27 January 2012
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 01 February.
I know what a hero is.
It links to our new topic, Heroes. Your child could produce a:
- poster
- draw a picture
- write some sentences
- do some research
Remember, homework should stick to one page of the Homework Book, but the page can be extended with flaps, pull out sections or some other creative way.
20 January 2012
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. It’s due in on Wednesday 25 January 2012.
There is a worksheet in your child’s book. We are learning to form our letters correctly and then join letters together.
Have a look at our handwriting policy.
20 January 2012
Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 25 January 2012.
I can invent and make a page of a study book to show people how to write a great scripts.
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 scripts?
- What tips will you give to your reader?
- If you’re producing information about scripts, include stage directions, character lists, how many acts to include and how your actors speak and move.
20 January 2012
This week’s homework is Creative and is due in on Wednesday 25 January.
I can find and draw a minibeast.
Following on from our minibeast hunt in the week, we want your child to locate a minibeast in their own garden and draw a picture of it.
See if your child can categorise it based on what they’ve learnt this week.
20 January 2012
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 25 January 2012.
I know the 2 times table.
Possible ideas:
- Write the number sentences (1 x 2 = 2, 2 x 2 =4…)
- Create a poster
- Create number sentences with flaps for the answers
- Show the times tables as pictures
- Create a game
13 January 2012
For all children in Year 1 to Year 6, the homework this week is Talk Time:
Which two charities should we support at school and why?
It’s time for children to think about our school charities. Currently, we support the NSPCC and the WWF. A previous School Council selected these because they wanted to help animals and people, and wanted to help nationally and internationally. We’ve helped these charities for two years now, so it’s time for a change. We need you to have a discussion at home about which charities would be best for us to support. Each class will then discuss this and then the councillors will bring the views and ideas together to decide on the charities.
You might want to discuss whether we support a local charity like St Gemma’s, or a children’s charity like Unicef, or a charity that have helped our learning, like the Dogs’ Trust, or even whether we should support charities in school at all.
06 January 2012
As some of you may already be aware, Moortown Primary School is linked with a school in Durban, South Africa called Shallcross Primary. This partnership allows us to share our learning. This week’s Creative homework hopes to introduce the children in Durban to our local area.
I can draw what I see outside my window.
Encourage your child to include a lot of detail and spend some time doing this as some of best ones will be sent to the children at Shallcross Primary in South Africa.
06 January 2012
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 11 January 2012.
I can find different materials around the house.
Remember, all objects are made of a type of material (wood, glass, pottery, metal).
06 January 2012
Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 11 January 2012.
I can produce a piece of work for our Snowbound display.
Create a piece of work about snow, ice or being snowbound. Your work could be:
- Art work about snow or ice
- Collage or a collection of snow vocabulary – in other languages, too, perhaps
- Poetry
- Recounts or reports of snowy days
- Weather forecasts
- Your own idea
For this homework activity, your efforts should not go in your homework book. It should be bright, colourful, attractive and ready to be put up on display.
09 December 2011
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 14 December.
I know what Christmas means to different people.
We want you to have a discussion at home about what Christmas means to different people. Try to think of lots of different people and what they do at Christmas time.