Year 5 Homework – Autumn Term 2016
Please find below our homework menu for the autumn term. You should aim to complete a Literacy and a Numeracy
activity every week and it is best to complete these in the order given to ensure the activity matches what is
taught in lessons.
Books will be collected once a week, on a Tuesday, marked and returned by Thursday. If you need more help,
please ask your teacher to explain the activity further. If you are struggling to complete your homework then sign
up for Homework Club, this will be available every Tuesday.
Most of the activities can be adapted to make them more or less challenging as appropriate. If there is any
feedback, the Home-School Journal is the best way to do this.
Literacy (Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo &
Churchill & Hitler Biographies)
Remember to read for 20 minutes every day
Synonyms – Two words are synonyms if they are very similar
or the same in meaning. Find 8 examples for each word that
form the title of the book we are studying in English at the
moment.
Friend –
Foe -
Character study – Write a fact file about what we know
already about David or Tucky from Friend or Foe. You could
include a picture of what you think they look like and
whether you would like to be their friend. Include personality
traits, appearance, hobbies, fears and emotions about the
war.
Morpurgo interview – If you could meet Michael Morpurgo
(the author of Friend or Foe) what would you want to ask him
about this book? Write down 5 questions you would want to
ask, they must be about the story so far that we have been
studying in class.
Biography – Write a biography about someone in your family,
a friend or a celebrity. Include a starting statement to say
what this person has achieved and then write in chronological
order. Try using subheadings to give details of different
parts of their life.
Extension: Include quotes from the person you are writing
about. Use quotation marks.
Direct and Reported speech – Make a list of things someone
might say about Churchill. Write 4 sentences that use
reported speech and 4 that use direct speech.
E.g.
Reported: Henry explained that Churchill was an important
man during the war.
Direct: “Churchill is a heroic figure, he made lots of great
speeches,” Abigail remarked.
Connectives – Write 6 sentences that use these time
connectives about your weekend.
Afterwards, later on, after a while, beforehand, after some
time, prior to.
E.g. Prior to having breakfast, I woke up my brother and told
him to get up.
Remember to use commas if you need them.
Contractions – Write 6 sentences that use a contraction and
underline it in each sentence.E.g. My mum promised she’d
help me with my homework.
Maths
Remember to practise your 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 times
tables so that you know them.
Writing numbers – write a 7 digit number in your homework book.
Underneath, complete these calculations using the number you
wrote.
E.g. 456,738.5 + 0.1 = 456,738.6
+0.1
+100
+1000
+10,000
+ 1,000,000
-0.1
-100
-1000
-10,000
-1,000,000
Extension: Use 8 digits or numbers to 2 decimal places.
Number sequences – write a sequence of 6 numbers with these
rules.
+2000
+25,000
-50
-0.5
X10
Extension: try some of your own rules to challenge yourself
Factor Pairs – How many factor pairs can you find for these
numbers? Here is an example of a factor pair for 12: 6 and 2
(6x2=12)
50 62
32
77
115
220
Extension: Try some larger numbers of your own.
Fractions – Write these decimal numbers as fractions.
2
E.g. 17.2 = 17
10
0.5
0.75
0.1 0.25
0.2
Extension: Can you work out the percentage for each of these?
Rounding numbers – Round these numbers to the nearest whole
number:
1. 934.1
2. 5661.56
3. 42.6
4. 2488.31
5. 9.09
6. 6.008
Extension: Can you round these numbers to the nearest 10 and 100?
Fractions of a number –
Use your computer to play this game at home, you can always use
the school computers during homework club if you prefer.
http://www.mathplayground.com/fractions_fractionof.html
Extension: Try one of the other fraction games on this website,
rate yourself out of 10 for your fraction knowledge and write down
what you would like to work more on in your homework book.
Money – How many different ways can you make these amounts of
money using only coins? Write or draw the coins you need to use.
£4.50
£2.33
£1.13
£1.88 Try some more of your own.