22 January 2016
For our Practice Makes Perfect homework this week, we’re working on skills we’ve been developing in Maths.
To be able to find missing lengths and work out perimeter and area.
The children need to use the information they already have to work out the size of the missing lengths. They can then use this information to work out perimeter and area.
This homework is due on Wednesday 27 January.
22 January 2016
This week’s Talk Time homework is linked to our Life topic and is due on Wednesday 27 January.
Debate: Choose an animal and prepare to argue that it is the ‘best’ animal.
You’ll need to think about the positive points about that animal and have evidence to back it up. Don’t forget to consider what negatives it might have so that you can counter argue any negative points brought up by any other debater.
Creative homework
Here are this week’s favourite creative homeworks, as chosen by the children:
Museum trip
This week, we went to the Leeds City Museum to research animals as part of our Life topic. Have a look at a few pictures from our trip. Why not ask your child if they can explain what is happening/can be seen in the pictures below?
We had a really good time in the museum so why not visit yourself? You could even get some ideas for this week’s homework.
22 January 2016
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been looking at using conjunctions. Conjunctions are joining words that we use to join sentences, clauses, phrases and words together. Your child will need to write five sentences that include conjunctions about their favourite animal.
In class, we’ve been looking at writing reports so this homework is an excellent opportunity to practise writing a paragraph. I’ve written a short paragraph below which your child may want to use as a model for their own writing.
Alpacas look like camels but they don’t have humps. In the wild, alpacas live in packs so they don’t like living alone. Interestingly, alpacas come from Peru and feature in many Peruvian folk tales. Sometimes, alpacas spit when they feel threatened. Adult alpacas usually grow to be 99 cm tall while llamas, which look similar to alpacas, are usually 1.7m tall.
22 January 2016
This week, we are our continuing our spelling focus on homophones. Why not try illustrating this week’s homophones to make them more memorable? See below for some ideas.
fair: treating people equally
fare: the money paid on public transport
great: above average
grate: to shred food
groan: a sound of despair
grown: to have increased in size
main: the most important
mane: the long neck hair of some animals
meat: the flesh of an animal (which some people choose to eat)
meet: to be in the same place as someone else at the same time (in the word, the two e letters meet up)
22 January 2016
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 27 January.
I can show what I have learnt about length.
For the past few weeks in maths, we have been learning about length. We’ve measured in metres and in centimetres and then compared the length, height or width of different objects. We’ve solved problems involving length as well, using our calculating skills.
For the homework this week, the children should show their understanding of length. They could…
- measure some objects at home and compare their length
- measure the distances that they have walked or driven over the weekend
- write some problems involving length for people to solve
- look at how different people use measuring in their jobs or hobbies
…or anything else that gets them mathematically creative!
22 January 2016
Here are the spellings for this week:
Borrow a book, borrow a bike
With 100 days to this year’s Tour De Yorkshire, a local bike library has been set up locally at Moor Allerton Library.
Leeds City Council has introduced a new Yorkshire Bike Bank which will allow residents to borrow bikes as well as books from the library.
Some of our latest Creative homeworks
More fab homework to kick off our Big Topic. Lots of creative ideas made our weekly homework review very enjoyable and we learnt lots from, and about, each other.
Diagrams, messages, facts and pictures were just some of the things we saw around the classroom.
We really enjoyed this poem from Riya…
Many of use decided to go ‘techno’ this week so we also enjoyed listening to, reading and playing the many PowerPoint presentations, blogs and coding that came from the Y5 email.