04 November 2011
The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in Wednesday 09 October.
Do adverts on TV influence people? Discuss both sides of the argument.
We have researched lots of different types of adverts this week and will be looking at more next week. Discuss at home with your family how adverts affect (if at all) people you know.
- Do they have an effect on you? How do you know?
- Does anyone else think differently to you? Why?
Starting points for discussion if you need them:
- If adverts do influence people, should they be allowed?
- If adverts don’t influence people, why are they always on TV?
04 November 2011
Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday November 09.
I can show what I learnt at the Leeds City Museum.
Homework is to produce a piece of work showing what they learnt on their trip to the museum. Encourage your child to focus on the learning that took place in the Ancient Greek Workshops and the Ancient Worlds Gallery.
This piece of work could be:
- A recount
- A report
- Annotated drawings
- A fact file
- A leaflet
- Another idea, even more creative!
Remember, homework should stick to one page of the Homework Book, but the page can be extended with flaps, pull out sections etc.
04 November 2011
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 09 November.
I can multiply.
The children have a sheet stuck into their homework books which they must complete and hand in.
04 November 2011
The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 09 November.
I can read and write numbers in figures and words.
Read through the sheet with your child. Then allow him / her to complete it as best they can.
04 November 2011
This week’s homework is Practice makes Perfect.
I can add numbers using a number line.
R2 (Remember to)
- Start with the largest number (circle it on your number line).
- Count on the amount of the smaller number.
- The number that you reach is your answer.
The children have different calculations depending on which maths group they are in. Please see their homework books for the correct calculations. Do ask me, Miss Hewson, or Mr Roundtree, if you’d like some help in supporting your child.
It’s the holiday…
…so there are no homework or spellings.
However, there are lots of ways you can support you child’s learning, first and foremost by visiting our Help Your Child section.
There are lots of things to do in or near Leeds, from geo-caching on Monday to a spooky Halloween walk on Sunday. Here are a few other ideas to fill the October half-term holiday with activities…
- take your child for an autumnal walk in Roundhay Park to collect chestnuts for a game of conkers or autumn leaves for an autumn collage;
- on a cold, autumn day, stay indoors and spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
- take a trip to Leeds Art Gallery – the Damien Hirst exhibition should prove a great opportunity for lots of discussion, description and possibly disagreement!
- and, as always, enjoy some relaxing reading (why not read some Tintin stories from a local library in preparation for the forthcoming film?)
School re-opens on Tuesday 01 November 2011 (following a training day on Monday 31 October 2011).
14 October 2011
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 19 October.
I know about the body.
It links to our new topic Doctor! Doctor!
Your child could produce a:
- poster
- draw a picture
- write some sentences
- label a part of the body
- do some research
14 October 2011
The homwork this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 19 October.
I can find 2D shapes all around me.
Ideas could be:
- trace a picture and colour in the shapes you recognise
- take some photos of buildings or objects and identify the shapes
- draw a picture using only shapes you know and label them
- identify some right angles in shapes you find
I look forward to seeing your creations on Wednesday!
14 October 2011
Your homework this week is a mixture of creative and talk time and is due in on Wednesday 19 October.
I can talk about Greece or Ancient Greece.
Next week, we’re having a session called ‘Just A Minute’ in class. Children have been asked to prepare a talk that they will give to the rest of the class about an aspect of life in Ancient Greece or modern day Greece. This talk is to last one minute and has been set to develop the children’s skills as confident and creative speakers. The children will need to practise their speeches at home to build up their confidence.
Any materials they prepare to help them – maybe a bullet point list as a memory aid – must stick to the homework rules of not going over one page of A4.
The piece of work could be about:
- gods
- Athens
- Sparta
- a myth
- schools
- modern Greece
- …or a different idea!
Remember to only use one A4 side, but you can extend the page (with flaps, for example) if you want to.
14 October 2011
This week’s homework is creative.
I know about the body.
We have started our new topic Doctor! Doctor!
What do the children know? Your child could produce a:
- poster
- draw a picture
- write some sentences
- label a part of the body
- do some research
Please don’t feel you have to stick to these if you have something even more creative!
This homework is due on Wednesday 19 October. As always, the BBC website is a useful learning tool.