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25 March 2011

The homework this week is ‘Creative’ and is due in Wednesday 30 March.

I can discuss whether it is important to give compliments.

This week’s homework focuses on our current SEAL theme of receiving compliments. I want your child to consider a world without compliments and what that would be like. Here are some openers which you could encourage your child to use:

The reason people give compliments…

If no-one ever gave compliments…

When someone gives me a compliment, I feel…

My opinion is that…

25 March 2011

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges are words that begin with ‘re’.

Apples have words that all end with ‘ck’.

They will be tested on Friday 01 April.

25 March 2011

Homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect.

Children have a worksheet in their homework books to complete. The worksheet will reinforce phonics that we have learnt about in class.

Homework is due in on Wednesday 30 March 2011.

25 March 2011

This week we are learning how to spell compound words. A compound word is made from two (or more) existing words.

Spellings will be tested on Friday April 01 2011.

25 March 2011

Your homework this week is Creative and is due in on Wednesday March 30 2011.

I can devise the features of, and advertise, a brand new top of the range outstanding and totally brilliant never been seen before teacher!

You could produce any of the following:

• A radio advert
• An advert for TV
• A billboard
• A poster on the side of a bus
• A leaflet
• A letter
• Or your own method of advertising

Whatever you produce has to persuade your audience that your teacher is unique and the best thing ever by promoting the positives and never mentioning the negatives.  Think about putting a quote from someone who recommends the teacher!

Swimming

There is no swimming next week or the first week back after the Easter holidays. Consequently, the next swimming session will be on Wednesday 27 April.

25 March 2011

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. It involves writing a report which links to our literacy unit. It’s due in on Wednesday 30 March.

Think of your favourite animal and write a report (in your own words) about it. Remember you need to write in present tense, use lots of adjectives for description and include facts.

You could use the headings:

• Appearance
• Habitat
• Diet

25 March 2011

This week’s spellings are words with ‘ic‘ suffixes. These will be tested on 01 April 2011.

25 March 2011

The spellings this week are all words that have the prefix mis… or non…

Nouns and verbs should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.

1.  mistake

2. misfit

3. mischief

4. misfortune

5. mistreat

6. nonsense

7. non-stop

8. non-fiction

9. mischievous

10. non-violent

The spellings will be tested on Friday 01 April.

25 March 2011

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 30 March.

I can write a report about someone or something.

We’ve been reading and writing reports in our literacy unit. This homework is an opportunity to show off your report writing skills!

You could write a report about:

• A famous person. This could be a sportsman or woman, a favourite musician, or role model.
• An inspiring person who you know.
• A place you have been, for example, a museum, theme park or our school.
• It could be about your favourite sports team.
• It could be about an animal.
• Or, you could completely make up a new animal, person, place, vehicle!

Remember to use full-stops and capital letters. Use lots of good adjectives and adverbs.  You could also include facts, a quote from an expert, a simile and a rhetorical question.

I’ll look forward to reading your reports next Wednesday.