Year 5 Home Learning Space and Aviation Monday 29th June to Friday 4th July

Soaring Skies Federation

Key Question:

Why is the sun so important?

Science & Computing Which planet is furthest from the sun? Which planet is closest to the sun? How many planets are in our solar system? Which planet is the smallest? Which is the hottest planet in our solar system? Which planet is known for its spectacular icy rings? Which planet is called the red planet? Which is the largest planet in our solar system? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=libKVRa01L8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=libKVRa01L8 Think about how Peter Thorpe uses abstract art

in the background of his work & then paints a space feature (e.g. rocket/planets) in the foreground. Note the contrast in colours used in background/foreground. Continue to plan/create what image you would want to use in your own piece of abstract artwork in the foreground.

Values PSHCE

Sometimes we need to be able to find calm. What are some of the calming strategies that you use? https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zcd4d2p Meditation – focusing on the breath – is one way to feel calmer. You could try: Zen Den on YouTube https://youtu.be/jzYtNWjQiK0 or https://youtu.be/64QzBuhsyuk

Daily Activities:

Handwriting –write a section of the Poem of the week each day using cursive handwriting. Timetables - 9- and 11-times tables. Work on your bronze, silver or gold award. Reading - Read aloud for 20 minutes each day Spellings – Memorise and use each word in a sentence

Please record your learning in your Home learning book.

Creativity Art, Design Technology & Music

Use techniques in the style of Thorpe. Create your own design using Peter Thorpe’s style.

Maths Lets tell the time

Topic Writing and Humanities

Make up your own planet, draw a picture of it and write a detailed description. What is its name? What is it like there? How is it similar or different to Earth? Come up with a race of aliens who live on your planet. Draw a picture of them and describe their appearance and personality.

Spellings:

interplanetary dust, meteoroid, moon, solar system, spherical, gravitational pull, complementary, concentric

Can you write a short spelling story that includes all these words?

Useful websites https://www.educationcity.com/ https://www.timestables.co.uk https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/free-ebooks/ https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ www.rockalingua.com

At night, I lean out of the window

and sip cool darkness.

Speckles of starlight freckle the night’s face. The moon casts

bone-white light.

A fox nudges a dustbin, hunting for scraps.

Sleek cats sneak

down back alleys –

a lone car accelerates

up the empty road.

Late night city lights glare, glowering on street corners. I whisper a wish into the silence. A planet blinks its tiny red eye.

The space above me yawns forever. Shop doorways settle down to sleep. Dawn is a cup of coffee away.

Poem of the Week: Key Stage 2

Space Staring By Pie Corbett

Planet Facts for Kids

Our solar system consists of eight planets which all orbit around our home star, the Sun.

Our solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago!

For most of history it was thought that everything in space moved around the Sun, however around the 17th century the idea, that the earth is just one of the

planets in the system, started gaining popularity.

In fact, the Sun is only one of more than 200 billion stars moving about in the Milky Way!

Our solar system consists of eight planets which all orbit around our home star: the Sun.

These eight planets a

8

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun.

Jupiter is the largest planet of the solar

system.

Neptune is the furthest planet from the

Sun.

Solar System Facts

What you should know...

Mercury

The closest planet to the Sun is only about as wide as the Atlantic Ocean! 18 Mercuries would fit into the Earth. The planet does not have an

atmosphere, just like it is on all the other planets. There is no water present on this dangerous planet either! There temperatures vary between -180°C and

430°C/-290°F and 842°F.

This is also the fastest planet! It speeds through space with 50km per second/31 miles per second.

The Bepi Colombo mission was launched in October 2018 and now travels in space towards Mercury which it will reach by 2025. It will orbit the planet to

solve mysteries about Mercury. It also will hopefully reveal questions like how planetary systems form.

Venus

Venus - named after the Roman goddess of beauty - is also known as the evening or morning star. Yellow clouds made of sulphur and sulfuric acid cover the

entire planet causing light to reflect off the surface.

This makes Venus the second brightest object in the night sky after the Moon.

Venus - the brightest planet Venus is very similar to Earth in terms of size and material.

However, it is the hottest planet in the Solar system with temperatures reaching 460°C/480°F. The surface of Venus hosts thousands of volcanoes, craters and

super-high mountain ranges.

Many missions have been conducted about Venus but many questions remain. The Soviet Union successfully landed eight space probes on Venus during the

1970s and 1980s.

Earth

Earth is the fifth largest planet of our solar system and has one large natural satellite, the Moon.

Did you know that all planets were named after Roman and Greek gods and goddesses, except the Earth. The name 'Earth'

nevertheless is more than 1,000 years old and means just 'ground'.

This is the only place where life is known to currently exist. Most of the Earth's surface (about 70%) is covered with water.

Mars

Mars, the most likely candidate for a future human habitat, is affected by huge dust storms that occur every now and then and cover the entire planet!

Mars is very cold and dry but water exists in form of ice at the North and South poles. The surface of Mars has many craters, deep valleys and volcanoes.

The largest peak on the red planet is a volcano called Olympus Mons, which is three times higher than Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth. 'Mons'

is the Latin word for mountain.

Mars - the Red Planet Mars has two moons called Phobos and Deimos, both are probably asteroids which were caught up by Mars’ gravitational field.

There are two rovers on the surface of Mars and six spacecraft orbiting Mars that are tasked with discovering the presence of water and searching for evidence

of previous ancient life, amongst other things.

Jupiter

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. The most famous feature on the surface of the planet is the 'Great Red Spot' which is actually a storm that has

been blowing for about 350 years, if not longer.

Jupiter - true colours as seen by Cassini Jupiter has some of the largest moons in the solar system and one in particular, Europa might be able to sustain life in an ocean below its icy surface.

There is one spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter called Juno. Juno is trying to solve how the planet formed and finding out more about the winds that occur.

Saturn

Saturn is a gas giant just like Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. This means that it doesn’t really have a proper solid surface as it is mainly made up of gases with a

small rocky core.

Saturn is the second largest planet and is known for its rings, although the other gas giants also have these kinds of rings, only Saturn’s rings can be seen the

clearest.

Saturn and rings Saturn’s moon, Titan is the second largest in the solar system.

In 2005, NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) landed a space-probe called 'Huygens' on Titan revealing the composition and the landscape of this

moon. This spacecraft was part of the Cassini-Huygens that recently ended when the orbiting spacecraft Cassini was intentionally crashed into Saturn. Cassini

showed us that another moon of Saturn, Enceladus is also potentially habitable.

Uranus

Uranus is the second furthest planet from the Sun and therefore also has to travel a pretty long time to go once around out home star. It takes Uranus roughly

84 years to orbit once around the Sun.

Uranus looks blue because of its gases Uranus is a blue planet, not because of water, but because of gases that make it appear blue.

Uranus orbits on its side, which means that its seasons are completely different to ours. Summer and winter each take 21 years at the north and south poles!

Neptune

Neptune is closely related to Uranus, the atmosphere is composed of almost the same gases and just like Uranus, Neptune also appears blue. Neptune inherits

its name from the Roman god of the sea as reference to its deep blue colour.

Neptune is the furthest planet from the Sun and it takes 165 years for Neptune to go once around the Sun.

No space probes have ever visited Neptune or its partner Uranus but a fly-by was made by the space probe Voyager 2 in 1989.