Homework

17 October 2014

This week, our homeworks are Practice Makes Perfect and Talk Timeand are due in on Wednesday 22October.

PMP: I can find missing angles.

Children have been learning about shape in maths this week. They have a sheet in their book which asks them to find some missing angles in either a straight line or a triangle.

As always, please encourage children to find me before Wednesday if they need further help.

Talk Time: Paper books or eReaders?

More and more people are reading using an electronic device like an eReader or a tablet instead of traditional books. What do you think about this change? Do members of your family have different opinions?

When discussing topics at home, encourage your child to use connectives to signpost their ideas. Use the table below as a guide:

17 October 2014

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.

Time is a very hard concept to learn but we have made a good start.  After looking at all the different ways we can measure time, we’ve now started to look at actually telling the time.  This has started with o’clock, with some children moving on to half past.  This week’s homework is looking at telling the time so that the children can show you what they have been learning.  Please make sure that you encourage your child to look at clocks and tell the time with them as it can take a while for them to become confident with this aspect of maths.

Thanks for your support with homework – the children are handing in some excellent stuff!

17 October 2014

This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 22 October 2014.

Is this art?

You have got four pieces of art to look at. All of them are very different.

• ‘Swept under the carpet’ – Banksy
• ‘Family of man’ – Barbara Hepworth
• ‘Rain princess’ – Leonid Afremov
• ‘Essence of elephants’ – Greg du Toit

Have a conversation around the dinner table or in the car about these pieces. Are they art? Do you like them? Which is your favourite? Make some notes about your ideas in your homework book and bring these to our class discussion on Wednesday 22 October.

10 October 2014

This week, our homeworks are Practice Makes Perfect and Creative and are due in on Wednesday 15 October.

PMP: I can interpret data in charts

Children have been learning about how to interpret data in charts. They have a sheet in their book with a chart (either a bar chart or line chart) and they have to answer some questions about the information in the charts.

As always, please encourage children to find me before Wednesday if they need further help.

Creative: I can design a coat of arms. 

As part of our Big Topic on our Class Novel, we’re planning on doing some printing of coats of arms. Children have been asked to design their own coat of arms and been reminded of what they are historically and what it might mean for them now: symbols and pictures which represent who they are as a person.

Here are some real life examples:

Some can get very ornate, but I’m not looking for anything this detailed because we won’t be able to print them…

10 October 2014

This week’s homework is talk time.

Is it fair that some art is worth so much money when charities need money to help people?

The children are familiar with a few paintings by famous artists eg Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci.  It will be interesting to investigate how much a painting like this is worth and then discuss whether this is fair when charities like St Gemma’s need funds to help look after people who are very ill.  There is no right answer and everyone has different opinions – the children need to hear differing viewpoints so they can form their own opinions. 

We will discuss this homework on Thursday 16 October as we’ll be at the Sculpture Park on Wednesday.

10 October 2014

This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Thursday 16 October.

I can be an artist.

As we’ve been looking at so many pieces of art and tried a few ideas out in class, it’s now time to see what we can do ourselves. Create any piece of art you want. Take real care with your work as it would be great to include this homework in our gallery event at the end of the topic. Don’t forget, there are all sorts of types of art. Choose the one you like best or one you’ve never tried before…

• painting
• sketching
• pastel/chalk
• sculpture
• ICT
• photography

…and many more. I’m really looking forward to what you come up with.

03 October 2014

Our homeworks this week are Creative and Practice Makes Perfect and are due in on Wednesday 01 October.

The Practice Makes Perfect homework builds on our measures learning  in class about length. Children have a sheet in their homework book which asks them to solve some length problems.

The Creative homework is again related to our Fighting Fantasy class novel:   I can create a fantasy item advert.

We will be writing promotions for the next few weeks in our English lessons. Children have to create an item which they might find in the class novel. This could be a weapon like a sword, cross-bow, axe, bow and arrow; a defensive item like armour, a shield or a helmet; a potion or spell which uses particular ingredients to perform a magical power; or it could be something else entirely! The choice is yours!

03 October 2014

This week’s homework is creative homework.  It needs to be handed in by Wednesday 08 October.

We’ve been very lucky to ‘jump into’ many paintings with Katie over the past few weeks – her grandma is magical and can somehow make paintings come to life.

Which painting would you like to jump into?  What would happen when you were inside the painting?

Be as creative as you like! Chat about ideas with your child: Could the homework be in the form of a poster, a letter, a comic strip, some writing, a PowerPoint…? Could it use photos, drawings, fold-out ‘extras’ on the page…?

I would like to jump into this painting:

     What would I find?  Who would I meet? What might change in the picture? Would I want to stay?

03 October 2014

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Wednesday 08 October.

I can write a report.

In English, we have written a report on Vincent Van Gogh. It will now be great practice for your child to write their own report at home on a subject they know a lot about and we all know a lot about Moortown Primary School.

26 September 2014

Our homeworks this week are Talk Time and Practice Makes Perfect and are due in on Wednesday 01 October.

The Practice Makes Perfect homework builds on our grammar learning in class about main clauses and subordinate clauses. Hopefully, the sheet in the homework books will explain this but if you have any questions, please ask.

The Talk Time homework is related to our class novel. You have to put yourself in the mindset of our main character who is about to start his quest: What three items would you take with you on your quest in the Citadel of Chaos and why?

Children should talk to you and other family members and friends about the subject and must give reasons why their items would be important. On Wednesday, we’ll then have a discussion about which items the children think would be most useful. When discussing their reasons, children should be encouraged to use connectives when making their points:

*’However’ is often seen mid-sentence (sometimes correctly eg It won’t work however hard we try; sometimes incorrectly (although debate continues on this point) eg It rained all day however we still had fun); we have decided to teach as a connective add-in only ie not as a conjunction.