YEAR 5 HOME LEARNINGW/C 8.6.20

NEW INFO!!! As many children are returning to school this week we have increased the amount of work which we are setting for home learning to bring the children still at home more in line with their peers in school. We appreciate your efforts to help your children with home learning and we know that many of you have your own work pressures, so as previously; the message is to do what you can, when you can.We would love to be able to give a little more feedback so we would encourage you to send pictures or documents of writing and foundation subject work to Claire.Donoghue@schools.sunderland.gov.uk in our school office who will then be pass it on to the year group leaders for feedback.

We would also love to see your work and hear how you are getting on! So we would like to host a weekly virtual catch up where you will have the opportunity to see other children in your class and share some of the lovely work you’ve been doing with each other and a teacher from school. To able to access these virtual chats you will need a Google Account (free). The teacher who will be hosting your classes chat will send a Marvellous Me message with the link to the meeting and the date and time. You simply click on the link (or copy and paste it into Google) at the correct time and wait for the teacher to let you in the meeting. Meetings will take place on Thursdays or Fridays to give people a chance to have completed work and have something ready to share. The teacher might even test a few of the spellings you’ve been learning!

This timetable shows the home learning tasks to be completed over the course of the week.There are additional spelling and handwriting tasks this week. Answers to the SPaG tasks will be sent along with next week’s timetable.

Below are the tasks to be completed by the end of the week (Friday 12th):

READING

Please ensure you have read Chapters 1 & 2 of JK Rowling’s new, exciting online book ‘The Ickabog’. Visit https://www.theickabog.com/read-the-story/Complete the work detailed below on ‘The Ickabog’ – VIPERS questions.CGP book – pages 16 and 17- Poetry, From a Railway Carriage.*Please continue to listen to your child read regularly*

WRITING

The writing tasks for the week will be linked to ‘The Ickabog’.For more information see below.You can complete this as it works best for you over the course of the week. All tasks should be completed by Friday.CGP book – Pages 14 and 19

HANDWRITINGYou have been given a poem, ‘The Sea’ (see below), which you should write up in your very best handwriting in your exercise book.Remember to join your writing neatly and take your time. You may use pen if you wish.Your teacher may ask to see this at the end of the week on your class virtual call.

SPELLING You have ten spellings and linked spelling task that you must complete and learn (see below).

MATHS

My Maths: Five tasks (one per day or you can do them as you wish over the week. Please complete the lesson first and then do the homework task).Tasks allocated on My Maths and will be available from Monday.Teachers are providing feedback for you on MyMaths tasks so please ensure you check this later in the week.**My Maths FeedbackLogin to your My Maths account. Click the ‘Scores’ tab at the top, then there is a smiling emoji face; click on this and in the bottom left corner there will be a comment/feedback. It might direct you to other games or suggest you try it again. Please ensure you are regularly checking this feedback.

Maths Reasoning: Joins challenge (see below)Maths Challenge Nrich (OPTIONAL): Cricket Scores (see below)Times Tables Rockstars –play your part by regularly playing TTR over the course of the week and look out for battles.

FOUNDATION

Mental Health and WellbeingThis week our school is focusing on Mental Health and Wellbeing and Year 5 have been given the theme ‘Gratitude’. See the task below.You can also continue to complete the history, geography and science tasks that were initially set as many people haven’t sent us any completed work.

English- Reading and Writing and Art Inspired by J.K Rowling’s ‘The Ickabog’.

From the home reading that you’ve been telling us about we have noticed a definite love of Harry Potter amongst our readers! We were delighted when Mrs Softley told us that the wonderful J. K Rowling has written a new fairytale story, which she is kindly publishing chapter by chapter for free! This is because she wanted children in lockdown to have something new to read, but even more exciting is that she wants those children to illustrate it!Follow this link to her website to read what she has to say about her fantastic illustration competition and to read the story for free!https://www.theickabog.com/home/

How exciting it would be if someone from FJS had a drawing included in the published version! If you tweet your entries to the competition, make sure you tag us or hashtag #fulwelljuniorschoolWe will be posting reading and writing work linked to chapters of The Ickabog each week and we really hope you enjoy reading the story and completing this work.We are suggesting that you read two chapters per week. This week’s work will be based around chapter’s one and two. See your year group’s tasks below. The teacher that you chat with during our weekly virtual chat (fingers crossed this is successful!) will want to see and hear some of the lovely work that you’ve done!

