Hello Year 5, Hope you are all keeping well! It’s been great to see everything you have been up to on the Facebook page. We are pleased you liked the mini me’s that were sent to you, they have certainly been kept busy! Please continue to show your learning on our Year 5 group on SMB Noticeboard Facebook or email school on smbyear5@welearn365.com.

I (Mrs Francis) have been very busy working and I have enjoyed playing lots of games with my family. What are your favourite board games? Ours are snakes and ladders and game of life. My daughter has been learning first aid skills this week as part of her Rainbow’s challenges. I made honeycomb this week, which was very exciting when it created giant bubbles.

I (Mrs Scott) have been spending some time with my family this week. We have spent time reading stories and going on walks and playing in the garden when it hasn’t been raining! I have also started doing some puzzles (sudoku and crosswords!), I’m hoping that I can speed up with the sudoku puzzles as I’m quite slow at the moment! I have been sorting out the herbs out in the garden so we can start using those in some recipes! Me and Owen tried an experiment to see whether we could grow our own peppers and they have started to sprout!

Take care, Mrs Scott and Mrs Francis

Year 5 Home learning – 8th JuneEnglish

The Firework Maker’s DaughterChulak wanted to advertise Lila’s

fireworks on the side of Hamlet but Lila preferred a poster telling everyone about her fireworks.

Can you create a poster for Lila to advertise her new fireworks? Your

task is to persuade someone to buy them.

Remember to include adjectives to make the fireworks sound amazing,

alliteration, repetition, catchy names, slogans to catch the

reader’s attention.

EnglishThe Firework Maker’s Daughter

Reading discussion –Do you think that Lila will make a good firework maker? Why?

Why not?Why does Lila want to be a firework maker so much?

Why does Lalchand not want Lila to be a firework maker?

How do you think Hamlet feels about having writing put all

over him?Why do you think the author

included the character of Rambashi and what do you

think of him?What do you think about the King’s punishment of sending someone a white elephant?

In what ways does Chulak show his friendship for Lila?

EnglishThe Firework Maker’s

DaughterCan you create a

character description of Lila?

What kind of person is Lila?

Maths Create a poster to

show all the fraction facts you know.

Can you teach someone else how to multiply

fractions?

Maths – Bunk BedsSix Boy-Scouts at a Summer Camp sleep in bunk beds. Each Scout has a different colour blanket on his bed. The beds are lined up in a row with red, black, yellow, brown, blue, and green blankets.

• Robert and Harry's bed is closest to the door.

• The colour of the blankets on the bottom bunks all begin with the same letter.

• The colour of Brian's blanket does not begin with the same letter as the beginning of his name.

• Robert's blanket colour does begin with the same letter as his name.

• The blue blanket is under the red blanket.

• Liam and Kevin like their lower bunks. • Kevin is in the middle bed. • Ian does not share a bunk with Kevin. • The brown blanket is at the end of a

row. • The yellow blanket is above the black

blanket. What colour is each boy's blanket?

Maths – Monkeys and Bananas

If it took 8 monkeys take minutes to eat 8 bananas.

1. How many minutes would it take 4 monkeys to eat 4 bananas?

2. How many monkeys would it take to eat 64 bananas in 64 minutes?

REIt was World Environment day on 5th June, can you

write a prayer for the environment or animals.

ComputingCan you research different

endangered species? Can you create a fact file about one of

the animals? Endangered animals include –

Galapagos Penguin Black Rhino

Great White Shark Mountain Gorilla

Giant Panda Bengal Tiger

Amur Leopard

Design and technologyhttps://www.big-ideas.org/join1851/

Great Exhibition, which showcased the most exciting Victorian

technology and inventions from 1851, you can take part in

engineering challenges and create their own Great Exhibitions at home! See attached sheets

For this year’s challenge, participants will submit a 1 minute

video presenting theirGreat Exhibition at Home, which

tackles the question:How can engineering save the

planet?Geography

Create instructions for someone to follow as to how you would get from your house to the building that you have chosen as part of the history

section.

History Choose a building that takes

interest in your local area. Take a picture of it (or use a picture

from the internet).See you if you can find out the

answers to the following questions:

Who used it in the past? When do you think it was built?

Why is it important to the community then (and now)?

What is the building used for? Where else could this have been built in the area if this

location hadn’t been picked? Is this the best place for it? E.g. Why was this site chosen for

the War memorial and not in a different place?

ReadingRe-write one of the

chapters from a book of your choice from another characters point of view. You could write it using paragraphs or you could try writing a playscript!

PECan you set up an obstacle course? Take turns running it in your family and time to see who could be the

fastest?

ArtWith the building that you have chosen for your history project, recreate that building as an art

piece.

ScienceMake plastic milk -

https://sciencebob.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/

Make_Plastic_Milk1.pdf

Maths answers – Bunk Beds - Robert = Red, Harry = Blue, Brian = Yellow, Kevin = Black, Ian = Green, Liam = BrownMonkeys and bananas - (1) 8 Minutes, (2) 8 Monkeys