02 December 2016
This week’s Talk Time homework focuses on the 8Rs for learning: reflect, remember, resilience,responsibility, safe risk, resourceful, respond, readiness.
We’ve come to the end of our SEAL theme which focuses on these Rs so it’s now time to engage our reflection skills and decide which we’re good at and which we need to improve on. Think about each R in turn and decide whether this is a strength or a weakness for you. Then consider how you can maintain those which are strengths and improve those which are weaknesses.
We’ll discuss our strengths and weaknesses on Thursday 08 December so make sure you’ve made notes and have your book for then.
25 November 2016
You have been assigned three Mathletics tasks.
FRACTIONS CALCULATING: Add unlike fractions, add unlike mixed numbers, subtract unlike fractions.
These activities should be completed by Wednesday 30 November but, if you require support, come and see me before this date. Don’t forget that you can use the ? button for extra support.
25 November 2016
The homework this week is a whole school creative homework. Because of the open afternoon next week, the homework is due in on Wednesday not Thursday.
I can show what I have learned in STEM week.
This week, all our learning has been STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology and Maths) focussed.
For this homework, we’d like children to reflect on their learning across the week and show off what they have learned. Your child could:
- give an overview of the STEM subjects
- do their own mini STEM project
- be a scientist and conduct a science investigation
- continue some of their favourite STEM week learning at home
25 November 2016
As usual, children will have two homeworks this week. One of these is Mathletics.
Score 100 points on Mathletics.
Children can choose to score these points on ‘Live Mathletics’ or by completing activities (top tip: it’s quicker to score points on activities). I have asked children what they think is a reasonable amount of points to get and we all agreed that 1000 points was realistic, would improve learning and wouldn’t take too long.
Children should have completed their Mathletics activities by Thursday 01 December.
18 November 2016
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect and is due Thursday 24 November:
Complete Mr Lawton’s maths challenge sheet which is practising what we have learnt this past week in our maths lessons.
18 November 2016
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Thursday 24 November.
18 November 2016
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework links to the English learning we’ve done this week and what we’ll go on to learn for the next few weeks.
To be able to add detail to my writing.
Having learnt all about adding detail to writing in order to keep it interesting and make it descriptive, write the opening to a story using these techniques:
- expanded noun phrases,
- prepositional phrases, and
- adverbs.
Don’t forget, you only use one page for a piece of homework and I only want the opening. We’ll then look at these together in our homework review. While your writing, think about what you’d like to write a full story on as this will be our English learning in the run up to Christmas.
18 November 2016
This week’s Talk Time homework links to Anti-bullying Week and the discussions we’ve had in class.
What is bullying and what can I do about it?
Talk to each other about what bullying is; it’s also important to talk about what bullying isn’t so that we can recognise when something is and isn’t bullying. Then, make sure that you know how to deal with bullying if you experience it yourself or see it happening to someone else.
Don’t forget to write a few notes to aid the discussion we’ll then have in class.
11 November 2016
This week’s homework is talk time and is due Thursday 17 November:
Ask someone in your home what their favourite book is and why.
11 November 2016
The homework this week is practice makes perfect.
As we’re coming to the end of our Class Novel Big Topic about the Katie and… books, we’d like the children to write a letter or email to James Mayhew, the author of the stories.
You could tell him about the learning we’ve done in the topic; what you thought about his stories and which one was your favourite; you could suggest a plot for a new Katie book; you could ask him questions.
If you’d like to send an email, you can email it to y2@moortown.leeds.sch.uk.