This week’s pack contains the following:

• Reading - 5 activities based on the book Holes (see below for more details)

• Writing –.5 activities based on advertisements and reviews.

• Maths – different activities based on arithmetic and key mathematical skills.

• Spelling – 5 spelling activities on a set of given words.

• Grammar – There are 5 sets of 5 questions to keep the skills sharp.

• History – 5 activities based on VE day to celebrate the 75th anniversary on the

8th May.

We would love to see the work that you are completing throughout the week so please

continue to email your work to your class teacher or the office.

Having a structure and routine for each day is very important and it will help keep your

brains and bodies active! Here is a suggestion of how you might choose to organise your

home learning each day.

Remember if you need any support with this week’s home learning please do not hesitate to

contact us.

Stay safe everyone!

From all the year 5/6 practitioners.

8.30-9 Good morning!

Get up, dressed and have breakfast

9-9.30 Keep Active!

Do something to help you stay fit!

10 – 10.30 Activity 1

Choose a maths, reading, writing, spelling or history activity.

10.30 -11 Get some fresh air: play in the garden or work on your science activities

Check out the school website for other ideas on outdoor learning

11-12 Activity 2

Choose another maths, reading, writing, spelling or history activity.

12-1 Lunch

Have lunch and relax!

1-2 Activity 3

Choose another maths, reading, writing, spelling or history activity.

2-3 Activity 4 OR Mayan Project work

Work on your final activity for the day or

Year 5/6 Home Learning Pack

Week beginning 4.5.20

Reading

This week, the reading activities are again based on the book Holes and will continue

from chapter 6.

Activity 1

Read chapter 6.

Have a go at answering these questions based on the chapter.

a) Why does the author use the phrase ‘..if you could call it that’ repeatedly in the

opening to this paragraph?

b) Why didn’t anyone believe Stanley had stolen the shoes?

c) Look at the paragraph beginning ‘As Stanley tried to turn over..’. Can you find two

pieces of evidence that suggest the bed is not brilliant?

d) How did Stanley get the trainers / sneakers?

Activity 2

Read from the start of chapter 7 to “...and it hurt to hold the shovel.” at the top of

page 13.

Design a post card.

On the front, draw a picture of Camp Green Lake using what you know about it from

previous descriptions.

On the back, write the postcard to Stanley’s mum from Stanley based on what he does

and how you think he might feel in this part of the story.

Remember, when you write a postcard, you need to keep it brief and sometimes words

can be shortened e.g. c u soon!

Activity 3

Read from the paragraph beginning “Stanley's great-great-grandfather..” on the top of

page 13 to the bottom of page 15.

In this section, we are introduced to a few new characters.

Next to each character’s name, write a little bit about what who they are, and anthing

you know about them.

Elya Yelnats

Myra Menke

Igor Barkov

Madame Zeroni

Activity 4

Read pages 16 and 17.

Camp Green Lake is a fictional juvenile centre in Texas, USA.

Undertake some research into Texas to see what it is like. Make notes about what you

find out.

Activity 5

Read from the top of page 18 to the end of chapter 7.

Stanley Yelnats is a palindrome because it spells the same word forward, as it does

backwards.

Can you think of any other palindromes? Write them in the space below!

Writing

Activity 1

Look at the film advertisements below. Can you label any features that you think show

it is an advertisement?

Activity 2

A synopsis is a brief summary, a bit like the blurb of a book!

When a new film is coming out, a synopsis is written for those who are interested in

watching it. Here is an example for Avengers Assemble!

Nick Fury is the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., an international peace-keeping agency. The

agency is a who's who of Marvel Superheroes with: Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk,

Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When global security is threatened

by Loki and his evil group of bad guys, Nick Fury and his team will need all their

invincible powers to save the world from disaster which is formed by Loki.

Can you write a synopsis for your favourite film? Think about how you are going to

structure the text. It should have powerful adjectives to convince the reader to watch

the film and you could use rhetorical questions to persuade further.

Activity 3

Below are the synopsis for Mr Quarmby, Miss Welburn and Mr Roberts’ favourite films.

Choose one that you like the sound of and design an advertisement for it from what is

inferred. Use your retrieval and vocabulary skills to think of ideas of what to include in

your advertisement.

1. Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the gang embark on a road trip with

Bonnie and a new toy named Forky. The adventurous journey turns into an

unexpected reunion as Woody's slight detour leads him to his long-lost friend Bo

Peep. As Woody and Bo discuss the old days, they soon start to realize that

they're worlds apart when it comes to what they want from life as a toy.

2. This Disney animated feature follows the adventures of the young lion, Simba,

the heir of his father, Mufasa. Simba's wicked uncle (Scar) plots to usurp

Mufasa's throne by luring father and son into a stampede of wildebeests. But

Simba escapes, and only Mufasa is killed. Simba returns as an adult to take back

his homeland from Scar - with the help of his friends Timon and Pumbaa.

