Year 3 & 4 Homework

10 January 2020

Posted on Friday 10 January 2020 by Mr Roundtree

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due on Thursday 16 January.

This half term, our science topic is “Power it up!”. We will be looking at the uses of electricity and the importance of safety before constructing simple circuits.

Here are nine words from our science topic:

bulb circuit conductor
insulator terminals components
cell rechargeable mains

Choose four of the words that you don’t know the definition for. Find the definition and write a sentence using each word. Make sure you are able to explain, in your own words, what the new word means.

 

06 December 2019

Posted on Friday 06 December 2019 by Mr Mills

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework, which should be returned by Thursday 12 December.

The children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or a spiritual perspective.

I can show what I know and think about something cultural.

We’d like children to present their responses about a recent book they’ve read, film they’ve watched, piece of art they’ve looked at, piece of music they’ve listened to – anything cultural in fact.

We’re interested to read some sort of description (a summary, for example) and then your child’s opinions. This review might include pictures, an interview (your child could write a fictional script between himself/herself and the artist, for example), a letter (eg to or from a character, or perhaps even the author) – anything which might include your child’s responses!

However, your child might prefer to do the following:

I can show what I know about a festival.

Over the course of this term, some children in school may have celebrated a religious festival of some sort. This might have been:

the Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha
the Sikh and Hindu festival Diwali
the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, coming up in December
the Christian festival (of course, celebrated by many non-Christians) of Christmas
and the Chinese New Year festival, coming up

There are lots of other festivals and celebrations, which you and your child together might want to reflect on.

We invite children to respond to the sentence above – they might include a recount (like a diary entry), pictures, an interview (perhaps in a script). Your child might also choose to research a completely unknown festival, or they might even think about creating a brand new festival, one that everyone will celebrate.

06 December 2019

Posted on Friday 06 December 2019 by Mr Catherall

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework, which should be returned by Thursday 12 December.

The children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or a spiritual perspective.

I can show what I know and think about something cultural.

We’d like children to present their responses about a recent book they’ve read, film they’ve watched, piece of art they’ve looked at, piece of music they’ve listened to – anything cultural in fact.

We’re interested to read some sort of description (a summary, for example) and then your child’s opinions. This review might include pictures, an interview (your child could write a fictional script between himself/herself and the artist, for example), a letter (eg to or from a character, or perhaps even the author) – anything which might include your child’s responses!

However, your child might prefer to do the following:

I can show what I know about a festival.

Over the course of this term, some children in school may have celebrated a religious festival of some sort.  This might have been

  • the Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha
  • the Sikh and Hindu festival Diwali
  • the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, coming up in December
  • the Christian festival (of course, celebrated by many non-Christians) of Christmas
  • and the Chinese New Year festival, coming up

There are lots of other festivals and celebrations, which you and your child together might want to reflect on.

We invite children to respond to the sentence above – they might include a recount (like a diary entry), pictures, an interview (perhaps in a script).  Your child might also choose to research a completely unknown festival, or they might even think about creating a brand new festival, one that everyone will celebrate.

29 November 2019

Posted on Friday 29 November 2019 by Mr Mills

This week, our homework focus is Practice Makes Perfect.

We have been practising reading aloud fluently and with lots of expression. The passage is below is one we have read this. Your task is to practise reading it aloud at home until you can read it with lots of expression. Imagine you had to perform it to another group of children and you needed to keep them interested. How would you read it? How could you change your voice? We will be performing these as part of homework review.

Voyage

Most people don’t believe in them. Especially grown-ups. Most people have never even seen them. Most people wouldn’t even believe their own eyes if they had!

Whether you’re a believer or not, I’m going to tell you about them anyway… In many ways, they are exactly like us; they eat the same foods as us, speak the same languages as us and even enjoy the same things we enjoy. In fact, if you were to look at one under a magnifying glass, you would think they were identical to us. The only difference is that they are a hundred times smaller than us.

Their story begins on a dark and windy night. The full moon sat in the sky: a torch to guide them. Thunder rumbled above them like a laughing giant, and the waves lapped up against them like a cat’s tongue hungrily exploring a plate of sardines. They were forced to leave their homes forever, in search of a new beginning.

The boot had been their saviour. However, crossing the pond was proving trickier than they had imagined…

Friday 22 November

Posted on Friday 22 November 2019 by Mr Mills

This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: Which charity should our school support?

Next week, a charity will be decided for us to support for the year ahead – for example, when we have a performance, we’ll collect money for this particular charity. What charity does your child think we should support?

You could talk about:
what a charity is
why charities are important
what sort of work they do
charities that have meaning to your family, to school or the community
national and international charities and their work

Friday 22 November 2019

Posted on Friday 22 November 2019 by Mr Catherall

This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: Which charity should our school support?

Next week, a charity will be decided for us to support for the year ahead – for example, when we have a performance, we’ll collect money for this particular charity. What charity does your child think we should support?

You could talk about:

  • what a charity is
  • why charities are important
  • what sort of work they do
  • charities that have meaning to your family, to school or the community
  • national and international charities and their work

Next week, each class will vote (because in our school we make democratic decisions) for the charity they would like to support to form a shortlist. Then, our recently elected School Council will decide which charity we will support for the next year.

Friday 15 November

Posted on Friday 15 November 2019 by Mr Mills

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 21 November.

I know how to STOP bullying.

This homework is a response to our learning this week during anti-bullying week. Throughout the week, each class has had the chance to talk about what bullying is, what the different types of bullying are and how we can STOP it: 

  • Start
  • Telling
  • Other
  • People

Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally, several times on purpose.

As the homework is Creative, you can do anything you want to respond to the statement. Here are a few ideas to help you:

  • Create a cartoon strip of a bullying scenario and how it is solved.
  • Create an acrostic poem using the word bullying.
  • Write your own ‘kindness statements’ for your class.
  • Create a scenarios quiz for your class to decide what they would do.

Friday 15 November 2019

Posted on Friday 15 November 2019 by Mr Catherall

Friday 15 November 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 21 November.

I know how to STOP bullying.

This homework is a response to our learning this week during anti-bullying week. Throughout the week, each class has had the chance to talk about what bullying is, what the different types of bullying are and how we can STOP it:

  • Start
  • Telling
  • Other
  • People

As part of your discussion you may find our school definition of bullying useful, as agreed by our School Councillors:

Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally, several times opurpose.

As the homework is Creative, you can do anything you want to respond to the statement. Here are a few ideas to help you:

  • Create a cartoon strip of a bullying scenario and how it is solved.
  • Create an acrostic poem using the word bullying.
  • Write your own ‘kindness statements’ for your class.
  • Create a scenarios quiz for your class to decide what they would do.

08 November 2019

Posted on Friday 08 November 2019 by Mr Mills

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. Our new topic is entitled ‘Where in the World’. To kick this topic off we have been studying the UK: its countries, counties and cities.

In your book you have a map of the UK which requires labelling with some of the major cities. You could use a road atlas or a map app to help you with this.

18 October 2019

Posted on Friday 18 October 2019 by Mr Mills

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. All this week we have been ordering and comparing numbers. The consolidate this children should have a go at this challenge of making up an example of their own.

Create four digit numbers where:
the digit sum is 12
the tens digit is one

Put them in order from smallest to largest.

Extra Challenge: The difference between the largest and smallest digit is 3. How many numbers is it now possible to make?