  1. variety

  2. vegetable

  3. vehicle

  4. yacht

  5. exaggerate

  6. sufficient

  7. physical

  8. prejudice

  9. awkward

  10. committee

  11. environment

  12. mischievous

    Mrs Mathers group

English

Debate time

The children have been split into 2 groups and they will have to prepare arguments to put forward for their debate. Children are to come up with reasons for their argument and use research to help support their team. The question is ‘Should homework be banned?’ The groups for this are;

For argument (homework should be banned)

Lily-Mae Rosa

Christian Ruby-Lilly

Emilia Anncia

Nicola Evan

Max Iris

Dominic Leon

Tabby Owen

Against argument (homework shouldn’t be banned)

Stanley Angel

Connor-Sean Leo

Harvey Millie

Daisy Edi

Jay Matilda

Georgia Alex

Molly-Ann Charlie

Franek

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 13th July

Spellings

  1. shoulder

  2. signature

  3. sincerely

  4. soldier

  5. stomach

  6. sufficient

  7. suggest

  8. symbol

  9. system

  10. temperature

  11. thorough

  12. twelfth

    Mrs Mather’s group

    1. young

    2. watch

    3. white

    4. until

    5. their

    6. they’re

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • H13- Divide 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers.

Music- PRIORITY

Our music concert is less than two weeks away (10th July) so it is vital that we are all practicing the songs for this. They are all on charanga saved under the file ‘Music Concert 2022-23’

Year 5 Homework due on Thursday 6th July.

Spellings

  1. profession

  2. programme

  3. pronunciation

  4. queue

  5. recognise

  6. recommend

  7. relevant

  8. restaurant

  9. rhyme

  10. rhythm

  11. sacrifice

  12. secretary

    Mrs Mathers group

    1. side

    2. second

    3. sometimes

    4. state

    5. took

    6. until

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • F14- Multiply 2 digit numbers by 3 or 4 digit numbers.

Music- PRIORITY

Our music concert is less than two weeks away (10th July) so it is vital that we are all practicing the songs for this. They are all on charanga saved under the file ‘Music Concert 2022-23’

Year 5 Homework

Spellings

  1. muscle

  2. necessary

  3. neighbour

  4. nuisance

  5. occupy

  6. occur

  7. opportunity

  8. parliament

  9. persuade

  10. physical

  11. prejudice

  12. privilege

    Mrs Mathers group

    1. side

    2. sometimes

    3. state

    4. took

    5. until

Music- PRIORITY

Our music concert is in two weeks time so it is vital that we are all practicing the songs for this. They are all on charanga saved under the file ‘Music Concert 2022-23’

Year 5 Homework to be handed in by Thursday 22nd July

Spellings

  1. harass

  2. hindrance

  3. identify

  4. immediately

  5. individual

  6. interfere

  7. interrupt

  8. language

  9. leisure

  10. lightning

  11. marvellous

  12. mischievous

    Mrs Mather’s group

    1. girl

    2. grow

    3. leave

    4. miss

    5. mountain

    6. real

Music

The date for our music concert has been set which is Monday 10th July. All of the songs have been posted on Charanga under ‘Music Concert 2023’. Children are to practice singing these songs and also playing them on the clarinet.

These are the songs that we will be singing for the end of year play in Year 6’s performance of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. The children have all been given a copy of the lyrics for each song as these have been adjusted slightly to fit the theme of our play.

DISCLAIMER- The songs that we are singing will be slightly slower than the original versions of these songs so I would recommend slowing the audio down on the video.

Money, Money, Money


Flash Bang Wallop What a Picture

Design and Technology

Mrs Mather has set you a task to prepare for the next lesson. This needs to be brought in on Tuesday 20th June.

Mama Mia, Spaghetti Bolognaise!

Design and Technology Task.

 

Dear children,

In readiness for next weeks lesson, I would like you to collect Nutritional 

Value  labels from Spaghetti Bolognaise jars, packs and ready meals.

 You can either:

Have a look in your cupboards, fridges and freezers.

OR

You can search on line for examples.

Please bring these with you on Tuesday, as we will be using them in the

 lesson.

Please feel free to email any photos to me on

s.mather@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

It will be wonderful to see how many examples we can collect!

