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Year 5 homework booklet.

Autumn Term

NAME: ________________________________

DATE: 18TH SEPTEMBER

DUE DATE: 16TH OCTOBER

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This is your homework booklet for the next few weeks. A minimum of 4

pieces of homework must be completed by the due date but you can do

them in whatever order you wish. Table/Dojo points are available for

the excellent effort or contribution to homework.

I have also included your spellings and times tables which need to be

practised on a regular basis.

If you require any help or support, you can talk to me.

Additionally, we shall be holding a homework club where you can com-

plete your homework after school.

Have fun!

Miss Davies

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English/Guided reading

Our current class novel in Mi-

chael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s

English piece 1:

LO: To write a book review of Kensuke’s Kingdom.

What to include:

Author

Title

Pages

Date published

Summarise the story

Who were the main characters?

What were your favourite parts of the book?

What do you think could have been improved?

Would you recommend it to a friend?

Who do you think will want to read this book?

Rate it out of 5 stars.

If you need help, look at these website.

http://www.spaghettibookclub.org

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English Piece 2:

LO: To research the author Michael Morpurgo.

This information will later be used to write a non-chronological report about him. Use the internet (either at home or school

to help

Things you could include:

Name

Age

Where is he from?

Why did he choose to become an author?

Hobbies/interests.

Examples of some of his books

Prizes/awards he has won.

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English/Art Piece 3:

LO: To design your own Japanese shell.

Kensuke’s Kingdom – Japan tree

‘ Kensuke would spend many hours of every day kneeling at the table, painting. He painted on large shells…

Then one day, after hours of kneeling hunched over one of his paintings, he came over and gave it to me. It was a

picture of a tree, a tree in blossom. His smile said everything. ‘For you. Japan tree,’ he said. ‘I, Japanese person.’

After that Kensuke showed me all the paintings he did, even the ones he later washed off. They were all in black and

white wash, of orang-utans, gibbons, butterflies, dolphins and birds, and fruit…

On the table in front of him he put out three saucers: one saucer of octopus ink (for Kensuke, octopuses were not just for

eating), one saucer of water and another for mixing.

Then one rainy afternoon – and when it rained, how it rained – I found he’d set out a shell for me, my own three

saucers and my own paint brush.’

(Kensuke’s Kingdom, Chapter 7, Page 104, Page 110)

Use books and the internet to look at some images of Japanese ink drawings.

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English Piece 4:

LO: To write a recount of your experience on living on a desert island.

‘ At every opportunity now I talked to him of the outside world, and the more I talked the more he seemed

to become interested. Of course, I never spoke of the wars and famines and disasters. I painted the best

picture of the world outside I could. There was so much he didn’t know. He marvelled at all I told him, at

the microwave in our kitchen, at computers and what they could do, at Concorde flying faster than speed

of sound, at men going to the moon, and satellites. These things took some explaining I can tell you. Some

of it he didn’t even believe, not a first.’

(Kensuke’s Kingdom, Chapter 9, Page 139)

Imagine you have spent fifty years living on a desert island with only orang-utans and

Gibbons for company. You haven’t seen your home since 2013. The year is now 2063.

Finally a boat rescues you and takes you home, but so much has changed.

Describe the outside world that you return to in 2063.

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Spellings: We are still on some of the year 4 spellings. Please practise these at home. If you are unsure of the

what the word means, use a dictionary or the internet to find the definition. You will be tested on

these at a later date.

natural

naughty

notice

occasionally

often

opposite

ordinary

particular

peculiar

perhaps

popular

position

possession

possible

potatoes

pressure

probably

promise

We also need to start looking at some of the year 5 spellings. Please practise these at home. If you are

unsure of the what the word means, use a dictionary or the internet to find the definition. You will be

tested on these at a later date.

accommodate

accompany

according

achieve

aggressive

amateur

ancient

apparent

appreciate

attached

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Maths Piece 1:

Practise these times tables. Once you are confident with your tables it will help you in our future lessons.

Especially when we are learning about multiplication and division.

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X7

X8

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Math Piece 2:

In maths recent we have been doing a lot of work surrounding place value and decimals. Use the next

page to show your

answers and working out.

1) Can you read and write these whole numbers:

56 786

43 563

87 222

65 038

167 220

688 104

944 062

1 345 678

2 507 217

2) Can you read and write these decimals:

6.432

34.65

23.1

0.5

0.01

0.001

9.8

143.676

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Maths Piece 3:

Compare and order these numbers from smallest to biggest. First have a go at reading the number.

Watch your place value!

56 233

457 897

776 345

1 456 265

2 656 342

550 420

32 567

471 284

1 442 606

1 404 786

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Here is a place value grid to help you

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Maths Piece 4:

Compare and order these decimals. Order them from smallest to largest. Remember if they don’t have the same number of decimal places, write them in a

column and add in the extra zeros.

Question 1: Compare and order these decimals in ascending order:

1.45

3.674

0.65

1.2

3.682

Question 2: Compare and order these decimals in ascending order:

13. 640

3.87

1.8

2.65

7.945

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Write your answers next to the question.

Round these decimals to the nearest whole number:

0.97

1.3

4.7

3.6

2.9

0.2

8.3

15.8

Round these numbers to the nearest TENTH.

2.76

4.62

9.76

8.65

4.32

5.55

5.71

Round these numbers to the nearest HUNDREDTH

3.766

6.897

12.543

33.714

54.912

4.825

Maths Piece 4:

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Art Piece 1:

In art we have been learning about the Kayapos.

Design at LEAST one piece of jewellery/outerwear/body art that would appeal to a Kayapo tribes-

man.

This could be:

A feathered headdress

A tribal arm band

A necklace

A new design for their body art— remember they use charcoal for this. So colour this in in black ink.

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Topic Piece 2

Research a town/city in Brazil. Imagine that you have been to visit that city. Write a travel report on

advertising that city.

You may want to include:

Places to visit e.g. museums, art galleries, football grounds.

Festivals and carnivals

Up and coming events in the local area

Interesting facts about the place/Brazil

Nice places to eat and drink

A map so they know where to go

Key information e.g. emergency numbers, taxi numbers etc

Key phrases (remember they speak Portuguese over in Brazil

Pictures of the city.

Use the space below to brainstorm/plan what you will write.

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