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Home Learning
Autumn Term 2
2016
Home Learning Book
Autumn Term 2 2016
Set: Friday Due: Tuesday
Note to Parents:
Each week the children are encouraged to:
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Practise and learn spellings
Read daily (and record in the reading log on the 3rd page)
Complete a written task
Practise and learn tables
Complete Mathletics Tasks (if internet is available)
Home learning and daily reading is a National Expectation.
Parents’ role:
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Please could you sign the homework each week on completion
Let us know if they struggled with any of the tasks
Indicate if they spent the time on the task but couldn’t complete it
Support and encourage, but avoid ‘doing’ the homework!
The Home Learning Books will be collected from children on Tuesday (for
assessment) then handed back out on Friday to take home.
Spellings
Below is a spelling grid where children are encouraged to list any spellings they
have had corrected in their books. These spellings can then be taken home and
learnt at the earliest convenience.
While in class, focus is on the teaching of spelling conventions – patterns and
rules; but integral to this teaching is the opportunity to promote the learning of
spellings, including statutory words, common exceptions and personal spellings.
In the Home Learning Booklet, the children are given the opportunity to improve
knowledge around their personal spellings and statutory words - specifically. Some
children will have target words to learn and these take precedence over the Home
Learning Booklet word lists.
Reading Log
After listening to feedback from children the decision was made to
include a ‘reading log’ element to the Home Learning Booklets. So,
please make a note of the date and pages read below. We aim for
children to be reading at least 10 minutes a day.
Date
Pages
Book
Times Tables
Once you know your tables off by heart you never have to learn
them again!
Expectation for children by the end of Year 6 in the New
Curriculum is that:
“By the end of year 6, pupils should be fluent in written methods
for all four operations, including long multiplication and division, and in working
with fractions, decimals and percentages.”
(This can only be achieved with secure times tables and related division facts)
Techniques to help learn their tables:
 Chant them (once 2 is 2 etc)
 Sing the times tables songs we are learning in class, make up their own songs,
dances and actions!
 Chant them forwards, backwards, randomly (it may help to have them
written in front of them to start with so that chanting in rhythm correctly –
remove or cover facts as they get more confident).
 Have flash cards – play pairs with them (eg. 16 4x4)
 Put their tables up around their bedroom – chant them looking at the tables
– take one table down each day – encourage them to still look to where it had
been displayed (this helps them to visualise it).
 Online games – they have fun with these and it helps consolidate their
learning.
 Timed completion of multiplication tables.
 Race against themselves – have random tests – they have to do it quicker
each time.
Children will be given spot checks for their times tables they are working
on. We will be going back to recap all times tables apart from the 2, 3 ,5
and 10 times tables, which the children should be secure with. Please test
these times tables at random as well as the weekly ones.
Challenge: know your times tables?
Practise using this knowledge to learn your 0.9 times
tables, or your 90 times tables!
Most weeks there will be a chance to complete a Mathletics task in class. The
children will then be able to continue this at home.
Week 1
Homework set:
Friday
Homework due:
Tuesday
Spelling
Spellings I aim to learn this week:
addition
division
explain
journey
learn
multiplication
reasoning
subtraction
zero
Here are some commonly misspelled words in Maths books. We need to know
these by now.
Numeracy
Pick a number and see if you can create a calculation that
fits it into all the times tables from 1-12. I have started an
example for the number 11:
 1 times table
1x11=11
 2 times table
(2x6)-1=11
 3 times table
(3x5)-4=11
Addition or
subtraction
Mathletics tasks
completed:
Written Task – Local History
Imagine Dartington was the home of a historical wonder. What would it be and
why would it be here?
Week 2
Homework set:
Friday
Homework due:
Tuesday
Spelling
Spellings I aim to learn this week:
Practise your spelling here using some of the spelling strategies used in class.
explanation
familiar
foreign
forty
frequently
government
guarantee
harass
hindrance
identity
Numeracy
Inverse times tables practiced and tricks to success:
I have started the 3 times table:
Addition or
subtraction
Mathletics tasks
completed:
Written Task – Instructional Text
Congratulations! You have won a homework robot! However, there is a catch…
you need to write a set of instructions to get the robot started. Remember, every
single movement needs to be coded into the robot. Also, think about the language
you use to instruct (research it if you need to).
Week 3
Homework set:
Friday
Homework due:
Tuesday
Spelling
Spellings I aim to learn this week:
Practise your spelling here using some of the spelling strategies used in
immediately
interfere
interrupt
language
leisure
lightning (h)
marvellous
mischievous
muscle (h)
necessary
class.
Numeracy
Inverse times tables practiced and tricks to success:
Statistics and data
Mathletics tasks
completed:
Written Task
Imagine an Alien has visited Dartington as its first stop on planet Earth.
Unfortunately, it has no sight so can you please describe the most beautiful
place in the school with as many poetic devices as possible.
Week 4
Homework set:
Friday
Homework due:
Tuesday
Spelling
Spellings I aim to learn this week:
Practise your spelling here using some of the spelling strategies used in class.
neighbour
nuisance
occupy
occur
opportunity
parliament
persuade
physical
prejudice
privilege
Numeracy
Inverse times tables practiced and tricks to success:
Measurement
Mathletics tasks
completed:
Design Task
Create a labelled diagram of a multi-purpose robot that will help to solve a
problem that humanity faces today. Also, include a piece of text that
describes how the robot will achieve this.
Week 5
Homework set:
Friday
Homework due:
Tuesday
Spelling
Spellings I aim to learn this week:
profession
programme
pronunciation
queue
recognise
recommend
restaurant
rhyme
rhythm
Practise your spelling here using some of the spelling strategies used in class.
Numeracy
Inverse times tables practiced and tricks to success:
Geometry
Mathletics tasks
completed:
Written Task - Your choice
Set yourself a written task that links with your learning in class:
Now complete the written task below.
Week 6
Homework set:
Friday
Homework due:
Tuesday
Spelling
Spellings I aim to learn this week:
sacrifice
secretary
shoulder
signature
sincere(ly)
soldier
stomach
sufficient
suggest
symbol (h)
Practise your spelling here using some of the spelling strategies used in class.
Numeracy
Inverse times tables practiced and tricks to success:
Time Mathletics
tasks completed:
Written Task – The moral of the story…
Create a short story that has a moral to it. If you fancy a challenge you can
write one where the moral is to ‘be the change you wish to see in the world’.
Virtual Learning
Some children have asked about
websites to help prepare for
SATs.
Can you recommend any?
Google
Web Address
What does it do?