3. Rebellious16-year-old mermaid Ariel is fascinated with life on land. On one of her

visits to the surface, which are forbidden by her controlling father, King Triton,

she falls for a human prince. Determined to be with her new love, Ariel makes a

dangerous deal with the sea witch - Ursula - to become human for three days.

But when plans go awry for the star-crossed lovers, the king must make the

ultimate sacrifice for his daughter.

Activity 4

Watch a film of your choice and write a synopsis for someone to read, who hasn’t seen

the film.

Activity 5

Write a film review for the film you watched yesterday. Here are some examples and a

success criteria of things you should include in your review.

If you need some help, there is also a stencil you could use to help you with the

structure.

Mr Roberts’ Grammar 5-a-day

Try and apply your understanding of different grammatical features and areas of punctuation that you

have learnt this year to the following tasks. There are 5 questions on each day but don’t worry if you

don’t manage to do them on the set day as they can be completed whenever.

Monday

1) Underline the subordinate clause below.

I got wet as it rained in the afternoon.

2) Circle the modal verbs in the sentence below.

I might play out later but I must finish my work or I will be in trouble.

3) Write down 5 prepositions.

4) Add a fronted adverbial to this sentence.

______________________, I awoke from my slumber.

5) Tell me what each letter in FANBOYS represents.

Tuesday

1) Add a colon in the correct place below.

Amy walked into town she needed to buy some clothes.

2) Add semi-colons in the correct place below.

I was hungry I ate some pizza.

3) Add brackets into the sentence correctly.

John sweating and out of breath walked towards me.

4) Add commas into the sentence below.

My favourite animals are lions elephants tigers and hippos.

5) Correct the sentence below adding capital letters where necessary.

on tuesday, laura had her birthday party in the centre of huddersfield.

Wednesday

1) Turn the following sentence into the passive voice.

Steve wrote a letter.

2) What word is missing in the sentence below to turn it into the subjunctive mood?

If I _____ good at football, I would be a millionaire.

3) Underline the main clause below.

As the sun set in the distance, I started to walk home.

4) Circle the relative clause in the sentence below.

I went on holiday to Greece, which is a very hot country.

5) Underline the prepositional phrase below

Finally, I found my book beneath the table.

Thursday

1) Write a command for building a sandcastle.

2) Even though, since, because and if are all examples of what?

3) Turn the sentence below into direct speech.

Brian asked for a banana.

4) Underline the longest possible noun phrase below.

The book about history was very long but interesting.

5) Think of as many synonyms as you can for the word ‘clever’. Use a thesaurus if you have one or an

online thesaurus if you are unsure.

Friday

1) Write the following words in the contracted form.

Does not Shall not Will not Should not

2) Add hyphens into the correct places below.

John, a ten year old boy, started to play the saxophone.

3) Write your own exclamation sentence.

4) Using only three words, add your own expanded noun phrase to this sentence.

___________________________________ won the race.

5) Circle the determiners in the sentence below.

The man saw three eagles and a crow in the sky as well as some finches.

Spelling

This week’s words we would like you to focus on are as follows:

Ough words

ough is one of the trickiest spellings in English – it can be used to spell a number of different

sounds.

fought dough bough brought bought enough although

thorough nought through though ought cough plough

borough tough rough thought

Activity 1

Sort the words out into the table below to show what sound they have. A few examples

have been done for you.

‘or’ sound ‘oh’ sound ‘ow’ sound ‘uff’ sound ‘uh’ sound ‘off’ sound

brought plough tough cough

Activity 2

Write out your own definition of each word. If you are unsure of any, please use a

dictionary or ask an adult at home!

Activity 3

- Write all the words out, do 10 star jumps.

- Write all the words out, do 20 star jumps.

- Write all the words out, do 30 star jumps.

- Write all the words out, do 40 star jumps.

- Write all the words out, do 50 star jumps.

Try to repeat this before each meal and then before you go to bed!

Activity 4

Draw a picture to represent each spelling.

Activity 5

Design your own board game that will help people learn these spellings and the ones

from the pack last week! If you want to include even more spellings, you can visit

https://spellingframe.co.uk/ to find more words!

Maths

This week’s maths activities are provided to help you keep your arithmetic and key

skills sharp.

Each day, we would like you to choose one (or more if you wish!) of the boxes from the

first three columns and then have a go at the second activity.

The left hand column is the easiest and the right hand one is the hardest.

If there is a questions you are unsure how to do, please make a note of it and we will go

through it when we are back at school. Alternatively, remember you can always e-mail

us!

You can use a calculator to check your answers after you have done them or you can e-

mail your teacher and they will mark them for you.

