‫مدرسة العين الناطقة باإلنجليزية‬
Al Ain English Speaking School
‘Achieving Excellence’
Year Group: 5
th
Sunday 17 April 2016
This term is sure to be an exciting one as the children prepare for completing Year 5. Please read the reminders below
and re-familiarise yourself with the schools expectations for pupils in Year 5.
Reminders for this week:
 A reminder that all students should be writing in joined handwriting now. Could you please be vigilent about
this at home and support your children with developing their handwriting skills. We use the Nelson handwriting
Scheme.
 As we are trying to make students more independent please be aware that your child must bring a pencil case to
school. These should include the following items; pencils, glue stick, coloured pencils / markers, highlighters,
pencil sharpener and eraser.
 Remember that the school operates a ‘no hat, no play’ policy. In the interest of child safety, so please remind
your child that they MUST bring a sunhat/cap for playing outside. All clothing should be labelled please.
 All students must have a plastic or metal water bottle with their name written on it. It is not acceptable to send in a
single use plastic bottle each day. These bottles are easily misplaced and lost, resulting in missed break times, or
dehydrated students.
PATHS
Integrated
Curriculum +
Science
Maths
English
Language
Biographies: This week the children will be exploring the concept of writing biographies, particularly
that of the famous astronaut Neil Armstrong.
They will:

Identify and discuss the key features of a biography.

Ask questions in the style of a reporter to improve understanding.

Create Timelines of the ‘Space Race’.

Develop their comprehension skills via Guided Reading sessions.
Grammar:

To distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused.
This week we will be working on Statistics.
We will:

Solve and compare problems using information presented in a line graph.

Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables.

Work on co-ordinates and scales to interpret information in time graphs.
We will be learning about the solar system in scientific terms.
We will:

be design an experiment to test some different materials that could be used to insulate an astronaut
glove.

be learning about space suits
With kind regards,
Year 5 Teachers
Ms. MacDonald
[email protected]
Mr. Dauncey
[email protected]
Ms. Miller
[email protected]
Mrs. Sheldon
[email protected]
Year 5 Homework
We are starting a new “50 Point Challenge”
There are three 50 point challenges. Please see homework books!
One for Maths, English (Writing) and Integrated Curriculum (Science, Geography and History).
During Term 3 you will have all the homework activities for Maths, English and Integrated Curriculum in front of
you and ready to complete whenever you deem necessary.
Your child is required to attain at least 50 points in each of the three challenges by the end of the term. This is
a minimum requirement but we will encourage them to attempt as many as possible.
They will need to write the challenge title and number in the homework books and then complete the tasks.
E.g. Maths - Activity 5 – completed work
As easy as that…. We will keep track of how they are doing and make sure they are on track to complete the
minimum total of 50 points for each of the three subjects.
Spelling: Will continue as normal: each week your child will be given a list (in their spelling books) to practice
and we will test them.
Reading: Each week your child will be expected to read for 15 minutes per day. They should then write down
what they read in their Communication book and get a parent to sign.
Homework
All homework in Term 3 must be done in joined handwriting. Homework will be given out weekly. Those
students needing help or support need to talk to their teacher during break or after school. If homework is not
brought in on Sunday, students face losing some or all of their Golden Time and may be asked to complete
during their break times.Please ensure that children stick their own homework into their correct
homework books… Thanks.
English Language Spelling:
 Revise over your spelling words given out by your teacher. Look cover check and write the spelling
words four times each, in your best joined handwriting and write a sentence using the spelling word
into your homework book.
English Language Reading:

