03 May 2013
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 08 May.
I can rotate shapes using the correct mathematical vocabulary.
The children all have a sheet in their books which they need to rotate according to the instructions. The vocabulary they need to use and understand is in the following table.
| How the shape is being rotated. | Quarter turn | One right angle turn | 90 degree turn | |
| Half turn | Two right angle turns | 180 degree turn | ||
| Three quarter turn | Three right angle turns | 270 degree turn | ||
| Full turn | Four right angle turns | 360 degree turn | ||
| The direction it is being rotated. | Clockwise | Anti-clockwise | ||
03 May 2013
The homework this week is Creative and is due in on Wednesday 08 May.
I can create a persuasive poster that encourages children to eat healthily.
This week sees the start of our Big Topic, ‘Food, glorious food!’ We’re also learning about writing persuasively in literacy. This is a great opportunity for you to put your persuasive writing skills to the test and use them to persuade children to eat healthily. Here are the R2s (remember to) for writing persuasively:
- emotive language
- connectives (usually adding or reason and result – ask your child, they’ll know what they are!)
- exaggeration
- rhetorical question
- addressing the reader (using words like you)
03 May 2013
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Your child will have one of two sheets about length. It’s due in on Wednesday 08 May 2013.
03 May 2013
Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 08 May 2013.
I can invent and make a page of a study book to show people how to… (you need to fill in your own idea here!)
Think of the following:
- How the page should look so it looks like a study book or important bits book.
- How you are going to make it creative and interesting to read.
- What information will you include to help your reader learn about your chosen subject?
- What tips will you give to your reader?
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?