Homework

Homework: Week beginning 29^th September 2014

This homework is all due by Friday, 3^rd October.

Spellings

Spellings will be tested on Friday

 

Mathletics

Please let us know if your child cannot access Mathletics.

Literacy

This week is poetry week! Can you write out and illustrate your favourite poem ready to bring into class next week to share. Write a paragraph about why it is your favourite poem too, refer to how the poem makes you feel and the poet’s use of language.

Science

Take a journey into the depths of our Solar System and discover 2 of the planets in more detail. How far will you travel? Where will you go? Your task this week is to choose 2 of the planets from our Solar System and to write a fact file about each one. Remember you can choose any of the planets, including Pluto as a Dwarf Planet. You will need to draw and label the planets. Remember, if you want to do this on the computer, or any other way, you can. Happy Travels!

Topic- to be done on the blog.

Next week, as part of our Ancient Egyptian topic, we will be learning about Ramses II. Please carry out some research answering the following questions:

-Who was Ramses II and why is he still so famous today?

-From your research, why do you think he is so often called ‘Ramses the Great’?

Homework letter

Homework: Week beginning 22nd September 2014

This homework is all due by Friday, 26^th September.

Spellings

Spellings will be tested on Friday

Mathletics

Please let us know if your child cannot access Mathletics.

Literacy

Next week we are beginning a new Literacy topic. Read this extract from a story and try to answer the questions below:

A door banged. Claire jumped. What was that? It wasn’t Mr Jakes because she could hear him whistling at the other end of the playground. Out of the silence, she heard steps. Somebody was coming closer. Somebody or something was coming down the corridor. Nearer. She stood still, so still that even the tables and chairs froze with her. Carefully, she peered round the edge of the door. A shadow slipped, quick as a knife, into the next room. Claire clenched her fist around the pen, her heart racing.

1)      What type of genre do you think this story is?

2)      What makes you think that?

3)      What adjectives can you spot that make this story exciting?

4)      What do you think will happen next?

 

Science

Does the length and direction of your shadow change throughout the day? We will be doing an experiment next week, testing the length and position of our shadows during different times in the day. Write a prediction for what you think will happen and explain why you think that.

Topic- to be done on the blog.

We are game developers in ICT this term. On the blog write about a computer games that you like. How do you play it? What is the aim of the game? How do you think the creators made the game?

This week's homework

Homework: Week beginning 15^th September 2014

This homework is all due by Thursday, 18^th September.

Spellings

Spellings will be tested on Thursday

Mathletics

Please let us know if your child cannot access Mathletics.

Literacy

Imagine you are Elizabeth I on the day you have been locked in the Tower of London. Write a diary entry as Elizabeth I, remembering to describe thoughts and feelings. Can you include some interesting adverbs?

Science

Why and how do we experience day and night? Draw a diagram and explain in your own words what is happening to the Sun and Earth during day and night.

Topic- to be done on the blog.

Did you know that Elizabeth I passed a law stating that everyone had to wear woolly hats on Sundays? How many fascinating facts can you find out about the terrible Tudors?

Homework letter

Homework: Week beginning 8^th September 2014

This homework is all due by Friday, 12^th September.

Spellings

Spellings will be tested every Friday.

 

 

Mathletics

If your child cannot access Mathletics at home, please let us know. Thank you!

Literacy

Choose any person (famous person/friend/family member) you admire to write a biography on.

Include the features of biographies (past tense, 3^rd person, introduction, chronological order).

Science

Keep a ‘moon diary’ this week. Watch the moon each evening and record your observations (size, shape, time of day it can be seen).

Blog topic homework

Please visit your class blog to complete this homework if you have access to the internet. Leonardo da Vinci was a famous artist around the time of the Tudors. What can you find out about him and his most famous pieces of work. Share your most interesting facts with the class on the class blog.

Welcome back 5MD!

Welcome to the new school year! I hope you all had a great summer holiday and are rested and revived, ready for the year ahead.

I will add to the blog throughout the year. Children and parents are encouraged to contribute to the blog and to share their work, views and ideas. At least one homework per week will be completed on the blog for this purpose.

This year you will receive a homework letter on Fridays, which will contain details of all homework tasks for the week, all of which will be due in on the following Friday. This gives you the opportunity to complete tasks at a time which is convenient for you and which fits around any commitments you might have outside of school. The first of these letters will be distributed on Friday, 5th September, with the homework due in on Friday, 12th September. You will not receive a homework diary this year and instead will receive a Reading Record diary which should be completed every day with details of reading that has taken place at home. Messages to the teacher can also be passed on this way if required.

I am very much looking forward to the year ahead and hope that you are too!