Homework Tasks (17/04/26)

Welcome back to the Summer Term! We hope you had a wonderful Easter break and are looking forward to another exciting term filled with lots of new learning and experiences!

Talk Homework

This week, we have been reading our new focus text, 'Until I Met Dudley,' by Roger McGough and Chris Riddell. The book explores everyday inventions and explains how they work.  Please tell someone at home about the invention you designed in Thursday’s English lesson. Explain what your invention is called, what it does, and share any other interesting details about it.

Then, discuss with someone at home which inventions you could not live without and explain why they are so important to you.

 

Reading Homework

Please read daily (for at least 10 minutes).  You should now be logging all reading on the digital reading diary called Page Ticker.  If you are having difficulty accessing Page Ticker, please speak with one of the class teachers. You will still need to read texts from across different genres (e.g. non-fiction, poetry, biographies, science-fiction). 

Thank you to all children & parents who have already started using this- it is fantastic to see how many children have already earned achievements!  

 

Spelling Homework

As reading record books are no longer being brought into school, we are changing the way spellings are organised.

You will still receive a list of spellings each week, but these will now be stuck into your blue spelling book. The blue spelling book should be taken home so that spellings can be practised throughout the week.

Please make sure that you bring your blue spelling book back to school every Friday, as you will complete your spelling test in this book and your new spellings will be stuck in. If the book is not in school on Friday, we will not be able to stick in the new spelling list.

If you forget to bring in your blue spelling book, you will need to collect a copy of your spelling list from the tray in the classroom.

 

Number Homework

Focusing on times tables. Please use ‘Garage’ mode to practise individual times table facts. We have been using this at school so you will be familiar with this mode. As you practise questions, the algorithm will adapt and continue to focus on the times tables you need to revise from your heatmap.

The aim is to turn your heatmap ‘GREEN.’ A totally green heatmap means you have consistently answered all facts in 4 seconds or less. You can view your up to date heatmap at any time in Garage Mode.

 

Number Homework (Extension)

If you are secure on your times table knowledge and have already turned your heatmap green, please have a go at the following challenge questions which link to what we have been doing in class this week:-

1) Sam says that 3 tenths is the same as 30 hundredths. Is Sam correct? Explain how you know.

2) Which is greater: 6 tenths or 58 hundredths? Explain your answer.

3) True or false? 5 tenths is the same as 50 hundredths. Explain your answer.

4) Put these amounts in order from smallest to largest:

• 2 tenths
• 25 hundredths
• 9 tenths
• 70 hundredths

5) Which pairs are equivalent?

• 1 tenth and 10 hundredths
• 7 tenths and 70 hundredths
• 4 tenths and 14 hundredths
• 9 tenths and 90 hundredths