Homework in Reception
Now that we’re well into the Spring term, we’ll be sending homework every Friday. In addition to the new phonemes and tricky words the children are given to learn, your child will receive either practice handwriting sheets or sentences for your child to write independently.
Please check on the homework section of this website for practice sentences from next week.
30 January 2015
This week’s homework is talk time.
I can stay safe at home.
It’s important that your child is ready to talk about this by Wednesday 04 February.
Encourage them to think about all the different rooms in the house and specifically think about situations where it may be dangerous. How can we avoid these dangers? How can they be responsible for their actions? How should we respond if there is an accident?
30 January 2015
The homeworks this week are Creative and Practice Makes Perfect.
The Creative homework is to design a section of our ‘contraption’ display. We are currently taking inspiration from ‘Rube Goldberg machines’ to make a contraption out of things we have in and around the classroom. Children have to plan and explain how their section would work and suggest materials which we could use to make it. The trickiest part of this is that most of the contraption has to hang from the wall.
A Rube Goldberg machine is a contraption, invention, device or apparatus that is deliberately over-engineered or overdone to perform a very simple task in a very complicated fashion, usually including a chain reaction. For ideas and inspiration, just ‘Rube Goldberg machine’ into youtube.
The Practice Makes Perfect homework is a Mathletics activity on our next unit of maths: measures.
30 January 2015
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 04 February.
I can write a story set in a Norman castle.
R2s (our ‘remember to’ reminders…):
- capital letters and full stops
- adjectives
- conjunctions
Before you write your story think about these questions…
- Who would live in the castle?
- Do you have a goodie and a baddie?
- What does the castle look like inside and out?
- What main event happens to put one of your characters in danger?
- How do they get out of this danger?
- Is it a happy ending?
23 January 2015
The homeworks this week are Practice Makes Perfect and Talk Time.
The Practice Makes Perfect homework is a couple of Mathletics activities linked to our learning on fractions.
The Talk Time homework is a SEAL themed one, asking children: Why is it Good To Be Me? Lots of children (and adults) find it difficult to talk about things which they are good at. I’d like children to have a conversation about their strengths and why it is good to be them. We’ll talk about these next week in class.
23 January 2015
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Please make sure it is handed in by Wednesday 28 January.
I can describe my house and I know my address.
There have been lots of adjectives used this week to describe different types of houses. It would be great if the children could write a description of their house or their favourite room. This is also an ideal opportunity for the children to learn their address – it is important that they know where they live even if it is just the number of the house and the street name.
Please make sure that homework books are handed in by Wednesday – there are a small number of children who are not doing their homework or not handing it in.
23 January 2015
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 28 January.
Which house would you live in and why?
All of the houses in your book are from different periods in time. Have a look. Imagine what they would be like inside and what it would be like to live there. Then, decide which house you would choose to live in and explain why you have chosen this.
Talk Time homework encourages discussion at the dinner table but please write a couple of notes explaining your choice to help you when we discuss the subject in class.
16 January 2015
This week’s homework is creative homework. Apologies that this homework has been posted later than normal – because of this, it is not expected to be handed in until Thursday 22 January.
Do all the things in my kitchen cupboards weigh the same?
This homework is creative but is reinforcing some learning that has happened in Maths. After looking at measuring mass (weight) this week, it will be interesting for the children to look in their kitchen cupboards and look at the weights of different products. This could be presented in a variety of ways:
- photos with labels showing mass
- drawings with labels showing mass
- comparisons of different products and their masses
- pictures / photos of products that do weigh the same
- photos of children cooking something and weighing the ingredients
16 January 2015
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 21 January.
What can you make out of the rubbish (recycling) you produce in your home?
Look around the house at the things you’re throwing away and think about what you could make out of them. The old man made a forest out of tin – think about useful, attractive and magical things you could make.
This homework is creative so you could decide to actually make an item and take a picture or bring it into school or you might want to design something in your homework book (especially if you’ve got an idea as big as the forest the old man made).
16 January 2015
The homeworks this week are Creative and Practice Makes Perfect.
The Practice Makes Perfect homework is another Mathletics one. They have a couple of different activities to do based on the learning we’ve done in class.
The Creative homework is to show examples of forces in action. We have been learning this in class so your child should have lots of ideas. They could find photographs which show forces in action or draw a diagram which shows forces in action. Examples could be a toy car rolling down a ramp, a person sitting on a chair, a floating boat, a tug of war contest. Children could also show whether forces are balanced or unbalanced. An example of balanced forces is shown below. In this example, the two men are pulling in opposite directions with the same force. This means that there is no movement.
To find out more about forces, follow the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/znmmn39