Homework week beginning 11^th Setpember.

IDL

Our topic is on insects, with a main focus on bees and other pollinators. We will be delivering an assembly on this topic at the end of October. As part of this assembly, we will be exploring the anatomy of different insects.

For homework, you can make a model of an insect. This can be out of cardboard, paper, wood, plastic – whatever you can find at home! Size doesn’t matter – it can be big, small or medium.

You have two weeks to do this homework.

Maths

Now that we are confident with understanding what decimals mean, reading them and putting them in order, it is time to start practicing how to add and subtract them.

We also need to revise our number bonds up to 10, 20, 100 and 1000 so that we can use these to help us add and subtract decimals.

For homework

• Go shopping and add up the price of the items as you walk around. See how close you are at the till.
• Time yourself doing the following activities and add the times together including the tenths. If you are confident, include the hundreths and thousandths of a second.
• Create a poster to show your number bonds to 10, 20, 100 or 1000. Include a few quiz questions with missing number for a partner.
• play some of these number bonds games – they include number bonds to 10, 20, 100 and decimal number bonds
  • http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
  • http://mathszone.co.uk/number-facts/number-bonds-to-1000/

Language

We are finally ready to write the main story for the Roald Dahl competition. In reading, we are continuing to work on taking notes and then applying them to visualisations of the text. We are also exploring questions about the text.

For homework.

• Write a full version of your Roald Dahl story. The competition entry is limited to 250 words, but you have characters and a setting which can be made into a full story.
• Write notes about something interesting you do outside school and draw a visualisation. Eg dancing, football training, birthday party, playing with friends, visiting someone.