Year 5 Home Learning - How you can support learning at home
Year 4/5 home learning expectations
Reading
In year 4/5 we become truly independent readers!
Reading is essential to the success of the whole curriculum and is a daily focus in class. The children will be supported in their reading in a variety of ways and be taught strategies to infer and deduce information from a text as well as beginning to discuss more complex themes, characters and plots.
The children will have a class text read to them daily as well as daily opportunities for individual reading. The children will have a school reading book (this may be chosen by the adults in class) alongside a 'reading for pleasure' book. This helps to ensure they are regularly reading books that adhere to age related expectations.
Reading at home is vital as it helps gain confidence and stamina for reading - skills that are essential for progress across the curriculum.
Spellings
We use Spelling Shed to practise our spellings and support with learning spelling patterns, The children will be given new spellings on a Monday and will be practising, and being taught strategies, daily ready for a test on Friday.
The spellings can be tricky - little and often is the best way to learn them at home. Weekly spellings will be assigned on Spelling Shed where the children will find fun activities linking to the weekly word list.
Maths
During Autumn Term we will focus on place value, addition & subtraction, multiplication & division and fractions as well as ensuring our multiplication knowledge continues to grow. Daily use of Times Table Rockstars is the most valuable thing children can do at home to boost their maths success.