Homework

10 January 2014

We’re kicking off with practice makes perfect this week, focusing on the skills we have learnt in our maths lessons.

I can use my number skills.

Work through the tasks in your homework book to partition, sort and round numbers. Remember what we’ve learnt this week!

06 December 2013

This week’s homework is talk time. 

We all take light for granted every day and Year 1 have been investigating different sources of light.  This week, we have discovered which were the best sources of light with some fair testing.  We would like you to discuss the following question before Wednesday 11 December:

“Is it right that some people live without electric lights in their homes?”

06 December 2013

The homework this week is a moral talk time homework and is due in on Wednesday 11 December.

We all have electricity in our homes but should we be more aware of how much electricity we use?

In our mini-topic, we have been learning about electricity. We now want you to think about how much we use electricity and the cost of this both economically and environmentally. Children should be considering how we could use less electricity in our day to day lives and also other sources of energy we could be using (solar power, wind power, etc).

06 December 2013

This week is talk time homework.

Should everyone have the right to electricity in their homes?

Although we all have homes with electricity, not everybody does! Do you think it is fair that not everybody can access electricity? Discuss this with somebody at home and we will have our own discussion in class next week.

29 November 2013

The homework this week is creative. The children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or spiritual perspective.

I can respond to a book I’ve recently read.

We’d like children to present their responses about a recent book they’ve read. We’re interested to hear your child’s opinions and any connections they might have made between the book and their own life. This book review might include pictures, an interview (you could write a fictional script between an interviewer and a character), a letter (eg to or from a character, or perhaps even the author) – anything which might include your child’s responses!

However, your child might prefer to do the following:

I can show what Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah, Christmas or another festival means to me and my community.

Before half-term, some children in school will have celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid. A couple of weeks ago, some children in school celebrated the Sikh and Hindu festival Diwali, and more recently, children of Jewish faith might have celebrated Hanukkah. Finally, in a few weeks, Christians (and many non-Christians) will be celebrating Christmas. We invite children to respond to the sentence above – they might include a recount (like a diary entry), pictures, an interview (perhaps in a script).

22 November 2013

This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due in on Wednesday 27 November 2013.

I know what bullying means and how to stop it.

At the start of this week we had anti-bullying day with classes having the chance to talk about what is bullying, what are the different types of bullying and how can we stop it.

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, more than once and on purpose.

Alongside this definition we have used the following prompts for the children to remember:

• Several
• Times
• On
• Purpose

• Start
• Telling
• Other
• People

The purpose of Talk Time homework is to encourage a conversation around current learning. Any notes made in their homework book should be there to aid them as a prompt when it is discussed in class the following week. For this reason, teachers tend to give verbal feedback during their homework feedback session in class.

08 November 2013

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.

This week’s learning in maths has been all about counting and recognising numbers.  It’s really important that your child knows the value of each digit in a number eg they need to know that a 16 is actually a 10 and a 6, one ten and six units.  While they are doing their homework,  talk to them about the numbers they are writing and make sure they are writing them the right way round.

This homework needs to be handed in by Wednesday 13 November.

08 November 2013

This week our homework is practice makes perfect.

I can tell the time.

We have been learning how to tell the time this week. All of the children have completed similar tasks in lesson but a bit of extra practice will make sure we’re ready to take on a challenge next week. Give them every opportunity to be telling the time throughout the day too, especially for o’ clock, half past and quarter past.

This homework is due on Wednesday 13 November.

Have fun, you marvellous mathematicians!

08 November 2013

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and it’s due in on Wednesday 13 November.

To plan a narrative (story) from any genre using ‘OBDER’.

This homework fits in with our literacy learning this week. We have been learning about the types (genre) of story and talking about which ones we prefer. Here’s a list of some of our favourite genres of story:

• scary/horror
• fantasy
• adventure
• love
• familiar setting
• fairy tale
• humorous

This week, children have to plan a story from a genre of their choice. They have to use OBDER to plan the story. Your child should be able to tell you what OBDER is and how they should plan their story. However, just in case…

We use OBDER to sequence the events in the story:

• O is for opening
• B is for build-up
• D is for dilemma
• E is for events
• R is for resolution

We have taught the children to start the plan with the dilemma so that they know where the story is heading. Once they have decided the dilemma, they can then go back to the opening and work through the rest of the sections in order.  Remember, the children aren’t expected to write the story, they are just planning it so each section should just have the main ideas about what will happen and possibly some ambitious vocabulary they want to use in each section or how the character is feeling. We also use DAD to help us when we are planning stories – ask your child about DAD!

It’s half-term…

…so no specific homework, spellings or tables this week.  It’s a good time to relax and enjoy some time with your children – have you visited the free exhibition of Anthony Browne pictures at Leeds City Museum, for example?