Grade 5 week 4 English

Dear Parents and guardians,

This week the work follows a similar format with creative writing, poetry, spelling and
grammar. Please do not be pedantic about your child getting every question right and
perfect; as long as they are working consistently and trying to complete activities to the
best of their ability. English and Maths’ tasks should be completed daily, with History,
Geography, Life Skills and Natural Sciences once or twice a week. Perhaps, at the end
of the morning, look at their work and check to see how well they are managing? I have
attached a memo so that you can check every activity. If you are not sure about an
activity please contact me on my email: [email protected].

I send the work for the entire week in English. So, when you open the mail it includes
five lessons for Monday to Friday. Please make sure your child completes a-task-a-day
- don’t let them complete all the work in one day. It is designed to be completed in a
week.

I suggest that you follow the school day as much as possible, and work in the mornings,
leaving the afternoons for fun and play. Remember, much comfort is derived from a
routine.

The lockdown is also a good opportunity to encourage your child to work on his or her
own, and to be self-motivated and disciplined.
Yours in teaching
Mrs Glover

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Monday 20 April - Creative Writing

Dear Girls and Boys. Our theme is Crazes, but because so much has happened in our
world, I want you to write a paragraph of eight to ten sentences, answering the following
questions. Your heading is My Lockdown.

1. You are entering your third week of lockdown. When you first heard that you had
to stay at home without going out, how did you feel?
2. What do you do to keep yourself busy during the day?
3. What is the best part about being at home all day?
4. What is the worst part about being at home all day?
5. What do you miss the most about school?
6. What do you miss the least about school?
7. What is the first thing you would like to do or say when you come back to school?
8. Have you managed to complete schoolwork,and do you find it hard or easy to
work at home.

If you would like to add or change your paragraph so that it has other ideas in it, that is
excellent. Remember, however, to STAY on the topic which is My Lockdown. Your
ideas, feelings and what you did during this strange time in our world’s history must be
in your paragraph. Lastly, remember your grammar and spelling. Keep your sentences
short, so that your grammar is correct. You need to express your feelings, but make
sure that your sentences are not too long. You have to breathe, you have to pause.
Read your paragraph back to yourself, or your Mom or whoever is at home, before you
decide to put your pencil down. Make sure you have written an excellent piece of
writing.
Enjoy saying what you feel, and keep it in your folder to paste in your creative writing
book.

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Tuesday 22 April - Grammar

Last term you studied nouns in English. This term, term 2, is verbs. Verbs can show
action, but it can also tell us when the action will take place.The present, the past and
the future.

Today, you need to read the rules for the past tense then complete the activity. An
action that has already happened is the past tense. The rules:
● Add ed to most verbs example look becomes looked and talk becomes talked.
● Drop the e and add ed to verbs that end in e. For example, smile becomes
smiled and dance becomes danced.
● Change y to i and add ed to verbs that end with a consonant and y. For example
carry becomes carried and study becomes studied.
● Double the consonant and add ed to verbs that end with one vowel and one
consonant.A short sound. For example drag becomes dragged and stop
becomes stopped.

Question 1
Complete the words below into the past tense. (5)
1. Learn _____________________
2. Look ______________________
3. Try _______________________
4. Use _______________________
5. Plan ______________________

Question 2
Underline the past tense verbs. (8)
1. Galileo watched the night sky.

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 2. He wondered about the stars.
3. Galileo stared at the tiny lights.
4. The stars filled the sky.
5. People laughed at Galileo.
6. Galileo never stopped his search.
7. He invented the telescope.
8. He studied the Milky Way.

Question 3
Complete the sentence below by changing the verb in brackets to the past tense. (5)
1. Galileo (figure)the distance to the stars.
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2. He (worry) when people laughed at him.
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3. Soon they (stop) laughing.
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4. Galileo (discover) moons around Jupiter.
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5. He (prove) that the Milky Way was a group of stars.
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Total 18

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Wednesday 23 April - Poetry

I love my job. Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow. Dr Seuss
as we know from class is a wacky writer. He likes rhyme and rhythm, and he likes to
make us think about life! I love my job. It is a contradiction. In other words, he means
the opposite to what he says. I mean who loves working in an office all day! Not many of
us, and those who do, he says, are crazy. Men in white coats, doctors, will take you
away to a mental hospital if you do. Dr Seuss loves to be sarcastic. In other words, he
says the opposite to what is true to make someone look or feel foolish.

