We’re setting weekly homework as we normally do. The key difference here is that Homework Books should stay at home for the time being. Just as normal, the tasks will be posted on the website. Instead of the task pasted into books, children will take home a piece of paper with the task on, too (like this!). The tasks will be a variety of Talk Time, Practice Makes Perfect and Creative, but especially the first two. Parents can email a picture or update about a completed task (just as you were doing with the home learning tasks we set in Spring and Summer terms). The homework will be reviewed in school, so some pictures would be good!
This week, our homework is Talk Time and has a moral theme. We’d like you to spend some time at home discussing this question: should we treat animals with the same respect we treat humans?
This links well to our new class novel (Here We Are – Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers, you can find a video of it being read aloud on YouTube here) and is an interesting question to discuss. When discussing a moral theme like this, it’s super important to think about both sides of the argument. As part of our homework review next week, we’ll have a debate in class.
Some questions that might help shape your discussion:
- Do you treat humans with respect? How?
- Do you treat animals with respect? How?
- Is it OK to treat humans with more respect?
- Can you say you treat animals with respect if you eat them?
Homework should be completed by Thursday 08 October 2020 and will be reviewed / celebrated in class.
Our email addresses are below:
3,4O – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org
3,4NV – nicolawadsworth@spherefederation.org & vickyrichardson@spherefederation.org
3,4EV – emmamccormick@spherefederation.org & vickyrichardson@spherefederation.org
If your child is in 3,4N or 3,4E please send emails to both teachers.
Times tables
Next week, Y4 will continue to be learning the 3x table. In Y3, children will be consolidating the 5s – we’re still seeing lots of us who count on our fingers when calculating using the 5 x table. We’d really like you to help consolidate this learning at home. Children should practise in preparation for a test on Friday 09 October 2020.
This week, we’d like you to use Times Table Rockstars to practise. Your child should have their username and password – if not, please contact your class teacher. You can download the app or use it online – whatever works best for you. We really like TTR. It’s a fun and effective way to learn your times tables and, as teachers, it gives us a really good insight (through it’s data) about where children are at with their times table learning.