Lesson 1 – Arithmetic and rounding whole numbers

Starting

number Nearest 10 Nearest 100

Nearest

1000

Nearest

10 000

Nearest

100 000

105 647

595 405

435 714

907 462

415 598

91 ÷ 7 = 7 – 2.25 = 8 - 1 =

9 4

____ = 87 – 65 0.9 ÷ 100 = 51% of 900 =

602 - ____ = 357 9 − 1.9 = 3648 x 62 =

1210 ÷ 11 = 1 3 - 4 =

7 7

2 ÷ 3 =

3

25.35 x 10 = 836 x 27 = 2 1 - 3

2 4

60 ÷ (30 − 24) = 1 + 3 =

5 4

2 of 450 =

3

33 = 888 ÷ 37 = 1 3 x 10 =

4

101 x 1000 = 1 1 + 2 1 =

5 10

5 x 540 =

6

20% of 3000 = 35% x 320 = 8051 ÷ 83 =

Lesson 2 – Arithmetic and rounding decimal numbers

Starting number Nearest whole

number

Rounded to 1

decimal place

Rounded to two

decimal places

6.825

2.273

9.562

0.827

90.582

8000 + 70 85 ÷ 6 = 7 – 4.65 =

9275 + 84 ____ = 86 – 38 0.5 ÷ 10 =

376 = 300 + ___ + 6 503 - ____ = 357 7 − 2.9 =

____ + 8 = 441 8100 ÷ 9 = 1 5 - 2 =

7 7

63 x 7 29.36 x 100 = 476 x 37 =

5.97 + 2.123 = 40 ÷ (12 − 4) = 4 + 1 =

5 4

270 ÷ 3 = 23 = 900 ÷ 36 =

144 ÷ 12 = 331 x 1000 = 1 2 + 2 1 =

5 10

352 x 1 = 40% of 5000 = 35% x 420 =

Activity 3 – Arithmetic and negative numbers

Fill in the gaps

7 more than -4 is _____

8 less than 3 is ______

8 less than 5 is ______

7 more than -3 is ______

7 less than -3 is _______

-10 + 6 = _______

-10 – 6 = _______

909 + 100 = 4 - 1 =

6 6

1 + 4 =

6 6 163 × 2 = 12.8 × 100 = 5,996 + 9,649 =

6.4 + 0.5 = 92 = 7,955 ÷ 5 =

75 x 4 = 50,000 − 900 = 10 − 3.07 =

1,034 + 942 = 300 x 200 64 x 43 =

56 ÷ 8 = 4 x 8 x 3 = 17.4 − 8.64 =

272 − ____ = 263 810 ÷ 90 = 4485 ÷ 13 =

4.5 + 0.07 = 40% of 1500 = 1 x 3 =

9 8 3 × 4 × 7 = 146.6 x 6 = 85% of 240 =

Activity 4 – Arithmetic and x / ÷ by 10 and 100.

x10 x100 ÷10 ÷100

467

350

1408

35.7

154.4

Challenge

395.6

75 + 3,000 = 747 x 4 = 2.05 × 1,000 =

907 + 1,318 = 4,873 − 854 = 798 ÷ 19 =

4 + 3 =

6 6

72 - 39 =

100 100

10 − 6.72 =

585 ÷ 1 = ____ - 120 = 506 4591 x 73 =

126 − 70 = 30 + (12 ÷ 4) = 5 – 5 =

6 8 2.5 + 4.034 = 4 x 3 =

3 5

245 x 65 =

____ = 3,700 + 810 500 x 40 = 43.8 − 24.841 =

9 x 53 = 546 ÷ 7 = 1 + 1 + 1 =

4 5 20 63 ÷ 7 = 85.75 ÷ 10 = 4 ÷ 6 =

7

Activity 5 – Place value. Ordering and comparing whole and decimal numbers.

4. 3.067 3.2 3.46 3.9 3.03

5. 0.746 0.54 0.3 0.8 0.729

History

On Friday 8th May 2020, it will be the 75th anniversary of VE Day. That is why there is

going to be a special bank holiday on a Friday this year instead of a Monday.

To help commemorate this, we have put together some activities to help you understand

what this is all about.

Activity 1

To develop your understanding of VE day, have a read through this Newsround article.

Make notes on any information you find.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48201749

Now watch this video to give you some more information.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-ve-day/z7xtmfr

Activity 2

After Germany surrendered, there were parties and celebrations all over the country

and many songs were sung and games were played.

Today, have a listen to some of the popular songs that may have been played during this

time by clicking on the links below.

Can you learn any of the songs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmk8dbFv_o - Run Rabbit Run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsM_VmN6ytk – We’ll meet again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfxilzbolQs – Take me back to dear old Blighty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrwPE0Z07ug – Roll out the barrel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I9C_aUKcmU – Sing as we go

Activity 3

As many brave soldiers returned home, they were presented with medals.

Can you design a medal using the template below for someone in your life who you think

deserves one?

Can you explain what you have included on it and why?

Activity 4

You will need to ask an adult for help with this one!

Below are some recipes that were used in WW2 that you may like to have a go at

making. Many food items were rationed in WW2 so they shouldnt require too many

ingredients!

Activity 5

As stated above, many parties were held to celebrate VE day.

Can you design your own party invitation to a VE Day Celebration Party?

What images will you put on your design?

Where will it be held?

When will it be held?