All home learning will be set here every Friday and will be tested the following Friday.

Reading

Reading underpins all of our learning and development and is great for our imagination! Please read your book daily and to an adult at home regularly, recording all reading in your reading record.

If you have finished your reading book and need to complete the quiz for it, please access your Accelerated Reader account here: ARP access

If you have a Lexia account, please access it here to complete at home: Lexia access

Spellings

This week’s words to learn are:

aloud

allowed

effect

affect

past

passed

Parents: all words are selected from the age-appropriate National Curriculum lists, these are words your child has to know by the end of Year 5.   Please encourage them to practice at home during the week, and carry out an occasional test to prepare them for Friday morning.  The tests are linked to spelling objectives and learning during the week.

Mental Maths

This week the children will be tested on:

Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000

The children will be tested on these 12 facts in a random order:

To the nearest 10;

56

324

7083

14,763

To the nearest 100;

643

3805

26,721

50,489

To the nearest 1000;

6734

3333

63,290

180,723

Please also remember to complete 20 minutes of sessions in Garage on TT Rockstars.  You can access the website here: TT Rockstars

On Friday after school please ask your child their scores, we’ll send them home on a slip of paper.

History

This week we have completed our Shang Dynasties project and what a project it has been!  We have been archaeologists at a dig, we have predicted the future with Oracle Bones and we have learnt all about the hierarchy, military and every day life of people in ancient China, 3000 years ago!

We have learnt about aspects of life in the Shang Dynasty but what about some of the more famous Shang people?

Have a look at this picture of Fu Hao, the famous wife of King Wu Ding, and visit the BBC Bitesize page about her and her life.  What can you tell me about her?  What do you think is so remarkable about what she achieved?