Homework
Summer 1
- 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.
- Practice using expanded noun phrases. Try this unscrambling game: Unjumbling Expanded noun phrases - Unjumble
- Research Shanghai and Brancaster, compare how they are similar/different. Things to consider: fishing, harbours, farming, tourism, human and physical features.
Spring 2
- Keep a diary.
- 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?
- Fractions- BBC Bitesize
- See if you can find examples of fractions in your home. This could be with an object, or you could gather a selection of objects and then find 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 of them.
- Research the Great Fire of London. Present your findings in an interesting way such as a poster.
Spring 1
- Write a letter to Rocket asking her about the meteor shower.
- Make a fact file about space.
- Write some interesting sentences using subordinating conjunctions (when, if, because) at the start.
- Create a mixed media self portrait
- Research Shanghai and Brancaster, compare how they are similar/different. Things to consider: fishing, harbours, farming, tourism, human and physical features.
- Research Mary Kingsley, Matthew Henson and Edmund Hillary. Present your findings in an interesting way.
- 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.
- Show that multiplication of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and division of one number by another cannot.
- Solve problems involving multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods, and multiplication and division facts.
Autumn 2
- 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.
- Create a list of interesting adverbs.
- Use adjectives to describe different things in your house/garden/outside.
- Research what life was like in Victorian Britain, how does this compare to now?
- Create a poster outlining ways in which we can keep our bodies healthy.
- Research a famous exploring and present your findings in an interesting way.
- Research how London has changed over time.
- Research different genres of dance.
- Talk to your family about what special celebrations/traditions you share together.
- 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.
Autumn 1
- Count forwards and backwards from any number below 100.
- 2x 5x and 10x table.
- Partition the same number in different ways i.e. 44=40+4, 30+14, 20+24 etc
- Write a letter using the correct format.
- Checking back your work and making improvements such as adding interesting adjectives.
- Extending sentences using and, or, but and because.
- Research your local area, what was it like in the past? How has it changed?
- Research Thurnby Court and its impact on our village.
- Go on a habitat hunt, can you find any microhabitats?
- Research a continent, what is it like to live there? How is it different to where we live?
- Continue to improve ball skills, rolling, receiving, throwing overarm and under arm, catching and stopping a ball.