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07 October 2016

07 October 2016

Homophones

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. The English language can be very confusing and children often struggle to choose the correct homophone in their/there/they’re writing (it should be their!). For this week’s spelling activity, children should identify homophones they may come across. Then, they should give a definition and think of a way to remember which is which (not witch!). This would be best presented in a table.

e.g.

07 October 2016

This week’s second homework is Creative and is due on Tuesday 11 October 2016.

To be able to present information about WW2. 

Although this week’s homework is Creative, we’re doing it slightly differently. Last year, Year 5 and 6 completed an independent research project. Year 5 would like to have a go at something similar so next week will be a week of independent project work linked to our topic.

Next week, you’ll be creating something independently about one aspect of living on the home front: evacuation, the blitz, air raids, women at war, rationing or anything else that piques your interest. Year 5 always create amazing Creative homework so what you actually choose to create is up to you. Here are a few ideas from me:

• A magazine for a child living during the war
• A project board (like we produced last year)
• An information leaflet.
• A game we can play

So, decide what you want to create and what it will be about. (You’ll have three hours throughout the week to complete it – think about that when making your choice.) Your actual homework will be to gather the information you need in order to complete the work in class. Do not create your independent project!

So that we can complete this project work during class time, this homework will be due on Tuesday 11 October.

07 October 2016

This week’s Mathletics homework should be completed by Thursday 13 October 2016.

Children have been assigned two tasks to complete:

• Add three 3 digit numbers: regroup
• 3 digit differences: 1 regrouping

As always, if you experience any problems logging on to Mathletics please come and see me. If the problem can’t be solved, children will be given time on a Wednesday lunchtime to complete the activities.

07 October 2016

You’ve been assigned two tasks for your Mathletics homework.

MULTIPLY AND DIVIDE WRITTEN

• Factors
• Multiples

These tasks need to be completed by Thursday 13 October.

07 October 2016

Although this week’s homework is Creative, we’re doing it slightly differently. Last year, the class really enjoyed the independent learning they did for our World History topic. The class would like to try something like this again so next week will be a week of independent project work linked to our topic.

Next week, you’ll be creating something independently about one aspect of living on the home front: evacuation, the blitz, air raids, women at war, rationing or anything else that piques your interest. Year 6 always create amazing Creative homework so what you actually choose to create is up to you. Here are a few ideas from me:

• A magazine for a child living during the war
• A project board (like we produced last year)
• An information leaflet.
• A game we can play

So, decide what you want to create and what it will be about. (You’ll have four hours throughout the week to complete it – think about that when making your choice.) Your actual homework will be to gather the information you need in order to complete the work in class.

So that we can complete this project work during class time, this homework will be due on Tuesday 11 October.

Looking at our homework

Written by Natalia, Y6:

This week’s homework was to write ten sentences about our trip to Eden Camp. We all looked at each others’ and marked them. I swapped with Mia, Ava and Sarah. When we were marking them, we chose our three favourite sentences – they were amazing. We always write a star and a step which helps tell us what we are doing well and what we are doing not so well.

This is my favourite one that Mia wrote: “Quickly, scared but exited, we rushed through the Blitz a number of times.”

Assembly

Thank you to everyone who came to watch the assembly today. The children have worked very hard to learn all their parts and lines. Mr Owen and I were very proud of all the chlidren.

WARNING: DO NOT MAKE GRANDMA’S MEDICINE AT HOME!

Who knew we were all potters at heart?

At the beginning of our Class Novel topic, we discussed what learning we’d like to do across the eight weeks. Design and Technology was a clear favourite so this week we’re designing, making and evaluating our own toy planes.

We started our project by exploring images of WWII planes and from this designed our own models, thinking about how we could make it work if modelling it with clay.

Tuesday afternoon saw us donning aprons and testing our pottery skills. It was a fab afternoon with a lovely atmosphere, focused minds and smiling faces.

Jorja really focused on the detail. Here’s her plane. Look at the cockpit and the propellors.

And now we wait… Once they’re dry, we’ll looking again at our designs and think about how we want to finish the overall design.

Eden Camp

What a great day we had at Eden Camp. Here are a few photos for you to enjoy of our day. I’m not going to tell you too much though because the children are going to be writing a recount of their day on Friday this week so we’ll publish a couple of those to give you a better idea of what we got up to.

Stay tuned for our full recounts – coming soon!