Have fun with it

Mrs Mather

 

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 26th May

Spellings

  1. equipment

  2. especially

  3. exaggerate

  4. excellent

  5. existence

  6. explanation

  7. familiar

  8. foreign

  9. forty

  10. frequently

  11. government

  12. guarantee

    Mrs Mather’s group

    1. colour

    2. enough

    3. Europe

    4. face

    5. family

    6. final

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • Z14- Write fractions in lowest term (simplifying fractions)

Geography

To research the capital cities of the 23 countries of North America. These are to be included in the style of a poster, similar to last weeks geography homework.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in by Thursday 18th May

Spellings

  1. convenience

  2. correspond

  3. criticise

  4. curiosity

  5. definite

  6. desperate

  7. determined

  8. develop

  9. dictionary

  10. disastrous

  11. embarrass

  12. environment

    Mrs Mather’s group

    1. keep

    2. own

    3. school

    4. something

    5. thought

    6. almost

Reading

Children to focus on getting through their book and ready to quiz on Monday when they’re back in school.

Geography

We are beginning our next geography topic next week, all about North America. Children are to create a research poster about North America with them putting their own design on their poster. This is for the children to build up some prior knowledge before coming into the lesson. Things to include in their poster;

  • Countries within North America

  • Location in the world e.g. hemispheres, oceans etc

  • Climate and weather

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 11th May

Spellings

  1. awkward

  2. bargain

  3. bruise

  4. category

  5. cemetery

  6. committee

  7. communicate

  8. community

  9. competition

  10. conscience

  11. conscious

  12. controversy

    Mrs Mather’s group

Maths

Will be on IXL. As the children have had a full week of area and scaling. It is important to keep topping up with their fractions understanding as we pick this up again next week.

  • AA13- Add three or more fractions with the same denominator.

  • AA14- Add three or more fractions with the same denominator: word problems.

English

Will be on IXL;

Y1- Identify homophones with pictures.

FF9- Identify relative pronouns.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 4th May

Spellings

We have now finished our Read Write Inc spellings (orange spelling books) and are now focusing on the statutory spelling list for Year 5. Most of these spellings have been covered in the Read Write Inc books so the main focus will be retrieving tricky spelling words.

  1. accommodate

  2. accompany

  3. according

  4. achieve

  5. aggressive

  6. amateur

  7. ancient

  8. apparent

  9. appreciate

  10. attached

  11. available

  12. average

    Mrs Mather’s group

    1. country

    2. don’t

    3. earth

    4. group

    5. hard

    6. important

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • Z10- Select fractions equivalent to whole numbers using models.

  • Z18- Compare fractions with different denominators using models.

English

Will be on IXL;

  • X3- Find synonyms in context.

Music

To practice ‘The Eye of the Tiger’ on charanga, focusing on the clarinet section.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on 27th April

Spellings

This week, we have been focusing on our tricky words again and looking at ways of how to spell tricky words that may not be as common in our writing. The first 4 words are new words we have done with the rest being other tricky words that we have covered this year.

  1. bruise

  2. nuisance

  3. recognise

  4. criticise

  5. desperate

  6. frequently

  7. interfere

  8. disastrous

  9. immediately

  10. necessary

  11. awkward

  12. persuade

    Mrs Mather’s group

    1. add

    2. always

    3. begin

    4. below

    5. between

    6. city

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • Z1- Fractions review

  • Z17- Compare fractions with the same numerator or denominator

Art - Compulsory

In order to be prepared for next weeks lesson, Mrs Mather would like you to bring a paragraph of your favourite text to the lesson.

This may be;

  • A poem

  • An extract paragraph from your favourite book

  • A handful of sentences that describe you, your character/personality

  • A list of your favourite things

  • Your favourite prayer

    The sheet used for this writing has been stuck in their homework folders.



Easter half term

There will be no formal homework over half term but it is important for the children to keep practicing their TT rockstars to keep up with their multiplication skills. Mr Cornwell is getting tired of all the children beating him on TTRS so he will also be practicing over the half term.

All the children have their end of year reading targets in their homework books so it is important for the children to continue with their reading over the half term and to try and reach their target.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in Wednesday 5th April

Rehearsing assembly scripts- PRIORITY

Due to our visit of OFSTED this week, this meant that we lost 2 valuable assembly practice slots in the hall. Therefore, the main focus for homework this week is to practice our lines for the assembly. All children have been given a full copy of the entire script.

Egg Decorating Competition- Deadline Wednesday 5th April

A whole school competition to decorate a boiled egg in whatever fashion of your choosing. It will cost £1 to enter the competition, with the funds going to charity. There will be prizes for the best egg.

Spellings

Our focus this week were words ending in -cial or -tial but they sound like shul. All of these words are words containing this pattern.

  1. official

  2. special

  3. social

  4. artificial

  5. financial

  6. essential

  7. partial

  8. confidential

  9. initial

  10. beneficial

  11. potential

  12. sequential

    Mrs Mather’s group