Year 5 Home Learning Activities – Week 3 

Hi Year 5, 

We hope that you had a good Easter break!  Hopefully, your Parent/Carer will have received an email about how to login to Seesaw. Using Seesaw, you can share your brilliant home learning with us and also receive comments from us about your amazing work. Each day, we will also upload a new video of one of us reading a story as well as a maths challenge for you to try. Exciting times!  Had we been at school, this week we would have begun our topic focusing on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. We still want you all to experience the magic of this brilliant play and so many of the activities this week and in coming weeks will be based on this text. Each week we will include a section of the play to read through, with questions and activities to go with it.  Enjoy and have fun! Happy home learning Year 5.  Jo, Lucy and Katy                    

Reading activity 1:  Read through the first part of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the answer the following questions. 

 

 

    

Reading activity 2:  

     

Reading activity 3: Watch the Primary Shakespeare Company’s video of the first part of The Tempest, Prospero’s Library, then take the quiz. How did you do? Let us know on Seesaw!  https://www.primaryshakespearecompany.org/prospero-s-library  Reading activity 4: 

   

Reading activity 5:  

 

    

Other reading activities: 

● Read a chapter from your home reading book or a book that you have borrowed from the library. 

● Encourage your child to note down any unfamiliar words from the chapter they have read. Explore the meanings of these words by using a dictionary or reading around the sentence. 

● Challenge your child to read something around the house that isn’t a book e.g. a magazine, recipe book etc. 

SPAG - active and passive voice 

 

 

Writing   

Activity 1 - Spell and potion making  It’s time to make your own spell, just like Prospero in The Tempest.  Choose three ingredient ideas from Shakespeare’s plays, for example, cobweb, sea holly, toe of frog - say each one aloud and think of an action to go with it. So, you might say ‘cobweb’ in a whisper and make a grabbing gesture in front of you.   

 

 Now, go on a hunt around your house and/or your garden and write a list of your own ideas for ingredients. This may be things like: nettles, dirty socks, dust etc. Read the imperative verbs list below, make sure you are standing up. As you read each one aloud do the action. You could make this into a game with a member of your family. You do an action and your family member has to guess what the imperative verb is! Try and add in new verbs that you could use to make a potion e.g. simmer, boil. Add any extra verbs you think of into the ‘your ideas’ box.    

 

 

Write your own spell and make sure you think about how to set out instructions, you can refer to the spell template on the next page.  

You should use: sub headings, bullet points/numbers and colons. Decorate the spell as creatively as you can, you could include some pictures of your ingredients. Don’t forget to upload your work to Seesaw!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spell template 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activity 2 - punctuation 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activity 4: Character list  

 

 

 

Activity 5: Write a summary or create a comic strip 

Use a maximum of eight bullet points to write a brief summary of the story so far. Watch the video ‘Prospero’s library’ again to remind you of the plot and the characters.  

Or: You could create a comic strip, drawing pictures and adding speech bubbles or text to tell the story so far.  

 

Maths 

AMAZING MATHS LESSONS - Watch these mini maths challenge lessons for Years 5 and 6, which are posted daily online. Everything is explained really clearly and you can easily join in at home. There are activities that 

you can complete too linked to the maths lesson. Enjoy! . http://www.iseemaths.com/lessons56/  

● Practise times tables using Times Table Rockstars (your logins are in your homework book). You can also logon to Numbots using your TT Rockstars login details. 

● Get a piece of paper and show your family everything you know about fractions. You can draw pictures, diagrams, write explanations, show methods etc. Be as creative as you can! 

● Watch countdown and try to solve the maths problems just like we do in class. Maybe you could play against one of your family members and see if you can win! https://www.channel4.com/programmes/countdown/episode-guide   

FOR PARENTS: Useful advice from the NRICH maths team about maths at home - https://nrich.maths.org/14606 

             

Activity 1 - Equivalent Fractions   Remember that equivalent fractions are when two or more fractions represent the same, therefore they are equal e.g. ½, 2/4, 4/8 are all equivalent fractions.  

