07 October 2011
The homework this week is creative and is due in Wednesday 12 October.
I can design my ideal house.
It is completely up to your child what house they want to design. Here are some ideas:
- an underwater house that requires special oxygenated zones
- a house on a mountain that needs specialist infrastructure to keep it stable
- a mobile house
- a house from the future
30 September 2011
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 05 October.
I can design a road safety banner.
Children should create their banners on the sheet attached to their homework books. The banners are then being sent off for a competition. If one of our banners is chosen as the winner, we’ll win some prizes for the school!
Suggested slogans for the banners are:
- Please Drive Safely
- 20 is Plenty
- Kids Say Slow Down
I will look forward to seeing your creations next week. Have fun!
23 September 2011
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 28 September.
I know how to stay safe around electricity.
As we have been learning about electricty for the previous two weeks, I thought it would be a good idea for the children to creatively show what they have learnt about staying safe.
Here are some ideas that we came up with as a class when we talked about the homework:
- A poster highlighting the dangers of electricity.
- A series of pictures or photographs showing potential hazards.
- Instructions about how to use electrical items safely.
- A song or poem about electricity.
- A letter advising someone how to use electricity safely.
I will eagerly look forward to seeing your creations on Wednesday.
16 September 2011
This week’s homework is talk time and linked to your mini-topic – Electricity! We want to know how much you use it at home. Inside your homework book you will find a sheet (fittingly titled “Electricity”) where you are going to log which appliances you use over the weekend that requires electricity. In addition, you are going to log how much you use. We will discuss your findings in next week’s lessons.
It’s the summer…
…so there are no homework activities or spellings to learn.
Don’t forget learning can still happen in the holidays:
- take your children to the park and talk about what they can see, hear and smell;
- take a trip using a bus or train, and take time to look at the timetable (Why is it in the 24 hour clock? How long will the journey last? When will we arrive?)
- enjoy visits to the local library;
- spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
- encourage your child to write some postcards to friends and family;
- take a trip to a museum or art gallery.
Research shows that the long summer holidays can mean some children’s learning regresses and they might struggle in the autumn term to keep up. Frequent talk-times, reading, counting and tables practice are so important!
08 July 2011
This week’s homework is Creative Homework. Please hand in on Wednesday 13 July.
I can show my learning journey.
This is the final homework of this academic year. It’s an opportunity for your child to reflect on their learning over the year. Their reflections could include:
- what they have learned
- when they learn best
- how they learn something new
- how they know they have learned something new
- how they approach learning something
We look forward to sharing these learning journeys with the children.
Thank you for all your support with homework over the past year.
Don’t forget learning can still happen in the holidays:
- take your children to the park and talk about what they can see, hear and smell;
- take a trip using a bus or train, and take time to look at the timetable (Why is it in the 24 hour clock? How long will the journey last? When will we arrive?)
- enjoy visits to the local library;
- spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
- encourage your child to write some postcards to friends and family;
- take a trip to a museum or art gallery.
Research shows that the long summer holidays can mean some children’s learning regresses and they might struggle in the autumn term to keep up. Frequent talk-times, reading, counting and tables practice are so important!
01 July 2011
The home work this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 06 July.
I can write a poem.
Children can choose to write either a kenning poem, cinquain poem, or adverb poem about a subject of their choice.
We have been writing these types of poems this week in our literacy lessons this week.
Examples of each type of poem are listed below:
Kenning
Kenning poems describe something without giving their name away:
A buzzing beast
A stinging stinger
A buzzing insect
A bug eyed beast
A flappy winged
A colourful monster
A crawling feeder
A flower raider
Adverb
Sadly, the black line slowly winds
Sadly, the cold wind splits the pines
Sadly, the grave site dark and cold
Sadly, the truth – we all grow old.
Cinquain
A cinquain is a five line poem that has a specific number of syllables on each line. The first line has two syllables. The second has four. The third has six. The fourth has eight. The fifth has two.
Friendship
Understanding
Talking, caring, sharing
Taking and giving all at once
Best pals
24 June 2011
The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 29 June.
I know other words for said.
We are just about to start writing stories in literacy and will be writing speech between characters. Therefore, your child has been tasked with finding as many different words for ‘said’ as possible, for example, shouted, whispered, replied etc. They can use dictionaries, thesauruses, the internet or other sources to find the different words. How they choose to present the information is completely up to your child.
The person who can find the most words will win a prize!
17 June 2011
This week’s homework is Talk Time (with some recording) and is due in by Wednesday 22 June.
I can discuss health issues at my school.
I have worked with members of our Health Group (made up of our School Councillors) to create the homework for this week – a health questionnaire.
As part of the next level of our Healthy Schools status we are working on a number of targets relating to obesity and emotional health.
Your views and responses to the health questionnaire will help us to be an even happier and healthier school.
Please discuss the issues raised in the questionnaire at home and record your views on the questionnaire provided. Return your completed forms to your class teacher.
We look forward to hearing your ideas and thoughts.
10 June 2011
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 15 June.
If you had to move to a different country where would you move to and why?
I will look forward to our discussion next week!
