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Year 5 – Week Beginning 04.05.2020 Please use these pages as a guide for learning at home, with a mixture of activities to keep your brain busy! Although we have outlined

the work in daily sections, please feel free to re-order the days’ activities into your own timetable over the week. The ongoing skills

work reminds you to keep up regular spelling, timetables and reading practise.

Ongoing skills work

Monday Record all your answers neatly and accurately in your red home learning books

Upload the answers to your perimeter challenge (MATHS task) onto Seesaw

MATHS

Please follow the link to the school website to access the collection of maths resources that will help support you with your learning:

http://www.woodwater.devon.sch.uk/children/upper-key-stage-2/

Number Work

1. Open the arithmetic (Year 5 - Maths - ARITHMETIC - Days 1 to 5 pdf) challenge booklet.

2. Complete day 1 of the arithmetic challenges.

3. After completing the tasks, use the mark scheme to review and make any corrections.

Problem Solving

Focus: Perimeter of shapes

If you need to refresh your memory on perimeter please visit the following website: https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-is-the-perimeter

Perimeter is the total distance around the outside of a 2D shape. Today’s challenge is focused on rectilinear (rectangular) shapes – these are shapes

that have 2 sets of equal, parallel sides. To calculate the perimeter of rectilinear (rectangular) shapes you can either:

Find out the lengths of all the sides and then add them up individually

Find the length and multiply by 2. Find the width and multiply by 2. Then add them together (Length x 2) + (Width x 2)

1) Work out the perimeter of the following shapes (not to scale):

Daily Tasks

Physical Activity

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Tl It is important to keep active

during your time at home. At 9am,

for half an hour, Joe Wicks is live

on YouTube helping the nation of

children (and adults) continue to

be fit and healthy. It is a great

way to start the day!

Spelling Shed

https://play.edshed.com/

Your teacher has set you an

assignment to complete: you must

complete this by the end of the

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2) The perimeter of this rectangle is 16cm. What could the lengths of the sides be?

ENGLISH

Focus: Speech bubbles

For this lesson, you will need to log on to the ‘Shed Full of Animations’ section of the Literacy Shed website:

https://www.literacyshed.com/a-shed-full-of-animations.html Watch the short film Ruckus; it is the story of

two greedy robbers.

Main Task:

1. Watch the film at least twice.

2. Think about a scene from the clip. Draw the two robbers. You can add colour if you wish.

3. Add speech bubbles to your character(s). Put inside what you think they would be saying in your chosen

scene. For example:

TOPIC

Focus: Seed dispersal

After pollination has occurred, a plant produces seeds. The ‘parent’ plant needs to ‘disperse’ (scatter) these seeds so that new plants can grow

(remember, a plant is a living thing and ‘reproduces’). The parent plant doesn’t want new plants to grow too close to it (can you think why?) so it tries

to disperse the seeds far and wide. Today, we are going to look at the clever ways plants disperse their seeds. ‘Seed dispersal’ is the final stage in the

plant’s life cycle.

Main Task:

1. Visit the following websites and watch both of the videos:

Seed dispersal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/znvfb9q

How do plants spread their seeds? https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgssgk7/articles/z28dpbk

week. To do this, go into the

assignments area on your Spelling

Shed dashboard. These will be

checked and updated weekly by

your teacher. Use this as an

opportunity to move up on your

spelling colour.

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1) Earn the right to rock! Your

teacher has set you an assignment

to complete: once you complete

this challenge the rest of the

game modes will become available.

2) Battle for your band! New class

challenges are now up and running.

Earn bragging right for your class

- the team with the most correct

answers wins!

As an optional extra, the levelled

fast facts sheets that we began

last term are also now on the

website. Remember, you have 5

minutes to complete as many

questions as you can, the answers

are there for you too.

Here comes

the train Get ready to

jump Look at that

ruby! It’s mine!

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2. Use the video clips to create a list in your book of the different ways plants disperse their seeds e.g. ‘wind dispersal’

3. Choose one form of dispersal and write two or three sentences to explain how it works.

Challenge Task:

Explore different pieces of fruit that you next eat; see if you find the seed (or seeds) in them!

