29 April 2016
The homework for this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 04 April.
I can solve missing number problems using a number line.
29 April 2016
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 04 May.
The SEAL theme this half-term centres around rights and responsibilities. This week is about the right to an opinion and the responsibility to respect the opinions of others. Discuss the rights and responsibilities we have regarding our own and other people’s opinions.
29 April 2016
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 4 May.
To be able to answer questions about punctuation and grammar.
The children have got another set of questions to have a go at at home. This proved really useful last week to revise what we’ve already learnt and to find out what we were less sure of.
This is not a test so that children can ask me questions and research things at home. It would be fab if they were then ready to share which questions they were less sure of so we know what to work on together.
29 April 2016
This week’s Talk Time homework is due on Friday 6 May (not Wednesday 4 May)
To be able to talk confidently about my chosen person that I’ll write my biography on on Friday 6 May.
All of the children have chosen somebody that they’d like to write a biography on, having learnt all about how to write them in our English lessons. It is their responsibility to find out about this person and be ready to write about them at the end of next week.
Don’t forget to create some notes for you to refer to when you’re writing.
22 April 2016
The homework for this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 27 April.
I can create some flower art.
As we are learning about flowers (specifically sunflowers) in our mini-topic, I would like children to create some art using flowers or plants as a stimulus. They could:
- find a green space and sketch or paint some flowers
- sketch or paint a vase of flowers
- create a collage
- use flowers or plants to create a piece of art
- focus in on one particular part of a flower or different flowers – such as petals or leaves
22 March 2016
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect and is due on Wednesday 27 April.
I can interpret circuit diagrams.
As part of our Science led mini topic ‘Power’, we have been learning about circuits. Your child has a booklet of activities to use and apply their learning. If your child needs some extra help, click here to find a website that lets your child create and test their own circuits.
22 April 2016
The homework for this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 27 April.
I can create some flower art.
As we are learning about flowers (specifically sunflowers) in our mini-topic, I would like children to create some art using flowers or plants as a stimulus. They could:
- find a green space and sketch or paint some flowers
- sketch or paint a vase of flowers
- create a collage
- use flowers or plants to create a piece of art
- focus in on one particular part of a flower or different flowers – such as petals or leaves
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.