Year 1: ‘Home Sweet Home’ Topic Homework Grid
Please start with the Literacy 1, writing your address, we will be using these on Wednesday 18th September. Then choose 2
additional activities to do this half term.
Please ask if you need any resources and bring any completed homework to school on
Monday 7th October and Monday 21st October.
Have Fun!!!
1. Literacy –addresses.
2. Maths – Look outside your house. 3 . Science – investigation.
4. Maths – Odd and Even number
With a parent, try learning your
What 2d shapes can you see? Have Investigate which materials are
hunt.
address and practise writing it
a go at drawing the shapes you see
waterproof. Test different
Have a go at identifying and writing
down on an envelope. We are going
and label where you found them
materials e.g. paper, cloth, metal or down the odd and even number on
to be using these to send a letter
e.g. roof.
plastic by dropping some water on
the door on the houses in your
home!
Extension – Looking around your
them.
street. Can you spot a pattern?
house and outside it, can you find
Extension – can you make a house Extension – Can you identify all the
some 3D shapes? How can you
for a toy that will keep it dry! Be odd and even numbers to 30? How
record your findings?
prepared to test it!!
are you going to record you
answers?
5. Geography – Can you find out
about houses in three different
countries? How are they different
to the houses we live in?
Extension- can you make a poster
about houses around the world?
Remember to tell me what
countries you have looked at.
6. Art- Have a go at doing an
observational drawing of your
house from the outside. Remember
to add you garden and driveway.
Extension – can you find different
textures around your house and do
some rubbings of them. Remember
what they are and we can have a
guessing game in class.
7. History – Pick a castle that you
have been to or that you would like
to visit. Can you find three
interesting fact about it to share
with the class?
Extension – Can you make a 2D
picture of a castle Using shapes?
8. DT - building you ideal house.
If you could live in any house what
would it look like? Can you make a
3D model of your ideal house. The
more interesting the better.
Extension – Can you write a short
description of why you love your
house?