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 1. How many verses in the poem? (1) _________________.
2. What is the opposite of love? (1) ___________________.
3. In two sentences, explain what Dr Seuss is telling us in this poem. What is the
story? (2)
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4. Do you think Dr Seuss is being sarcastic, and why? (2)
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5. Give 2 sets of words that rhyme in verse 1. In other words, what rhymes with pay
and best? (2)
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6. What is the term or name we give in poetry to lines usually of equal length that
rhyme? (1) C __________.(7 letters!)
7. Finally, did you like the poem? Yes or No and give a reason. Remember there is
no right or wrong answer, but you must give me a good reason to support your
answer. (1)
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Total 10
When you have finished the questions, say the poems by clapping to the beat and
discover the rhythm. The music of English!

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Thursday 24 April - Spelling

Your task for today is to learn the spelling words and their meaning.

Sight words, "shun" words, and academic vocabulary

1. April
2. coward
3. breakfast
4. remarkable
5. application
6. vanish
7. saucer
8. Hawaii
9. politician
10. information
11. recession
12. concession
13. deception
14. production
15. reduction
16. domination
17. loyal
18. renewable
19. vertical
20. panel

Using your spelling list - highlighted in yellow - answer the following questions.

1. Make one sentence using breakfast and saucer in the same sentence. (1)
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2. The suffix in the spelling list is ion. Make a sentence to explain the following
words: (3)

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 a) Politician
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b) Information
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c) Deception
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3. Fill in the missing words using your spelling list.(3)
a) __________________ is a state of the United States of America in the
Pacific Ocean.
b) A ________________. A person lacking courage.
c) ________________ is at right angles to a horizontal plane.
Total 7

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Thursday 24 April - Reading

Once again, I ask you to read silently by yourself for 45 minutes to an hour. If you have
nothing to read, read the following.

Read the short story. Bruce and the Spider.

There was once a king of Scotland whose name was Robert Bruce. He needed to be
both brave and wise because the times in which he lived were wild and rude. The King
of England was at war with him and had led a great army into Scotland to drive him out
of the land. Battle after battle had been fought. Six times Bruce had led his brave little
army against his foes and six times his men had been beaten and driven into flight. At
last his army was scattered, and he was forced to hide in the woods and in lonely
places among the mountains. One rainy day, Bruce lay on the ground under a crude
shed listening to the patter of the drops on the roof above him. He was tired and
unhappy. He was ready to give up all hope. It seemed to him that there was no use for
him to try to do anything more. As he lay thinking, he saw a spider over his head making
ready to weave her web. He watched her as she toiled slowly and with great care. Six
times she tried to throw her frail thread from one beam to another, and six times it fell
short. “Poor thing,” said Bruce: “you, too, know what it is to fail.” But the spider did not
lose hope with the sixth failure. With still more care, she made ready to try for the
seventh time. Bruce almost forgot his own troubles as he watched her swing herself out
upon the slender line. Would she fail again? No! The thread was carried safely to the
beam and fastened there. “I, too, will try a seventh time!” cried Bruce.

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Memo - Grade 5 English

Creative Writing - Monday 20 April

● Ideas. Are they creative and have you thought about your answers? Did you
understand the topic, and are all your sentences related to the topic? - 10
● Grammar - 10
● Spelling - 10

Grammar - Tuesday 22 April

Question 1
1. Learnt (British spelling) Learned (USA and Canada) - both are right.
2. Looked
3. Tried
4. Used
5. Planned
Question 2
1. Watched
2. Wondered
3. Stared
4. Filled
5. Laughed
6. Stopped
7. Invented
8. Studied
Question 3
1. Galileo figured the distance to the stars.
2. He worried when people laughed at him.
3. Soon they stopped laughing.
4. Galileo discovered moons around Jupiter.
5. He proved that the Milky Way was a group of stars.

Poetry - Wednesday 23 April

1. 3
2. Hate
3. People who love to work in an office filing paper all day are mad/crazy.
4. Yes, as he is saying the opposite to what he believes. No-one likes to work in a
boring office all day filing papers, and listening to a boss.
5. Pay - day best-rest
6. Couplet

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 7. Yes or no. Any good, well-written and reasonable opinion.

Spelling - Thursday 24 April

1. The boy makes his mom breakfast with eggs and tea in a cup and saucer.
2. a) A politician is a person who is professionally involved in politics.
b) Information is facts provided or learned about something or someone.
c) Deception is the art of deceiving or tricking someone.
3 a) Hawaii
b) coward
c) vertical

Reading - Friday 25 April

Enjoy reading King Bruce and the Spider or whatever book you chose to read.

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