Week beginning 13/10/14
This weeks homework is based on spelling, punctuation and grammar (SPAG).
Homework is due on Thursday 16th October.
Please click here to complete your homework.
The spellings for this week are:
- Hottest
- Biggest
- Thinnest
- Fattest
- Flattest
- Sunniest
- Luckiest
- Funniest
- Nuttiest
- Happiest
Fancy a challenge?
Try learning these Level 6 spellings. Can you put them into a sentence?
- honourable
- miracle
- sincerely
Week beginning the 06/10/14
Homework to be completed by 09/10/14
Maths and Literacy homework will now be set on alternate weeks.
Maths area of development
Word problems
Maths Homework - word problems
Click here to view your homework. Please bring jottings to class.
Spellings
The spellings for this week are as follows:
The rule is double consonant to add -ing
- Patting
- Humming
- Tapping
- Running
- Rubbing
- Beginning
- Chatting
- Digging
- Grinning
- Spinning
The children will be tested on Thursday October 9th. Please use your flash cards and the Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check (LSCWC) technique to learn your spellings.
Week Beginning 29th October (Term 1 Week 5)
Homework to be completed by 02.10.14
Maths and Literacy areas of development
Maths - Division
Literacy - Poetry Week (The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
The Highwayman Poem http://www.potw.org/archive/potw85.html
The Highwayman audio http://www.reelyredd.com/english-0308thehighwayman.htm
The Highwayman video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCtJDbQwsZ4
Literacy Homework
Thursday October the 2nd marks National Poetry day. This year's theme is entitled 'remember'. In recognition of this important event we are as a school learning and reciting a poem in class.
Here are some suggestions of poems which you might learn from the National Poetry Day website (http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poetry-day/what-is-national-poetry-day/)
To keep in touch by Liz Brownlee
Remembering by Liz Brownlee
The Family Book by Brian Moses
Poets are Photographers by Paul Cookson
Remembering is our duty by Paul Cookson
Dear Mug by Roger Stevens
In an old dog’s memory by Brian Moses
Whole body memory by Jan Dean
I remember, I remember by Thomas Hood
Do you remember an inn, Miranda? by Hilaire Belloc
Remember me when I am gone away by Christina Rossetti
Remember, remember the fifth of November Anon
Alternatively you could choose a poem of your choice.
Spellings
The spellings for this week are as follows:
Ruled: double consonant to add -ed
- patted
- drummed
- tapped
- tripped
- rubbed
- scrubbed
- chatted
- planned
- grinned
- spotted
There will be a short test on 02.10.14. Please use your flash cards and the Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check (LSCWC) technique to learn your spellings.
Spelling Challenge - Just for fun!
Here are some interesting words that we found in our class book that we thought we would share.
Baleful= pernicious, destructive or malignant
Surreptitious= underhanded, kept secret, done by stealth or clandestine
Mellifluous=sweet as honey
Tudor Homework Project
Year 6 you should have now chosen the person who you will be presenting about and started your research.
Maths Homework - Division
Click here to attempt the on-line division questions. Please bring your workings outs into class.