Read for at least 15 minutes per night. Write the title of the book you are reading in your
communication book, the number of pages read and make sure you get it signed by your parents.
English Language Spelling:
T-Rex:- ow
bow
brow
how
now
brown
clown
crown
down
drown
town
crowd
powder
towel
owl
growl
flower
power
shower
tower
allow
cow
Brontosaurus: - er
brighter
farmer
faster
fighter
lighter
neater
prouder
reader
slower
starter
stronger
teacher
tighter
weaker
worker
Triceratops / Raptors: -ly
comfortably
cuddly
gently
grumbly
horribly
miserably
possibly
probably
simply
sparkly
suitably
terribly
visibly
wriggly
wrinkly
Pterodactyls: - ally
accidentally
actually
annually
automatically
brutally
coincidentally
critically
equally
eventually
exceptionally
fatally
finally
logically
magically
mechanically
medically
mentally
musically
naturally
normally
occasionally
originally
personally
physically
practically
traditionally
50 Point Challenge - Maths
1) Draw your own 1 – 15
times table square and
complete it.
2) Choose 5 five digit
numbers and 5 six digit
numbers and write them
out in words e.g. Sixty two
thousand four hundred and
ninety six = 62 496.
5 Points
5 Points
6) Draw 5 of your own
7) Write 5 proper fractions
shapes and find the area
and calculate 5 equivalent
by measuring – use cm’s or proper fractions for each.
mm’s.
3) Draw a net for 2 3D
shapes and name them.
5 Points
8) Write 5 decimal
fractions and write the
equivalent proper fraction
with a denominator or 10,
100 and 1000.
e.g. = =
=
5 Points
5 Points
5 Points
11) Create a poster for 2
12) Use a grid and plot the 13) Choose 10 different
3D shapes: include nets,
co-ordinates for 3 pieces of countries. Write down the
vertices, faces and edges.
furniture in your room.
time in the UAE and what
the time would be in your
10 chosen countries.
4) Make up 10
multiplication equations
and complete them –
challenge yourself
e.g. 162 x 82 =
5) Make up 10 division
equations and complete
them – challenge yourself
e.g.
5 Points
9) Write 10 numbers down
and see how many 2’s 5’s
and 10’s fit into them.
e.g. 27 has (13 twos)
(5 fives) (2 tens)
5 Points
10) Find of each of these
numbers:
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16,
18, 20, 36, 54, 88, 128,
250
5 Points
5 Points
15) Draw a tally chart of
you family’s favourite food.
Draw a bar chart and make
up 3 questions using the
chart.
14) Choose 6 of your
favourite foods; find their
price in dirhams then
convert the amount to
pounds. Use the
conversion rate of £1.00 =
AED 5.5
10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
16) What does it cost to
17) Write down the names 18) Estimate how many
19) Imagine you have 25
make 3 meals in your
and prices of your 4
litres of water / coffee / tea beads. You need to make
home? List the ingredients favourite foods. You have
is drunk by your family in a a 5 digit number on an
and the price of each one.
AED 100. Calculate the
week. Convert the litres to
abacus. You MUST use all
Calculate the cost of each
change would receive from millilitres and kilolitres. If 1 25 beads to make each
meal? Which is your
the AED 100 or how much litre costs AED 1.50. what
number. How many
cheapest meal? Which is
money you need to pay if
is the total cost of the
numbers can you make
the most expensive?
you do not have enough.
water / tea / coffee?
and write then in order of
smallest to largest.
10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
20) Look at one of your
library books. The pages
start at 1. Where does it
end? How many of the
page number digits are 3,5
and 10?
10 Points
By the end of the term you need to reach 50 points, this must include at least two 10 point tasks.
50 Point Challenge - English
1) You must write 15
sentences: 5 sentences
using the word WHERE, 5
sentences using the word
WERE and 5 sentences
using the contraction
WE’RE.
2) Complete the
Past/Future worksheet
below.
3) Write 5 similes and 5
metaphors comparing
different things.
4) Write 2 poems in any
style about the solar
system or animals. Be sure
to include one of these
features in each poem:
-rhyme
-alliteration
- onomatopoeia
-idioms
5 Points
5 Points
5 Points
5 Points
6) Write a creative
7) Create a 2 person script 8) Look up the meanings
9) Write a short biography
paragraph stating what
of them having a
of these words and try to
of someone in your family.
would happen if mosquitos conversation about school. write them in your own
Be sure to include dates,
were as big as cats. The
It must have 10 sentences words: adventures,
places, and important
paragraph must be a
of dialogue for each
sorrowful, dictatorship,
information about that
minimum of 5 sentences,
person.
strangely, vacancies,
person and their life.
maximum 10.
predictions, supersonic,
apprenticeship.
5 Points
5 Points
5 Points
5 Points
11) Write a review of Year
12) Read a current news
13) Write 8 questions you
14) Write 15 sentences
5. How would you rate
article. Tell us the title and would like to ask your
using speech marks to
each subject/topic you
tell: what, who, where,
teacher. Make sure you
indicate where someone is
learned. State information
