SLH Year 5 Week 2

 


We are surrounded by butterflies for Week 2 of the Summer Learning Hub! Have fun with this collection of themed activities, which are designed to keep the kids busy during the long summer holidays.

Year 5 Week 2

Some Maths...

Place value, decimals to percentages, coordinates, statistics ... revise and refresh some of the skills that you learned over the previous school year, with the help of these butterfly activities!

We've thrown in a decimal place to this place value worksheet, just to keep the kids on...

Match the decimal butterflies to the correct percentage butterflies! There are 4 pages to this...

Challenge the kids to plot the points in this coordinate picture with 2 quadrants, to reveal an...

This worksheet asks children to look at a table recording the butterfly-spotting antics of 4...

Reading and Writing ...

Have you heard of Maria Sibylla Merian? She was born in the mid-17th Century, lived a fascinating life, and contributed enormously to the amount we know about the life cycle of the butterfly. Read about her and then have fun answering some of the questions we ask - or pretend you are interviewing her yourself! This week we've also picked a well-known poem, Caterpillar, to have a look at - or have a go at writing your own shape poetry about a butterfly.

Can the kids extract the relevant information from the text about ...

Our interview worksheets are a great way to bring famous people and historical characters to...

This lovely poem is a perfect fit for children. It's simplicity, rhyme scheme and its tie-in...

Read Caterpillar by Christina Rossetti (we have a lovely printable version...

This worksheet asks children to write a shape poem about a butterfly or butterflies, using the...

A Craft...

We have three ideas for making butterfly suncatchers this week. See if something catches your fancy!

Three Butterfly Suncatchers
Guest Post - Three Butterfly Suncatchers

And More Fun Ideas!

And there's even more butterfly fun to be had below...

We've provided the outlines of lots of pretty butterflies. Now all the kids need to do is...

I have one of these butterfly bookmarks marking the page of my diary – and it puts a smile...

This colourful activity is a great way for the kids to practise their drawing and concentrations...

NEW! We've got no less than 7 sets of butterfly sudoku puzzles for the kids here, with 12...

This easy step-by-step guide will help the kids learn to draw their own picture of naturalist...

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