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
01 May 2015
This week’s homework is creative homework. Please make sure it is handed in by Wednesday 06 May.
Design a home for “Nothing”. How are you going to keep him safe?
When you are thinking about your design, remember:
- what does he need to keep him safe?
- what is important to him?
- gadgets and toys are not things that he needs
- think about all the things that you have learnt in the past two weeks
01 May 2015
This week the homework is creative and is due in on Wednesday 06 May.
I can show what I know about magnets and forces.
In class, we’ve been learning about different forces and magnets. This is a chance for your child to show what they know and have learnt over the past couple of weeks.
They could:
- make a game
- create a quiz
- write a poem
- draw and label different types of magnets
- create a table to show magnetic and non magnetic materials, or…
- any other creative idea they might have!
01 May 2015
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 06 May 2015.
If I ran the country I would…
It’s the General Election on Thursday 07 May so how would you like the country to be run? At home, get your child involved in thinking about what we are voting for and how it might change things across the country. What are the main parties called and what kind of things are they promising? Then, in as creative a way as you like, think about how you would run the country and what your main policies would be (as a serious bid or with crazy ideas just for a bit of fun).
Your child could…
- create a speech for people to vote for you
- draw a ‘Theme Park Map’ of the country as it would look if you ran it
- create a manifesto
- write a story with you as the prime minister
- write a letter to the prime minister suggesting the policies you would put in place
24 April 2015
The homeworks this week are Talk Time and Practice Makes Perfect.
The Talk Time homework time homework ties in with the upcoming General Election. Children should talk with people at home about what policies / ideas they would introduce if they were the leader of a political party. The ideas should be realistic and should be ones which would benefit the community, not just them and their friends.
The Mathsletic homework is an activity about time which we will be focussing on in Maths lessons next week.
24 April 2015
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Please make sure homework is handed in by Wednesday 29 April.
In maths this week, we have been learning about fractions. The homework is all about halving – remember that using objects can always help if your child is struggling. It is also useful to make sure that they know that they are dividing by two or sharing into two groups.
24th April 2015
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due on Wednesday 29 April.
I can use column addition.
Year 3 have been learning how to use column addition. They have a worksheet to complete to practise this skill.
24 April 2015
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 29 April 2015.
- What do you know about night time?
- What questions would you like answered about night time?
With the launch of a new topic for Summer term, I’d like the children to think about what they already know about night time (the night sky, people, animals, changes) and what they don’t know but they’d really like to find out. Thinking about questions they’d like answering means we can keep the topic closely linked to the children’s interests with them excited about their learning.
As always for Creative homework, the choice is yours, but here are a few ideas of what you could do.
- An oral presentation.
- An interview with your child.
- Question and answers (but some answers may be missing).
- A night time poem.