Homework Activities Year 5 Autumn Term
English:
Spellings will be set each week.
 Write a poem using the figurative language techniques taught in school about the
sun, moon and stars.
 Write a diary entry for an astronaut who lands on the moon. Describe the sights and
sounds.
(Try watching the moon landings on line to inspire you!)
Science:
1. Create your own space themed top trumps cards.
2. You are going on a spaceship and can only take 10 things with you. What will you take?
Either write or draw them in your suitcase.
You are going to meet some aliens on another planet. What 10 things would you take as
presents for them? Draw them in a gift box.
3. Make an acrostic for one of the planets
e.g. M
A
R
S
This could be a list of words beginning with each letter, a sentence for each line or even a
rhyme.
4. Find out facts about the space missions –
What was the first creature sent into space?
Who was the first astronaut?
Who was the first man on the moon?
What other interesting facts can you find?
5. Bake your own space themed cookies or biscuits. They could be star, rocket or planet
shaped. They could even include space rocks such as popping candy! Write the recipe in
your homework jotter. Feel free to share your biscuits with your teacher!!
6. Make a 3D model rocket with a parachute to aid re-entry.
7. Keep a sky at night journal for a whole week. Write about everything you
can see in
the sky. You could draw a picture of the moon every night. Does it change over the course of
the week?
8. Prepare a lesson to teach the class about an aspect of Space you enjoy (Be ready to
teach it!)
9. Design an alien (look to the natural word for features) and create an alien mask.
10. Create a timeline to show the history of space travel.
11. Complete a character study of Neil Armstrong or any other famous astronaut/
cosmonaut.
12. Write newspaper report about the first moon landing.
13. Create a new mnemonic that will help others in the class remember the names of the
planets and their order from the sun.
Reading lists:
These books are suggested to supplement our poetry work:
 Let Me Touch the Sky- Val Bloom  Funky chickens- Benjamin Zephaniah  The Oxford Book of Story Poems
 Dark as a Midnight Dream  The Works A Poet a Week
These fiction books are suggested to supplement our work on the solar system and alien
encounters:
Two boys find a newspaper advertisement looking for a homebuilt spaceship. They quickly build
one out of tin and scrap wood, and bring it to the advertiser. He makes a few modifications, gives
them special fuel, and tells them the must visit the mushroom planet, an undiscovered, invisible
moon of Earth’s.
Richard sits down to breakfast one morning and discovers that his bowlful of Alien Crisp cereal is
home to the real thing—a tiny, talkative alien named Aric, who explains that he has come to save
Earth from the evil Dranes, a rival alien race
One night a plane appeared out of nowhere, the only passengers aboard: thirty-six babies. As soon as
they were taken off the plane, it vanished. Now, thirteen years later, two of those children are
receiving sinister messages, and they begin to investigate their past. Their quest to discover where
they really came from leads them to a conspiracy that reaches from the far past to the distant future—
and will take them hurtling through time
Normal Earthling Zita is transported to a mysterious alien planet which appears to be the Star
Wars cantina dialed up to eleven. Zita must rescue her friend who’s been kidnapped by an
alien cult while dealing with con men, bloodthirsty robots, humanoid chickens, a friendly
giant mouse, and the impending destruction of the planet she’s standing on.
Maths:
Times tables will be set each week.
Mathletics is available to all pupils online.
http://uk.mathletics.com/signin/
Places to visit:
National Space Centre in Leicester:
http://spacecentre.co.uk/