Year 5: Home Learning - Week 7

01.06.20Welcome to week 7 of your home learning from the Year 5 teachers!

We hope you are all still keeping well and have managed to have some fun times during the half-term week. It’s hard to believe that today is the first day of June! This week we will continue to make our phone calls home as well as posting and reading regular messages via Class Dojo. Thank you all for continuing to keep in touch and do let us

know if we can help in any way.Purple Mash is still proving an invaluable way to make contact and is the best way to share your home learning with

your teacher.

Daily

● Read for at least 20 minutes daily - independently or with an adult. Remember to make a note of what you are reading/ how much you have read in your Reading Record books.

● Use TT Rockstars and Spelling Shed daily for at least 20 minutes – use your login card to access these every day. We will be updating the assignment on Spelling Shed every Monday so that you can practise different spellings each week. If you want some further challenge with your times tables, here is a link to a self-generating torture square website. At school, we set it to ‘Type 10 by 10’ and ‘Difficulty 2’. Try to beat your score or your time! http://www.maths-starters.co.uk/tables_torture.html

● Choose words from the Y5 spelling list (found in your Reading Record Books) to practise each day (aim for 5 words per week).

Weekly There is one main activity for English, maths, science and project. You are probably in a routine now where you know when is the best time to do these activities, dependent on your family’s situation. You and your grown-ups can decide when is the best time to do your home learning so that it fits in around your family life. The challenges are there if you would like to spend more time on any of this week’s topics. This week there are some extra learning links for maths if you’d like to spend more time on this subject.There is no need to print the sheets – you can complete the activity or record your answers on some paper and take a photo to send to your teacher, or type it on a word document. Please continue to send in your work to your class teacher, via the Purple mash email.

EnglishOur English for the next couple of weeks is looking at and writing Persuasive Letters. You have been learning so much about the impact that single-use plastic is having on our environment. The facts that you have found out can be included in your letters of persuasion.

This week, we would like you to examine some examples of persuasive letters and start to plan some ideas for your own letter.1. Watch the following video found on this webpage (scroll down to the video; ‘Sustainability and Plastics’)

As you watch, makes notes on how reducing single-use plastic can benefit our environment.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrqj7nb

2. Now, choose who you will write to. Think about who you could persuade to make a change that would benefit our environment.You might choose to write to:

A supermarket to persuade them to reduce their plastic packaging. A fast food chain to persuade them to reduce their single-use plastic. The government to persuade them to restrict production of single-use packaging. Soft drink companies to persuade them to recycle more. Confectionary companies to persuade them to re-think their packaging materials.

Think about the 2 main areas of environmental concern that we have learnt about; plastic ending up in our oceans and plastic ending up in landfill sites.Write as many facts as you can under these 2 areas. These facts can be used in your letter.

3. Looking at the examples of persuasive letters, can you find: Introductory sentence or paragraph Rhetorical questions Emotive language Facts grouped into paragraphs Opinions Strong argument Repeated words Concluding sentence or paragraph

How can you include some of these features in your letter? Add to your notes some ideas to include in your letter.You may want to use the planning grid to organise your ideas. We will begin to write our letters next week.

English ChallengeWhat might be some counter arguments against your idea? Add these to your notes.

Persuasion Letter Planning

Who am I writing to?

What do I want to persuade them to change?

Paragraph 1

Point/Reason

Evidence (facts)

Explanation

Paragraph 2

Point/Reason

Evidence (facts)

Explanation

Conclusion (summarising the most important points and saying why it is important)

Introduction Ideas – The main point you intend to make

Teddy“I have measured the angle correctly because my protractor is the right way round”.

Whitney“I have measured the angle

correctly because my protractor is on the line accurately”.

Who do you agree with?Explain why.

Three children are measuring angles. Can you spot and explain their mistake?

Mo“My angle measures 145°”

Dora“My angle

measures 55°”

Alex“My anglemeasures 45°”

What are the correct measurements?

