Year 5 English Home Learning - 25/01/21 - 29/01/21

Hi Year 5!

I just want to say thank you to all of you for working incredibly hard this week. I am blown away with some of the art work you have been doing. I definitely have some budding artists in my class and your setting descriptions about Pandora Planet were so full of adjectives and WOW vocabulary that I actually could imagine being on Pandora.

I know some of us have found 3D shapes tricky this week but none of you have given up, you have all tried your very best and we will another look at 3D shapes later in the year.

I have had lots more work sent through to me this week so thank you for doing that. Remember to go and have a look at our Year 5 Learning Gallery to see what all of your friends have been doing.

Below is your English Challenges for this week. I have included lots of video clips and activities for you to have a go at. If you have any questions, please ask your adult to send me an email so I can help you with any problems. I look forward to seeing you on our Zoom Call on Friday 29th January at 10am. Please make sure you have a piece of paper and a pen ready!

Keep working hard!

Monday 25th January  

Spelling: useful conjunctions

Starter: How many times can you write each of these words in 1 minute? (quick write)

Fasten          crumb          debt

For Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday’s spelling sessions we are going to be looking at spelling useful conjunctions. Remember a conjunction is used to join 2 independent clauses together. We use the acronym FANBOYS to remember our co-ordinating conjunction and ISAWAWABUB to remember our subordinating conjunctions.

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete Focus A please. Once you have found all the words in the wordsearch, can you put them into sentences?

As an extra challenge, can you write down which conjunction each letter represents in both FANBOYS and ISAWAWABUB?

Reading:

Big Question: Can I draw inferences from a video?

It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson's Greek mytholog...

Today we are going to be looking at drawing inferences from the trailer for the film ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’.

Here is the PowerPoint for today’s learning activity. Have a look at the PowerPoint before watching the trailer, I will ask you to refer to the trailer on slide 9.  

 

 

Tuesday 26th January  

Spelling: useful conjunctions

Starter: Can you put the vocabulary listed below into silly sentences?

Knew          answer          thistle

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete the Extra activity please. Remember a compound word is two individual words joined together to create a new word.

Examples:

Foot + ball = football

Sun + flower = sunflower

Play + ground = playground

Reading:

 Big Question: Can I infer how a character is feeling from their actions?

Here is a video to support the children with generating inference bubbles. This video supports Tuesday 26th January's English learning activity.

Today we are going to be looking at creating inference bubbles. Inference bubbles are where we make a note of inferences we generate whilst reading the text. Our inference bubbles today are going to focus on characters feelings and emotions.

Here is the PowerPoint for today’s learning activity. There is also a video below to support you with today’s activity. Have a look at the PowerPoint before watching the video, I will ask you to refer to the video on slide 8.  

Percy Jackson Chapter 4 pages 44 and 45

Wednesday 27th January

Spelling: useful connectives

Starter: How many times can you write each of these words in 1 minute? (quick write)

Whistle          thumb          wrinkle

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete Extension A please. Remember to read your sentences aloud to see if they make sense. This will help you to choose the correct conjunction.

Grammar:

Big Question: Can I identify and use different tenses correctly?

Today we are going to be looking at past, present and future tense. Here is the PowerPoint for today’s lesson. On the PowerPoint you will find questions to support your learning and understanding as well as activities to complete.

 

Thursday 28th January

Spelling: statutory spellings

Here are the words that we are going to be focusing on for today and Friday’s spelling session:

Competition    explanation        profession        pronunciation         solution     imagination

All of these words end in tion (which makes the shun sound).

Your spelling activity for today is to identify definitions for each piece of vocabulary listed above. You can use a dictionary or dictionary.com to support you with your definitions, however please make sure you put them in your own words.

Grammar:

 Big Question: Can I identify and use different tenses correctly?

Today we are going to be looking at 3 different tenses: present perfect; past progressive; and present progressive. There are videos explaining the meaning of these tenses and a video of me talking you through your learning activities today. Please watch the video of me talking through your learning activities first and I will let you know when you need to refer to the other videos. Here is the PowerPoint explaining today’s learning activities.

This video is to support the children with their English learning activities on Thursday 28th January.

A short video explaining how the perfect present tense is used in English

Past Progressive - a simple way to introduce the Past Progressive tense including the use and form.If you like the video make sure that you subscribe to my c...

A short video explaining how to use the present progressive tense in English

 Present perfect activity           Present perfect activity answers

Friday 29th January

Spelling: statutory spellings

For today’s spelling activity we are going to be putting the vocabulary we looked at yesterday into silly sentences. Remember your sentences can be as silly as you want but they need to be grammatically correct (make sense).

Competition    explanation        profession        pronunciation         solution     imagination

Example:

Unfortunately, the nail-biting competition between Sally the snake and Roger the rabbit has had to be postponed, as Sally has consumed too many chocolate bars and is unable to move.

Reading/Writing:

Big Question: Can I identify features of a newspaper report?

Today we are going to be looking at identifying features of a newspaper report and generating headlines and writing paragraphs based on image. Here is the PowerPoint explaining today’s learning activities.

Matching activity          Matching activity answers

Newspaper report         Images to support writing

Model headline and paragraph  

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Chapter 3

Year 5Jessie Twigger