Home Learning

Spellings and Mental Maths

All home learning will be set here every Friday and will be tested the following Friday.

Reading

Reading underpins all of our learning and development and is great for our imagination! Please read your book daily and to an adult at home regularly, recording all reading in your reading record.

If you have finished your reading book and need to complete the quiz for it, please access your Accelerated Reader account here: ARP access

If you have a Lexia account, please access it here to complete at home: Lexia access

Spellings

This week’s words to learn are:

rhyme

yacht

muscle

doubt

solemn

Parents: all words are selected from the age-appropriate National Curriculum lists, these are words your child has to know by the end of Year 5.   Please encourage them to practice at home during the week, and carry out an occasional test to prepare them for Friday morning.  The tests are linked to spelling objectives and learning during the week.

Mental Maths

This week the children will be tested on:

Powers of 10

The children will be tested on these 10 facts in a random order:

(10 to the power of 2) 10 x 10= 100

(10 to the power of 3) 10 x 10 x 10 = 1000

(10 to the power of 4) 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 = 10,000

(10 to the power of 5) 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 = 100,000

(10 to the power of 6) 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 = 1,000,000

4,200,000 is 10 times the size of 420,000

420,000 is 10 times the size of 42,000

42,000 is 10 times the size of 4,200

4,200 is 10 times the size of 420

420 is 10 times the size of 42

Please also remember to complete 20 minutes of sessions in Garage on TT Rockstars.  You can access the website here: TT Rockstars

On Friday after school please ask your child their scores, we’ll send them home on a slip of paper.

History

Our History Project this term, ‘Dynamic Dynasties’, is all about the Ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty.  This week we have been reseraching how people in the Shang Civilisation made objects out of bronze, depsite how complicated a process it was, especially 4000 years ago!

Have a look at these bronze items of weaponry from the Shang Dynasty.  Can you see the beautiful, intricate carvings and decorations on the handles?

Have a go at drawing your own arrowhead, sword, axe or blade and detail the carvings you would put to decorate the handles!