19 October 2012
This week’s homework is talk time. It’s due in on Wednesday 24 October 2012.
Should animals perform in the circus?
Remember that talk time homework is marked through a class discussion/debate once the homework has been handed in.
19 October 2012
The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in on 24 October.
Should households have more than one car? Discuss.
We want you to discuss with your child the different factors involved with having more than one car. In addition, we’d also like you to discuss the differences between need and want as well as looking at the effect cars have on the evironment. Encourage your child to use words and phrases such as:
- However,
- On the other hand,
- Nevertheless,
- Furthermore,
19 October 2012
It’s time for Talk Time homework this week.
Should everyone be paid the same wage?
This question will generate some interesting discussion and is linked with our Rich and Poor topic. It also helps the children to address moral issues eg discussing whether it is right that certain professions get paid so much more than others.
We’ll discuss this in school on Wednesday 24 October 2012.
19 October 2012
This week’s homework is talk time. It’s due in on Wednesday 24 October 2012.
Should animals perform in the circus?
Remember that talk time homework is marked through a class discussion/debate once the homework has been handed in.
12 October 2012
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 17 October.
I can talk to somebody about what transport was like when they were a child
Talk to adults at home about their experiences of transport when they were children. If possible, ask grandparents and older family members as well. The older the better!
Question prompts could be:
- How did you get to school?
- Did you go on holiday and how did you get there?
- How has transport changed?
- What was your first car?
- How have the roads changed?
12 October 2012
This week’s homework is “Practice Makes Perfect.”
We have been investigating different types of data for the last couple of weeks; this homework looks at a frequency chart and then asks about averages.
Ask your child about mode, median and mean averages. In this homework they are asked to find the mode, this is the most common piece of data that appears in the chart.
They should be able to complete this homework independently; if there are any problems then please come and see me.
This homework needs to be handed in by Wednesday 17 October 2012.
12 October 2012
The homework this week is Creative and is due on Wednesday 17 October.
I can show what I know about the circus.
As you know, our new topic is Roll Up, Roll Up! I would like you to show me anything you already know about the circus. You can be as creative as you like, but if you’re struggling why not try:
- produce a spider diagram of ideas
- draw pictures with labels
- write a sentence
- produce a poster
- cut and stick pictures from the internet or magazines
12 October 2012
This week’s homework is slightly different as it’s Practice makes Perfect. I want you to be able to distinguish between the two forms of its:
its – belonging to something, no apostrophe
it’s – a contraction, like we learnt last week, of ‘it is’
A good way to distinguish between the two is to check whether the sentence sounds correct if you substitute the word for ‘it is’. If you can do this, then the correct form is it’s. If it doesn’t seem to make sense, then the correct form is its.
For example:
The elephant raised its trunk.
The elephant raised it is trunk. (This doesn’t make sense. Therefore, the correct form is its without an apostrophe.)
Here are a couple of activities that you can do to test whether you can do them or not:
- Write it’s on a piece of paper and on the back write its. Then, get an adult to read out a sentence and you have to show them whether they need to use its or it’s.
- Find an interesting object. Can you describe it using both forms of its?
12 October 2012
This week, the children are completing some Practice Makes Perfect homework about homophones.
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. For example:
where were we’re
through threw
Children have been given a wordsearch and crossword of commonly misused homophones to learn, including the correct meaning.
Spellings homework this week is also related to learning when to use the correct homophone.
Homework is due in on Wednesday 17 October 2012.
12 October 2012
This week’s homework is Practice makes Perfect. It’s due in on Wednesday 17 October 2012.
The children have a picture of a clown in their homework books. They need to write different adjectives around the picture of the clown to describe how he looks and what sort of a personality he has.