Year 5 taskRead the first two chapters of ‘The Ickabog’. There are some VIPERS questions for you to answer below which will help you to meet these objectives:

Draw inferences from reading and explain thinking, returning to the text to support opinions. Use skimming and scanning to identify language and grammar features the writer had used to create specific effects

V (Vocabulary) 1. For each area of Cornucopia, find words that the writer has used to make it sound like a nice place.I (Inference) 2. Read the first paragraph- do you think that Fred is really ‘fearless’? Why or why not?P (Prediction) 3. Predict what the ‘terrible troubles’ that are mentioned at the end of chapter 2 might be.E (Explain) 4. Do you think that Lord Spittleworth and Lord Flapoon are good friends? Explain why or why not.R (Retrieve) 5. What was each area of Cornucopia famous for?S (Summarise) 6. Summarise (retell) the story so far to someone who hasn’t read it.

Your writing task is to imagine that you are a grown up in Cornucopia telling the story of The Ickabog to a child to warn them away from wandering off on their own. Write the short story that you would tell them. You can make your version of the Ickabog sound as weird, wonderful or scary as you like! Think about where it came from, what it looks like and what it does. These are the objectives you’ll be successful with if you do this task well:

In writing narratives describe, setting, character and atmosphere using a range of descriptive devices e.g.tone, mood, imagery, alliteration, sensory details,onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, personification.

Consistently produce legible joined writing

Proof read for spelling and punctuation errors, making changes to improve writing

Once you have finished your description, use it to help you to draw a picture of The Ickabog.

This week’s poem for handwriting:

Year 5- The SeaJames Reeves

The sea is a hungry dog,Giant and grey.

He rolls on the beach all day.

With his clashing teeth and shaggy jawsHour upon hour he gnaws

The rumbling, tumbling stones,And 'Bones, bones, bones, bones! '

The giant sea-dog moans,Licking his greasy paws.

And when the night wind roarsAnd the moon rocks in the stormy cloud,

He bounds to his feet and snuffs and sniffs,Shaking his wet sides over the cliffs,And howls and howls long and loud.

But on quiet days in May or June,When even the grasses on the dune

Play no more their reedy tune,With his head between his paws

He lies on the sandy shores,So quiet, so quiet, he scarcely snores.

This week’s spellings:

Year 5 Spelling (June-July 2020)

Date (w/c)

Spelling Rule / Focus

Spellings Activities

8th June Homophones: words which

serial cerealfather farther

1. Read the words and identify their differences in meaning (use a dic-tionary if needed). Children practise writing out the spellings using

sound the same/similar, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

guessed guestmorning mourningwho’s whose

the ‘pyramid words’ technique.

2. Children write a sentence using each homophone word appropri-ately. Test a partner by reading out a sentence and asking them to spell the correct homophone from the sentence.

Challenge: Which other homophones can you think of or find? What do they mean? Can you use them in sentences?

This week’s maths reasoning & optional challenge:

Year 5 Maths Challenges

This week’s foundation learning: Mental Health and Wellbeing.

8/6/20 Mental Health Week – Gratitude

Watch the animation of The Giving Tree: https://youtu.be/XFQZfeHq9wo What is gratitude? How do we show our thanks? Discuss how we can show gratitude in different ways, and for different things. How do we feel when

we give thanks? How does it feel to be someone who receives thanks? Highlight the material and non-material things we might be grateful for and not always notice. Many children may have been in-

volved in the Thursday evening clapping for key workers, which is a good example of how giving thanks brought people together Did the boy always remember to show his thanks to the tree? Could he have shown his appreciation in a different way? How? What could he be grateful to the tree for? Do you think the boy’s appreciation changed as the story went on? At the end what do you think the boy was most grateful for? How was the tree grateful to the boy? How did he show it? We can be thankful in lots of different ways, for example we might be grateful that we can help someone else.

Task: Create a Gratitude flower (see below)…what are you grateful for? How can you show it? You can do it as a pen/pencil sketch, or cut out separate petals and glue them together. You could even create a Gratitude Tree – like the Giving Tree – on the back of a door!