02 February 2018
This week’s homework is Talk Time. It’s our Year 1 class assembly on Wednesday and each child has a few lines or actions to learn. Your child’s homework is to practise them in preparation for Wednesday.
Please return homework books next Thursday.
02 February 2018
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Thursday 06 February.
How does the human body work?
Our topic learning next week will be all about the human body so we’re challenging the children either to tell us something they know already or find out something new to teach us.
This homework will be used to create a class information book which we’ll keep in our reading area. Because of this, it must be completed on the page of the homework book (not on extra sheets or on the computer). This could be an information text, a diagram, a story which tells the journey of food through the body, a lift the flap information page, a leaflet – anything really!
There are all sorts of things you could inform us about:
- different organs (Did you know… your skin is an organ?)
- the digestive system
- the circulatory system
- our teeth
- how the brain works
- the skeletal system
- the nervous system
- how we change as we grow older
26 January 2018
This week, our homework is Talk Time: I can make safe choices.
Please discuss scenarios and situations when making a safe choice is vitally important. You may also want to discuss safety in general – making sure you discuss internet safety would be perfect!
26 January 2018
This week the homework is again practice makes perfect. We have working hard in our writing sessions to use conjunctions to make our sentences more interesting.
Use the correct conjunction to make the sentences in your homework book more interesting.
Please return you homework book next Thursday.
26 January 2018
The homework this week is creative and should be returned to class by Thursday 01 February.
I can show my understanding of money.
In maths, this week, we’ve added and subtracted money and practised giving change. Some ideas for how to show this understanding creatively are:
- make a quiz
- make a shop or shopping list
- make a song or rhyme
- make a board game
- make coins
26 January 2018
The homework this week is talk time.
Is it okay to eat animals?
This is a moral question which we’d like you to discuss at home. In these discussions, it’s important for children to appreciate that there may be two opposing views and that although it’s okay to disagree we should respect the opposing view.
26 January 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 01 February.
I can calculate with fractions.
We learnt everything there is to know about fractions before Christmas and were able to calculate confidently. Sometimes, it can be hard to remember all of that information over a long period of time so, this week, we’re reminding ourselves of that fraction learning.
Your child should be able to solve all of the calculations they’ve been given independently. They could answer a few each day or they could challenge themselves to complete it in as many minutes as there are questions.
We’ll go through the answers when homework is returned on Thursday as well as discussing whether there are any of these calculations we need to go over again as a class.
19 January 2018
This week the homework is practice makes perfect. We’ve been spending time learning number bonds to 20. A number bond is a number fact we know instantly, without needing to work it out, like 17+3 and 15+5.
The children’s task is to find the missing numbers to make number bonds to 20.
Please return homework books by next Thursday.
19 January 2018
The homework this week is talk time.
I am aware of risks.
Being aware of risks and being able to assess the degree of risk is a crucial skill for living and learning. Discuss the different risks your child may encounter in and out of school and whether they are safe risks or not.
19 January 2018
The homework this week is Talk Time and will be discussed in class on Thursday 25 January.
What is a safe risk?
This is in preparation for next week’s Living and Learning theme: I am aware of risks. Being aware of risks and being able to assess the degree of risk is a crucial skill for living independently and safely.