As mentioned, reading is part of this year's homework, along with weekly spellings. Children will need to practise their spellings weekly. Your child has a spelling book with their words listed, and the quiz will take place on Friday. Please do not use the book to practise with.

If you would like to complete additional activities to support your child's learning, I have outlined some suggestions below.

Summer 1

English

• Practice using expanded noun phrases. Try this unscrambling game: Unjumbling Expanded noun phrases - Unjumble
• Write a recount of an important event in your life.

Maths

• Compare and sequence intervals of time.
• Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times.
• Know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day.
• Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables. You could keep a tally of the colour of cars that pass your house and then present your findings in a graph.
• Use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement, including movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles for quarter, half and three-quarter turns (clockwise and anti-clockwise) you could (with permission) blindfold a member of your family and direct them to a destination using the language above.

Science

• Investigate the plants where you live. Can you name them? Do they grow from a bulb or a seed? Do they have any special or interesting features?

Geography

• Research Shanghai and Brancaster, compare how they are similar/different. Things to consider: fishing, harbours, farming, tourism, human and physical features.

Spring 2

English:

• Keep a diary. 

Maths

• Explore mass at home. Cooking and baking is a great way to do this. Follow and recipe which requires weighing ingredients using scales. 
• Similarly, investigate capacity and volume. You could follow recipes which require liquid being measured or play with different containers and explore how liquid fills them. Does 100ml of water look different depending on the container it is in?

History

• Research the Great Fire of London. Present your findings in an interesting way such as a poster.

Spring 1

English:

• Use subordinate conjunctions (when, if, because) in a sentence.
• Think of some other reasons why the crayons might have quit.
• Make a list of items and who/what they belong to. (e.g. dog - collar, doll - dress)

Maths:

• Find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money.
• Solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change.
• Count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward and backward.
• Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers.
• Calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division within the multiplication tables and write them using the multiplication (×), division (÷) and equals (=) signs (e.g. 2 x 2 = 4).
• Show that multiplication of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and division of one number by another cannot.

History:

• Research Mary Kingsley, Matthew Henson and Edmund Hillary. Present your findings in an interesting way.

Geography:

• Research a continent, what is it like to live there? How is it different to where we live?

Art:

• Create a mixed media self portrait.

Autumn 2

English: 

• Create a list of interesting adverbs.
• Use adjectives to describe different things in your house/garden/outside.
• Write a fact file about space for Rocket.

Maths: 

• Add/subtract a 1 digit number to a 2 digit number below 100. This can be done by counting on, a number line, drawing base 10, place value charts, using a 100 square etc. 
• Add/subtract a 2 digit number to a 2 digit number below 100. 
• Add/subtract a multiple of 10 from any number below 100. 
• Find 10 more and 10 less of numbers to 100.
• Solve addition and subtract word problems. 
• Explore lines of symmetry. 
• Recognise 2D and 3D shapes. 
• Count sides/vertices on 2D shapes.
• Count faces/edges/vertices on 3D shapes. 
• Make patterns with shapes. 

Geography:

• Research how London has changed over time.

Science:

• Create a poster outlining ways in which we can keep our bodies healthy. 

Autumn 1

English:

• Creating a list of interesting adjectives.
• Practice turning adjectives into adverbs (E.g., quick = quickly, happy = happily)
• Extending sentences using or and so.

Maths:

• Count forwards and backwards from any number below 100. 
• Counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.
• Partition the same number in different ways i.e. 44=40+4, 30+14, 20+24 etc
• Practice doubles and halves.

History:

• Research your local area, what was it like in the past? How has it changed?
• Research Thurnby Court and its impact on our village.
• Research life in the Victorian era. What was life like for children?

Science:

• Go on a habitat hunt. Can you find any microhabitats?
• Continue to improve ball skills, rolling, receiving, throwing overarm and under arm, catching and stopping a ball.