Homework - 2nd October 2020

This week...

...the children have been working hard on their geography skills. They have been looking at lots of different types of maps to learn more about the Romans, their empire and what life was like in Londinium. They have also been working really hard collecting facts about Roman London and using these facts to write an information text all about Londinium. We are looking forward to showing them to you soon!

Spellings

This week, we have been looking at how we spell plural nouns. So far, we have learnt three spelling rules. 

1. Adding an “s” to make a word plural, for example, dragon - dragons, apple - apples. 
   
2. Words that end in y but have a vowel (a,e,i,o,u) before the y add an “s” to the end too, for example, day - days, boy - boys, donkey - donkeys. 
   
3. Words that end in a y but don’t have a vowel before the y. For these words we take away the “y” and it is replaced with “ies”, for example, city - cities, lady - ladies. 
   

These two videos will be useful to recap the learning and revise the spelling rules at home. 

1. classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-investigate-suffixes-plurals-6nj64c
2. classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-practise-and-apply-knowledge-of-suffixes-plural-including-a-test-6gt3jc
   

This week’s task is to create a poster explaining these three rules, upload a photo of your poster to Purple Mash and keep the original at home to practise your spellings.

Maths

This week we have been finishing our work on place value. 

​There are activities set on Purple Mash that the children should complete.

5 Minute Workout

To help us build up our general fitness and to provide an activity break for the children, we have been building in 5 minute exercise slots to our school day. 
Your homework is to create a 5 minute workout made up of 5 different activities. Remember, these are activities that are done in the classroom with limited space. 
You can include a range of the different exercises we have been doing at school.  For inspiration, you could look at one of the PE with Joe videos on YouTube. 
Write your workout on the class blog on Purple Mash. 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. 

Ruth