Year 5 Homework Grid – Spring, Term 1
Choose a digital learning and one Literacy, Numeracy or Other piece of homework per week to complete. Record your work in your green home learning book.
Numeracy
Literacy
Other
D: Day and Night
Create an explanation (poster/written
explanation or comic strip style) about
why we have day and night.
Think about the Earth’s
rotation/orbiting of the sun (or
research)
Extension: Can you give an explanation
about the seasons and why we have
them.
G: SPACE CENTRE
For this task, NASA need your help! They
need new ideas/plans for a new space
centre. You can submit your design as a
3-D model, a birds-eye view ground plan
or a detailed drawing.
Give careful consideration as to what
your space centre should include.
Numeracy
Task 1: Fractions - goo.gl/GLeaer
Simplifying fractions: goo.gl/YfstN2
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B: Time Worksheet
Practise telling the time and converting
from 12hour to 24hour.
E: Man on the Moon
There is a man on the moon; you spot
him through a telescope. You decide to
send him a gift because he is lonely.
H: Design a creature…
You are an astronaut and are on a
mission in outer space. You land on
Venus (a planet in our solar system) and
you come across a creature…
Literacy
Task 1: Use this website to create your own SciFi story, either type or write it in your HW book:
goo.gl/ZA9tvN
A: Learn your fraction, decimal and
percentage equivalents
Example:
50% =
½ = 0.5
Write as many as you can in your
homework book.
Extension:
Copy a timetable from the
https://goo.gl/4ZTWm3 and get an adult
to generate a range of questions for you
to answer.
Write a short story describing how you
discovered the man on the moon and
about what you decided to send him.
How did you send it? Why did you
choose that item? How does he
react/respond?
Draw what you see, colour it and label all
of its features.
Digital Learning
Task 2: Roman numerals
Ready: goo.gl/ivjzfp
Steady: goo.gl/Yx5gct
Go: goo.gl/AYTuh7
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Task 2: Insert the speech marks
goo.gl/LV6zy7 (Print/write out the work in
your book). Or goo.gl/gE9mKM (OR BOTH!)
Task 3: Homophones:
goo.gl/aDYhwm goo.gl/kxCHui goo.gl/wYTrz2
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C: FRACTIONS WORKSHEET
F: Create a fact file poster
Pick one of the planets in the solar
system and create a fact file poster
about that planet. You can use
books/internet sources to help your
research of the planet.
Make sure your poster is informative,
has pictures, colour and has an
interesting fact for the reader!
I: FREE CHOICE
For this week’s homework you have a
free choice to do whatever you want to
but there must be proof of this
homework in your book.
Ideas:
Write a story
Bake cupcakes and write
instructions
Create a 3-D piece of artwork
Other
Task 1: Explore the NASA website and
type/write 10 things you found interesting.
goo.gl/hp9VMD
Task 2: Discover Space! goo.gl/v42PaJ
Use the BBC Bitesize website to learn all about
Earth and Space.
Record your new learning in any format you
like – on the computer, as a PowerPoint/Word
document (please print as proof) or written in
your book.
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See worksheet from your teacher.
Make sure you request a worksheet if
you have chosen this piece of
homework.
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