16 March 2012
Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 21 March 2012.
I know how to use question and exclamation marks.
We’ve been learning about different forms of punctuation. Homework is to produce a piece of work that shows what you have learnt.
Ideas could include:
- Some art work.
- A sentence or two.
- A short story.
- Finding examples in a variety of books or magazines.
- Your own even more creative idea.
16 March 2012
This week’s spellings are connectives that can be used as openers for a sentence related to the previous sentence or paragraph. For example: “The acting in the Lion King was amazing. In addition, the singing was superb!” They have been separated into two groups:
- adding connectives – add more information to the previous point
- reason + result – gives a consequence to the previous point
| LO: connective openers |
| adding connectives |
| In addition, |
| Furthermore, |
| Moreover, |
| Additionally, |
| reason + result connectives |
| Consequently, |
| As a result, |
| Therefore, |
| As a consequence, |
These connectives will really help with the children’s writing next week as they are learning how to persuade someone to do something.
16 March 2012
Spellings this week are all ‘ly‘ words. Your child will be tested on Friday 23 March 2012.
| A | B | C |
| approximately
extremely frequently particularly emotionally despicably undeniably thoroughly outrageously
|
approximately
extremely frequently importantly thoroughly particularly physically perfectly finally |
actually
highly gently gingerly gradually smoothly carefully perfectly finally
|
16 March 2012
Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 21 March 2012.
I can express my opinion about the novel Snow Merchant.
We have been reading The Snow Merchant. Homework is to produce a piece of work that tells me your opinion of the book.
This piece of work could be:
- Some art work.
- A timeline.
- A cartoon strip of the story so far.
- An interview with you answering questions about as though you were one of the characters.
- A prediction of the exciting events still to come.
- Your own even more creative idea.
16 March 2012
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 21 March 2012.
I know things that use pushes and pulls to move.
16 March 2012
This week’s spellings are plurals that end in ‘es’. It is used instead of ‘s’ for words that end in ss, sh, x, o and zz. Your child will be tested on Friday 23 March 2012.
- buses
- bushes
- heroes
- boxes
- foxes
- dresses
- crashes
- buzzes
- fishes
- classes
16 March 2012
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 21 March.
I can show what I have learnt in our Animal Kingdom topic.
As we are coming to the end of this term’s Big Topic, we thought it would be nice to celebrate what the children have learnt. Children should show creatively something or some things they have learnt during the topic.
Some ideas:
- a poster
- a storyboard
- a poem
- a leaflet
- a report
- an observational drawing
Changes in Free School Meal Entitlement
Changes in Free School Meal Entitlement
As of April 2012 there are changes to the qualifying criteria for Working Tax Credit and in turn how families will be entitled to Free School Meals.
There will be new benefit rules applied to Working Tax Credit claimants that could mean that some people will lose their Free School Meals entitlement, but, could possibly then be entitled through their receipt of Child Tax Credit.
At the moment, couples responsible for at least one child and working at least 16 hours a week between them can get Working Tax Credit. From 6 April 2012, in most cases, to qualify for Working Tax Credit their joint working hours will need to be at least 24 hours a week. This will mean if both parents work their joint weekly hours must be at least 24, with one of them working at least 16 hours a week, or if only one parent works, that person must be working at least 24 hours a week. If neither of these applies, Working Tax Credit will stop from 6 April 2012. Some of those coming out of entitlement may well qualify for Free School Meals if they still receive Child Tax Credit and their Annual Taxable Income, as assessed by HMRC, is below £16,190.
The key thing to note is that if any parents lose their Working Tax Credit entitlement from April, it may be worth them contacting the Benefits Helpline (tel 0113 2224404) and asking for their eligibility to Education Benefits, Free School Meals and School Clothing Allowance to be reconsidered.
Fun fractions resource
Click on the link below to be directed to an interactive resource which will aid your child’s maths learning this week. If you have any problems loading the game below, you can access the same game on the BBC maths site for KS2.
There is also a quiz which your child can have a go at.
Parachute PE
