Year 5 Home Learning – Wednesday 20.05.20

Reading 30 minutes

Good Morning Peacock Class!

Slightly less adorable…more terrifying!

Questions

1. What does the term dinosaur mean?

2. How big were the largest dinosaurs?

3. Was Tyrannosaurus Rex a carnivore or a herbivore?

4. When did dinosaurs die out?

5. Why do scientists think dinosaurs died out?

GPS warm-up 10 minutes

These are your 10 spellings for the week – We are going to focus on

homophones…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqhpk2p/articles/zc84cwx

dessert, heal, male, guest, father, knight,

stationary, knows, bear, heard

Using commas after subordinate clauses:

Writing 30 minutes

Today in English, we are going complete a mini writing

challenge! Try to using commas after subordinate clauses.

Arithmetic 10 minutes

This week we are really going to focus on our times tables –

building up accuracy and speed. You will find a times table

challenge for each day of the week in the Year 5 Home

Learning Portal. Make sure you time yourself each day.

Did you get a quicker time today?

Maths 30 minutes

Understand percentages

Watch Week 2 Lesson 3 and complete the activity. You will also find the activity on the Year 5 Home Learning Portal https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

Enquiry/Project work

30 minutes

This week’s topic is Art

We are going to work on our drawing and sketching skills…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3TikcVkFow

Today we are going to draw a self-portrait or you could

draw a family member. It might be useful to have

photo or a mirror. Today we are just going to

complete the face shape and the eyes.

Now let’s work on the eyes…

We will continue working on our portrait tomorrow.