12 June 2015
This week’s homework is creative.
I know what grows in my local environment.
As always, be as creative as you like.
We would like children to look around the local environment to find particular flowers, plants and trees.
- Do they know the name of them? If they don’t, how can they find out?
- Have they found any unusual plants? If so, where were they?
- What do they notice about leaves from different trees?
05 June 2015
The homeworks this week are Practice Makes Perfect and Creative.
The Creative homework prepares us for our new topic by asking children to show what they know about Earth and Space. Your child could write a poem, create a story or report about our solar system. They could do some number crunching about planets. They could collect data over the weekend about light and shadows. They could speculate about other beings that we share space with.
The Practice Makes Perfect homework are two Mathletics activities. The first is about measuring angles which we’ve learnt recently in class. The second supports the learning this week on transformations: reflections, translations and rotation (though this is not part of the new curriculum in Y5).
Top Mathletics tips:
1. It is not a timed activity. Do not rush!
2. Do not rush!
3. Read the questions carefully.
4. Use jottings on a piece of paper to help you.
5. Tell me if you are finding an activity hard and I will find time to help you with it.
05 June 2015
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Please make sure it is handed in by Wednesday 10 June; there are a few children forgetting to hand their books in.
I know the days of week, months of the year and seasons in order.
15 May 2015
The homework this week is Creative and is due Wednesday 20 May:
Who do you think you are?
Next week, we embark on five days of learning about identity, diversity and community. Your child is required to think about themselves and what makes them who they are.
Creative homework is a great way for your child to engage with their homework any way they choose. I’ll be looking for homework with some creative flair as well as some refinement and finesse. Ideas could range from:
- a family tree
- a personal timeline
- a comic strip depicting their life journey
I’m looking forward to finding out what makes each child who they are and the themed week is sure to be a successful one!
15 May 2015
Who do you think you are?
Next week, we embark on five days of learning about identity, diversity and community. Your child is required to think about themselves and what makes them who they are.
Can they talk about:
- important people in their life?
- a special event in their life?
- what qualities they think they have?
For homework this week, could your child draw a picture of themselves and their family.
15 May 2015
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 20th May 2015.
‘Who do you think you are?’
This week, we want to know all about you and who you think you are. We’re going to be asking this question all week (beginning 22.05.15), thinking about our individuality, how we are different to those around us and how we belong to different communities.
Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing…
- life journey
- family tree
- self image
- art work/poetry/report
- quiz
08 May 2015
This week’s homework is talk time.
Why do we need instructions?
Please make sure your child is ready to talk about this on Wednesday 13 May.
08 May 2015
The homeworks this week are Talk Time and Practice Makes Perfect.
The Talk Time homework is:
Is it ever ok to lie?
This homework will link with next week’s SEAL focus about telling the truth and saying sorry. Children should discuss the homework and make notes in their homework books ready for the class discussion on Wednesday.
The Practice Makes Perfect homework are two Mathletics activities about fractions, decimals and percentages. These activities follow the learning in maths lesson on this from the previous week.
08 May 2015
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due Wednesday 13 May 2015.
I can talk about my favourite book character.
This week, Year 2 have been writing character descriptions. We have been looking at characters from different Roald Dahl stories and we’ve talked about their appearance, behaviour, likes and dislikes and our opinions of them. In particular, we’ve looked at the characters from The Twits. Can you ask your child about their favourite book character and talk about how you would describe them?
From our Homework Policy:
Talk Time homework
This involves a discussion topic eg ‘Should animals be kept in zoos?’ Children should make notes (even pictures, diagrams etc) ready to participate in a class / group discussion on the topic. Please make sure you write a comment about the Talk Time discussions in the homework books.
Top Tips: Turn the telly off! Sit around the dining table! Have a chat and share opinions and ideas! Children should talk with family, friends and each other. (Your child should write some notes in their Homework Books.)
01 May 2015
The homeworks this week are Creative and Practice Makes Perfect.
The Creative homework is:
I can show what I have learnt about the General Election.
In this homework, children have to produce a piece of work which demonstrates what they have learnt over the past two weeks about the upcoming General Election. This could be about the political parties, their leaders, their policies / ideas or their own ideas about politics.
Here are some of the ideas the children came up with:
- A profile of a politician
- An interview with a politician
- A manifesto of your political plans
- A 60 second video about a political party or leader
- An interview with you, the leader of your own political party
- A poster detailing your party, logo, slogan and political plans for the country