30 June 2017
This week, as always, children have been given two pieces of homework.
The first is Practice Makes Perfect: I can learn my lines or know my role in the performance.
Children should ensure they know all their lines for the performance (and the lines before and after their own). If a child doesn’t have many lines to learn, they should make sure they are fully aware of their role within the production. Similarly, if children are still unsure of the songs, they should practise these at home, too.
The second piece is a little different this week: I am aware of my own health.
Children have been given a ‘My Health, My School’ diary to complete. They should do this for seven days – starting on Saturday 01 July and finishing on Friday 07 July. The completed diary should be returned to school on Monday 10 July. The diary will be used by the children to help them complete the ‘My Health, My School’ survey during school time. Therefore, it’s important that children complete the diary as honestly and accurately as they can.
23 June 2017
This week, children have two pieces of homework – both due Thursday 29 June 2017.
The first is Practice Makes Perfect: I can calculate perimeter and area.
Children have been given some maths problems to solve. They should complete four of the activities in their book.
The second is Creative: I can respond to something I have seen, or read, in the news.
For this homework, children should provide a response to something that has been in the news this week. We’ve discussed it as a group, and the children came up with the following responses:
- Make a collage of some recent news articles
- Create a game where people need to match the image to the headline
- Choose an article you like and an article you dislike and explain why
- Create a ‘Which one is real?’ board game
- Make your own newspaper article about something that has happened this week
23 June 2017
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due in on Thursday 29 June: How do disasters affect people and places?
Through our Extreme Earth topic, we have discussed in class the impact natural disasters can have on people and places. We have also learnt about the long term and short term effects a natural disaster can cause.
This week, discuss with your child how natural disasters or disasters that are current and in the news affect people and places.
23 June 2017
As we end our mini topic on food, our homework this week is creative and is due in on Thursday 29 June.
I know the importance of eating the right amount of different types of food.
The Eat Well Guide (below) shows how much of what you eat overall should come from each food group to achieve a balanced diet. Copies were recently sent home and children should use this to support them with this homework.
Children might choose to do one of the following creative ideas:
- A story
- A poem
- Instructions
- A comic strip
- An advert
- An interview
- A game
- Scenarios
…or any other creative ideas!
16 June 2017
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Thursday 22 June.
I can change my learning for the better.
It’s that time of the year where children will be starting to think about their next class and teacher. Therefore, it’s a good time to consider how you could improve your learning. This could be by taking more risks in class, by reading more often at home, by listening more carefully during lessons.
We can all do better something better!
16 June 2017
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect:
To collect, present and interpret data.
This homework is due in on Thursday 22 June.
We have been learning about statistics: presenting data using bar charts, pictograms and tables. For this week’s homework, I’d like you to collect some data, display it and write some one-step and two-step questions for the class to answer about your data, during our homework review.
We had a discussion in class and the children came up with some data they could collect.
- Traffic survey
- Different colour cars in a car park or on your street
- Different birds/insects/wildlife found in the garden or the park
- Different fruit in the fruit bowl
- Coins in a piggy bank
- If you are going to a family party or a club with a lot of people – ask them their favourite animal, favourite colour, favourite food
Children can collect the data in a tally chart and decide if they would like to present it using a bar chart or pictogram. Remember to label the axes and give the chart a title.
16 June 2017
This week, children have two pieces of homework to respond to – both are due on Thursday 22 June 2017.
The first piece is Talk Time: I can discuss how I could change my learning for the better.
Linked to this week’s SEAL statement, this piece of homework is intended to encourage children to reflect on their own learning over the year and then decide what they could do to make their learning even better in the future.
The second piece is Practice Makes Perfect: I can score 1000 points on Mathletics.
Children should use the Mathletics app (or website) to practise their maths skills. Children should score at least 1000 points (note: this doesn’t have to be on Live Mathletics).
As always, if children have any problems or queries about their homework they should speak to me at the earliest possible opportunity so we can seek a solution – homework should never be a source of stress or worry.
09 June 2017
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Thursday 15 June.
I can show what I have learnt so far during our Extreme Earth topic.
We have learnt so much already in our Extreme Earth topic. For this homework, I would like children to showcase their learning about the Earth’s surface, volcanoes or earthquakes.
This can be done in any creative way. Here are a few ideas:
- A story
- A piece of art
- A collage
- A video
- A presentation
- A quiz
- A comic strip
- A non-chronological report
09 June 2017
This week the children have a moral talk time homework:
Should all of the fresh food we buy be produced/grown in this country?
This week, we looked at a variety of fruit and vegetables and saw that a lot of them came from countries across the world. Talk about the reasons for and against buying fresh food grown in different countries.
09 June 2017
This week’s homework is creative:
I can show what I’ve learnt during our Extreme Earth topic.
In class, we have had a discussion about some ideas for this homework. We came up with a few ideas.
- a working model
- a quiz
- a piece of art using different materials
- design your own Top Trumps
- a story
- slideshow or presentation
- get creative!
WARNING – NO VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS WITHOUT ADULT HELP!