Hello everyone!

Good news – this will be your last piece of homework for the year! Please remember to bring in your weapons/shields on Friday. The Christmas shows are getting nearer so I hope you are all practising at home.

Homework is as follows:

Spelling: Gold group – you are looking at the suffix ance/ence. For your first activity, find as many words as you can with the suffix ‘ance’ or ‘ence’. For your second activity, you should write 5 sentences with your spelling words. You can use words from the spelling list or one of the words you found on your own. Complete two activities from the spelling sheet.

Silver group – you are continuing on with the phoneme ‘ie’ and its representations. You should write 5 sentences with your spelling words for your first activity. Complete 3 activities from the spelling sheet.

Bronze group – you are continuing with the phoneme ‘wr’. You should complete 4 activities from the spelling sheet.

Numeracy: Please complete at least 10 minutes of Sumdog each day. At home, please practise your times tables daily.

Reading: Clever Commas – read chapters 13 + 14. Everyone else – please read a book of your choice for at least 10 minutes each day.

Newsround: Summarise an interesting story in your jotter.

Have a great week!

Rehearsals are well underway for our upcoming Christmas show. We would appreciate it if you could please look out the following items to wear during our performances.

• Christmas T-shirt/jumper
• Black trousers/leggings/skirt
• Santa hat or reindeer antlers

If you do not have a Christmas jumper, then a red or green T-shirt will also be fine.

Please label all items of clothing and put inside a carrier bag with your name clearly written on it. This bag can stay in school for the week of our performances and can be brought in whenever you have it ready. Bags should be in school ready for Monday 9th December at the latest.

Thanks

Hello everyone! I hope you have all been practising your Christmas show songs!

Homework for the week is as follows:

Spelling: Gold group – you are looking at the prefix ‘auto’ and ‘bi’. For one activity, you should think of as many words as you can with the prefix ‘auto’ and ‘bi’. For your next activity, you should pick 5 words (from the list or the words you found) and write a sentence for each word. For your other two activities, you should complete an activity from the sheet.

Silver group – your phoneme this week is ‘ie’. For your first activity, you should think of 10 other words that include this phoneme (remember the different representations). For your second activity, you should pick 5 of your words and write a sentence for each word, You should complete 2 more activities from the spelling sheet.

Bronze group – your phoneme this week is ‘wr’. You should complete 3 activities from the spelling sheet. For your fourth activity, you should pick 5 of your words and write a sentence for each word.

Reading: Clever Commas, please read chapters 11 and 12 of ‘Quackers’. Everyone else, please read a book of your choice for at least 10 minutes a day.

Numeracy: Please continue to play Sumdog for at least 10 minutes each day. We did really well in the last Sumdog challenge so let’s do even better next time!

Newsround: Please watch an episode of Newsround and summarise an interesting story in your jotter.

Remember, your technology homework is due 6th December! 

Well done to everyone for their great bridges! There were lots of different ideas and designs and we were very impressed with them all. They all managed to hold the weight of a tin of beans and managed to get a toy car across. Well done!

As an additional piece of homework, your task is to research the types of weaponry or armour used in the Scottish Wars of Independence. Once you have researched these, you should make your own weapon from materials you have at home.

I have included a website that is very useful for your research.

https://learning.battleofbannockburn.com/battlepedia/weaponry/

This homework is due  Friday 6th December. Good luck!

Hello everyone!

Well done to everyone for making great bridges! I was very impressed with all the designs!

Homework this week is as follows:

Spelling: Gold and Silver group are looking at spelling rules, both groups have the same set of words. You should choose 3 activities from  the sheet to complete. For your last activity, you should think of 5 other words that fit each of your spelling rules.

Bronze group is continuing with the ‘tch’ phoneme and should complete 4 activities from the spelling sheet.

Reading: Clever Commas should read chapter 10 of Quackers. Everyone else, please read a book of your choice for at least 10 minutes each day.

Numeracy: Please continue to play Sumdog for at least 10 minutes each day.

Newsround: Watch an episode of Newsround and summarise an interesting story in your jotter.

Have a great week everyone!

Hello everyone!

Here is this week’s homework:

Spelling: Gold and Silver group, you have tricky words this week. Activity 1 – please choose 4 of your words and use them in a sentence. One spelling word in one sentence is fine. If you can get two of your spelling words in a sentence, even better! Please complete 3 activities from the spelling sheet.

Bronze group, your sound this week is ‘tch’. Please complete 4 activities from the spelling sheet.

Reading: Clever Commas should read Chapter 9 of Quackers. Everyone else should read a book of their choice for at least 10 minutes each day.

Numeracy: Please spend at least 10 minutes each day playing Sumdog. Try to practise your times table daily.

Newsround: Watch an episode of Newsround and summarise an interesting story in your jotter.

*Please remember that you have extra technologies homework due this Friday. I am looking forward to seeing your bridges!*

Have a great week.

Hello everyone! Happy Halloween!

For homework this week you should complete the following:

Reading: Clever Commas should read chapter 8 of ‘Quackers’. The other groups should continue to read a book of your choice for at least 10 minutes each day.

Spelling: 

Gold group – you will be looking at homophones again this week. Activity 1: Find and write the meanings of 4 pairs of homophones. These can be either from your spelling words or the words you find on your own. Activity 2: Find another 5 pairs of homophones and write them in your jotter.

Silver group – you are continuing with the ‘ee’ phoneme. You should complete 4 activities from the spelling sheet.

Bronze group – you are looking at the ‘ea’ phoneme. You should complete 4 activities from the spelling sheet.

Numeracy: Please continue to complete at least 10 minutes of Sumdog each day.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

This is also a very good game for improving times tables recall.

Newsround: Please watch an episode of Newsround and summarise an interesting story in your jotter.

Have a great week!

Following on from our strongest bridge building task with room 11 last week, your task is to build a bridge using materials of your choice from home. Your bridge must meet the following criteria:

• Must be able to span a width of 20cm (the desks will be pulled apart by 20cm and your bridge must be able to be used to cross over the gap)
• Needs to be able to support the weight of a can of beans
• Should have a deck wide enough to enable a toy car to travel across the bridge

Think about the design your group used in class and how you could improve on this. Triangles are often used in bridge designs due to their ability to absorb a heavy load better than a square or rectangle. Also consider bunching items together for added strength. Completed bridges should be carefully transported to school by Friday 8th Nov.

Good luck!