Home Learning Grid for Spring Term
Home Learning Grid for Spring Term
Literacy/ SPAG / Find painting by any Mexican artist and write a story inspired by it. / Can you write a diary entry from the day an earthquake occurred in Mexico? / Interview adults in your family/friends and ask them if they want to visit Mexico and why? Remember to use speech marks when writing quotes. / Write a poem (it can rhyme but doesn’t need to) about a volcanic eruption in Mexico. Use as many exciting adjectives as you can! / Design a Day of the Dead costume and write a detailed description about it. / Write a story from the perspective of an Aztec warrior fighting the Spanish.Parent signature
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Maths / How many different 3 digit numbers can you make with these numbers?
367
Can you try adding them together? / Three different numbers have a total of 30.
What possibilities could those number be. / 5__ - __ = __2
Write different ways to make this number sentence true. / A multiple of 10 is added to a number. The total is 84.
How many different possible additions are there? / Practise telling the time on a clock. Can you write it in words? Can you write in digitally? / Go on a shape hunt. How many 2D shapes can you find in your house?
Can you draw them?
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Topic / Draw a skeleton and label some of the bones. / Research the vital organs in your body and explain what they do. / Research some facts about the Day Of The Dead festival in Mexico and write a report. / Find out more about an earthquake that occurred in Mexico
and write a fact file about it. / Who were the Mayans? Can you find out some key facts about this civilisation? / Draw a map of Mexico. Can you label the capital city? The active volcanos? Famous beaches?
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Spellings to be tested every Monday / Spin, spot, spill, spark, speak, spike, spout,
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Specific, spell, spray, sprout, sprint, spring, especially / Fall, tall, small, stall, also, always, already, almost, although, altogether, usual, capital, sandal, pedal, signal, hospital, occasional, special, accidental / City, centre, cell, cellar, cereal, circus, certain, cycle, ace, race, face, recent, concert, December, except, excellent / Lamb, comb, climb, crumb, thumb, knee, kneel, knew, knife, knit, knot, knock / Candle, handle, bottle, paddle, angle, bangle, rectangle, camel, cancel, gravel, novel, sandal, metal, signal, hospital, fossil, nostril, tonsil / Chilly, frilly, windy, happy, frosty, dusty, lucky, rainy, sleepy, cheeky, stormy, dirty, grumpy
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Times tables to be tested every Monday / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / Mixed tables from the term
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Suggested daily numeracy – these are additional activities to the homework tasks / Recall out loud number bonds to 10/20/100 / Help an adult weigh and measure accurately when cooking at home / Tell the time at five different points of the day. / Play guess my number / Recall doubles and halves of two digit numbers / Write the inverse number sentences for the times tables you have practised this week.
Eg: 2 x 4 = 8
8÷ 4 = 2
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Homework is due in on Mondays and will be returned on Thursdays. Choose one literacy, one numeracy and one topic activity per week. Parents/carers to sign to show which activities have been completed. An adult from the class will check homework and sign.
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