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Sharing homework.

This will be the first of many homework sharing posts that gives the children chance to share their good work beyond the classroom and will (hopefully) become a useful source of ideas if you’re stuck with a creative homework.

Last week’s homework was to show what you have learnt about a period in history. I had information from Celts, Vikings, Romans, Victorians and even the Industrial Revolution. Lots of interesting stuff and here’s but a few…

 Ben’s model of a Celt house. which came with some information too.

 

What’s going on this week?

Some parents have mentioned that it would be helpful to know what we’re learning each week to allow you to know how to help at home. In response to this, there’ll be a short post each Sunday/Monday about the main areas for learning in the following week.

Maths

This week, we’ve returned to division in Maths and have started by sharing objects into groups and recognising this as a division calculation. This then leads to understanding how we can use our tables to solve division (eg 15 divided by 3 can be solved by counting in 3s until you reach 15). Once we’re confident using this skill, we can start thinking about division in real life particularly when things don’t share equally.

How many egg boxes do I need to hold my 23 eggs? Each box holds 6 eggs.

English

We’re entering the weird and wonderful world of poetry in English. Lots of reading of poetry helps us to hear the patterns, rhythm and understand the poets choice for how to structure it. Through poems by Tony Mitton (Old Noah’s Dance Hall Ship, Elegant Elephant Delicatessen, Instructions for Growing Poetry and My Hat) we will also explore techniques like rhyming and alliteration before attempting to write a poem of our own about our favourite piece of clothing.

Topic

It’s the final week of Time Travel which means we’ll be reflecting on what we’ve learnt over the last eight weeks. Here are some things you could ask at home…

• What have you learnt?
• What did you enjoy most?
• What would you still like to find out?
• What did you fin the most challenging?

13 March 2015

There are just three spellings this week:

In class, lots of children are getting these words mixed up.

There

There represents a place.

eg The boy is over there.

It also can show that something exists.

eg There are two apples.

Their  

There is used to show possession.

eg Their house is close to ours.

They’re

They’re is a shortened version of ‘they are’.

eg They’re coming all the way from London.

When practising these words, you should read a sentence with either of the words in and your child should tell you which word is correct. 

13 March 2015

The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in on Wednesday 18 March.

What should we, as humans, focus on inventing? 

This homework aims to focus children’s thinking on inventions that would truly benefit the world rather than inventions which just make our comfortable lives easier.

The Practice Makes Perfect homework is a Mathletics quiz on area and perimeter. We’ll learn about these areas of maths in our lessons next week.

13 March 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 20 March.

A note for Green group – This week, we’ve been learning about using apostrophes for possession and not for plurals.  These spellings will be given as part of a sentence and children will have to identify whether they need to use the apostrophe or whether it is plural.

For example:  There are lots of dogs.  It is the dog’s bone.

13 March 2015

This week’s homework is talk time.  Please make sure your child is ready to talk about this on Wednesday 18 March.

• Is it right that some people are homeless? 
• Why might they be homeless? 
• How would it feel to be homeless?

Sorting 3D shapes

We explored all things 3D this week and a great way of showing whether you are confident with you edges, faces and vertices is to try sorting shapes.

…or a Carroll diagram. It’s interesting to see how the shapes move around when you change the criteria you’re sorting with.

Can you spot any mistakes we made?

It was quite tricky sometimes, especially when you’re trying to think about four things at once!

Artists once more

After our Katie and… Big Topic, we had a bit of a break from art… but it’s back!

We started off using different types of pencils to sketch Tudor houses. We really tried to capture the dark strips of the buildings and their often wonky shapes.

Then we went very abstract! We looked at Jackson Pollock’s Number 8 which was a great contrast to the real-life sketches we’d created. Using all things bubbly, we created our own bubbly backgrounds for our serious Tudor houses. It was great fun and our finished pieces, when we combined the two, will follow.

13 March 2015

This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 18 March.

Choose a time in the past. What have you learnt about it?

Use all your creative juices to show what you have learnt through our Time Travel topic. We’ve travelled from 600BC all the way into the future; meeting the Celts, Romans, Vikings, Normans, Tudors, Victorians and our modern day selves along the way. Choose one of these periods of history and show (in any way you wish) what you have learnt about them.

You could:

• Create a leaflet
• Do a quiz
• Make a house from that time
• Prepare a verbal presentation
• Write a story with characters from that period
• Conduct an interview with somebody from that time…or…
• any other creative idea you might have!

Attendance matters

So far this year, our attendance rate is about the same as last year, which is impressive considering the amount of bugs going around just before Christmas. Here are the attendance figures for the first three half-terms (with last year’s data in brackets):

• Reception: 96.4%  (95.7%)
• Year 1: 97.7%  (97.1%)
• Year 2: 97.3%  (97.9%)
• Year 3: 98.2%  (97.5%) …This is great: the highest attendance in school!
• Year 4: 97.0%  (96.9%)
• Year 5: 95.7%  (98.3%) …Please do make sure your child is at school unless it is absolutely necessary.
• Year 6: 97.2%  (96.9%)
• Total for the whole school: 97.1% (97.2%)

Don’t forget we have another 100% attendance competition this half-term! Currently, 175 children have 100% this half-term so far!