Year 5 Homework

WC: 13/2/17

1) Spelling

Extra practice for homophones. We have discussed the meanings of the words below. Learn the words. Can you create a cross word or word search for Mrs Reece

with these words in?

hear

2) Food Miles

In Class, we have been learning about Lesotho. Mpho is a little boy who lives there.

He grows fresh food using a keyhole garden, so his food does not have to travel very far. How far does your food travel?

Use Google Earth or the website here.

Choose 5 foods you have during the week and try to calculate the food miles travelled.

Look at the labels on the food to find the country of origin.

What can you find out about how far your food has travelled?

You could use Google Earth to help you calculate distances.

How far altogether has your food travelled?

Can you choose a way you think is best to show your results? Maybe draw a table, create a table on J2E5 (see below for suggestion) If you want to add more to your information you could find out extra information about the countries.

Examples of tables: