Homework

03 December 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework: I can illustrate different emotions.

This homework, which links to our living and learning statement, is an opportunity for children to show that they can recognise, and show, different emotions. As humans, we display a huge-range of emotions. Sometimes, it’s obvious how we’re feeling. Sometimes, it’s trickier for us to show, or recognise, an emotion. This statement allows us to spend time thinking about the different emotions we experience and how we can recognise these accurately in ourselves and others.

Children could respond creatively to this in a range of ways:

• create a piece of art that shows a range of emotions
• take pictures of themselves (or others) displaying different emotions
• write a short-story in which a character shows lots of emotions
• devise a poem, song or rap about emotions
• create a comic strip to illustrate different emotions

Of course, there are many other ways in which children could respond. Children should be ready to celebrate their learning as part of their homework review by Thursday 10^th December 2020. 

27 November 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Practice Makes Perfect homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 03 December. It is all about our history topic. The vocabulary is linked to the Great Fire of London. Find the words in the wordsearch. Challenge : write each word in a sentence.

• old 
• modern   
• artefact         
•  firebreak
• diary
• rebuild    

27 November 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Practise Makes Perfect homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Friday 27th November.

I know the key vocabulary from our history topic.

This homework is a response to our ongoing learning in History.

Throughout the half term, Y3 and Y4  have been learning all about Ancient Greece. Within this learning, we have been exploring some relevant vocabulary, too.

For your homework, we’d like you to learn the different vocabulary. You may know some, all or none of the meanings of the words already.

The pieces are vocabulary are: oligarchy, empire, bias, government, democracy, chronology, influence, legacy, citizen.

The definitions are below.

There are lots of fun ways you can learn our vocabulary and help remember what each word means:
– Draw it – draw a picture to go with each word
– Flash cards – make a set of flashcards that have each word on
– Actions – you could create some actions to go with each word
– Sentences – can you make a sentence containing a word?
– Songs/rhymes – can you make these to help your remembering?

Times Tables:

Your child’s login details for Times Table Rock Stars is stuck into their homework books. Please login to both TTRS and Numbots and practise regularly.

Also, a huge well done to Y3 and Y4 who won their respective Times Table Rock Stars battles with Y5 and Y6! Amazing work! Keep it up!

27 November 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Practice Makes Perfect homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 03 December.

I know the key vocabulary from our History topic.

The vocabulary below is linked to the Great Fire of London.

Some of the words have been added to the word search below. How many can you find? Challenge: Use the words in a sentence.

20 November 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 26 November.

I know how to STOP bullying.

This homework is a response to our learning this week during anti-bullying week. Throughout the week, each class has had the chance to talk about what bullying is, what the different types of bullying are and how can we STOP it:

• Start
• Telling
• Other
• People

As part of your discussion you may find our school definition of bullying useful, as agreed by our School Councillors:

Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally (including online), several times on purpose.

As the homework is creative, you can do anything you want to respond to the statement. Here are a few ideas to help you:

• Create a cartoon strip of a bullying scenario and how it is solved.
• Create an acrostic poem using the word bullying.
• Write your own ‘kindness statements’ for your class.
• Create a scenarios quiz for your class to decide what they would do.

13 November 2020

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Thursday 20 November.

LO: number bonds to 10, 20 and 100.

We’ve been learning about bonds to 100 in class and I’d now like children to practise what they’ve learnt. I’ve given them sheet with lots of different bonds as it’s important that the children are confident with bonds to 10, 20 and 100.

13 November 2020

The homework this week is creative and is due in on Thursday 19 November.

I can show what I know about a Greek god, hero or monster.

This week, our homework, which links to our history learning (Ancient Greece), gives our children the opportunity to celebrate and share their knowledge about a Greek god, hero or monster. Some examples of these that we have been learning in class are: Zeus, Ossydeus, Poseidon, Hercules, King Minos, Theseus, Ceberus and the Minotaur. Children should respond creatively and be ready to show off their knowledge to their peers as part of their homework review. They could do this in a range of ways:

– create a short performance to show to the class
– film themselves showing off their knowledge
– make a collage of their Greek god, hero or monster
– produce a piece of art to show off their Greek god, hero or monster
There are, of course, many other ways that children could respond.

13 November 2020

This weeks’ homework is talk time and is due on Thursday 19 November.

Our Living and Learning statement this week is:

Talk with a family member about the things that are the same and the things that are different between you both. We’re all human and we might like and do similar things but we want to celebrate our differences, too! Talk with your adult about the things that make you different and special. Be ready to share these in class next week.

06 November 2020

This week, our homework is Talk Time and is due in on Friday 13th November:

I can show what I think about Wolf Brother.

In class we’ve really enjoyed starting to read our rather gruesome Class Novel – Wolf Brother. We’d like children to read this text and do the homework explained below…

Read the text with an adult.

Try some of these:

• Take it in turns to read a sentence each to help notice where sentences end.
• Have the adult read a sentence and the child ‘echo’ it back, reading it in the same way.
• Pay attention to punctuation – you’ve got to pause where there are full stops, and a little where there are commas too. Where are commas being used and why?
• Choose a line and focus on your expression. Imagine you’re reading it to an audience (or aloud to the class like we do at school). How can you make your voice interest and engage anyone who is listening?

Discuss the following questions:

1. Do you think the wolf is Torak’s guide? Why? Why not?
2. Why do you think the author chose to write ‘Fever.’ on a line of its own?
3. What do you think the wolf cub might call the fire?
4. What words are you less familiar with? What do they mean? Can you use them in sentences yourself?
5. Are there any parts that puzzle you? Do you have any questions?
6. Does this remind you of any other stories, films or TV?
7. Are you enjoying the book so far? Why? Why not?
8. What do you think will happen next?

06 November 2020