AR Reading

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Remember to read every day for

20 minutes as you would do at

school. You are aiming to achieve

an 80% pass rate when you quiz.

We will be checking your

percentage scores; looking at how

much you are reading; and will be

in touch to see how you are getting

on.

Mindfulness

Tuesday Record all your answers neatly and accurately in your red home learning books

MATHS

Please follow the link to the school website to access the collection of maths resources that will help support you with your learning:

http://www.woodwater.devon.sch.uk/children/upper-key-stage-2/

Number Work

1. Open the arithmetic (Year 5 - Maths - ARITHMETIC - Days 1 to 5 pdf) challenge booklet.

2. Complete day 2 of the arithmetic challenges.

3. After completing the tasks, use the mark scheme to review and make any corrections.

Problem Solving

Focus: Perimeter

If you need to refresh your memory on perimeter please visit the following website: https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-is-the-perimeter

Perimeter is the total distance around the outside of a 2D shape. Today’s challenge is focused on rectilinear (rectangular) shapes – these are shapes

that have 2 sets of equal, parallel sides.

Using your learning from yesterday, draw rectilinear shapes with the following perimeters:

10cm

18cm

24cm

*Remember to use a ruler to carefully measure the lengths of the sides of your shapes*

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ENGLISH

Focus: Direct Speech before the verb

For this lesson, you will need to log on to the ‘Shed Full of Animations’ section of the Literacy Shed website:

https://www.literacyshed.com/a-shed-full-of-animations.html Watch the short film Ruckus; it is the story of

two greedy robbers.

Main Task:

1. Watch ‘Ruckus’ again.

2. Turn your speech bubbles from yesterday into correctly punctuated direct speech, with the speech at

the start of the sentence (before the verb). See examples below:

“Here comes the train,” said Jim.

“Get ready to jump!” shouted John.

“Look at that ruby!” whispered Jim.

“It’s mine,” snarled John.

3. Remember the rules:

Speech marks (“ and ”) must be used to show what was actually spoken.

A comma (or an exclamation mark or question mark) must be used to separate the speech from the rest of the text.

The final speech mark goes after the separating comma (or exclamation mark or question mark).

Finally, choose appropriate verbs (said, whispered, snarled, growled, shouted, yelled, cried, sobbed…)

Challenge task:

Think about another scene. Write 4 examples of direct speech. Again, put the direct speech at the start of the sentence (before the verb).

TOPIC

Focus: Seed dispersal

Main Task:

1. Visit the following website and watch the video:

Seed dispersal for kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1hRxuy1ezQ

2. Using your learning from yesterday and today’s video, produce a detailed drawing of 3 different seed types. Choose from the following:

Wind dispersal

Animal dispersal (attach to fur)

Animal dispersal (fruit)

Water dispersal

* Top tip: you could pause one of the video clips at a particular point to get a good picture of a seed to sketch!*

https://www.youtube.com/

user/CosmicKidsYoga

Everyone needs time to rewind

and reflect and yoga is a great way

to do this. Cosmic Kids Yoga has

lots of yoga activities to try and is

a great way to enhance your core

strength, balance and gain

mindfulness.

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Challenge Task:

Under your drawings see if you answer the following questions:

What type of seed is it?

What plant is it from?

Why is the seed particularly well designed?

Wednesday Record all your answers neatly and accurately in your red home learning books

Upload your best sentences (ENGLISH task) onto Seesaw

MATHS

Please follow the link to the school website to access the collection of maths resources that will help support you with your learning:

http://www.woodwater.devon.sch.uk/children/upper-key-stage-2/

Number Work

1. Open the arithmetic (Year 5 - Maths - ARITHMETIC - Days 1 to 5 pdf) challenge booklet.

2. Complete day 3 of the arithmetic challenges.

3. After completing the tasks, use the mark scheme to review and make any corrections.

Problem Solving

Focus: Area

If you need to refresh your memory on area please visit the following website: https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-is-area

Area is the amount of space inside a 2D shape. With rectilinear (rectangular) shapes it is calculated as length x width and is often recorded as mm2,

cm2 or m2.

