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

Today's Homework

1. Write about two fairground rides. Describe the ride, the way you felt on it, how it moved, what you saw and heard, anything that will add to the description but do not give away the name of the ride. We'll see if anyone can guess the name of the ride from your description.
   

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 3
2. Haydn Richards p.4 - Do A and choose 6 from B
3. Prepare your presentation - you should be prepared to speak without reading from the paper.
   

Today's Homework

1. Book review - in your little 'Books I Have Read' book.
2. Daily maths 1 & 2
3. Prepare your presentation - you need to show 2 sources of information, for example: photographs, interviews, pictures, magazines, websites, posters, leaflets, newspapers. Where did you find out the things you are going to tell us? Remember, the presentation is for Wednesday!
   

Spellings 14/02/09

country
countries
city
cities
pony
ponies
fly
flies
monkey
monkeys
boy
boys
map
coordinate
dwelling

Today's Homework

1. Abacus workbook p.36 & 37
2. Prepare for your presentation: I would like you to tell me a) who or what you are going to talk about, b)where you got, or where you will get, your information from. Just saying 'Google' is not an acceptable answer! I want to know the exact website, if that's what you're using.
   

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 3
2. Write instructions about how to build a shelter on your island. Include a diagram (that's a picture with labels, Farida).

Tariq and Michaela

• Write about the settlement you drew on the map

AbdulRahman

• Bring the swimming letter back to school on Saturday
  

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 2
2. Abacus workbook p.12
3. Learn your lines!
4. Remember it's the trip tomorrow!

• You need to bring a snack and a drink.
• You need to bring your Arabic books.
• You don't need to bring iPods and PSPs, of course!
  

The Great Debate - The Not So Great Results!

Well, I'm sure we'll all be shocked to learn that, following our first debate, in which ideas were expressed vigorously but politely, the class voted by 21-0 in favour of banning homework. That was the easy bit; the hard bit will be convincing Mr Hugo to agree as well!

Although there were lots of reasons given in favour of banning homework (lack of time to play, repetitiveness, difficulty), the main reason for keeping it seemed to be that it makes you smarter. Perhaps we should perform an experiment; half the class do no homework and half do for 6 months and we'll see if there's any difference at the end of the year. Any volunteers?

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 3
2. Prepare for the debate tomorrow; are you 'for' or 'against' the proposition that homework should be banned? Make sure you have something to say. You might want to write down your ideas.
3. Island Homework Week 2 - write about how you got to the island, what your thoughts were when you arrived, what your feelings were. Remember to choose the five people you want to take with you and explain your choices.