Well done to those of you who handed in your homework on time on Monday, great work! 🎉
Your homework for this week is as follows:
Literacy 📚
Publishers (‘ung’ words)
- sung
- lung
- swung
- young
- clung
- stung
- hungry
- sprung
- jungle
- dungeon
Authors and Illustrators (Soft ‘c’ words)
- ice
- face
- pace
- place
- juice
- notice
- price
- certain
- service
- celebrate
Alliterative Phrases or Sentences
Choose 5 of your spelling words and write five alliterative phrases or sentences. An alliteration uses the same initial letter. You may include a word or two that do not begin with the same initial letter. Be sure to underline your spelling words.
Example: Deep down in the dungeon.
Maths 📊
Please complete the addition sums worksheet you were given in class.
In addition, some of you mentioned that you would like a little extra practice of your times tables. There are lots of great games that you can play online or on a phone or tablet.
The Topmarks site is particularly good. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables
Games I recommend are:
1. Hit the button (times tables)
2. Sum Sense (Multiplication)
3. Learn Your Tables
4. Beatbox Tables
There are also lots of great apps, if you have access to a phone or tablet. I particularly like monster maths and 10 minute a day times tables.
Other 🏴
The 25th of January is Burns Night. Robert Burns was born in Alloway, near Ayr and during his lifetime he wrote lots of Scottish poems, and this is why we celebrate his life today. One of the most famous poems that he wrote was called ‘To a Mouse’.
To a Mouse
Wee sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an chase thee,
Wi murdering pattle!
For your homework, please write what you think these words mean?
wee
sleekit
cow’rin
tim’rous
beastie
Extra: research Robert Burns and write a short factfile about him.
Miss Donaldson 😊