30 September 2011
The homework this week is Creative and is due in Wednesday 05 October
I can design a poster about water safety.
It is completely up to your child what sort of poster they decide to do, as long as it’s related to water safety. Here are some ideas:
- a poster encouraging children to stay safe in the water
- a poster making people aware of potential water hazards
- a poster about being safe at the beach
- a poster about being safe near a reservoir or lake
30 September 2011
This week’s homework is creative and it links to our Staying Safe week. It is due in on Wednesday 05 October 2011.
I can show how I need to be safe when playing outside.
Here are some ideas that we came up with as a class when we talked about the homework:
- A poster highlighting the dangers of playing in a playground
- A series of pictures or photographs showing potential hazards
- A list of rules
- A drawing
I look forward to seeing your creations on Wednesday.
30 September 2011
This week’s homework is creative and it links to our safety week. It is due in on Wednesday 05 October 2011.
I can show how I need to be safe when playing outside.
23 September 2011
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 28 September.
I know how to stay safe around electricity.
As we have been learning about electricty for the previous two weeks, I thought it would be a good idea for the children to creatively show what they have learnt about staying safe.
Here are some ideas that we came up with as a class when we talked about the homework:
- A poster highlighting the dangers of electricity.
- A series of pictures or photographs showing potential hazards.
- Instructions about how to use electrical items safely.
- A song or poem about electricity.
- A letter advising someone how to use electricity safely.
I will eagerly look forward to seeing your creations on Wednesday.
23 September 2011
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 28 September.
See if your child can give you an example of the following connectives:
- time connectives (Later on,…)
- adding connectives (Also,…)
- reason and result connectives (As a result,…)
- problem connectives (However,…).
We’ve been looking at these different connectives all week and now I want to see if the children can spot them. Their aim is to search through all magazines, newspapers etc. and find as many different connectives they can and then paste them into their homework book.
Feel free to be as imaginative as you can with your sources of connectives; the above examples are only suggestions. Happy snipping!
23 September 2011
This week’s homework is talk time and linked to our mini-topic – Sound.
I can talk about sounds I hear at home.
We want to know how many different sounds you can hear at home and what they are and how they sound (soft, sudden, irritating…). We will discuss your findings on Wednesday 28 September.
16 September 2011
Homework is due every week. It is given out on Fridays and is due on Wednesdays. This gives children enough time to do the homework.
We will be holding a ‘Learning Session’ for parents in the next few weeks, where we will explain the homework in more detail and show some examples.
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 21 September.
I can show something interesting about myself.
Here are some ideas for what might be creative:
- poster
- labelled diagrams
- photographs
- models
- drawings
- writing some sentences
- your child’s own idea
16 September 2011
This week’s homework is talk time and linked to your mini-topic – Electricity! We want to know how much you use it at home. Inside your homework book you will find a sheet (fittingly titled “Electricity”) where you are going to log which appliances you use over the weekend that requires electricity. In addition, you are going to log how much you use. We will discuss your findings in next week’s lessons.
16 September 2011
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 21 September.
I can show something interesting about myself.
It’s the summer…
…so there are no homework activities or spellings to learn.
Don’t forget learning can still happen in the holidays:
- take your children to the park and talk about what they can see, hear and smell;
- take a trip using a bus or train, and take time to look at the timetable (Why is it in the 24 hour clock? How long will the journey last? When will we arrive?)
- enjoy visits to the local library;
- 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?);
- encourage your child to write some postcards to friends and family;
- take a trip to a museum or art gallery.
Research shows that the long summer holidays can mean some children’s learning regresses and they might struggle in the autumn term to keep up. Frequent talk-times, reading, counting and tables practice are so important!