Today's Homework

1. Design a musical instrument and make a list of the material and equipment you will need to make it. This should be done in your Musical Instrument Project leaflet. Draw, label and colour a picture of the instrument you would like to make. It must be a percussion instrument and should be designed for children in Y1 so it needs to be easy to use, tough and attractive. Do NOT make the instrument yet!
2. Grammar workbook Unit 7
   

Today's Homework

1. Grammar workbook Unit 1 OR Dictionary workbook p.6 & 7
2. Abacus workbook p.54 & 56
3. Learn your spellings - test tomorrow!
4. Get your reading record signed!
   

Today's Homework

1. Reading
2. Spelling sentences - copy the sentences in your neatest handwriting and fill in the blanks with words from the spelling list. Test next Monday!
3. Write a letter to a slide manufacturer. These are the things you need to include:

• Paragraph 1 - who are you? why are you writing to them? why should they listen to you?
• Paragraph 2 - what materials or designs would be bad for a slide? Why?
• Paragraph 3 - what materials or designs would be good for a slide? Why?
• Paragraph 4 - what is your opinion?

Stick to the facts for Paragraph 2 and 3. Think about our experiments with friction and measuring force. Which materials created the least friction? Which surface was the easiest to move the weight on?

Remember, SWIMMING GALA tomorrow!!

Today's Homework

1. Reading
2. Science sheet - what happens when we try to measure the force needed to lift a weight when it is in water? Why is it different when we lift a weight in air? What is the name of the force which pulls us to the ground? Would we more or less on the moon? Why?
3. Abacus workbook p.53
4. Learn a joke and tell the class tomorrow. No 'Knock, knock' jokes. If it's the same as someone else, you both need to do another one.
   

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 5 - the little coin that you can't really see is a 20p coin. You just need to write the different combinations you can make; you don't need to write the totals.
2. Science experiments:

• Answer the question about the children using the string telephone. If you make one yourself it might be easier to answer. If it's a nice one, bring it to school on Saturday.
• Fill in the chart about the water bottle musical instruments. You have to do this one yourself to get the results because you need to test the different sounds. You don't need to bring this one to school!
  

Today's Homework

1. Spelling sentences - copy the sentences from the paper into your spelling book (in your best handwriting!) and fill in the blanks with the words from our test.
2. Abacus workbook p.48
   

Today's Homework

1. Daily maths 1 & 2
2. Science sheet - look at the picture and list as many forces as you can see. They don't have to be different forces every time but you should be able to see the forces acting in different places every time.
   

Today's Homework

1. Reading (some people have reading comprehension as well)
2. Spelling wordsearch
3. Mental maths workbook

• Group 1 = page 38, A-D
• Group 2 & 3 = page 41, all
  

Physics Games

Here's a little game to help you play around with gravity and work out what helps resist it and what doesn't.

Top Figures

Today's Homework

1. Learn your spellings - test tomorrow on the -ist words
2. Abacus workbook p.39
3. Learn a poem by heart - it should be 8 lines or more and you will recite it on Wednesday, without reading from a paper.
4. Reading
   

Poetry Please!

If you're wondering about how to read a poem aloud to the class, here's a website with lots of videos of a famous poet reading his poems. Some of them are short, some of them rhyme, some of them are funny. All of them are really well presented. Have a look! Michael Rosen - The Hypnotiser