Weekly Homework Tasks
Upper Key Stage 2, Year 6
Beginning 23.09.2016
MATHS
ENGLISH
1.
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3.
Friday
4.
5.
Monday
READING COMPREHENSION
Read chapter 2 and 3 of Street Child.
Who is the youngest child in the Jarvis family? Explain your answer using clues found on p25. (2m)
How do you think Mrs Jarvis felt when she had to leave Lizzie and Emily? (2m)
On page 30, how did Rosie know that the Jarvis family had been thrown out of their home before she asked
them?
On page 32, why is Mrs Jarvis’s voice suddenly ‘steady and stronger’? (1m)
On page 36, Jim daren’t look or listen to his mother. Explain what Jim’s mother is doing and why Jim is
afraid to look or listen. (2m)
WRITTEN ARTIHMETIC
MATHS
Copy and complete the missing spaces in the table of equivalents. The first one has
1.
been completed as an example.
Fraction
1/5
3/4
Decimal
0.2
Percentage
20%
2.
80%
0.5
33%
60%
Tuesday
RECORD IN
HOMEWORK
BOOKS
3.
CREATIVE WRITING
Choose a character from Street Child. Based on what you’ve read and what you know
about the characters, create a mind map of that character’s thoughts and feelings.
Write in the role of that character and explain why you feel that way. See the
example one below:
4.
5.
Wednesday
GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
Read chapter four of Street Child. Pick four words that are new to you, look-up their
definition in a dictionary and write a sentence using that word. After that, write two
synonyms and two antonyms for each word.
Thursday
SPELLINGS
Use: Look-Say-Cover-Write-Check to write the following spelling words out 3 times
each and learn them by heart over the week.
memories
criteria
kilos
tomatoes
bunches
RECORD IN
HOMEWORK
BOOKS
1.
2.
aggressive
identity
variety
signature
frequently
Write each word in a sentence that has a relative or subordinate clause.
Identify the spelling rule for the first 5 spellings.
Write the definition of each word using a dictionary.
Daily homework time recommendation: 20-30 minutes each night
Jenna has 360 pencils
to share between 60
pupils. How many will
each pupil get?
On Tuesday, a company
bags 2,000 lb of
potatoes into 12lb bags.
How many full bags will
they get?
On Wednesday, the
same company packs
2,232lb of potatoes into
the same size bags. How
many full bags will they
get? Express the
remainder as a fraction.
Joe earns £13 for each
lawn he mows. This week
he earned £142. How
many lawns did he mow?
If you can fit 50 people
into one bus, how many
buses would you need to
transport 940 people?