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.
11 November 2016
This week’s spelling activity focuses on the use of apostrophes for possession (Anna‘s brother) and for contraction/omission (I don‘t want to).
Each child has been given a sheet to help them practise using apostrophes correctly. Children should complete the activities by Thursday 17 November 2016.
11 November 2016
We have two pieces of homework this week, both due on Thursday 17 October 2016.
The first is Creative:
I can show why I love reading.
In Year 5, we always talk about having a ‘love of reading‘. This homework is a celebration of this. We’ve discussed some ideas as a class and here’s what we came up with. You could:
- interview members of your family about their passion for reading
- turn your favourite book into a short movie
- create a trailer for the film version of a book
- cook a recipe from your favourite recipe book
- write part of the prequel/sequel to your favourite book
- create a poster to advertise your favourite book
- create a fake interview with your favourite author
And, many more…
The second homework is Mathletics:
You have been assigned two activities:
- Multiply 2 digit numbers, regroup
- Long Multiplication
11 November 2016
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 17 November.
To be able to compare and contrast.
The children have brought home some poems we’ve looked at this week. One of the skills we’re working on is comparing and contrasting. Choose two poems. Compare and contrast them. (3 marks)
- 3 marks means mention 3 things
- Name the poem you are referring to
- If you mention a difference, discuss both poems (and make sure it’s a comparison and not just two random differences)
- Give some examples of what you mean eg. they’re both informal: ‘hiya’ is used in (a) and ‘wassup’ is use din (b)
- Don’t be too obvious (I know they’re both poems)
Then, choose any two texts (newspaper, story, magazine, comic, info book) and answer the same 3 marks question, comparing and contrasting them.