Year 5 - English – Summer 2 Week 4 June 22nd to June 26th

Day 1 Activity Day 2 Activity Day 3 Activity Day 4 Activity Day 5 Activity

Make sure you have some quiet time for daily reading. See First News on the St Joseph’s website.

Please log into Accelerated Reader on a regular basis, especially when you have completed a reading book or you wish to complete a shorter extract

and complete a quiz. Log in to renlearn.co.uk with your User Name – linked to your name and an easy to remember Password.

If you have collected your CGP Grammar books look at the pages for each day.

Comprehension Activity

An Extract from Howard Carter’s

Diary

CGP Weekly Workouts

Workout 5 Pages 10-11

Workout 6 Pages 12-13

Comprehension Activity

The Hope Hunters

CGP Weekly Workouts

Workout 7 Pages 14-15

Workout 8 Pages 16-17

Comprehension Activity Star-spotters Guide to Shooting Stars

CGP Weekly Workouts

Workout 9 Pages 18-19 Workout 10 Pages 20-21

Comprehension Activity White Fang (Part 1)

CGP Weekly Workouts Workout 11 Pages 22-23

Workout 12 Pages 24-25

Comprehension Activity Anousheh’s Space Blog Spelling Test equip equipment equipped especially

exaggerate excellent explanation familiar foreign forty

Grammar for Writing

a) Its and it’s

b) Contractions – fill in the short

or the long version of the words.

c) Add apostrophes to the

highlighted words.

Create interesting sentences

linked to the above activities.

Do you remember when we

received a visit from that

strange library earlier in the

year before ‘lockdown’? The

librarian’s name was Peabody.

Well, this week the children of

St. Joseph’s have received a

letter from Peabody. I’ve

attached the letter below.

Read the letter and begin to

plan your contribution to The

British Library.

Your task today is to plan and

create a miniature book for ‘The

British Library’. You are going to

write an autobiography - The

title is ‘All About Me’.

Write an outline for your story

Today you will need to

use the instructions

below to construct your

mini-book.

You will need the

following pieces of

equipment:

1 sheet of A4

plain or lined

paper.

Coloured paper

Wrapping

paper/newspaper

Scissors

Small elastic

band

Pencil

Glue

Then, design

Today you will start

writing your story /

autobiography to go

into The British

Library.

Remember to use

paragraphs to

organise your work

– don’t forget you

are limited by the

size of the pages

regarding how much

you can actually

write in your mini-

book.

Think about your

sentence structure.

Extend yourself by

incorporating the following into

your piece of writing:

Short sentences.

Different sentence

openers

Parenthesis

Relative clauses

Today check through your

writing and edit to make sure

you are happy with your final

piece. Is your piece too long?

If so, can you edit it down?

Have you included descriptive

language if writing a piece

with description?

Have you included facts and

information if you are writing

an autobiography?

Today’s the day you will need

to publish your mini-book.

Re-read your piece a final time

to make sure you have not

included any

spelling/punctuation errors.

Write your final piece in pencil

first so that you can ensure

you have enough space.

You might like to include

illustrations throughout your

book. Plan your illustrations

around your writing.

I look forward to seeing your

miniature books!

in a few sentences.

o Include a beginning, middle and

end to your story.

o

o Use the Five W’s to help with your

story structure:

1. What is happening?

2. Where is it happening?

3. When is it happening?

4. Why is it happening? 5. Who is it happening to?

your front/back

covers.

Practise this week’s spelling every day which are: Spelling Test – 10 words: Test – count up and record your score: defuse return rewrite reuse overtake mistake reappear misfired interfere interrupt

Monday 22nd July

See this letter which has just arrived from Peabody.

Monday 22nd June Comprehension Activity – answer the 4 questions.

Tuesday 23rd June

Look really carefully at the picture. Even though there are no words, we can tell a story from the picture.

• What has happened to the world in the image?

• What are the hope hunters hunting? Why?

• Why do you think the fairy is planting a plant? What do you think

the illustrator is trying to say with the picture?

• Do you recognise the illustrator? They have illustrated lots of

popular children’s picture books.

Wednesday 24th June

Read the text and answer the questions.

1) Arrange is closest in meaning to:

a) Set out

b) Meet

c) Pick up

d) Plan

2) True or false:

A) Take warm clothes, a blanket, a pillow and a torch.

B) Stay close to town.

C) Point your torch to the sky.

D) You must have binoculars.

3) How does the information make it easy to be a star spotter?

Thursday 25th June

1) Who does the word them in the first sentence refer to?

2) What had the wolf gone down to the stream for?

3) How might the wolf have been careless?

4) How did the men react when they saw the wolf?

motionless noisily excitedly

Friday 26th June

1) Find and copy another word that suggests it is not easy to clean yourself in space.

2) What reason is given for needing wet towels, wet wipes and dry towels?

3) Find and copy a group of words that shows that Anousheh wrote her blog for others to read?

4) Why does Anousheh use ‘another joy’ to describe brushing teeth?

Grammar for Writing

a )Its – this means belonging to it

It’s – this means ‘it is’ or ‘it has’.

Identify which sentences use its or it’s correctly.

1) It’s fun to travel abroad.

2) Its got to work this time.

3) The panda ate it’s dinner.

4) It’s taken no time at all.

Now write two interesting sentences – one which includes the words its and one with the word it’s.

b) Fill in the missing gaps with the short and long versions of the words:

is not

where’ll

why is

have not

might’ve

let’s

hasn’t

we would

he’s

should not

Now write 4 interesting sentences, each sentence should have a contraction eg. hasn’t, he’s etc.

c) Add apostrophes to the underlined words below if they are needed.

My hamsters name is Hector, and Ive had him for two years. The shark showed its teeth and swam towards the fishermans boat.

Its been a great day, but now the park is shutting its gates. Dinas going to her dads house tomorrow because its Wednesday.

Now write two sentences, each one using a word with an apostrophe eg. boy’s socks, bird’s nest.