31 January 2020
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and will be marked as a class on Friday 7 February.
I can divide.
In Year 4, children are expected to be able to:
- divide a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number
- divide a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number when there are remainders
- divide a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number
- divide a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number when there are remainders
Your child has homework which practises a skill they have become confident with in class first and then moves on to newer learning that they’re less secure on. We’ve used the ‘bus stop’ method of division which you can check on our website using our calculations video for division.
24 January 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: What is a drug?
This homework, which links to our Living and Learning statement, is a first step in children becoming aware of drugs. There are a few key points you may wish to talk about at home. Children need to be aware that some drugs are helpful, some are harmful, some are legal, some are illegal. Don’t forget to consider that even the legal or helpful ones can be harmful.
Below are some question prompts that could help shape your discussion…
- What is a good definition for a drug?
- What is a drug? What is not a drug?
- Are all drugs bad?
- Why might some people need to take medicines?
- Who can prescribe medicine?
- Who should administer medicine?
- What should you do if you find some medicine?
- Should you take medicine that isn’t yours?
Children should be prepared to discuss what they’ve talked about at home during our homework review next week. This homework should be completed by Thursday 30 January.
17 January 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework:
I can show different ways to make things better.
This homework, which is due on Thursday 24 January, is an opportunity for children to reflect on our living & learning statement for this week: I can make things better.
Children should think about ways to make things better in a variety of different situations and contexts:
- in class
- in a friendship group
- at playtimes
- at home
- with siblings
- out and about (countryside, park)
- the wider environment (recycling)
You could consider…
- Why should we try and make things better?
- How do we do this?
- When should we apologise?
- What is the effect it has on others around us when we make things better?
- Older children might want to consider the benefits of restorative justice.
Don’t forget to be creative! Produce a report or diary; capture photos of making things better; create rules for better games at play times; make a poster about how to say sorry; or, think of your own creative response.
This homework will be celebrated in our weekly homework review.
11 January 2020
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Thursday 16 January.
I can learn my Computing vocabulary.
Children have been given some definitions of our focus words for this half term. They need to read it, discuss with someone and complete the activity at the bottom.
10 January 2020
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 16 January.
I can split a number into tens and ones.
The children have sheet to complete which allows them to practise the skills we’ve learned this week on tens and ones. We’ll mark this work together in our homework review.
10 January 2020
Homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Thursday 14 January 2020.
Practice Makes Perfect: I can read fluently and with expresion.
Your child has short text in their homework books. They need to read it an adult twenty times, focusing on fluency, adapting to punctuation and using expression.
This will be reviewed, as a class, on Thursday 14 January 2020.
10 January 2020
This week’s home work is Practice Makes Perfect.
I can respond to a text.
We’d like the children to read the non-fiction text and answer the questions (Section C is optional). When we read texts in class, the children are used to underlining words they don’t know. If they find any unknown words, please discuss these with your child.
Homework is due back in school by Thursday 16 January 2020.
10 January 2020
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 16 January.
I can multiply 3 digits by 1 digit.
The children have a set of questions to complete which allows them to practise the skills we’ve learned this week on multiplying 3 digits by 1 digit. We’ll mark this work together in our homework review.
13 December 2019
I apologise for posting these photos in the wrong place!
This week’s homework is I can talk about my learning in these photos. We will discuss what was said at home on Thursday 19 December.
13 December 2019
This week’s homework is Talk Time and will be discussed on Thursday 19 December 2019.
I can talk about what I was learning in these photos.
Here are some photographs of some learning we’ve done this half term. Ask your children what the children in the photograph were doing, what they learned from this lesson and what more they might like to learn or get better at in this area of their learning.
This is a great opportunity to find out more about your child’s experience at school and, if you enjoyed this discussion, don’t forget photos are posted on Year 3’s Class News so you can have these conversations each week!
Living and Learning – anti bullying.
Maths – column addition and subtraction.
Geography: OS maps and compass language.
Living and Learning: 8 Rs for learning.
Science: states of matter.
