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Year 5 Just To Keep You Going...Week of 6th July Hello, Year 5! We hope you’ve had a lovely week and are ready for this week’s exciting home learning activities. Each week, on this first page you will find the plan for the week for English and maths, followed by suggested topic activities on the next page. The other pages are there to help you with the tasks, so make sure you check if you have been signposted to a particular page. Have fun!

English

The tasks this week are all based on ‘The Lighthouse’

Monday

‘The Lighthouse’ is set in a small sea-side village. The lighthouse keeper doesn't seem to approve of his neighbours. However, when disaster strikes, it is these neighbours who come to his aid.

1. Watch the video clip below:

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-lighthouse.html#

2. Answer the questions on pg 3

Tuesday

Write an exciting paragraph (pg 4)

Wednesday

Write a Diamante poem (pg 5)

Thursday

Create a comic strip of the story (pg 6)

Friday

Complete SPAG Review 3 on pg 7

Maths

Each day, you will need to click on the link , watch the video and then complete the accompanying worksheet.

Spelling– Rule 54

This week we continue reviewing our words from the Year5 statutory list.

awkward, bargain, bruise, category, ceme-tery, committee, communicate, community, competition, conscience, conscious, contro-versy

Click on the image to practise your words.

Day Content Video Link (White Rose)

Monday Multi-step addition & Subtrac-tion problems

https://vimeo.com/428001969

Tuesday Read & interpret line graphs https://vimeo.com/428002041

Wednesday Draw line graphs https://vimeo.com/428002106

Thursday Use line graphs to solve problems https://vimeo.com/428002182

Friday Calculating time in football (watch the clip, read through Parts A & B and then do Activity 2– choose a level)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/

articles/zbdwg7h

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Topic

Art

Lighthouse Collage

A collage is a work of art made from a variety of materials such as paper, newsprint, photographs, fabric and any other objects.

Make your own collage of a lighthouse (about A4 in size) Be creative with the materials you use, you may like to even think of using some recyclable materi-als.

Geography

We are looking at Human & Physical Features in our Geography this week. Read the notes on pg 10 and see if you can complete Activities 1-4 on pgs 10 & 11.

Science

This week we are looking at living things. Different plants and animals all have different life cycles. Their life cycles share some similarities and have some differ-

ences between them. Watch the video clip to learn about the wide variety of life cycles on our planet.

Now go to pg 8 & 9 to read the information and complete the activities.

Optional fun extra activities you may like to try:

1. Make an easy chocolate mug cake.

2. Make a Mathopoly Times Tables Board game. (see pg 12—15)

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Explore...

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Monday 6th July

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Tuesday 7th July

We are going to write a paragraph from where the lamp smashes and the ship approaches. You may need to watch the clip again and jot down words and ideas at the relevant part. You need to make your writing as exciting as possible. Include the following features:

An –ing word eg. Racing down the stairs, the lighthouse keeper …….

An adverb to start the sentence eg. Swiftly, the lighthouse keeper……

A short, snappy sentence eg. He froze.

A time connective eg. Moments later…….

Adjectives eg. The dark, turbulent sea…

A simile eg. The boat was like a wild animal…..

Exciting vocabulary.

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Wednesday 8th July

A diamante poem has 7 lines.

Tiger

Orange, Black

Purring, Pouncing, Growling

Teeth, Tail, Trees, Leaves

Rustling, Creaking, Groaning

Dense, Dark

Jungle

It follows this pattern:

Line 1: Noun 1

Line 2: 2 adjectives describing noun 1

Line 3: 3 verbs describing noun 1

Line 4: 2 nouns to do with noun 1, 2 nouns to do with noun 2

Line 5: 3 verbs describing noun 2

Line 6: 2 adjectives describing noun 2

Line 7: Noun 2

Can you have a go at creating a diamante poem for the lighthouse and the sea? Lighthouse will be noun 1 and the sea will be noun 2.

Set your poem out as follows:

Lighthouse

_______________ , ____________

_______________ ,______________ ,___________

__________, ___________, __________, ________

_______________, ______________, __________

________________, _____________

Sea

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Thursday 9th July

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Friday 10th July

SPAG REVIEW 3. 1. Add brackets, dashes or commas to the sentence below:

The chef who was very famous visited our school to show us how to cook his favourite dish.

2. Add a prefix to the verbs to make them negative:

I think I must have ______ heard you. I have to ______ agree with your views on this. We need to ______ construct the rocket

immediately.

3. Find the mistakes in this sentence and correct them:

in a panic lucy tried to activify the fire alarm

4. Which pair of time adverbials and time connectives link the sentences in the box together?

last week/Then

On Saturday/Firstly

this year/ After that

We will go to Scotland for Christmas again________ _________ we are thinking of trying somewhere new.

5. Add commas to the sentences below to make the meaning clear.

Every day even on a school day I have a big breakfast of coffee eggs bacon toast and cereals.

6. Fill in a prefix and a suffix to complete the sentence below.

I was very _____appointed when the seeds I’d sown failed to germin_____

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Science

Mammal

(dog)

Bird

(chicken)

Amphibian

(frog)

Insect

(butterfly)

Task 1: For each class of animal below, fill in a title and description of each stage of the life cycle. You may need to ask an adult to help you with the research of this. There are 2 websites on pg 9 to help you.

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Science

Task 2: Can you find out the answers to these questions? Remember to ask an adult to help you if you need to look up answers on the internet.

1. Some insects undergo a complete metamorphosis, while others undergo an incomplete metamorphosis. What is the difference? Give an example of an insect from each.

2. Compare the life cycles of mammals and birds. What is similar and what is different?

3. Complete this table:

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/insects/butterfly-life-cycle/

https://smartclass4kids.com/life-cycle-of-a-frog/

Mammal Amphibian Insect– com-plete metamor-

Insect– incomplete metamorphosis

Bird

Starts as an egg

Number of stages in the life cycle

Does the young look like the adult?

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Geography

Task 1: Make a list of all the human and physical features you can see in this photograph.

Task 2: Identify 3 physical and 3 human features from this map.

Human features are all the Physical features are all the

things that are man-made like things that occur naturally like

buildings, bridges, factories and mountains, rivers, forests and

roads. cliffs.

Do you know the difference between a human and a physi-cal feature?

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Geography

Task 3: Can you identify these UK landmarks and say whether each one is a human or physical feature?

Task 4: Make a list of as many human and physical features you can think of that we could find in Guildford.

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Gallery

Alex

Freddie James

Nathan

Jocelyn– optical art

Kiruthik

Lucas

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Gallery

Amelia J– pointillism, alco-

hol ink art & paragraph

Heather’s plant

waterer

Daniel’s hydraulic

arm

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Gallery

William

Phoebe’s art

Ollie G

Amber

Jake R construction machine & paragraph

Sanaya– plant waterer