HOMEWORK GRID – December 2023
New tasks will appear on the Advent Calendar every day in December.
Complete four activities each week. If you think an activity has taken extra effort you can count it as ✭✭ , let me know when you hand in your homework in Teams.
- Please upload a document or photo of the task to Assignments in Teams.
- If you cannot get online, you can bring your jotter into school and take a photo to upload with your iPad.
- Remember DUMTUMS Use the Bold text from the grid as a title.
- If it is work you are proud of or that meets one of your targets you could post it to your e-portfolio, bonus points.
- In addition to this, please read a book for at least 15 minutes every night. This could be your reading book or another one.
You can also choose from these activities, tables:
Or pick up paper based homework from the classroom.
December 1st
Christmas Shopping
Find four presents that you could buy for friends, family or loved ones. Be generous.
Work out how much they would cost altogether.
set out your work neatly. Remember the £ sign and points.
December 2nd
Christmas Words
How Many Words Can you make from Christmas?
You can only use each letter of Christmas once in a word.
December 3rd
December 4th
December 5th
December 6th
December 7th
Christmas Acrostic or Concrete Poem
Write a Christmas Acrostic or Concrete poem, you could use the word Christmas or another Christmas Word for an acrostic.
December 8th
Let it Snow
I am dreaming about a white Christmas. Look at this snow scene, or find your own on unsplash. Let it inspire some writing, a poem, some thoughts whatever you like.
December 9th
Can you remix this project and make it interesting.
December 10th
Answer these problems. Remember DUMTUMS
Elves have to decorate each tree with 800 Christmas lights. They have 6400 lights. How many trees can they decorate?
On Christmas Eve, Father Christmas travels at 180 mph.
How many miles does he travel in 6 hours?
Rudolph made 48 Christmas puddings. Each pie contains
15g of currants. How many grams of currants did he need to
make the Christmas puddings?
December 11th
You need:
- Lollipop sticks
- Elastic bands
- Plastic spoon/fork
- Marshmallows (aka snowballs)
Instructions
- Take 3 lollipop sticks, bundle them, and wrap rubber bands around each end to hold them together.
- Take 2 more lollipop sticks and put them together with a rubber band around one end.
- Then put the first bundle between those two sticks.
- Take one another rubber band and wrap it around the point where the sticks all meet to hold them in place.
- Then place the spoon along the top stick and rubber band or glue that into place.
- Try making the catapults with different amounts of lollipop sticks for step 1 and/or 2 and test to see which one can launch the ‘snowball’ the furthest.
Use your maths skills to measure how far you can fire a snowball!
December 12th
Watch this video and make a poster or write an information text about how foxes hunt:
December 13th
Check out some YouTube tutorials, make a drawing.
You can add your drawing to the Bigges Art page on the blog id you like, remember that you need to make a New Project not a post!
December 14th
Winter Fact-File
LI: To create a fact-file.
Create a Fact File that includes important features of non-fiction writing – Heading, Sub Heading(s), paragraph(s) of facts written in appropriate tense and person.
Choose a subject or topic linked to the theme of Winter.
December 15th
Have a read of this digital book.
December 16th
December 17th
Can you make a scratch snow scene? Can you make it prettier than this one. Remember the Shark project.
December 18th
Wait till the date!
December 19th
Wait till the date!
December 20th
Watch this Video can you write some simple instruction to make one of the decorations?
December 21
Wait till the date!
December 22
December 23
Can you make an Origami Christmas Tree?
There are lots of different ones on YouTube.
Christmas Eve
Wait till the date!
