This week we have learnt about the five senses and how we can use examples of these in our writing to include the reader. We have all experienced the senses, so it is a way of making our writing easier for the reader to relate to.
Go outside and write a paragraph or two about your environment. What can you see, hear, feel taste and smell? You don't have to use all of them. Try to use complex descriptive sentences and a simile and a metaphor.
Find out as much as you can about William Blake the poet. Record your findings and be ready to share your findings with the rest of the class next Friday.
Please do at least one of the sheets, you may do both if you wish.
For English this week, please write a diary entry, in a similar vein to that which you did in school this week. Your entry can be about anything that you feel strongly about. Like we did in school, express your feelings (remember how Michael was feeling in Skellig). It could be about climate change, returning to school, something that is going on in the world that concerns you, you decide.
Please complete at least ONE SET of the calculations. You choose which set. If you want to do more than one, that is fine.
To help you prepare for next week's writing, we would like you to choose a favourite book and invent a new character for the story. Write a full character profile: What are they like? What is their personality like? What do they look like?
When you have done that, make a few bullet point notes about how they would fit into the existing story/book.
Imagine that you had been shipwrecked like Kensuke. What equipment do you think you would need to have in order to survive on a desert island? Make a list and explain why you have chosen the equipment (remember, there is no electricity or spare batteries to operate things).
For English this week, please write an Acrostic poem and use any Christmas word.
Also below is a document that provides some recommended reading for 9 - 11 year olds. Just in case you wanted to get a book for Christmas
For English this week. Please research a famous speech, this could be by anyone, Winston Churchill, John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King, or whoever you find out about.
Try and listen to the speech and make a few notes about what you found interesting and/or persuasive about it. Discuss this with your parent/carer and be prepared to talk about it on Friday.
Home learning is not due in this week until Friday 4th December 2020.
English
For English this week, find a written advert for something and see if you can identify how it persuades the reader. Be prepared to talk about it in school.
Remember that home learning in Year 5 goes out on Friday and must be retuned by the following Thursday.
Please cover your home learning book. This can be any pattern you like, whether it's Star Wars paper or shiny unicorns. "Make it your own"
Please continue to read at home every night and make sure that you read aloud at least twice per week.
Please complete the sheet by recording your answers in your home learning book. Please try to avoid printing the sheets out.
English
Please choose your favourite poem and be prepared to recite it next Friday 16th. We would prefer you to learn the poem off by heart, but if it is long, you may want to read aloud. Practice at home, we are looking for excellent intonation and expression.
Please practice your spellings from the website, ready for a test next Friday 16th October.
Remember that home learning in Year 5 goes out on Friday and must be retuned by the following Thursday.
Please cover your home learning book. This can be any pattern you like, whether it's Star Wars paper or shiny unicorns. "Make it your own"
Please continue to read at home every night and make sure that you read aloud at least twice per week.
Please complete either sheet 1 or 2, you choose. Record the answers in your home learning book. You may complete both sheets if you wish to.
English
Use the sheet to inspire a piece of free writing, choose ONE picture. It can be a short story or a piece of descriptive writing. Remember to use the adverbial phrases we have talked about in class this week. Use your home learning book to record your writing.
Please practice your spellings from the website, ready for a test next Friday 9th October.
Please continue to read at home every night and make sure that you read aloud at least twice per week.
Please practice your 6 x table.
English
Please practice your spellings from the website, ready for a test next Friday 2nd October.
Please continue to read at home every night and make sure that you read aloud at least twice per week.
Please practice your 8 x table.
English
Please practice your spellings from the website, ready for a test next Friday 25th September.