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.
13 March 2015
The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in on Wednesday 18 March.
What should we, as humans, focus on inventing?
This homework aims to focus children’s thinking on inventions that would truly benefit the world rather than inventions which just make our comfortable lives easier.
The Practice Makes Perfect homework is a Mathletics quiz on area and perimeter. We’ll learn about these areas of maths in our lessons next week.
13 March 2015
This week’s homework is talk time. Please make sure your child is ready to talk about this on Wednesday 18 March.
- Is it right that some people are homeless?
- Why might they be homeless?
- How would it feel to be homeless?
13 March 2015
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 18 March.
Choose a time in the past. What have you learnt about it?
Use all your creative juices to show what you have learnt through our Time Travel topic. We’ve travelled from 600BC all the way into the future; meeting the Celts, Romans, Vikings, Normans, Tudors, Victorians and our modern day selves along the way. Choose one of these periods of history and show (in any way you wish) what you have learnt about them.
You could:
- Create a leaflet
- Do a quiz
- Make a house from that time
- Prepare a verbal presentation
- Write a story with characters from that period
- Conduct an interview with somebody from that time…or…
- any other creative idea you might have!
06 March 2015
I can respond to a book
As it’s recently been World Book Day, please read and talk with your child about their favourite book.
Perhaps they could draw a picture and write about why they like it.