Homework

22 April 2016

This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 27 April.

To be able recognise different word classes.

There are a number of SPAG questions for the children to answer this week all to do with recognising different word classes: noun, verb, adjective, conjunction, preposition, adverb, determiner.

Answer the questions as best you can and we’ll go through them together on Wednesday to see if there are any we’re not sure about.

22 April 2016

This week’s Creative homework has been chosen by the children following our topic lesson on Tuesday and is due on Wednesday 27 April.

To explore the technology of optical toys.

On Tuesday, we looked at how films came to be invented way back in the 1800s. It all started with optical toys which are based on the idea that if we look at a lot of images very quickly that change very gradually and it looks like the picture is moving.

There are a number of different types of toys and the children have brought some instructions home with them but there’ll be many different varieties and ways of changing them to make them their own. You might decide to design your own optical toy; write a set of instructions for how to make one; make one yourself; tell us all about optical toys; or even write a diary entry as though you’re a child from 1824 who’s just received a thaumotrope for their birthday.

We’re really looking forward to Wednesday’s homework review to see what everybody comes up with.

24 March 2016

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 30 March.

I understand what I have read.

Each child has been given a short reading comprehension activity to complete. Your child should read the text independently and then answer the questions. The initial questions simply require your child to identify the correct answer, but the questions at the end require your child to write in sentences. If your child knows the correct answer but doesn’t write this in a sentence, help them to change the one word into a sentence. For example, if the question was, ‘Which animal has a trunk?’ Your child may write ‘an elephant.’ Putting this into a sentence would be, ‘An elephant has a trunk.’

If your child particularly struggled, leave a short note in their homework book and I’ll look through it with them.

25 March 2016

This week’s homework is creative and is due 30 March 2016.

I can present my spellings in an interesting way.

Your child’s spelling homework this week is to find a “double up for a short vowel sound” word for each letter of the alphabet. They could use these spellings to:

• make a poster
• make a crossword
• make a word search
• create a missing letter worksheet
• write a story

This could be done using ICT; the choice is theirs!

24 March 2016

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 30 March.

I can write instructions.

We’ve been writing instructions in our English lessons over the last couple of weeks. Children could write a recipe; instructions / directions for finding a place (this could be a treasure map); instructions for how to do, play or make something.

Follow the instructions below to write perfect instructions:

How to write instructions

Follow this simple guide and you’ll be writing instructions in no time!

You will need:

• paper
• a pen or pencil
• coloured pencils or felt tips (optional)
• photographs (optional)
• ruler

Method:

1. Firstly, find a quiet place and get all your equipment ready.
2. Next, think carefully about what you are going to write about. It might be a good idea to read some different types of instructions before you start. Think about your audience (who will be reading and using the instructions).
3. Write a title which clearly tells the reader what the instructions are for.
4. Write a short introduction which gives the reader a little bit more detail about the instructions.
5. Write down the equipment or ingredients that you will need using bullet points.
6. You are now ready to write your instructions! Use numbered points to make your commands easy to follow. Each new command should start on a new line.
7. Try to use time connectives (firstly, next, after that, finally) to also sequence your instructions. Adverbs (carefully, quickly, silently) Give more information to the reader about how to do something.
8. Add in a ‘top tip’ or a ‘did you know’ box to give readers some extra relevant information or to give them extra ideas or suggestions about what they could do.
9. Read through your instructions to make sure that there are no errors. If there are errors, fix them!
10. Improve your instructions by adding in an extra words like time connectives, adjectives or adverbs. You could also improve them by adding in a question and a question mark (?) or find an exciting sentence in your text which could have an exclamation mark (!)

 

Top tip:

Pictures, diagrams or photographs really help give the reader a clear idea of what to do. Add a few in. Imagine building flat-pack furniture with no diagrams!

24 March 2016

In addition to their Creative homework, some children also have some extra Practice Makes Perfect homework this week.

I can revise translation, reflection and using coordinates.

Children are expected to complete pages 82-85 of their maths revision books and evidence this in their homework books. They could make notes, show examples of completed questions or explain what they have learnt. Then, children should answer practice questions 9, 10 and 11 (these questions can be found on page 87. As always, we have discussed this in class so children should know what to do.

24 March 2016

This week’s Talk Time homework is due on Tuesday 29 March.

To be able to tell my Fighting Fantasy story confidently.

After lots of work in class on writing narratives, Y5 will be writing their own short story on Tuesday next week. In order to be confident with our stories and to enable us to write a well-thought-through tale, the children have brought their story plans home.

Ask them what the story is about. Question any gaps you think there might in their tale and look out for ideas that are too complicated and might sound muddled. Can they tell you their story orally, remembering key events and some details?

As always, the children are asked to write notes demonstrating what has been discussed. These notes could point out main story events, effective adjectives, verbs or phrases that they’ve used at home and don’t want to forget, or they could detail feedback they’ve had on their story from people at home.

We’ll write our stories on Tuesday so this homework is due on Tuesday 29 March, one day earlier than is usually the case.

24 March 2016

This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 30 March.

To be able to solve maths problems.

The children have got a selection of Maths problems to read, understand and solve in a given context. They need to think about what question they are actually answering and, sometimes, interpret correctly what remainders mean when dividing. This is work that has recently been learnt in class so they should be able to work independently.

Any working out can be completed in homework books and, for each question, a full sentence should be written to communicate their answer.

If you’re wanting to support your child in their work, check out our calculations videos to see how we do our working out in class.

18 March 2016

The homework for this week is a moral talk time and is due in on Wednesday 23 March.

Should we keep animals in zoos? Should we even keep animals as pets?

18 March 2016

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect and is due on Wednesday 23 March.

I can tell the time.

Your child will have a series of time-based tasks to do that they need to finish in the booklet provided.

We’ve started telling time to the nearest minute in class and if your child needs some extra support to do this at home, I recommend the BBC Bitesize website.  I’ve also set some time tasks on Mathletics.