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.
07 October 2011
Your homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect.
The children are working hard on their letter formation. In their homework book is an activity sheet for them to complete.
In the Help Your Child section, you’ll find information about how we do handwriting at Moortown, along with top tips for reading, mental maths and how you can support your child with their learning.
This homework is due on Wednesday 12 October.
10 October 2011
Practice Makes Perfect homework
I can describe a character.
Find a character in a story book and think of adjectives (describing words) to describe them. Are they a hero or a villain? You could try to put these adjectives into sentences too. Remember to think of words to describe their appearance (what they look like) and personality (what they act like).
07 October 2011
The homework this week is creative and is due in Wednesday 12 October.
I can design my ideal house.
It is completely up to your child what house they want to design. Here are some ideas:
- an underwater house that requires special oxygenated zones
- a house on a mountain that needs specialist infrastructure to keep it stable
- a mobile house
- a house from the future
07 October 2011
Your homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect.
I can use ‘add-ins’.
Your task is to create ten different sentences each with an add in.
In class, we are working on using ‘add ins’; these can be openers, middlers or enders.
Openers
- Silently, the thief approached the house.
- Panting wildly, Mark ran into the safety of the cave.
You could also use a connective opener (Later on, Because of this,) or a preposition opener (Under the chair, Further down the road,).
Middlers
- Sean, who lives in Leeds, likes chips.
- The dragon, breathing fire, stalked the princess.
Enders
- We couldn’t do wake up shake up because it was raining.
- The girls skipped along without a care in the world.
30 September 2011
This week’s homework is Talk Time.
I can discuss the difference between legal and illegal drugs.
This week, children have decided on this topic for their talk time homework. They have learnt lots about drugs safety through their sessions with d:side so now’s the time to discuss what they’ve found out.
Talk Time homework doesn’t need lots of evidence in the homework books; sometimes, we’ll suggest that just a comment from an adult to say you’ve discussed it is enough.
Good websites to refer to are: http://www.talktofrank.com and http://kidshealth.org/kid/grow/drugs_alcohol/know_drugs.html
Talk Time homework works best if you:
- switch the TV off
- get a few different adults around – mums, dads, aunts, cousins, grandads, neighbours
- take it in turns to speak
- adults go first
- write notes about what you discussed
30 September 2011
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 05 October.
I can design a road safety banner.
Children should create their banners on the sheet attached to their homework books. The banners are then being sent off for a competition. If one of our banners is chosen as the winner, we’ll win some prizes for the school!
Suggested slogans for the banners are:
- Please Drive Safely
- 20 is Plenty
- Kids Say Slow Down
I will look forward to seeing your creations next week. Have fun!