24 March 2017
The homework this week is practice makes homework.
I can solve fractions problems.
There’s a worksheet in the homework book for children to complete. They are asked to solve a problem and then explain their reasoning using pictures and a sentence. The first question has been done for them so they can see what they are expected to do.
Please ask if you have any questions.
24 March 2017
This week, children have two pieces of homework.
The first is Practice Makes Perfect: Score 1000 points on Mathletics.
The second is Talk Time: I can justify my own opinion. Children should discuss the following question with someone at home… ‘Would you rather explore the ocean or space?’
We will then debate this in class next week.
Also, children should practise all times tables up to 12×12 in preparation for an end of term times table check on Friday 31 March 2017.
24 March 2017
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect is due on Thursday 30 March.
Choose a chapter of your guided reading novel and write five reading comprehension questions for a friend to try and answer. See whether you can write different types of question:
- fact finding
- inference (How do you know…)
- word meaning (Find and copy…)
- ordering (Number the events, 1 -5)
- yes, no, maybe – three mark answer
- prediction
24 March 2017
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Thursday 30 March.
I can see things from other people’s points of view.
This has been our SEAL statement this week and, I think, is a really important one. Have a think about why it is important that we can do this and imagine what it would be like to live in a world when nobody saw things from other people’s points of view. As always, Creative homework can be anything – don’t forget, only use one page of your homework book.
Maybe you could:
- Write a story or create a comic strip of a world where people don’t see things from other people’s view.
- Create a mind map of all of the reasons why this is important.
- Think of a situation where you have need, or would need, to do this and write a letter to the other person about what their point of view might be.
- Think of a situation and give all of the different points of view people might have.
- Create a quiz which asks us how we’d feel in different situations.
17 March 2017
The homework this week is creative.
I can design a house or room of the future.
Think about what houses may look like in the future. What would yours look like? What would you have in your room? Consider how it will make our life easier or be better for the environment. Annotate your design with notes to explain the different features.
17 March 2017
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect: To understand the spelling rules for plurals.
I would like children to revise the different spelling rules for plural words. It was highlighted in our recent Year 3 grammar test that this is something all the children need more practice on.
The task the children have been given is to:
- Walk around your home and look for things you have more than one of. Make a list of all the plurals you can find.
- With your help, discuss how these should be spelled. How many things have you got on your list?
- Can you find at least one thing for each spelling rule?
- Just add ‘s’ (cups)
- Add ‘es’ (bunches, boxes)
- Change ‘y’ to ‘ies’ (stories)
- Change the word completely (mice, children)
- Change the ending to ‘ves’ (halves)
17 March 2017
This week’s homework is creative and is due in on Thursday 23 March.
To design a quiz to show what I’ve learnt about our topic.
To celebrate bringing our current topic to an end, I have asked the children to design a quiz. They will need to think about a period of time throughout history and create questions about it. It is important that some of these questions are transport related as this has been our focus throughout. We discussed in class how to present a quiz and how to vary the answers. For example, multiple choice, use pictures, lift the flap and so on.
During our homework review session, the children will be able to try out their quizzes on their friends.
17 March 2017
This week, children have two pieces of homework. Both are due on Thursday 23 March.
The first piece is Practice Makes Perfect: To be able to add parenthesis.
Children have been given a worksheet that will help them practise this writing skill. We’ll be using this skill in our independent writing next week during our English lessons.
The second piece is Talk Time: I can see things from other people’s point of view.
Children should discuss next week’s SEAL statement with someone at home. We will reflect on these discussions as part of our homework review next week.
17 March 2017
This week, the children have a reading comprehension and a Maths test which we’ll go through together on Thursday 23 March. These are the two tests which children are finding the most difficult and making silly mistakes on so it would be helpful to them if they could go through it with an adult to discuss difficult parts or identify errors made.
10 March 2017
The homework this week is talk time.
I keep calm or help others to calm down.
In class we’ve been talking about strategies used to help calm down. Talk to people at home about what you can do to help yourself calm down or how you can spot when people are not feeling calm and how you can help them.