 Use the models to write equivalent fractions 

  

 

 

 

Activity 2 - Equivalent Fractions  

 

Challenge - write three equivalent fractions to each of these fractions:  

 

 

Activity 3 - Fraction Hunting  

 

Activity 4 - Money Problems  

 

Activity 5 - Let’s reason and problem solve - Mathematics is a creative subject. It involves spotting patterns, making connections, and finding new ways of looking at things. Creative mathematicians play with ideas, draw pictures, have the courage to experiment and ask good questions. 

The challenge this week: Simple Train Journeys  

Here’s a train route. The train starts at the top and makes a number of visits to the stations. Let’s suppose that the train is going to make visits to three 

stations (they do not have to be different stations - each station can be visited several times).  

 

 

Starting point:  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science - This term’s topic is ‘Living things and their habitats’. 

During this topic you will learn to:  

1.  describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird 

2. describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals. 

Key vocabulary: Life cycle, reproduce, sexual, sperm, fertilises, egg, live young, metamorphosis, asexual, plantlets, runners, bulbs, cuttings.  

What do you already know? 

Make a poster about the things you already know about how plants and animals start their lives and grow. 

Session 1: Parts of a Plant  

Watch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgssgk7/articles/zyv3jty 

Read the information and play the game – putting the plant’s life cycle in the correct order. 

 

 

 

Watch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/science-ks2--ks3-how-plants-and-animals-reproduce/zm8fbdm 

Explain the life cycle of a plant to a family member. Write a paragraph describing the life cycle. 

Look carefully at the following pictures. Which parts of a flower can you see? Use the word bank below. 

 

 

 

ACTIVITY - identify the reproductive parts of a plant. 

If you have a flower in your home or garden, (lilies are perfect for this) dissect (take apart) the flower very carefully and using the labelled diagram above, try to identify the different parts. Not all flowers will have all the parts; see which, if any, are missing. Next, draw or use the picture below and label the parts of a flower. If you have dissected a flower, you can stick the parts onto paper and label them. Make a list of any missing parts. 

Find out what a flower without all parts is called. 

Label the three female parts in red and the two male parts in blue (other parts can be labelled in any colour of your choosing). 

 

  

 

 

  

  

  

   

Computing:  

Learn to code with Minecraft, Dance Party, Flappy Bird etc. using Code Studio: https://studio.code.org/courses You can access single lessons or even complete a coding course. 

 They have set-up a page for home learning which includes introductory videos for parents and carers too: https://code.org/athome 

 

Art - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEf7Y8UtEsM 

Recreate Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting ‘Sunflowers’. Use any arty resource you can find e.g. felt pens. paints, coloured paper. Maybe you could find a small free space somewhere and open your very own art gallery! 

   

  

 

   

P.E. ● Join Joe Wick’s for his PE lesson every weekday 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ ● Just Dance - can you find your favourite tune? 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=just+dance+waka+waka 

● Try a daily Joe Wicks 5 minute mover video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LPrhI0v-w  

● Have a go at these workouts to keep fit at home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhCM0C6GnrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5if4cjO5nxo 

● Relax with some yoga - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZpkRAcgws4 

● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oGR5xucItI ● Take a look at Go Noodle (You will need to create a login)  

Strengthen your focus - https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/strengthen-your-focus Wake up Stretch - https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/wake-up Bring it down - https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/bring-it-down   

  

History 

 

The Globe Theatre 

https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeares-theatres/globe-theatre-facts/ 

 

Find out where, when and why the Globe Theatre was built. 

Make a small booklet all about this famous historical landmark. 

Draw a diagram of inside the theatre and label the different areas that the audience watched the plays in and include lots of interesting facts! 

 

 

Other useful resources: 

KS2 BBC bitesize - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39   

Mathematics Shed - http://www.mathematicshed.com/visual-stimulus-shed.html   

Nrich - https://nrich.maths.org/  

Topmarks - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ 

Fun art activities - https://www.happinessishomemade.net/quick-easy-kids-crafts-anyone-can-make/

https://craftwhack.com/100-crazy-cool-drawing-ideas-for-kids/