26 April 2013
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. Your child will have a worksheet to complete. In this worksheet, your child will have to join two sentences using one of the words given.
It’s due in on Wednesday 01 May 2013.
26 April 2013
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 01 May 2013.
I know about nocturnal animals.
In science, we’ve learnt about some nocturnal animals. Your child could choose different nocturnal animals or just one and show what they know about them.
They could:
- produce a spider diagram of information
- draw pictures with labels
- write a fact file
…or think of another creative way of presenting their information.
26 April 2013
Homework this week is a mix of talk time and creative.
I can do something that makes me feel proud is our SEAL statement.
Your homework is to prepare a speech to deliver to the rest of the class about when you have felt proud of yourself. Your speech should last one minute and describe the following:
- what you did that you were proud of
- how you felt
- how other people reacted to you
You’ll deliver your speech to the rest of the class on Wednesday or Friday of next week but homework has to be done by Wednesday.
You can prepare notes to help you but your speech should be spoken to the class, not read.
26 April 2013
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 01 May.
I can talk about a time when I have felt proud of myself or others.
This homework links in with our weekly SEAL statement and also the wider SEAL theme of ‘It’s good to be me’.
19 April 2013
Homework this week is creative. It’s the second of three homework tasks this school year when we invite children to respond to something from a cultural or spiritual perspective (we’ve timed these so they fall close to religious festivals, from Eid to Easter).
I can respond to a programme or film I’ve seen.
We’d like children to present their responses about a recent programme or film they’ve seen. We’re interested to hear your child’s opinions and any connections they might have made between the programme or film and their own life. This 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) – anything which might include your child’s responses!
However, your child might prefer to do the following:
I can show what Passover or Easter means to me and my community.
Recently, some children will have celebrated the Christian festival of Easter or the Jewish festival of Passover. 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), or any other creative response.
Super Science Day Talk Time
We don’t normally set specific homework tasks in the holidays, but we encourage you to spend some time discussing the nine science activities your child will have taken part in, especially considering what they have learnt. The learning objectives were:
- I know that dyes are made up of other colours
- I know why objects float
- I can create a gas with a solid and a liquid
- I know that static electricity creates a charge
- I know about irreversible changes
- I know the effects of a chemical reaction
- I know what exercise does to my body
- I am aware of acids and alkalis
- I know what happens when you mix water with oil
Check out the pictures from the day to help jog your child’s memory of each activity… Can they match the learning objective to the photo?
22 March 2013
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 27 March.
I can show what I have learnt about division.
Your child has a sheet stuck into their book which has some division problems which they have to solve.
22 March 2013
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. Your child will have a literacy worksheet to complete. It’s due in on Wednesday 27 March 2013.
22 March 2013
The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in Wednesday 27 March.
I can talk about ways to make amends if I have upset someone.
Unfortunately, there are times when we may have hurt someone’s feelings. We may have said or done something unkind. Next week, we’ll be looking at ways to make those situations better. For your homework, talk with an adult about ways to make amends if you’ve done something cruel or unkind.
Really good discussions will involve some reason and result connectives:
- As a result,
- This results in…
- Consequently,
- As a consequence,
- Because of this,
22 March 2013
Super Science Day is postponed due to snow. The homework below relates to this themed day. We will have Super Science Day next Tuesday, 26 March. The homework below will happen after the Easter holidays – it would be a good idea to have some talk time at home about Super Science after Tuesday’s themed day.
This week’s homework is both talk time and creative. It is due in on Wednesday 27 March 2013.
Today, everyone took part in a Super Science themed day in which they completed nine science activities. The learning objectives were:
- I know that dyes are made up of other colours
- I know why objects float
- I can create a gas with a solid and a liquid
- I know that static electricity creates a charge
- I know about irreversible changes
- I know the effects of a chemical reaction
- I know what exercise does to my body
- I am aware of acids and alkalis
- I know what happens when you mix water with oil
In talk-time, we’d like the children to talk about what they have learnt and then, in creative homework, sum up their learning. (Creative homework can be completed on the next page in the homework book so that a full page can be used.)