19 January 2018
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Thursday 25 January.
Create your own creature which is adapted to a certain environment.
We’ve explored how different animals have adapted to survive in different environments, thinking about whether they are a predator, prey or both.
- Octopus have chromatophores all over their body which means they can camouflage against their surroundings.
- Polar bears have large feet so that their weight is spread out over the ice, reducing the risk of it cracking.
- Small fish swim in big shoals to make themselves appear larger to predators.
Decide where your creature lives, draw it and label your drawing to show us how it is adapted to its environment and other creatures that might live there.
12th January 2018
This week the homework is creative. We’re starting a new topic next week all about life. Within the topic, we’ll be learning about different animals. The children’s task is to make a fact file about their favourite animal.
Please return homework books by next Thursday.
12 January 2018
The homework this week is creative and should be returned to class by Thursday 18 January.
I can show my understanding of division.
In maths, this week, we’ve used a range of strategies to help us divide: base ten, number lines and the ‘bus stop’ method. Some ideas for how to show this understanding creatively are:
- make a game of snap
- show grouping and sharing of objects
- make a quiz
- make a song or rhyme
12 January 2018
This week, our homework is Talk Time:
True or false? Drugs are bad for you.
This, on the surface, may seem like a simple question with a simple answer. However, when you discuss this with your child, you may realise that this question is a great catalyst for a discussion on the merits of some drugs (medicines etc) and also the dangers associated with these drugs, and others.
We’ll talk about this during our homework review and our ‘Living and Learning’ sessions next week.
12 January 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and links to the learning we’ve being doing in our grammar lessons this week.
- Can I identify determiners?
- Do I know what an active and passive sentence is?
The children have got some practice questions to have a go at independently which we’ll then go through together in our homework review next week on Thursday 18 January.
12 January 2018
The homework this week is creative.
I know the different parts of my body.
We’re starting Life Forces, our new big topic, next week. We’ll first be learning about ourselves. In this homework, show us what you know about humans and our bodies. As always, it’s up to you how you present your homework. It could be a poster, a model, a collage, a video. It’s up to you!
05 January 2017
The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect. It is to learn your lines for our class assembly on Wednesday. We don’t have much time to practise before the show so please work hard to learn them by heart.
Hope to see you there at 2.40!
05 January 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Thursday 11 January:
I can describe my ideal imaginary friend.
Your task is to write a description of your dream imaginary friend, inspired by our current class picture book, Imaginary Fred. Our ideas in class were to describe:
- their personality
- their appearance
- their hobbies
- how they act
- what they might wear
You could make your description interesting by using:
- varied punctuation
- exciting vocabulary
- conjunctions
- different sentence openers
- varied sentence lengths
If you need any help, come in and see us before the due date!
05 January 2018
Our homework this week is Creative:
I can show how materials are used in the world around me.
As we are currently completing our mini-topic (What’s the Matter?), I would like children to think about how different materials are used and, most importantly, why they are used in the world around us.
There are many ways children could respond – here are just a few:
- take pictures of materials in action and explain why that material is used
- find unusual examples of materials used in everyday life
- create a video diary entry of all the different materials they have come across in that day
Homework should be completed, and returned to school, by Thursday 11 January 2018.
05 January 2018
The homework this week is Talk Time.
How can you show good manners in school and at home?
Please return your homework books the following Thursday.