Homework

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.)

15 March 2013

In class we have been discussing theme parks; as a moral issue, we’ve thought about whether animals should be kept in theme parks like Chessington and Flamingoland.  Your homework this week is talk time.

Should animals be kept in theme parks?

Think of and discuss points that you agree with and points that you disagree with.  Also think about a conclusion or summary.

Make notes in your homework book to show the things you discussed.  Homework is due in on Wednesday 20 March.

15 March 2013

This week’s homework is a talk time homework and is due in on Wednesday 20 March.

Is space exploration a waste of money?

This is a moral homework and we want the children to be able to discuss, as a class, their views on the subject.

When we discuss the homework next week, we will also be encouraging the children to use different types of connectives when they make their points. See the below table.  Most have commas afterwards – this is a helpful way to show any sort of ‘add-in’.  You could encourage your child to speak using a slight pause where the comma might be – this can make any speaking more powerful.

15 March 2013

This week’s homework is talk time. It’s due in on Wednesday 20 March 2013.

How can art be a treasure?

Why do we treasure art?

What sort of art can we treasure?