1) Find the area of the following rectangles:

Challenge task: Here are the measurements for the football pitches of 4 Premier League clubs. Calculate the area of each pitch and then rank them

from largest to smallest.

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ENGLISH

Focus: Direct Speech after the verb

For this lesson, you will need to log on to the ‘Shed Full of Animations’ section of the Literacy Shed website:

https://www.literacyshed.com/a-shed-full-of-animations.html Watch the short film Ruckus; it is the story of

two greedy robbers.

Main Task:

1. Watch ‘Ruckus’ again.

2. Today we are going to try to write direct speech at the end of the sentence (after the verb).

Jim said, “Here comes the train.”

John shouted, “Get ready to jump!”

Jim whispered, “Look at that ruby!”

John snarled, “It’s mine.”

3. Remember the rules:

A comma (or an exclamation mark or question mark) must be used after the verb to show that direct speech is about to begin.

Speech marks (“ and ”) must be used to show what was actually spoken.

The direct speech must start with a capital letter.

A full stop (or an exclamation mark or question mark) must be used before the final speech mark to show the end of the speech.

4. Using your ideas from Monday and Tuesday, write 5 examples of direct speech at the end of a sentence (after the verb).

Challenge task:

Add a relative clause into your sentences. For example:

Jim, who was hiding behind a rock, said, “Here comes the train.”

Jim, who was staring in disbelief into the safe, whispered, “Just look at that ruby!”

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TOPIC

Focus: Plant life cycle – POSTER - Day 1 of 2

For this lesson, please follow the link to the school website to access the resource sheet (Topic 6.5.20 Life cycle of a plant) that will help support

you with your learning: http://www.woodwater.devon.sch.uk/children/upper-key-stage-2/

Main Task:

1. Look at the resource sheet (Topic 6.5.20 Life cycle of a plant) available on the school website.

2. Think about your recent learning and design your own poster to show the life cycle of a plant. It doesn’t have to be perfectly circular like the

one shown and it doesn’t have to be a bean plant!

3. Make sure it includes the key stages:

1) Germination

2) Roots

3) Leaves

4) Flowers

5) Dispersal (choose from fruit, wind, water or animal)

Using your learning over the last few days, use your own pictures / diagrams to illustrate each stage. Add any other interesting written detail /

labels / information / pictures / diagrams as you wish.

Thursday Record all your answers neatly and accurately in your red home learning books

MATHS

Please follow the link to the school website to access the collection of maths resources that will help support you with your learning:

http://www.woodwater.devon.sch.uk/children/upper-key-stage-2/

Number Work

1. Open the arithmetic (Year 5 - Maths - ARITHMETIC - Days 1 to 5 pdf) challenge booklet.

2. Complete day 4 of the arithmetic challenges.

3. After completing the tasks, use the mark scheme to review and make any corrections.

Problem Solving

Focus: Area

If you need to refresh your memory on area please visit the following website: https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-is-area

Area is the amount of space inside a 2D shape. With rectilinear (rectangular) shapes it is calculated as length x width and is often recorded as mm2,

cm2 or m2.

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When finding the area of composite rectilinear shapes

Step 1) Break the shape down into rectangles, draw on extra lines if you need to.

Step 2) Find the area of all the rectangles within the shape.

Step 3) Add the areas up to find the total.

*Please look at the example provided for a further explanation of these steps*

1) Find the area for these composite shapes.

ENGLISH

Focus: New speaker new line

For this lesson, you will need to log on to the ‘Shed Full of Animations’ section of the Literacy Shed website: https://www.literacyshed.com/a-shed-

full-of-animations.html Watch the short film Ruckus; it is the story of two greedy robbers.

Main Task:

1. Watch ‘Ruckus’ again.

2. Today we are going to write properly punctuated direct speech where two people are speaking. We have discussed the rules of direct speech.

When we write ‘dialogue’, the golden rule is that when a new person speaks, you need to start a new line. For example:

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3. Choose a scene from the film and organise your direct speech properly, thinking about the ‘new speaker, new line’ rule.

Challenge task:

Add extra detail using relative clauses where you can. For example:

Jim, who was hiding behind a rock, said, “Here comes the train.”