and when the article was
use question marks.
speaking and you are not
you know now that you
about.
allowed to use “said”
didn’t before.
Write at least 1 paragraph
(5-8 sentences)
5 Points
5 Points
5 Points
5 Points
16) Complete the Ready,
17) Compile an A to Z lit of 18) Draw a comic strip
19) Write a 3 paragraph
Set, Read! worksheet
words to describe a
using the topic of space.
letter to someone from
below.
character from a book you Use the comic strip
another Y5 class
recently read.
template below.
persuading them that your
For example:
class is the best class in
A- amazing
Year 5.
B- brave
C- c____
10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
5) Write 5 facts and 5
opinions about space.
5 Points
10) Write a diary of your
school day; start from the
very last thing that had
happened. Go backwards
in order.
5 Points
15) Write a story starting
with this sentence: I was
walking in the desert
when…
Must be at least 1
paragraph (5-8 sentences).
Use your skills for your
level of writing.
5 Points
20) Complete the Book
Review below using a
fiction story you recently
read.
10 Points
By the end of the term you need to reach 50 points, this must include at least two 10 point tasks.
50 Point Challenge - English
50 Point Challenge - English
16)
Ready,
Set,
Read!
50 Point Challenge - English
50 Point Challenge - English
50 Point Challenge – Integrated Curriculum
1) Write down all 9 planets in
2) Write 10 facts that you
order from the Sun and then in have learnt about the Solar
order by size.
System and draw a picture of
it.
5 Points
6) List at least 5 biomes. Give
an example of a place where
those biomes exists and an
animal that lives there.
5 Points
7) Tell us 5 positives and 5
negatives about a biome you
studied. Be sure to tell why it
is a positive or a negative
thing.
5 Points
5 Points
11) Create a poster detailing
12) List 5 animals that have
the phases of the moon.
become extinct on Earth in
the last decade. Explain why
they have become extinct.
10 Points
10 Points
16) Complete the Animal Data 17) Use the weather
Gathering Chart below about
recording table to record the
an animal of your choice.
weather in a location in the
UK for 7 days. Compare the
weather in the UK to the
weather in Antalaha,
Madagascar.
10 Points
10 Points
3) What is the name of the
first astronaut who went into
space (NOT landed on the
moon) from England, America
and Russia? Write 5 facts
about one of these people.
5 Points
8) Give at least 5 examples of
animals that have adapted to
its biome.
5 Points
13) Write facts about how the
moon affects the Earth.
10 Points
18) Explain how the biome in
Egypt has changed over the
past 1000 years.
10 Points
4) Find the difference of
temperature between Earth
and 3 other planets.
5 Points
9) Complete the Interpreting a
Climate Graph worksheet
below. Cut and paste the
graphs using the correct titles
into your book.
5 Points
14) Research 1 of the
following:
a) black hole
b) supernova
c) meteorite
and…..
10 Points
19) You are a botanist who
has just discovered a new
type of plant. Design a fact
sheet highlighting your new
plant discovery. Be sure to
include the following
information:
• your plant’s name
• your plant’s basic needs
• how your plant’s needs are
met
• where your plant lives
• a colored illustration of your
plant in its natural habitat
Your fact sheet might have
text features like labels,
captions, maps, bold words,
subheadings, and more.
10 Points
5) If you were an astronaut
and met an alien. Describe
Earth to the alien. Remember
to use location from the sun,
temperature, moons, etc. in
your explanation.
5 Points
10) Create a word search
about 1 biome using at least
12 words related to that
biome.
5 Points
15) Research 5 starts and
their meaning. Explain how
they got their names?
10 Points
20) Create your own animal
by combining two animals.
Explain:
•which features the animal
has to adapt to its
surroundings
• which biome your animal
will live
• what it will eat
• what colours it will be
• how it will move
• whether it has any
predators.
Draw a picture of your animal
in its new biome.
10 Points
By the end of the term you need to reach 50 points, this must include at least two 10 point tasks.
50 Point Challenge – Integrated Curriculum
Where is it found?
What I already know
New information I have
found
Reference:
Where I have found this
information
What does it look like?
What does it eat?
Other interesting facts
50 Point Challenge – Integrated Curriculum
50 Point Challenge – Integrated Curriculum
17) Comparing the Weather
Choose a location in the UK and record the weather there for 7 days.
Write a paragraph telling how the weather compares in the UK with Antalaha, Madagascar.
Location
Weather (ex. sunny,
Minimum Temperature
Maximum Temperature
rainy, cloudy)
(in ˚C)
(in ˚C)
Day 1: ______________,
UK
Antalaha, Madagascar
Day 2: ______________,
UK
Antalaha, Madagascar
Day 3: ______________,
UK
Antalaha, Madagascar
Day 4: ______________,
UK
Antalaha, Madagascar
Day 5: ______________,
UK
Antalaha, Madagascar
Day 6: ______________,
UK
Antalaha, Madagascar
Day 7: ______________,
UK
Antalaha, Madagascar