MathsThis week we are continuing our angles unit. 1. Watch this video which explains how to measure angles using a protractor -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4giTrUEF2k2. Go to the following websites and measure different acute and obtuse angles:

https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Measuring_Angles.asp?Level=1https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Measuring_Angles.asp?Level=2Here’s how to use the online interactive protractor:a. Click on the protractor and drag it to the angle you want to measureb. Make sure the cross is on top of the angle’s vertex c. Hold down the shift key to rotate the protractor so that the 0 lines up with the arm of the angle. d. If you are using a tablet/ phone tick the box at the top of the page to rotate the protractore. Then read the angle measurement as accurately as you can, making sure you look at the correct scale (left to

right or right to left) depending on the angle you are measuringf. Finally, enter the measured angle into the box g. Once you have completed the entire page click on the check button to see how you have done

3. Complete the following reasoning questions (answers are at the bottom of this document): a) b)

Maths Challenges:1. Watch this video which explains how to measure reflex angles using a 180° protractor -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsGtei1Y73YHave a go at measuring the size of different reflect angles: https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Measuring_Angles.asp?Level=3

2. ‘How Safe Are You?’ - https://nrich.maths.org/56473. ‘Olympic Turns’ - https://nrich.maths.org/8191?utm_source=primary-map

Extra Learning Links: 5-a-day (aim for silver) https://corbettmathsprimary.com/5-a-day/ Maths games on all of the KS2 topics http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm Some maths games http://www.iseemaths.com/maths-games/ A multi-level KS2 maths game designed to cover all of the maths areas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb

Science Last week we looked at the life cycle of plants and learned how they produce seeds from which new plants grow. But what’s happening in this picture? Well done if you recognised these as strawberry plants. Can you identify a parent plant? But how are these new plants being formed? Do you think seeds are involved in this plant’s life cycle? How many parents are there?

This week we are looking at how plants reproduce in a variety of ways.

1. Research how strawberry plants reproduce. Here are some links you might find useful: http://www.strawberries-for-strawberry-lovers.com/how-do-strawberry-plants-reproduce.html https://strawberriesinfo.weebly.com/reproduction.html https://www.gardenguides.com/75949-strawberry-plants-reproduce-asexually.html

Convert the above photograph into a diagram and label it.Underneath your diagram, briefly explain the stages in the life cycle of strawberry plants.

2. Using what you have learned about the life cycle of strawberries, can you work out the life cycle of potatoes from this photograph?

Think about: Where do potatoes come from? How are

they formed? What will happen to the shoots if you left

them to grow? How do gardeners grow potatoes? (If

you’ve got a relative who grows veggies, why not ask them to help you?)

Write a paragraph to explain your ideas.

This video might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5spUhmGneGw

Science Challenge:Take a cutting from a plant and place it into water. Can you predict what might happen? What changes do you expect to see first? Why?

Project

We are well into our Summer Term project called ‘What On Earth?’ This week we are asking: Why On Earth Do We Buy Bottled Water?Over the last few weeks, we have looked at what can happen to discarded plastic water bottles as we followed their journeys to a garbage patch, a landfill site and a recycling centre. We have looked at how reducing single use plastic would benefit the environment. Your work has shown a real passion for this topic.Look at these questions and discuss or make notes of your responses: Why might we buy bottled water? What might cause people to drink bottled water rather than tap water? What influences people to buy bottles of water? Have you ever seen an advert for bottled water?

1. Watch this video which helps to explain the techniques advertisers use to try to persuade people.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5yq_el23EA

Looking at these pictures of adverts, what techniques have the advertisers used to try and persuade people?

2. Here are some video adverts for a bottled water brand called Evian. Have fun watching them! Whilst watching them, make notes of what persuasive technique they are using.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBbrpemT7k8https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=JJQ4Lefb-mk

3. Think about the 2 different viewpoints; for or against bottled water. Present the 2 opposing views in your own way.

For Against

Project Challenge:Where might you see adverts for bottled water? Make a list of all the places you can think of.

Angles – Week 7’s Reasoning Questions ANSWERS

3. a) They are both correct. It doesn’t matter which way the protractor is as long as it is placed on the angle correctly.

For

a) Mo hasn’t recognised his angle is acute, so his measurement is wrong. He is looking at the wrong scale (outside rather than inside). His angle measures 35 ˚Alex has not placed one of her lines on 0. Her angle measures 25˚.Dora has misread the scale. Her angle measures 35˚.