Weeks beginning: 01/06/20 & 08/06/20 Year 5 – Work menu

English 1 English 2 English 3 English 4 English 5Choose an author that you admire and write a biography or fact file of their life. Remember to include facts about their childhood, education and how they became a published author.

Pick 5 words from the Year 3 & 4 spelling list and 5 from the Year 5 and 6 spelling list to practise daily and ask someone to test you on these at the end of the week (lists below)

You could do some look, cover, write, check. See how many times you can write each word in a minute. Write each spelling in a different way such as bubble writing, pyramid.

Write a Haiku poem about Summer. Remember a haiku has 3 lines with 5 syllables on the first line, 7 on the second and 5 on the third line.

My brother is a superhero, and I could have been one too.

Complete these:

1. My brother is a superhero, and I could have been one too, but

2. My brother is a superhero, and I could have been one too, and

3. My brother is a superhero, and I could have been one too, so

4. My brother is a superhero, and I could have been one too because

Expand the sentence:

1. To tell the reader why the narrator hasn’t become a superhero.

2. To make the narrator sound annoyed.

Write a persuasive argument to your parents/carers/school about why you should be able to choose your own bedtime.

Maths 1 Maths 2 Maths 3 Maths 4 Maths 5

Play a round of ’Hit the Button’ on https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Maybe start with number

Follow the link below and use the co-ordinates to find the dinosaur boneshttp://flash.topmarks.co.uk/3665

How many squares can you see in the

picture?

BBC Bitesize are running excellent daily lessons. Follow the link to access these.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zhgppg8/year-5-and-p6-lessons/1

Weeks beginning: 01/06/20 & 08/06/20 Year 5 – Work menu

bonds the moving on to times tables or division facts.

Geography History RE Art DTChoose a country from each continent and find out 5 interesting facts about it.

Look at the Ancient Greece PowerPoint on Gods and Goddesses and make a poster for some of them.

Choose one of the religious festivals you found when creating your calendar of religious festivals and make a fact file all about it,

Find a piece of fruit at home. Have a go at drawing a sketch of it. Remember to keep looking at it and try and include all the tiny details.

Choose 5 items from around the house and find a way to combine them to create something usable and practical.

Philosophy Science 1 Science 2 Music ComputingThink about the following questions. Discuss these with others if possible.

1. Can you be 'best friends' with more than one person? If so, what is the maximum number of best friends you can have?

2. If you could wave a magic wand that would mean you would never get anything wrong, would you?

3. Is there more future or more past? 4. Is a computer clever?

Choose an animal to research and draw a poster including facts about their habitat, diet, appearance and life cycle.

Choose a plant that is growing in your garden or plant a seed. Draw an observational picture of it every couple of days, labelling the different features that you can see.

Ask some people in your household, what is their favourite song. Why is that their favourite? Are there any memories attached to it?

Find a computer game that you like and write a review of it. What is it about? Why do you like it? What is your favourite feature and why? What could you do to improve it? Who would you recommend it to and why?

Weeks beginning: 01/06/20 & 08/06/20 Year 5 – Work menu

Word List – Years 3 & 4

accident(ally)

actual(ly)

address

answer

appear

arrive

believe

bicycle

breath

breathe

build

busy/business

calendar

caught

centre

century

certain

circle

complete

consider

continue

decide

describe

different

difficult

disappear

early

earth

eight/eighth

enough

exercise

experience

experiment

extreme

famous

favourite

February

forward(s)

fruit

grammar

group

guard

guide

heard

heart

height

history

imagine

increase

important

interest

island

knowledge

learn

length

library

material

medicine

mention

minute

natural

naughty

notice

occasion(ally)

often

opposite

ordinary

particular

peculiar

perhaps

popular

position

possess(ion)

possible

potatoes

pressure

probably

promise

purpose

quarter

question

recent

regular

reign

remember

sentence

separate

special

straight

strange

strength

suppose

surprise

therefore

though/although

thought

through

various

weight

woman/women

Weeks beginning: 01/06/20 & 08/06/20 Year 5 – Work menu

Word List Years 5 & 6

accommodateaccompanyaccordingachieveaggressiveamateurancientapparentappreciateattachedavailableaverageawkwardbargainbruisecategorycemeterycommitteecommunicatecommunitycompetitionconscience*conscious*controversyconveniencecorrespondcriticise (critic + ise)curiositydefinitedesperatedetermineddevelopdictionarydisastrousembarrassenvironment

equip (–ped, –ment)especiallyexaggerateexcellentexistenceexplanationfamiliarforeignfortyfrequentlygovernmentguaranteeharasshindranceidentityimmediate(ly)individualinterfereinterruptlanguageleisurelightningmarvellousmischievousmusclenecessaryneighbournuisanceoccupyoccuropportunityparliamentpersuadephysicalprejudiceprivilegeprofessionprogrammepronunciation

queuerecogniserecommendrelevantrestaurantrhymerhythmsacrificesecretaryshouldersignaturesincere(ly)soldierstomachsufficientsuggestsymbolsystemtemperaturethoroughtwelfthvarietyvegetablevehicleyacht

Weeks beginning: 01/06/20 & 08/06/20 Year 5 – Work menu