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.
23 March 2015
Below (in orange) are some more sentences for your child to write at home. It’s helpful to follow this process…
- Read the sentence to your child.
- Ask them to repeat the sentence several times. They could whisper it, shout it or say it in a silly voice.
- Count the words.
- Say the sentence word by word for your child to write.
- Remind them to use a capital letter, a full stop and finger spaces.
- Ask your child to read the sentence back to check they have written every word.
- Write the sentence together, modelling how to read back.
- I must not tramp on the flowers.
- I kept bumping into things in the dark.
- A crab crept into a crack in the rock.
- Milk is good for children’s teeth.
- A drip from the tap drops in the sink.
- The clown did tricks with a chimpanzee.
- I can hear twigs snapping in the wind.
20 March 2015
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Please make sure it is handed in by Wednesday 25 March.
It is maths practice this week looking at grouping and sharing.
There are practical activities you could do to help your child understand this process:
- sharing sweets amongst the family
- grouping objects into groups of 2, 5 or 10
- playing cards where a number of cards have to be dealt to each person – How many were there altogether? How many does each person have?
- serving food eg potatoes – How many potatoes do we have? How many people? How many potatoes will they get each?
20 March 2015
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 25 March.
I can show what I have learnt about persuasion.
The children have been learning about the art of persuasion in English lessons recently, writing some pretty persuasive emails and letters! For the homework, I’d like them to show me what they have learnt about persuasion. As a class, we thought of some ideas:
- Write another persuasive letter/email persuading me or someone else to do or change their mind about something.
- Create a poster showing off the features of Persuasive writing. The children have learnt this as READER (see attached photo).
- Have a structured argument – using connectives (see second photo) – with a parent, sibling, friend, etc.