Jim, who was staring in disbelief into the safe, whispered, “Just look at that ruby!”

TOPIC

Focus: Plant life cycle – POSTER - Day 2 of 2

For this lesson, please follow the link to the school website to access the resource sheet (Topic 6.5.20 Life cycle of a plant) that will help support

you with your learning: http://www.woodwater.devon.sch.uk/children/upper-key-stage-2/

Main Task:

1. Look at the resource sheet (Topic 6.5.20 Life cycle of a plant) available on the school website.

2. Think about your recent learning and design your own poster to show the life cycle of a plant. It doesn’t have to be perfectly circular like the

one shown and it doesn’t have to be a bean plant!

3. Make sure it includes the key stages:

1) Germination

2) Roots

3) Leaves

4) Flowers

5) Dispersal (choose from fruit, wind, water or animal)

Using your learning over the last few days, use your own pictures / diagrams to illustrate each stage. Add any other interesting written detail /

labels / information / pictures / diagrams as you wish.

Jim said, “Here comes the train.” “Get ready to

jump!” shouted John. “This is going to hurt!” yelled

Jim. “Ouch!” moaned John. INCORRECT

Jim said, “Here comes the train.”

“Get ready to jump!” shouted John.

“This is going to hurt!” yelled Jim.

“Ouch!” moaned John. CORRECT

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Friday Record all your answers neatly and accurately in your red home learning books

Upload your plant life cycle poster, from yesterday, onto Seesaw (TOPIC task). Please also upload anything

that you have done to celebrate VE day (today’s TOPIC task).

MATHS

Please follow the link to the school website to access the collection of maths resources that will help support you with your learning:

http://www.woodwater.devon.sch.uk/children/upper-key-stage-2/

Number Work

1. Open the arithmetic (Year 5 - Maths - ARITHMETIC - Days 1 to 5 pdf) challenge booklet.

2. Complete day 5 of the arithmetic challenges.

3. After completing the tasks, use the mark scheme to review and make any corrections.

Problem Solving

Focus: Review of perimeter and area

1) Find either the perimeter (P) or area (A) for each of these squares. Use what you already know about the sides of a square to help.

Challenge Task: Attempt the ‘Golden Rectangles’ task on the website.

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ENGLISH

Focus: Summarising and reviewing

You have been reading for 20 minutes each day, so you should have read a lot of your book or maybe even one or two whole books!

1. If you need to, complete an AR test following the link in the right hand column. Make sure you take your time as the goal is 80% or more! Tip:

Go back into your book to double check before you enter your answer.

2. Write a book review! This is a great time to reflect on the reading you have been doing independently or with a family member. Think about

what you have read this week and choose your favourite character, favourite chapter or favourite extract and write about it. If you would

like to write about a whole book you have read this week, then this is also fine. Below are some question prompts to help inspire you with your

book review, you can present this in your home learning book however you wish:

- Title? Author? Illustrator?

- What rating out of 10 would you give it?

- What did you like best?

- What did you dislike?

- Any new vocabulary you have gained?

- Who was your favourite character? Why?

- What was the storyline? Genre?

- How did it make you feel? Why?

- What feedback would you give the author?

- Would you recommend it to a friend? Why?

Challenge Task:

If you want to push yourself even further, this video is great in helping you understand how to lay out a book review and teach you extra

features you may want to include to push yourself to write an in depth review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhYF3v3zTeo

TOPIC

Focus: VE Day (Victory in Europe Day).

Today is a special day in history! We are celebrating the 75th anniversary of war ending in Europe. Incredibly, we are able to see footage of the

amazing moment that people were told about the news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEavcsrMoMw

Main Task:

1. Watch the video. It is a great way to imagine you were there hearing the long awaited news. As you are watching,

take note of how happy and free everyone seems.

2. Design an award for someone who fought in WW2. This could be a trophy or medal design.

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3. Write a postcard, thank-you card, poem, or letter to someone who fought in WW2 (someone who you are giving your medal/trophy to). Try

to include:

- Something you are grateful for (that they did for you)

- Why you are giving them an award

- What they have done to inspire you

If you want to learn more about VE day, have a read through this site. It tells you all you need to know: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48201749