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24 March 2017

This week’s homework is Talk Time.

I see things from other people’s point of view.      

Children should talk about how it is important to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and understand how they feel in order to help them resolve their issues. We will have a class discussion on Thursday 30 March.

We are still concentrating on our 3 and 4 times tables.

24 March 2017

This week’s spellings to learn for a test on Friday 31 March.

24 March 2017

This week’s spellings have been taken from a recent test done in class.

They are:

• height
• decreasing
• popular
• tomatoes
• destination
• vision
• material
• musician
• nature
• information

Below are some ideas to help you. Choose two activities and complete them in your homework books.

• Use a computer to write each word in a different font.
• Put your  words into alphabetical order.
• Write a story about an ogre using all of your words at least once.
• Draw a picture for each word. Turn one of them into an artwork.

24 March 2017

The homework this week is practice makes homework.

I can solve fractions problems. 

There’s a worksheet in the homework book for children to complete. They are asked to solve a problem and then explain their reasoning using pictures and a sentence. The first question has been done for them so they can see what they are expected to do.

Please ask if you have any questions.

24 March 2017

The words this week all contain the short vowel o sound (hot) which is spelled with an a. This is the most common spelling after  w or qu.

24 March 2017

24 March 2017

This week, children have two pieces of homework.

The first is Practice Makes Perfect: Score 1000 points on Mathletics.

The second is Talk Time: I can justify my own opinion. Children should discuss the following question with someone at home… ‘Would you rather explore the ocean or space?’

We will then debate this in class next week.

Also, children should practise all times tables up to 12×12 in preparation for an end of term times table check on Friday 31 March 2017.

24 March 2017

This week’s Practice Makes Perfect is due on Thursday 30 March.

Choose a chapter of your guided reading novel and write five reading comprehension questions for a friend to try and answer. See whether you can write different types of question:

• fact finding
• inference (How do you know…)
• word meaning (Find and copy…)
• ordering (Number the events, 1 -5)
• yes, no, maybe – three mark answer
• prediction

24 March 2017

This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Thursday 30 March.

I can see things from other people’s points of view.

This has been our SEAL statement this week and, I think, is a really important one. Have a think about why it is important that we can do this and imagine what it would be like to live in a world when nobody saw things from other people’s points of view. As always, Creative homework can be anything – don’t forget, only use one page of your homework book.

Maybe you could:

• Write  a story or create a comic strip of a world where people don’t see things from other people’s view.
• Create a mind map of all of the reasons why this is important.
• Think of a situation where you have need, or would need, to do this and write a letter to the other person about what their point of view might be.
• Think of a situation and give all of the different points of view people might have.
• Create a quiz which asks us how we’d feel in different situations.

24 March 2017

This week’s spelling activity focuses on common word endings, particularly when it’s tricky to decide which ending a word should have. Take note of the tricks and tips it gives you as these are really useful.

Do I use …tion, …cian or …sion?

Is it …tial or …cial?

Also think about when you use …ence or …ance as this is something we’ve struggled with and we’ll share some tips next week.

There’ll be a test of 20 spellings on Friday 31 March; all of the spellings will have these tricky endings to choose from.