Lime Class Homework

Lime Class Homework

Handed out: Friday 22nd September

Due in: Thursday 28th September

Spelling test: Friday 22nd September

You will be given spellings most weeks. These should be learned for a test the following week (usually on Thursday or Friday). There is a piece of written work that accompanies the spellings.

You will also be given one or two other pieces of work each week. This week you will have some online work for English and Maths (with some spare work in case you can’t access a website at home).

Spellings

1) This week’s spelling words:

adore – adoration – adorable – adorably consider – consideration – considerable – considerably

tolerate – toleration – tolerable – tolerably – tolerance

(These words use the suffix –able. They are words that have a related word with the suffix –ation.)

change – changeable notice – noticeable

(These words keep their ‘e’)

2) Previous spelling words (so that you can revise them):

dependable, comfortable, understandable, enjoyable, reasonable, reliable

possible, horrible, terrible, visible, incredible, sensible

These will be the spellings you are tested on next week, unless I have given you a separate spelling list to work on. Look at the explanations in italics to help you choose which ending to use.

Please choose the three words you find hardest to spell (or the ones you are most likely to make an error with) and write three of the most interesting sentences you can think of, one sentence for each word. Please present these sentences in high quality handwriting to go on our English working wall, using the A5 paper provided. You may use colour if you wish.

Maths and English in IXL

You all now have IXL accounts and have had a go at using it for Maths and English in class. Your homework on IXL is shown below.

If you don’t have access to the internet at home (because it is not available, you are not allowed or computers are shared and there is not enough time for you to use), please do one of the following two tasks:

1)Work on the alternative written task below, instead of using IXL.

2)Ask me to use a laptop at school during break or lunch time (if you wish to do it this way).

IXL Rules – Smart Score:

Keep an eye on your ‘Smart Score’. This will help you know whether the work is at the right level for you. If your Smart Score tends to increase with a few dips, the work is right for you. If your Smart Score tends to get stuck for a while, you have probably gone as far as you can with that work. You can always ask me to help show you how to move on. If your Smart Score reaches 100, move on to another task. This implies that you can ‘master’ an activity.

IXL Rules – There is nothing wrong with working on younger age objectives:

The SATs tests in May won’t just test work from Year 6; they will also test plenty of work from Year 3, 4 and 5. A good learner will know when to look back, practise and revise work from younger years without feeling self-conscious. A good learner will go back to practise more basic ideas, especially if they don’t feel they ‘got them’ first time. You are free to go and look at work from younger age groups.

Maths / English
Everyone will work at different speeds so I am not going to say how much you should do. I will be able to see a record of every single question you answer. Spend a total of about 45 minutes to an hour on this during the week. This will help keep your English and Maths ‘ticking over’.
Please work on ‘Place Value and Number Sense’. These are the tasks from A.1 to A.11 in Year 6. You may work in any order, starting on any of these or continuing with the ones we worked on in class.
If you feel it will help your understanding, you are free to go back and work on:
Year 5 – ‘Number Sense’
Year 4 – ‘Numbers and Comparing’ or ‘Place Values’
Just because you have covered these does not guarantee that you have mastered them yet.
If you whizz through A.1 to A.11 in Year 6, try the following tasks:
Year 7 A.1 to A.3; Year 8 ‘Number Theory’ / Please work on ‘Verbs’ in Year 6. These are tasks from D.1 to D.15. You may work in any order, starting from any task. You are not expected to cover these all by any means – this gives you a choice within a particular topic.
If you feel it will help with your understanding,
you are free to go back and work on:
Year 5, Year 4 or Year 3 – ‘Verbs’
If you whizz through D.1 to D.15 (very unlikely!) you may explore the activities for verbs in Year 7 and Year 8. These are still relevant to work you do in Year 6 (the progressive tenses for example).

Optional Homework: Philosophy

The optional homework exists for those of you who want to take your learning further. It is genuinely optional. Please complete the other homework first, or alongside this work, as ‘I was working on the optional homework’ will not be accepted as an excuse for not doing the other work.

The other day, some of you came into school enthusing about a philosophical idea you came across at an open evening. What you described is a thought experiment known as ‘The Trolley Problem’. If you are intrigued by this and want to think more deeply or explore the dilemma, look at the examples below. If you would like to respond on paper in any way, you may bring it in and we will start a philosophy folder to share with the class.

The Trolley Problem – a little bit gory (sorry!)

The thought experiment goes as follows:

A trolley (or tram or train) is travelling down a track towards five people who are tied up and unable to move.

You are standing too far away from the five people to untie them but next to you is a lever.

If you pull the lever, the trolley will be diverted onto another track on which a single person is tied up, also too far from you to untie.

No-one else is in position to assist, the trolley cannot be stopped in any other way and there is no way to untie the people before the trolley reaches them.

The question is:

Should you do nothing, allowing the trolley to carry on and kill the five people, or…

Should you pull the lever, diverting the trolley to the track where it will kill one person.